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It’s deer hunting season and there is always the mixed bag of feelings ranging from the hard core hunters to the hard core Bambi lovers. Either way, it is a part of our Minnesota life and a very essential one. Deer are pleasant and beautiful to look at to be sure, but you only have to hit a deer once or experience the devastation they can reek on your landscaping to appreciate the need to control the size of this incredibly productive species. In addition to controlling the deer population, the hunting season adds a very significant and dependable impact to our economy. There are 475,000 deer hunters in Minnesota supporting 5300 jobs and generating over $458 million dollars. Some may think it’s just sport but most hunters appreciate and many count on having venison as part of their yearly diet. Let’s look at them both.
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White-tailed deer are the smallest members of the North American deer family with the adult female weighing about 145 pounds, and males 170 pounds - roughly the average weight of female and male humans. They are herbivores, leisurely grazing on most available plant foods and are primarily nocturnal or crepuscular browsing mainly at dawn and dusk with a wandering range of about one square mile. Deer are very difficult to spot because of the blending color of their coats. Adults have reddish-brown coats in summer which fade to a duller grayish-brown in winter. Male deer, called bucks, are easily recognizable in the summer and fall by their prominent set of antlers, which grow annually then fall off in the winter. Although previously depleted by unrestricted hunting in the United States, strict game-management measures have helped restore the deer population. Minnesota’s controlled deer population is about 1 million. Texas is No. 1 with 4.7 million. Female deer, called does, give birth to one to three young at a time. A deer’s three main concerns in life are to eat, reproduce, and not be eaten.
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In total, more than 800,000 deer hunting licenses and permits (all types) were sold in 2010 with 98% sold to Minnesota residents. License options allow hunters to buy individual licenses for all the seasons and give hunters more choices in where and when they can hunt deer, and hunters can take as many as five deer in many parts of the state. The average hunter spends five days afield during firearms deer season but not everyone bags one. Last year only 38 percent of Minnesota firearm hunters successfully harvested a deer, with seventy percent of those typically occurring during the first three or four days of the season. Last year’s total deer harvest was just over 207,000 and about 47 percent were antlered bucks. Minnesota’s average harvest was 241,000 deer over the last five years. Wisconsin is No. 1 with an average harvest of almost 450,000. The largest typical whitetail buck ever taken in Minnesota had a Boone & Crockett score of 202 and weighed 500 lbs, shot by John Breen in 1918 near Funkley. The DNR Information Center remained open two hours later on the day before last year’s deer opener to answer more than 2,000 telephone inquiries, most of them related to the opener. With nearly a half-million hunters in the state, there are also the occasional hunter violations, some with very stiff penalties. The top 10 are: 1. License not in possession 2. Transporting uncased/loaded firearms 3. No license 4. Hunting over bait 5. Unplugged shotgun 6. No red/blaze orange 7. Untagged deer 8. Failure to have HIP certification on license 9. Failure to validate 10. Trespassing
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■ On Oct. 26, 1825, the Erie Canal opens, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River. Built in only two years, 83 canal locks accommodated the 500-foot rise in elevation. The canal was 363 miles long, 40 feet wide and 4 feet deep. In nine years, tolls had paid back the cost of construction.
Guggenheim Museum, home to one of the world’s top industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great collections of contemporary art. Depression. By 1932, stocks were worth only about 20 percent of their value in the summer of 1929. ■ On Oct. 23, 1989, a series of explosions sparked by an ethylene gas leak at a plastics factory in Pasadena, ■ On Nov. 2, 1947, the Hughes Flying Boat -- the Texas, kills 23 people. Approximately 85,000 pounds largest aircraft ever built -- is piloted by designer of highly flammable ethylene-isobutane gas were Howard Hughes on its first and only flight. Built with released into the plant. Within two minutes, the large laminated birch and spruce, the “Spruce Goose” had a gas cloud ignited with the power of two-and-a-half tons wingspan longer than a football field and was designed of dynamite. to carry more than 700 men to battle.
■ On Oct. 27, 1904, the New York City subway opens. The first line, operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), traveled 9.1 miles through 28 stations. That evening, the subway opened to the general public, and more than 100,000 people paid a nickel each to take their first ride under Manhattan.
■ On Oct. 31, 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther nails to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, a piece of paper containing 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation. In one, Luther condemned the corruption of the Catholic Church for asking for payment for the forgiveness of sins.
■ On Oct. 24, 1945, the United Nations Charter, which was adopted and signed on June 26, takes effect and ■ On Oct. 30, 1890, Oakland, Calif., enacts a law is ready to be enforced. Representatives of 50 nations against opium, morphine and cocaine. The new attended the first conference. regulations allowed only doctors to prescribe these drugs, which had been legal for cures or pain relief. ■ On Oct. 21, 1959, on New York City’s Fifth Avenue, thousands of people line up outside a bizarrely ■ On Oct. 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hits Wall Street shaped white concrete building that resembled a giant as investors trade 16,410,030 shares. In the aftermath upside-down cupcake. It was opening day at the new of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the
• Several teams have experienced a long old dry spell without a World Series win. The Boston Red Sox in Ham Lake were winners in 1918 over the Chicago Cubs, but waited 86 years for their next title in 2004 over the St. Louis Cardinals. The 1917 Chicago White Sox triumphed over the New York Giants, but couldn’t do it again for another 88 years, when they were the 2005 champions. The Chicago Cubs are still waiting! They were the 1907 and 1908 champs, but haven’t managed to collect a World Series title since. (The did make it to the Series Fully Equipped Electric Kitchen w/self Cleaning Oven • Washer Cubs in 1945, but were defeated.) & Dryer • Cable TV and Computer Hook-ups • Individually They had their early wins Controlled Central Heating & Air • Community Gathering in Weeghman Park before moving into Wrigley Field in Room with a Golf Course Patio • Exercise Room & Library 1914. Fans are optimistic that the upcoming $500 million upgrade to Wrigley will produce the elusive title. • S o m e teams have never won Independent Living for Seniors the World Series – THE WORLD SERIES the San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays, Houston Astros, Milwaukee (continued) Brewers, Colorado Rockies, and • The winning pitchers in all four games of the 1934 Texas Rangers (although the Rangers series were brothers. Dizzy Dean and Paul Dean of the did compete in both 2010 and 2011). St. Louis Cardinals each won two games in the classic There are two teams who haven’t yet against the Detroit Tigers. managed to make it to the Series, • In the 1960 World Series, the Pittsburgh Pirates the Washington Nationals (formerly were pitted against the New York Yankees. The Yankees the Montreal Expos) and the Seattle scored 55 runs to the Pirates’ 27, yet the Pirates won the Mariners. Series. The Yankees were victors in three games 16-3, • The only non-American team to take 10-0, and 12-0. The Pirates won four games 6-4, 3-2, the Series has been Canada’s Toronto 5-2, and 10-9. Game Four was won on a 9th-inning Blue Jays, who defeated the Atlanta homer. Braves in 1992 and the Philadelphia • In 1996, the Atlanta Braves’ Andruw Jones became Phillies in 1993. The Jays are also the the youngest player ever to hit a home run in the World only Canadian team to host a World Series. The 19-year-old was also only the second player Series game. ever to hit two home runs in his first two at-bats in a • Game 3 of the 1989 Series was World Series. Unfortunately, the Braves still lost that scheduled to start at 5:35 on October Series to the Yankees. 17. The two Bay Area teams, the San • Even though Major League Baseball started holding Francisco Giants and the Oakland night games in 1935, the World Series was a daytime A’s were warming up when a 7.1 event for decades. In 1949, one of the Series games had magnitude earthquake shook the to be finished under lights for the first time, but the first area. Due to the many cameras lined actual scheduled night game was in 1971 in Pittsburgh’s up for the game, the Loma Prieta Three Rivers Stadium. From that point on, games were earthquake became the first major frequently scheduled at night, in order to capitalize on U.S. earthquake ever to be broadcast larger television audiences. There hasn’t been a daytime by live television. World Series game since 1987, when Game Six was • The World Series has been played every year since 1903, with two played indoors at Minneapolis’ Metrodome. • The Yankees have played in more Series than any exceptions. In 1904, John T. Brush, other team, 40 appearances with 27 wins. Their first win president of the National League’s was in 1923, the year that the original Yankee Stadium New York Giants, refused to allow opened. In second place, the St. Louis Cardinals are his team to play against the Boston way behind with just 10 titles. The player with the most Americans because he considered the World Series titles is Yankees catcher Yogi Berra, who American League team too inferior. played from the late 1940s until the early 1960s. Yogi World War I, World War II, the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, and has also played the most Series games, a record 75.
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by Janet Spencer For centuries, mankind's only mirrors were pools of water or polished metal. It was a long journey to figure out how to make a good mirror. Come along with Tidbits as we go through the looking glass! MAKING MIRRORS â&#x20AC;˘ The original glass mirror was made by covering the back of a piece of glass with thin tin sheets which were rubbed down smooth. Then the glass (with the tin on top) would be covered with mercury. A piece of woolen cloth would then be laid on top of the mercury and compressed with iron weights for more than a week. Finally the excess mercury would be drained off and the mirror was complete. This method of mirror making was very dangerous to the craftsman because mercury vapors are poisonous. â&#x20AC;˘ Craftsmen in Venice were the first to discover this method of mirror making in the 1300s. It remained a carefully guarded secret and for centuries Venice had a monopoly on mirrors. Those who gave away the secret were subject to the death penalty. Mirrors were expensive and rare and people in France were jealous. â&#x20AC;˘ In 1665, the French chief minister to Louis XIV went to Venice and - at the risk of death - bribed 18 Venetian mirrorsmiths, using huge sums of money to convince them to move to F rance. â&#x20AC;˘ Soon after the Venetian mirrorsmiths arrived in France, the French passed a law making it illegal to import Venetian mirrors. The new French mirror company, set up in the town of Saint Gobain, is still thriving today. â&#x20AC;˘ No sooner had France gotten the secret of mirror making than a Frenchman named Louis Lucas beat the Venetians at their own game when he invented a way to make plate glass in
1668. In Venice, they only knew how to make blown glass. Each mirror started out as a bottle or cylinder which was slit open and flattened while still hot before being made into a mirror. The size of mirrors was therefore very limited. But Lucas discovered how to pour molten glass from the pot onto an iron table where it was flattened with an iron roller. There was no limit to the size a mirror could be. Soon France was famous for its mirrors. â&#x20AC;˘ Louis XIV was very pleased, purchasing some 700 mirrors and lining an entire hallway at the Palace of Versailles with them in a stunning display. Venice kindly offered to send some of their very best glassmakers to France to "help out" at the factories; France declined the offer, preferring to keep their secret. â&#x20AC;˘ It had long been known that silver would make a better mirror than mercury and tin, but the problem was figuring out how to get the silver to stick to the glass. In 1835, German chemist Justus von Liebig invented a method of making mirrors that is still used today. In this method, the glass is flushed with silver salts and then covered with a solution of silver nitrate. After being heated and left undisturbed for an hour, a chemical reaction causes the metallic silver to separate and adhere to the glass. It's then coated with shellac and painted with a black backing.
â&#x2013;˛ Candy, candy and more candy. Halloween is just around the corner, and some of us like to offer a noncandy alternative to our doorknocking ghouls and goblins. Here are three that I have been successful with: pencils, erasers and glow sticks/bracelets. -- JoAnn
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