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Here is the recipe for petroleum, brought to you by Mother Earth: Take a warm planet and cover liberally with green plants, especially large tropical ferns. Allow plants to decay, and cover planet with alternate layers of biodegraded sludge and sediment. Wait several millennial ages, or until sediments solidify. Depending on heat and pressure, the result will be subterranean pockets of coal, oil, or natural gas. Drill, refine, and serve. • “Petro” is Greek for stone, and “oleum” is Latin for oil. Petroleum is crude oil. Crude oil is not really flammable. It’s composed of thousands of compounds and, depending on the refinement process, results in different products. • After being extracted from its subterranean pocket layer the oil is pumped into a “fractionating” column in the refinery and heated. Certain components of the oil have low boiling points and are very light, so they vaporize and rise to the top where they are collected. These include propane and butane. • The “middle distillates” are heavier and rise only half way up the column: gasoline, kerosene, and fuel oil. Heavy residues stay on the bottom, such as asphalt and wax. If these products are distilled again— some under pressure, some in a vacuum— they can be broken down further into even more components. Petroleum: Turn to page 3

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• In 1861 he wrote his second book, “A Practical Treatise on Coal, Petroleum and Other Distilled Oils,” which became a standard reference. Eventually, Gesner’s company was absorbed into Standard Oil.

• Gesner returned to Halifax, where he was appointed a Professor of Natural History • He returned to Canada and set up his practice at Dalhousie University. His collection as a physician, settling in Parrsboro because of specimens comprise the second oldest of the rich geological features in the area. He geological survey collection in the British constantly collected rock specimens and drew Empire. His private museum formed the basis extensive maps as he traveled. As his interest in of the prestigious New Brunswick Museum. His geology grew, his interest in doctoring faded. ADVERTISING other inventions include one of thePROOF first effective • In 1836, he published a book about the Changes MON., 5 paving 5:00 wood preservatives, ofMAY asphalt Final DUE: a process ADVERTISING PROOF geology of Nova Scotia. This led officials in for highways, briquettes made from compressed Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pric New Brunswick to hire him to survey the area Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m coal dust, and a machine for insulating electric Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes corre for coal deposits, and that Please job inspired him wire. review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling or Prices to conduct scientific experiments with coal. • Today Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 kerosene isimmediately commonly usedchanges as a cooking Contact your Tidbits representative with or correction He discovered that when coal was placed in and lighting fuel, and is also used in jet engines. 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 a beaker and heated, it produced a liquid that Office: The Amish, who do not use electricity, depend was quite flammable and burned with a bright on it for lighting. clear light. In that day and age, whale oil was the most common source of lighting. Whale oil • Gesner died in Halifax in 1864, after seeing his Contractors Insurance invention cause a Services major decline in the whaling had an offensive odor when burned, and you had BZ BW 26x disc. industry. Imperial Oil provided a fitting tribute to hunt and kill a whale to get it. Gesner’s new May 11, Vol.site 10 -inNo. 20 with the inscription: at 2014 his grave Halifax coal oil was far superior to the traditional whale “He gave the world a better light.”  oil in many ways.

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• By 1857, kerosene was being advertised throughout the United States and the British provinces and Gesner’s company prospered, allowing him a comfortable life in Brooklyn. • Demand grew to where his company was barely able to keep up. Just then, the discovery of petroleum, from which kerosene could be more easily produced, solved the supply problem.

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• Gesner named the new substance kerosene, from the Greek word ‘keros,’ meaning wax. In August of 1846 he gave the first public demonstration of the preparation and use of his new lamp fuel. His audience was unaware that they were witnessing the birth of the mammoth petroleum refining industry.

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Petroleum (from page one) • While the first productive oil well in the U.S. was drilled in August of 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, the first commercial oil well in Canada became operational a year earlier in 1858 at Oil Springs, Ontario. Canadian James Miller Williams dug several wells between 1855 and 1858 before discovering a rich reserve of oil four meters below ground. He extracted 1.5 million liters of crude oil by 1860, refining much of it into kerosene lamp oil. Because William’s oil well became commercially viable a year before the well in Titusville, it can be considered the first commercial oil well in North America. Today Canada is the sixth largest oil producing country in the world.

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Dear Mary: We recently read a short article you wrote on common ®money mistakes to avoid. One of the mistakes was “Paying for by Mary Hunt this article came about college.” Unfortunately, three years too late. No one told us when our daughter went to college, three years ago, that we shouldn’t pay for her college. When we started, we thought we were helping her out, but as it turns out, we have been carrying the majority of the load. Just recently, we informed her that we would not be paying for her senior year; she is on her own because we have gone into debt further that we will ever be able to get out of. So, because we are now three years in debt, do you have any advice for us as we struggle to pay it off? -- David and Joanne Dear David and Joanne: First, let me explain the reasoning for my advice that parents should not pay for college. It’s because most confuse “paying” with “going into debt.” Parents’ first priority needs to be getting and staying on track for their own retirement. That means actively funding retirement accounts to the max every year, building a robust emergency fund and paying off all debt including their mortgage so that by the time they retire, they’re financially set -- not a financial burden to their kids! Parents who are in the position I just described AND also have funds over and beyond to help pay for their kids’ college, I say great. Do it, if that is the kind of gift you wish to give to your adult children. Sadly, most parents are not in that position by the time their kids reach college age. The obligation they feel together with guilt that they have not built immense college funds prompts them to default to co-signing or taking out Direct PLUS Loans, which I am assuming is what you have done. For you, the damage has been done. Unless you or your student dies or you become totally and permanently disabled, there are few options for forgiveness or cancellation. And do not

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look to deferment or forbearance as ways to put off repayment. That will only increase the pain in the long run. My advice is that one or both of you need to get additional employment, pledging all side earnings toward the payment of these loans. You will doom yourselves to poverty if you forego saving for retirement if you cash in existing retirement accounts or strip the equity from your home to repay the debt. And get used to the idea that you will both need to work until age 70 or later, depending on your current ages and the amount of debt we’re talking about here. PLUS loans, as written, must be repaid within 10 years. However, if you consolidate, rewrite or become delinquent, they can turn into a mess that just won’t go away. If you allow these debts to linger and follow you into retirement, you need to know that the federal government will garnish tax refunds and even Social Security benefits until the debts are paid in full. Now that I’ve totally discouraged you, let me do some encouragement. Thankfully, you woke up early. Some parents don’t realize what they’ve done to themselves until much later than three years. I am going to assume that you are younger than you think and stronger than you know. Get busy right now while you are most able to earn the sums required to repay the debt just as soon as possible. Please know that I believe you can do this. I’ll be right here cheering you on!

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ANSWER: Amoxicillin is a very safe medication, and a single dose of 2,000 mg is standard for people who require treatment to prevent infection. The major concern is allergy, so anyone with a documented history of reaction to penicillin-like drugs should get an alternate medication. ***

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You can relax, it’s quite normal. Studies of aging folks in retirement settings bear this out. The results also show that having close friends with It appears her friend does this deliberwhom to share our thoughts, opinions, fears and ately and will probably not change. Aside from your worries relieves stress, gives us a more cheerful and grandmother simply dumping this friend, accepting positive attitude and even allows us to live longer. that habit may be the only solution. ● On Aug. 26, 1944, French Gen. Charles Friends that you see daily on a regular basis Since you don’t seem to know the real cirde Gaulle enters Paris, which had been are supportive, readily available, and have the time to cumstances, it could well be that her friend really formally liberated from the Germans the talk. It is only natural that you can feel more comfort- does not have the money to pay her share. It could day before. As he entered the Place de able sharing your feelings with them. You also will also be that the companionship her friend provides l’Hotel, French collaborationists took a few likely feel free to discuss such things as your hopes may be worth a lot more to your grandmother than sniper shots at him. and fears, your medical problems, your distress from the few dollars it costs from time to time. the loss of a mate, and myriad other things that you ● On Aug. 28, 1955, while visiting family Mon., 17 Unfortunately, we all learnMar. eventually that wouldn’t want to discuss with a family member you loaning money to friends or family is not a loan but a in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours see only once a year or so. Till, a black from Chicago, is murdered for gift. If we choose to help financially, the giver should Developing a closeness with your Contact friends your flirting with a white woman. His assailants not Tidbits expect to be paid back.immediately with changes or corrections. representative certainly does not mean you are forsaking your rela- -- the woman’s husband and her brother If, as you mentioned, your grandmother is Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 tives. It is simply a matter of proximity, convenience -- were found “not guilty” by an all-white Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours happy with her life the way it is, I recommend just and commonality. An important factor in the equation staying out of this. Even though your intentions are jury that deliberated for less than an hour. Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. is that your retirement friends are probably someonly to help her, you might regret getting involved in where in the same age bracket as you. I would also something ● On Aug. 29, 1962, Robert Frost leaves Office: 760-320-0997 760-320-1630 that is really noneFax: of your business. guess that 90 percent of your relatives are not. As we for the Soviet Union on a goodwill tour age our priorities and interests change, and we lose sponsored by the U.S. State Department Doug Mayberry makes the most of life in a Southern in an effort to thaw Cold War relations. California Retirement community. Contact him at deardoug@ Mac-Doc Frost’s poetry has established his internamsn.com. To find out more about Doug Mayberry and read BZ SPOT COLOR features by other Creators13x Syndicate writers and cartoonists tional reputation as American’s unofficial visit the23, Creators at www.creators.com. Mar. 2014 Syndicate Vol. 10 website - No. 13 poet laureate.

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Soap Co., Jewel Tea Co., and McCormick Tea Co. This set has an incredible sentimental White Swan Coffee was located in Dallas, Texas, value to our family. However, I would like to in a building that was designed by Thomas Byrne know its approximate value. and Co. and constructed in 1926. In 1978, the buildADVERTISING The Haviland and Co.PROOF Limoges, France, ing was added to the National Registry of Historical TUES., AUG. china factory was founded by David E.19 Haviland in Places. Today, White Swan Coffee is a subsidiary of Changes Final DUE: 5:00 p.m 1853. William D. Haviland was his grandson. The U.S. Food Services, Inc. The letter “M” represents Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices personal back stamp, gold engraved initials and the Morimura Brothers, New York based distributors handwritten letter make your set awith remarkable famContact your Tidbits representative immediately changes or correction of Noritake porcelain made in Japan. ily treasure. Its value would probably be $500 to Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Your cup and saucer would probably be $800. worth $25 to $50. * * * * * *

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The tricky thing about putting is that you’re seldom going to have a straight and level putt into the cup. Breaking putts are sometimes difficult to sink since you have to consider two variables: the speed of the ball, and the slope that will always influence its direction. I believe it’s more important to focus on speed since speed dictates the amount of break the ball will take in the roll. A faster moving ball will have less break than a slower one, and a downhill putt will take less stroke than an uphill one. Let’s give ourselves two speeds to work with on our sloping putt: Exact speed, and one step past the hole. With exact speed you are calculating that the Hole Out More Short Putts ball will have just enough roll to trickle into the hole. The slower speed The tricky thing about putting is that you’re not always in or seldom ever going this to haveputt a straight putt into the hole. These means you will breaking putts are sometimes difficult to hole out since you have allow the maxihave to calculate two things; to the speed the for ball will be rolling as it nears the hole and the amount of tilt in the slope that is going mum amount to influence the direction the ball is rolling. of influence I feel that it is more important to focus speed since the slope willonhave on speed the dictates the amount of break the ball will take in the putt. A thatthan the ball moving will faster moving ball direction will have less break a slower ball. To figure out the speed of the putt start off by pacing off roll. You want to putt for a your putt and give yourself a number in your head, one or two steps from the hole.point The next just thing toshort do is determine of thewhether cup the putt is up hill or down hill than take a look at the putt from the feed the low side; an up and hill putt allow from behind the slope ball and ato down hill putt from behind the hole. When you take a look at the putt from the ball into the hole. the low side, that will help you determine how aggressive you will want to play the putt. I would say that if the extra” putt is up hill The “one step than play more aggressive. If the putt is side hill or down hill speed calls for a more than putt more conservatively. Now that you have agressive figured out the speed you willtoward putt with, lets stroke a focus on direction. If you are going to play the putt aggressively than putt for an object that isyou a couple of feet behindbehind the hole. point establish (as seen in the photo) By putting for an object behind the hole the asforce illustrated into you will be hitting the putthole, with more so you will want Aiming for a spot behind the hole be sure to the keep the play less break. Tothe provide more force for afor spot photo. Because isAiming a good strategy holingbehind short putts handle of the putter moving through to your finish. The faster the hole is a good strategy ball in that thisis moving ball will not take is as rolling much breakfaster than a ball for holing shorter putts. traveling at exact speed. willhillwant totheplay If you are putting onputt a side you hill or down slope than slower moving ball or whatless I call “exact speed” is aprovide good play. Exact break. To more force in this stroke speed basically means that the ball will trickle into the hole on you want to keep the handle of the putter moving its last rotation. When putting for exact speed you will want to putt for an object short of the hole and than allow the slope to through to your finish. feed the ball into the hole. Next time you are on the try this strategy for Tryputting thisgreen strategy the next time you’re on the holing more short putts. practice green and you’ll be playing less strokes!

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typewriter eraser? Or, if you’re younger, have you moved your belongings into a long-unused HAPPY FROM TIDBITS! desk, onlyHALLOWEEN to find a strange-looking gadget with fiber-like hairs bushing out of one end? What SCARY MOVIES you’ve foundbyisRyan a typewriter Toepfer eraser. Usually shaped likejust a pencil, tiphaving was made of an Some people seem tothe love the living especially-abrasive rubber, which was used to daylights scared out of them. Why else would “erase” typing error. Thebeother end featured horror and the suspense movies so popular? To a small brush made of stiff plastic strands that celebrate Halloween, Tidbits goes behind the wasof used to sweep remnants of the erasure scenes some classicthe thrillers. off the page. • When Alfred Hitchcock purchased the film • rights There’s shortage litter on theupground tofornoPsycho, heofalso bought as many day, butofthankfully, wenovel no longer discarded copies the original as heseecould find, pull-tabs. The tabs on older easy-open beverage hoping to keep the story’s ending a secret. cans pulled completely off the can. People who • The famous shower Psycho wasdodging filmed walked in bare feetscene wereofconstantly using double for Norman Bates, as Anthony these acarelessly-dropped metal hazards. Perkins was appearing in a play (Greenwillow) • in The rhythmic “beep” the scanner is the New York at the time.of The first time Perkins musical accompaniment to the supermarket actually saw that scene was back at the studio, checkoutthe line. But“rushes,” if you’ve wondered watching daily andever he said he was where the cliché of saying “ka-ching!” in rejust as scared as everyone else. lation to money comes from, that’s the sound • Take a close look electric, at Michael mask in that the old-style not Myers’ electronic, cash the 1978 camp classic Halloween. Does the registers made. Cashiers of that era had to face look familiar? The movie was filmed manually punch a series of buttons to ring on up such a tight budget, that the prop department your purchase, followed by a smack of the had to make dowith withthe what they For Myers’ “total” button heel ofhad. the hand. disguise, they used an old Captain Kirk (Star • “Do you want your carbons?” used to be an Trek) mask, which they spray painted white and automatic question asked by merchants after then re-shaped the eyeholes. you’d signed for a credit card payment. At that turn the page for more! time, credit card receipts were filled out by hand in triplicate, with a small piece of carbon paper inserted between each sheet. It didn’t take long for thieves to realize they could retrieve the used carbons from the trash and steal valuable credit card information. Once that scam gained popularity, waiters and cashiers regularly offered the carbons to customers, giving them the opportunity to destroy them.

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August 11, 2014

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GO FIGURE!

Go Figure! by Linda Thistle

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