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tirelessly to instigate social reform for the mentally ill. She documented conditions, published papers, met with politicians, and worked with committees to draft new laws.

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• Illinois opened their first mental asylum as a direct result of her efforts. The institute that was built in Raleigh, North Carolina was named in her honor. Pennsylvania followed shortly afterwards and opened an asylum in Harrisburg.

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• In 1854 she guided the Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane through the United States Congress, which provided funds to build more asylums across the country. Although it was passed with broad support from both houses of Congress, the bill was vetoed by President Franklin Pierce, who felt that the federal government should not be involved in social welfare, which was the responsibility of the states.

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• In 1881, Dix moved into the New Jersey State Hospital, which she had founded 40 years earlier. The state legislature designated a suite for her private use as long as she lived. She died on July 17, 1887. • All in all, her tireless efforts over the course of 40 years directly led to the construction of 32 institutions for the care of the mentally ill in the Hair byand Jacquelyn U.S. resulted in a major change in the way BZ,the BW, 6x mentally ill are treated.  June 30, 2013 Vol. 9 - No. 27

• Following this experience, she set about to conduct a statewide examination of how the state of Massachusetts cared for poor people who were also insane. Most towns simply hired CLIP AND SAVE ADVERTISING PROOF local individuals to care for people with mental Final Changes DUE: Wed., 6/13/12 by 5:00 p.m.. disorders. Because the systemDouble was unregulated Please review carefully. check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours and underfunded, there was widespread abuse. Refresh Your Color. Refresh Your Look. Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Dorothea presented a scathing report to the state Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Email: valleybits@msn.com Professional Colorist legislature, pointing to numerous instances CUT! Corrective Color Specialist with any where people had been chained, Manhattan beaten, and In The Desert color Full Color Hi-Lites Hair Cuts starved. As a result of her lobbying, the page, mental4c service 1/6th & this ad. Call Jacquelyn hospital in Worcester, MA was expanded. today: (760) 641-8887 June 17, 2012  $55 Value

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• In 1841 she began teaching Sunday school at a women’s prison in Massachusetts, where she was horrified by the appalling treatment the prisoners were subjected to – especially the inmates who suffered from mental illnesses. It upset her that the mentally ill were housed alongside felons, which she felt was unfair. The prison had no heat and she immediately went to court in order to secure heat for the prison. This kicked off a life-long devotion to social reform.

• Angry over the rejection of the bill, Dorothea traveled to Scotland and then to Nova Scotia where she continued her work. She mercilessly exposed the enormous disparity between public and private hospitals. After visiting with Pope Pius IX, he was moved to order the construction of a new hospital for the mentally ill.

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HOSPITAL VISITS (from page one) dark. In some areas, power was not restored for more than 12 hours. Coincidentally, nine months later hospitals in that entire area noted a sharp increase in the number of maternity admissions.

• A psychic suffering from persistent headaches was admitted to the hospital for a CT-scan. The dye they used, she said, made her believe her head was going to explode. Afterwards she found her psychic powers had disappeared, and she sued the hospital. Although the jury awarded her nearly $1 million, the judge threw out the verdict. • Janos Pek of Hungary had been confined to a hospital bed for 11 years after an accident left him paralyzed and mute. In 1975, he was listening to the opening game of the soccer season on the radio. When the announcer described the tripping of a player on Pek’s favorite team, Pek shouted, “Penalty!” It was the first word he had spoken in over a decade. Though he remained paralyzed, he spoke normally afterwards. • A doctor who spoke limited Spanish was rushed to a car in the ER parking lot to find a Spanish woman in the process of giving birth. Wanting to tell the woman to push he started yelling “Puta! Puta! Puta!” At this the grandmother started to cry and the baby’s father had to be restrained. What the doctor should have been saying was “Puja!” (Push!). Instead, he was saying, “Whore! Whore! Whore!” • Abie Goldberry was goalie on a Canadian junior ice hockey team in 1930. In the back pocket of his hockey shorts he kept a book of matches and a plastic comb. When a puck from a hard shot struck his back pocket, the friction caused the matches to ignite, melting the comb and setting his pants on fire. While he was being treated at a local hospital his team lost 7 - 0.

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with her and Nirvana front man, Kurt Cobain’s child, he was in the drug rehab wing at the same hospital. Courtney shocked her doctors by walking out of the delivery room to get Cobain wandering the the street weeping, but she only out of his room. She yelled at him “You are not 1. What’s proper babbled incoherently. She was ultimately sent2. Wh leaving me alone to do this by myself!” Cobain ADVERTISING PROOF scientificHOSPITAL nameVISITS: for the joined her in the delivery room, but when the Turn to page 15 tra MON., AUG. 6 baby’s head appeared, he vomited andFinal passed Changes DUE: 5:00 p moment that the spring firs out. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices

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• In 1970 in Indiana, the parents of 15-month-old Rodney Brown were informed by their doctor that the child suffered from cystic fibrosis and would not live past his mid-teens. For the next decade, Rodney was subjected to extended hospital stays and all manner of medical procedures. In 1975 Rodney was chosen as Indiana’s cystic fibrosis poster child, and as such he met President Gerald Ford in 1976. In 1980 the family moved to Maryland and Rodney was taken to see a new doctor. Upon examination, the doctor found that Rodney never had cystic fibrosis at all; he merely suffered from an asthmatic condition. • At Tokyo’s Keio University Hospital, 30 percent of the outpatients diagnosed with throat polyps attributed the cause of the affliction to singing karaoke. • In 1984 a 335-pound man in Virginia under-

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a pressure control system that helps to prevent ear “popping” among passengers as the car ascends at more than 30 miles per hour. Tidbits of Coachella Valley Vol. IX Issue 30 • Most buildings have deactivated the “close doors” button in their elevators, since live attendants are no longer commonplace. As a result, the doors of an elevator usually close in a pre-set amount of time, even if you conUPS ANDthe DOWNS tinue to press “close” (continued): button repeatedly.

• When a new building is under construction, everyone from landlords to installers provide input to determine the total number of eleva In 1977, Ken Olson, president, chairtor shafts and cars. The basic rule of thumb is man and founder of Digital Equipment to have the capacity to move at least oneCompany, made the following regrettable eighth of the building’s population in five statement: “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” minutes. The data from various groups helps determine the building’s usual occupancy.  Gross fact of the day: Half of the bac• Clautophobia is an unnatural fear of elevateria in the human mouth haven’t even tors. Many others are just uneasy around been identified yet by science. UPS AND DOWNS them. Studies have revealed that Americans by Lawrence Engleman get very antsy if they have to wait longer  The drug Ivermectin is a broad-specthan 303rd seconds for2008 an elevator car to arrive. As the “story” goes, elevators have been part of Quarter trum antiparasitic, used mainly to treat our daily lives since the early 20th century. infestations of worms. The people who • InsufficientWeek or malfunctioning elevators can 31 have been helped by this medication Here’s a peek behind the scenes at what industry have a Jul significant impact. Landlords have 27 – Aug 2 might be surprised to learn that the drug insiders like to call “vertical transportation.” trouble renting space in buildings with very was developed through research spurred Pageand 7 lose revenue in the long slow elevators, • Traction elevators are suspended by (usually by a fungus found growing on the golf run. An extreme example is the Bronx Famisix to eight) high-strength suspension cables. shoe of a botanist. ly Court in New York. The stairs had been By design, any one of the cables should be closed in 2007 due to security concerns, and able to support 125 percent of the the full  If you’re a centenarian, you might the building’s aging elevators kept breaking weight of the car. This is a built-in safety feawant to consider moving to New Mexico. In that state, there is a law declaring that down, leading to missed court appearances ture, lest one or more of the cables break (a everyone 100 and older is tax-exempt. resulting in multiple arrest warrants. very rare occurrence, authorities tell us). • A new wrinkle in elevator technology is the • Apart from the suspension cables, each trac Unless you were around on April 17, destination dispatch system. These so-called tion elevator car also comes equipped with a 1964, you may not be aware of the hul“smart: elevators are connected to a central governor cable. The governor is connected to labaloo caused by the introduction of the control system. Passengers enter their desired a measuring device that can detect if the eleMustang. In Seattle, a truck driver was so ADVERTISING PROOF floor on a keyboard, and a screen tells them vator car is descending faster than its maxi-ADVERTISING distracted by a display of new Mustangs PROOF 24 that he crashed his cement truck through Final DUE:car to TUES., which elevator take. AJAN. computer eva- 5:00 p mum allowable speed. If that happens, the Changes Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p the window of the dealership. In Chicago, thecheck: number of passengers and their lo“safeties” are tripped – bronze brake shoescarefully.luates Please review Double  Phone Number(s) Spelling  Price so many people were trying to crowd into Please review carefully. cations, Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling and then assigns people to specific  Prices that run along the vertical shaft. 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(Could landlords tion insisted on sleeping in his new car that night, just to make sure nobody else injury to themselves by not Proswho c/o cause Mark Higbie sell real estate above the city if it required Doorgers got it before his check cleared. riding climbing 70 or more flights of stairs?) Cur- BZ 4C 26xin the prescribed manner. Most elevainjuries happen rently, the world’s fastest elevator is installed Jan. tor 29, 2012 Vol. 8 - No.to5the engineers and tech Arizonans take note: Hunting camels nicians who service them.  in what’s also the world’s tallest skyscraper. PROOF isADVERTISING illegal in your state. The high-speed elevator in the Taipei 101 Final Changes DUE: Wed.5/29/13 5:00 p.m..building in Taiwan was designed using many  If you’re hypothetical Please review carefully. Double like check:the  Phone Number(s) average  Spelling  Prices  Hours ground-breaking technologies. 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These Social Security “Fixes” Are Broken Ideas Anytime I write a column about proposals for Social Security reform, as I did a couple weeks ago, I know my email inbox will be filled with readers’ ideas for “fixing” Social Security. They usually involve each reader’s particular pet peeve when it comes to the Social Security program. Here are some examples.

I will tell you how you can fix Social Security tomorrow: stop paying benefits to divorced women. With the divorce rate so high in this countr y, these women must be bleeding the system dr y. No wonder Social Security has problems. And besides, most of these women don’t deser ve those benefits in the first place. They never paid into the program. They are simply mooching money from their ex-husband’s account and from the taxpayers who support the system today.

Let me guess: You went through an acrimonious divorce and now you’ve got an ex-wife collecting divorced spouse’s benefits on your Social Security account. Am I right? You said, “These women don’t deserve benefits.” I’d like you to tell that to a woman who was married for 30 years to some guy -- cooked his meals and washed his underwear, raised his kids and put up with his meandering ways -- only to find herself dumped at the age of 55 and replaced with a much younger woman. You really don’t think she deserves any of her husband’s Social Security? Now I will admit that there are a few women out there who were not angels themselves and who might be getting Social Security benefits from some guy to whom they were married for only a little over 10 years (the minimum amount of time necessary to qualify for divorced spouse’s benefits). But I’d be willing to bet there are far more women in the first category than in the second. And how would you really differentiate between the two? Do you think the government should set up some kind of morality board to decide which divorced women deserve benefits and which women don’t? Sorry pal, but your idea doesn’t have any merit. * * * Q: I have a way to solve Social Security’s long-range problems: Get rid of the disability program and force these freeloaders to get off of welfare and get back in the work force!

A: So a guy who has worked and paid taxes all his life and then has a series of heart attacks at age 58 and goes on disability should get off of his welfare mooching butt and go back to work, huh? And a woman who ran a small beauty parlor for 30 years until she contracted breast cancer at age 60 and started getting Social Security disability is a freeloader? Gosh buddy, maybe you can qualify for disability benefits because of that huge chip you’re carrying on your shoulder! For more teasers log on to I’ve written plenty of columns over the years www.TriviaGuy.com about “disability bashing.” For some reason, so many people think that the Social Security disability program is one big con game and that the program’s recipients are deadbeats and scofflaws. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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They also tend to think of Social Security disability as a form of welfare. It is not. To qualify, a person must work and pay Social Security taxes for a specified period of time (that depends on his or her age). The only difference between Social Security retirement and Social Security disability is that to qualify for the former, you must be at least age 62, and to qualify for the latter, you must be severely disabled and unable to work. As I’ve explained hundreds of times in this column, millions of Americans confuse the Social Security disability program with the Supplemental Security Income disability program. To reiterate: Social Security disability is a regular Social Security benefit. SSI disability, however, is a welfare program that has nothing to do with Social Security and isn’t paid for with Social Security taxes. You could kick all of the five million or so recipients off of the SSI disability program tomorrow, and it would have absolutely no impact on Social Security financing. * * *

I say we stop paying benefits to children. If a guy has kids, he should be forced to take care of them. He shouldn’t expect the Social Security system to do it.

The vast majority of kids who get Social Security dependent’s benefits are getting those monthly payments on the account of a parent who has died. I’m going to assume you don’t have any problem with that. My hunch is your gripe is with those kids who get dependent child’s benefits on the account of a parent who is receiving Social Security disability benefits or, in much rarer situations, the minor children of retirees. (Yes, there are a few retirees out there who have children under the age of 18 at home.) All I can tell you is that the payment of these benefits has been a fundamental tenet of Social Security almost since the first days of the program. Social Security was set up to partially replace the income a person loses when he or she retires or becomes disabled. Obviously, part of a worker’s income prior to retirement or disability was used to support his or her dependent spouse and minor children. So part of his or her Social Security benefits are also used to do the same. People are always looking for easy ways to

“fix” Social Security. The ideas presented here are examples of that. Believe me, if there was an easy fix to Social Security, Congress would have done it a long time ago. The reason reform is so difficult is because, inevitably, the solutions will mean that current or future retiree’s benefits will have to be cut; or current or future worker’s taxes will have to be raised.

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HOSPITAL VISITS (from page page 3) to a mental hospital. She was 23 at the time. She lived there for the next 48 years, where everyone assumed she was insane because she was unable to communicate. In 1968 a new hospital director reviewed her case. An employee who spoke Ukrainian discovered she could communicate after all. She was released from the institute and went to live with the daughter of a woman in the personnel department. She died in 1983, having spent half her life in an institution, simply because no one realized she could not speak or understand English. • In October, 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest en route to Milwaukee, he refused to go to the hospital before giving his speech. After speaking for more than an hour, he was taken to a hospital for treatment, but doctors decided it too risky to remove the bullet lodged in his ribs. It remained there for the rest of his life. • Based on research with the human body’s internal clock, the period between the hours of 4 and 6 in the afternoon is when people are the most irritable. Evidence has shown that more human bites are treated in hospitals at this time of the day than any other. • At the prison in McAlester, Oklahoma, death row inmate Robert Brecheen overdosed on medications the day before he was to be executed. He was rushed to the hospital where his stomach was pumped. He was then taken back to the prison and promptly executed. 

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Hole out more short putts

The tricky thing about putting is that you’re seldom going to have a straight and level putt into ou’re not always or the cup. Breaking putts are sometimes difficult to nto the hole. These sink since you have to consider two variables: the hole out since you speed of the ball, and the slope that will always ball will be rolling as influence its direction. e slope that is going I believe it’s more important to focus on speed since speed dictates the amount of break the ball speed since speed will take in the roll. A faster moving ball will have take in the putt. A less break than a slower one, and a downhill putt an a slower moving will take less stroke than an uphill one. art off by pacing off Let’s give ourselves two speeds to work with ur head, one or two on our sloping putt: Exact speed, and one step s determine whether ook at the putt from past the hole. ball and a down hill With exact speed you are calculating that the look at the putt from Hole Out More Short Putts ball will have just enough roll to trickle into the how aggressive you hole. The slower speed The tricky thing about putting is that you’re not always in or if the putt is up hill 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 side hill or down hill 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 ou will putt with, lets 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 he putt aggressively direction that the ball will faster moving ball will have less break than a slower moving eet behind the hole. 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 ject behind the hole steps from the hole.point The next just thing toshort do is determine of thewhether cup so you will want to the putt is up hill or down hill than take a look at the putt from Aiming for a spot behind the hole and allow the slope feed the low side; an up hill putt from behind the ball and ato down hill be sure to keep the hole. When you take a look at the putt from is a good strategy for holing short putts putt from behind thethe ball into the hole. ur finish. The faster 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 a ball that is 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 lope than the slower 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. a good play. Exact point establish (as seen in the photo) By putting for an object behind the hole ckle into the hole on the asforce illustrated into you will be hitting the putthole, with more so you will want Aiming for a spot behind the hole play less break. Tothe provide more force be sure to the keep the eed you will want to 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 n allow the slope to ball in that thisis moving ball will not take is as rolling much breakfaster than a ball for holing shorter putts. If there is a ball on the fringe and a ball traveling at exact speed. willhillwant totheplay If you are putting onputt a side you hill or down slope than slower try this strategyinfor moving ball or whatless I call “exact speed” is aprovide good play. Exact the bunker, your opponent’s ball is in speed break. To more force in this stroke basically means that the ball will trickle into the hole on you want to keep handle of the putter moving its last rotation. When putting for exact speed youthe will want to the bunker. If both balls are in the bun-putt for an object short of the hole and than allow the slope to through to your finish. feed the ball into the hole. as a 2007-2008ker, Top your opponent’s is in the footprint. Next time you are on the try this strategy for Tryputting thisgreen strategy the next time you’re on the e College Golf Center. holing more short putts. practice green and you’ll be playing less strokes! robstanger.com.

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How many have paid good money for a ticket to a horror ﬁlm, only to cover • How been very since little you’ve their long eyes has andit“see” of used it? a ENDANGERED SIGHTS & SOUNDS (cont’d):

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 SCARY MOVIESend? What you’ve foundbyisRyan a typewriter Toepfer eraser. Usually shaped like a pencil, tiphaving was made of an Some people just seem tothe love the living especially-abrasive to daylights scared out ofrubber, them.which Why was else used 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 saw accompaniment the at supermarket actually that scene wastoback the studio, checkout line. But if you’ve ever wondered watching the daily “rushes,” and 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 Halloween. Does registers made. classic Cashiers of that era hadthe to face look familiar? The movie was filmed on manually punch a series of buttons to ring up such tight budget, that the department your apurchase, followed byprop a smack of the had to make do with what they had. For Myers’ “total” button with the heel of 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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