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WEIRD PASTIMESby T. A. Tafoya
With our limitless imaginations, humans have come up with all sorts of interesting activities in an effort to stave off boredom. Tidbits takes a look at a few of the wackiest pastimes. • Chess Boxing requires both brains and brawn. This Dutch event combines a game of chess played in between rounds of boxing. Two individuals go at it for up to 11 rounds. The game starts with a four-minute chess round followed by two minutes of boxing. The World Chess Boxing Organization’s motto is: “Fighting is done in the ring, and wars are waged on the board.” The match can be won through domination in either activity or some combination of a knockout, checkmate and exceeding the time limit on speed chess or by a judges’ decision. • Ever thought of chasing cheese? In a battle of pursuit, people risk life and limb to chase an eight-pound Double Gloucester cheese down a very steep hill in the annual Cheese-Rolling Festival at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire. There are fi ve races, and the fi rst person to make it to the bottom still on their feet wins the cheese! turn the page for more!
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WEIRD PASTIMES (continued):• Can you talk afterwards? The World Stinging Nettle Challenge is held at The Bottle Inn in Marshwood, Dorset, U.K., every year as part of a charity beer festival. Competitors come from all over the world to see how many nettle leaves they can eat off two stalks in an hour’s time. The bare stalks are measured, and the winner is the one with the greatest accumulated length. It takes skill and endurance to chew and swallow the leaves and not blister the tongue. • You shouldn’t be asleep for this one! Bed Racing is a sport enjoyed by the people of North Yorkshire Town in the United Kingdom who hold the annual Knaresborough Bed Race. Competitors race beds in teams of six, plus one on the bed. The bed has to run on four wheels and must also fl oat. The race is 1 mile (3 km) long with fi ve up-hill climbs leading to a fi nal challenge of crossing a river.• Ferret Legging is a male-only competition that started in Yorkshire, England, and is now held at the Richmond Highland Games & Celtic Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Men compete with one another by trapping two live ferrets in their pants. The pants must be tied at the ankle and secured at the waist with a belt to prevent the ferrets from escaping. The animals cannot be sedated and must have a full set of teeth. No fi ling or blunting of teeth is allowed. After the ferrets are secure in the trousers, the competitors stand in front of the judges. The winner is the man who can last the longest. There are two important additional rules to Ferret Legging: The ferrets must have free access from one leg of the trousers to the other, and no underwear can be worn! The current record stands at 5.5 hours.• Witcham in Cambridgeshire, England, hosts an annual Pea Shooting contest where the competition is fi erce! Contestants shoot a pea 12 feet (3.64 m) through a 12-inch (30.48 cm) tube towards a 12-inch (30.48 cm) target. Pea shooting recently moved into the 21st century with laser-guided shooters.• Wife Carrying started in Finland and is now played all over the world. In this race, male competitors run a 278-yard (253.5-m) track with two dry obstacles and one water obstacle while carrying their wife on their back. The fastest time wins. The wife must weigh at least 108 pounds (49 kilograms) and may be carried piggyback, fi reman’s carry or Estonian style, where the wife hangs upside-down with her legs around the husband’s shoulders, holding onto his waist. The prize is the wife’s weight in beer. • A conker is a nut of the horse chestnut tree. During The World Conker Championships, conkers are threaded onto pieces of knotted string to prevent them from coming off. The aim of the game is to smash your opponent’s conker. Who goes fi rst is decided by a coin toss, and the loser of the toss holds up a hand with the dangling conker on the end of its string. The other player then attempts to hit the dangling conker as hard as he can with his own conker by swinging it over-arm. If he hits it, he gets another go. If he misses or hits the opponent’s knuckles, the play switches, and the receiver gets a crack at his opponent. This continues until one of the conkers is so damaged that it falls off the string.• Big crowds regularly attend the Great Christmas Pudding Race held in London’s Covent Garden’s West Piazza. It is a relay event where teams in fancy dress negotiate a challenging 164-yard (150-meter) obstacle course while carefully balancing a dish of Christmas pudding on a tray.
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Bladder Stones and More … • Jennifer Lavallee, DVM at Cat SpecialistMinah is a 6 year old ador-able grey and white short-haired kitty with bright green eyes. She charms you with her polite manners and a cooing little meow. Sadly, Minah has propensity to form calcium oxalate stones in her urinary system. First, in May 2014, she had bladder stones.
They were discovered when she presented for lethargy, vomiting, and frequent trips to the litterbox. X-rays revealed 3 stones in her bladder. Dr. Olson removed them surgically and Minah had a dramatic and full recovery. She ate a special preventative urinary stone diet at home. Then, in September 2014, she presented with similar symptoms and x-rays showed a normal bladder, but now small stones in her kidneys. She re-sponded well to fl uids and medica-tions. But things really took a scary turn in October 2014, when Minah returned yet again with lethargy and vomiting. This time, on physical exam, Dr. Lavallee found something surprising – Minah’s right kidney was very large and painful. X-rays with contrast dye showed that there was now a stone in the ureter, the tube that connects the kidney to the bladder. This is excruciatingly painful and can cause irreversible and life threatening kidney damage. Minah was hospital-ized and given fl uids and medications to help relax her ureter to try to get the stone to pass. Even under the best of circumstances, the success with medications alone is only about 8-15%. If unsuccessful, Minah would have required advanced surgery. We are very pleased to report that Minah was in the happy minority and her stone passed! Her kidney even went back to a normal size! She now comes in for periodic re-checks and we are manag-ing her calcium level to reduce the chance that she forms more stones. She is a fantastic patient and we have been honored to care for her.
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“The care that Minah received while in Drs. Olson and Lavallee’s care, and continues to receive, is second to none! All aspects of her treatment, from medication, test results, and even how her disposition may have changed – were completely and thoroughly explained to us, includ-ing her prognosis. We are absolutely confi dent that Minah couldn’t have been in better hands and we appreciate everything they did for her. She is walking, running, me-owing, playing testament to the knowledge, expertise and compassion of Cat Specialist!” - Monica and Glenn
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Opals
Travel to Australia to �nd the worlds �nest opals where 95% of them are found in the arid, remote outback deserts. The ancient Australian aborigine lore taught that the Creator came down to earth on a rainbow and the very spot where his foot touched the ground the stones started gleaming in all the colors of the rainbow and the opal was born. There are a variety of opals but all share one characteristic: they shine and sparkle in a constantly varying play of colors described by gemologists as “opalising”. This color play makes the opal attractive, fascinating and valuable. In 1960s a team of Australian scientists analyzed opals with an electron microscope and discov-ered that small spheres from silica gel causes interference and the refraction of light resulting in “opalising”. Pliny, the famous Roman author, called opal a gemstone which combines the best possible characteristics of the most beautiful of gem-stones: the �ne sparkle of Almandine, the shining purple of Amethyst, the golden yellow of Topaz, and the deep blue of Sapphire, ”so that all colors shine and sparkle together in a beautiful combi-nation“.
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It has long been said that plants are the lungs of the earth.
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Top 5 plants to grow#1 - Boston fern - Nephrolepis exaltata "Bostoniensis"Foliage plant highest rated for removing pollutants. Requires frequent misting and watering to prevent brown leaves and leaf drop. Excel-lent as a hanging plant.
#2 - Florist's mum - Chrysanthemum morifoliumFlowers provide brilliant color. Highly rated for removing chemical vapors. Insect resistant. Blooms 6-8 weeks. Use for seasonal color
#3 - Gerbera daisy - Gerbera jamesoniaFlowering plant available in many colors. Blooms all winter when kept on a cool window sill. Extremely effective for removing toxins from air. Resistant to insects, but requires some care.
#4 - Dwarf date palm - Phoenix roebeleniiFoliage plant. High overall rating for removing toxins, ease of main-tenance and resistance to insects. While a slow grower, it can reach 5 to 6 ft. and fronds will grow 3 ft. wide. Adapts well to indoor light and controlled temps indoors.
#5 - Dracaena "Janet Craig" - Dracaena deremensis "Janet Craig"Foliage plant in the agave family. The "Compacta" variety is a smaller plant that grows 1 to 3 ft. Best dracaena for removing toxins; low maintenance; insect resistant.
With Valentine's Day coming soon, consider giving fl owers that are not only pretty, but also sustainable by cleansing the air you breathe. Even lower-rated fl owering plants such as cyclamen have an air-cleaning capacity and they have longer-lasting fl owers than a bouquet.
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Q. How long have we had toothbrushes?
A. Longer than most of us can remember. The toothbrush dates back to the Stone Age, when small twigs or sticks were mashed together to create a broader surface for cleaning around the teeth. The Chinese invented the fi rst bristle toothbrush – in the 1490’s. Europe adopted the bristle toothbrush in the 17th century, and American colonial dentists encouraged its use.
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