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TIDBITS® GOBBLES WITH THE TURKEYSby Kathy Wolfe‘Tis the season, as they say, so this week, Tidbits is wondering just how much you know about the turkey, one of our favorite meals over the holi-days. • The U.S. Department of Agriculture tells us that about 45 million turkeys will be cooked in America for Thanksgiving, about 17% of all the turkeys sold throughout the year. Close to 250 million turkeys are raised in the U.S. annually.• The Meleagris gallopavo is the wild turkey from which our domesticated turkey is descend-ed. There are six subspecies of wild turkeys, in-cluding the Gallopavo silvestris, or forest turkey, the most numerous of all turkeys, more than five million birds. The turkey is the only poultry na-tive to North America. • Because domesticated turkeys have been bred to have large breasts for cooking purposes, they are top-heavy and unable to fly. However, wild turkeys can fly as fast as 55 mph (89 km/hr) and they even roost in the treetops at night to avoid predators. Wild birds can also run up to a speed of 25 mph (40 km/hr). The domestic bird will weigh about twice as much as the wild one. turn the page for more!

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TURKEYS (continued):• During the 1930s, excessive hunting brought the wild turkey population down to about 30,000. A wildlife restoration project was instituted, and today, there are an estimated 7 million wild tur-keys across the nation. • Are you familiar with all the turkey terms? That flap of skin that hangs over a turkey’s beak is known as a snood. Brightly-colored fleshy bumps on a turkey’s head and throat are called caruncles. Both the snood and caruncles turn bright red when the bird becomes frightened or agitated. The wattle, that flap of skin under the turkey’s chin, also changes to bright scarlet on a male in the midst of mating season. Although we frequently hear males referred to as toms, they are also known as gobblers, because of the distinctive noise they make to announce their presence to females. A baby turkey is known as a poult or a chick, and of course, the female is called a hen. • Speaking of gobbling, in addition to the famil-iar gobble, a male turkey can make more than 30 different vocal sounds, including purrs, yelps, and kee-kees, distinctive and unique enough to be recognized by his fellow males. A gobble can be heard a mile away. Female turkeys aren’t nearly so vocal, usually making a clicking noise.• There are obvious differences in the outward appearances between males and females, with the male having a featherless bright red head and a body of red, bronze, and gold feathers. The fe-male’s head is grayish-blue and her plumage is mostly a drab brown with a few feathers on the neck and head for camouflage. The adult male also has a beard, a cluster of feathers on the cen-ter of its breast, feathers than can be more than 7 inches (17.8 cm) long.

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A “tidbit” is defined as “a tasty morsel to be enjoyed before the meal”. And that’s just what Tidbits® is – a non-controversial, weekly paper dedicated to publishing entertaining morsels for the mind, food for thought as it were: trivia, fun facts, amusing stories and oddities.Tidbits is distributed to over 200 locations throughout the area. Tidbits can be found in res-taurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, offices, banks, libraries, hair salons, auto repair shops, motels, hospitals, medical & dental waiting rooms, retail stores, etc.Our weekly readership is 14,800. If you would like to add your event, stories, ad info or any comments, please feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] or call me at 208.755.9120.

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TURKEYS (continued):• Turkey gender can also be determined in a rath-er unusual way – by observing their droppings. A male’s droppings are spiral-shaped, while a fe-male produces droppings shaped like the letter J. • Turkeys have excellent hearing, able to deter-mine sounds up to a mile away, but oddly enough, have no external ears. They hear through small holes in the head directly behind the eyes. The birds have periscopic vision, with eyes on the sides of the head, able to achieve a 360-degree field of vision. • The male turkey has sharp bony spikes on the back of its lower legs, used as a method of de-fense. You can determine a turkey’s age by mea-suring the length of these spurs. A one-year-old can have spurs of 7/16” (1.1 cm), while two-year-olds’ spurs range from ½” to 15/16” (1.27 cm to 2.4 cm). The spurs on a five-year-old turkey are from 1.5” to 2.25” (3.8 cm to 5.7 cm) in length. • During mating season, the male turkey fluffs out his feathers, fans out his tail feathers, and drags his wings when he walks. This little per-formance is called strutting.• When it’s time for the female hen to lay eggs, she’ll lay about 12 eggs at the rate of one per day in just under two weeks. Those eggs will incu-bate about 28 days before hatching. • Although turkey is regularly served as a Thanksgiving mainstay, it’s unlikely that the Pil-grims dined on the bird at their first Thanksgiv-ing feast in 1621. This three-day celebration was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pil-grims, and written accounts of the menu mention “fowl,” which was probably duck or grouse, but turkey was not listed specifically.

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by Samantha Weaver

It was noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright who made the following sage obser-vation: “The truth is more important than the facts.”

You might be surprised to learn that the Ford Mustang, an icon of American automobiles, was originally named the Torino.

If you live in Arkansas, you can reflect on the fact that your state is home to the only diamond mine in North America.

Popular Science magazine once dipped its toes into predictions -- and got it all wrong. In 1898, it published an article stating, “The energy nec-essary to propel [an airplane] would be many times greater than that required to drive a train of cars at the same speed; hence as a means of rapid transit, flying could not begin to compete with the railroad.” The magazine can be forgiv-en its lack of foresight, though, considering the fact that the first powered airplane flight didn’t even occur until five years later.

Tofu has the distinction of being the most hated food in America.

Method, a company that makes eco-friendly home-cleaning products, has at their headquar-ters a brainstorming room whose walls, floor and ceiling are completely covered in live, growing grass. The purpose? To bring the outdoors in, and to “keep Method weird.”

Those who study such things say that a $1 million lottery prize is actually worth about $468,000, once taxes and fees are deducted.

The next time you’re visiting Great Britain and someone offers you a dish called powsowdy, you might want to politely decline. Unless you’re an adventurous eater, a broth made from sheep’s heads probably won’t appeal.

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TURKEYS (continued):• George Washington was responsible for pro-claiming the first nationwide celebration of thanks in America in 1789, but Thanksgiving wasn’t declared a national holiday until 1863, when Abraham Lincoln decreed the final Thurs-day in November as the official holiday. • The Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October. It was first observed in April of 1872 in recognition of the recovery of the Prince of Wales from a serious illness. • What’s in that little plastic bag found in your turkey’s empty body cavity when you bring it home from the store? That bag contains the gib-lets, which are the turkey’s edible internal parts, including the gizzard, heart, liver, and neck. The gizzard is part of the turkey’s stomach, contain-ing tiny stones that help grind up food in the di-gestion process. Some cooks chop up the giblets to add to the gravy or stuffing, but in all prob-ability, most giblets end up in the dog’s dish!• The meat of an older, larger male turkey is preferred over that of a younger bird, which is usually stringy and tougher. However, when it comes to female turkeys, the meat of a younger bird is better. • Benjamin Franklin favored the turkey as a sym-bol for America over the chosen bald eagle, say-ing, “I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; the turkey is in compari-son a much more respectable bird…a true origi-nal native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours.”

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If your energy is low, you have to discover why that is happening first, because until you resolve your fatigue, the chance of clearing the mental fog is pretty One aspect of lifestyle that tends to be a little hazy is that of diet. Sometimes we prefer to be in the clouds about the fact that what we eat has a great deal to do with how our brain operates and how much energy we have. That is because to clear the fog, we have to take a clear look at what we're eating, and then change it. Change is difficult for many people, but if your mental smog is preventing you from enjoying life, what other Your brain operates on certain nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals. To have a healthy brain, you have to have healthy amounts of these raw materials necessary for the construction of healthy brain cells and healthy function. Notice the common denominator? Healthy. Artificial, synthetic, fake vitamins don't help. Minerals in a form that the body can't absorb, don't help. Proteins that are cooked to death, are only partially helpful and carbohydrates? Well, that's in a class of its own.There is much we can do to reduce the fogginess of the mind. It takes a ray of sunshinea little heat (change), and doing things in the proper order of nature.

THE FOG OF THE BRAINHave you ever watched the fog roll off a lake? It isn't clear one moment and thick the next. It comes in slowly, in little wisps. At first, vision is slightly hazy, but you can see for long distances. It gradually flows over you, just a little thicker, a little heavier, a little cooler, until you realize you can't see very far at all. "Brain Fog" isn't a lot dif-ferent. Rarely is your brain - your memory, your ability to recall words, the sharpness of thought - there one day and gone the next. It starts in little wisps, becoming murkier, gradually disap-pearing, until the time comes that it becomes so problematic that you seek help to resolve it.When looking for resolution, first of all, the many contributing diseases must be ruled out. Medications can contribute to "foggy" thinking. Many see their doctors and are told "it's just your age". What about those who When foggy think-ing is incipient - beginning to appear - look first at lifestyle. Do you have so much going on that you just can't seem to keep it all together in your head? Are you tired? Sleep deprivation and other forms of fatigue can certainly result in dimin-ished mental return.

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Dr. Holly Carling is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, Doc-tor of Naturopathy, Clinical Nutritionist and Master Herbologist with over 34 years of experience. Dr. Carling is currently accepting new patients and offers natural health care services and whole food nutritional supplements in her Coeur d’ Alene clinic. Visit Dr. Carling’s website at www.vitalhealthandfitness.com to learn more about Dr. Carling, view a list of upcoming health classes and read other informa-tive articles. Dr. Carling can be reached at 208-765-1994 and would be happy to answer any questions regarding this topic.

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On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivers what will become one of the most fa-mous speeches in American history at Gettys-burg, Pennsylvania. Using just 272 words, Lin-coln articulated the meaning of the Civil War for a public that had grown weary of the conflict.

On Nov. 23, 1876, William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, leader of New York City’s corrupt Tam-many Hall political organization, is delivered to authorities in New York City after his capture in Spain. He had formed the “Tweed Ring,” which bought votes, encouraged judicial corruption and extracted millions of dollars from city con-tracts.

On Nov. 18, 1883, American and Canadian rail-roads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local times. It was not until 1918 that Congress adopted the railroad time zones.

On Nov. 22, 1916, Jack London, who chroni-cled the last Wild West frontier of Alaska, dies in California. London only spent a brief time in the Klondike, but returned with a trove of tales. He produced over 50 volumes of short stories and novels, including “The Call of the Wild,” about a domestic dog who joins an Alaskan wolf pack.

On Nov. 20, 1947, Princess Elizabeth marries her distant cousin, Philip Mountbatten, former prince of Greece and Denmark who renounced his titles to marry the English princess. Mount-batten was made the duke of Edinburgh.

On Nov. 17, 1972, socialite Barbara Baekeland is stabbed to death by her son, Antony, in Lon-don. When police arrived, Antony was calmly placing a telephone order for Chinese food. Ant-ony was institutionalized until a bureaucratic mistake resulted in his release in 1980. He then moved to New York City, where he stabbed his grandmother.

On Nov. 21, 1986, National Security Council staff member Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, begin shredding documents that would have exposed their participation in a range of illegal activities. North was fired, but Hall continued to sneak documents to him by stuffing them in her skirt and boots.

Gluten-Free Pets?DEAR PAW’S CORNER: It seems like every-one is hopping on the gluten-free bandwagon these days, including my friend, who has put her entire family on a gluten-free diet -- includ-ing her two dogs! Is such a strict diet healthy for pets? -- Clara in San Diego

DEAR CLARA: For dogs, as long as their nu-tritional needs are being met -- getting enough calories to maintain a healthy weight, along with enough protein and vital nutrients -- a gluten-free diet should not be harmful at all. In fact, some premium dog foods (dry and wet) are being marketed as gluten-free. As to whether all of them are truly gluten-free, I can’t say -- there is little or no regulation in how pet foods are labeled.Is gluten-free truly helpful for dogs and cats? Again, no one can say for certain. But I’ve heard plenty of anecdotes from fellow pet owners -- their pets have increased energy, or their fur coats are shinier, and many even say that certain behavior problems have gone away on this type of diet.I’ve also heard the same from proponents of the raw food diet, the all-organic diet, and brewer’s yeast supplements.Regardless of the type of diet, it’s always benefi-cial to pets when their owners take a deep inter-est in what they eat and where their food comes from. They monitor their pets more closely, and that attention can help reveal other causes of be-havior or health issues beyond a dietary cause. They also tend to be in closer contact with their pets’ veterinarians, meaning their pets get rou-tine care, vaccinations and other health checks on schedule. That’s great for pets’ health over-all.So, don’t worry about your neighbors’ dogs. If they look healthy and happy, and well-cared for, the type of food they eat is not a problem.

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They will only promote hardening of the arteries and inflammation thruout the body.3) Ensure is loaded with sugar - 15 gms per 8 oz! Even with this load of sugar, Abbott felt the need to sweeten it even more and added an artifi-cial sweetener - liquid sucralose. This amount of sugar can cause your blood sugars to spike, which slows down healing of tissues and wounds, and can worsen diabetes control.4) Ensure contains the synthetic form of vitamin E -- d-alpha, which is highly inflammatory and nothing but junk. All poorly made supplements and vitamins have vt E in this form -- check yours. If it does, throw it away, as it's causing more inflammation and disrepair. Good Vt E supplements should contain a mixture of 8 dif-ferent forms of vt E, 4 tocopherols and 4 tocotre-niols. Do not take Ensure for any reason, but especially when preparing for or recovering from, surgery. Instead, rely on high quality, pharmaceutical grade supplements and protein shakes. With one exception...When you take high daily doses of vitamin C, it stimulates enzymes that can complicate anesthe-sia. So taper off the C before your surgery, and then re-start it afterwards.At Healthy Living Liberty Lake, we use anti-oxidants and a supplement called Vasophil to in-crease tissue healing and decrease complications during recovery. We also have a variety of high quality protein shakes that are excellent for your health and your metabolism, and if you simply need a little help with increasing protein in your diet. (as our seniors often do).

Never take this "supplement"A recent study showed that taking oral nutritional supplements before surgery will help your body to heal more quickly and get past the trauma of surgery. You'll recover faster, with less risk of complications during recovery. This is some-thing we've already known for some time. So why have another study showing the same in-formation? Because this particular study was funded by drug giant Abbott Labs, and they want you to use their product, Ensure. Most of us have heard of Ensure, and many of you may drink it regularly or give it to your el-derly parents, thinking they're getting a boost of protein and vitamins.However, I'm here to tell you that drinking En-sure is a terrible way to beef up your pre-surgery nutrients, or to get any nutrition at all! 4 rea-sons:1)Ensure Original is loaded with soy protein iso-late, soy oil and soy lecithin. All heavily geneti-cally modified, and can increase inflammation and activate estrogen receptors.2) Ensure contains both canola oil AND corn oil. Both are high in inflammatory omega 6 and should be avoided at all cost.

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1. Name the only hit by The Ivy Three.2. What was the name of the theme song from the television series “Dr. Kildare”?3. Which two female artists recorded “No More Tears (Enough is Enough)” as a duet?4. Who sang with Elton John on “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”?5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Well no one told me about her, what could I do, Well no one told me about her, though they all knew, But it’s too late to say you’re sorry, How would I know, why should I care, Please don’t bother tryin’ to find her.”

Answers1. “Yogi,” in 1960. They disbanded in 1961. Check out the song on YouTube, and you’ll wonder how it became a hit.2. “Three Stars Will Shine Tonight” (1962) by the show’s star, Richard Chamberlain.3. Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand, in 1979. There were three versions: four, eight and 11 minutes.4. Kiki Dee, in 1976.5. “She’s Not There,” by the Zombies in 1964. Legend says the songwriter, Rod Argent, wrote it with his former fiancee in mind. She canceled their wedding just weeks before it was to take place.


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FAMOUS CANADIANS:FEMALE VOCALISTSThis week, Tidbits looks at four dynamic Cana-dian female vocalists who’ve all hit the charts in a big way. • Ontario country singer Shania Twain began life as Eilleen Regina Edwards, and was raised in near poverty. She was adopted by stepfather Jerry Twain, a member of the Ojibwa tribe, and took on the first name of Shania, said to be a translation from that language as “I’m on my way.” She began singing in bars at age 8 to help the family make ends meet, wrote her first song at age 10, and appeared on CBS television at 13. From her humble beginnings, Twain has gone on to have sales of 85 million albums, has earned five Grammy Awards, and has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. • Although Ontario native Avril Lavigne is just 30 years old, she has already sold more than 30 million albums and 50 million singles. By age 16, she had already appeared on stage with Shania Twain, and had a $2 million recording contract in her pocket. She’s also a songwriter for other artists, having co-written the mega-hit “Breakaway” recorded by Kelly Clarkson. She has branched out into films, doing a voice-over for a character in the 2006 animated film Over the Hedge, and appeared in Fast Food Na-tion. She has two perfumes on department store shelves, and has launched her own clothing line, Abbey Dawn. Avril (whose name means April in French) gives back to the world through the foundation she founded that funds Easter Seals and Make-A-Wish, helping children and youth with serious illnesses.

by Freddy Groves

Camp LeJeune Water Claims Time LimitThose who lived at Camp LeJeune during its toxic water heyday (from 1957 to 1987) drank water contaminated with dry-cleaning fluids that seeped into a well from a dry cleaners that was only 900 feet from the water supply and solvent from a leaking fuel tank farm.Babies were born with twice the average number of birth defects. There have been kidney, blad-der, ovarian, cervical, lung, prostate and breast cancers among veterans and dependents. Add in non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia and liver disease. Some of these illnesses surfaced fairly quickly, but getting attention from the VA was difficult when it was claimed there was nothing wrong with the water. And there was no help for dependents.Families and individuals sued for damages. But not every illness surfaced quickly enough to be tied in to the Camp LeJeune water lawsuits be-cause of the Statute of Repose. In an attempt to get them some help, the North Carolina legisla-ture tried to undo its Statute of Repose, which had limited filing of lawsuits to ten years, to al-low families to file beyond that time limit. Fi-nally, after a string of lawsuits and appeals, a federal court objected to North Carolina’s new legislation attempts. Claims older than ten years are now dead. Starting a few years ago, veterans were one by one able to convince VA doctors that they were made ill by the Camp Lejeune water. In 2012 a law was passed to cover the health costs (after any other insurance pays first) of dependents who were made sick by the water. Only now, two years later, are they getting around to actually doing that, and it’s limited to a list of illnesses and costs incurred only since March 26, 2013.

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FEMALE VOCALISTS (continued):• Anne Murray paved the way for other female Canadian singers, as the first Canadian female to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts. Her single “Snowbird” was one of North America’s most played songs of 1970, and earned her an Ameri-can gold record, another first for a Canadian female. Born in Nova Scotia to a doctor father and a nurse mother, Anne began classical voice lessons at age 15, enduring a two-hour bus ride every Saturday. Yet she chose physical educa-tion as her major in college and taught P.E. at a Prince Edward Island high school for a year before giving it up to pursue her musical career. She’s had sales of more than 55 million records, won four Grammy Awards, 26 Juno Awards (Ca-nadian music awards), and three CMA Awards. • Celine Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist of all time with record sales topping 200 million. The Quebec-born star got her start in her teens on French language albums. Her manager, who would later become her husband, mortgaged his house to finance her first record. Throughout the 1980s, she released a series of French albums, with her first English language album hitting North America in 1990. Those aren’t the only two languages she Dion can sing – she also sings in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. She’s known her husband/manager since she was 12, when her mother sent him a demo tape. They began a relationship seven years later when she was 19 and he was 45. They now have three children. Dion has won five Grammy Awards, including the ever-popu-lar “My Heart Will Go On,” the theme from the movie Titanic.

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www.tidbitscda.comTIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #47 Nov 17th 2014 CRANBERRIESWhat would Thanksgiving dinner be without cranberries? Here’s the lowdown on this little fruit, a member of the heaher family. • Cranberries grow on creeping shrubs and vines that are about 7 feet (2 m) long and 2 to 8 inch-es (5 to 20 cm) in height. They flourish in sandy bogs and marshes, requiring at least a ton of vines per acre to plant a bog. • The cranberry is one of three fruits native to North America, along with the Concord grape and the blueberry. Long before the arrival of Eu-ropeans to the New World, the Native Americans were using cranberries for food, as a dye for fab-rics, rugs, and blankets, and for medicinal pur-poses. They mixed deer meat with mashed ber-ries to make pemmican, a food that kept for long periods of time. The tribes’ medicine man used cranberries in a poultice to draw out poison from wounds. Some tribes called the little berries “sas-samanesh,” while others named them “ibimi,” meaning “bitter berry.” When German and Dutch settlers arrived, they called them “crane berries,” because the plant’s blossoms looked like the head of a sandhill crane. The word “cranberries” is first recorded in 1647 in a letter written by John Eliot, who was a missionary to the Native Americans. Eliot, who was also the translator of the first Bible printed in America, asked in his letter, “Why are strawberries sweet and cranberries sour?” • Just 5% of the cranberry crop is sold as fresh, with the other 95% turned into other products, such as juice and sauce. These little berries are ingredients in more than 1,000 food and beverage products sold.

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Winterizing: Shutter RepairQ: My mother’s house has wooden louver shut-ters that have stayed open on either side of the windows outside the house for years and years. Many of them are in disrepair. Are they worth saving, or should I replace them? -- Jim H., Gardner, Mass.A: The decision to repair or replace the shutters is ultimately yours. But there are some factors you can consider as you make that decision. ¥ How many shutters are on the house? You would likely need to replace all of them if you’re refreshing the exterior. Shutter replacement can cost between $35 and $55 per shutter.¥ Are the current shutters of good quality or unique design? You may not be able to find a match.¥ Would the time and effort involved in repair-ing the shutters be more than the cost of replace-ment?¥ Consider what it will take to remove each shut-ter, the amount of repair needed, the hours it will take to accomplish the repair and the cost of the supplies needed to fix them.If you decide to replace the shutters, count how many you’ll need. To save money you might consider just replacing the most heavily dam-aged with matching or near-matching shutters and then finish replacing the rest when it’s more convenient. The risk you run, of course, is not being able to purchase the same shutters later.Find the manufacturer name and details about the shutter (like dimensions), if possible. In newer shutters the information may be found on a sticker or tag on the inside frame edge. If there is no information, measure the height and width of the shutter. You should also measure the shut-ters on the second floor and any additional floors or attic windows, if the house has them, as the dimensions may vary. Then, order the shutters you’ll need along with new hardware.If you decide to repair the shutters, determine which are the most damaged, which need no re-pair and which need some repair or just touch-ups or repainting. Schedule a few hours each day or weekend to remove one set of shutters at a time and repair them.Here’s the link to a video that details how to repair damaged exterior wooden shutters: http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/video/0,,1632408,00.htmlAs the video points out, often the joints of the shutters separate, causing the louvers to slip out of place. Here’s another video that shows how a decorative shutter with minor wood rot is re-paired in place: http://www.todayshomeowner.com/video/how-to-repair-exterior-wood-shut-ters/.If louvers are badly damaged or rotted, you should be able to find replacements in the same dimensions at your home-improvement store.

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CRANBERRIES(continued):• There are about 1,000 cranberry growers in the United States. The state of Wisconsin is the nation’s No. 1 producer of cranberries, produc-ing nearly 5 million barrels, which amounts to 60% of America’s crop. Other contributors to the supply are Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington. British Columbia is Canada’s leading producer, cultivating 20% of the world’s cranberries. A lot of fruit is produced in a tiny area – if all of North America’s cranberry bogs were put together, they would encompass an area about the size of Massachusetts’ Nantucket Is-land, just 47 square miles (122 sq. km).• Canned cranberry sauce was first marketed commercially in 1912 by the Cape Cod Cran-berry Company in Hanson, Massachusetts. The Ocean Spray Company got its start in 1930, when it formed as a grower-owned marketing cooperative. • The health benefits of cranberries are many, including preventing urinary tract infections, respiratory disorders, kidney stones, and heart disorders. Their proanthocyanidin content and anti-carcinogenic components help inhibit the growth of several cancer cells, especially colon and prostate cancer. Its antioxidants may also contribute to a healthy immune system.• People who are allergic to aspirin should be careful of their cranberry consumption, as the berries contain sizable quantities of salicylic acid, also present in aspirin.

Social Security COLA In-crease: 1.7 PercentYou’ve likely heard that our Social Security in-crease for 2015 will be only 1.7 percent. Last year, the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) was 1.5 percent, so it’s a small improvement. But here is how that translates into real money: The average monthly increase will be $20.Here are a few items from the Bureau of Labor Statistics chart: During 2014, food went up 3 percent. (Of that, beef has gone up 17.8 percent since Janu-ary. Dairy has gone up 10 times in the past 11 months. All meats, poultry, fish and eggs have increased 9.4 percent this year.) Utilities went up 3.5 percent. Medical care commodities went up 2.9 percent. Medical care services went up 1.7 percent.The net loss of those dollars is in our current buy-ing power. The loss will be made worse down the road because of compounding. Dollars we don’t get now can’t be compounded in years to come. Seniors League has a calculator to deter-mine the long-lasting impact of this low COLA. Go to seniorsleague.org and enter your figures. It will show you the dollar loss over time.COLA became mandatory in 1975. The yearly increase or decrease is based on the Consumer Price Index, which includes food, shelter, doctor and dentists, drugs and other day-to-day goods and services, with figures collected every month in 87 urban areas. Since 2010, the increase has averaged 1.4 percent per year. In two recent years it didn’t increase at all. If this low COLA for 2015 keeps you from be-ing able to quit work, remember that you can earn $15,720 before it starts taking $1 out of your benefits for every $2 you earn. If you’re ready to turn 66 next year, that earning limit will be $41,880 before it takes $1 for every $3 you earn.

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So this may be a sick ques-tion but how do I deal with a habitual nose picker? There’s a guy in one of my classes that sits next to me and every time I look at him he has a finger up his nose. I mean yuck! This is so disgusting to me that my stomach rolls over just writing about it. Not only does he pick his nose but then he rolls it around on his finger and I think sometimes he even eats it! Seriously! He seems totally cool with it - like it’s nothing abnormal or some-thing. He’s from another country so, I mean, he must think it’s okay, right, or why would he keep doing it? Is this guy like totally freaked or what? I can hardly concentrate in class cause I’m always watching him. Really! So like how do I deal with this creep-out and keep my grades up?Not a Picker in Pullman

Dear Not a Picker,It sounds like you’re in college so lets get some facts. Your classmate may suffer from rhinotellexomania, which, thought to be an undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder, is characterized by a constant, repetitive and /or pathological picking of the nose. Seriously, it well could be a psychological disorder that he cannot control. Not good news for you, I know. At it’s most severe people have picked to the point of self-mutilation. Lucky for you it doesn’t sound like your guy is any where near that point of psychosis. Interestingly, nose picking is unique in that it is an universal oc-currence not confined by cultures or borders. Everybody at one time or another has or will pick their nose, or more politely put, extract nasal debris. Wow - something that unites the world! And not to encourage this behavior but Dr. Friedrich Bischinger, an Austrian lung spe-cialist, is reported as saying that picking your nose and eating it was good for you. He claimed that people who pick their noses with their fin-gers were healthy, happier and probably better in tune with their bodies than those who didn’t. Won’t make a convert out of me but something to consider. (Your classmate isn’t Austrian is he?) So, what to do? Learn to be proactive. Start with moving. If for some reason you need permission just ask to be closer - or further. Get the idea?

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