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Say “Welcome” to the new year by learn-ing a little about some January commemo-rations you might not be familiar with. This week, Tidbits looks a few lesser-known celebrations.
• January 7 is Harlem Globetrotters’ Day, remembering the first game the famous basketball team played on that day in 1927. They traveled 48 miles west from their Chicago home to play a game in Hinck-ley, Illinois. The team was the brainstorm of Chicago businessman Abe Saperstein during a time when only whites were permitted to play professional basketball. The team had nothing to do with the New York City borough of Harlem. Abe chose the name to emphasize the team’s ethnic heritage. The Globetrotters didn’t even play their first game in Harlem until the late 1960s! Since their creation, they have played in front of 120 million fans in more than 115 countries.
• January 10 is Save the Eagles Day, re-minding us of the importance of protect-ing the world’s 70 species of eagles from extinction. Eagles can be found on every continent except Antarctica. America’s national emblem, the bald eagle, inhabits every state except Hawaii. This enormous bird can have a wing span of up to 8 feet (2.5 m) and weigh 15 lbs. (6.8 kg). Surpris-ingly, it is monogamous and mates for its entire 15- to 20-year lifespan. turn the page for more!
• January 11 is officially Amelia Earhart Day, but not because that was the day she disappeared. It marks the date she became
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the first person to f ly solo across the Pa-cific from Honolulu to Oakland, California in 1935. It was two years later on June 1 that she and her navigator Fred Noonan departed Miami on a 29,000-mile (46,671 km) journey, attempting to f ly around the world. They were just 7,000 miles (11,265 km) from completing the goal when ra-dio transmission ceased and the two were never seen again.
• The name Margaret Gorman is probably not familiar to most folks, but she is no-table as the first Miss America, winner of the pageant in 1920. Originally initiated as a local Atlantic City festival in an attempt to extend the tourism season past Labor Day, the event became was not known as the Miss America Pageant until 1922. Miss America Day is now in January each year, with the next pageant scheduled for Janu-ary 12, 2013. It was broadcast for the first time in 1954, with a record-breaking 27 million viewers, and remains the fourth longest-running live event in television history. The state of California has had the most winners with six, while 21 states, including Washington, Idaho, Maine, Ne-vada, and Montana, have never had a Miss America hail from their state.
• Happy Cable Car Day on January 17! This year marks the 142nd anniversary of the first cable car railway patent bestowed upon Andrew Smith Hallidie. He was in-spired to invent the cable car after witness-ing an accident with a horse-drawn street-car on San Francisco’s steep streets. The cable car made its first appearance in that city in 1873. The cars move up and down San Francisco’s inclines at a speed of about 9 miles per hour (14.5 km/hr).
• Who hasn’t used that handy little tool, the Thesaurus? It’s the volume that lists syn-onyms for words, enabling a writer to avoid using the same word in articles, speeches, and papers. January 18th is officially The-saurus Day, celebrating the 1779 birthday of the author of Roget’s Thesaurus, Peter Roget. He was a British physician who struggled with depression and used the compiling of lists of words to combat it. The brilliant Roget graduated with a medi-cal degree at only 19, and served as chief surgeon of an English hospital. In addi-tion, he invented a slide rule that enables a person to perform exponential and root calculations. His first Thesaurus was pub-lished when Roget was 73, and was entitled Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facili-tate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition. His work had 28 printings during his lifetime, and after his death, was carried on by his son and later by his grandson.
• Sharpen your pencils! It’s time for Na-tional Handwriting Day on January 23, a day established by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association to promote the use of pens, pencils, and writing paper. This day was chosen because it is the birth-day of John Hancock, whose stylish and f lamboyant signature is easily recognizable on the Declaration of Independence. Even his name has become synonymous with the word “signature,” as we ask folks to “put their John Hancock” on important docu-ments. This member of the Continental
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Congress and later governor of Massachu-setts was the very first person to sign the Declaration.
• Make yourself a peanut butter sandwich on January 24 in honor of National Pea-nut Butter Day. Every year Americans eat enough of this spread to make more than 10 billion sandwiches, spending about $800 million annually. First introduced in 1904 at the St. Louis World’s Fair, peanut butter is now eaten in 90% of American households. Today’s laws state that in order to be labeled as “peanut butter,” the product must be at least 90% peanuts.
• January 25 is observed as World Lep-rosy Day, intended to educate people on this disease that damages the nerves that control the muscles in the hands and feet. Left untreated, it can lead to the inability to use the hands, paralysis of the feet, loss of sensation in the extremities, and even blindness. Every day, 620 people are diag-nosed with leprosy – that’s one every two minutes! Also called Hansen’s Disease, leprosy is contagious, spread by droplets from the nose and mouth by coughing and sneezing. India has more leprosy than any other country. The good news in this cen-tury is that it is curable, and deformities can frequently be remedied with recon-structive surgery.
• Seeing Eye Dogs, who help their sight-impaired owners to safely navigate in their surroundings, are honored on Janu-ary 29. The top three breeds used as guide dogs today are Labradors, Golden Re-trievers, and German Shepherds. A dog undergoes specialized training for four to six months to make sure they have the necessary qualifications to be a seeing eye dog.
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• It was Martin Luther King Jr. who made the following sage observation: “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunder-standing from people of ill will.”
• Are you a dromomaniac? If you travel compulsively, you are.
• The famed statue Venus de Milo was lost to history for nearly 2,000 years. No one knew of its existence until 1820, when a Greek peasant tilling a field on the island of Milos hit stone -- several carved blocks of stone, to be specific. Within a few weeks, archaeologists arrived and took the statue of Aphrodite to France. King Louis XVIII dubbed it the Venus de Milo and do-nated it to the Louvre, where it remains today.
• You might be surprised to learn that Humphrey Bogart wasn’t the producers’ first choice for the role of Rick in “Casa-blanca.” An actor named George Raft was originally offered the part, but he turned it down because he didn’t like the script.
• In 2010, a new species of slug was dis-covered in the mountains of Borneo. It is distinguished from other species of slug by its novel method of mating: It shoots its mate with a so-called love dart made of calcium carbonate and containing hor-mones. The researchers nicknamed the gastropods “ninja slugs.”
• If you’re traveling to Kansas anytime soon, be sure to remember that it is against the law in that state to catch fish with your bare hands.
• During the original run of the classic 1960s TV series “Gilligan’s Island,” some viewers took the show rather too serious-ly. Several telegrams were sent to the U.S. Coast Guard asking why the poor people hadn’t yet been rescued.
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1. Name the last pair of A.L. teammates before Boston’s Adrian Gonzalez (213) and Jacoby Ellsbury (212) in 2011 to each have more than 210 hits in the same season.
2. Four players who started their major-league careers in the 1970s played in four decades. Name two of them.
3. Name the only Michigan State player to be taken No. 1 overall in the NFL draft.
4. Between 1956 and 2000, only one player 6 feet 3 inches or shorter won an NBA Most Valuable Player Award. Name him.
5. Name the NHL team that allowed the fewest goals in an 82-game season.
6. Of the nine NASCAR Chase for the Cup playoffs through 2012, how many drivers have made at least eight of them?
7. In 2012, Serena Williams became the second woman to have won all four of tennis’ Grand Slam titles along with Olympic singles gold. Who was the first?
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EXPENSIVE ARENAS With the football season beginning to wind down, you might be interest in what spectators have been paying for tickets at some of the stadiums. Tidbits presents the most expensive, the least expensive, and a glance at Super Bowl ticket prices. • The price tag for game attendance is based on the Fan Cost Index, a figure derived by the Team Marketing Report. This figure represents the price for a family of four to attend an NFL game, including four tickets at the average price, two small beers, four small sodas, four hot dogs, parking, two game programs, and two adult caps. The average league-wide figure is $427.42. • The fifth most-expensive stadium, Chicago Bears’ Soldier Field, carries a Fan Cost Index of $557.18. Home of the Bears since 1971, it holds 61,500 fans, and has an average single ticket price of $101.55. Fans can have a beer for $8 and a hot dog for $5. The team has a season ticket renewal rate of 98%, and every game has sold out for the last 27 years. • The third most expensive stadium be-longs to the New England Patriots, with an index of $597.66, and a single ticket aver-age of $117.84. Gillette Stadium also offers “premium tickets,” which include oversize plush seats, fancier food and beverages, flat screen TV’s, and access to the field post-game. Want a season ticket? Get in line, there’s a waiting list. • The Dallas Cowboys play in the second most expensive stadium, with a cost index of $613.80. The $6 price tag on sodas is the highest in the league, and fans fork over $75 for parking at the three-year-old arena.
If money is a little tight, spectators can purchase a $29 “party pass” that allows a standing-room view of the game from platforms on the end zone and corners. • MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, is the only NFL stadium shared by two teams. The most expensive sta-dium ever built and the largest in the NFL in terms of permanent seating capacity (82,500), it is home to both the New York Jets and the New York Giants. The cost index differs between the two teams, with the Giants the fourth-highest in the league at $592.26 and a whopping $464.75 for a premium seating ticket. The most expensive tickets in the league belong to the Jets with the index at $628.90. If you’d like to re-serve two tickets for the Jets in the premi-um club area, you can do so for a five-year period for $24,340. • How about the cheapest prices in the league? That honor belongs to EverBank Field, home of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Although it’s the fifth-largest stadium in the NFL, its Fan Cost Index is just $316.50, and an average ticket price of $58.90. It’s close to the bottom in terms of attendance. • The average ticket price for last year’s Super Bowl was $2,900. Tickets for the 2013 game are slated to be much higher, with the cheapest in the $2,500 range and the most expensive over $9,500. This will be the 7th year for the contest at New Or-leans’ Superdome, the largest fixed-dome structure in the world, which has a seating capacity exceeding 76,000. New York’s MetLife Stadium is scheduled for the 2014 matchup.
To Your Good Health By Paul G. Donohue, M.D.
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have back discomfort upon lying down. It doesn’t matter where I lie or what position I’m in for my back to hurt and often one or both hips. Getting out of bed in the morning is hard and uncomfortable. Once I have had my morning shower and am up and around, I’m fine.We have thought of replacing our mattress, but how do we find something that will help? What would you recommend? -- M.W.
ANSWER: I strongly recommend that you see your family doctor before you invest any money in a mattress.Some of what you describe fits the picture of osteoarthritis -- stiffness upon wakening, difficulty getting out of bed and relief of symptoms after taking a hot shower. Before you spend a penny on a mattress, have your back examined and the problem diagnosed.The booklet on the different kinds of arthritis explains each and how it is treated. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 301W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.***DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I looked in the mirror this morning and couldn’t believe what I saw. My right eye was bright red. It looked like someone had punched me. When my husband saw it, he asked if he had hit me while he was asleep. He didn’t.It doesn’t hurt. My vision is perfect. My eye looks frightful. Do I need to see a doctor? -- Y.T.
ANSWER: Your question is asked repeatedly. My long-distance guess is a subconjunctival hemorrhage. The conjunctiva is a cellophane-like covering of the eye. Beneath it is a network of invisible blood vessels. When one of those delicate vessels breaks, blood
Forget New Mattress, See Doctor Insteadcovers that part of the eye.Coughing, sneezing or straining causes the breakage. Sometimes it happens for no apparent reason. The eye looks awful, but no real harm is done. The blood is absorbed in about a week. You can hurry it up by putting warm compresses over the closed eye.You need to see a doctor if the eye begins to pain you, if the blood stays for longer than a week or if it happens time and again.***DEAR DR. DONOHUE: How good are prunes for constipation? I am often constipated and have unsuccessfully tried many remedies. They might work for a short while, but then I am constipated again. I’d like to try the prune way, if you say that it works. -- M.A.
ANSWER: It works for many, but I can’t give you a guarantee.Five to six prunes twice a day can change your bowel habits in a week or so.Prunes have fiber, one reason why they exert a laxative effect. Fiber keeps food waste moist on its passage out of the body. Prunes also contain sorbitol, a natural laxative. In addition to the laxative action, prunes have antioxidants, substances that counter the bad effects coming from cell chemistry.Prunes have undergone a name change; they are now called dried plums.
***Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.
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CHRISTA MCAULIFFE January 28 has been set aside as Christa McAuliffe Day, commemorating America’s first Teacher in Space. Tidbits honors this inspiring woman who lost her life in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986. • Originally from Massachusetts, Christa moved to New Hampshire when her husband accepted a new job there. She settled into a teaching position at Concord High School, with classes in social studies, American His-tory, and economics. Her teaching included an emphasis on the “impact of ordinary people on history,” a concept that was to play out in her own life. • The “race to space” began when Christa was just a young child, and she became en-thralled with Project Mercury and the Apollo programs. On February 21, 1962, the day after John Glenn’s historic orbit of the Earth aboard Friendship 7, she told a high school friend, “Do you realize that someday people will be going to the Moon? Maybe even taking a bus, and I want to do that!” • When Christa was two years into her Concord tenure, President Ronald Reagan an-nounced the Teacher in Space Project, a NASA program designed to send the first civilian into space. NASA’s goal was to find an “or-dinary person,” an educator to communicate with students while aboard a spacecraft. More
than 11,000 teachers applied for the position. Christa mailed her application form at the last minute, writing: “I watched the Space Age be-ing born, and I would like to participate.” • The pool of applicants was narrowed down to 114, then down to 10, and on July 19, 1985, Christa McAuliffe’s name was announced as NASA’s choice. The agency liked her “infectious enthusiasm,” and declared her “the most broad-based, best-balanced person of the 10.” She and the first alternate, Barbara Mor-gan, each took a one-year leave of absence from their schools, with NASA covering their salaries. The Challenger mission was scheduled for early 1986. • It was intended that Christa would teach two 15-minute classes to the nation’s school-children from space, broadcast via closed-cir-cuit television. The first was to have been “The Ultimate Field Trip,” including an introduction of the other six crew members and their duties, a tour of the spacecraft with a description of the equipment, and a summary of living aboard the
craft. Her second lesson was to summarize the benefits of space travel, entitled “Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going, Why.” She was also set to conduct science experiments in magne-tism, Newton’s laws, and chromatography. • Just 73 seconds after takeoff, the Chal-lenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast. The entire craft disintegrated, due to the failure of a rubber O-ring seal in the right solid rocket booster, which caused a leak in the joint it was meant to seal. This allowed pressurized hot gas to reach the external fuel tank. Christa, aged 37, left behind her husband, a nine-year-old son and a six-year-old daughter. • It’s estimated that 85% of Americans heard of the disaster within one hour of its occur-rence. • Twelve years after Christa’s death, her backup Barbara Morgan, a former Idaho schoolteacher, was chosen by NASA as an astronaut. She flew aboard the Challenger’s replacement, the Endeavor, to the International Space Station in 2007.
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Children and FamiliesToddler Story TimesWednesday, January 23 and 30, 10 a.m.Ages 24 to 36 months with adult.Stories, songs and other pre-reading activities!
Preschool Story TimesWednesday, January 23 and 30, 11 a.m.Ages 3 to 5.Stories, songs and other fun activities designed to enhance pre-reading skills!
Pajama Story TimesThursday, January 17, 24 and 31, 7 p.m.Ages 2 1/2 to 5.Bring the whole family to enjoy stories, songs and fun activities. Pajamas and teddy bears are welcome.
TeensStudy ZoneTuesday, January 22 and 29, 4-6 p.m. Grades K-12.Drop in for free homework help from trained volunteer tutors.
Teen Writers’ GroupTuesday, January 22, 4-5 p.m. Ages 12 to 18Unleash your creative spirit! Come write with other teens in a relaxed, supportive environment. Sponsored by the Friends of Lake Forest Park Library.
The Library will be closed on Monday, January 21.
AdultsWriter’s Workshop with Frances DayeeThursday, January 17, 24 and 3110 a.m.-NoonThis series of workshops will help you learn to write for fun or for publications, find the right market and tantalize the editor. Writers (and closet writers) of short stories, articles, essays and books are all welcome. Benefit from positive feedback from this published author of three books and writing teacher with over 30 years experience. Attend one or all sessions. Registration not required. Drop-ins welcome.Sponsored by the Friends of the Lake Forest Park Library.
Talk TimeMonday, January 28, 7 p.m.Improve your speaking and listening skills in this English conversation group. Learn more about American culture and meet people from around the world.
Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.Friday 10 a.m.-6p.m.Saturday 10a.m.-5p.m.
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1. PERSONALITIES: Who wrote the 1960s book “Unsafe at Any Speed,” which detailed safety shortcom-ings in the auto industry?
2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What col-or is lapis lazuli?
3. GEOGRAPHY: The Falkland Is-lands lie off the coast of which continent?
4. HOBBIES: What does a spelunk-er do?
5. U.S. STATES: What is the official nickname of the state of Illinois?
6. LANGUAGE: What does the Latin term “ipso facto” mean?
7. ART: What is chiaroscuro?
8. CARTOONS: What is the name of Porky Pig’s girlfriend?
9. SCIENCE: What kind of gases are neon and helium?
10. MOVIES: Which three come-dians starred in the film comedy “¡Three Amigos!”
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1. Jimmie Foxx (213) and Al Simmons (216) did it for the 1932 Philadelphia A’s.2. Rickey Henderson, Mike Morgan, Jesse Orosco and Tim Raines.3. Defensive end Bubba Smith, in 1967.4. Bob Cousy, in 1957.5. New Jersey allowed 164 goals in 2003-04. 6. Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth and Tony Stewart.7. Steffi Graf completed her “Golden Slam” in 1988.
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• If you like taking baths, you can invest in a second rubber bath mat to drape over the side of the tub. The edge will be nonslip, so you can hold on for support, and your hands will not slide.
• Sunburn happens in the winter, too, especially on the slopes. Use a cotton ball soaked in cold tea to ease tight, dry skin. Be sure to apply sunscreen to your face and wear eye protection when going out in the snow.
• For drains slowed by grease, sprinkle a half-cup each of salt and baking soda down the drain, and follow it with an entire kettle or pot of boiling water.
• If the smell in your cedar chest has faded, bring it back easily with extra-fine sandpaper. A very light sanding is all it takes in most cases.
• For delicious baked potatoes, boil a pot of salted water, add whole potatoes with skin, remove from heat and let stand for 15 min-utes. Finish in oven for a sturdier skin. Start checking for doneness after 15 minutes in the oven. Bak-ing time can be cut in half! -- J.L. in Florida
• Remove that musty smell from stored clothes by adding either vinegar or ammonia to the wash water. Be sure to check for smell removal BEFORE drying, as the dry-er can bake the smell into clothes, making it more difficult to remove.
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If you plan to list your home for sale when spring arrives, it’s to your benefit to use the months until then getting your property in good shape. At the very least, make plans so you can get started immediately in a few months. While it’s generally not safe to paint rooms when the doors and windows are closed, you can make your decorating plans. If you spot the paint on sale (common in the winter), go ahead and buy it now. As long as the cans stay com-pletely sealed (tuck them in a closet so they won’t freeze in your garage), the paint will be good for a long time to come. Before you paint, take the cans back to the store and ask them to run the cans through the shaker again to ensure the paint is thoroughly mixed.Start interviewing potential real-estate agents. Let them come through your home and tell you what items you need to fix or change to get the
best sale price. Learn about the agents and what they offer, but don’t sign any contracts yet. Have a home inspection. The result will be your to-do list over the next few months. At the very least you’ll be warned about those items before a buyer hires his own inspector and notes them in a sales contract as negotiating points. If you have snow on the roof, the inspection will be a bit lim-ited, but the condition of the house and its systems will give you an overall idea. Do interior repairs now. A new toilet and sink in the bathroom, and later, paint, a fresh shower curtain and new towels will add to your potential sales price. If you’re going to have landscaping work done when warm weather comes, get on the schedule now. Talk with a landscape planner at a few home and garden places and nail down what you’ll want. De-clutter. For many homeowners, getting rid of excess clutter is the most time-consuming of all home-sale activities. Start by going through closets and toss clothes you haven’t worn in three years, and also reorganize kitchen cabinets. Depersonalize your home by removing family photos. Look for artwork to go in the blank spots. If you find it on sale and know you won’t change your mind, go ahead and buy now.
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