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TIDBITS® ENLIGHTENS YOU ABOUT WARS,

PART ONEby Kathy WolfeTidbits is bringing you a short history lesson, testing your knowledge of wars throughout the ages. Let’s see what you know about several of the world’s conflicts. Part two will appear later this month. • The first shot of the Revolutionary War, Amer-ica’s war of independence from Britain, rang out on April 19, 1775 in Lexington, Massachusetts, and has been called “the shot heard round the world.” The 13 American colonies were revolt-ing against the many high taxes imposed by Britain without giving the colonies any repre-sentation in the British Parliament. Congress summoned George Washington from his home at Mount Vernon to be commander and chief of American forces. Washington would not return home for the next six years. • The Revolutionary War raged on for eight years, with France and Spain stepping in to aid the colonists. Spain’s motive in helping the col-onists was to regain land it had lost to Britain. This caused the fighting to spread to Europe, the Caribbean, and East Indies, although most was done within the colonies. • The Declaration of Independence from Britain was signed early on in the war, on July 4, 1776. The first great American victory was the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, and was a turning point to-ward the colonists’ eventual triumph over Brit-ain. Turn the page for more

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WARS, PART ONE (continued):• Nearly everyone has heard the phrase, “Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” This was the order of Revolutionary War officer Wil-liam Prescott at the Battle of Bunker Hill, as he urged his troops to be brave enough to hold their fire until the enemy was near. • The Treaty of Paris ending the Revolution-ary War was finally signed in 1783, when Great Britain acknowledged America’s independence. It also set the northern U.S./Canadian boundary and the Mississippi River as the western bound-ary. • Prior to the American Revolution, the Brit-ish and French had struggled for ownership of North America for many years. Finally the con-flict came to a head in 1756, with a dispute over control of the Allegheny and Monongahela Riv-ers for commerce. It continued until 1763, earn-ing it the name “The Seven Years’ War,” or more commonly, The French and Indian War. North American battles were fought from the state of Virginia clear up to Nova Scotia. France gained allies of the American Indians and Spain, spur-ring Britain to concentrate on seizing French and Spanish territories in other parts of the world. • How much do you really know about the War of 1812? That’s the year it began, of course, but it continued until December, 1814, when the Treaty of Ghent was signed. Great Britain’s pre-vention of U.S. trade with foreign countries was a leading factor in its cause, as well as Britain’s attempts to prevent westward U.S. expansion and to suppress any thoughts America had about annexing Canada. Britain was also forcing U.S. sailors to serve on British Navy ships and was supplying the Native Americans with guns.

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WARS, PART ONE (continued):• Most of the War of 1812’s battles took place along the U.S./Canada border, with a few oc-curring on the Great Lakes and Atlantic coast. The words to “The Star-Spangled Banner” were written during this war, as a 35-year-old lawyer named Francis Scott Key witnessed the bom-bardment of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore. After a long night of brutal fighting, Key observed the flag still flying above the Fort. The 42 ft. x 30 ft. (12.8 m x 9.1 m) banner was the largest in the nation at that time. That flag is on display at the Smithsonian Institute today.• In August, 1814, British troops set fire to the White House in retaliation for the U.S. attack on the city of York, Ontario, Canada. President James Madison and his wife Dolley had al-ready abandoned their home, fleeing to safety in Maryland, leaving behind all their personal belongings. Dolley was credited with saving a full-length portrait of George Washington before their escape. • On the day after the British set fire to the White House, the Capitol, and other federal buildings, a tremendous storm and freak tornado hit Wash-ington, D.C., putting out the fires. Oddly enough, debris from the tornado killed more British sol-diers than were killed by Americans with their guns during the Washington fighting. The Madi-sons lived the remainder of his term in Washing-ton, D.C.’s Octagon House. The reconstructed White House was not completed until 1817. • The well-known saying “Don’t give up the ship!” had its origins during the War of 1812. Captain James Lawrence of the U.S.S. Chesa-peake shouted his last words as the ship was overtaken by the British ship HMS Shannon in 1813. Lawrence’s final words became the battle cry for sailors for generations to come.

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by Samantha Weaver

It was German author and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who made the following sage observation: “When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”

Unless you’re a local, you’ve probably never heard of the town of Rugby, North Dakota, but if you ever set out to find the geographical center of the continent of North America, that’s where you’ll end up.

In 1936, in the final match of the men’s table tennis world championship, the two competitors volleyed for two hours and 12 minutes on the opening serve alone.

Before modern English there was Middle Eng-lish, used during a time when men of the church were supposed to remain humble. This is why these men were called “ministers” -- it means “lowly person” in Middle English.

Those who study such things say that if you spend an hour listening to the radio, you’ll hear approximately 11,000 words.

Dr. L. Forbes Winslow, perhaps best known for his relentless (and fruitless) attempts to iden-tify the person behind London’s Jack the Rip-per murders, also was a well-known psychia-trist. Among his many notes on his practice was the report of a heartbroken man who requested that, after his death, his body should be boiled down to extract the fat. That fat would be used to make a candle which, along with a letter from the deceased, would be delivered to the woman who jilted him. He even specified that the items should be delivered at night, so the woman would read the letter by the light of the “corpse candle.”

If you were living in the newly christened Unit-ed States in 1776 and earned $4,000 per year, you would be considered wealthy.

Thought for the Day: “I am not young enough to know everything.”

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WARS, PART ONE (continued):• The U.S. Civil War, the “War Between the States,” started in 1861, and by its conclusion in 1865 had left more 620,000 men dead, 2% of the country’s population, more than any other war in American history. Prior to its beginning, eleven states had left the Union and formed their own country in order to protect slavery. War raged for four years between the North and South, with more than three million fighting at some point. • The Union had the clear advantage from the start, with 101,000 factories, compared to the Confederacy’s 21,000, and 20,000 miles (32,187 km) of Union railroad tracks over the Confed-eracy’s 8,000 miles (12,875 km). The South’s wheat production of 35 million bushels couldn’t hope to match the 100 million bushels of the North. All the manufactured goods produced in all of the Confederate states totaled less than 25% of those produced in New York state alone. The Union horses numbered 3.4 million com-pared to the Confederacy’s 1.7 million. • The bloodiest day of the Civil War was the Battle of Antietam, fought in September, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland. The first major battle fought on Union soil, there were nearly 23,000 casualties there in a single day, double the amount of D-Day, 82 years later during World War II. • The three-day Battle of Gettysburg in the sum-mer of 1863 left 52,000 men killed, wounded, or missing. It’s considered the turning point in the War, when the South began to lose. • During the Battle of Cold Harbor in June of 1864, 7,000 soldiers fell in just 20 minutes.

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HELP FOR CARDIOVASCU-LAR CHALLENGES

Excess plaque in the blood is commonly called arthrosclerosis – hardening of the arteries. Plaque can cause clot formation resulting in strokes or heart attacks. So what have we gained?But what causes tissue breakdown, especially in the vascular walls, and what can we do about it? The most common causes include irritation from smoking, high blood pressure, elevated triglyc-erides, homocysteines, acids from caffeine, and many other food-related irritants. Since the body is always rebuilding itself on a daily basis, if the raw materials needed for the body to rebuild are missing from the diet, eating habits become a major causative factor. Eating a healthy diet rich in vegetables (especial-ly green leafy vegetables and the red vegetable family), avoiding irritating foods (such as mar-garines, hydrogenated fats, caffeine, carbonated beverages, sugar, etc.) and supplementing with good nutritional vitamins made of concentrated foods (not chemicals) is a good start.Also, consider acupuncture. Research and clini-cal experience has shown acupuncture to have a profound effect on the cardiovascular system. According to a published research abstract in MedLine “Experimental studies in animals and clinical studies in humans have demonstrated that acupuncture can exert significant effects on the cardiovascular system and provide effective therapy for a variety of cardiovascular ailments [emphasis added].Learn more by attending our upcoming class, “High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Health,” Wednesday, February 25th 7pm in CDA. Fee: $10. RSVP: 208-765-1994.

Deaths resulting from heart attacks have dropped thanks to progressive lifesaving medi-cal techniques; however, the incidence is rising at alarming rates. The incidence of all cardio-vascular-related problems is increasing, despite the many drugs that are prescribed in an attempt to control it.What needs to be looked at is the WHY. What is going on that our body responds in such a nega-tive, contra-survival manner? The body is not a “bad body”. The body does what it knows to do to protect itself. The body doesn’t just get up one day and say “Hey, I have nothing to do– I think I’ll have a heart attack today and make this persons life miserable!” This isn’t a disease that magically appears overnight. The body in its innate intelligence will adapt again and again in any way possible to help remedy things going awry inside of it. Unfortunately, the protective mechanisms it uses can eventually cause the very problems it’s trying to prevent.Let’s take cholesterol for instance. Cholesterol (amongst MANY healthy functions in the body) is the body’s healing serum. If there is tissue breakdown, the body will bring cholesterol in to heal the tissue. That’s good. That’s healthy. Well, what happens if something (such as a medication) prevents the body from doing that? The body will try something else. The next step is it will lay down calcium to provide a stron-ger (but less flexible) protection. This is called plaque. Plaque is made up of cholesterol, cel-lular waste products, calcium and several other constituents.

By Dr. Holly Carling

Dr. Holly Carling is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, Doctor of Naturopa-thy, 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 ques-tions regarding this topic.

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On Feb. 10, 1763, The Seven Years’ War, known as the French and Indian War, ends with the sign-ing of the Treaty of Paris by France, Great Brit-ain and Spain. France lost all claims to Canada and gave Louisiana to Spain, while Britain re-ceived Spanish Florida, Upper Canada and vari-ous French holdings overseas.

On Feb. 11, 1805, Sacagawea, the Shoshone Indian interpreter and guide to the Lewis and Clark expedition, gives birth to her first child, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, two months before the trek begins. The baby, nicknamed Pompey, went on the expedition, carried on his mother’s back. Clark paid for Pompey’s education when the boy grew up.

On Feb. 14, 1842, fans of Charles Dickens orga-nize the Boz Ball, an elite party for the celebrat-ed English writer during his first trip to America. (Dickens’ earliest works had been published un-der the pseudonym Boz.) Only members of New York’s aristocracy were invited.

On Feb. 15, 1903, toy-store owner and inven-tor Morris Michtom places two stuffed bears in his shop window in Brooklyn, advertising them as Teddy bears. Michtom had earlier petitioned President Theodore Roosevelt for permission to use his nickname, Teddy. The president agreed.

On Feb. 12, 1938, best-selling author Judy Blume, known for her children’s books and young-adult novels, including “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” and “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” is born in Elizabeth, New Jer-sey. Blume’s books have been beloved by sev-eral generations of readers.

On Feb. 9, 1960, Adolph Coors disappears while driving to work from his Morrison, Colorado, home. The grandson of the Coors’ founder and chairman of the Golden, Colorado, brewery was kidnapped and held for ransom before being shot to death.

On Feb. 13, 1991, Sotheby’s announces the dis-covery of a long-lost manuscript of “Huckleber-ry Finn” by Mark Twain. The manuscript was the first half of Twain’s original version, heav-ily corrected in his handwriting, which had been missing for more than a century.


Dog Training 101: Jumping Not AllowedDEAR PAW’S CORNER: My grandchildren re-cently got a 6-month-old puppy, a spaniel/Do-berman mix. He’s rambunctious, to say the least. Are there any easy lessons to teach “Farley” not to jump up on people when they visit? -- Lanny S., via emailDEAR LANNY: Jumping up is a common is-sue in dogs. There definitely are ways to train Farley to not jump when visitors arrive, but for any training to work, everyone in the household needs to be on the same page so that his training is reinforced.Your best weapon in the no-jumping battle are the basic “sit” and “stay” commands. Train Far-ley to sit on command, and then train him to stay in the sitting position for gradually longer peri-ods. (Get him to sit for 10 seconds at first, then extend that incrementally.) Once he understands and obeys those commands, begin training him to respond to the doorbell the way you want him to.Set up a daily session where one person (the trainer) stands with Farley on a leash, several feet back from the door, and another person (the helper) goes outside. When the helper rings the doorbell, tell Farley “sit,” then “stay.” Next, have the helper come inside; again, tell Farley to sit, then stay. Finally, bring Farley to the helper, still on the leash. Tell him to sit, then stay; the helper should not try to pet or speak to Farley during this training session.This will take a few sessions ... maybe more than a few. Repeat it daily, and have the kids do it daily, too. Whenever a real visitor comes over, repeat the commands. Remember not to scold Farley during training; stick to firm commands followed by lots of praise or a treat when he fol-lows them.

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Online Banking SafetyThe more consumers do business online for the convenience, the more opportunities there are for scams to increase. Of all the places online to do business, your banking can be the most wor-risome when it comes to safety. The FDIC has a comprehensive website that contains everything you need to know and the steps to take to keep your money safe.Among the highlights:¥ Confirm that your bank is legitimate and your deposits insured. Check the “About Us” por-tion of the bank’s website to look for informa-tion about FDIC insurance coverage. Look for the FDIC logo and take the additional step of checking the FDIC website to be sure your bank is listed as covered. Beware fake websites that mimic your bank’s name; type the name in cor-rectly and verify you’re on the right site before you input any personal data.¥ Keep your information private: Since 2001, a bank is required to give you its privacy policy that will let you know who it might share your information with (for example, with product marketing), what information it keeps on file, and what it might share. Read the leaflet to un-derstand where your information might end up, and opt out if you wish. This information applies if you do banking online.Ask if your bank tracks you online, and make use of your browser settings to be sure any track-ing software is blocked. When it comes to pass-words, don’t use an easy one, and change it peri-odically just to be sure it hasn’t been hacked. While you’re on your bank’s website, don’t fol-low outside links they’ve provided. If you wish to visit that other site, close your browser and go to the other site separately. Ask your bank what level of encryption it has to safeguard your in-formation.¥ Know where to go for assistance: Start with your own bank if you have questions. If you have questions about coverage, call the FDIC’s Division of Compliance and Consumer Affairs at 1-877-275-3342.To read the whole document, go online to fdic.gov and search for Safe Internet Banking.Use all the tools at your disposal and keep your virus software up to date. Make use of malware scanners, such as MalwareBytes, to be sure you haven’t picked up a program that can follow you around the Internet. But remember that nothing that happens online is 100 percent secure.

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his col-umn whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

Experience Boosts Decision-MakingAt some point in our lives as seniors, someone is going to want to step in and help us with de-cisions, some of them financial. Perhaps we ar-rive at a magic number in age, and based on that number, it’s assumed we need help, especially if there’s been some cognitive decline.But it’s not necessarily so.Researchers at the Columbia Business School looked at how cognitive decline and age pair with making sound decisions. They wondered whether dealing with complex decisions for re-tirement plans, pensions and wealth would be difficult past a certain age. One of the measurements they used, along with tests on decision-making and cognitive abil-ity, was the everyday credit score to determine whether age alone had a bearing on it. Credit scores are one form of proof of a long period of responsible financial decisions, as well as an un-derstanding of the benefits that come from hav-ing a high score. One test given to the participants involved the question of whether to first pay off credit cards with higher interest rates or cards with lower balances.Another test involved selecting health-care plans from a list of choices.The end result was that accumulated lifetime knowledge and experience (crystallized intel-ligence) has more weight than the ability to process new information and to think logically (fluid intelligence). A co-author of the study said, “An alternative route to making sound fi-nancial decisions comes from experience -- and that improves with age.” At the same time, they propose that policymakers or those who serve seniors allow fewer choices that rely on fluid (new) information and lean more heavily toward the intelligence gained over a lifetime.The bottom line for us is not to give up control too quickly. The age-related lack of decision-making ability that’s expected might never come.

Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot person-ally answer reader questions, but will incorpo-rate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].


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Dr Ashley is board certified in Family Medicine and in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. She provides a mix of traditional with alternative medicine and specializes in bio-identical hor-mones for both men and women.

Q&A with Susan Ashley, MD

The technology is not only capable of early dis-ease detection, it knows if you are likely to con-tract a specific disease and help you avoid doing so, according to a press release from the Ameri-can Technion Society.Breath analysis to detect disease is a develop-ing science. They already have a breath test that analyzes your susceptibility to gain weight, and another which detects early heart failure.And, let’s don’t forget, we have the dogs that are trained to detect cancer, and they are accurate greater than 99% of the time! Much more than any medical test we could devise. But a test on our smartphone - this will com-pletely change our screening methods for can-cer. If we can detect breast cancer in our breath, would we even need mammograms with their cumulative radiation? Or what about colon can-cer - wouldn’t we all want to do away with the discomfort of the colonoscopy? And some can-cers, like lung and pancreatic, are diagnosed late most of the time, and are therefore deadly -- by the time you have symptoms, it’s usually too late. Wouldn’t this technology save countless lives?I’ll let you know as soon as I know more.In the meantime, eat your broccoli, kale, berries and pomegranates for your cancer prevention. And keep your weight in check. Remember, too, that cancer cells love sugar! And soon, they will learn to hate our smart-phones.

I just heard about a great new technology that, I hope, will be available soon. A new device that attaches to your smartphone that detects cancer on your breath. Called, appropriately, the SNIFFPHONE, it’s being funded by a grant from the European Commission. “It will be made tinier and cheaper than disease detection solutions currently, consume little power, and most importantly, it will enable im-mediate and early diagnosis that is both accu-rate and non-invasive,” says Professor Hossam Haick, head of the consortium. A combination of micro and nano-sensors will analyze the exhaled breath and send the infor-mation through the smartphone to be processed for interpretation -- perhaps in a corresponding app -- which establishes the diagnosis.


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You can both marinate and tenderize beef with oil and vinegar dressing. Add spices and apply to meat on both sides, or put all ingredients in a zipper-close bag and turn often. Allow to com-bine at room temperature for 30 minutes, or in the refrigerator for several hours, before grilling or broiling.“After you’ve cleaned out the gliders of your sliding-glass door, run over the parts with a little paraffin wax. It will protect the moving parts and quiet the door.” -- P.J. in OregonFresh spices all year long? Yes, please! Find your sunniest window, and plant a little herb gar-den indoors. You will have a nonstop supply of fresh parsley, cilantro, basil, etc., and the green things growing will brighten up the gloominess of winter.“Spray paint makes it easy and cheap to change the look of your picture frames. In fact, I col-lect frames from yard sales and thrift shops for this purpose. They are very easy to paint, and look fresh and new when you’re done.” -- A.A. in FloridaIf your dog likes a treat of moistened dry food from time to time, use the water from cooking vegetables. It has a bit of flavor and some vita-mins, too! “If your bicycle tire is flat and you have to re-place the inner tube, don’t throw it away. Save it for when you rake up leaves. Put a lawn and leaf bag in a sturdy garbage can, then use the inner tube as a giant “rubber band” bag holder. If it won’t go over the top of the garbage can, try rolling it up from the bottom until it is high enough to secure the bag.” -- R.L. in Georgia

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1. American Sniper (R) Bradley Cooper, Si-enna Miller2. Paddington (PG) Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins3. The Wedding Ringer (R) Kevin Hart, Josh Gad4. Taken 3 (PG-13) Liam Neeson, Forest Whi-taker5. Selma (PG-13) David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo6. Into the Woods (PG) Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep7. The Imitation Game (PG-13) Benedict Cum-berbatch, Keira Knightley8. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (PG-13) Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman9. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG) Ben Stiller, Robin Williams10. Unbroken (PG-13) Jack O’Connell, Taka-masa Ishihara



1. Who wrote and released “Solitary Man” and when?

2. Which of these Elton John singles climbed the charts to No. 1 in the U.S.? “Rocket Man,” “Daniel” or “Pinball Wizard.”

3. Name the artist who released “Laurie (Strange Things Happen).”

4. Which Dixie Cups song did the group claim came from their grandmother?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last, But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.”

Answers1. Neil Diamond, in 1966. It wasn’t until many years later that Diamond would say he realized that he’d written the song about himself.2. None of them. Even “Candle in the Wind” didn’t make it.3. Dickey Lee, in 1965.4. “Iko Iko.” The group was sued by James Crawford, who claimed that the song was actu-ally his song “Jock-a-mo.”5. “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” by Bob Dylan in 1965. There has always been debate about who Dylan is saying goodbye to with this one. One guess is Joan Baez, who he was dat-ing at the time. Others think the target was his folk-music audience, with “Baby” being his last acoustic guitar song.


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1. GEOGRAPHY: What is the largest bay in the world?2. RELIGION: Who is the patron saint for mountain climbers?3. MOVIES: In which Harry Potter movie was the Whomping Willow introduced?4. TOYS: What was the name of the British ver-sion of America’s “G.I. Joe”?5. LITERATURE: When was the novel “Gone With the Wind” published?6. MYTHOLOGY: In Greek mythology, who slew the Minotaur?7. MUSIC: “The Last Waltz” was a documen-tary of the final concert of which rock group?8. TELEVISION: What was Chandler’s last name on the sitcom “Friends”?9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What institu-tion declares itself to be the largest library in the world?10. LANGUAGE: What is an onomatopoeia?

Answers1. Bay of Bengal2. St. Bernard3. “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”4. Action Man5. 19366. Theseus7. The Band 8. Bing9. The Library of Congress10. The imitation of natural sounds through words like “arf.”


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NOTEWORTHY INVENTORS:EARL TUPPERWho hasn’t stored food in Tupperware at some time? It’s become the word that stands for nearly any plastic container used for leftovers! Here are the facts on its inventor, New Hampshire-born Earl Tupper. • As a youth raised on a farm, Earl was a hard-working, enterprising young man who sold his family’s produce door-to-door. His father was a laid-back tinkerer without much ambition, and his mother took in laundry and boarders to sup-plement the family’s income. • Although intelligent and innovative, Earl strug-gled in school, barely graduating. He took corre-spondence courses after high school, including one in advertising. When his parents started up a greenhouse in Massachusetts, Earl urged them to be more assertive in marketing their products, but to no avail.• Earl carried a notebook of his ideas at all times, making illustrations of various gadgets as they came to mind. He had ideas for improved stock-ing garters, combs that would clip to a belt, pants that would maintain their crease, and a convert-ible top for a rumble seat, along with hundreds of other designs. He was tireless in his efforts to sell his inventions, but with very few results. He finally established a tree surgery and landscap-ing business, married, and settled down. • Tupper’s business prospered until the Great Depression, when lack of customers forced him into bankruptcy in 1936. What seemed to be devastating became the turning point in Tupper’s life. He took a job in a Massachusetts plastic fac-tory, working in the manufacturing division of DuPont..

Wheelchair GamesThe 35th annual National Veterans Wheelchair Games is now taking applications for the world’s largest wheelchair sports event for disabled vet-erans. The games will be held in Dallas from June 21-26. Registration closes in April.The games, run jointly by Paralyzed Veterans of American and the Department of Veterans Af-fairs, are a great way for disabled veterans with amputations, spinal-cord injuries or neurological injuries to live active lives through wheelchair sports. If a veteran is eligible for care from the VA, he or she is eligible to participate.Register early, because spaces fill quickly. Call your VA therapist, if you have one, or the local chapter representative for Paralyzed Veterans.If you’re not ready to compete this year, hook up with VA Rehabilitation Programs and Paralyzed Veterans of America in your area to get involved in sports and recreation. They can help guide you on what your next steps might be.If you don’t know how to get started, contact Dave Tostenrude, NVWG director for the VA, at 202-560-7352 or by email at [email protected]. Or you can contact Tom Brown, Paralyzed Veterans sports consultant, at 817-673-2812 or send email to [email protected] in a sport at the games isn’t the only way you can get involved. Be a volunteer -- 3,000 will be needed in a multitude of capaci-ties. To sign up or get more information, go online to www.wheelchairgames.org or call one of the contacts above. You’ll find links to local sports clubs and adaptive sports opportunities -- such billiards, bowling, bass tour, shooting sports and handcycling -- through Paralyzed Veterans. Through the VA, you can get involved in winter sports clinics, golden-age games, summer sports clinics and more.Make the call. It could make a big difference in your life.

Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].


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EARL TUPPER (continued):• Within a few years, Tupper took his knowl-edge and experience from DuPont, and along with some used molding machines, he started up the Earl S. Tupper Company, concentrating his efforts on plastic kitchen utensils and other household items. • Tupper first marketed his products as give-aways, such as a plastic cigarette case with the purchase of cigarettes or a plastic glass free with a toothbrush. His breakthrough came with his “wonderbowl,” an airtight plastic container with a patented burping seal. His first line of kitchen items was comprised of 25 pastel-colored items, with every piece designed by Tupper himself. His wife, mother, and aunts were the testers of each item. • In 1946, Tupperware debuted in hardware and department stores. Two years later, he received a call from a Florida woman named Brownie Wise, who presented Tupper with an innovative idea, that of selling his products exclusively through home parties. The Tupperware party was born! Tupperware was withdrawn from retail stores, and Brownie became the vice-president of the company’s home party division. She was respon-sible for recruiting thousands of women into an exciting career in the 1950s.• Drastic changes came about in Tupper’s life in 1958. After eight years of Brownie Wise’s extraordinary success at the helm, Tupper fired her abruptly and without cause. Within months, he had sold his company to the Rexall Drug Company for $16 million. Shortly afterward, he divorced his wife, bought an island in Cen-tral America, forfeited his U.S. citizenship, and spent the remainder of his life in Costa Rica. • Within five years of the founding of Tupper Plastics, annual gross sales exceeded $5 million. At the time of Tupper’s death in 1983, Tupper-ware’s annual sales were over $800 million.


www.tidbitscda.comTIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #7 Feb 9th 2015 Page 16JELL-OFebruary 8 – 14 is Jell-O Week, so Tidbits is of-fering up tasty bites about the dessert we’ve all been eating our entire lives. • We think of Jell-O as a tasty treat, but the pro-cess of making it isn’t quite as appetizing. The use of gelatin has been around since the 15th cen-tury. Gelatin itself is a protein that is produced by extracting collagen from the bones and con-nective tissues of animals, usually cows and pigs. The bones are boiled for several hours after which they are discarded, and the liquid is allowed to settle. The fat is then skimmed off the top and flavoring is added. • In 1845, inventor Peter Cooper, who had cre-ated America’s first steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb, came up with a method of making large sheets of gelatin and grinding it into a powder that was easy to use in cooking. His U.S. Patent #4084 was for “portable gelatin,” and required only the addition of hot water. • The Jell-O trademark came about in 1897, when LeRoy, New York, cough syrup manufacturers Pearle and May Wait added strawberry, raspberry, orange, and lemon flavoring to granulated gelatin and sugar. Their concoction was 88% sugar. Al-though the couple was very good at making their product, they didn’t have the money to market it, and just two years later, they sold the formula, the patent, and the Jell-O name to their neighbor Orator Frank Woodward for $450 (about $12,000 today). • Woodward already owned a profitable packaged-food business in LeRoy, and he promptly sent out salesmen door-to-door to hand out free samples to launch his new acquisition. Immigrants land-ing in Ellis Island were served Jell-O and given a free Jell-O mold as a welcome gift.

By Samantha Mazzotta

No Stud Finder? No ProblemQ: I’m planning to hang some pictures around my new apartment, but a friend told me I need to be sure to locate the studs in the wall first. I know these are the vertical boards behind the wall, but I’m not sure how to find them. Do I need to buy some kind of special equipment? -- Jamie, via e-mail

A: You could buy an electronic stud finder at your nearest home-improvement store, but if you don’t want to shell out $20 or more for a one-time picture hanging project, you can learn to locate wall studs without help. And if you still can’t locate the studs, or just want the extra as-surance, you can go ahead and buy a stud finder (preferably one that also has a built-in laser lev-el, which is very convenient).Studs are usually spaced about 16 inches apart. This varies, however. Above doors and windows, studs may be doubled or tripled up to support a heavier load. But along a wall, they’re pretty evenly spaced apart. That’s helpful to know once you’ve located a stud, because you have an idea how much space is open on either side. Studs are always located in specific areas: in each corner of a room, on either side of the window frame, and on either side of the doorframe. They also are typically next to light switches and out-lets (a couple inches to the left or right) because electricians often attach the fixture’s box to the side of a stud. I say “often” and “typically,” be-cause every once in awhile an outlet is just set into the drywall.You can combine a couple of low-tech methods to locate the rough position of wall studs. The first is to simply tap the wall and listen. First tap on the location of a known stud (the corner, for example). Then tap the wall a few inches to the right or left. You should hear a hollow sound away from the stud. The area of the wall that has a stud should sound solid. The second method is to measure 16 inches from the known stud. Tap the wall at the end of the tape; if it sounds solid rather than hollow, you know you’re at another stud. Because you’re hanging pictures, and I’m as-suming relatively light ones, it’s more important for you to locate the spaces between the studs, rather than the precise width and location of each stud. (If you are hanging really large, heavy frames, the studs play a more important role.)Once you’ve got a general location for the studs, you can measure and mark the spots where you want to hang pictures.

HOME TIP: Trying to arrange several pictures on a single wall? Trace the outline of each frame onto blank paper, cut them out, and arrange the outlines on the wall to figure out the layout ahead of time.

Send your home tips and questions to [email protected].(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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JELL-O (continued):• In 1902, Jell-O ads were placed in the Ladies’ Home Journal and free Jell-O cookbooks were distributed. Famed artist Norman Rockwell il-lustrated their early advertisements. • Woodward’s family owned the rights to Jell-O for 27 years, and when they sold out to the Pos-tum Cereal Company in 1925, five million cases were being shipped out of LeRoy each year. In 1927, Jell-O became part of the brand-new Gen-eral Foods Corporation. • Cecil B. DeMille’s epic 1923 silent movie The Ten Commandments used massive amounts of Jell-O to create the special effect of Moses keep-ing the Red Sea parted while the Israelites made their escape from Egypt. • In the 1930s, the company introduced lime Jell-O for cooks who liked to make aspics and salads with vegetables like cabbage, celery, and peppers. As the years went by, new fruit flavors were continually added.• Instant chocolate pudding was added to the line-up in 1936 and was an immediate success. • The famous slogan “There’s always room for Jell-O” was introduced in 1964. By 1970, sales were on the decline, and the company launched an aggressive marketing campaign, hiring come-dian Bill Cosby as the spokesman. Sales dramat-ically increase, and Cosby remained on the job for the next 30 years, introducing Jell-O Pops, Jigglers, and sugar-free Jell-O, an alternative for those who cannot consume the 80% sugar con-tent of regular Jell-O. • Although the manufacturing plant relocated to Dover, Delaware in 1964, LeRoy, New York, the birthplace of Jell-O, is home to the world’s only Jell-O Museum.

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Dear Auntie Mmm,I have been married for several years now and I am currently three months pregnant. We have been told our child is a male, which is fine with me. I just want our child to be healthy. And that’s where our issue comes in. My husband, who is circumcised, is adamant that our male child not be. He thinks it is inhumane and a myth that it is a necessary procedure for baby boys. My husband is very sensitive to pain and swears he can recall the pain and humiliation of his cir-cumcision, which I doubt as he was only a couple of days old. We are a close family and this has somehow become the hot topic at our weekly family dinners. I am surprised by the opposing arguments, pro and con, and who is defending which. It seems the strongest pro argument is that he won’t be ridiculed in the locker room! And, that being a kid is hard enough without being different ‘down there.’ I’m beginning to agree with my husband just so he will ‘be differ-ent.’ Just curious what you think. To Cut or Not to Cut in CdA

Dear To Cut,It is interesting how everyone has an opinion when it’s not their body or their baby! This is a decision only for you and your husband to make. (It’s really too bad the unborn child can’t be asked for his opinion.) As to your husband’s memory - who knows? Many believe that both physical and psychic trauma are retained in the body and psyche. It’s nice that you have pro-vided such a lively topic for dinner conversa-tion, but the final decision is yours. Don’t worry about making others right. Circumcision, while one of the most common surgical procedures in America, has never actually been a routine rec-ommended procedure (per IntactAmerica.org). And, according to this group attitudes are chang-ing. Circumcision rates - once at 81% in the 1980’s, are now around 40%. A definite change from how things once were. So, if being like all the other boys is a determining factor it may be a concern lacking substance by the time your young man bares it all to his peers. More im-portantly if you parent well your child will have a good sense of self - good self esteem, and it shouldn’t make a difference. Just a thought.

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