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Niagara Falls is actually three waterfalls that oc-cur on the Niagara River shared by Canada and the United States.

• Niagara Falls is a tremendous tourist attraction for both the United States and Canada. Both countries have cities named after the falls, in New York and Ontario.

• Of the three waterfalls, Horseshoe Falls is the largest on the Canadian side. The other two are American Falls and the much smaller Bridal Veil Falls.

• While these waterfalls are not the largest in the world, they are among the world’s most impres-sive and most visited. The water that flows over the falls comes from the Great Lakes, which contain approximately 20 percent of the world’s fresh water. The Niagara River is actually a con-necting channel between Lakes Erie and On-tario. After going over Niagara Falls, the water eventually makes its way to the Atlantic Ocean.

• Both Canada and the United States use the pow-erful waterfalls for power generation, drinking water, fishing, agriculture and tourism.

• The flow of water over Niagara Falls is greatly affected by the amount of precipitation going into the Great Lakes. This was noticed many years ago, so in 1910, the International Joint Commission (USA and Canada) began regulat-ing the water levels.

• Later, the “1950 Niagara Treaty” was signed by the two governments. This treaty concerns the diversion of water from the Niagara River to be used for power generation by both countries. The treaty also addressed the importance of the flow of water over the falls for tourism.

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• The treaty states that the flow over Niagara Falls must not be less than 100,000 cubic feet per second (2,832 cubic m/s) during daylight hours of tourist season, April 1 through October 31. The hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. from April to September 15 and then adjusted to 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. from September 16 to October 31. The flow must not be less than 50,000 cubic feet per second (1,416 cubic m/s) at all other times.

• The treaty also specifies that excess water may be diverted for power generation. The Sir Adam Beck Station in Ontario and New York State Power Authority use the falls to provide elec-tricity to more than a million people.

• Niagara Falls has hosted its share of daredev-ils through the years. The first trip over the falls was staged by three hotel owners in 1827. Highly publicized, the event attracted approxi-mately 10,000 people to see an old condemned schooner named Michigan go over the falls with a load of “ferocious” animals. The animals actually were a buffalo, two raccoons, two small bears, a dog and a goose. The two bears, loose on the deck of the boat, jumped overboard and swam to Goat Island before the boat went over the abyss. The goose was the only survivor of the plunge.

• Two years later, the first human to survive going over the falls took his plunge. Sam Patch actu-ally did it twice, 10 days apart, diving headfirst off of two diving boards he erected on Goat Is-land. The second dive was actually higher than the first.

• One of the most famous daredevils to cross the falls did it 10 times from 1858 to 1860. “The Great Blondin” was a Frenchman who crossed Niagara Falls walking on tightropes.

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Eggs are a big seller all year long as one of the most popular breakfast foods, an essential ingredient for baking and more. But at Easter, they are at the top of the grocery list, the star of the show!

• Eggs are rich in nutrients, con-taining almost every vitamin and mineral needed by humans. The protein of eggs is the standard by which other pro-tein sources are compared. Large eggs contain ap-proximately 6 grams of protein and 4.5 grams of fat, with about half of the fat being the healthier mono-unsaturated variety. Eggs only contain about 70 calories each.

• While once vilified as being unhealthy and the cause of heart at-tacks because of their high cholesterol, the egg’s reputation has re-cently been redeemed. More doctors and nutritionists are backing away from the idea that eggs should be avoided. Eggs have so many good health benefits that studies now say most people are fine eat-ing an egg a day.

• To be sure, medical professionals are not recommending a three-egg omelet with sausage or bacon every day. If cholesterol is a concern, egg whites are fine since the yolk contains all of the cho-lesterol in an egg. The American Heart Association amended its egg-eating guidelines recently to say there is, “no longer a specific recommendation on the number of egg yolks a person may con-sume in a week.”

• Not only does the yolk contain cholesterol, it also contains the vi-tamins and minerals that make it a nutritional powerhouse. Egg yolks are one of the few foods with naturally occurring vitamin D. Hard-boiled eggs, like those decorated, hidden and hunted at Easter, provide about 17 grams of protein. Egg whites are an excel-lent source of low-fat protein.

• Eggs are also a good source of choline, which has been shown to help preserve memory, as well as lutein and zeaxanthin, which may help prevent vision loss. Nutritionists say that eggs can help with weight management, eye health, muscle strength, brain functions and are valuable for healthy pregnancies.

• Easter eggs and the Easter bunny are considered symbols of new life and rebirth. Ancient cultures like the Persians, Hindus and Egyptians believed the world started as a large egg.

• The new life symbolism was probably the associa-tion that made way for the Easter Bunny. Rabbits, like eggs, have always been associated with birth and fertility.

• The legend of the Easter Bunny had its start in Ger-

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many. The story goes that a poor woman living in Germany decorated eggs to hide and be hunt-ed as entertainment for her children. As soon as the eggs were found by the children, a large bunny rabbit was seen hopping away! Many stories have been written about the bunny ever since, and children in many places around the world look forward to egg hunts and egg and bunny-shaped candies around Easter.

• Many egg hunts now use plastic eggs, often filled with candy or toys. Real eggs, if they are used for hunts, need to be handled carefully.

• The Egg Safety Center recommends that, “Hard-cooked eggs should be refrigerated within two hours of cooking and used within one week.” Another food authority, the United States De-partment of Agriculture (USDA), says Easter eggs are safe to eat after a hunt if you follow some basic guidelines: “Use food-safe coloring to dye the eggs and refrigerate them within two hours of boiling them.”

• Since most Easter egg hunts take more than two hours from hiding to finding to eating, it is usu-ally best to use the plastic variety.

• Other information from the USDA says that boiling an egg removes a naturally occurring protective coating on egg shells that then leaves the shells vulnerable to bacteria. If any eggs are cracked, they are very susceptible to bacteria as well and should be discarded.

• The President and First Lady host the White House Easter Egg Roll every year on the Mon-day after Easter. The Easter Egg Roll activities were started in the mid-1800s and were origi-nally held at the U.S. Capitol grounds. After years of wear and tear to the lawn, Congress passed a law in 1876 forbidding the Capitol grounds from being used as a children’s play-ground.

• In 1878, when President Rutherford B. Hayes heard of the law, he issued an official order that any children who showed up at the Cap-itol grounds for an egg roll should be sent to the White House. Since that time, successive Presidents have continued the tradition, with the event held on the south lawn of the White House. It has only been cancelled a few times because of bad weather and during World Wars I and II. During the war years, egg rollers still congregated, some at the Washington Monu-ment, the National Zoo and even at the Capi-tol grounds. (Remember, that was forbidden by law!)

• Pysanky are Ukrainian Easter eggs (Pysanky is plural; the singular is pysanka). Pysanky folk art, where eggs are decorated using beeswax in a wax resist method, is a practice that has been around for thousands of years in Ukraine. Over 10,000 pysanky are displayed in the egg-shaped Pysanka Museum that opened in September 2000 in Kolomyia, Ukraine.

• Canada, specifically Vegreville, Alberta, is home to the world’s largest pysanka. The area has many Ukrainian immigrants, and the pysanka was chosen as a symbol to honor the Royal Ca-nadian Mounted Police in their centennial year of 1975.

• While the Vegreville pysanka is the world’s largest inedible Easter egg, there have been a number of large edible chocolate eggs in recent years. Vying for recognition from the Guin-ness Book of World Records (GWR), impres-sive chocolate eggs usually make their debuts at shopping centers. A 14,197-pound, 12-ounce (6,440-kg) chocolate Easter egg was on display at a shopping center in Sao Jose, Santa Cara-rina, Brazil on April 3, 2010.

• Last year, that one was beaten out for the ti-tle by an even larger egg displayed at a shop-ping center in Cortenuova, Italy. According to GWR, it weighed an impressive 15,873 pounds (7,200 kg). Now that is a lot of chocolate — and not quite as healthy as a real egg!1621 1st Ave - Greeley

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Remember when you were a kid and your mother stood you up against the kitchen wall and made a mark to see how much you had grown? Physical growth is natural and easy. You don’t have to try hard to grow several inches, it just happens - you eat…you grow.Personal growth is a different matter. Personal growth takes intention, effort and perseverance. There are two skills you need to facilitate your personal growth in a rapidly changing world: learning skills and people skills.

First of all, you must learn how to learn. How do you do that? Ask questions, read books, and do research. In other words: open your mind.Develop a sincere curiosity. Re-cently I had lunch with the owner of several restaurants. As we ate, I asked question after question

about the restaurant business. I got a college edu-cation in our one hour together.Read books. It is not possible to grow personally without growing intellectually. You cannot grow intellectually by watching television, but you can enlarge your world and expand your knowledge by reading books. So, head to a bookstore or library today and find a book that both interests and chal-lenges you and start reading. You can’t blame the books you’ve never read for the ignorance that you suffer.Do research. Google something that interests you. I am continually amazed at the amount of infor-mation available on the Internet. A friend asked, “How’d we ever do research before the Internet?” My answer: “I can’t remember.”Second, develop people skills. Learning skills will teach you what you need to know but people skills will teach you who you need to know. People skills give you friends to share with, co-workers to work with, and an ever-expanding network for mutual growth. How do you do that? Two ways: love people and make them feel important.Do you love people? The few who do are the most welcome guests at any gathering. Don’t you just love people who love people? Start loving everyone you see. Start by smiling at the people you pass on the street and as you pass them, speak to them silently in your inner spirit with words of love and acceptance.Then, make others feel important. This is counter-intuitive to our natural way. When we walk into any situation we want people to notice how impor-tant we are. Fight the urge to be noticed and start noticing others. Provoke your personal growth. Get good at learn-ing skills and people skills and you’ll be ready for the boom! Author/Speaker Jim Rohn says, “Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.”

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“Prepare for the Boom” is a series of columns that will ap-pear over the next six months. A compilation of the series will be made available toward the end of the series. Dr. Ross is the publisher of Tidbits of Greeley & West Weld County. To contact him email: [email protected]

Provoke Personal Growth

Dr. Ron Ross

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shouted, “Look at that dead bird!” Someone looked up at the Sky and said, “Where?”

While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent which

direction was north because, he explained, he didn’t want the sun waking him up every morning. She asked, “Does the sun rise in the north?” When my brother explained that the sun rises in the east, and has for sometime, she shook her head and said, “Oh I don’t keep up with that stuff.”

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Statistics, StatisticsI’m tired. For a couple years, I’ve been blaming it on iron poor blood, lack of vitamins, dieting and a dozen other maladies. But now I found out it ain’t that. I’m tired because I’m overworked. Think about it...The population of this country (the USA) is 237 million.104 million are retired. That leaves 133 million to do the work.There are 85 million in school, which leave 48 mil-lion to do the work.Of this there are 29 million employed by the fed-eral government.This leaves 19 million to do the work. Four million are in the Armed Forces, which leaves 15 million to do the work.Take from the total the 14,800,000 people who work for State and City Government and that leaves 200,000 to do the work.There are 188,000 in hospitals, so that leaves 12,000 to do the work.Now, there are 11,998 people in Prisons. That leaves just two people to do the work. You and me.Boy Oh Boy . . . And you’re sitting there reading Tidbits. No wonder I’m tired, I’m the only one working!

Food Humor:The four food groups: Fast, Frozen, Instant, and Chocolate.

A friend got some vinegar in his ear, now he suffers from pickled hearing.

Overweight is something that just sort of snacks up on you.

Sign in restaurant window: “Eat now - Pay waiter.”

I thought you were trying to get into shape? I am. The shape I’ve selected is a triangle.

A man visits his aunt in the nursing home. It turns out that she is taking a nap, so he just sits down in a chair in her room, flips through a few magazines, and munches on some

peanuts sitting in a bowl on the table.

Eventually, the aunt wakes up, and her nephew realizes he’s absentmindedly finished the entire bowl. “I’m so sorry, auntie, I’ve eaten all of your peanuts!”

“That’s okay, dearie,” the aunt replied. “After I’ve sucked the chocolate off, I don’t care for them anyway.”

And some more statistics:A recent study revealed that 85% of women are responsible for cooking the family dinner, and 84% wish they didn’t have to.

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