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TIDBITS® HEADS TO THE SUPER BOWL

by Kathy WolfeIn preparation for Super Bowl Sunday on Febru-ary 1, Tidbits focuses on the history and interest-ing facts of this famous sporting event. • The Super Bowl has always been played on a Sunday, with the first on January 15, 1967 in the Los Angeles Coliseum. The game wasn’t called the Super Bowl that year, but rather the “World Championship of Professional Football.” The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10, with the Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr named the MVP. Green Bay was also the winner of the second Super Bowl. • Until 2002, the Super Bowl was always played in January, typically the last Sunday of the month. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, television schedules were delayed by one week, which pushed the Super Bowl back a week into February. The following year, the game was held in January but has been in Feb-ruary ever since. This year, Super Bowl XLIX will take place in The University of Phoenix Sta-dium in Glendale, Arizona, home of the Arizona Cardinals, and will be the second Super Bowl played in that stadium. • The term Super Bowl did not appear on the game tickets until 1970, and wasn’t identified with Roman numerals until 1971. turn the page for more!

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THE SUPER BOWL (continued):• In 2016, the Super Bowl will celebrate its 50th anniversary. However, it will not be known as Super Bowl L, using the Roman numeral for 50. It will revert back to Roman numerals in 2017, when it will use LI for the 51st game, which will be held in Houston. • The name Super Bowl is attributed to the Kan-sas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, who came up with the idea after watching his young daughter playing with a Whamo Super Ball, a toy intro-duced in 1965 that could bounce six times high-er than an ordinary rubber ball. That very ball can be seen exhibited at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. • The Pittsburgh Steelers have won more Super Bowls than any other team. They have played in eight games and emerged the victor in six of those appearances. The Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers are close behind with five victories each. Out of seven appearances at the Super Bowl, the Denver Broncos have lost five, the record for the most losses. The team with the most consecutive appearances is the Buffalo Bills from 1990 to 1993. Unfortunately for the Bills, all four of those were losses. Four NFL teams have never made it to the Super Bowl – the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lyons, Jackson-ville Jaguars, and Houston Texans. • Only one team has won Super Bowls in four different decades, the New York Giants, and only one team has lost in four different decades, the New England Patriots. The Minnesota Vikings have played in four Super Bowls, but have never led at any point during any of those games. • Three men have been a winner in the Super Bowl both as a player and as a head coach – Tony Dungy, Mike Ditka, and Tom Flores.

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THE SUPER BOWL (continued):• The NFL has a policy that the game must be held in a stadium that has a climate of at least 50 degrees F (10 C), unless it is enclosed. The first indoor game was in 1978. Perhaps this was the result of the record coldest Super Bowl tem-perature of 39 degrees F (4 C) in New Orleans for the 1972 game. • A ticket to the first Super Bowl in 1967 cost between $6 and $12. In 2014, the cheapest ticket was around $1,800, while the most expensive seat was close to $450,000. The average price for last year’s game was $3,715, the highest average since the game’s inauguration.• It’s quite an honor to be chosen to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the big game. In the inaugural game, it was performed by the University of Arizona and University of Michi-gan marching bands along with the UCLA choir. Over the years, the privilege has shifted to pop stars, including Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, Whitney Houston, Cher, and Beyonce Knowles. Two singers have been invited twice – Billy Joel and Aaron Neville. The ranks of “American Idol” have been represented several times with singers Jordin Sparks, Carrie Underwood, Jen-nifer Hudson, and Kelly Clarkson, and judges Harry Connick, Jr. and Mariah Carey. The last time the game was opened with an instrumental performance of the national anthem was at Super Bowl XXII in 1988 when trumpeter Herb Alp-ert presented the “Banner.” On one occasion, the national anthem was not sung. That was back in 1977 when Vicky Carr sang “America the Beau-tiful” instead. • 1992 marked the first year the national anthem was performed in sign language, and since then, a signer has performed along with the vocalist every year. Christina Aguilera made his-tory in 2011 when she forgot the words to the anthem, completely skipping the line about the flag’s broad stripes and bright stars.

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by Samantha Weaver

Those who traveled by air over the recent holi-day season may sympathize with political sati-rist Mark Russell, who made the following sage observation: “The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.”

If you’re planning a visit to rural Texas anytime soon, you might want to keep in mind that in that state, it’s against the law to milk a cow that belongs to someone else.

The elephant shrew is more closely related to the elephant than to the shrew.

You may have heard of bridezilla, but what about momzilla? In a survey by David’s Bridal, 22 percent of respondents claimed that it was the mother of the bride who caused the most conflict when planning the event, while another 22 per-cent said that it was the mother of the groom. You might want to take these results with a grain of salt, though, considering the fact that the survey respondents were actually brides themselves.

Even an honest person might have some sym-pathy for the deceit attempted by a man named Corey Taylor in 2007. He was so desperate to get out of his cell-phone contract without paying the high fee that he attempted to fake his own death. Unfortunately for him, it didn’t work.

You may be surprised to learn that condoms date back to at least the 1600s.

If you’re afraid that peanut butter will stick to the roof of your mouth, you suffer from arachibu-tyophobia.

Thought for the Day: “My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate

cake. I feel better already.” -- Dave Barry

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THE SUPER BOWL (continued):• The half-time show has turned into quite an ex-travaganza over the years. For the first 10 years, the program featured marching bands. In 1976, the group Up With People broke that pattern. Gradually half-time has progressed to top en-tertainers, with Michael Jackson performing in 1993. Other notable half-timers include Gloria Estefan, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Aeros-mith, Britney Spears, Tina Turner, Stevie Won-der, Paul McCartney, and The Rolling Stones. In 2014, Bruno Mars sang to a record-breaking television audience of 115.3 million, and earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program. • Lots of Super Bowl viewers watch the game just for the clever commercials. Back in 1967, a 30-second commercial for the first game could be had for around $42,000. Twenty years later the price was $58,000, ten years after that in 1997, it was $1.2 million for the same length of time. In 2007, it cost $2.6 million. In 2014, 43 advertis-ers paid a record $4.5 million for a commercial. That’s about double the price for the same time during the Oscars telecast. The average com-mercial costs about $1 million to produce. • A Super Bowl ring is valued at about $5,000, depending on the price of gold and diamonds at the time they are created by Josten, the primary supplier of high school and college graduation rings. The NFL springs for the price of 70 rings to the winning team, who can distribute them to whomever they please, even non-players. • Look for more Super Bowl facts in this issue.

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A Brain Wasting DiseaseBy Dr. Holly Carling

Dr. Holly Carling is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, Doctor 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 informative articles. Dr. Carling can be reached at 208-765-1994 and would be happy to answer any questions regarding this topic.

Lifestyle is always a factor in any disease, and AD is no different. Inadequate exercise, an unlearning mind, physical inactivity, lack of sunlight, and insufficient sleep are all cited as being risk factors for Alzheim-er’s.Environmental factors such as excess exposure to aluminum, nitrates/nitrites/nitrosamines (found in processed foods and fertilizers), and other chemicals found in foods or in the air can be contributing fac-tors.So, what can we do to minimize our risks of getting Alzheimer’s Disease? Handle as many of the 4 factors as we can!Use herbs, acupuncture, diet and lifestyle to elimi-nate the health challenges that can predispose you to AD. These include eliminating chronic infections or inflammatory conditions, losing excess weight, controlling cardiovascular and blood sugar condi-tions, getting appropriate treatment for head traumas and whiplashes (such as chiropractic or acupuncture treatments), and handling stress and emotional imbal-ances.Eat a diet high in good fats such as fish, raw nuts and seeds, quality pastured meats, butter, coconut oil (has extraordinary effects on brain health), etc. Take qual-ity vitamins and minerals that are made from foods, not chemicals, such as Standard ProcessÒ brand sup-plements. Eat ample amounts of protein, especially raw proteins, and cut the carbohydrates. Get ample exercise, especially in fresh air, such as you find in doing yard work or gardening, riding a bike (or exercise bike), and do crossword puzzles. Re-search shows that just reading isn’t enough. The brain must be engaged, which means you have to think. Quality sleep is another important factor. The fact is, there is much we can do between life-style, the foods we eat and the healthcare we receive that can have a profound effect on preventing this de-bilitating disease!

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a progressive brain-wasting disease. There is an irreversible destruction/loss of brain cells (neurons) that result in the impair-ment of memory, reasoning, and intellectual abilities. As the brain cells die, the brain itself shrinks, which then progresses to the point of an inability to perform normal activities of daily living, and eventually dy-ing. The brain, in this progressive neurologic disease, is found to have increasing amounts of plaques and tangles that develop amongst the brain cells, caus-ing them to die. This, along with a deficiency of vital brain chemicals, disrupts the transmission of electri-cal charges within the cells, resulting in a loss of neu-rons. These brain chemicals, called neurotransmitters are responsible for transmission of brain messages and include such chemicals as acetylcholine, sero-tonin and norepinephrine. The causes of Alzheimer’s Disease are multifacto-rial. These can be categorized into 4 factors: Physical health, nutrition, lifestyle, and environmental fac-tors. Certain health conditions seem to precipitate AD. They include chronic infections, chronic inflamma-tion from multiple sources, repeated blows to the head or whiplashes, excessive body fat, atrial fibrilla-tions, high blood pressure, poorly controlled diabetes, chronic stress, chronic clinical depression, strokes or mini-strokes and high homocysteine levels.Nutritional factors include poor intake of Essential Fatty Acids, Vitamin deficiencies (especially B vi-tamins, and the antioxidant vitamins: Vitamins A, C and E), inadequate amounts of quality protein, and excessive carbohydrates.

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On Jan. 27, 1785, the Georgia General Assem-bly incorporates the University of Georgia, the first state-funded institution of higher learning in the new republic. It wasn’t until 1918 that the university began admitting women.

On Feb. 1, 1885, John Taylor, the president of the Mormon Latter-day Saints Church, goes “underground” to avoid arrest and continue re-sisting federal demands for polygamy. Taylor had at least seven wives. Although the Mormons wanted freedom from outside interference, they also sought the benefits of being a part of the United States. Inevitably, these two goals con-flicted.

On Jan. 30, 1920, Toyo Cork Kogyo, a Japanese cork business, is formed. A decade later, the company produced its first vehicle and changed its name to Mazda. The Mazda-Go was a three-wheeled truck that resembled a motorcycle with a cargo-carrier at the back.

On Jan. 31, 1945, Pvt. Eddie Slovik becomes the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion. Slovik was originally classified 4-F because of a prison record, but was reclassified 1-A when draft standards were low-ered. In 1944, he was trained to be a rifleman, which was not to his liking, as he hated guns.

On Jan. 28, 1959, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League sign Vince Lombardi to a five-year contract as the team’s coach and general manager. The Brooklyn-born Lombardi played college football at Fordham University as a guard on the offensive line, dubbed the “Seven Blocks of Granite.”

On Jan. 29, 1964, Stanley Kubrick’s black com-ic masterpiece “Dr. Strangelove” opens in the-aters to both critical and popular acclaim. The movie focused on the actions of a rogue U.S. military officer who believed that communists are threatening the “precious bodily fluids” of Americans.

On Jan. 26, 1980, at the request of President Jimmy Carter, the U.S. Olympic Committee votes to ask the International Olympic Commit-tee to cancel or move the Moscow Olympics in response to the Soviet military invasion of Af-ghanistan.(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

Healthier Pet TreatsDEAR PAWS CORNER: I’m suspicious of store-brand pet treats, as I think they’re filled with additives and just not healthy for my two dogs. But I’m not exactly wealthy, either, so I can’t buy gourmet treats. Can I make them my-self? -- Gerry S., via email

DEAR GERRY: There are recipe books avail-able that will enable you to make food and treats for your dogs at home. I can’t say that the food you make for your dogs will cost less than store-bought food. But you’ll know exactly what your dogs are eating, because you selected and pre-pared the ingredients yourself.Prepping food and treats for your dog from a recipe book developed just for dogs can be very helpful for owners who aren’t sure what dogs can and can’t safely eat. For example, feeding a dog table scraps can be problematic if the food is higher in fat than they’re used to, or contains large amounts of onion or garlic, which can cause serious problems for a dog. There are several books to choose from these days, which is a vast improvement over several years ago. A quick search on Amazon will bring up hundreds of results. It’s good to see that one of the first dog-treat books to cross my desk, the “You Bake ‘Em Dog Biscuits Cookbook” by Ja-nine Adams, still ranks high on the list.If the time involved in preparing your dogs’ food becomes daunting, there are increasingly other sources for pet food and treat cropping up. In particular, organic dog treats can be found at health-food stores, in farmers’ markets, at vet-erinarians’ offices or can be ordered online.

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Rethink Those Bland Summer VacationsIf you’re planning to take a summer vacation, consider making this the year you do something different.Take a child’s interest or a hobby of yours and turn it into a vacation. Don’t send your child to space camp when the whole family can visit the Kennedy Space Center and expand your adven-tures from there across Florida.¥ If you’ve worked for years on your family tree but it still has holes, consider planning a tour of state archives, museums and genealogical sourc-es.Throw a dart (literally) at a wall map of the U.S. and go online to research what’s nearby that could turn into a vacation spot.¥ If prospecting for gold or gems appeals to you, search online for gem and mineral associations in the states you’ll visit. They’re your best bet for dig locations to suggest.Start now to investigate things to do in towns and cities new to you. Contact the Chamber of Commerce in those locations for packets of in-formation. While you have them on the phone, ask about things generally known only to the lo-cals that you might otherwise miss. If the family loves hiking, collect state park maps of hiking trails and plan a week of visits. Want interesting and cheaper accommodations at your destination? Check hovelstay.com. The accommodation categories are broken down into Survivor Hovels, Good Enough, and Clean and Comfortable. If you’re headed to San Francis-co, stay in a tent in Berkeley, California, near the BART station. Heading for Phoenix? Stay in a four-person room in accommodations that include cable, Wi-Fi, light breakfast, use of a computer and a karaoke machine. Looking for some posh but cheap digs in Seattle? Choose king-size accommodations that can take three people. While HovelStay.com is just now open to nonstudents and doesn’t cover all areas of the U.S., it’s worth a look if you want to save some money.If you’re going to a foreign country and will need a passport, don’t wait until the last minute. From time of application, it can take four to six weeks for a routine application. If you ask for expedited service, you could have your passport within eight days ... but expect to receive it in three weeks. Expedited also will cost you an ad-ditional $60.David Uffington regrets that he cannot personal-ly answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

by Matilda Charles

Getting Rid of ClutterWhether you plan to stay in your home forever or sell it and move to smaller accommodations, getting rid of clutter can make your life easier and safer.Here are a few very good reasons to declutter:Fewer opportunities to trip and fall. Consider what happens when a senior falls and breaks a bone: hospital, rehab and the question of where to go afterward. Can the senior go home and live independently again? Sometimes the answer is no.Organizing makes things easier to find.Clutter can be dangerous. If emergency services have to come to your house, will they be able to get to you? Or are pathways in rooms too nar-row? Taken to an extreme, holding on to too many possessions can be called hoarding, and sometimes social services will step in to deal with it. Your best bet is to declutter long before it gets to that point.Here are some ideas to get you started:Magazines and newspapers: Allow yourself three of each. When a fourth monthly magazine or daily paper arrives, throw out the oldest one in the stack. Keep incoming bills or correspondence in one spot, perhaps a basket or folder on the dining-room table, until you write checks or reply. Instead of viewing it as an overwhelming task, work on decluttering for an hour a day. Sort clothes you don’t wear anymore, tackle stacks of paperwork, make a list of items to give away or donate, such as memorabilia, books or tools. Then arrange for pickup of your donated items.If things have accumulated on the floor, start there. Ask for help if you need assistance with lifting or hauling things away.Decluttering is a process. Expect to have to go through things more than once before you reach your goal.Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her col-umn whenever possible. Send email to [email protected]. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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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.

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And a study released last year published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that “ cur-rent evidence does not clearly support cardiovas-cular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consump-tion of total saturated fats." Polyunsaturated fats are oils such as vegetable, margarine or corn oil, which are highly inflammatory and should not be consumed.If saturated fats are bad, then why does a diet allowing you to eat them (Atkins) LOWER cho-lesterol and triglycerides? And double your weight loss?At Healthy Living Liberty Lake, we preach the low carb diet all day long, and even use a com-pany called Ideal Protein to help in this regard if needed. Ideal Protein gives a person most of the foods they need to eat initially to lower carbs, until their ideal weight is reached, and then in-corporates "normal" foods that are still low in carbs. This has been extremely effective and for some people, it's the only thing that has worked. The most weight we've seen is a 30 lb weight reduction in one month! But then of course we have to teach you how to eat for the rest of your life. It does no good to get the weight off if it promptly goes back on. We'll also use a number of supplements to help increase metabolism and fat loss.Another permanent fat loss method which we've found extremely effective, is called CoolSculpt-ing. It's based on the fact that fat cells are much more susceptible to freezing than is other tissue, such as skin and muscle. CoolSculpting uses cold to freeze the fat, thereby rupturing the cells and killing them! Wherever the applicator is applied, between 20-25% of fat cells are killed. It's especially useful for stubborn pockets of fat that are so hard to get rid of with diet and exer-cise alone. And remember, whenever you diet and lose weight, the fat cells simply shrink in size, and are waiting to be filled back up again. CoolSculpting eliminates them so they're not there to re-fill.Whatever your method used to lose weight, know that it is not in vain. You simply can not be as healthy as possible if you are overweight or obese.

Permanent Weight Loss It's that time of year again, with everyone mak-ing their new years resolutions. And for most of us, it includes weight loss as part of our quest to achieve optimal health. With all the advice in every newspaper and magazine, it's confusing to know which diet is most effective. I 'll clear this up for you by looking at the sci-ence instead of the media hype. And there is a lot of media hype - even the recent US News and World Report , reported their annual diet rank-ings, and got it wrong, again. They called the DASH diet, which is low in salt, low in fat, and low in taste as the best diet. And it is not.There is ONE diet which, when compared to others, was the most effective at reducing cho-lesterol, triglycerides, and inflammation, and at the same time, people on this diet lost TWICE as much weight. It was better than: Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, DASH, vegetarian, raw food diet, and a low fat diet. Which diet is best? The ATKINS diet. Or in oth-er words, a whole food, high protein, low carb, diet. The Atkins is so effective because it se-verely limits the amount of processed food, and high-glycemic index foods - or in other words, foods that cause a high blood sugar. The higher the average blood sugar floating around your ar-teries, the more inflammation there is, and the more inflammation there is, the more you are at risk for heart attacks, cancer, dementia and stroke. Lower carbs leads to lower blood sugars leads to lower insulin leads to lower inflamma-tion, cholesterol and triglycerides leads to lower heart attacks, strokes, dementia and cancer. And saturated fat such as found in eggs, bacon, cheese and milk, is not bad! A 2010 Harvard review found that saturated fat, like bacon fat, doesn't contribute to heart disease.

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Financing Our Local Economy With SlowMoney Teri McKenzie

Slow Money author Carole Peppe- Hewitt Lun-cheon Coeur d’Alene, ID (January 4, 2015) – A rela-tively new organization is working to ‘In- Farm- You’ about local food systems. The Inland Northwest Food Network comprises a collective of individuals, organizations, businesses and others committed to growing a resilient environ-mentally responsible and cohesive regional food system. Their vision is to develop a healthy, sus-tainable, fair and accessible local food system. Join them on Thursday, January 29th at 11:30 for a luncheon with author, small business owner, and pioneer in the local food and community fi-nance movements, Carol Peppe Hewitt. Carol has taught and coached many small business owners, and learned first hand how hard it for small businesses to access much needed capital. She is now working to change that by empower-ing ordinary people to help fill this need.She co- founded Slow Money N.C, an organi-zation that works with lenders who make low- interest, micro- loans in their communities to local farmers and other small business “ag- preneurs.” To date, Peppe- Hewitt has catalyzed over 2 mil-lion dollars in local financing to over 125 entrepreneurs in N.C. through low- interest loans, resulting in a resilient and robust local food system.Carol’s book, “Financing Our Foodshed: Grow-ing Local Food With Slow Money,” is a collec-tion of compelling, real life stories about these Slow Money entrepreneurs- ‐ the people that grow, process, distribute, and sell, local food – and the folks in their community who become their lenders/supporters.Join the Inland Northwest Food Network for what’s sure to be an insightful and informativeluncheon.Thursday, January 29th11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. KROC CenterTickets are $15, and can be purchased at:• Pilgrims Market – Coeur d’Alene• The Art Spirit Gallery – Coeur d’Alene• Kizuri – SpokaneSpecial thank you to the following sponsors for helping to make this event possible:• Sustainable Agriculture Research Education• University of Idaho Extension• Rural Roots• Pilgrim’s Market• Moscow Food Co- OpFor more information, contact Teri McKenzie at (503) 307- 4505, or [email protected]

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1. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (PG-13) Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman

2. Unbroken (PG-13) Jack O’Connell, Taka-masa Ishihara

3. Into the Woods (PG) Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep

4. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG) Ben Stiller, Robin Williams5. Annie (PG) Quvenzhane Wallis, Cameron Diaz

6. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1 (PG-13) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson

7. The Gambler (R) Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange

8. Imitation Game (PG-13) Benedict Cumber-batch, Keira Knightley

9. Exodus: Gods and Kings (PG-13) Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton

10. Wild (R) Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern



1. After gaining stardom, Freddy Cannon was known by what name?

2. Who scored a big international hit with “Apache”?

3. Which singer-songwriter gave us the easy-listening “If You Could Read My Mind”?

4. “461 Ocean Boulevard” was an album title for which artist?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “You packed in the morning and I stared out the win-dow and I struggled for something to say, You left in the rain without closing the door, I didn’t stand in your way.”

Answers1. Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon, because of his powerful recordings. Astonishingly, he nev-er had a No. 1 hit single.2. Jorgen Ingmann, in 1961. 3. Gordon Lightfoot, in 1970. In a horrible mu-sic decision, the beautiful song was turned into a disco dance number by Viola Wills in 1980.4. Eric Clapton, in 1974. 5. “Just When I Needed You Most,” by Randy VanWarmer, 1979. VanWarmer wrote the song after a breakup and knew it was good, but the re-cording company wasn’t especially impressed, wanting to make it the B-side to another single. Instead the song shot to the top of the adult con-temporary charts, hit No. 4 on the Hot 100 and made a respectable showing on even the coun-try chart.

C O O L C O N N E C T I O N s A Ladies and sometimes Men of A Cer-tain Age Adventure Club

Cool: Fashionably attractive or impressive (well, at least we think so!).

Connections: A relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with some-thing else - like ensuring life is Fun and Mean-ingful!

Sound Interesting?

Cool Connections is actively seeking vibrant, intelligent, sane (or maybe insane), adventurous women, 40 +, to co-create and partake in memo-rable outings, trips, meals, activities and friend-ships. Women who realize that 40+ may be the best and most interesting time of their life yet. Women who want to design their future to be an adventure in learning and growing, in giving and receiving. Women who want to share in the kind of experiences they can look back on when they’re 80+ and say, “Wow, that was fun!”, and maybe even, “I don’t believe I did that!”

That’s why Cool Connections is a lively, loving group of women that choose to experience life like a fine wine - to only get better and better. Together we explore, have fun and enjoy the di-versity of our lives and the activities of our area and beyond. We come together to eat good food, drink fine wines (or beverage of choice), and nur-ture strong relationships. We find ways to support each other, both personally and professionally, to be successful in all we do, whatever that may be. We remind each other that caring for ourselves first is a prerequisite for caring for others. We believe our minds, like parachutes, are best kept open. Some of us are working, some of us are building and managing a business, some of us are still raising a family, some of us are caring for parents, and some of us are doing multiples of these. And, there are some who have ‘been there, done that, and bought the t-shirt’. What’s important, despite the prevailing circumstances, is that we connect - that we join together, to sup-port each other in creating a rich and meaningful life, now.

You probably remember thinking that 40 was ‘so old.’ Are you ready to prove that wrong? If so, come join us at our next adventure in living. Just be prepared to laugh, to open your heart and your mind, and to make a COOL CONNECTION!

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1. LITERATURE: How many daughters does King Lear have in Shakespeare’s play?2. MUSIC: When did MTV make its debut?3. GEOGRAPHY: What is the tallest mountain in Western Europe?4. ANATOMY: What is the biggest bone in the foot?5. HISTORY: Who founded the abolitionist newspaper “The North Star”?6. LANGUAGE: What does the Latin phrase “non compos mentis” mean?7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What was the site of Coca-Cola’s first bottling company?8. COMICS: What is the name of Dennis’ younger buddy in the “Dennis the Menace” comic panel?9. SCIENCE: How fast can a bolt of lightning travel?10. TELEVISION: In what fictional city does the soap opera “All My Children” take place?

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NOTEWORTHY INVENTORS:BINNEY & SMITHThe inventions of Edwin Binney and C. Har-old Smith are used every single day around the world. Although their most famous creation is the crayon, they are responsible for other con-veniences as well, as you’ll discover as you read along. • In 1884, Edwin Finney’s father Joseph founded the Peekskill Chemical Company in Peekskill, N.Y. The company’s specialty was creating col-ors of black and red, for example, lampblack, printing ink, charcoal, and a paint containing red iron oxide used to paint American barns red. The company earned a gold medal award in chemi-cal and pharmaceutical arts at the 1900 Paris Exposition for their ingenuity in creating black chemical colorants. Peekskill went on to achieve notoriety for an idea presented to the B.F. Goo-drich Company. By adding carbon black to the traditional white automobile tire, not only did the color of the tire change, but the process strength-ened the rubber and improved tread life, making the tires five times more durable. • Edwin’s cousin C. Harold Smith joined the company around 1885, and they expanded their product line to include shoe polish. In 1900, the cousins purchased a stone mill in Easton, Penn-sylvania, a region where a large supply of slate could be found. This paved the way for the pro-duction of slate pencils for schools. • Binney began experimenting with a mixture of slate waste, cement, and talc, and before long had created the first dustless white chalk. The company was awarded a gold medal for their An-Du-Septic Dustless Chalk at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. For the next 50 years, Cray-ola used the image of their gold medal on their crayon packages.

by Freddy Groves

Film Salutes Flag Ladies of FreeportEvery Tuesday morning since Sept. 11, 2001, the Freeport Flag Ladies -- Carmen, Elaine and JoAnn -- have stood on a corner in downtown Freeport, Maine, holding flags to honor those in uniform who’ve worked to guarantee our free-doms. Rain, wind, snow, ice, heat of summer ... they haven’t missed a single day. On most Tues-day mornings, the ladies aren’t alone. People come from all walks of life to stand with them: leaders of groups like the American Legion or the Veterans of Foreign Wars, parents of active-duty military, or school kids or neighbors. Many are veterans.But the ladies do so much more than bring peo-ple together on Tuesday mornings. Wearing their instantly identifiable flag shirts, they attend mili-tary funerals, take photos of incoming and outgo-ing service personnel at the airport and post them on the website (FreeportFlagLadies.com), send packages to veterans in hospitals, place flags at veteran cemeteries, and more.Now you can meet these lovely ladies in a film that’s been made about them, and hear their phi-losophies and beliefs about heroes and freedom, and why they do what they do. A Maine film-maker has produced a spot-on documentary that captures the essence of the Freeport Flag La-dies.The film “One Tuesday Morning” is available now on Vimeo for $2.99 to rent (for a 48-hour period) or for $8.99 to buy. The link is: vimeo.com/ondemand/onetuesdaymorning. If you pre-fer to use DVDs, one is being created now and should be available within a month or so. The price likely will be in the $15 range. If you’d like to wait for the DVD and be notified when it’s ready, send an email note to [email protected] and you’ll be put on the list. To watch the trailer, visit onetuesdaymorning.com. Don’t miss the Extras section, linked from the left.

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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BINNEY & SMITH (continued):• Binney & Smith had already developed the Sta-on-al industrial wax marking crayon for marking shipping crates and barrels in 1902. But the formula, which was full of carbon black, was considered too toxic for use by children, so they began experimenting with a safer recipe using paraffin wax and colored pigments. Binney’s wife Alice, a former schoolteacher, conceived the name for their new product by combing two French words – craie, meaning chalk, and ola, short for oleagineux, the French word for oily, because they were made of petroleum-based wax. In 1905, the company began selling a box of eight crayons for a nickel, and the product was an instant success. They quickly expanded to 18 different sizes of crayon boxes with five different sizes of crayons. • Next, Crayola expanded their line to include items for art students, such as Perma-Pressed sharpenable fine art crayons and Artista brand paints. • Although Smith died in 1928 and Binney in 1934, Crayola continued to grow, introducing a 48-pack of assorted color crayons in 1949, and 64 colors in 1958 in a box that had a built-in sharpener for the first time. Today there are more than 100 different types of Crayola crayons, in-cluding those that have glitter added, some that glow in the dark, others that smell like flowers, or change color, and still others that can be easily washed off walls. Crayola markers were intro-duced in 1978. • Crayons were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998.


www.tidbitscda.comTIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #5 Jan 26th 2015 MORE SUPER BOWL FACTS• More than 100 million people watch the Su-per Bowl every year. Only one other event has surpassed 100 million, 1983’s series finale of M*A*S*H*.• In terms of the amount of food eaten on any particular day, Super Bowl Sunday is second only to Thanksgiving. It should be no surprise that Su-per Bowl Sunday is the highest pizza sales day of the year. Domino’s Pizza alone sells more than 11 million pizza slices on the day, about 80% more than a normal Sunday. An estimated 1.25 billion chicken wings will be consumed during the game. Back in 2000, game-watchers ate about 8 million lbs. (3,628,739 kg) of avocados during the Super Bowl, but with that industry’s increased advertising and emphasis on guacamole snacks, thet number has skyrocketed to 79 million lbs. (35,833,797 kg). If you’re counting, that’s about 158 million avocados. • The Vince Lombardi Trophy awarded to the winner of the Super Bowl takes four months to create. It’s manufactured in Parsippany, New Jer-sey, by Tiffany, who has made every single trophy since the first game in 1967. The trophy wasn’t called the Lombardi Trophy back then, when the legendary coach led his Green Bay Packers to the first two victories. The game was called the AFL-NFL World Championship and up until 1971, the trophy was inscribed with the words “World Pro-fessional Football Championship.” After Lom-bardi died of colon cancer in 1970, the trophy was renamed and the Baltimore Colts became the first team to receive it as the Vince Lombardi Trophy at Super Bowl V. The trophy is made entirely of sterling silver and stands 22 inches (56 cm) tall, weighing 7 lbs. (3.2 kg). The silver itself is valued around $3,500, but the completed trophy’s worth is given as $25,000.

By Samantha Mazzotta

Salvaging Old Paint BrushesQ: Last summer, I repainted the garage. Because I had plans to paint some other rooms, I wrapped up the rollers and brushes in old plastic shop-ping bags to keep the paint damp. And then ... I forgot about them. This morning while cleaning my workspace, I found them again. The paint has hardened to stone. Can I save the brushes and rollers, or do I need to just buy all new stuff? -- Brad C., Kansas City, MissouriA: I’m not going to judge. I’ve let far too many paint-laden brushes dry out myself when I got distracted. But you should definitely try to sal-vage the brushes and rollers before shelling out money for new paint supplies. First, confirm what kind of paint you used in the garage last summer by checking the label on the cans of leftover paint. It most likely was latex-based interior paint, but oil-based paint is still in use. The good news is, latex is the easiest paint to clean up, even when it’s been dried on for some time. Don’t use solvents like turpentine, alco-hol, gasoline or anything else to clean latex, and don’t listen to anyone who insists you use these chemicals. To clean latex paint off your brushes and rollers, fill a pail or utility sink with warm, soapy water. (Plain dish soap is fine.) Peel the plastic shopping bags off the brushes and discard them. If pieces of the plastic stick to the rollers or brushes, just leave them on, rather than potentially damaging the brushes by trying to pry them off. Drop the brushes and rollers into the soapy water and let them sit for at least 20 minutes. Check to see if the dried latex is loosening up, being careful not to bend or tug at the bristles of the paintbrushes. If they’re still stiff with paint, the bristles could fray or break. Keep soaking them, checking every 20 minutes or so, until the latex loosens from the bristles and roller spong-es, and you can easily push it off the brushes.(If the brushes are still stiff or have bits of paint stuck to them, try soaking the bristles in boiling-hot white vinegar for about five minutes, then run a stiff nylon or plastic brush (never metal) through the bristles.)Rinse the soapy water off, shake or spin the roll-ers and brushes to get rid of excess water, and let them dry on sheet of newspaper or clean tow-els.Oil paint is a different matter. If you used oil-based paint and it has dried, you can try salvag-ing the brushes by soaking them in mineral spir-its or paint thinner for several minutes. Make sure the room is well-ventilated, and that you wear gloves and eye protection during this pro-cess. Roller sponges with oil paint dried on them may not be salvagable but if you need to pry them off the roller handles, apply mineral spirits or paint thinner to the ends to loosen the dried paint.Finally, store rollers upright and either hang brushes up or store them in a clean paint can, handles down and brushes upward.(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Top 10 VOD Movies1. Guardians of the Galaxy (PG-13) Chris Pratt2. This Is Where I Leave You (R) Jason Bate-man3. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) Gary Oldman4. The Maze Runner (PG-13) Dylan O’Brien5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PG-13) Megan Fox6. Left Behind (PG-13) Nicolas Cage7. Elf (PG) Will Ferrell8. 22 Jump Street (R) Channing Tatum9. Let’s Be Cops (R) Jake Johnson10. The Hundred-Foot Journey (PG) Helen Mir-ren

Top 10 DVD, Blu-ray Sales1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PG-13) Para-mount2. Guardians of the Galaxy (PG-13) Disney3. Frozen (PG) Disney4. The Maze Runner (PG-13) FOX5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) FOX6. Maleficent (PG) Disney7. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) FOX8. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG-13) Warner Bros.9. The LEGO Movie (PG) Warner Bros.10. Dolphin Tale 2 (PG) Warner Bros.Source: Rentrak Corp.(c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

MORE SUPER BOWL FACTS(continued):• Although Peyton Manning was 37 years and 10 months old when he played in 2014’s Super Bowl, he wasn’t the oldest quarterback to play in the championship game. That honor belongs to John Elway, who was 38 when he played in Su-per Bowl XXXIII in 1998. Elway was also that game’s MVP. The youngest starting Super Bowl quarterback was Ben Roethlisberger, who at 23, was the winning QB for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XL in 2006. • Jerry Rice has scored the most Super Bowl touchdowns of any player. Rice achieved eight TD’s in four different games, in three games as a San Francisco 49er and in one as an Oakland Raider. Emmitt Smith is a distant second with five touchdowns in his three games as a Dallas Cowboy. • The last time the Super Bowl was a day game, ending before the local sunset, was in January of 1977. • In 2011, Cowboy Stadium in Dallas ran into some seating difficulties when they failed to properly install a section of temporary seats. This left 1,250 ticket holders without seats. Officials were able to place 850 people around the stadium in vacant seats, but 400 remained unseated. NFL promised a triple refund for the $800 tickets to all 1,250 people. • In 1981, the Louisiana Superdome in New Or-leans honored the 52 American hostages who had just been released from 444 days in captivity in Iran by displaying a gigantic yellow ribbon over the main entrance to the stadium.


Barbara Smalley is the Development Director for St. Vincent de Paul North Idaho. “I do not call it a job,” Barb states, “but an opportunity to represent an organization I truly believe in.” St. Vincent de Paul has been part of this community for 68 years, starting as a clothes closet by parishioners at St. Thomas Catholic Church. It has grown to be the largest homeless and low-income organization in the region including three thrift stores, shelters for both men and women, a dining hall, two warming centers, transitional housing, affordable housing and a HELP Center which offers many different ser-vices for anyone in need.

St. Vincent de Paul has four major fundraising events throughout the year which Barbara helps coordinate along with different committees for each event.

The events include; the 4th Annual Comedy Show at the CDA Resort on April 10, the 7th Annual Steak-Fry featuring the Kelly Hughes Band at the Kootenai County fairgrounds on July 18, a fashion show in October and the 6th Annual Souport the End of Homelessness soup lunch in November.

“We try to keep our prices affordable so more people can attend,” Barb stated. Last year all of the events sold out so anyone interested in attending are encouraged to get their tickets early. The proceeds from these events help provide warming centers for anyone without shelter when the temperature drops below 25 degrees. “Thank you to everyone who supports our events,” Smalley states, “they would not be a success without your help!” For more information on St. Vincent de Paul North Idaho visit stvincentdepaulcda.org.

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By Sarah PearlI DO NOT CALL IT A JOB

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Dear Readers,Last weekend I had the plea-sure of attending a Spokane viewing of the documentary about Glenn Campbell and his battle with Alzheimer’s disease. The documentary is named Glenn Campbell “I’ll Be Me.” It is an impressive feature that strives to show the challenges of this horrific disease for family as well as the individual. I was deeply touched by the courage and love this family shares. They go to incredible lengths to maintain the dignity of Mr. Campbell as best this disease allows, and their participating in this documentary performs an in-credible public service for all dealing with AL-zheimers now and for all who may in the future. It is enlightening, inspiring, and one of the saddest things you might imagine. The film shares much about Glenn’s musical his-tory. Such as he toured and played with the Beach Boys, taking the place of Bryan Wilson in 1964 - 1965. How he is credited with building the bridge between pop and country music with his hits like ‘Wichita Lineman,’ ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’ and ‘Rhinestone Cowboy.’ That he has multiple gold records, was a groundbreaking session musi-cian, songwriter, accomplished actor and variety show television host. Remember? The documentary follows Glenn and his family as they receive the official diagnosis and their day to day - sometimes moment to moment adjustment to it. Deciding to do a last tour is both heroic and insane. The film provides an insiders view of the tremendous amount of stress and heartbreak one experiences caring for someone with this terrible disease. Clips of his appearances are shown and he is the consummate performer up to in his last live event - show # 151! We need to face the truth about Alzheimer’s dis-ease - a disease that knows no borders - not eco-nomic, social, cultural, ability, intelligence, or age. It affects those as young as their 40’s and 50% of those over 85. For more information, support, and educational opportunities please contact P. J. Christo at our local Alzheimer Association Inland Northwest Chapter at 208 - 666-2996. P.J. is a dedicated, compassionate professional who is tireless in her commitment to educate and support those dealing with Alzheimer’s disease now and in the future.There is no cure. It cannot be stopped. Education is our best defense. Please learn all you can about dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. And see the film! Love, Auntie Mmm.


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