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This week Tidbits celebrates the working men and women of the world with an article everyone can appreciate. So take a break from the job for a bit, kick back and relax as we share some interesting work related Tidbits.• It can always be worse, right? The next time

you think you’re job’s rough, imagine being the cage cleaner at the zoo or an odor tester. Not too sure about just what that last one is? An odor tester is someone who makes sure that deodorant actually works. We’ll try not to think about the actual in-trial testing!

• What’s in a name really? Would you ever be a sweat box attendant? It’s not what it sounds like. Sweat Box Attendants wait on guests in the sweat boxes of spas. Although it’s probably a sweat breaking job, the tips are probably great - and if you don’t mind attending to businessmen in towels, it could make a great summer or part-time job!

• Do you know any Herpetologists? Or did you grow up wanting to study frogs, but didn’t know what to call it? Well, here’s your answer: herpetology is the study of amphibians. It is a branch of zoology, which is the study of animals. Another branch of zoology is Myrmecology, the study of those little six-legged picnic fiends. Yes, you guessed it - ants.

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• Tobacco contributes to more than 400,000 deaths in the United States every year. That’s almost 20 percent of all U.S. deaths! About 23 percent of adult Americans smoke, and 30 percent of adolescents. A person who hasn’t used tobacco by the time he is 21 is quite likely to remain a non-smoker. Around the globe, about 10 million ciga-rettes are purchased each minute of every day.

• Halfway between Boston and New Bedford, Massachu-setts, stood an old house, built in 1709 as a toll-collecting station, stable and inn for weary travelers. In 1930, along came Ken and Ruth Wakefield, who purchased the house and opened a lodge, naming it the Toll House Inn. Ruth provided many delicious meals for her guests, as well as tempting baked goods. While mixing up a batch of her favorite cookie recipe, as an experiment, she added a chopped chocolate bar. It was so wellliked, she con-tinued the practice, and the treat became quite popular throughout the area. So popular, it soon became known as the Toll House cookie, a name that endures today.

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TO- GO- (continued):• Experts in the game of marbles will know that the of-

ficial name for the shooting marble is tolley.• What’s the fastest healing part of your body? It’s your

tongue! It’s also the strongest muscle group and the most flexible. About 3,000 taste buds make their home on the tongue. The average length of a tongue is 4 inches.

• Back in second-century Rome, only Roman citizens were allowed to wear the toga. Before a boy reached legal age, he wore a white toga with a border of a wide purple stripe. At his “coming of age” ceremo-ny, usually around age 14 or 15, he donned, for the first time, a plain white toga. This was known as the toga virilis.

• At age 33, J.R.R. Tolkien became a professor in the English Department at the University of Oxford. Al-ways interested in languages, he actually invented several “artificial” languages, two of which, “Que-nya” and “Sindarin,” he used in his novels. While serving with the British army during World War I, he was hospitalized with trench fever. During his con-finement, he began writing fantasy tales. Years later, he published a novel he had written for his children, entitled “The Hobbit.” His publishers convinced him to write a sequel, and the result as the three-

volume work, “The Lord of the Rings,” an effort that required nearly 10 years. It was published in 1954 and 1955. Tolkien continued as professor at Oxford until 1959.

• In the 1800s, totters could be seen strolling the streets of every British hamlet. Most carried a large hand-bell to announce their arrival. Who were they? They were the original recyclers, collecting people’s rags, bones and bottles.

• If you’re a lobster eater, perhaps you’ve noticed that soft green stuff inside its cavity. This substance func-tions as the creature’s liver and pancreas. Its official name is tomalley. Be careful if you eat it — It can contain dangerous levels of the toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning.

• Toponymy is the study of place names. When some-thing takes its name from a certain place, it’s known as a toponym. Well-known examples include the Oxford shirt taking its name from Oxford, England, and hamburgers being named for their city of origin, Hamburg, Germany. The province of Ontario gets its name from Lake Ontario, not the other way around. Did you know that the tuxedo takes its name from Tuxedo Park, New York? It’s believed that it was there that this formal suit was worn for the first time at the community’s annual Autumn Ball in 1886.

• The goldfish is actually a member of the carp family.

There are more than 100 varieties of goldfish, and many are not gold all, but rather, brown, gray, black and white. The fad of goldfish swallowing began in 1939 on the Harvard campus and quickly spread to other colleges. Although an anatomy professor claimed that an average-sized male could safely con-sume 150 goldfish, the record soon shot up to over 300 fish at one sitting.

• The word “gobbledygook,” which means “unclear bureaucratic jargon,” entered the English language in 1944. As a war plant chairman attempted to read and understand a wordy government memo, he de-cided the gobbling of turkeys was easier to interpret, and he coined the new term.

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some lighthearted entertainment. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Be careful: What appears to be a solid financial opportunity might have some hidden risks attached. A hazy personal matter needs to be cleared up. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) It’s a good time to strengthen ties with family and friends. You might feel unsure about a recent workplace decision, but time will prove you did the right thing. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Just when you thought your relationship was comfortable and even predictable, your partner or spouse could spring a potentially life-changing surprise on you.CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Your usu-ally generous self is overshadowed by your equally strong suspicious nature. You might be judging things too harshly. Keep an open mind.AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Love and ro-mance dominate the week. Married Aquarians enjoy do-mestic harmony, while singles could soon be welcoming overtures from loving Leos. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) An old health prob-lem recurs, but it is soon dealt with, leaving you eager to get back into the swing of things. A favorable travel period starts this week. BORN THIS WEEK: You have an independent spirit that resists being told what to do. But you’re also wise enough to appreciate good advice.

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• A goatsucker is actually a small nocturnal bird in the whippoorwill family. It doesn’t suck goats at all, but rather enjoys insects as its chief diet.

• Rubber-cored golf balls have been around since 1898. Prior to that time, leather balls stuffed with feathers were used.

• It’s estimated that the Bible’s Philistine giant named Goliath stood close to 10 feet tall. He was soundly defeated by the young shepherd boy David with the first stone in his slingshot.

• Write the number “1,” then follow it with 100 zeros, and you will have written a googol. • Without the help of William Crawford Gorgas, the Panama Canal might never have been built. Gorgas was a physician who ordered the removal of mosquitoes’ breeding areas, thus considerably slowing down the spread of yellow fever and malaria.

• If your diet is deficient in the mineral iodine, it’s pos-sible that you could develop a goiter, which is an en-largement of the thyroid gland. You will be advised to eat more fish and use iodized salt.

• The male gorilla has been known to weigh 450 pounds and stand 6 feet tall. Although they appear vicious and threatening, they are in fact shy and friendly and enjoy companionship. The average gorilla can gen-erate about 20 different sounds, from whimpers to roars. Believe it or not, a gorilla shows its anger by sticking out its tongue!

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: We had two dogs for the past six years. We just lost “Sassy” two days ago. Our remaining dog, “Barry,” is so sad. How can we help him? He barely eats, and he just lays around not showing interest in anything. I real-ize it is soon after losing his best friend, but is this normal? We are sad also, but want to help him if we can. -- Norma in Ohio

DEAR NORMA: It’s very normal for a dog to grieve for a lost companion, and Barry is showing all the signs of deep grief: loss of appetite, depres-sion, lack of interest in things that normally stimu-late him. In a few days, he may begin pacing around the house, searching for something -- another com-mon behavior, particularly after a dog loses a com-panion animal like Sassy.

Be supportive of Barry over the next few months. Give him lots of love and attention. However, don’t break his training routine or feeding routine, nor al-low him to do things he normally wouldn’t be al-lowed to do, like climb on the furniture. He needs

structure as well as support.When Barry searches the house for her, call him

over and give him a blanket or toy that Sassy liked to use and that still has her scent. Sometimes an item that reminds a pet of a lost companion is com-forting. Other times the pet will reject the item -- don’t scold or force it on him.

How long will Barry grieve? Like humans, there’s no set time. Some dogs return to their old selves from two to six weeks after a loss; others take many months. And some always retain some sign that they still miss their old friend, years down the road.

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TO YOUR GOOD HEALTHBy Paul G. Donohue, M.D.

Macular Degeneration Progress Can be SlowedDEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have the dry type of macular degeneration. I take PreserVi-

sion with lutein tablets twice a day. I hear lutein is very good for my eyes, and I would like to take more than the 10 mg a day that I get in my tablets. I don’t know how much is safe. My doctor said he didn’t know. Will macular degeneration leave me completely blind? How long will it be before I cannot see anymore? -- C.B.

ANSWER: The macula is a small, round area in the center of the retina, the layer at the back of the eye that transmits incoming images to the brain so we can see. The macula is essential for clear, central vision, the kind needed to read, to drive and to recognize faces. Off-to-the-side vision remains. You won’t go completely blind.

Furthermore, dry macular degeneration most often advances gradually. It’s the more common variety, accounting for 90 percent of cases. It can stay at its present level for years, even for life. Wet macular degeneration comes about from the growth of blood vessels be-neath the retina. Those vessels are fragile and leak fluid. It tends to advance more rapidly.

Currently no cure exists for dry macular degeneration. A combination of vitamin C, vi-tamin E, beta carotene (or vitamin A), zinc and copper appears to slow moderate macular degeneration’s progression to a more advanced stage. Your PreserVision is one such prepa-ration.

Lutein is a plant product that might aid in delaying the advance of dry macular degenera-tion. At this very moment, a large study is taking place to ascertain the place of lutein in the treatment of this common eye condition. The amount of lutein being tested in the study is 10 mg a day. Lutein appears to be a very safe substance, but I would stick with the 10 mg dose until the present study defines lutein’s place and its optimum dose.

The booklet on macular degeneration explains this prevalent eye problem in great detail. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 701W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Can. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

***DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Please tell me about post-traumatic stress disorder. I think

someone in my family suffers from it. -- A.F.ANSWER: Having faced an event that threatened life or caused serious injury is the basis

for post-traumatic stress disorder. The event keeps resurfacing in the mind with a clarity that imparts terror and helplessness, and sometimes guilt. The remembrance can happen during the day or in dreams.

An affected person stays in the alert mode at all times. He or she loses interest in life, neglects those around him or her, suffers from fragmented sleep, often erupts in outbursts of anger and is usually quite depressed. Soldiers, firemen, policemen and those who suffered a sexual or physical attack are people who most often develop PTSD. With the combina-tion of talk treatment and medicines, these people can usually regain their equilibrium and resume a normal life.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been trying to help us eat healthier for a very long time.Back in 1943, we had “The Basic Seven” -- seven cat-

egories of food we needed to eat on a daily basis. Serv-ing sizes weren’t included.In 1956, the USDA switched to “The Basic Four,” and

in 1979 to the “Hassle-Free Guide to a Better Diet.” It added a new food category with fats, sweets and alcohol. In 1984, we got the “Food Wheel: A Pattern for Daily Food Choices.” This one included serving sizes.Eight years later, in 1992, the “Food Guide Pyramid”

came along with those tiny pictures of food. In 2005 we got the MyPyramid Food Guidance System, which was supposed to be a simplified pyramid.Now, in an effort to keep us all eating correctly, we

have “MyPlate.” The icon is cute: a plate divided into four unequal sections, with a fork on the left and a circle above the plate for “Dairy.”All this work, and I still didn’t know how much the

USDA intends for me to eat.

On the website [www.choosemyplate.gov] I clicked on the Get a Personalized Plan link and entered my age, weight, height and level of exercise. It came back with a diet plan for me, including information such as “Make at least half your grains whole grains,” “Vary your veg-gies” and “Focus on fruit” with specific tips on how to do that. While the “Plate” is a bit silly, as was the Pyramid, the

information behind it is solid. Check the USDA website and see what it has to say.You know, of course, that an entrepreneur somewhere

is busily creating MyPlate plates with the appropriate sections all outlined for us.Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally

answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Write to her in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Or-lando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].


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SISTER ACT“Yessir, mister, she’s my sister!” Here we present some details about some famous female siblings, past and present.• You’re probably not familiar with the names of Jayne and Joan Boyd, but more than likely, you’ve seen their faces. They were the original “Double your pleasure, double your fun” Wrigley’s gum Doublem-int Twins. The girls began their Wrigley’s advertising stint in 1959 at age 21, a job they held until 1963. “People would stop and talk to us… grandmothers, small children, they all knew us,” said the twins. You can still occasionally spot the girls’ faces on some of Wrigley’s new ads, which highlight past twins.

• Baby boomers might remember the names of Nan and Flossie from the girls’ 75-year history in chil-dren’s novels. These two sisters each had a twin brother — 12-year-old Nan was twins with Bert, and 6-year-old Flossie’s brother was Freddie. Together the four, known as the Bobbsey Twins, enjoyed many adventures in the fictional community of Lakeport throughout 72 volumes, making the stories the lon-gest-running series of children’s fiction.

• The tennis-playing Williams sisters have five Olym-pic gold medals between them — Serena with two and Venus, three. Serena leads her sister in career earnings; in fact, Serena has won more money than any woman athlete in history. The sisters were home-schooled and coached by their parents and both turned pro at age 14.

• Thousands of U.S. troops were entertained during World War II by the Andrews Sisters, Laverne, Max-ene and Patti. Their distinctive Dixieland swing style of music included such hits as “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.” These

“Wartime Sweethearts” had more than 1,800 record-ed songs to their credit as well as appearances in 16 movies.

• The Dionne family of Callander, Ontario, already had six children when they welcomed the world’s first living quintuplets in 1934. Five girls — Emilie, Cecile, Yvonne, Annette and Marie — weighed in at a total of 14 pounds (6.35 kg.). When the girls were just a year old, they were removed from their home by the government of Ontario when their father agreed to accept money for their appearance at the Chicago World’s Fair. They were featured in advertisements for everything from dolls to dishwashing liquid to war bonds, creating millions of dollars in revenue for the province of Ontario. The quints’ earnings were placed in a trust fund controlled by the government, which was misappropriated, leaving them in finan-cial straits in their later years. During the 1990s, the three remaining quints were living together on $750 a month and approached the Canadian government for a settlement. In 1998, they were awarded a $4 million tax-free remuneration by Canadian officials. Emilie, who became a nun, died of an epileptic seizure at age 20, while Marie perished in 1970 and Yvonne in 2001.

• Amidst gently floating bubbles and between Geritol and Aqua Velva commercials, the four Lennon sis-ters, Dianne, Janet, Peggy and Kathy crooned syr-upy ballads to the audience of “The Lawrence Welk Show.” With their matching chiffon dresses and stiff bouffant hairdos, the California-born sisters appeared with the Champagne Music Makers from 1955 until 1967. The girls got their lucky break when Welk’s son began dating Dianne and informed his father of the girls’ potential.

n It was 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer who made the following sage obser-vation: "There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by con-stantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."n Those who study such things say that half of all money spent on food in the United States is spent in restaurants.n If, like me, you are constantly finding excess wire hangers in your closets, you probably won't be surprised to learn that more than 2.7 billion of them were imported in 2010 alone.n You might be surprised to learn that beer brewers in Australia are on the cutting edge of alternative en-ergy production. They have created a "beer battery" -- the world's first, they claim -- in which electricity is generated by bacteria consuming the waste that is

created by the brewing process.n Companies today sometimes seem to go too far in advertising their products, but consider Richard Chesebrough, who invented the petroleum jelly Vase-line in 1872. In order to market his new creation as a salve for cuts and burns, he traveled around New York state demonstrating the efficacy of the product by burning his skin with acid, then applying Vase-line to the injury. A display of his past burns that had been healed with Vaseline would, in theory, convince people to buy the product.n If you're looking to brighten up your living space with some greenery, you might want to consider get-ting a bonsai tree. They live longer than any other houseplant.

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PUBLIC SERVICEANNOUNCEMENTS

NimblE FiNGErs OF rOsWEll“Nimble Fingers of Roswell” knit and crochet for area hospitals, Northside Cancer, Cobb Pregnancy, Foster Families, and North Fulton Community Charities. We meet the 2nd and 4th Saturday each month @ Christ United Methodist Church, 1340 Woodstock RD, Roswell, GA after 10:30 am. We just began our 9th year! If you knit or crochet, or want to learn, please come and visit. We teach at no cost and patterns and yarn are provided. For further information please call 770-592-7843

THE TOWNE lAKE ArTs CENTEr8534 Main St Woodstock, presents:

CinderellaThe Elm Street Players present “Cinderella” a musical based on the wonderful fairy tale – only this time the Prince falls for Cinderella because she’s the smartest girl he ever met! Won-derful for the whole family! Wednesday’s: July 13, 20, 27 10am; Saturday’s & Sunday’s July 16, 17, 23, 24 3pm at the Wood-stock City Center Auditorium, 8534 Main St in Woodstock. All seats $9. For tickets and more information 678-494-4251 www.elmstreetarts.org

summer Drama CampsRegistration is in progress for Elm Street’s amazing Summer Drama Camp Program in our new building! Ages 5-7 perform a musical adaptation of a children’s story. Ages 8-14 write, produce and perform an original play in 5 days! Camp weeks are June 13-17, 20-24, 27-July 1 and July 11-15, 18-22, 25-29. Discounts for families and friends. Woodstock City Center at 8534 Main St in Woodstock. For more information 678-494-4251 www.elmstreetarts.orgCHErOKEE COuNTy VAC PursE FuNDrAisErThe Cherokee County Volunteer Aging Council (VAC) will be having a Purse Fundraiser to raise money to benefit the Se-niors in need in our county. We are accepting donations of any new or gently used purses for our event. Drop-off places for the purses are The Lodge at Bridgemill, 10451 Bells Ferry Rd., Canton or The William G. Long Woodstock Senior Center, 223 Arnold Mill Rd., Woodstock.Selling of the purses will be at Woodstock’s Freedomfest at the 4th of July celebration in the Park at City Center on Monday, July 4, 2011. Please save those purses you no longer want or use and donate them to this most worthy cause…helping our seniors in need! If you have any questions, you can call Mary Mendez at 678-720-2779 or Betty Rice at 678-445-6518.WOODmONT busiNEss Clubmeets every Tuesday at 7:45 a.m. in Cherokee Hall at the Wood-mont Golf & Country Club located at 3105 Gaddis Road, Canton, GA 30115. For networking opportunities and additional informa-tion: www.WoodmontBusinessClub.comTOPs WEiGHT lOss mEETiNGsTOPS GA. #553 Woodstock, Tuesdays at Latimer Hall, 109 Towne Lake Parkway, Woodstock, GA Weigh-In 9:00-9:30 AM, Meeting at 9:40AM. First Meeting FREE! Come vist us!PilOT Club OF CHErOKEE COuNTy The Pilot Club of Cherokee County, Inc. provides community ser-vice in Cherokee County. We have monthly dinner meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at IHOP in Canton (exit 19 off I-575). If you are looking for a way to meet other com-munity leaders, give community SERVICE and have a great time doing it, while making lifelong FRIENDS, you belong in Pilot and WE NEED YOU! For more information about the Pilot Club of Cherokee County, you may contact: Lynda Goodwin, Member-ship Chair 770) 393-1766 or [email protected] or Sue McConnell, President (770) 752-9935 or [email protected]

bAll GrOuND liONs ClubBall Ground Lions Club is alive & active! From a membership of 5 in January 2009, we have grown to 21 in January 2011. Many service projects have been completed this past year including adorning Downtown with American Flags on patriotic holidays; participating in Wreaths Across America at GA National Cem-etery; sponsoring a local 12 year boy to attend summer camp at GA Lions Camp for the Blind; and serving 23 children & 5 adults for Christmas. The Lions collect eyeglasses, cell phones & hear-ing aids for the disadvantaged. The primary focus for our Club is our local Community. If you would like to be involved in serving the needs of Ball Ground, please contact Sue Densmore, Mem-bership Director at 678-773-1168. The more helping hands we have, the more we can accomplish. Our dues are affordable; the results are remarkable.

CHErOKEE HiGH sCHOOl ClAss OF 1966The Cherokee High School graduating class of 1966 is plan-ning their 45th Class reunion. It will be on September 10, 2011 at 2510 East Cherokee Drive in the Fellowship Hall of the new Sunnyside Church of God. For more information and updates, go to www.chs1966.endbyte.com. If you know the email ad-dress of any classmate not listed on the website, please let us know. We are planning a slide show so if you’d like to share any photos please send them to the website or mail them to Dwight Dover, 520 Waleska Rd., Canton, GA 30114. Your photos will be returned. If you have any other info or questions, contact Mary Jo Hogan, 1287 Old Magnolia Way, Canton, GA 30115 or Ann Bates :Price, 320 Old Lathemtown Rd. Canton, GA 30115. Please include your phone number.

GArDENiNG WiTH THE mAsTErs 2011 sEmiNArsCherokee Cty Cooperative Ext. & Cherokee Cty Masters Gard-erners, Programs are held at the following locations: Hickory Flat Library (HF) 2740 East Cherokee Dr., Canton; Senior Center (sC) 1001 Univeter Rd, Canton; Ball Ground Community Cen-ter (bGCC) 250 Civic Drive, Ball Ground; or Rose Creek Library (rC) 4476 Towne Lake Parkway, Woodstock. All programs start at 10:00 a.m. and are free of charge, unless otherwise noted and supplies are necessary. Pay close attention to location. Limited seating, registration is encouraged. To register call the Extension office, (770)479-0418, email: [email protected] , fax informa-tion to (770)479-0565 www.ugaextension.com/cherokee Gardening From The Ground Up – July 16 (HF) Learn hillside erosion solutions and why soil is more than dirt. (D. Walton/Marjorie Hicks)

Wet Gardening – July 30 (sC) Learn techniques on how to enhance areas that stay wet. Make & take a bog garden. (Mc-Father) Class Limit (20).Tickle Your Senses: Hoe To Create a Night Time Garden – Au-gust 13 (rC) Come learn to create an enchanting nocturnal paradise for relaxing or entertaining after the sun goes down. (Garland)Insects: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly – August 27 (rC) Learn the basics to identify beneficial and harmful insects. (VanBrink/Walton)Fall & Winter Vegetable Gardening – September 10 (HF) What to plant, when to plant it, and how to care for a bountiful tasty harvest! (Prakash/Peterson)Gardening For All Seasons: Fall – September 17 (bGCC) Sea-soned and novice gardeners get tips on planning, planting, and maintaining an interesting fall landscape. (D. Smith)

Native Plants In Your Landscape – September 24 (HF) Learn the benefits of natives for both ornamental characteristics and environmental values. (Winchester)Ponds & Water Features – October 1 (rC) Learn the basic techniques for creating a relaxing garden with a pond, fountain, waterfall or more. (Morales/Peterson)Be Creative With Concrete – October 15 (sC) Make & take home a concrete planter or stepping stone. $5.00 supply fee necessary. Class Limit (16) (Meadows/Winchester)Shrubs For Your Landscape – November 5 (bGCC) Put on a spring-to-fall show with shrubs featuring spectacular foliage and flowers. (D. Smith)Trees Are Tremendous! – November 12 (rC) Learn to select plant and care for trees, including fruit trees. (D. Walton/An-dresen


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Make Fun “Glam” Cleaning GlovesIt’s easy and fun to dress

up drab latex rubber gloves with perky cuffs. Add rick-rack, bows or sparkling brooches for extra bling, and your household cleaning chores won’t seem so hum-drum. Your kids can help with the fabric choice, mea-suring and cutting.

Once you get going, make several pairs. They’re fun to tuck in a basket of items for

a shower or housewarming gift for a new family on the block. A whimsical home-made gift from you and your kids!

Here’s the stuff you’ll need:

—One pair of rubber gloves with cuffs in the quality and color you prefer, available at grocery and discount stores for a dollar or two.

—1/4 yard of oilcloth or water-resistant stiff fab-ric that is at least 36 inches wide. I found big-polka-dot fabric at IKEA. I wanted to use blue and red yardage for summer tablecloths, so I added extra fabric for the gloves.

—Measuring tape, marker, scissors and straight pins

—Sewing machine and thread.

—A glue-gun to attach decorative add-ons such as ribbon, bows, rickrack and buttons if you wish. Or pin on a brooch. You also may

decide to cut the edges with pinking shears.

HERE’S THE FUN:Directions for one glove:

1. Trim off the edge of the glove and make the cuff shorter for a comfortable fit.

2. Cut fabric 4-inches wide by at least 18-inches long. If you prefer fuller ruffles, make it longer.

3. Let your child mark 2-inch intervals along the edge and then make small knife pleats at each mark. Pin and sew the pleats in place with stitches running close to the edge. Remove pins. Note: Once I got the hang of it, I created the pleats one by one as I sewed.

4. Bring the 4-inch edges of the fabric right sides together, pin and sew a 1/4-inch seam to create a circu-lar, pleated fabric ready to attach to the glove.

5. Ease the pleated cuff wrong side out over the right side of the glove and pin in place.

(I placed the 4-inch-long seam above the thumb side of the glove.) If the pleated cuff is too large, add another pleat. Remove pins as you sew 1/2-inch from the edge.

Turn cuff over the seam and fluff the pleats. Repeat with second glove.

For extra pizzazz, use your imagination and items in your craft box to decorate the gloves with add-ons. A glue gun works quickly.

Note: Find step-by-step “GLAM CLEANING GLOVES” photos in the Notes section of the “Don-na’s Day” Facebook fan page.

Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative fam-ily recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday.com. Her latest book is “Donna Erick-son’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.”

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Blue Water Navy and Agent Orange

If you were Blue Water Navy and have illnesses that point to Agent Orange expo-sure, you’ve likely been turned down for benefits by the Department of Veterans Af-fairs.The VA reasons that if you were offshore,

you couldn’t possibly have been in contact with something that was sprayed on foliage on the land -- unless your ship was “brown water” for some period of time.We know better, of course.The Committee on Blue Water Navy Viet-

nam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure, at the request of the VA and in conjunction with the Institute of Medicine of the Na-tional Academy of Sciences, explored the “mechanisms and routes of exposure.” Un-fortunately, its report on the findings took the middle road and failed to state with certainty that Blue Water veterans were ex-posed to Agent Orange.But the report points out ways you could

have been exposed, and these might refresh your memory about events.If you’ve been turned down, here are

some questions to ask yourself:Did your ship ever dock? For the duration

of that docking, your ship was brown.Did it take on any local fruits or vegeta-

bles or fish? The water to grow those veg-etables or the water the fish swam in could have been contaminated.Did your ship ever take up water for dis-

tillation within 12 miles of shore? The rule was not to, as that water was considered polluted, but exceptions did occur.Were you ever under overspray, perhaps

near the Ranch Hand aircraft? It dumped chemicals as far as 6 miles offshore.To read this report online for free, go to

http://books.nap.edu and put Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure in the search box. If you see the 2011 next to it, that’s the one you want. Do searches for words like “distill,” “expose,” “food,” “brown” and so on.

Write to Freddy Groves in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].



ANSWERS

Kurt Busch led the Cup point standings through the first four races of the season. After a short slump, he’s climbed back into sixth place. (John Clark/NASCAR This Week photo)

For Kurt Busch, the 2011 season has been a process of ebb and flow ... and ebb again. Or vice-versa.

The 32-year-old Busch, the elder of racing broth-ers, began the season unofficially with a victory in the Budweiser Shootout, followed by finishes of fifth, eighth, ninth and seventh in the Sprint Cup season’s first four “point races.” Then he went

into a slump, with finishes of 17th, 16th, 10th, 18th, 22nd, 27th and 14th.After the season’s first four races, Busch stood at

the top of the point standings. Seven races later, he had fallen to eighth. But since then, the graph has turned upward again. Busch has finished fourth, ninth and second in the three most-recent races, lifting him back up to sixth in the standings, only 35 points behind leader Carl Edwards.Busch’s disgruntlement was obvious during the

rough spots. Changes were made in management at Penske Racing, at least partly in response to Busch’s complaints, many of which were heard

by fans over scanners during races.Now, once again, Kurt Busch is a picture of con-

tentment, with results to back it up.Edwards ran into engine trouble at Michigan, al-

most erasing what had been a comfortable edge in points. Busch’s runner-up finish at Pocono Race-way was one ahead of younger brother Kyle.“When the point leader has problems, every-

body’s just chomping at the bit, licking their lips, going, ‘Wow, look at this, I’m right back in this.’ When you’re having good runs like we are, my little brother and me, just plugging away, that helps you feel more solid when you get to the month of August, after you get through the Brick-yard, making that summer run to the Chase,” said Kurt.Given recent performances, “that summer run

to the Chase” seems promising for both Busch brothers.Kurt Busch won the Cup championship in 2004,

the first year the Chase format was implemented. At the time, he drove a Ford for Jack Roush. Now he drives one of two Dodges fielded by Roger Penske.“Right now it’s all about consistency,” said Kurt.

“I’d like to break through and get a win just to help us feel more confident in our Chase posi-tion.“When the point leader has trouble, everybody

benefits from that.”***Monte Dutton covers motorsports for The Gaston

(N.C.) Gazette. E-mail Monte at [email protected].


Kurt Busch Closing on Points Leader

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Our Founders,the Realists

As a nation, we were extraordinari-ly blessed in our revolutionaries. It wasn’t just that they were brave and determined. So were the avatars of revolution throughout the 20th centu-ry who wrecked nations and peoples. No, what makes them so wondrously distinct is that they also were just and wise, grounded always in a clear-eyed view of human nature.

“There is a degree of depravity in mankind,” James Madison wrote in The Federalist Papers, “which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.” When revolutionaries talk of depravity, it is often to brand their class or ethnic enemies for destruc-tion. Gas chambers, prison camps and killing fields inevitably follow.

The depravity of which our Founders spoke was different. It ran through the hearts of all men, themselves includ-ed. It tempered their expectations of what they could, and what they should attempt to, achieve. No secular millen-nium, no perfectly harmonious repub-lic — because, as Madison wrote, “the latent causes of faction are sown in the nature of man.”

“Enthusiasm there certainly was — a revolution is impossible without enthusiasm,” Irving Kristol writes of 1776, “but this enthusiasm was tem-pered by doubt, introspection, anxi-ety, skepticism. This may strike us as a very strange state of mind in which to make a revolution; and yet it is evi-dently the right state of mind for mak-

ing a successful revolution.”How did the Founders come to know

man as they did? They had broad, practical experience that exposed them to humanity in its glory and its folly: as lawyers, military officers and — especially important — legislators. Some knew hardship. Try, like Alex-ander Hamilton, making your way as a penniless, orphaned bastard from the West Indies and see if you don’t pick up a few hard-boiled lessons about how the world works.

They read widely, knew the classics and soaked up history. John Adams studied and wrote a book about the French civil wars of the 16th century, concluding of human affairs: “Reason holds the helm, but passions are the gales.” Madison undertook a yearlong study of the history of republics and confederacies prior to the writing of the Constitution. Believing “experi-ence is the oracle of truth,” he endeav-ored to learn from this long, unrelieved record of failure.

The Founders didn’t let their view of reality get obscured by abstruse theo-ries or sunny abstractions of the sort that perverted the French Revolution. No philosophes need apply. Instead, a residual Calvinism tinged their world-view. They admired the “country” tra-dition in England, characterized by a deep distrust of the crown and support for republican reforms to preserve English liberties. In this tradition, the late historian Martin Malia writes, “men were neither rational nor natu-rally good,” and “human government therefore invariably tended toward corruption and despotism.”

In keeping with their lively view of human fallibility, our revolutionar-ies set about circumscribing govern-ment to limit its abuse. The Constitu-tion wasn’t quite a “miracle.” It was assuredly the work of men — not just supremely talented statesmen and political thinkers, but some of the best social scientists the world has ever known.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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