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COTTONby Patricia L. Cook

If you look at the labels on the clothes you are wearing, at least some of your apparel is probably made from cotton. You may not realize the versatility of this plant. It is not only used as a fiber but also in food products, fertilizer, fuel and more. This week, Tidbits looks at this remarkable plant.

• Cotton is a natural fiber whose history goes back thousands of years. Civilizations in India, China and Egypt grew cotton as well as the Mayans in Guatemala, Yucatan and other parts of Mexico. The oldest archaeological evidence of clothing made from cotton comes from the Indus Valley of today’s Pakistan. Cotton “bolls” that start in a field are used to produce much of the fabric in the world.

• The first cotton grown in the United States was in Virginia and Florida in the early 17th century. By the end of the 18th century, cotton had become the biggest industry in the United States. This was helped by Eli Whitney’s cotton gin invention in 1793.

• Whitney’s machine provided a faster way to separate cotton from its seeds. It could clean the cotton about 10 times faster than doing it by hand.

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COTTON (continued):• When we think of cotton, most of us think of

comfortable blue jeans, flannel shirts, underwear or the 800-thread-count soft sheets that we sleep on at night. Cotton provides all of that and a whole lot more.

• Cotton is used more than any fiber, natural or manmade, in the world. It is a daily part of our lives and is still today one of the leading cash crops for farmers in the United States. Every part of a cotton plant is useful.

• The most important part of the cotton plant is the fiber, or lint, which is used to make cloth. The fiber has to be separated from the seeds, which are quite sticky. This is why the cotton gin was so important. When the fiber and seeds had to be separated by hand, it took many laborious hours.

• “Linters,” the short fuzz remaining on the seeds after separation of the lint, provide cellulose for making explosives, plastics and other products. They are also incorporated into high quality paper products and processed into batting for the padding used in mattresses and cushions for furniture and automobile seats.

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COTTON (continued):• The cottonseeds are a valuable byproduct

as well. They are crushed and separated into three products: oil, hulls and meal. Cottonseed oil is used for salad dressing, cooking oil and shortening. Cottonseed oil has no cholesterol has little or no trans-fats, making it a good option for healthy cooking.

• The meal and hulls are used for livestock, poultry and fish feed and also fertilizer. After all of these parts are taken away, the remaining leaves and stalks of the cotton plant are plowed under to enrich the soil.

• For years, the “Cotton Row” district of Memphis, Tennessee, was the center of the worldwide cotton trade market. The Cotton Museum at the Cotton Exchange opened in 2006 in the building that was once the place where cotton was inspected, bought and sold, and shipped around the world. The museum has artifacts and exhibits that tell the story of cotton, its history and its impact on the region and the world.

• Another museum dedicated to cotton is The Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum in Greenville, Texas. This museum is dedicated to preserving the history of America’s cotton industry. The museum includes the oldest house in Greenville and an actual cotton patch.

• The states where cotton grows are sometimes referred to as the “Cotton Belt.” These states are all across the southern edge of the United States. They are Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. The climate and soil conditions of these areas provide a great cotton-growing environment.

• Are you curious as to what can be made from one bale of cotton? How about 4,321 socks, 3,085 diapers (yes, the old fashioned cotton kind!), 1,256 pillowcases, 690 bath towels, 409 skirts or 250 pairs of pants!

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My cat, “Trina,” is an indoor cat -- her paws never touch the outside ground. So why does she need so many different shots each year? The feline leukemia I can understand, but why should she get a rabies shot and so on when she’s never exposed to other creatures? The shots are so costly that we are refraining from taking her to get them. -- Ethel H., via e-mail

DEAR ETHEL: I can understand your reluctance to keep getting Trina shots every year when she is at low risk of catching the diseases the shots prevent. And the shot package is costly -- even many “low cost” shot clinics run upward of $45 to $65 for a complete set of vaccinations.

However, state health boards have decided they can’t take the chance of unvaccinated cats getting out among other cats (and pets do escape, even if Trina is a good cat) and catching and then spreading certain diseases.

There’s also the admittedly low risk of another pet or wild animal entering Trina’s living space and biting or otherwise exposing her to a disease. So, although I know it’s expensive and uncomfortable, for Trina’s sake, she needs to be vaccinated regularly.

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COTTON (continued):to a new level in 2006 when Cotton Incorporated

created a marketing initiative to recycle denim for insulation for housing.

• The “Cotton. From Blue to Green. ®” denim drive was a student-run campaign on several college campuses to educate students on the renewable and recyclable attributes of denim. Blue jeans were donated and then given a “new life” as housing insulation for houses. In the spring of 2007, 30 homes were built for families by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge (Louisiana) who lost their homes as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Twelve of those homes were insulated with UltraTouch™ Denim Insulation.

• A campaign by National Geographic Kids Magazine in 2009 asked readers to donate their old jeans with the goal being to set a Guinness World Record™ for the “most items of clothing collected for recycling.” The record was announced in Washington, D.C. on August 12, 2009, with 33,088 pieces of denim donated. These jeans were given to the “Cotton. From Blue to Green.®” campaign for more housing insulation projects. What a terrific way to help people, recycle and keep blue jeans out of our landfills!

• Cotton has been an important part of our lives for many years and will likely continue to be. As the advertisements say, it is the “fabric of our lives.” Cotton is now grown in 70 countries, with China producing the most at about 25 percent and the Unites States producing almost 20 percent. China and India are the largest producers of cotton, while the United States is the world’s largest exporter of cotton.

• It was French novelist, essayist and critic Marcel Proust who made the following sage observation: “There is nothing like desire for preventing the things one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one’s mind.”

• The city of Denver holds the distinction of being the first major metropolitan area to allow women to vote in elections, back in 1893.

• Connectivity may finally be going too far. Way too far. Beyond death, even. It seems that someone has now invented the solar-powered eTomb, a headstone that stores information from the deceased’s social networking sites. Visitors to the grave can use a laptop or a smartphone to download photos, blog posts and even videos via a Bluetooth connection.

• Famed screenwriter and director Woody Allen started his career in show business in

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• Between 70 percent and 80 percent of all the world’s fresh water is frozen, stored in Arctic and Antarctic glaciers.

• Not all black bears are black; individuals in some populations around the world can be brown, white, cinnamon or even blue.

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• On April 19, 1897, John J. McDermott of New York won the first Boston Marathon with a time of 2:55:10. Fifteen runners started the race but only 10 made it to the finish line. The marathon’s distance was changed in 1908 in accordance with Olympic standards to its current length of 26 miles, 385 yards.

• On April 21, 1918, in the skies over France, Man-fred von Richthofen, the notorious German flying ace known as “The Red Baron,” is killed by Allied fire when an Australian gunner shoots him through his chest. He was 25 years old. Von Richthofen had downed 80 enemy aircraft.

• On April 23, 1923, “Mambo King” Tito Puente is born in New York City. Bandleader and percussion-ist Puente helped popularize Latin dance music and jazz in America. During a career that spanned six decades, the dynamic showman recorded more than 100 albums and won five Grammy Awards.

• On April 22, 1937, John Joseph “Jack” Nicholson, who would become known as one of the greatest ac-tors of his generation and famous for his role in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” is born in Neptune, N.J. In his first film, Nicholson played a troubled teenager in the low-budget 1958 horror flick, “The Cry-Baby Killer.”

• On April 18, 1945, Pulitzer Prize-winning war cor-respondent Ernie Pyle is killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on Okinawa. Extremely popular, Pyle had been at the London Blitz of 1941 and saw action in North Africa, Italy, France and the Pacific. A monu-ment to him exists to this day on Okinawa, describ-ing Pyle simply as “a buddy.”

• On April 24, 1976, the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Washington Capitals, 3-2, in 139 minutes and 15 sec-onds of total game play, making it the fifth-longest match in the history of the National Hockey League. A regulation hockey game lasts 60 minutes.

• On April 20, 1980, the Castro regime announces that all Cubans wishing to emigrate to the U.S. are free to board boats at the port of Mariel, west of Havana, launching the Mariel Boatlift. The first of 125,000 Cuban refugees reached Florida the next day in about 1,700 boats.

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1. Oklahoma State’s Robin Ventura hit in 58 consecutive games in 1987.2. Montreal’s Dennis Martinez (1991) and Arizona’s Randy Johnson (2004).3. It was the 1993 season (Buffalo and Dallas).4. Mitch Richmond (1986-88).5. Zach Bogosian was the third overall pick by Atlanta in 2008.6. He won 24 races (three in Sprint Cup, 13 in the Nationwide Series and eight in the Camping World Truck Series).7. It was August 2010.

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Here’s how a reverse mortgage works: If you have equity in your home, you can enter into a reverse mortgage that will pay you money for the rest of your life, or until you sell the house. Money comes in every month, or you have a line of credit to draw on. If a borrower dies or sells, the loan is paid off when the home is sold, but never more than the home is worth.

So how then did some seniors get eviction notices when the homes were foreclosed out from under them? Because those particular seniors weren’t on the mortgage documents. Perhaps the senior who took out the reverse mortgage was the only one of the two who was over age 62, and they would receive more money if only the elder senior signed up. Perhaps the two of them weren’t married yet.

No matter how it happened, HUD retroactively changed the rules and demanded that the loans be paid off in full when the original signers died, no matter the value of the homes. When the remaining seniors couldn’t raise the money and couldn’t sell for the amount demanded, foreclosure followed. At the same time that they demanded full repayment of the loan from surviving spouse and heirs, HUD was allowing third-party purchasers to buy those homes at below appraised market value.

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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Whether a waiting period is taking longer than expected, or just seems that way, the anxious Lamb would do well to create a center of calm within her- or himself, and not do anything rash.TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Practical matters dominate the week, but cultural activities also are favored, especially those that can be shared with someone special in the Bovine’s life. Some impor-tant news might be forthcoming.GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You need to know more about a possible career move in order to see if it offers a real opportunity or just a change. You’re sure to get lots of advice -- some of it good -- but the decision must be yours.CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The arrival of hoped-for good news about a loved one dominates most of the week and provides a great excuse for the party-loving Moon Child to plan a special event to celebrate.LEO (July 23 to August 22) Leos and Leonas rush-ing to finalize their plans might want to think about slowing down the pace, or risk overlooking an important consideration that could become a sore point down the line.VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) The week’s challenges call for logical approaches. But senti-ment also has its place. Sharing memories with a special someone, for example, strengthens the bond between you.LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) A brand-new approach to a problem could have a good chance of succeeding if it’s based on a solid foundation of fact to strengthen its potential for standing up to scrutiny.SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A favor-able report should give your optimism an important boost as you confront another phase of a challenge. Don’t be timid about accepting advice from some-one you trust.SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) You might want to target another goal if your cur-rent aim is continually being deflected. But stay with it until you find that first sign of an opening, and then follow through.CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Al-though offers of advice might not always please the usually sure-footed Goat, good counsel is always worth considering, especially from those whose ex-perience can be invaluable.AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Don’t rush to make up for lost time. Your productivity can be measured not only by what you do, but how you do it. Move carefully until the job is done the way you like it.PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Emerging facts about someone you know might cause you to re-think your relationship. But remember to make judgments in context of a full situation, not just on scraps of data.BORN THIS WEEK: You are known both for your love of acquiring beautiful things as well as for your generosity to others.

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• “I purchase rotisserie chickens and use the meat for different things -- soup, cas-seroles, etc. I have a trick for getting the skin off. My hand strength isn’t what it used to be, and those birds are slippery. I use a paper towel to grip the skin, and pull the meat and bone right out. It works well on a raw bird, too.” -- L.A. in Florida

• To rewhiten socks or wash cloths, try boil-ing a pot of water and adding a sliced, juiced lemon. Soak the items for at least an hour, and then pick out the lemon and add the pot -- water and all -- to a load of wash.

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• “If you’ve been cooking in the oven and have a pan that’s got cooked-on food, you can get it clean without all the scrub-bing. Immediately after cooking, while the oven is still hot, add enough water to cover the bottom of the pan, and a little dish soap. Put it in the oven until the oven is cool. The residual heat will work on the stuck-on food while you are dining, and it’ll wipe right out.” -- W.O. in Minnesota

• When washing out stockings, add a tablespoon of vinegar to the rinse water, and they will retain their elasticity better.

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Good Housekeeping

Cottage-Cheese ChremslachThe chremslach is applied to any number

of very different, usually fried, matzo meal pancakes. These cheese pancakes are

wonderful for a midweek Passover dairy breakfast, lunch or dinner. I like them topped

with sour cream, but if you have a sweet tooth, try applesauce or orange marmalade or other preserves, or a sprinkling of sugar, or top them with sour cream and strawberries macerated with some sugar so they exude

their juices and form a sauce.

4 eggs1 cup 4 percent cottage cheese3/4 cup whole or low-fat milk3/4 teaspoons salt, or more to taste1 tablespoon sugar (optional)1 cup matzo mealGrapeseed or other acceptable Passover oil, for frying

1. In a bowl, with a fork, beat together the eggs, cot-tage cheese, milk, salt and sugar. Stir in the matzo meal. Set aside for 10 minutes.

2. In a 10- to 12-inch skillet, over medium heat, heat enough oil to cover the bottom by a scant 1/8 inch. When the oil is hot, pour a scant 1/4 cup of the batter into the skillet. It should form a pancake about 4 inch-es in diameter. If it is too thick to spread this much, add a little more milk. The pancake should sizzle im-mediately. Fry until the first side is golden brown, 60 to 90 seconds, depending on how hot the oil is. Turn the pancake. The second side takes less time, about 30 seconds.

3. Drain the pancakes on paper towels or brown paper and serve while still very hot. Makes 18 pancakes.

Recipe excerpted from Arthur Schwartz’s “Jewish Home Cooking” (Ten Speed Press)

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