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TIDBITS® MAKES A TELEPHONE CALL

by Janet SpencerOn July 1, 1881, the world’s first international phone conversation occurred. It was placed be-tween Calais, Maine, U.S., and St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada. The two cities are on op-posite sides of the St. Croix River. There was a busy ferry crossing there, necessitating commu-nication. Today, an average of 12.4 billion calls are made every day. Come along with Tidbits as we take a look at telephones! FATHERS OF THE INDUSTRY• Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent on the telephone on February 14, 1876. A few hours later, Elisha Gray went to the patent of-fice and applied for a “caveat” on the telephone, meaning that he was working on the invention and no one was allowed to apply for a patent on a similar invention until the caveat expired. Because each man filed patent paperwork on the same day, lawsuits ensued. • Elisha was a prominent inventor whose com-pany, Western Electric, was a major supplier to Western Union. During his lifetime, Elisha was granted over 70 patents for his inventions, in-cluding the precursor to the modern music syn-thesizer. • Bell’s patent application was the 5th entry that day, while Elisha’s caveat application was 39th. On the basis of its earlier filing time, the U.S. Patent Office awarded Alexander Bell the patent for the telephone.

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From the Publisher’s DeskBy : Evelyn Bevacqua

TIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #27 June 30th

A “tidbit” is defined as “a tasty morsel to be enjoyed before the meal”. And that’s just what Tidbits® is – a non-controversial, weekly paper dedicated to publishing entertaining morsels for the mind, food for thought as it were: trivia, fun facts, amusing stories and oddities.Tidbits is distributed to over 200 locations throughout the area. Tidbits can be found in res-taurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, offices, banks, libraries, hair salons, auto repair shops, motels, hospitals, medical & dental waiting rooms, retail stores, etc.Our weekly readership is 14,800. If you would like to add your event, stories, ad info or any comments, please feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] or call me at 208.755.9120.

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TELEPHONE HISTORY• Over the course of twenty years, the Bell Com-pany fought over 600 lawsuits and won all of them, effectively becoming a monopoly for the 20-year duration of Bell’s patents. By the turn of the century, Bell Telephone Co. had morphed into A T & T, standing for American Telephone & Telegraph. • By 1894, Bell’s patents had expired, opening the industry to competition. Within a decade, over 6,000 companies went into business across the country. But subscribers to different tele-phone companies could not call each other. This situation took 20 years to fix.• In 1892 a long distance line connecting New York to Chicago was completed, able to handle a single call at a time. The price was $9 for the first five minutes, equal to $226 today.• The first transcontinental call took place in Jan-uary 1915 when Bell in New York called Watson in San Francisco. The call took 23 minutes to get through. Intercontinental service began in 1927 between New York and London with callers be-ing charged $75 ($980 in today’s currency) for the first three minutes.FAMOUS PHONE FIRSTS• The origin of the phrase ‘to put someone on hold’ was originated by Alexander Graham Bell handing over his telephone to his partner Mr. Watson and saying, “Here, hold this.”• The soundproof booth was invented by Mr. Watson to stop his landlady from eavesdrop-ping. The first prototype built in 1877 used blan-kets wrapped around a box. • The oldest existing phone book dates from 1878. It’s 20 pages long and contains the names of 391 subscribers in New Haven but not their phone numbers. To contact somebody you had to ring the operator and ask the operator to put you through. Christie’s auctioned the book in 2008 for $170,500.(Continued next page)

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Tuesday, June 24th, July 22nd and August 19th 6-8pm

at the KROC Center in Cd’A, IDSpace is limited! No Children, Please!

project advoc8!FREE Community Based support:

We are a parent-lead advocacy group speaking from experience. Through a 4-Part Series of Semi-

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ARTWALK5-8pm every second Friday from April - Decem-

ber, stroll through beautiful Downtown Coeur d’Alene and enjoy local and nationally acclaimed artists. Visit supporting galleries, shops, restau-

rants and businesses with your friends and family. A family-friendly, free event! Apr 11, May 9, Jun 6, Jul 11, Aug 8, Sep 12, Oct 10, Nov 14, Dec 12

RIVERSTONE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES

Every Thursday during July and August, we pres-ent a summer concert at beautiful Riverstone Park

in Coeur d’Alene. Enjoy a free concert from a variety of the best local performers. Sponsored by

The University of Idaho, Coeur d’Alene.July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 . August 8, 15, 22, 29


FAMOUS PHONE FIRSTS• The concept of assigning telephone num-bers to individual phone lines was invented by a doctor. When a fever epidemic hit a small town in Massachusetts in 1879, the local doctor real-ized that relying on their local telephone opera-tors was risky-- what if they all fell sick at once? Their replacements wouldn’t know the names of the townsfolk or how to direct emergency calls. The doctor came up with a solution: re-place names with numbers, allowing the opera-tor to connect without needing to know the exact name. • Almon Strowger was an undertaker in Kansas City who suspected he was losing business to a rival. The rival’s wife worked as a switchboard operator and he thought she was diverting calls to her husband. One morning in 1886 his suspicions were confirmed as he read in the newspaper that his close friend had passed away and been buried by this rival. This was his incentive to replace human operators with an automatic switchboard. The Strowger Automatic Telephone System be-came known as the “girl-less, cuss-less, out-of-order-less, wait-less telephone.” • Phone companies were focusing on urban areas first, so in 1902, a group of Montana farmers de-cided to build their own phone network. Farmers discovered that if you hooked phone sets to the wires of the barbed wire fences that separated the farms, calls could be made. Thus was born the first distributed “party line.”• Willy Müller invented the automatic answering machine in 1935. It was a three-foot-tall machine popular with Orthodox Jews who were forbidden to answer the phone on the Sabbath.• On November 18, 1963, the push-button tele-phone was officially introduced by Bell Systems in the USA. Originally push-button dials had only 10 buttons. The # and * buttons were added in 1968.

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BAD SERVICE• In 1970, General Telephone in California was not a very reliable service. Static, disconnec-tions, and strange ringing with no one calling were common. It was a company people loved to hate. Then the company launched a series of “mea culpa” ads. In one, a wife urges her hus-band at a party to say something funny. “Gen-eral Telephone!” he says, and the party gets hys-terical while a voice-over announces, “We know some people think our service is laughable, but we’re spending $200 million to improve it. What’s so funny about that?” In the next ad, a mild-mannered man introduces himself, “Hel-lo, I’m from General Telephone.” Off camera, hoots and catcalls ring out. “Now, I know that General Telephone provides less than adequate service.” A tomato clips him on the chin. “But we’re spending $200 million on improving our service.” He ducks an egg. “Cables, switches, personnel— everything.” A pie smacks him in the face. “Thank you for your patience,” he sputters through whipped cream. Public sym-pathy was turned, but it was short-lived. When it was revealed that the $200 million was to be raised through a 40% rate increase, people took their tomatoes in hand and plastered company trucks.• After the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, the owner, Metropolitan Edison, called a public relations firm to help patch things up with the public. A group of publicists sequestered them-selves in a hotel room to plan strategy. They hit on the idea of handing out phone numbers of in-formation hot lines, and then leaving the phones off the hook. Unbeknownst to them, a team of two reporters was outside their door for the en-tire time, posing as an arguing married couple or necking lovers while listening in. A complete account of the meeting soon appeared in the Philadelphia Enquirer and Metropolitan Edison was the laughing stock.

by Samantha Weaver

It was novelist Tom Clancy who made the fol-lowing sage observation: “The difference be-tween fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

Charlie Chan, the fictional Honolulu detective, was created in 1919 by novelist Earl Derr Big-gers. The books featuring Chan became so pop-ular that the character made the leap to radio, movies and television. Over the years, 13 actors have portrayed the detective, but not one of them has been of Chinese ancestry.

Rattlesnakes can live up to 20 years.

When the TV sitcom “The Addams Family” was being cast in the early 1960s, actor John Astin came in to audition for the role of Lurch, the ca-daverous butler. He was immediately rejected for the part. As he was leaving the room, though, the producer spotted him, pulled him aside, and immediately offered him the role of Gomez -- the lead. All he had to do was grow a mustache.

The nation of France was still executing people with the guillotine until 1977.

In 1973, The Who began a major U.S. tour with a show in San Francisco. As the show was start-ing, though, drummer Keith Moon collapsed. He was revived, but then collapsed once more. At that point, in an unprecedented move, Pete Townsend asked for volunteers from the au-dience. Scott Halprin, a 19-year-old aspiring drummer, jumped at the chance. He played three numbers with the band, and lead singer Roger Daltry later told Rolling Stone magazine, “That drummer was really good.”

Thought for the Day: “In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, some-thing that no one ever knew before. But in

poetry, it’s the exact opposite.” -- Paul Dirac

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WHICH FATS ARE GOOD?In this day and age, the mention of fat causes people to squirm. So many people have become so scared of fat, that despite the rotund gut they display, their diets are severely lacking in the fats nec-essary for good health. We’ve been sold this bill of goods that eating fat makes us fat, and despite nearly starving ourselves of fat, the rising rate of obesity should have been a clue decades ago that this theory was largely wrong.While nutritionists and dietitians largely agree that fried foods are bad for you, we have spent the last 6 decades avoiding the wrong fats and therefore, getting fatter. Fat does make a difference in our health, as fats affect nearly every organ in the body. So how do we sort through all the hoopla about fats and get down to what we do need, and don’t?First of all saturated vs. unsaturated vs. polyunsaturated fats mean nothing any more. Turns out that that was where we got side-tracked. While it is generally recognized that margarine is horrible, the vegetable oils that we got derailed onto are quite problematic in the body as well. The problem is that polyunsaturated fats are highly unstable and oxidize easily in the body interfering with the anti-inflammatory and pain mechanisms, predisposing the body to cell mutations that can clog arteries, or if incorporated into skin cells, contribute to skin cancer. The chemicals used to process vegetable oils are disruptive to the body. Most vegetable oils go through an amazing process compared to butter. Butter is simple: Skim the cream off the top of good, fresh milk, throw it in a jar (or blender), shake (whiz) it up, squeeze the excess water out, add some salt and you have butter! Vegetable oil is chemically extracted, then degummed, refined with acid, pre-bleached, heated to extreme temperatures, hydrogenated, bleached again, fraction-ated, emulsified, esterfied, deodorized, winterized, de-waxed, plasticized, and then preservatives may also be added. This is healthy? We are rethinking this whole saturated/polyunsaturated fat theory. The journal Epidemiology pub-lished a study called, “Margarine Intake and Subsequent Coronary Heart Disease in Men.” Authors of the study followed participants of the Framingham Heart Study for 20 years and recorded their incidence of heart attack. The participants ate either butter or margarine. They discovered that as margarine consumption increased, heart attacks went up. As butter consumption increased, heart attacks declined. They also discovered that during the first ten years of the study, that margarine consumption didn’t seem to affect heart attack incidents. But, during the second 10 years, the group eating margarine had 77% more heart attacks than the group eating butter!

Dr. Holly Carling is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, Doctor of Naturopathy, Clinical Nutritionist and Master Herbologist with over 34 years of experi-ence. Dr. Carling is currently accepting new patients and offers natural health care servic-es 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.

By Dr. Holly Carling

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Q: What exactly does “spay” mean?

A: Spay is the common term for the medical procedure ovariohys-terectomy. In this surgery the pet's ovaries are removed and the uterus is also removed to insure that it does not become a source of infec-tion.

If the surgeon simply tied or obstructed the Fallopian tubes (the channel where the eggs must pass into the uterus) in order to make the female dog or cat sterile, she would still come into heat, attract males, and attempt to breed. Spaying females prior to their first heat cycle which usually occurs at 5-6 months old in cats and dogs, nearly eliminates the risk of breast can-cer and totally prevents uterine infections and uterine cancer. Every heat cycle increases the risk of breast cancer substantially. For the health of your pet and to help prevent future homeless cats and dogs, Spay/Neuter for a Brighter Future.

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Glutamine Forte Have you heard of the awesome benefits of turmeric?Turmeric root contains a powerful anti-inflammatory, antioxidant called curcumin. It has been used for years to decrease muscle pain and inflammation, while also demonstrating joint pain relief. Theracurmin is a more bioavailable form of curcumin that gives 27 times the absorption of other curcumin supplements. Glutamine Forte is a one-two punch supplement we use at Healthy Liv-ing to deliver amazing gut healing and anti-inflammatory benefits. It contains Theracurmin and L-Glutamine, an amino acid that heals the cell membrane of your digestive tract. When something is wrong with the gut L-Glutamine is #1 one to repair the intestinal barrier and support the immune system. Glutamine Forte by Integrative Therapeutics puts the two together to solve inflammation and tissue repair for the whole system, with the antioxidant benefits turmeric.

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Our findings suggest that losing weight at any age can result in long-term cardiovascular health benefits, and support public health strategies and lifestyle modifications that help individuals who are overweight or obese to lose weight at all ages.Commenting on the study, Elizabeth Cespedes and Frank Hu from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA, write, "Although it is en-couraging that even transitory weight loss dur-ing adulthood has cardiovascular benefits, only 2% of participants in the present study had a sus-tained reduction in BMI category in adulthood, underscoring the importance of weight mainte-nance and prevention of weight gain as priori-ties for public health programming and policy. Improvements in diet and increases in physical activity are crucial levers of long-term weight maintenance and prevention of weight gain in middle-age and early adulthood. Overweight in-dividuals might have even greater health benefit from lifestyle changes such as increased physical activity than do normal weight individuals. The results of this study affirm a continued empha-sis on public health policies that enable lifestyle changes to achieve and, especially, to maintain a healthy BMI." What does this mean? No matter what your age, if you are overweight, lose weight! The fastest, easiest, safest way is with a reduction in carbo-hydrates, and utilizing the Ideal Protein method can help patients achieve this goal. For more information, call our office at Healthy Living Liberty Lake, 509-924-6199, and we can help you achieve your permanent weight loss goals.

From Fat to ThinWeight loss at any age in adulthood is worth-while because it could yield long-term heart and vascular benefits, suggests new research. The findings are from a study examining the impact of lifelong pat-terns of weight change on cardiovascular risk factors in a group of British men and wom-en followed since birth in March 1946. They showed that the longer the exposure to excess body fat (adiposity) in

adulthood the greater the cardiovascular-related problems in later life, including increased thick-ness of the carotid artery walls, raised systolic blood pressure, and increased risk of diabetes. For the first time, the findings also indicate that adults who drop a BMI category—from obese to overweight, or from overweight to normal—at any time during adult life, even if they regain weight, can reduce these cardiovascular mani-festations.The study is unique because it followed individ-uals for such a long time, more than 60 years, and allowed them to assess the effect of modest, real-life changes in adiposity.

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Add a cinnamon stick or softener sheet to your vacuum bag when you change it. As you clean, you will distribute the good smell throughout your home.

To ripen a green tomato, wrap it in a sheet of newspaper or place it in a paper bag. It can then be left on the counter for several days to ripen.

“Need to remove fruit or food coloring stains on your hands or your countertop? White vinegar will clean it off. It’s good for so many things.” -- R.N. in Washington

“Instead of baking soda, I use three or four charcoal briquettes in a bowl to control odor and moisture in my refrigerator. I place the bri-quettes in a shallow dish, then cover the top of the bowl with a small piece of cheesecloth and secure it with a fat rubber band. The best thing is that I can still use these briquettes on the grill. In the summer, they get changed very regularly.” -- M.L. in Virginia

When it comes to fruits and vegetables, five a day is nice, but more matters. Try setting aside time after you come home from the grocery store for prepping fruits and vegetables. Pre-bag snack sizes of carrots, celery, strawberries, grapes, cantaloupe and apples. Pre-cut veggies for meals to make later in the week. Slice to-matoes and onions for sandwiches, and tear and separate lettuce for salads. They all make great, healthy treats, and it makes it easier to get your recommended servings!

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Why Train Dogs to "Stay"?DEAR PAW'S CORNER: I understand why I should train a dog to "sit" or "come," but why do training books always want you to teach them to "stay"? Doesn't telling them to sit mean the dog should stay there? -- Peter L., via email

DEAR PETER: "Stay" is a reinforcing command used after you order a dog to either sit or lie down. I can see your point in that it seems unnecessary, but it's really an important training command.During basic obedience training -- which you should do with your dog daily -- command the dog to "sit" in a firm voice. As soon as it follows the command and sits, use the command "stay." Walk a few steps back, wait a moment and com-mand the dog to "come."The power of this command is that it reinforces, particularly in early training stages, that the dog should stay right there. It doesn't get a reward until the entire training sequence is done cor-rectly: the dog sits, stays and then comes to the owner on command. This can take awhile for the dog to get right, so many owners break up the command training into three levels: first, teaching the dog to "sit" on command, rewarding that success with a pat or a tiny treat. Second, getting the dog to stay seated for more than a couple of seconds. This takes a great deal of patience and repetition. Again, a reward is given when the dog "stays" for a spe-cific amount of time, like 3 seconds, and then 10 seconds and upward. The third stage is get-ting the dog to stay while you're walking away, gradually increasing the time and distance.As the dog's training progresses, some owners stop using the "stay" command. But it's a word that makes obedience training much easier for both owner and dog.

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Famous CanadiansMIKE LAZARIDIS• Mike Lazaridis was born to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1961. The family moved to Canada when he was five years old, settling in Windsor, Ontario. He took to science and elec-tronics at an early age. When he was 12 years old, he won a prize at the Windsor Public Library for reading every science book in the library.• In 1979, he enrolled at the University of Wa-terloo studying electrical engineering and com-puter science. In 1984, Lazaridis responded to a request for proposal from General Motors to de-velop a digital display system in their cars. GM awarded him the $600,000 contract. He dropped out of university just two months before he was scheduled to graduate. The GM contract, a small government grant, and a loan from Lazaridis’ parents enabled Lazaridis, Mike Barnstijn, and long-time childhood friend Douglas Fregin to launch a company they called Research In Mo-tion (RIM) based in Waterloo, Ontario. • He started researching wireless applications in 1987, at a time when most people didn’t have computers in their homes. One of the company’s first achievements was the development of bar-code technology for film. RIM plowed the prof-its from that into wireless data transmission re-search. One of their first products was a pager which started shipping in August 1998. About the size of a bar of soap, this device competed against Motorola’s two-way paging network.• In 1999, RIM introduced the BlackBerry 850 pager, which was named because the keyboard’s keys resembled the pips of the blackberry fruit. In 2000 they introduced the first BlackBerry Smartphone. It became the Smartphone of choice for almost a decade, until Apple and other com-petitors eventually knocked RIM out of the top spot. (cont’d)

PHOTO: Chris Martin of Coldplay

Top 10 Pop SinglesThis Week Last Week1. Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX No. 1 “Fancy”2. Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea No. 2 “Problem”3. John Legend No. 3 “All of Me”4. DJ Snake & Lil John No. 5 “Turn Down for What”5. Pharrell Williams No. 4 “Happy”6. Nico & Vinz No. 8 “Am I Wrong?”7. Katy Perry feat. Juicy J No. 6 “Dark Horse”8. MAGIC! No. 15 “Rude”9. Calvin Harris No. 12 “Summer”10. Jason Derulo feat. Snoop Dogg No. 10 “Wiggle”

Top 10 Albums1. Coldplay No. 1 “Ghost Stories”2. Brantley Gilbert No. 2 “Just as I Am”3. Mariah Carey new entry “Me. I Am Mariah ... The Elusive Chanteuse”4. Soundtrack No. 4 “Frozen”5. Austin Mahone new entry “The Secret”6. Various Artists No. 6 “Now 50”7. Michael Jackson No. 3 “Xscape”8. The Black Keys No. 5 “Turn Blue”9. Crowder new entry “Neon Steeple”10. Iggy Azalea No. 9 “The New Classic”

Top 10 Hot Country Singles1. Luke Bryan No. 1 “Play It Again”2. Florida Georgia Line feat. Luke Bryan No. 2 “This Is How We Roll”3. Jake Owen No. 3 “Beachin’”4. Miranda Lambert No. 6 “Automatic”5. Brantley Gilbert No. 4 “Bottoms Up”6. Brett Eldredge No. 8 “Beat of the Music”7. Blake Shelton feat. Gwen Sebastian No. 11 “My Eyes”8. Lee Brice No. 12 “I Don’t Dance”9. Justin More No. 9 “Lettin’ the Night Roll”10. Thomas Rhett No. 7 “Get Me Some of That”

Source: Billboard(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

VA Whistleblowers Faced Re-taliationI’ve said it before: When there’s a bonus tied to performance, those who are to get the bonuses will go to no end of mischief to make sure it happens.On the heels of the ever-expanding story about cooking the books of patient wait lists at Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs hospitals (during which it appears that some veterans died while awaiting care), it now appears those who stepped forward are being punished. Office of Special Counsel investigators are looking into allegations of re-taliation against nearly 40 employees who spoke up. OSC is an independent agency whose job it is to guard against prohibited personnel prac-tices, and more.Here are some samples from its press release:A VA employee spoke up when “inappropriate and continuous use of patient restraints” were being used on veteran patients. The whistle-blower was a 20-year employee who’d never had any disciplinary problems ... and was sud-denly given a 30-day suspension for speaking up.A VA employee spoke up about improper sched-uling. The employee’s performance evaluation took a hit, and the employee was reassigned.A VA employee spoke up about the mishandling of patient-care funds. The employee was reas-signed and faced a demotion.The OSC is investigating these cases, and the actions against the employees have been halted. The OSC has the authority to investigate the 13 Prohibited Personnel Practices, one of which is retaliation for whistleblowing.If you’re a VA employee with a story to tell, you have options:Go online to the OSC website (www.osc.gov) and click on Whistleblower Disclosures. Or call the Disclosure Hotline at 800-572-2249.Go online to VA Oversight at www.vaoversight.org and file your complaint. TIP: If you decide to step up and reveal the wrongdoings you’ve seen, don’t use a govern-ment computer or telephone.

Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his col-umn whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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MIKE LAZARIDIS (cont’d)• BlackBerry became so addictive that it was dubbed the “CrackBerry,” a term that Webster’s named “New Word of the Year” in 2006. • Lazaridis, who now holds over 30 patents, says, “Until you use a BlackBerry you just don’t get it. You are connected for both the crisis and the opportunity. You can respond to your boss, but at the same time you have the freedom to walk to the corner store and get a cup of coffee.”• Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie resigned as the CEOs of the company in 2012, the same year the company reported its first net loss in years. He and Douglas Fregin then co-founded Quan-tum Valley Investments to provide financial and intellectual capital for the development of breakthroughs in quantum information science. Lazaridis was once ranked by Forbes as the 17th wealthiest Canadian and 651st in the world, but his net wealth has recently dropped from $4 bil-lion to $210 million• How often does he check his own BlackBerry? “Only when it makes a noise,” he says.• Today, the average person makes or receives eight mobile phone calls per day. The average mobile phone user makes 250 phone calls per month or 3,000 phone calls per year. • The average person spends 39 minutes a day on the phone.• According to a recent survey, 47 per cent of all water-damaged mobile phones have been dropped in the toilet bowl.• A ton of mobile phones contains more gold than a ton of ore from a gold mine.• “I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my tele-phone.” - Bjarne Stronstrup

Lead Your House-hold Toward Zero Waste “Wow! This is really cool; this used to be garbage at our school

cafeteria,” exclaimed two enthusiastic second-graders to 70-year-old Donna Mayotte, as they assisted her in shoveling a bucket load of free compost from a mound piled high at our recent neighborhood spring festival. “Yeah. Pretty cool, huh?” she replied. “This rich soil will nourish my roses all summer long. Thank you.”

It is pretty cool, and exciting for our entire com-munity. Composting is a growing trend much like recycling was a generation ago. And like then, the kids and their parents’ enthusiasm keeps the new movement going. Spearheaded primarily by Australian-born mom of two Felicity Britton, and her non-profit Linden Hills Power & Light, households and the com-munity school have been converting biodegrad-able waste such as food scraps for five years. The city collects the material in green carts on trash day and sends it to a commercial composting fa-cility. I think of it as “table to farm” when my family collects biodegradable waste instead of shoving it down the sink garbage disposal or in the trash can. Summer’s corn cobs, watermelon rinds, cof-fee grounds, tea bags, eggshells and pizza boxes can be converted into nutrient-rich dirt to enrich our vegetable plots, rose gardens, lawns and in-door plants. If you want to teach your kids firsthand how to di-vert the waste from landfills and create your own rich soil into nutrition for plants, check out ideas for constructing or purchasing a simple compost container where you live. Find instructions at Fe-licity’s site, lhpowerandlight.org, and check with your county or state recycling department.And while you are at it, start a discussion about additional ways your family can move toward zero waste. It’s easy to be baffled by the zero in “zero” waste, but by learning and making small changes, your efforts in reducing what ends up in your garbage will count by considering these five R’s:REFUSE what you do not need, such as junk mail.REDUCE what you do need. De-clutter your home and put on a garage sale or donate to a thrift shop. Reduce shopping trips, and use a shopping list to avoid impulse buying.REUSE what you can. Use refillable water bottles and your own tote bags when shopping.RECYCLE what you cannot refuse, reduce or reuse. Look for recycling containers and centers in your area, leave grass clipping on the lawn as fertilizer and turn recyclables such as jars, cardboard tubes and cartons into craft projects with your kids.ROT (compost) the rest. Find a compost system that works for you.

Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on pub-lic television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday.com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Fun-stuff for Families.”(c) 2014 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.

Fix Busted Gutter NowQ: Last winter, under the weight of all the snow and ice we had, one part of my roof gutter bust-ed wide open. We actually heard it: The snow in-side it had solidified to ice, and the entire block of ice fell out of the now-open side of the gutter in the middle of the night with a loud crash. It looks like just a hinge on the end of the gutter run busted, though. Do you think I can just fix that hinge portion rather than replace the whole section? -- Larry in Melrose, Mass.

A: You’ll need to take a closer look at the gutter section before making that call, so grab a helper and a sturdy ladder, and climb up there -- being careful not to set your ladder next to any power lines or other hazards.

Gutters will give way or even tear away under extreme stress, like an ice dam forming in or around them. In a way, it’s better for them to give way than cause severe damage to your roof eaves. But the damage usually requires the en-tire section to be replaced.

You can patch the gutter temporarily if the end can be repaired (using a bit of wire or a screw to reattach the point that gave way) and the rest of the run is not seriously warped or torn. Make sure there are no leaf- or debris dams in the gut-ter run, so that it can drain freely during rain-storms.

Once the patch is made, you need to plan on re-placing it before this coming winter. The gut-ter section was weakened by the ice dam, and it likely won’t drain as well, will collect debris, and won’t hold up to another load of snow and ice.

You also need to check the roof eaves and soffits near the damaged section. Any damage to these critical roof components needs to be addressed so that water and pests don’t get into the house through tears or holes, and so that the area can continue to support your gutter system.

You also should consider installing gutter covers along the entire run, and look into the feasibil-ity of installing ice and snow guards along the edge of the roof to reduce the chance of ice dams forming in the first place. Do an energy audit of your home (many utility companies offer a low-cost audit or audit kit) to find out where heat may be escaping -- warm spots near the gutters or roof eaves can cause snow to melt and then refreeze, leading to ice buildup.

HOME TIP: A dab of roofing cement can quickly patch

small holes in gutter runs, keeping water flow-ing away from your house until a permanent

repair can be made.

Send your questions or home tips to [email protected].


www.tidbitscda.comTIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #27 June 30th Page 16

By Samantha Mazzotta

EMAIL HISTORY• In 1972, Ray Tomlinson was working on de-veloping the precursor to the Internet, a system called ARPANET, which stood for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. One day he sat two computers next to each other. They were connected to each other only by ARPANET. He sent a message from one to the other, and that was the world’s first email. Tomlinson claims the message was probably something like “Testing 123.” • It was Tomlinson’s idea to use the @ symbol to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer. The @ sign was originally an accounting symbol used in commercial invoices meaning “at the rate of” as in: six widgets @ $2 per widget = $12. Tomlinson chose the symbol because it is on every keyboard, yet is rarely used. Its official English name is “the commer-cial at sign.” • Although in the U.S. it’s usually called sim-ply the “at sign,” other countries have different names for it. In Dutch, it’s apestaart meaning monkey’s tail. In Swedish, it’s snabel-a mean-ing “A” with an elephant’s trunk. In Italian, it’s chiocciolina meaning small snail. In Hungary, it’s kukatsz meaning little worm. In Czech, it’s zavinac meaning a rolled pickled herring. In Fin-land, it’s miumau (the sound a cat makes) be-cause it looks like a sleeping cat. In Russian, it’s sabachka meaning puppy. In German, it’s klam-merraffe meaning spider monkey.

1. The Fault in Our Stars (PG-13) Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort

2. Maleficent (PG) Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning

3. Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13) Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt

4. X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG-13) Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen

5. A Million Ways to Die in the West (R) Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron

6. Godzilla (PG-13) Aaron Taylor-John-son, Elizabeth Olsen

7. Neighbors (R) Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne

8. Blended (PG-13) Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore

9. Chef (R) Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr.

10. Million Dollar Arm (PG) Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi

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Top 10 DVD, Blu-ray Rentals1. The Monuments Men (PG-13) George Cloo-ney2. Ride Along (PG-13) Ice Cube3. Pompeii (PG-13) Kit Harington4. I, Frankenstein (PG-13) Aaron Eckhart5. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Ben Stiller6. About Last Night (R) Kevin Hart7. That Awkward Moment (R) Zac Efron8. The Nut Job (PG) Animated9. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG-13) Ian McKellen10. The Wolf of Wall Street (R) Leonardo Di-CaprioTop 10 DVD, Blu-ray Sales1. Frozen (PG) Disney2. Avatar (PG-13) FOX3. The Monuments Men (PG-13) Sony4. Endless Love (PG-13) Universal5. 3 Days to Kill (PG-13) FOX6. Pompeii (PG-13) Sony7. I, Frankenstein (PG-13) Lionsgate8. About Last Night (R) Sony9. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG-13) Warner Bros.10. Vampire Academy (PG-13) Anchor BaySource: Rentrak Corp.(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

THE FIRST SPAM• By 1978 there was a printed directory of every-one who was using the ARPANET system. When a new computer operating system was released that supported ARPANET, someone decided the news should be spread among all 600 AR-PANET users. A marketing manager entered the email addresses of all 600 people and sent them what turned out to be the world’s very first spam. Ironically, the marketer wasn’t familiar with the system, so the 600 email addresses filled the re-cipient box, overflowed the CC box, and flowed into the body of the email. • Spam was named spam because of a Monty Python comedy sketch in which the waitress in a café explains that the only things on the menu are spam and eggs, spam and bacon, sausage and spam, spam with spam, spam with spam and a side order of spam, or lobster thermidore with a side of spam, while the diner explains that she DOESN’T LIKE SPAM. This is similar to what happens when you open your email in-box to find 72 messages that you don’t want. • Worldwide, more than 294 billion emails are sent and received daily, averaging around 40 for every person on the planet. Of those, an estimat-ed 90% are spam or viruses.

EMAIL FACTSIf you printed out each non-spam email sent in the world on a single piece of standard paper, in just under 2 hours, you would have enough pa-per to cover the continental USA. Around 4 days later, you could cover the earth’s entire surface area. One day’s worth of emails would produce a stack of paper 2,159 times taller than Mt. Ever-est. It would take just over 20 days for the stack to reach the moon.

1. TELEVISION: Which television sitcom was set at the Stratford Inn?2. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the Bay of Fundy?3. SCIENCE: How much faster does sound travel in water than in air?4. MATH: What is the origin of the word “zero”?5. ENTERTAINERS: Which famous comedian/actor had a brief boxing career?6. ANATOMY: Where is the macula in the human body?7. LANGUAGE: What is a “beau geste”?8. MEASUREMENTS: What does a “gill” mea-sure?9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the color of the circle on Japan’s national flag?10. AD SLOGANS: Which company urged cus-tomers to “make a run for the border”?Answers1. “Newhart”2. Between the Canadian provinces of New Bruns-wick and Nova Scotia3. About four times faster4. Arabic, from the word “sifr,” which means empty5. Bob Hope6. The eye7. A magnanimous gesture8. Liquids, about one-quarter of a pint9. Red10. Taco Bell(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.


1. Who was born Veronica Yvette Bennett?2. Which Queen song mentions Scaramouche, Fandango and Galileo?3. How did the band Deep Purple get its name?4. Where is the Montego Bay in Bobby Bloom’s song?5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Don’t hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky, It slips away, all your money won’t another minute buy.”

Answers1. Ronnie Spector, of the girl group the Ronettes (“Be My Baby”). She married their producer Phil Spector, and later divorced him for keeping her a virtual prisoner. The group sued him and won $3 million in unpaid royalties.2. “Bohemian Rhapsody.”3. The group’s guitar player Ritchie Blackmore had heard his grandmother play a song called “Deep Purple” on the piano. The old song started as an instrumental and finally had lyrics added in 1938.4. Jamaica. 5. “Dust in the Wind,” by Kansas in 1978. This nine-line song is amazingly lyrical and literary. The concept of returning to dust comes from Genesis in the Bible and a Native American book of poetry. Although it wasn’t the group’s musical style, the song went gold and has been widely used in films and television shows.(c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

Negative Social InteractionsHealth Psychology journal recently published a study update that looked at the role of negative social interactions in hypertension. Negative in-teractions? By that, the authors meant “exchang-es or behaviors that involve excessive demands, criticism, disappointment or other unpleasant-ness.”In the course of the study, they asked questions about each of four social areas (partner, children, other family, friends), such as, “How much can you rely on them?” or “Do they really under-stand how you feel?”Besides age, sex, alcohol intake, tobacco use, physical activity, psychological well-being and other variables, researchers looked at the num-ber of volunteer hours each participant did on a yearly basis. (I found that a bit curious.)Here are the results:There was an increased likelihood of develop-ing hypertension because of negative social in-teractions with friends and family (not children or partner), but no increase because of negative interactions with children or partner.

Women were more likely to develop hyperten-sion due to negative social interactions with friends. One very interesting conclusion was that women have greater expectations of social rela-tionships, and that “women demonstrated great-er disapproval of behavior that violated friend-ship rules,” leading to greater distress when the “rules” aren’t followed.

Those over age 65 were less likely to develop hypertension due to negative interactions, but those ages 51 to 64 were more likely. By age 65, it’s thought that we adapt and see negative in-teractions as less problematic, and that we have better coping strategies. The 51 to 64 group is the “sandwich” generation, responsible for both their children and parents, and therefore more likely to be under more stress.

Those who volunteer at least 200 hours per year were less likely to develop hypertension, even with negative social interactions in their lives.Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader ques-tions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to [email protected]. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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COUCH THEATER -- DVD PREVIEWS By Sam Struckhoff PHOTO: Masaharu Fukuyama in “Like Father, Like Son”PICKS OF THE WEEK“Like Father, Like Son” (Unrated) -- A hardworking young couple receive a shock after their son is accepted into an elite school: The boy they have been raising and loving for six years is not their son, but was accidentally switched at birth. While two sets of parents and two young boys are pulled into an emotional situation, the film focuses on one of the fathers. Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama) realizes that he is rather cold as a father, and his long work hours as an architect don’t necessarily make him a great provider for his son, Keita.This Japanese import draws its premise from real-life events, but comes across as more of an original drama than an adapted story. The movie delicately handles difficult questions about what makes a family, and how do imperfect people make the best decisions for children.

“A Young Doctor’s Notebook” (Mini-series) -- A Russian doctor (Jon Hamm) revisits his old jour-nal and gets pulled back into his early days as an overwhelmed young physician (Daniel Radcliffe) working in a hospital far away from everything. Apparently, practicing medicine in rural Russia around 1917 was a brutal, stomach-twisting business. The doctor’s older self (Hamm) has brief but entertaining exchanges with the memory of his helpless younger self (Radcliffe).A mix of dark comedy and darker drama pervades these few episodes. There’s enough dry humor and lower-brow gags to keep you laughing for the entire season. However, there are stretches where it’s almost impossible to keep your eyes on the screen: amateur surgery in the early 20th century was a very messy business.

“Afflicted” (R) -- Hey, everyone! Somebody just made a new found-footage horror movie that isn’t boring crap! Just when I thought the genre had been picked clean, along comes a little flick about Clif and Derek -- two Canadian pals documenting their yearlong trip around the world. Somewhere along the way, Derek gets attacked while hooking up with a one-night-stand, and he starts displaying odd symptoms. As the duo continue their travels, Derek develops inhuman strength and a weird skin condition. Things escalate viscerally, paying off in a horror flick that makes you best friends with a monster.

“All the Wrong Reasons” (Unrated) -- In a big-box superstore, a dramatic love quadrangle forms among some of the broken young employees. Ascher (the late Corey Monteith of TV’s “Glee”) is the store manager and husband to Kate (Karine Vanasse), the store’s boundary-obsessed security direc-tor. Also in the mix: Nicole (Emily Hampshire), a cashier and single-mother who has her eyes on her ambitious young boss, and Simon (Kevin Zeggers), a firefighter who lost a hand and now works as the store’s security guard. This isn’t exactly a two-for-one bargain of comedy and drama -- more like an off-brand value pack. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.


www.tidbitscda.comTIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #27 June 30th Page 20Dear Auntie M.,

Please send your questions or comments to [email protected]. I shall be frank and honest with my

response and provide resources where appropriate.

My older sister is dating this guy, ‘Bill’, who just kinda creeps me out. Sis lost her husband 4years ago after a debilitating ill-ness of many years. We’re all happy to see her having some fun finally and that’s one reason I’ve not said anything to her about what I’ve noticed. We are from a big active fam-ily that enjoys getting together often. And that is where my concern comes in. We are blessed to have many females in our family and currently have six girls 12 to 18 years old. (Yes, seems like we even get pregnant at the same time.) Memo-rial Day we had a B-B-Q to open the family lake cabin and all the girls were in their bathing suits, which as we know, show a lot of skin. Bill took some of the girls out on the boat and when they returned I noticed the girls seemed ‘giggly’ and kind of odd acting around Bill after that. In ob-serving further I realized that Bill spent far too much time gazing at the girls, and made some borderline remarks, like “girls certainly mature faster these days’, and ‘what I wouldn’t give to be a young buck again’. I know, not really pred-atory remarks, but they just hit me wrong. Am I just being overprotective or do you think there is a reason for concern? Careful in Coeur d’AleneDear Careful,You sound like a caring aunt and mother who is doing what is natural for a mother to do - protect their young. ‘Bill’ may or may not prove to be a lecher but do you really want to let it go that far? As you are a big family arrange to have a ‘ladies day’ with all the generations attending. Use it to talk frankly about the positives and negatives of being a female and how to keep safe in all situ-ations. I’m sure each of you older gals have a story you could share to make it real and person-al. Use it as a bonding experience, not a lecture or ‘make wrong.’ Cement that family bond and create a space where each feels safe to bring up their questions, worries, and concerns. Perhaps make this a yearly event that encourages con-versation and growth. Don’t let one person rule the day, and for everyone’s sake make it inclu-sive, not exclusive. Now is the time to band this strong group of women together. Don’t have it be specifically about Bill and see what comes out. And, don’t let him be alone with any of them again. Better to be safe than sorry.


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