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of Pulaski CountyIssue 55June 8, 2011

TIDBITS® HAS FUN WITH

WEIRD PASTIMESby T. A. Tafoya

With our limitless imaginations, humans have come up with all sorts of interesting activities in an effort to stave off boredom. Tidbits takes a look at a few of the wackiest pastimes.

• Chess Boxing requires both brains and brawn. This Dutch event combines a game of chess played in between rounds of boxing. Two individuals go at it for up to 11 rounds. The game starts with a four-minute chess round followed by two minutes of boxing. The World Chess Boxing Organization’s motto is: “Fighting is done in the ring, and wars are waged on the board.” The match can be won through domination in either activity or some combination of a knockout, checkmate and exceeding the time limit on speed chess or by a judges’ decision.

• Ever thought of chasing cheese? In a battle of pursuit, people risk life and limb to chase an eight-pound Double Gloucester cheese down a very steep hill in the annual Cheese-Rolling Festival at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire. There are five races, and the first person to make it to the bottom still on their feet wins the cheese!

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WEIRD PASTIMES (continued):• Can you talk afterwards? The World Stinging

Nettle Challenge is held at The Bottle Inn in Marshwood, Dorset, U.K., every year as part of a charity beer festival. Competitors come from all over the world to see how many nettle leaves they can eat off two stalks in an hour’s time. The bare stalks are measured, and the winner is the one with the greatest accumulated length. It takes skill and endurance to chew and swallow the leaves and not blister the tongue.

• You shouldn’t be asleep for this one! Bed Racing is a sport enjoyed by the people of North Yorkshire Town in the United Kingdom who hold the annual Knaresborough Bed Race. Competitors race beds in teams of six, plus one on the bed. The bed has to run on four wheels and must also float. The race is 1 mile (3 km) long with five up-hill climbs leading to a final challenge of crossing a river.

• Ferret Legging is a male-only competition that started in Yorkshire, England, and is now held at the Richmond Highland Games & Celtic Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Men compete with one another by trapping two live ferrets in their pants. The pants must be tied at the ankle and secured at the waist with a belt to prevent the ferrets from

The first line of “Aftershock: The Ticking Time Bomb of Soldiers’ Traumatic Brain Injuries” says: “At 8:20 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2010, Iraq veteran Brock Savelkoul decided it was time to die.” The long article begins by describing a standoff with police while Savelkoul gripped a 9-mm pistol and an untrained police officer tried to talk him down from a suicide wish.

Savelkoul, a decorated veteran with three tours in Iraq under his belt, suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- and he’d had enough.

“Aftershock,” by T. Christian Miller and Daniel Zw-erdlin, should be required reading for a long list of people: doctors, nurses, family of returning veterans, active military in harm’s way -- and veterans who have experienced difficulties adjusting to civilian life after suffering seemingly mild concussions from blasts.

The question that remains for doctors is whether a mild traumatic brain injury (concussion) can lead to PTSD. The answer likely lies in how the injury came to be: a football field concussion in a familiar setting can be different from one in a frightening circum-stance of war. As the article describes, severe trau-matic brain injuries aren’t as likely to lead to PTSD because the person is knocked unconscious, but as one researcher indicated, one concussion may cause lifelong problems.

The article describes the long process that veter-ans go through trying to get help for their invisible wounds. Savelkoul and four others with him suffered mild traumatic brain injuries from a nearby explo-sion, although they were not initially diagnosed with concussion, likely because they weren’t checked.

Of the men, three are still in the military and serv-ing overseas, one recovered but gets bad headaches, two have memory and concentration problems -- and Savelkoul entered a downward spiral that led to his standoff with police.

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must have a full set of teeth. No filing or blunting of teeth is allowed. After the ferrets are secure in the trousers, the competitors stand in front of the judges. The winner is the man who can last the longest. There are two important additional rules to Ferret Legging: The ferrets must have free access from one leg of the trousers to the other, and no underwear can be worn! The current record stands at 5.5 hours.

• Witcham in Cambridgeshire, England, hosts an annual Pea Shooting contest where the competition is fierce! Contestants shoot a pea 12 feet (3.64 m) through a 12-inch (30.48 cm) tube towards a 12-inch (30.48 cm) target. Pea shooting recently moved into the 21st century with laser-guided shooters.

• Wife Carrying started in Finland and is now played all over the world. In this race, male competitors run a 278-yard (253.5-m) track with two dry obstacles and one water obstacle while carrying their wife on their back. The fastest time wins. The wife must weigh at least 108 pounds (49 kilograms) and may be carried piggyback, fireman’s carry or Estonian style, where the wife hangs upside-down with her legs around the husband’s shoulders, holding onto his waist. The prize is the wife’s weight in beer.

• A conker is a nut of the horse chestnut tree. During The World Conker Championships, conkers are threaded onto pieces of knotted string to prevent them from coming off. The aim of the game is to smash your opponent’s conker. Who goes first is decided by a coin toss, and the loser of the toss

Cat’s Taste for Plastic Could Signal DiabetesBy Samantha Mazzotta

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I’m replying to Dave, the reader whose cat chews on his wife’s oxygen hose. This may sound weird, but he should consider having his cat checked for diabetes. Our cat, “Tuffy,” started chewing on our clear plastic shower curtain. We waited a bit too long to have him checked out, and he was in dire condition by the time the veterinarian saw him.

It was my wife who read something in a cat magazine and suggested that the vet test Tuffy for diabetes. Sure enough, he had it. And while our cat’s prognosis was initially not good -- the vet said he might have three months to live -- thanks to regular insulin injections and care, Tuffy lived another four and a half years.

So Dave, keep the faith, and have your cat checked for diabetes. -- Tom W., via email

DEAR TOM: Thanks so much for calling attention to this possible health condition! Chewing on clear plastic as a signal for possible diabetes is not something I have heard of before, but I’m very glad your wife made that connection.

Readers, keep in mind that many, even most, cats chew on weird things. Plastic shopping bags and crumpled paper are especially fascinating, and it’s not unusual to see cats gnawing at them. Of course, you should take efforts to stop them from ingesting such items. This type of gnawing does not necessarily signal a health problem, but if you’re unsure, take your pet to the veterinarian to ease your suspicions.

Other signs of feline diabetes include a voracious appetite and/or drinking large quantities of water, as well as frequent urination or urinating a much larger amount than usual. Weakness in the cat’s back legs is another serious symptom.

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end of its string. The other player then attempts to hit the dangling conker as hard as he can with his own conker by swinging it over-arm. If he hits it, he gets another go. If he misses or hits the opponent’s knuckles, the play switches, and the receiver gets a crack at his opponent. This continues until one of the conkers is so damaged that it falls off the string.

• Big crowds regularly attend the Great Christmas Pudding Race held in London’s Covent Garden’s West Piazza. It is a relay event where teams in fancy dress negotiate a challenging 164-yard (150-meter) obstacle course while carefully balancing a dish of Christmas pudding on a tray. The race supports cancer research in the U.K.

• The ancient sport of shin-kicking is part of the annual Cotswold Olimpicks. The goal of shin-kicking is to kick your opponent as hard as you can in the shins. Each time your opponent falls to the ground you earn a point. The winner is the person with the highest score in the best of three rounds. Competitors are encouraged to pad their legs with as much straw as possible.

• The World Toe Wrestling Competition started in 1976, and it has made it to the big time in the adult sporting world. Competitors face each other toe-to-toe across a “toedium,” where they lock their big toes together and try to force their opponent’s foot to the ground. Organizers of the sport applied for its inclusion in the Olympic Games, but it was not accepted.

• Extreme Ironing is a dare-devilish sport that combines the dangerous and exciting with the dull and mundane. Participants call themselves “ironists.” They take their ironing board, iron and some wrinkled clothes to extreme places and set to work. Individuals and teams participate in world competitions to set new records for ironing clothes underwater, hanging off cliffs, on top of moving vehicles, even near the top of Mount Everest. Photographs are taken for proof.

• It was 20th-century Belgian writer and philosopher Raoul Vaneigem who made the following sage observation: “There are more truths in 24 hours of a man’s life than in all the philosophies.”

• The next time you’re annoyed by a bad case of the hiccups, consider poor Charles Osborne. In 1922, when he was 28 years old, Mr. Osborne got the hiccups. For the next 68 years, he continued to hiccup, finally stopping in 1990, one year before his death at the age of 97.

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• On June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm and collects a charge in a jar when the kite is struck by lightning, enabling him to demonstrate the electrical nature of lightning. Inven-tor Franklin coined a number of terms used today, including “battery,” “conductor” and “electrician.”

• On June 7, 1893, Mohandas Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience. Gandhi, a young Indi-an lawyer working in South Africa, refused to com-ply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and was forcibly ejected.

• On June 6, 1949, George Orwell’s novel of a dys-topian future, “1984,” is published. The novel’s all-seeing leader, known as “Big Brother,” becomes a universal symbol for intrusive government and op-pressive bureaucracy. It described a grim vision of a future where all citizens are watched constantly and language is twisted to aid in oppression.

• On June 11, 1955, a racing car in Le Mans, France, goes out of control and crashes into stands filled with spectators, killing 82 people. The tragedy in the famous 24-hour race led to a ban on auto racing in several nations.

• On June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War, Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats repeatedly attack the USS Liberty in international waters off Egypt’s Gaza Strip. In all, 34 Americans were killed and 171 were wounded. Israel later apologized for the at-tack, claiming that it had mistaken the Liberty for an Egyptian ship.

• On June 9, 1973, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America’s coveted Triple Crown -- the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. In 1999, ESPN added Sec-retariat to the list of Top 50 North American athletes of the 20th century, the only non-human on the list.

• On June 12, 1987, in one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the repressive Communist era in a divided Germany. Two years later East and West Germans did break down the infamous barrier.

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More than 400 infection-related citations were in facilities that had low staffing of registered nurses, nurse aides and licensed practical nurses. From the study results, it appears that understaffing can be a big reason for the lack of infection control. Could it be as simple as nurses being too busy to wash their hands? It also was learned that those facilities cited for lack of infection control had a poor rating of care in general.

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To be eligible for Medicare, these facilities must have an annual inspection and be recertified.

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1. Preheat oven to 325 F. Grease 2 large cookie sheets. Into large bowl, measure co-conut, almonds, sugar and salt. With spoon, mix until combined. Stir in egg whites and almond extract until well-blended.

2. Drop mixture by heaping tablespoons, about 2 inches apart, on cookie sheets. Place cookie sheets on 2 oven racks. Bake cookies 20 to 25 minutes until golden, ro-tating cookie sheets between upper and lower racks halfway through baking time. With pancake turner, remove cookies to wire racks to cool completely. Store cook-ies in tightly covered container. Makes 18 cookies.

• Each serving: About 105 calories, 6g total fat (3g saturated), 0mg cholesterol, 75mg sodium, 11g total carbs, 0g dietary fiber, 2g protein.

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Tidbits® of Pulaski County Page 8FREEDOM FEST

A Salute to the Red, White & BlueDowntown Waynesville

May 19, 4 - 8pm

www.TidbitsofPulaskiCounty.com

of Pulaski County417.458.1407 • Find Us On Facebook!

• Local Vendors

• Bouncy House

• Children’s Activities

• Live Entertainment

• Businesses Open Late

• Enjoy “Freedom Fest” Specials All Around the Square

• Food & Much More!

Festive, Family, Fun!

Offering 3rd Thursday Food & Drynk SpecialsOffering 3rd Thursday Food & Drynk Specials

Open From 4 - 8pm For 3rd Thursday, For Your Viewing Pleasure!

Old Stagecoach Stop Doorways to the Past

106 Lynn Street • Waynesville, MOwww.OldStagecoachStop.org

Open Saturdays 10am–4pm April-September

Each doorway provides passage to

a different era in the history of Pulaski

County and lifeways in the Ozarks. As Pulaski County’s

oldest building, the Old Stagecoach Stop started as a log stagecoach waystation,

became a Civil War hospital, and hotel on Rt. 66.

Pulaski County Courthouse Museum

303 Historic Rt. 66 East• Waynesville, MOwww.oldpulaskicountycourthousemuseum.webs.com

Open Saturdays 10am–4pm April-September

Built in 1903, the Old Courthouse now houses the Pulaski County Historical Society Museum. Exhibits reflect aspects of the county’s history andpreserved courtroom. There are 12 restored / renovated rooms to visit. We are now a 501c3 organization.

Free Admission!

*Funding Provided in Part by Pulaski County Tourism Bureau

3rd Thursday Special:

10% OFF All Purchases

4 - 8 pm

227 Historic Rt. 66 E • Waynesville, MO573-774-DIVE (3483)

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Tidbits of Pulaski County Issue 55