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The XXI Winter Olympics: Welcome to

THE VANCOUVER GAMESby Rick Dandes

February 12 is the start of the Twenty-first Winter Olympics; for cold-weather sports fanatics it’s an every four year TV spectacular. This year, the setting is one of the most beautiful in the world, Vancouver, Canada. Tidbits this week, honors the Games with a look back. • The first time a winter sport appeared in the

Olympics was in the summer games. Figure skating made its debut in the 1908 Summer Olympics. The top skaters were 10-time world champion Ulrich Salchow of Sweden, who originated the backwards, one revolution jump that bears his name, and Made Syers of Britain. Both were the first singles champions.

• Many organizers of the 1916 Summer Games in Berlin planned to introduce a “Skiing Olympia,” featuring nordic events in black forest. But the games were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

• Upon the conclusion of World War I, the Games resumed in 1920 at Antwerp, Belgium, where figure skating returned and ice hockey was added as a medal event. Sweden’s Gillis Grafstrom and Magda Julin took individual honors, while Ludovika and Walter Jakobsson were the top skating pair. In hockey, Canada won the gold medal, with the United States second and Czecholslovakia third.

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THE VANCOUVER GAMES (continued):• Over the objections of Modern Olympics’ founder

Baron Pierre de Coubertin and the resistance of the Scandinavian countries, which had staged their own Nordic championships every four or five years from 1901-26 in Sweden, the International Olympic Committee sanctioned an “International Winter Sports Week” at Chamonix, France, in 1924.

• The very first “Winter Sports Week” was an 11-day event, which included nordic skiing, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and bobsledding. It was a huge success and was later called the first Olympic Winter Games.

• Norway is number one, when it comes to most Winter Olympic medals, with 263.

• Not surprisingly, no country in the Southern Hemisphere has ever hosted a Winter Games.

• U.S. Speed skater Bonnie Blair has won six medals at the Olympic Winter Games. That’s more than any other American athlete.

• Nobody has won more medals at the Winter Games than cross-country skier Bjorn Dählie of Norway, who has 12.

• Norwegian Sonja Henie won her first gold medal at the 1928 Olympics and at the next three Olympics no female figure skater could compete with her, she was that good.

• Sonja Henie’s grace and style sets a new standard for figure skating. And she was young. At 15 years, 10 months, Henie was, at the time, the youngest woman ever to win a gold medal.

• The 1940 Games, in Sapporo, Japan, and 1944 Winter Games, scheduled for Corina d’Amerzzo, in Italy, were cancelled due to World War II.

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THE VANCOUVER GAMES (continued):

• Seventy years after those first cold weather Games, the 17th edition of the Winter Olympics took place in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994. The event ended the four-year Olympic cycle of staging both Winter and Summer Games in the same year and began a new schedule that calls for the two Games to alternate every two years.

• The Soviet Union (USSR) participated in its first Winter Olympics in 1956, and took home the most medals, including the gold medal in ice hockey.

• It takes two: 1968 East Germany and West Germany officially send separate teams for the first time and continued to do so through 1988.

• After East and West Germany’s unification, the country finally sent a single team in 1990.

• Thanks, but no thanks: The International Olympics Committee granted the 1976 Winter Games to Denver in May 1970. But wait a minute: in 1972 Colorado voters reject a $5 million bond issue to finance the undertaking. Denver immediately withdraws as host and Innsbruck, Austria is chosen as the site of the 1964 Games.

• Why the change in cycle? The IOC moved the Winter Games’ four-year cycle in order to separate them from the Summer Games and alternate Olympics every two years.

• The Olympic flag’s colors of red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white are there because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.

• Number one: The U.S. was the first country to win a Winter Olympic event. Speed skater Charles Jewtraw won the first event of the Games with an upset in the 500 meters.

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THE VANCOUVER GAMES (continued):

• U.S. figure skater Tara Lipinski, 15, became the youngest woman to win a gold medal at the Winter Games. Sonja Henie would have been proud.

• After earning her Olympic gold medal in 1968, Peggy Fleming starred in several television specials and performed in numerous skating exhibitions across the U.S.A. She was also been a popular commentator for ABC Sports, often working with fellow Olympic champ Dick Button.

• Jean Claude Killy, the brilliant 24-year-skier, already a world champion, excited the world again at the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France, by winning gold medals in all three Alpine skiing events, thus becoming only the second skier to ever accomplish that feat; Austria’s Toni Sailer did it in 1956.

• Miracle on Ice: After a group of U.S. amateur hockey players beat the invincible Soviet Union hockey machine at the Lake Placid Olympics of 1980, it was later voted the greatest upset in hockey in the 20th Century. “Do you believe in miracles? Yes,” shouted TV broadcaster Al Michaels, who called the game. In retrospect, maybe it wasn’t so much of a miracle. Of the 20 players on the U.S. team, 13 eventually played in the National Hockey League.

• 1980 was not the first time the United States achieved Olympic hockey gold. The less publicized—but no less miraculous—1960 U.S. men’s hockey team also shocked the world with its stunning victory in Squaw Valley, Calif.

• Curling — think shuffleboard on ice — debuted in the 1924 Olympics. It came back in the 1932 Lake Placid Games as a demonstration sport, then went on a 56-year Olympic hiatus. It was brought back as an official medal sport at the 1998 Nagano, Japan Games.

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Cat Fight Won`t EndBy Sam Mazzotta

DEAR PAW`S CORNER: I have two indoor cats, a male and female, both fixed. A few months ago a fight broke out between them and a neighbor cat that approached them on the screened porch. Even though the fight was with the neighbor cat, my cats “Bull” and “Sally” have been getting into vicious fights with each other ever since, with Sally instigating them. I thought they were getting better recently, but the fighting has broken out again, and now I’m no-ticing urine marking in the front room as well. How can I keep the peace here? -- Melanie, via e-mail

DEAR MELANIE: It will be very difficult to rekindle your cats’ friendship, but you can forge a peace treaty between the two. Temple Gran-din, in her excellent book “Animals Make Us Human” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), discusses cat fights and offers some ideas for resolving them.The incident that triggered your cats’ problem is called “redirected aggression,” Grandin ex-plains. One cat, probably Sally, could not get to the neighbor cat, so she turned that aggression on her companion.

Immediately after a fight, the cats must be sep-arated -- put in different areas of the house. For some cats, a temporary separation is enough to reduce the aggressiveness and restore calm. But for your cats, a gradual reintroduction will be necessary as it’s clear the aggression is still there.Put the aggressive cat (Sally) into a carrier and then let Bull come into the same room. If Sally starts hissing and spitting, put a blanket over the carrier. Remove the blanket when Sally calms down. Gradually increase the amount of time the carrier with Sally inside is in the same room as Bull.At the same time, consider giving both cats anti-anxiety medication prescribed by their veterinarian. Hopefully, they will stop fighting with a gradual reintroduction to each other, but if they don’t, you will need to keep them separated.

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• On Feb. 14, 278 A.D., Valentine, a holy priest in Rome, is executed. Ruler Claudius the Cruel was having a diffi-cult time getting soldiers to join his mili-tary because of their strong attachment to their wives, and had banned marriages. Valentine had continued to perform mar-riages in secret and was beheaded for it.

• On Feb. 11, 1858, in southern France, Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old French peasant girl, first claims to have seen the Virgin Mary. The appari-tions, which totaled 18 before the end of the year, occurred in a grotto of a rock promontory near Lourdes, France.

• On Feb. 13, 1914, The American Soci-ety of Composers, Authors, and Publish-ers (ASCAP) is formed in New York. This was the first U.S. group to help protect copyrighted music against il-legal public performances for profit.

• On Feb. 12, 1934, Bill Russell, the leg-endary center for the Boston Celtics dur-ing the 1960s, is born in Monroe, La. During his 13-year career with the Celt-ics, the 6-foot-9-inch Russell helped the team to 11 NBA championships.

• On Feb. 8, 1943, Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, leaving the South Pacific is-land in Allied possession after a prolonged campaign. The American victory halted Japanese expansion and paved the way for further Allied gains in the Solomon Islands.

• On Feb. 10, 1962, American spy-plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Col. Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United States five years ear-lier. The two men were brought to separate sides of the Glienicker Bridge, which con-nects East and West Berlin across Lake Wannsee, and released at the same time.

• On Feb. 9, 1973, Max Yasgur, owner of the 600-acre dairy farm in New York where the original Woodstock took place in August 1969, dies in Florida. More than 400,000 people attended the three-day music festival.


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• It was American journalist, author and humorist Don Marquis who made the fol-lowing sage observation: “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

• A giant carnivorous plant has recently been discovered on a remote mountaintop in the Philippines. The second largest pitcher plant on record, nepenthes attenboroughii secretes a nectar that lures insects, frogs and even rats into its trap, where enzymes and acids break down the animal and digest it.

• There has been a lot of debate about whether older drivers should be required to pass driving tests in order to renew their licenses, with failing sight and di-minished judgment being cited as rea-sons for the more stringent requirement. However, statistics tend to indicate that, as a group, teenagers are the more dan-gerous drivers, with their auto-accident death rate roughly triple that of the elderly.

• If you’re thinking about going back to school during this economic downturn, you might want to consider working toward a master’s degree in business administration. The average salary increase enjoyed by new MBA holders is a whopping 64 percent.

• The men’s formal attire known as the tux-edo takes its name from the Tuxedo Park Club in New York, where the clothing first became popular. The word itself is de-rived from the Algonquian word for wolf.

• The man who holds the world record for running 100 meters and 200 meters, and who has won three Olympic gold medals, is a Ja-maican by the name of Usain Bolt. Yes, Bolt. • The Zagat restaurant rating system re-cently conducted a survey of Americans’ tipping habits. The results? It seems that residents of Philadelphia are the most generous tippers in the nation, leav-ing an average of 19.6 percent. The av-erage across the country is 19 percent.

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• Believe it or not, Cub Scouting is the largest of the three programs available to boys from first grade through fifth grade or seven through ten years old. The program is designed to pursue the aims of character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness.

• Boy Scouting is geared for boys ages 10 to 18. The program uses outdoor activities such as camping, aquatics and hiking to achieve the aims of character, citizenship and personal fitness training.

• The image of Boy Scouts was largely highlighted through the works of famed American illustrator Norman Rockwell, through much of the 20th Century.

• Beginning in 1913, Rockwell started illustrating covers of “Boy’s Life,” the magazine for BSA youth. He also drew the organization’s annual calendar illustrations between 1925 and1976.

• The Boy Scouts of America’s stated purpose, at the time of its incorporation, was to teach patriotism, courage, self-relance, and kindred values.

• Merit badges have been an integral part of the Scouting program since the start of the movement in the United Kingdom.

• Scouting came to the United States in 1910; the BSA quickly issued an initial list of just 14 merit badges, but did not produce or award them. In 1911, the BSA manufactured the first official 57 merit badges and began awarding them.



TABLE OF CONTENTSISSUE 2010.07

The Vancouver Gamespages 1-4

Music Legend:Frank Sinatra

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Boy Scoutspages 7-8

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The XXI Winter Olympics: Welcome to

THE VANCOUVER GAMESby Rick Dandes

February 12 is the start of the Twenty-first Winter Olympics; for cold-weather sports fanatics it’s an every four year TV spectacular. This year, the setting is one of the most beautiful in the world, Vancouver, Canada. Tidbits this week, honors the Games with a look back. • The first time a winter sport appeared in the

Olympics was in the summer games. Figure skating made its debut in the 1908 Summer Olympics. The top skaters were 10-time world champion Ulrich Salchow of Sweden, who originated the backwards, one revolution jump that bears his name, and Made Syers of Britain. Both were the first singles champions.

• Many organizers of the 1916 Summer Games in Berlin planned to introduce a “Skiing Olympia,” featuring nordic events in black forest. But the games were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

• Upon the conclusion of World War I, the Games resumed in 1920 at Antwerp, Belgium, where figure skating returned and ice hockey was added as a medal event. Sweden’s Gillis Grafstrom and Magda Julin took individual honors, while Ludovika and Walter Jakobsson were the top skating pair. In hockey, Canada won the gold medal, with the United States second and Czecholslovakia third.

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1. Frank Robinson, with 324 home runs.2. Lou Piniella, in 1995, ‘97, ‘00 and ‘01.3. Miami’s Dan Marino had six such seasons. Manning had 10 through 2009.4. The Huskies were co-champs of the Pac-10 in 1984-85.5. Buffalo had 10 road wins to open the 2006-07 season.6. The Los Angeles Galaxy have been in six finals, winning twice (2002, ‘05).7. Oscar De La Hoya in 1992.

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1. Four years2. Wally Cox3. Georgia4. Spiral5. “I think, therefore I am”6. “The Sugarland Express” (1974)7. Flourish and Blotts8. Eric the Red9. Napoleonic Wars10. .6000

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1. “Rock and Roll Waltz,” by Kay Starr.2. Diane Renay. The song about a girl whose steady boyfriend joins the Navy was a huge hit in Japan, where it topped the charts for 12 weeks.3. “Still Crazy After All These Years.” The album won a Grammy the follow-ing year.4. The J. Geils band, in 1981.5. 1991. The duo started in Sweden. Roxette also had a No. 1 hit the previous year with “It Must Have Been Love.”6. Brook Benton. He died in 1988 in New York. Otis died in 2008.

Stronger Than LoveLove comes and goes

But your friendIs there through highs and lows

Love will break your heartBut your friend

Is there when you fall apartLove is filling the hole inside

But your friendWill be there when you cry

Friendship is stronger than love

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Many places in the country that don’t typi-cally experience harsh winter weather have seen records broken for low temperatures and snowfall. Even if you’re used to hard winters, it makes sense to check the mid-winter condi-tion of your home because winter isn’t over yet. From a distance, check your roof with bin-oculars. Are any shingles missing? Look care-fully around skylights, vents and chimneys.While you’re outside, check to see if the dryer vent is closed. If it’s stuck in the open position, it creates access for cold air and creatures. If you haven’t drained the outside faucet, it’s worth-while to do so even if you live in an area that is generally warm. Check downspouts to make sure they’re aimed away from the house and that water hasn’t accumulated next to the foundation.If you have an attic, check inside for any wet spots on the plywood. If the attic is especial-ly cold, consider putting down another layer of insulation. (If you’re going to do it your-self, get guidance at the hardware store about whether you need insulation batts with or without the vapor barrier. In the wrong place, that vapor barrier can cause moisture dam-age to the rafters.) Hold a lighter around the

attic access to see if there are any drafts. Use that same lighter around windows and doors. Seal windows inside with a clear plas-tic sheeting kit, the kind that shrinks with a hair dryer, or put up insulated drapes. Install a draft guard at the bottom of exterior doors.If you have an unheated basement, consider in-stalling heat tape around the water pipes. Read the instructions carefully: Tape wrapped over itself is a fire hazard. Heat tape will only add a very small amount to your electric bill, especial-ly when compared to the cost of fixing any fro-zen and cracked pipes. At the same time, check the heating ductwork. Look for air leaks and seal them with foil tape. (Oddly enough, duct tape doesn’t seem to do well in this instance.) Con-sider adding insulation to ductwork: Over half the value of the heated air is lost before it gets into the rooms above if ducts aren’t insulated.Check the basement for leaks or mois-ture. Run a dehumidifier if neces-sary to keep mold from getting started.


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