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A SUCCESS STORY
• In Spanish, “cuco” or “cuca” means caterpillar, and “acha” means
“contemptible” which combine to form “cucaracha,” or cockroach.
According to the book “The Compleat Cockroach” by David Gordon,
this widely reviled insect is one of the most successful species ever
to walk the earth.
• Roaches first appeared on the scene some 340 million years ago,
which was 180 million years before dinosaurs appeared; 200 million
years before flowers, seeds, nuts, and pollen showed up on Earth;
and some 338 million years before Homo erectus began walking
around. Except for minor adaptations, their design has remained
nearly unchanged throughout the eons.
• There are about 3,500 species of cockroach, though scientists are
still discovering new ones. About 50 types of roach are considered
to be domestic pests. Of those 50, only five show up regularly in
American homes, and all five of those are not native to the U.S. but
were imported accidentally.
• Unlike flies and mosquitoes, cockroaches are not known to spread
disease.
A PLANETARY PEST
• Warm climates and tropical countries are home to the most species
of cockroach. Cold places have the least. Florida is the roach capital
of the U.S. with 27 different species, and Texas comes in second with
15. Compare this to Costa Rica with over 150 kinds. Most of Canada
is roach-free, with the exception of some large metropolitan areas.
The states of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming have no native species
of roach.
• According to records kept by the makers of cockroach control
products, people who live in Los Angeles buy the most insecticides,
followed by New York City, Houston, Miami, and Dallas. Roaches live
in volcanic steam vents of Alaska 2,000 feet (610 m) underground,
and in coal mines in England.
• In 1969 a worker preparing the Apollo XII command module Yankee
Clipper for liftoff saw one inside the capsule. No one ever knew what
became of the bug. It might have traveled all the way to the Moon.
• One of the largest roach species comes from Colombia and is just
under 4 inches (10 cm) long. The heaviest comes from Australia and
weighs about as much as an AA battery. One of the smallest species
is about the size of half a peppercorn and it lives alongside social
insects such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites, living off their food
stores evidently in exchange for keeping the area clean.
THE HEADLESS WONDER
• The cockroach has a collection of nerve cells resembling a
primitive brain in its head and also in its tail. The two nerve
centers are connected and help the insect react quickly when
disturbed. However, they are able to operate separately from
each other. Because of this, cockroaches can live for weeks after
being decapitated, eventually dying of dehydration or starvation.
(continued)
• One scientist suspended cockroaches over a salt solution. If a roach
extended its leg it would get wet, which completed an electrical
circuit, delivering a shock to the bug. It took the cockroaches about
half an hour to learn to keep their legs up to avoid the shock. The
researcher then tried the experiment using decapitated cockroaches
and found they were able to learn just as quickly.
• A test performed in 1957 showed that female roaches with access
to water but no food could live 42 days before dying of starvation.
Those given no food and no water lived two to three weeks.
Thus, they are ideally suited for travelling and can be shut up for
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Amazing Animals
WORMS
• Worldwide, there are about 6,000 species of worms. Of
those, 180 live in North America. A third of those are
invasive species, including the popular night crawler.
• In areas that were covered by glaciers during the last ice
age, all worm life was eliminated. When the glaciers
melted, the northern forests evolved in an ecosystem
devoid of worms. When worms were introduced, either
by well-meaning gardeners, as ballast in ships, or in
root balls of imported plants, the ecological balance
was thrown off.
• Worms eat and digest duff, the slowly rotting top
layer of dead leaves that the trees depend on, making
nutrients harder for the tree to acquire. When the duff
has been digested, all that remains is the hardened
soil layer underneath which sapling tree roots cannot
penetrate. Insects and other small creatures whose
lifecycles revolve around duff are stressed by the loss.
Worm holes allow rainwater to flow away faster instead
of retaining the moisture. In some places, oak forests
were subsequently overrun by buckthorn and barberry
due to the arrival of the worms and the loss of the duff.
• In other areas where glaciation did not scrape the soil
away and kill off all worms, worms evolved along with
the ecosystem. In these places they provide invaluable
services: they “plow” the soil, loosening it and creating
channels where tree roots can grow, where oxygen
can flow, and where water can percolate. They mix
nutrients in, making the soil more fertile. Worm poop,
called “castings” has a higher level of nutrients than
normal dirt.
• Aristotle called worms “the intestines of the earth.”
Even Cleopatra recognized the value of earthworms
and declared them to be sacred.
• Worms are hermaphrodites, meaning they can be either
male or females, yet they still need another worm to
mate.
• Every earthworm has a band that looks like a collar
encircling its body. After the worm mates, the ring
hardens, and the worm crawls out of it. As it is crawling
through the ring, the worm deposits eggs and sperm
inside the ring, which then falls off. The ends of the
ring are sealed off and the ring turns into a cocoon
for the developing worm babies which emerge, fully
formed but very tiny, several weeks later.
• Worms come to the surface during heavy rains because
the damp earth facilitates movement and makes it
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DEAR DR. ROACH: All of us look
forward to eating. However, in my
case (age 79) it has become a chore.
Whether it is breakfast, lunch, dinner or a few snacks, after the first
few bites I have to blow my nose.
This goes on throughout the eating
period, and at the end, my handkerchief is soaked. At breakfast time,
after eating, I proceed to sneeze
five to 10 times, most of the time. I
have become a recluse. I turn down
invitations to dinners at homes and
restaurants, as it has become an
embarrassment.
I have taken Toprol and Timoptic
in the past 20 years, but this condition has occurred only in the past
four or five years, so I don’t think
it’s the drugs. During the day, I am
fine with no sneezing and blowing my nose, except maybe once or
twice. But when mealtime comes,
out comes the handkerchief for
another onslaught. Have you heard
of this condition? Should I consult a
specialist about it? — D.Z.
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many times, as it is much more common than you might think. It goes
by the name of “gustatory rhinitis”
(which simply means that your nose
gets inflamed on eating). It is classified as a non-allergic rhinitis. It is
more common in the elderly, though it
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more time (up to two hours) and
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donor’s whole blood into red cells,
plasma and platelets. Each of those
blood products is then either bagged
for collection (if needed at that time
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The donor always retains the right
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reader can always say, “I prefer not
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to draw plasma and platelets,” if he
knows he has a challenging athletic
event coming up.
In my case, I usually donate platelets and plasma about every six
weeks via apheresis, but normally
not red cells. One advantage of not
donating reds is that a donor can
return to donate plasma and platelets more frequently. During my
most recent donation, my nurse
mentioned that there was a serious
shortage of platelets but that the
supply of red blood cells was fine,
so she had been instructed to NOT
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donation of platelets in the next few
weeks. — M.M.
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long periods of time while being
accidentally shipped from one area
of the world to another, whether it’s
in a soldier’s duffel bag, a ship full of
timber, or a truckload of produce.
LOVE AND MARRIAGE
• To attract a mate, a female roach
will flex her legs, lift her wings, and
emit a chemical “perfume” called a
pheromone that can be detected
by a male roach up to 33 feet (10 m)
away. When the male approaches,
the two seem to do a bit of fencing
with their antennae.
• In the majority of roach species,
mating encounters are casual and
the female later drops her egg case
in a safe location and abandons it.
But the story is different with the
brown-hooded wood cockroach,
which inhabits the Atlantic coastline
from New York to Georgia. They
mate for life. Together the male and
female chew into wood making
a series of small chambers where
they live with their family for the
rest of their lives. About a year after
the male and female bond, their
first offspring are born and both
parents tend the young. Families
usually consist of less than half a
dozen youngsters. The families stick
together for three or four years while
the young mature.
COCKROACH LANGUAGE
• Cockroaches are able to make
noises in the same way crickets and
katydids do, by rubbing body parts
together. The sound is similar to
running a finger over the teeth of
a comb. They are also able to emit
a squeak when captured which is
loud enough to sometimes startle
the predator into dropping them.
The Madagascar hissing cockroach
when disturbed expels air from its
abdomen producing a noise that
can be heard 12 feet (3.6 m) away.
KILLING COCKROACHES
• 400 rads of radiation can kill a human
— but it takes 3,200 rads to kill a
cockroach, and some can survive
10,000 rads. That means that some
cockroaches survived Hiroshima.
So how can you eradicate a roach?
Through chemical warfare. One
of the cheapest and most reliable
methods of roach control is
powdered boric acid. Boric acid is
commonly used as an eyewash and
is available at any drug store. It’s
also called Borax and found in the
laundry aisle of the supermarket.
Roaches that walk through this will
groom themselves, ingesting the
powder which collects in their gut,
eventually killing them.
• Spray a roach with Raid and a
chemical dissolves the creature’s
exoskeleton, a truly horrible way to
die.
• The labs at the S. C. Johnson Corp.
breed and raise around 80,000
roaches each week for the express
purpose of finding new ways to kill
them. The company manufactures
insecticides such as Raid, so a
full-time staff works to provide
experimental victims.
• When a recipe for controlling
roaches appeared in a “Hints from
Heloise” article in 1982, the editors
of the column were swamped with
over 40,000 requests for copies.
• Roaches provide food for various
animals that prey on roaches,
supplying three times as much
protein as chicken meat.
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Since 1991 the Department of Entomology at Purdue has hosted cockroach races around a circular track. Contestants are chosen
from the school’s own research stock and some 7,000 fans watch the races. Betting is permitted. The track is a “two-furshort” race (as
opposed to two-furlong) and the stadium is dubbed “Roachill Downs.”
By Samantha Weaver
• It was Bulgarian-French philosopher Tzvetan Todorov who made
the following sage observation: “We
should not be simply fighting evil
in the name of good, but struggling
against the certainties of people who
claim always to know where good and
evil are to be found.”
• As Halloween approaches, it’s
interesting to note that in 16 states, you
won’t pay taxes on the candy you buy
for trick-or-treaters; for tax purposes,
candy is categorized as groceries. Of
course, there’s room for debate over
what qualifies as candy; breath mints
and gum are usually included, along
with the obvious — chocolate bars,
hard candies and such. The tax code
can get even more detailed than that,
though; for instance, in Florida (which
taxes candy but not groceries), marshmallows are tax-exempt, but marshmallow candies are not.
• The seahorse is the only animal
whose head is positioned at a right
angle to its body.
• Recently retired sportscaster Vin
Scully served 67 seasons as the playby-play announcer for the Dodgers
— starting in Brooklyn in 1950, then
moving with the team to Los Angeles in 1958 — making him the longest-tenured broadcaster with with a
single team in the history of professional sports. Over the years he’s had
many fans, including Chris Carter,
creator of the long-running TV series
“The X Files.” One of the main characters, Dana Scully (played by actress
Gillian Anderson), was named for the
sportscaster.
• In William Shakespeare’s day, the
sound of thunder often was described
as a “rounce-robble-hobble.”
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Thought for the Day: “Patriotism,
n. Combustible rubbish ready to the
torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson’s famous
dictionary patriotism is defined as the
last resort of a scoundrel. With all due
respect to an enlightened but inferior
lexicographer I beg to submit it is the
first.” — Ambrose Bierce
October 31, 2016
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storage locker in the Richmond area
where for years a former employee
was stashing boxes of veteran claims.
It came to light only after the contents
of the storage unit were auctioned off.
Thankfully, the winning bidder called
the sheriff.
Piles of paperwork are still being
checked, but it appears that the time
period runs from roughly late 2011
through June 2015. The 20 to 30 boxes
of documents came from McGuire VA
Medical Center and include everything
from correspondence to claims.
October 24, 2016
Answers
1. It was 1979, when the Pirates beat
the Baltimore Orioles.
2. Four -- Frank Thomas (448 home
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3. Green Bay’s Brett Favre, with 160
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This new director will have her to-do
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‘40s, although I can’t be certain.
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remember you ever mentioning egg
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End your day with a bowl of hearty
classic spaghetti bolognese.
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pound ground beef chuck
1 (28 ounce) can crushed
tomatoes
1/2 ounce grated Pecorino
cheese, plus more for serving
1/2 cup milk
1 pound spaghetti
Basil leaves
1. In large saucepot, heat olive oil
on medium-high. Add onion, garlic
and salt. Cook 10 minutes, stirring
occasionally. Add ground beef chuck.
Cook 5 minutes. Add crushed tomatoes. Simmer 10 minutes.
2. Stir in grated Pecorino cheese
and milk. Toss with spaghetti,
cooked. Garnish with basil leaves and
Pecorino. Serves 6.
• Each serving: About 575 calories,
21g fat (7g saturated), 27g protein,
70g carbs, 6g fiber, 485mg sodium.
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notice. Please e-mail or US Mail only:
[email protected] or
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Check with each Promoter
before making plans!
Every Monday Teen Time on Mondays will have opportunities to make
new friends and learn something new. 3:30 p.m free Van Buren Public
Library 1409 Main Street for more info contact 479-474-6045
Every Tuesday – River Valley Creative Networking (RVCRN) meeting will
take place at Sweet Bay coffee Shop 3400 Rogers Ave. at 8 am. Come
meet with other business owners in your area, to meet greet and grow.
No fees or joining required. For more information contact Nancy Miller at
479-785-2862
Every Wednesday – Advance With Us Referral Networking(AWURN)
Western Sizzlin’ Steak House Poteau, OK. 12:15pm. This is a great chance
to have lunch meet other business people in your area without pressure.
Free to attend but lunch is on you. Contact Doretha at 479-739-3781
EVERY FRIDAY - Join Creative Referral Network (CRN) Every Friday,
8:15 am - 9:30 am at Firehouse Subs, behind Mason’s, off Joyce in
Fayetteville. No fees, no joining – just lots of great networking. We had 55
this past week -bring lots of cards! & you’ll have 70 seconds to share your
business “commercial” with those attending. Networking works! Donna
479.530.6462
Oct 1- Oct 31 Ft. Smith Public Library will be showing original artwork of
Sally Hart. The exhibition will feature photography, oils, collage and found
art. Artwork is available for viewing all library hours when meetings are
not being held in the Community Room. Its free of charge for information
contact Diane Holwick at 479-783-0229 or [email protected]
Oct 28-29 Mountain View will host Beans and Outhouse Races. Crafts.
music, over 2,000 lbs of pint beans sounds like fun.
http://www.
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Nov. 1-30 Mr. Rogers’ Sweater Drive During normal business hours!
Won’t you, please, help a neighbor? The Van Buren Public Library will
be participating in the Mister Rogers’ Sweater Drive during the month
of November. Help us build a “neighborly feeling” across the area by
donating new or gently used sweaters. Free
Nov 8th National Election Day. Find your voting location at http://www.
vote411.org .
Nov 12 - Veterans Day Parade &celebration starts at noon visit
chaffeecrossing.com for more info.
Eggs cups caught the attention
of enthusiasts during the 1980s
and ‘90s, and collecting them has
become a growing hobby. Egg cups
can be traced back several thousand
years and are found in almost every
country and culture. Most of us think
of egg cups as being made of ceramics,
but examples have been found crafted
of ivory, metal, glass, wood, rubber,
straw and even papier-mache.
Most collectors are especially interested in the character and personality
egg cups of the 1930s. Other popular
categories for collectors include Black
Memorabilia, Art Deco, Golliwoggs,
Political, Steamship and Souvenir
issues. Typical prices for character
and personality egg cups are Stan Laurel, $185; Andy Gump, $150, Ronald
Reagan, $90; Lone Ranger, $100; and
Popeye, $100.
One of the better references is “Egg
Cups: An Illustrated History and Price
Guide” by Brenda Blake and published
by Antique Publications. It is difficult
to find, but well worth the search.
October 31, 2016
Q:
I have inherited three pieces of
Hull pottery in the Dogwood
pattern. According to my older sister, the pieces were probably purchased during the early 1940s. What
can you tell me about this type of
pottery, and is it worth keeping? —
Veronica, Titusville, Florida
After finding a rich deposit of
clay soil in Perry County, Ohio,
Addis Emmet Hull founded the A.E.
Hull Pottery Company in 1905. Its
unpretentious line of ware was marketed throughout the country, and it
soon became one of the nation’s largest pottery outlets.
According to “Hull Pottery: Identification and Price Guide” by David
Doyle and published by Krause Books,
the Dogwood pattern was introduced
in 1942. Also known as Wild Rose, it
is distinctive because of its hand-decorated embossed floral designs. It was
issued in cream with the base usually two-tone, either pink and blue or
cream and turquoise. Values vary, but
I’ve seen the vases and pitchers in this
pattern priced in the $150-$300 range.
Write to Larry Cox in care of KFWS,
628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803,
or send e-mail to questionsforcox@aol.
com. Due to the large volume of mail
he receives, Mr. Cox cannot personally
answer all reader questions, nor does
he do appraisals. Do not send any materials requiring return mail.
A:
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that in for some real restrained fatherson dynamics.
Sausage Party (R) — This is the
Pixar-parody that will inevitably be
rented by accident to pacify some
innocent tykes, then quickly be turned
off with a few uncomfortable explanations afterward. A bunch of wideeyed talking foodstuffs (the lead hotdog voiced by Seth Rogen, with the
romantic interest/bun voiced by Kristen Wiig) are on an adventure around
a supermarket, looking for the truth
of what awaits them after being purchased — the reveal of what happens
to talking food when being prepped
and cooked is traumatizing. The movie is exceedingly offensive, and almost
admirably efficient at it. All races, religions, creeds and sex acts get unceremoniously mocked by talking food.
PICKS OF THE WEEK
Indignation (R) — From a kosher
butcher shop in Newark to the impossibly beautiful campus of a prestigious
Midwestern college, Marcus (Logan
Lerman) has come far. It’s 1951, and
the Korean War rages in the news, but
studious and introverted Marcus only
has eyes for the stunning Olivia (Sarah
Godon). He loses himself in her deep
blue eyes and winsome smile,
despite red flags that she
has mental-health troubles.
Though he’s the first to go to
college from his Jewish family, Marcus is distinctly non-religious, one thing which sets
him at odds with the creep-tastic dean (Tracy Letts).
The most notable thing up
front is the film’s visual aesthetic. You could say it’s nostalgic, but so much of it has
hints of the uptight, constrainBeachside Films
ing nature of the period that
Carla Juri, Markees Christmas
Marcus bumps up against. It’s
in “Morris from America”
enough to keep you aware that
you’re in a different world.
Phantom Boy (PG) — New York’s
Morris from America (R) — Coming of age is a pretty tough job already, newest hero is little Leo (voiced by
and for 13-year-old African-American Gaspar Godot), an 11-year-old cancer
Morris (Markees Christmas), it also patient who discovers that his spirit
involves dealing with terrible loss and can leave his body and fly around the
adjusting to an alien culture. After city. There’s also a new villain on the
losing his mother, Morris moves to scene, The Broken Face (Jean-Pierre
Heidelberg, Germany, with his father Marielle), a somewhat artsy antagCurtis (Craig Robinson), a former onist who doesn’t have a plan for an
soccer player taking a job as a coach. incorporeal hero boy. In this importMorris has to figure himself out while ed French animated feature, Fred
his peers throw racist comments at him Armisen and Vincent D’Onofrio proand his hormones make it difficult to vide additional voices for a visually
concentrate around Inka (Carla Juni), refreshing adventure for the kids.
his slightly older German tutor.
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ance between sincere drama, semiDaredevil: The Complete First
adult humor and cringe-inducing awk- Season
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past several years. The inclusion of
Mike Piazza, the best-hitting catcher
of all time, plus Andre Dawson and
Jim Rice, both dominant outfielders
of the 1970s and ‘80s, righted more
than a few wrongs.
Still, the BBWAA and the committee charged with appointing executives and overlooked players have
a ways to go. While the postseason
progresses into the cold autumn
night, here a few fire starters for you
and your friendly, knowledgeable
neighborhood baseball friends to
stoke by the hot stove.
We’ll begin with who is not invited:
Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, Rafael
Palmiero, Andy Pettite (remember
those postseason wins, folks) and
Alex Rodriguez. Also, Pete Rose
is banned for life, and he should be
content with his Fox Sports Network
post-game show gig (very entertaining, by the way).
Now, in no particular order, those
who have been overlooked:
1. Tim Raines. Actually, this is the
No. 1 most glaring omission. Raines
was a seven-time All-Star, a batting
champion, a silver-slugger award
winner in left field, is fifth all-time in
stolen bases and had a career on-base
percentage of .380. Raines was the
second-best leadoff hitter of his era
(but more durable) to Rickey Henderson and one of the undisputed
great left fielders in history. Easily
one of the most popular players of
October 24, 2016
Still Waiting
his time.
2. Lee Smith. Third in career saves
and a seven-time All-Star, Smith was
dominant from 1983 to 1995, leading
the NL in saves three times, landing
14 times in the top 10. He was one
of the top 10 vote-getters for a Cy
Young four times. Only 11 players
have appeared in more games than
Smith, he ranks third in career games
finished, and his strikeout to innings
pitched ratio of 8.73 is the 12th best
of all-time. Why even have a Hall of
Fame if you’re going to ignore guys
like him?
3. Jeff Bagwell. Rumored performance-enhancing-drug use, the
lack of “milestone” numbers like
3,000 hits, 500 homers and the overlooked Houston market in general
is said to plague Bagwell’s entry to
the Hall. Yet, his career on-base percentage plus slugging percentage
of .948 is the 22nd best all time. He
won a rookie of the year award, an
MVP award, a gold glove, four silver sluggers, and averaged 35 home
runs and 115 RBI, with slash line of
.297/.408/.540.
4. Jeff Kent. No second baseman hit more home runs than Kent.
Maligned for his fielding, he still
ranks 19th in career double plays
turned. Eight times, he drove in more
than 100 runs in a season.
5. Curt Schilling. After Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Clemens, one
of the most dominant pitchers of his
era. He often averaged nearly nine
strikeouts to one walk, and his career
average of 4.4 is the third best of all
time. He has the hardware, the MVPs
and the bloody sock to show for it,
too.
Apologies to Don Mattingly and
Keith Hernandez this time around.
Have other ideas? Message me direct
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off your chest ... you’ll feel better!
Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey.
Homemade Microwave
Meals Save Time
I’ve found that using my microwave
oven saves hours of time and keeps
my kitchen clean and cool. The history of the microwave oven goes back
to 1946, when Dr. Percy Spencer, an
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ated for the consumer kitchen.
I encourage you to read the instruction book that came with your microwave oven. It’s the easiest way to find
out how to successfully use all of its
functions. My microwave has all of
the typical functions, but I especially
love the warming oven feature. It
cycles on and off so that I can hold
dinner for my husband when he’s
running late, or keep a casserole dish
warm during the holidays.
You can use your microwave to
prepare everything from appetizers
to desserts. It’s energy efficient, as it
won’t heat up your kitchen, and also
helps to retain more nutrients in your
foods. In some cases, a microwave is
the best way to cook a dish, especially
with vegetables, giving them a better
taste and texture.
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electronics genius and war hero, was
touring one of the laboratories at the
Raytheon Company. The company
was testing a vacuum tube called a
magnetron, the power tube that drives
a radar set. As Dr. Percy stood in front
of the “radar box,” a candy bar in his
pocket melted.
Dr. Percy tried other experiments
with food, including using popcorn
kernels. He designed a metal box
around the magnetron with microwave power. Engineers developed and
refined the idea, and the first commercial microwave oven hit the market
in 1947. However, initial response
was not very good, and it wasn’t until
1975 that a microwave oven was cre-
When cooking on any power level
other than HIGH, the oven cooks
by cycling power on and off, so
the energy has a chance to move
through the food without overcooking
it. MEDIUM and LOW power are
generally used to soften, melt and
defrost foods, while HIGH is usually
used for cooking. Carefully follow the
recipe when using your microwave,
and you’ll have beautifully cooked
meals each time!
This recipe for Quick Stuffed Bell
Peppers is easy to assemble and cooks
in minutes. This dish freezes well, so
double the recipe, and when you’re
pressed for time, you’ll have a homemade, microwave meal in minutes!
$5
QUICK STUFFED BELL
PEPPERS
8
bell peppers, tops removed
and cut into a small dice,
white membrane and seeds
removed and discarded
1 cup shredded Monterey Jack
cheese, divided
1 pound lean ground beef or
turkey
5 crackers, crushed into fine
crumbs
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 (3 ounce) package dehydrated onion soup mix
1 tablespoon steak sauce
1 teaspoon Worcestershire
sauce
1
teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
Tomato Sauce Topping:
8 ounces tomato sauce
2 tablespoons salsa
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1. Using a large bowl, gently mix
together the diced pepper tops, 1/2 cup
of cheese, ground meat, crackers, egg,
soup mix, steak sauce, Worcestershire
sauce, salt and black pepper.
2. Stuff the prepared peppers with
the ground meat mixture and stand
them upright in a lightly greased
12-by-8-by-2-inch baking dish.
Combine the tomato sauce, salsa, salt,
pepper and brown sugar. Mix well
and pour over peppers.
3. Cover tightly with microwave-safe
plastic wrap; fold back small edge for
steam to escape. Microwave on high
12-15 minutes, until the filling is hot
and pepper is almost tender. Let stand
6 to 8 minutes. Sprinkle peppers with
the remaining cheese. Serve with a
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***
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• On Nov. 12, 1889, DeWitt Wallace,
founder of Reader’s Digest, is born.
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magazine had the largest circulation in
the world, with more than 17 million
readers in some 20 languages.
• On Nov. 10, 1903, U.S. Patent No.
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woman named Mary Anderson for
her windshield wipers. Anderson tried
to sell the patent to a Canadian firm,
but it said the device had no practical
value.
• On Nov. 11, 1921, the Tomb of
the Unknowns is dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery in an Armistice Day ceremony. The Tomb of the
Unknowns is considered the most hallowed grave at Arlington and has been
guarded by sentinels 24/7 since 1937.
• On Nov. 13, 1953, Mrs. Thomas J. White of the Indiana Textbook
Commission calls for the removal of
references to the book “Robin Hood”
from school textbooks, claiming it was
communistic. Attacks on freedom of
expression in the U.S. during the Red
Scare resulted in a number of books
being banned, including John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.”
• On Nov. 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy,
43, becomes the youngest man and
first Roman Catholic ever to be elected
president of the United States.
• On Nov. 9, 1971, John Emil List
slaughters his family in their Westfield, New Jersey, home and then disappears for 18 years. List had methodically devised a plan, saying the family
was going out of town. By the time
authorities discovered the bodies, he
had vanished. List was found in West
Virginia in 1989.
• On Nov. 7, 1991, basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson stuns
the world by announcing his sudden retirement from the Los Angeles
Lakers, after testing positive for the
AIDS virus. Johnson was one of the
first sports stars to go public about his
HIV-positive status.
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presents
LOTTERIES
• Augustus Caesar held the first known
lottery, to raise funds to repair Rome.
• In 1851 in France, the French government
needed money to sustain itself. Recent
reports of gold strikes in California resulted
in an idea. A national lottery was announced
throughout France. Tickets sold for one
franc each, and the prizes were solid gold
ingots. The proceeds from this lottery were
to be used to ship 5,000 fine French citizens
to California in order to give them a new
start in life. The lottery was rigged so that
the gold never left the royal treasury. And
instead of shipping 5,000 of Frances’s best
citizenry, they instead loaded up the ships
with prisoners, prostitutes, and thieves—
anyone they most desired to get rid of.
• Claude Monet won the French lottery in
1891. His winnings permitted him to devote
himself painting. He became one of the
most famous painters of the century.
• Lotteries in the U.S. date back to the 1600s.
The new English colony of Jamestown was
financed by a lottery in 1612. The first lottery
sponsored by Congress was approved
in 1776. The Mountain Road Lottery was
sponsored by George Washington to fund
a road over the Allegheny Mountains. Yale,
Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth and the
University of Pennsylvania all sponsored
lotteries. The Continental Congress raised
over $1 million in 1776 for the Revolutionary
Army.
• Every major religion (except the Quakers)
established lotteries at some time in
the early 1800s. Over 300 schools and
universities and hundreds of transportation
projects were benefactors of early lotteries.
• After several scandals associated with
lotteries took away the public’s trust and
led to national prohibition of the games,
Congress basically outlawed lotteries in
1894, and they weren’t revived until New
Hampshire held one in 1964. (continued
next page)
LOTTERIES (cont’d)
• The biggest tip ever: Phyllis Penzo was a
waitress at Sal’s Pizzeria in Dobbs Ferry,
New York. One night in while waiting on
police detective Robert Cunningham, she
was offered her choice of either a meager
tip, or half of the winnings from a lottery
ticket he had just bought. She choose the
latter. The ticket was worth over $6 million,
and Mr. Cunningham made good on his
offer for a tip.
• Upon learning that he had won the Illinois
state lottery for about $2.3 million, Harold
Collins of Pekin, Illinois, gave all of his
1. Humans need an atmosphere with 10%
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2. How often do roaches fart?
3. How fast can roaches run?
4. All roaches run from light, but what else do
they universally avoid?
5. How long can a roach hold its breath?
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In the Garden
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Winter watering is not as common
as summer time watering, but
prior to a hard freeze or cold snap,
make sure there is ample moisture
around the root zone.
I need to ask a question about
fall cleanup in my yard on
weeds. We have a great stand of
Bermuda grass. We have good
fertility program for past year.
Moisture levels are good based
on watering and rainfall. We have
been regularly mowing with a good
grass height, not cut too short. I
use a mulching mower most of
time and choose not to bag the
clippings.
I applied fall preemergent last week. My question
is this......we still have some active
Q.
crabgrass in both front and back.....
can I use a “weed and feed” to try
and clean up what weeds are still
active before they go to seed?
A.
I cannot imagine that if you
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not already had seed set—it grows
so rapidly and produces seed stalks
often in-between mowing. I would
not be using anymore fertilizer
now, or post-emergent herbicides
for summer weeds. Use a preemergent herbicide in late Feb.early April to prevent crabgrass
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defense on lawn weeds is a good
offense. Having a thick, dense turf
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winnings to his former wife. He once promised that he
would win her a million dollars. “Besides,” he said, “I like
to work. I like the way I live. I like to watch sports on TV.
My God, what could I have possibly done with almost
$2.5 million? I don’t need it.”
• Joan Campaign of Australia found a wallet containing
$225 in 1978. She turned it over the police. The owner
rewarded her with a single lottery ticket. The ticket was
a winner and Joan ended up with a car, a boat, a trailer,
and a mobile home, worth an estimated $45,000.
• When Herbert Chun of Australia won a lottery prize of
$70,000 he became so excited at the news that he had a
heart attack.
• Clarence Kinder was 77 when he won $50,000 in the
West Virginia state lottery in 1987. He died of a heart
attack the next day.
• John Batt was out of the country and missed the one-year
deadline for claiming his $50,000 lottery winnings in the
New Jersey State Lottery by a mere three days.
• An inventor in Richland, Washington, came up with a
hand-held machine that generated random numbers that
people could use to play the lottery. He didn’t make any
guarantee about whether or not the numbers would be
winners. It just spared the lottery players from having to
think up their own numbers.
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Worms (cont. from page 2)
• A robin can eat up to 14 feet (4 m) worth of
worms in a day.
• The largest earthworm ever found was in
South Africa and measured 22 feet (6.7 m)
long.
• The maximum lifespan of an earthworm in
captivity is about six years.
• There are over 1 million earthworms in one
acre of soil.
• They can burrow up to 15 feet (4.5 m) below
ground.
• Earthworms are 82% protein. T-bone steak is
only 32% protein. Worms are high in omega-3
fats.
• Earthworms have no lungs. They breathe
through their skin.
• Composting with worms occurs four times
faster than normal composting.
• Charles Darwin, who studied earthworms
extensively, said, “It may be doubted that there
are many other animals which have played so
important a part in the history of the world as
have these lowly organized creatures.”
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One of my favorite shows was
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for a revival, or perhaps a big-screen
feature? — Felicia F., via email
Coming this February, CBS
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new spinoff series of “The Good Wife”
starring Christine Baranski, who will
reprise her role as the beloved Diane
Lockhart, which earned her six Emmy
Award nominations. She will be joined
by fan-favorite Cush Jumbo as Lucca
Quinn, and Sarah Steele will reprise
her role of Marissa Gold. Just added
to the roster is “Game of Thrones” and
“Downton Abbey” alum Rose Leslie,
who will play Maia Sindell, the goddaughter of Diane.
The new series is set one year after the
events of “The Good Wife” finale. An
enormous financial scam has destroyed
Maia’s reputation while simultaneously wiping out Diane’s savings. No longer welcome at Lockhart and Lee, the
two end up together with Lucca Quinn
at another one of Chicago’s top firms.
“We’re thrilled to have Rose on
board,” said executive producers Robert and Michelle King. “We needed a
young actress who could hold her own
with Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, and Rose is perfect. She’s real, she’s
strong, and she can play comedy. If we
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My absolute favorite TV show
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am very disappointed it is not on the
fall schedule. Would you please tell
me why, and if it will be returning?
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award-winning reality/competition show, will be back for it’s 29th
season, with original plans for it to be
a midseason show. As of this writing,
an exact date had not been announced.
As it now stands, the freshman series
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What has Javier Bardem been
up to lately? — Daniel F., Albuquerque, New Mexico
Javier and real-life spouse
Penelope Cruz are teaming up
for “Escobar,” a biopic about the infamous drug lord (played by Javier) and
the television journalist (Penelope)
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film, and he will play DEA Agent Neymar, who is on the hunt to bring Escobar down. Starting May 26, 2017, you
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When the Bizzy Bees Pest Control
Company of Dallas offered a
$1,000 prize for the state’s largest
cockroach, they received 205 entries.
Fourteen finalists were selected (five
of the roaches were still alive) and
the winner was the 1.92-inch (4.9
cm) roach submitted by Pat Camden
who found the roach marching down
the hallway at work and sprayed it
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Quote
“A cockroach likely has no less
brainpower than a butterfly, but we’re
quicker to deny it consciousness
because it’s a species we dislike.”
— Jeffrey Kluger
HOLLYWOOD — The continuation of the 1995 family adventure film
“Jumanji” (with Robin Williams and
Kirsten Dunst) will star Dwayne
Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black,
Nick Jonas and Karen Gillan (of
“Guardians of the Galaxy” and the
sequel, “Volume 2,” due in 2017).
It follows four teens sucked into the
board game, which gives them new
“avatar” forms to locate a jewel. It’s
due July 28.
“Mamaboy,” the film about Kelly,
18 and pregnant, and ... a boy, had its
premiere last month where it was shot,
in Sacramento, California, for the
cast and the high-school extras featured in the film. At the Oct. 20 Hollywood premiere, the cast of media
stars, including Sean O’Donnell
(“Sickhouse”), Alexandra DeBerry
(“A.N.T. Farm”), Michael Eric Reid
(“Victorious”), Dylan Riley Snyder
(“Kickin’ It”) and Cassidy Shaffer
(“Austin & Ally”), are joined by Oscar
nominee Gary Busey (playing Kelly’s
football coach) and “Memento” star
Steve Tobolowksy. In the old Hollywood tradition, publicists Ron Scott
and David Kuff had the stars arrive at
the premiere in a school bus. We’ll let
you know the release plans for this fun
film as soon as we know.
Molly Ringwald, (“Pretty in Pink”
and “The Breakfast Club”) will star
off-Broadway in “Terms of Endearment” as Aurora Greenway, the
role that won an Oscar for Shirley
MacLaine in 1983.
***
You probably know that Jim Parsons, Haley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki have been getting $1 million an
episode for “The Big Bang Theory,”
which may explain why movie actors
are defecting to television. Lauren
Graham and Alexis Bledel are getting $750,000 a show from Netflix for
“The Gilmore Girls.” Mark Harmon
gets $525,000 an episode for “NCIS,”
while HBO pays Kevin Spacey
(“House of Cards”), Peter Dinklage,
Lena Headley, Kit Harrington, Emi-
Jeff Daly/courtesy of HBO
Dwayne Johnson
ly Clarke and Nikolaj Coster-Waldeau (“Game of Thrones”) each
$500,000 a show.
Dwayne Johnson parlayed his wrestling career into a $185 million movie
career and is now pulling in $400,000
an episode for his HBO series “Ballers.” Drew Barrymore (“Santa Clarita Diet”), Emma Stone and Jonah
Hill (“Maniac”) are each earning
$350,000 an episode from Netflix for
their series. The stars of “The Simpsons” — Nancy Cartwright, Dan
Castellaneta, Yardley Smith and
Julie Kavner — are getting $315,000
a show just for their voices.
There’s nothing “Transparent” about
Jeffrey Tambor’s salary; Amazon
pays him $275,000 an episode. Julie
Louis-Dreyfuss (“Veep”), Tim Allen
(“Last Man Standing”), Patricia Heaton (“The Middle”) and the cast of
“Modern Family” — Julie Bowen, Ty
Burrell, Eric Longstreet, Jesse Tyler
Ferguson and Sophia Vergara — all
earn $250,000 a show.
President Obama’s worth is $12.2
million. He may have aged in eight
years, but so has his money, and he
doesn’t have to endure reruns where
he looks much younger.
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Scent Your Home
With Woodsy Potpourri
What’s the first thing that comes to
mind when you hear the word “potpourri”? A category on “Jeopardy”?
It’s that and more: a collection, a
sort of mish-mash or hodgepodge
of things, and when I’m out for a fall
walk in a park or on a trail, I think of
nature being a potpourri. There’s so
much to look at, smell and touch.
Imagine if you could
capture and save that
sensory
experience.
Well, you can when you
gather nature finds and
stir them up to create a
beautiful and aromatic
mixture that can be displayed in a bowl or small
basket in your home.
First, collect the finds
for this colorful woodsy
potpourri mixture from
your own backyard or
from a nature walk with
your kids. Then find the
rest of the ingredients in
your spice cabinet and
even your fruit bowl.
Here’s how to mix up a batch of
woodsy potpourri from autumn’s
bounty:
Fill a large mixing bowl with finds
such as small pinecones, seedpods,
cedar chips or shavings, bits of bark,
seeds and pressed colorful leaves. Add
dried orange, lime and lemon peels, and
dried orange slices (dry the peelings
and fruit on a rack in a 200-degree oven
for two to three hours, or set the items
on a tray to air-dry for several days).
Add kitchen spices to this “woodland stew,” such as whole bay leaves,
broken cinnamon sticks, cloves and
whole allspice. You may wish to add a
few shakes of ground nutmeg, cloves
and cinnamon, too.
With a big wooden spoon, let your
school-age child lightly toss the ingredients. Doing this step outside on
a picnic table is fun and eliminates
kitchen clean-up. An adult may add
several drops of clove, orange or cinnamon oil (available in supermarkets
and pharmacies).
Store the mixture in a large, nonmetal covered container for a week or two.
Stir occasionally.
Scoop the contents into wooden
bowls or decorative dishes, and set
them around your home on shelves and
tables. If you share some with friends,
present the gift in decorative clear containers, such as Mason jars or recycled
food jars with labels removed. Paint or
cover the lids with fabric, and tie with
a ribbon.
Note: Collect bark and moss from
the ground or from cut branches, not
from a living tree.
***
Donna Erickson’s award-winning
series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public 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
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© 2016 Donna Erickson
Distributed by King Features Synd.
October 24, 2016
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CHICKEN SPAGHETTI
cup finely chopped onion
full cup diced cooked chicken
breast
1/2 cup (one 2.5-ounce jar) sliced
mushrooms, drained
1/4 cup sliced ripe olives
1¾ cups (one 15-ounce can)
Italian stewed tomatoes,
undrained
1 (10¾-ounce) can reduced-fat
cream of chicken soup
2 cups hot cooked spaghetti,
rinsed and drained
1/4 cup grated reduced-fat
Parmesan cheese
1. In a large skillet sprayed with
olive oil-flavored cooking spray, saute
onion for 5 minutes or just until tender. Add chicken, mushrooms, olives,
stewed tomatoes and chicken soup.
Mix well to combine. Stir in spaghetti. Lower heat and simmer for 10
minutes, stirring occasionally.
2. When serving, top each dish with
1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese. Serves
4 (1 1/2 cups each).
• Each serving equals: 264 Calories,
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816mg Sodium, 4g Fiber; Diabetic
Exchanges: 2 Meat, 1 1/2 Starch, 1
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1. LANGUAGE: What is the meaning of the Greek prefix “xeno”?
located in what body of water?
3. MEASUREMENTS:
Answers What does a
micron can
measure?
1. Roaches
survive in 1.5% oxygen.
4. MOVIES: Who was the
2. Roaches
fart about
once every
minutes.
Oscar-winning
director
of the15movie
“Deer Hunter”?
3. Roaches
can run up to 3.4 mph (5.5 kph)
5. LITERATURE:
U.S.
4. Roaches
avoid not only In
lightwhich
but also
state was the writer Eudora Welty
moving
air.
born?
6. MUSIC:
wroteforthe
5. A roach
can holdWho
its breath
up song
to 30
“Raindrops Keep Falling on My
minutes.
Head”?
7. MOVIES: What movie featured
the line, “Hasta la vista, baby”?
8. PSYCHOLOGY: What is a fear of
books called?
9. HISTORY: Who was the first U.S.
astronaut to fly into space twice?
10. FOOD & DRINK: What food is
eaten traditionally in the United Kingdom on the day before Ash Wednesday?
Answers
1. Foreigner or stranger
2. Baltic Sea
3. Length
4. Michael Cimino
5. Mississippi
6. Burt Bacharach and Hal David
7. “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”
8. Bibliophobia
9. Gus Grissom
10. Pancakes
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• If your toilet is slow to flush but
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of the straw where it needs to go, then
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