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ALL KINDS OF FOOLSby Kathy Wolfe
A fool is defined as “somebody considered to lack good sense or judgment.” See if you agree if this description applies to these folks. • After a voice was heard crying for help inside the wall of a Sweden hotel, firefighters broke into a chim-ney pipe only to find a 22-year-old man who had been trapped there for nine hours. After overindulging at the hotel’s bar, he decided to get some air on the roof, only to fall 45 feet down the chimney. • It was the brainstorm of Maryland State Police to place mannequins in old patrol cars along the interstate in an attempt to discourage speeding. The actual result was a flood of telephone calls from people worried about possible injuries to officers who appeared very stiff. The department’s next move was to place signs in the car windows enlightening drivers that these weren’t real troopers. • Eddie Boyd made a foolish decision back in 1954 when he was listening to auditions for singers for his band. A nervous young truck driver who was earning $40 a week stepped on stage and performed a couple of numbers. Eddie rejected the singer, telling him to stick with his current job “because you’re never going to make it as a singer.” That truck driver was none other than Elvis Presley.
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• When a Royal Canadian Mountie found a man meandering down the highway in his boxer shorts, he stopped to investigate. It seems his wife was driving, towing their trailer as he relaxed in the craft. When several bears were crossing the road, she stopped, and he stepped out of the trailer to see what was going on. As soon as the road was clear, she stepped on the gas, leaving her husband strand-ed in his skivvies. The police drove 70 miles before catching up with her. • Don’t try this at home! When an Ohio gentle-man experienced gas line freeze in his car, he was sure that heating up gasoline on the stove would solve that problem in a hurry. It’s no surprise that the fumes ignited, and when he threw a blanket on the fire, the flames quickly spread and destroyed his kitchen.
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The coming of Spring and the first flowers can bring joy and beauty of a new growing season. Easter starts the growing season with many beautiful but poisonous plants. The Tiger Lily is the most toxic. Many domestic felines have lost their natural sense of which plants are toxic and which are not. The most likely explanations are the loss of their natural diet, living in human housing and being exposed many unnatural surroundings and products (plastics, lawns, gardens, houses, cars, chemicals, drugs, electricity, sounds, smells, lights, TV, etc., etc.).
Highly Toxic Plants to Cats:• Kalanchoe (Devil’s backbone, Mexican hat
plant) – all parts of the plant/flowers• Oleander – all parts especially dry/dead leaves• Foxglove – all parts especially flowers, fruit
and young leaves• Lily of the Valley – all parts, especially the roots• Taxus genus (Yews) – all parts are toxic• Prunus genus – primarily the seeds of Apples,
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Many house or garden plants have the potential to be toxic year round and some have seasonal toxicities. It is best not to have plants around domestic cats unless you have done your research to see if those plants are safe. If you are unsure if your plants are safe – research on-line, talk with your garden center or contact the National Animal Poison Control Center – a 24 hour emergency service with phones answered by licensed veterinarians and toxicologists – there is a $50 consultation fee for each call – 1-888-426-4435. There are hundreds of plants that are mildly toxic, moderately toxic and very toxic to cats, dogs and humans so beware of the beauty around us and learn which plants can harm.
1. Who threw the last Red Sox no-hitter before Hideo Nomo in 2001?2. Who holds the record for most home runs hit by a pitcher for a season?3. What was the last bowl game in which the Temple Owls football team played before 2009’s EagleBank Bowl?4. In 2010, Atlanta’s Josh Smith became the youngest player in NBA history (24) to block 1,000 shots in his career. Who had been the youngest?5. In 2010, Ottawa defenseman Sergei Gonchar became the sixth Russian to play in 1,000 NHL games. Name three of the first five to do it.6. Name the last time a non-American male won the Olympic 200-meter butterfly.7. How many majors did golfer Lee Trevino win during his PGA Tour career?Answers1. Dave Morehead, in 1965. 2. Wes Ferrell of Cleveland hit nine home runs in 1931. 3. The Garden State Bowl, in 1979. 4. Benoit Benjamin was 25 when he hit the 1,000-block mark in the 1989-90 season. 5. Sergei Fedorov, Alex Kovalev, Slava Kozlov, Alexei Zhitnik and Sergei Zubov. 6. Russia’s Denis Pankratov, in 1996. 7. Six -- two U.S. Opens (1968, ‘71), two British Opens (‘71, ‘72) and two PGA Championships (‘74, ‘84).
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As a pet owner and emergency veterinar-ian, I am often asked how to best be prepared for an emergency. The importance of recognizing the normal in order to be able to identify abnormal can-not be emphasized enough. Early recognition of a problem is the start to saving a pet’s life. If there are any questions regarding signs and symptoms that your pet is exhibiting you should always seek advise from a veterinarian.
Preparedness is the key. Having informa-tion readily available, such as your veterinarian’s phone number and clinic hours, may help to save time in case of an emergency. General practices will often provide the phone number and directions to the closest emergency clinic. It is recommended that these phone numbers be listed in your phone and the directions to the nearest emergency clinic be readily available. If leaving your pets with a caregiver, do discuss finances and plan ahead for the unexpected.
Emergencies can occur with different types of trauma, as well as systemic illnesses. Any pet that is experiencing trouble breathing, choking, weakness, pale gums, cold extremities, abnormal heart rate, trouble urinating, or pets that are unwilling/unable to eat warrants a trip to the ER. When an emergency has been identified, it is most important to remain calm. It is also im-portant to protect yourself when pets are sick or injured. These pets need to be handled with care, as they may be painful and disoriented. Consider muzzling to best protect your self from injury. Cats
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Pets that have suffered a traumatic event, such as those that have been hit by an automobile or bitten by other dogs, snakes or insects, should be seen by a veterinarian right away, as internal bleeding and other secondary complications can often go unrecognized initially. Over-the-counter medications can pose further illness in pets and therefore are never recommended especially in the case of an emergency or without the consent of your veterinarian. Heatstroke should be considered an emergency, especially when pets are left in cars, tied outside without access to shade and water, or have been over-exercised in the heat. There are medical conditions that may also cause some dogs to overheat more quickly. Heatstroke can lead to death if not treated appropriately. Toxin ingestion is common. Symptoms that may be observed include vomiting, drooling, tremors or trouble walking. If the poison container/label is available, do bring this to the veterinarian to help determine the appropriate treatment protocol. Pet emergencies are often unavoidable. There are some basic things that we can do as responsible pet owners to try to decrease the chance. Spaying/neutering your pets early can help prevent possible traumas, unwanted pregnancies and/or some cancers. The use of a leash to prevent unexpected and potentially tragic consequences can also greatly decrease the chance that your pet will require a visit to the animal emergency room. Please see our ad above Column.
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• Who was the dummy here? A New Jersey sher-iff’s deputy was craving a snooze while on guard duty at the Somerset County courthouse, so he propped up a disguised dummy in his place. Not surprisingly, the switch was discovered, and he was suspended for three days without pay. • After studying a year’s worth of reports of fatal accidents involving over-the-road trucks, a 1994 National Transportation Safety Board report con-cluded that too many truck drivers fall asleep at the wheel because they’re sleepy. Gee, ya think? • Officials at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport concluded that it was important to have bi-lingual signs at the facility, but they weren’t very careful about the process. One sign was to advise travelers to declare all plants, produce and meat, and to warn them that those not doing so would be fined. Up went the sign reading Violadores Seran Finados, which actually translated “Violators Will Be Deceased.”
• What are the chances? In an anatomy class at the University of Alabama medical school, nine donated cadavers were lined up for dissection by the students. As one of the students prepared to be-gin her assignment, she discovered that one of the cadavers was her great-aunt. The school quickly made a substitution.
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LANCE ARMSTRONGThe name of Lance Armstrong is synonymous with cy-cling, but it has been no easy road for this athlete. This week, Tidbits looks at how Armstrong conquered the course despite the odds stacked against him. • Born to a teenage mother, Armstrong spent most of his childhood without his father, who left the family when Lance was two. Cycling was not his first pas-sion; rather, swimming was. Joining the swim team at age 12, he swam about three hours every day. By 16, he was a professional tri-athlete and won the national sprint-course triathlon title at age 18 and again at 19. • At age 20, Armstrong changed his focus to bicycle racing, and the following year finished 14th in the 1992 Summer Olympics. By 1996, he was the No. 1 cyclist in the world. In October of that year, Armstrong was dealt a staggering blow. After coughing up blood, he made a trip to the doctor where he was diagnosed with stage three testicular cancer that had already spread to his lungs, abdomen and brain. He immediately un-
derwent surgery and began chemotherapy. He later learned that the doctor had given him a 20-percent chance of survival. • A year later, Armstrong had determined he was going back to racing. The Tour de France follows a 2,200-mile (3,600 km) course that takes three weeks to complete. Each day is called a “stage,” and the times to finish each individual stage are combined to deter-mine the overall winner. Prior to his cancer, Armstrong had won two stages in separate races, the most recent in 1995. He became ill during the 1996 Tour and had been forced to withdraw. • In 1998, Armstrong’s comeback began when he took fourth place in the Vuelta a España. The next year, he grabbed the yellow jersey at the first of his Tour de France victories. Six more victories followed, making him the winner for a record-setting seven consecutive years. At the end of his 2005 triumph, Armstrong an-nounced his retirement from racing.
¥ It was American educator Laurence J. Peter who made the following sage observation: “An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” Inciden-tally, he also came up with what’s known as the Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
¥ Ever wonder why it’s called the silver screen? In the early days of the cinema industry, the projection screens were embedded with real silver to enhance the reflective nature of the surface.
¥ Greyhounds have better eyesight than any other breed of dog.
¥ Worried about grocery prices going up? How’s this for a pricey egg: In 2007, a Faberge egg was sold at auction for nearly $16.5 million. Good thing the ones used in your omelets aren’t encrusted with jewels. ¥ Those who study such things say that Americans drink more carbonated beverages every year than cof-fee, tea, sports drinks and juice combined. ¥ A legislator in the Louisiana State House of Repre-sentatives once introduced a bill that would make it illegal to charge a bald man more than 25 cents for a haircut.
¥ The plant formally known as titan arum produces the largest cluster of flowers in the world, sometimes reaching more than 10 feet in height. What’s perhaps even more notable, though, is its odor: The plant gives off a strong smell that is most often compared to that of a decomposing animal. Hence the plant’s more common name, the corpse flower.
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Upon starting our relationship withTidbits and being offered this space to communicate with our current and future clients it became clear that a further introduction was required. We started A Mobile Veterinarian as, we hope, an innovative way to see pets without the stress of going to a clinic setting. To accomplish this we don’t have an RV or a van, we see our clients in their own homes. The reason for this is being able to see cats and dogs in their own environment makes it easier to evaluate the pet. Dr. Steve can’t count the number of times a pet is presented for lameness but upon seeing the be in the clinic the lameness has magically disappeared do to stress only to resurface upon getting home. As well, we offer surgeries and dentals in our clients homes The philosophy behind this is we want our clients to be as involved as they want to be as well as educated. Our clients are all over the board as far as involvement. We have had some people want to help during a procedure and others go off into another room and just check in every once in a while. We love it this way because of situation that may arise that need owner input. We don’t have to worry about trying to get you on the phone and describing what is occurring and the client doesn’t have to wonder either. Our clients love the fact that they know everything that is happening to their pet and their pet is able to recover at home, not in a noisy veterinary kennel. The pet will have Dr. Steve’s and Morgan’s full attention during the whole procedure and during recovery. All of our equipment is human quality. We have one of the best monitoring systems available. Some of our clients that are nurses have commented that our equipment is better than what they have in their units. Because we offer this in our client home we realize it is not for everyone. All of this is in an attempt to bring the highest standards to veterinary medicine while keeping cost down. If this philosophy sounds interesting to you feel free to give us a call.
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Are Your Investments Get-ting Enough Exercise?
Now that spring is here, you may find it easier to get outside to run, bike or take part in other physical pursuits that you enjoy. As you know, the more active you are, the more efficiently your body will work. And the same can hold true for your investments: The more
exercise they get, the more potential to work on your behalf.
Just how do investments get “exercise”? Through lots of activity. And you can keep your investments active in at least two ways: through systematic investing and dividend reinvestment. Let’s take a look at both these techniques.
When you engage in systematic investing, commonly called “dollar cost averaging,” you are continually putting your money “in motion.” Essentially, you put the same amount of money into the same investments at regular intervals. For example, you might decide to invest $100 per month in Company ABC stock. To im-pose this investment discipline on yourself, you could even have the money sent directly from your checking or savings account.
Of course, since the price of ABC stock, like those of all stocks, is constantly changing, your $100 invest-ment will most likely buy different numbers of shares each month. This can work to your advantage, because when the stock price of ABC goes down, your $100 will buy more shares. When the price goes up, you’ll automatically be a smart enough “shopper” to buy few-er shares, just as you’d typically buy less of something when its price goes up.
Over time, systematic investing typically results in a lower average cost per share than if you were to make sporadic lump-sum investments. If you can lower the cost of investing, this may help boost your investment returns. This also can be an effective way to fund your retirement account(s) each year. (Keep in mind, though, that systematic investing does not guarantee a profit or protect against loss. Also, you’ll need the financial resources available to keep investing through up and down markets.)
Dividend reinvestment is similar to systematic investing in that it allows you to build more shares of an invest-ment. But when you reinvest dividends, you don’t even have to take money from other sources to increase your shares — you simply request that a stock or a mutual fund, instead of paying you a dividend in cash, reinvest the dividend into that same stock or mutual fund. It’s an effortless way of adding shares. Similar to dollar cost averaging, dividend reinvestment imposes investment discipline — you automatically keep putting money in the market during up and down periods. (Don’t forget, though, that dividends can be increased, decreased or eliminated at any point without notice.)
Exercising your investment dollars in these ways can help you go a long way toward keeping your portfolio in good shape — enabling you to make healthy progress toward your important long-term goals.
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¥ On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, em-peror of France, abdicates the throne and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Medi-terranean island of Elba. He died at age 52 on May 5, 1821, possibly from stomach cancer, al-though some theories contend he was poisoned.
¥ On April 12, 1908, a fire in Chelsea, Mass., at the Boston Blacking Company leaves 12 dead, 85 missing and presumed dead and more than 17,000 homeless. Due to high winds, a good por-tion of the city burned. It took nearly 10 years for Chelsea to be completely rebuilt.
¥ On April 16, 1943, in Basel, Switzerland, Al-bert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist, accidentally con-sumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds. Widespread use of the so-called mind-expanding drug did not begin until the 1960s.
¥ On April 15, 1959, new Cuban leader Fidel Castro visits the United States. The trip got off to an inauspicious start when it became clear that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had no inten-tion of meeting with Castro. Instead, Eisenhow-er went to the golf course to avoid any chance meeting.
¥ On April 13, 1964, Sydney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role as a construc-tion worker in “Lilies of the Field” (1963). He debuted on Broadway in 1946 in an all-black production of “Lysistrata,” and by 1950 he was appearing in Hollywood films, beginning with “No Way Out.”
¥ On April 14, 1975, the American airlift of Vi-etnamese orphans to the United States ends after 2,600 children are transported to America. Op-eration Baby Lift lasted 10 days and was carried out during the final, desperate phase of the war, as North Vietnamese forces were closing in on Saigon.
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