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World Environment Day, celebrated every year on June 5, was established by
the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. The day is intended to stimulate awareness
of issues affecting the environment and enhance political attention and public
action. This week, Tidbits honors the day and goes green.
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his ground-breaking experiments with solar power and photo voltaics.
Can “going green” create jobs? Absolutely. As an example, just look at Germany, where the solar industry has generated 10,000 jobs in production, distribution and installation.
A world record was set in 1990 when a solar-powered aircraft flew across the United States in 21 stages, using absolutely no fuel at all.
Water is the most commonly used renewable energy resource, providing enough power to meet the needs of 28.3 million people.
Although pollutant levels in the early 1900s were two to five times higher than current levels, forests in the Pacific Northwest are dying twice as fast as they were 17 years ago, and scientists blame warming temperatures, according to a new study.
If you drink a can of beer after work and then toss it in the recycling bin, that one (aluminum) can saves enough energy to watch television for three hours after dinner. Of course, you’d save even more energy if you went out for a walk or read a good used book after dinner. Think of the paper and trees saved.
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he had for dinner the night before.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
z It was French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte who made the following sage observation: “In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.”z You may consider the bikini to be a modern phenomenon, but in the ruins of Pompeii, which was buried by ash from an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D., there are murals depicting people in two-piece bathing suits.z Are you a librocubicularist? If, like me, you like to read in bed, then you are.z Academy Award-winning actress Bette Davis was evidently so concerned about the possibility of gaining weight between roles that in the 1940s she took out an insurance policy on her waist, in the amount of $28,000.z According to statistics from the Social Security Administration, about one-third of people who claim to be more than 100 years old aren’t telling
the truth. It seems that people age 75 and older tend to add years when asked how old they are, while those under age 75 tend to say they’re younger than they are.z Beer steins have covers to keep flies out.z Last year, much was made of the Obama family’s plan to adopt a dog. Many first families have had pets, though, and some presidents have not been content with a run-of-the-mill dog or cat. For instance, Thomas Jefferson kept two bear cubs in a cage on the front lawn of the White House, and Theodore Roosevelt had a zebra. An alligator was the pet of choice for John Quincy Adams, and James Buchanan kept an elephant.z Jujiro Matsuda was a blacksmith before he founded the Mazda auto manufacturing company.
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the short term, but mostly their response is to run away.If you’re training a cat to specifically do something on command, you need to use positive reinforcement almost exclusively. This is rewarding the cat with a treat, a stroke or a kind word immediately after it responds to the movement you’re trying to teach. The cat needs to develop a positive association with the activity.Keep training sessions short and somewhat spontaneous. Most cats don’t last more than five or 10 minutes per session. And don’t get discouraged if your cat doesn’t “get” it after days or weeks. Instead, be patient and look for new ways to make the connection with your cat.
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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Can you train a cat? — Janice in Wheeling, W.Va.DEAR JANICE: Sure, although I’m of the opinion that most cats train you. Seriously — they learn, pretty early on, what “buttons” to push to get you to give them food or treats, let them out, pet them or stop typing a pet column and pay attention to him or her. But you can have the last laugh and train your cat to respond to commands or signals. Remember that cats are very different than dogs in their approach to the world and in how they respond. In fact, you’ll want to somewhat mimic the way that your cat learns to train you: They observe you quietly, then test a few different methods of getting what they want and adopt the most successful one.It’s also important to note that cats don’t respond well to negative reinforcement. You can shake a can of pennies at them or hiss or yell “no!” when a cat is doing something you don’t want it to do, and that might work in
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ENVIRONMENT DAY (continued): Yes, we can: There are over 80 billion soda
cans used each year. Yes, that’s billion. And that’s just soda. Now, can you see the importance of recycling aluminum?
If you were to add up the amount of separate pieces of paper trash that each American throws away per year, it would be approximately 13,000 pieces of paper. A large percentage of this is packaging and junk mail.
An amazing fact: If you were to lay out all the paper that American businesses generate in just one day, that paper would be enough to circle the Earth about 20 times.
When a glass bottle is recycled, the process considerably cuts back on the air and water pollution that occurs when you create the bottle from raw materials.
Do it online? If American households went online to view and pay their bills, it would save over 16 million trees. Find out what services and options are available to you.
Recycle your newspapers whenever you can. Each year, 10 million tons (9.1 million kg) of newspaper are not recycled, but thrown away in landfills. If we changed this habit altogether, we could save up to 75 million trees.
For every 1 percent decrease in the Earth’s ozone layer, there is a 2 percent increase in the incidence of skin cancer in humans.
Public transportation produces 95 percent less carbon monoxide (CO), 90 percent less volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and about half as much carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx), per passenger mile as private vehicles. Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions represent about 82 percent of the total U.S. human-made greenhouse emissions.
Forty-nine percent of America’s electricity comes from burning coal. Sixty three percent of fossil fuel electricity comes from burning coal, 29 percent from burning natural gas and 9 percent from burning oil.
The combustion of fossil fuels supplies over 40 percent of the electricity the entire world uses.
It takes approximately 394 pounds (179 kg) of coal to keep a single 100-watt incandescent light bulb burning for 12 hours each day for one year.
Currently, conventional incandescent lamps are in the process of being replaced with more energy-efficient lamps. Fluorescent light has been used for many years in overhead fluorescent tubes without causing any problems. Nevertheless, certain “light sensitive” citizens’ associations have voiced concerns about compact fluorescent lamps.
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Geothermal energy from the Earth is abundant. If we could utilize just 5 percent of the geothermal “wealth” we have here in the Unites States, we could supply the electricity needs for 260 million Americans. America’s population at the moment is right around 300 million.
If laundromats in the United States switched to front-loading machines, we could save a whole lot of water. If just one load of wash per day was washed by a front loader rather than a top-loading machine, we’d save 1 million gallons (3.8 million
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On Saturday, June 5, The Curry Foundation, a Lowcountry-based 501(c)(3) non-profit charity will tee off its fund-raising campaign with The 1st Annual Curry Cup Charity Golf Event at the Hampton Hall Golf Club.The event gives area golfers a chance to enjoy some friendly competition on the links while lending a hand to some of their less fortunate neighbors.The Curry Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide emotional and financial support to individuals or families suffering from hardship due to a life altering tragedy. The Foundation recently helped a Bluffton couple, Ben and Brittany Kennedy, through Ben’s two bouts with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and looks to establish an enduring legacy of helping others through difficult times. The golf event is the first of several annual
events through which The Curry Foundation will support its mission.The Curry Cup event will follow a modified scramble format. The entry fee ($135/individuals and $500/teams of 4) includes a gift package, prize chance, and an awards reception/dinner following play.For an extra competitive twist, The Curry Cup will include a “Club Division” — teams from private golf clubs around the Lowcountry will compete on behalf of their respective clubs for the Curry Cup Trophy. The winning team’s club will have the honor of displaying the Curry Cup Trophy in their clubhouse for a year’s worth of bragging rights until the next year’s event.Player check-in for The 1st Annual Curry Cup Charity Golf Event starts at 12:30 PM on Saturday, June 5, followed by a 2:00 PM shotgun start. For registration and sponsorship information, visit CurryFoundation.org.
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A In 2009, Tony Kubek became the fourth former major-league player to win the Ford C. Frick broadcasting award. Name two of the first three to win it.
B When was the last time the Cincinnati Reds had a 20-game winner?
C Who was the last college football defensive tackle before
Ndamukong Suh of Nebraska in 2009 to finish in the top-five in Heisman Trophy voting?
D In 2008, New Orleans guard Chris Paul set a record with a steal in his 106th consecutive regular-season game. Who had held the mark?
E In the past four Olympics, how many times has the Russian men’s hockey team won a gold medal?
F Richard Petty won five NASCAR Cup season titles during the 1970s, while Cale Yarborough won three in a row. Who won the other two during the decade?
G Who was the last father before Roger Federer in 2010 (Australian Open) to win a Grand Slam tennis event?
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DOVER, Del. — For 2003 (then Winston) Cup champion Matt Kenseth, things could be better, but things also
could be worse.Kenseth drives a Ford, and Ford is the only manufacturer without a victory in the Sprint Cup season’s first 12 races. Befitting a former champion, Kenseth is holding up well through what otherwise might be termed a slump. In fact, Kenseth was and is third: third in the Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway, and third in the overall point standings.“There have been races this year where we performed well enough to win,” said Kenseth. “We finished second in Atlanta, and we were second or third on that last restart at Martinsville (18th-place finish after tangling with Jeff Gordon). In Vegas, I think Jeff (Gordon) and Jimmie (Johnson) had better cars, but we ran second or third there (fifth-place finish) all day.”The Wisconsin native just turned 38. In 376 Cup
starts, Kenseth has won 18 races, and his next top-five finish will be his 100th. In NASCAR’s all-time list of winners, Kenseth is in a five-way tie for 37th place with Geoff Bodine, the late Neil Bonnett, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Harry Gant.The careers of Kenseth and Earnhardt Jr. have been intertwined. Earnhardt outdueled Kenseth for two
Former Cup champion Matt Kenseth has struggled to get a win this season, although he’s been close. (John Clark/NASCAR This
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Kenseth a Real team PlayeR(then) Busch Series championships but has never won a Cup championship. Both have won the Daytona 500. They were both rookies in 2000, with Kenseth winning Raybestos Rookie of the Year.Both also have had a hard time winning lately. Forty-six races have passed since Kenseth opened the 2009 season with consecutive victories.“To me, it’s important to win, but more than that, if this makes sense, it’s important to put yourself in position to win and be up leading laps,” said Kenseth. “If you look at Jeff Gordon’s year, he hasn’t won yet, but he has led, like, 800 laps (actually 709), and has been in position every week. It is just a matter of time until he wins.“You always want to win every week, but more so for me, it’s important to have the performance of the car and the team, everybody involved, to be a contender to win. If we are up there leading laps and in contention, eventually we’ll win. It’s important for me to get our performance up to a championship level.”
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With more and more people falling behind on bills, it makes sense that the number of debt settlement companies is on the rise. Unfortunately, the incidence of consumer fraud from those settlements also is increasing.The Government Accountability Office did an investigation of debt settlement companies and reported that:• Consumers are being told to send payments to the debt settlement company instead of the credit-card company — even on accounts that are still current. This destroys the consumer’s credit rating even more than it already is.• Consumers are being guaranteed that the debt will be reduced or go away, or that lawsuits will stop. Credit-card companies, however, don’t like working with debt settlement companies.• Upfront fees are required, and most of that money doesn’t go toward the debt.• Less than 10 percent of consumers who enter into a monthly payment agreement will finish it.• Consumers often end up in worse financial situations, and much further in debt.There’s no reason you can’t call your debt holders yourself. If you’re truly in a financial hole and they see that you won’t be able to pay the debt as originally agreed, they might agree to settle for less and reduce your payments.Warning: If you do get a credit-company to settle for less than the original amount owed, that money could become a tax liability to you. In other words, if the forgiven debt is more than $600, it becomes taxable income. (This applies unless you are truly insolvent — your debts are greater than your assets. Other situations apply, so research yours before you agree to settle a debt.) In most cases, you’ll get a 1099-C tax form in the mail at the end of the year, and the Internal Revenue Service will get a copy of that same form. It’s expected that you’ll add the forgiven amount to your income for that year.Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) have sponsored The Debt Settlement Consumer Protection Act of 2010 in the hope of reining in debt settlement companies that are abusing consumers. In part, the legislation asks for more disclosure for consumers, a limit on the fees the companies can charge and more enforcement at the state and federal levels.
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1. Is the Book of Jonah in the Old or New Testament or neither?
2. In Genesis 15, who was told to “look now toward Heaven and tell the stars”? Noah, Adam, Abram, Moses
3. Who succeeded Belshazzar as King of the Chaldeans? David, Darius, Daniel, Saul
4. Of these, who sold his brother to a camel caravan? Cain, Judah, Silas, Joshua
5. Where did Jacob and his family settle in Egypt? Goshen, Damascus, Bethlehem, Beersheba
6. What was the name of Naomi’s husband? Ephriam, Elijah, Elimelech, Elisha
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ENVIRONMENT DAY (continued):liters) of water a day.
America’s refrigerators use about 7 percent of the nation’s total electricity consumption, the output of about 25 large power plants.
Did you know that Americans throw away approximately 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour? Meeting the nation’s demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil
annually. That is enough to fuel an estimated 100,000 cars for a year.
How it all began: From the conservation movement at the beginning of the 20th century, there has been a steady progression. In the sixties the great concern centered on chemical pesticides.
Many believe the ecological movement was born with author Rachel Carson’s classic book, “Silent Spring.”
The ecology movement’s growth has been stimulated by a widespread acknowledgment of an ecological crisis on our planet.
Big Earth Day issues through the years: There was a great deal of concern over nuclear weapons and nuclear power in the 1960s and 1970s; the big issue in the 1980s, acid rain; in the 1990s, ozone depletion and deforestation; and now climate change and global warming are the biggest concerns for many.
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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Recently, my daughter attended a sweet-16 birthday party for one of her best friends. She is a beautiful girl. When my daughter showed me pictures of her friend, I was shocked. Her face and arms were deeply tanned. I have no idea how many hours she must have spent under a tanning machine. I am very concerned about her. Would you write about the dangers of tanning? — Anon.ANSWER: Ultraviolet light, the kind of light we don’t see, has powerful effects on the skin. Ultraviolet A rays constitute 95 percent of the UV light that makes its way to earth. UV A rays do not burn and tan skin as much as UV B rays, but they do damage skin. They cause skin wrinkling; they dry skin; and they produce age spots (liver spots). And they also add to the risk of skin cancer.Ultraviolet B rays are more destructive. They are the burning rays, and they have a greater effect on skin cancer production. Both A and B reduce the skin’s innate immunity.Exposure to both UV A and UV B injures the skin cells’ DNA, and that’s what sets the scene for future skin cancer. Humans have learned to cope with UV light by tanning. A tan offers some protection against
further damage. UV light activates melanocytes, and they pass their melanin — a dark pigment — to other skin cells. That has the effect of providing an umbrella for the skin. However beneficial that might be, the fact remains that in obtaining a modicum of protection with a tan, skin-cell DNA has been dealt a major blow. No tan can be considered healthy. Sun exposure in adolescence might be the most dangerous time for ultraviolet damage. Tanning booths and tanning beds are considered a threat equal to the sun for promoting future skin cancer.People of all ages should protect their skin from exposure to UV light. Such exposure happens every time a person goes outdoors. Cloud cover is a poor absorber of UV rays and offers little skin protection. Sunscreen application should become a habit.
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TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH By Paul G. Donohue, M.D.
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Washington in 1991.4. San Antonio’s Alvin Robertson set
the old mark in 1986.5. None — Russia won a silver medal in
1998 and a bronze in 2002.6. Bobby Isaac in 1970 and Benny
Parsons in 1973.7. Andre Agassi, who won the 2003
Australian Open.
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