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Fishing is a favorite pastime of people all over the world. It also is a great way to feed your family. You’ve probably heard the proverb: “Give a man a fi sh, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fi sh, and you feed him for a lifetime.” Let’s catch some fi shy Tidbits!

• Valentine’s Day 2011 was a big day for a fi sherman from Vicksburg, Mississippi, who caught a 327-pound (148 kg), 8-foot, 5.25-inch (2.6 m) alligator gar while fi shing at Chotard Lake. The huge fi sh, believed to be between 50 and 70 years old, was donated to the Missis-sippi Museum of Natural Science to be pre-pared for a future display. The alligator gar is quite terrifying with two rows of sharp teeth. • That gar was big but not as big as the largest catfi sh ever caught. It was as big as a grizzly bear! The Mekong giant catfi sh, caught in the Mekong River in Thailand in 2005, was 9 feet long (2.7 m) and weighed 646 pounds (237 kg). It died as fi shermen struggled for about an hour to capture it and became a tasty meal for the local villagers.

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Dear Paws: I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be alive without my dog "Blake." I'm a senior citizen; my wife passed away three years ago, and most of my children live too far away to visit regularly. Blake sleeps at the side of my bed every night and at exactly 6 a.m. every morning he sits up next to me, licks my face until I'm awake. He's so happy when I

get out of bed that he turns in circles nonstop until I get dressed so I can take him out for his morning walk.At my last checkup, my doctor said those morning walks are helping keep my blood pressure under control and I seem in good spirits. I do enjoy tak-ing care of Blake and he's the one who kept me go-ing after my wife passed. Blake is family to me and no one can tell me different. Sign me -- Stubborn Old Bob in Palmyra, N.Y.Dear Bob: That's telling 'em! Thank you for telling your story. It sounds like Blake is taking care of you as much as you take care of him.

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¥ A trio of sewing tips from S.R. in Idaho: 1. “Store patterns in plastic baggies. It’s hard to get them back into their envelopes, and I find that the baggies store just as well. 2. I keep my pattern from tearing by spraying them with spray starch. 3. I also sharpen needles by stitching through very fine sandpaper. These tips have worked for me for many years.”

¥ “It’s almost time for Scouts to start up again. I have been washing uniforms and sashes, and find this trick to be helpful when it comes time to stitch on badges. Put a bit of plain school glue on the back of your badge, place it where you want it on the sash, then let it dry. It will stay in place long enough to stitch the edges. When you launder it, the glue will wash right out.” -- R.D. in Florida

¥ Solve the case of the tricky screw: Coat problem screws with clear fingernail polish right before you insert them. They will hold tightly after that.

¥ To keep hair shiny and soft, rinse weekly with a 50-50 mix of vinegar (apple cider or white) and wa-ter. The smell goes away quickly, but the softness and shine stick around.

¥ If you have a cracked or otherwise leaking vase that is opaque (not glass), try heating a bit of par-affin wax and coating the inside of the vase with it. Let it harden, and it should be watertight again.

¥ “To keep plywood or thin materials from split-ting, I tape my cut line with low-tack masking tape. It keeps my cut sharp, reduces the fraying and itÕs easy to remove when IÕm done.” -- G.S. in Min-nesota

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WHAT A CATCH! (continued):• How would you like to see a school bus swim-ming in the waters near your boat? If you paint-ed a whale shark yellow and put in some win-dows, that is about what you would see. Whale sharks are the biggest fish in the world. They can grow to more than 40 feet (12 m) in length and can weigh up to 30 tons (27 metric tons)! • Whale sharks swim in warm ocean waters mostly near the equator. However, they have been occasionally spotted as far north as the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada. Whale sharks swims with their mouths open. Those mouths can be up to 5 feet (1.5 m) wide — large enough to fit a small car inside! (Hmmm. Re-member the Bible story of Jonah being swal-lowed by the big fish?) The world’s biggest fish actually prefers small food, mostly plankton, sardines and other small fish. Whale sharks have more than 3,000 teeth, smaller than finger-nails.• Not as big as a whale shark, but to be feared more, is the bull shark. Bull sharks are very aggressive and can be found in freshwater as well as saltwater. They have been found in the Amazon and the Mississippi Rivers. They get their name from the fact that they head-butt their prey and have tough attitudes. • A fish that appears to have a grouchy attitude is the grouper. With its lower jar protruding in a nasty under-bite, this fish is not good looking but is very tasty. This relative of the sea bass is a healthy favorite with restaurants and home cooks. • The largest grouper on record caught with a rod and reel was pulled out of the water in Des-tin, Florida, on December 22, 1985. It weighed a whopping 436 pounds (198 kg)!

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¥ On Aug. 29, 1982, the Swedish-born actress and three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman dies of cancer in London on her 67th birthday. Berg-man was best known for her role as Ilsa Lund in “Casablanca.”

¥ On Aug. 30, 1963, a “hot line” between Moscow and Washington goes into effect to speed com-munication between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union and help prevent the possibility of an accidental war. The hot line was never really necessary to prevent war, but it did pro-vide a useful prop for movies about nuclear disaster, such as “Fail Safe” and “Dr. Strangelove.”

¥ On Aug. 31, 1955, William G. Cobb of the General Motors Corp. demonstrates his 15-inch-long “Sun-mobile,” the world’s first solar-powered automobile. When sunlight hit 12 photoelectric cells made of selenium (a nonmetal substance with conducting properties) built into the Sunmobile, an electric cur-rent was produced that in turn powered a tiny motor.

¥ On Sept. 1, 1836, Narcissa Whitman, a mission-ary, arrives in Walla Walla, Wash., becoming one of the first Anglo women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains. In 1847, a measles epidemic killed many of the Cayuse Indians. In retaliation, a band of Cayuse killed 14 people, including Narcissa and her husband.

¥ On Sept. 2, 1923, aftershocks and out-of-control fires rock Tokyo, Japan, and the surrounding area following an 8.3-magnitude earthquake. In total, 143,000 people died in the disaster. The Imperial Hotel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, sank 2 feet into the ground but still managed to stand.

¥ On Sept. 3, 1939, Britain and France declare war on Germany. The first casualty of that declaration was the British ocean liner Athenia, which was sunk that evening by a German submarine.

¥ On Sept. 4, 1886, Geronimo, the wiliest and most dangerous Apache warrior of his time, finally sur-renders in Skeleton Canyon, Ariz. Geronimo never learned to use a gun, yet he armed his men with the best modern rifles he could obtain and even used field glasses to aid reconnaissance during his campaigns.


WHAT A CATCH! (continued):• There are 162 species of grouper, with Red, Nassau and Black, being the most common in America. They have some really odd little “friends” that help them. Cleaner fish are tiny fish that swim inside a grouper’s mouth and eat the food that is trapped between the big fish’s teeth. Who needs a dentist?! • Grouper are bottom feeders, which means they typically swim and eat at the bottom of the water. Catfish are also bottom feeders. Some are even called “mudcats.” • The 36th Annual World Catfish Festival was held in Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi, on April 2 this year. This family event celebrates the catfish farming industry that started in the area in the 1960s. Since that time, U.S. catfish farming has grown tremendously. There are 466 million pounds (211,374 metric tons) processed annually. Of the 95,200 acres (38,526 ha) in the United States devoted to catfish farming, 64,000 acres (25,900 ha) are in Mississippi. About 95 percent of the farm-raised catfish in the United States is raised in the Southern states of Missis-sippi, Arkansas, Alabama and Louisiana. • Farm-raised catfish are not bottom feeders like wild catfish. They are raised in ponds of fresh water that are only 4 to 6 feet deep. The catfish are fed high protein feed pellets, made from soybean meal, corn and rice that float on top of the water. No. 1 in the South for many years, the popularity of catfish has spread across the country. With its consistent white meat and mild flavor, it is now the fifth most popular fish in America.• Some really strange nicknames are given to another fish that is a favorite on dinner tables. “Whales,” Soakers” and “Barn Doors” are moni-kers for large halibut.


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WHAT A CATCH! (continued):• Halibut the size of one caught in 2003 in the Bering Sea, west of Anchorage, Alaska, defi nite-ly deserve any of those nicknames. The giant was 8 feet, 2 inches (2.4 m) long and weighed an estimated 533 pounds (242 kg). Five people struggled to pull it in! • Halibut has fi rm, fl aky snow-white meat. The fi llets are called “fl etches.” One halibut has four fl etches. The real delicacies coming from halibut though are the “cheeks.” They, obviously, come from the head. • Halibut are from a group of mostly saltwa-ter, bottom-dwelling fi sh called fl atfi sh. When these fi sh hatch, their eyes are normally on each side of the head. After they grow a bit, one eye moves closer to the other, and the mouth twists until the eyes and mouth are on top. The underside of a fl atfi sh is white, but the top may be brightly colored. Many fl atfi sh can change colors to match their surroundings, making for good camoufl age. Some other fl atfi sh are sole, turbot and the odd-looking fl ounder. • We’ve saved what has become one of the best-selling catches for last in this Tidbits. Salmon has been growing in popularity, with many health reports sending it to the top of the charts for human consumption. It is considered one of the healthiest fi sh to eat: high in omega-3 essential fatty acids and protein and low in calo-ries and saturated fat. • Salmon is not only good for your heart and overall health, studies have also shown that it is great for your skin. Dermatologist Dr. Nicholas Perricone has written several books explaining how a diet consisting of high amounts of salmon can lead to wrinkle-free skin. • Hopefully you have “caught” the message in this Tidbits: Fish are fun to catch and great for eating!

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OVERCOMING THE ODDS:ERIK WEIHENMAYERBorn in Hong Kong on September 23, 1968, Erik Weihenmayer is an amazing athlete who has not only touched many people’s lives, he has touched the tops of the “Seven Summits.” This feat is ambitious for anyone but even more so for Erik, who lost his vision at age 13. • Weihenmayer was born with a degenerative eye disease called retinoschisis and started his young life with thick glasses and some limited vision. Shortly after totally losing his vision, he also lost his mother in a tragic car accident. His father, an ex-Marine, was determined to keep his family strong in spite of the tragedies they had to endure. He took his three teenage sons on mountain climbing trips all over the world, including Nepal, South America and India. • With his dad and brothers encouraging him, Weihenmayer persevered in spite of the dif-fi culty. He has emerged today as a world-class athlete. He not only climbs mountains, he is a long-distance biker, acrobatic skydiver, mara-thon runner, skier, ice climber and rock climber. • Weihenmayer graduated from Boston College in 1991 and earned his master’s degree in edu-cation from Lesley College in 1993. He taught middle school for six years. He also served as wrestling coach. • On May 25, 2001, Weihenmayer reached the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, becoming the only blind man in history to accomplish such a feat. He didn’t stop there though! When he stood on top of Carstenz Pyra-mid, the tallest peak of Australia/Oceania, on Au-gust 20, 2008, he completed his quest to climb the “Seven Summits,” the highest mountains on each of the seven continents of the world. Fewer than 100 mountaineers are able to claim this ac-complishment. • Thanks to his perseverance and persistence, Weihenmayer has not let his blindness keep him from accomplishing goals or leading an exciting and exhilarating life.

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BICYCLES (continued):• In the 1890s, the first “modern” bicycles

appeared: chain-driven vehicles with simi-larly-sized tires. These were safer than the high-wheel models (and were even called “safety bicycles” as a result), but proved a step backwards in comfort. While the long spokes of high-wheel bikes absorbed bumps and ruts, the smaller wheels on these new bikes, particularly when coupled with the hard-rubber tires of the era, made for jarring, unpleasant rides.

• More than a million bicycles were sold in the United States by the time 1895 rolled around, but one last improvement would propel the bicycle into the must-own category: the pneu-matic tire. Under the guidance of the Pope Manufacturing Company (which made bi-cycles), the Hartford Rubber Works produced America’s first pneumatic tires in 1895. Pro-viding a much softer ride, they soon became a standard feature on all bicycle models.

• Dozens of smaller-scale improvements boosted the speed, comfort, longevity and performance of bicycles during the 20th century. As women began to find them as necessary as men, two varieties of bicycle were made. Men’s bikes were built with an extra stabilizer bar across the top of the bike. Women’s bikes omitted the bar, providing for easier mounting and dismounting of the vehicle when wearing skirts.

• The 1970s saw the development of two bi-cycle extremes. First came bicycles that took you nowhere. Otherwise known as exercise bikes, these training aids first hit the home market at the beginning of the decade. Then, as time went on and the energy crisis sent fuel prices skyrocketing, mopeds appeared. These bicycle/motorcycle hybrids, most popular with city-centered business workers, could either be pedaled like a regular bike or powered using a small, low-powered gasoline engine.

It was way back in the 17th century when noted Scottish scholar Patrick Young made the following sage observation: "The trouble with weather fore-casting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."

• About once a week, a frog will shed its skin. Then eat it.

• If you've watched many old Westerns, you've doubtless seen Native Americans scalping their enemies. You probably don't realize, though, that the brutal practice didn't originate with the Indians. When the Dutch and English settlers were trying to clear out the natives, they were paid a bounty for each scalp they brought back. The Native Ameri-cans adopted the practice only after the Europe-ans' arrival on the continent.

• The country's first pizzeria opened in 1895 in, unsurprisingly, New York City.

• Those who study such things say that 70 percent of Americans have visited either Disneyland, in California, or Disney World, in Florida.

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ERIK WEIHENMAYER (continued):• Through the years, Weihenmayer has ac-complished much. He has been honored with numerous awards, including: induction into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, the Helen Keller Lifetime Achievement Award, Nike’s Casey Mar-tin Award, an ESPY award, the Freedom Foun-dation’s Free Spirit Award and more. He also carried the Olympic Torch for the summer and winter games. • Today, Weihenmayer is a motivational speaker with a very busy schedule. When he is not on an outdoor adventure, he is encouraging others to find adventure and the courage to push their own limits. He is a follower when he needs to be but definitely a inspirational leader. “Leadership is contagious,” he said. “We pass it from body to body, from life to life, and we give all the peo-ple around us the courage to do great things.”• Weihenmayer’s first book, “Touch the Top of the World” has been published in six languages in 10 countries. It was made into a feature film in 2006. He co-authored a second book with Paul Stoltz, titled “The Adversity Advantage.” A film about Weihenmayer and a group of six blind Tibetan teenagers he lead up a 23,000-foot (7010 m) peak near Mount Everest was made into a movie in 2007, titled “Blindsight.”• As a motivational speaker, Weihenmayer has spoken to audiences all around the world. He says we all must realize the importance of team-work, pursuing dreams and having the courage to reach for goals even when they seem impos-sible. He stresses that, “One does not have to have perfect eyesight to have extraordinary vision.”


1. Sixteen of 20 seasons entering 2011.2. Curacao, in 2004.3. Lee Roy Selmon (1976), Ricky Bell ('77), Bo Jack-son ('86) and Vinny Testaverde ('87).4. Bill Carmody has been the head coach at North-western since 2000.5. St. Louis' Scott Mellanby was 36 when he got his fi rst hat trick in 2003.6. Russian gymnast Nikolai Andrianov.7. Seve Ballesteros was 23 when he did it in 1980.

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STRANGE STRENGTH Have you ever walked through a spider web and had a hard time getting it off your clothes or out of your hair? Spiders’ webs have amazing strength. Some spiders spin silk that is consid-ered to be the strongest fi ber on earth: stronger than steel and stronger than Kevlar! • Way back in 1881, a physician in Tombstone, Arizona, named George Emery Goodfellow pulled a silk handkerchief from the breast pocket of a man who was shot in a gun battle. The doctor found two bullets inside the hanky. The silk handkerchief had stopped the bullets from entering the man’s body. Dr. Goodfellow was intrigued and began studying the strength of silk.• Kevlar is a manmade material discovered by scientists at DuPont in 1964. It is stronger than steel but expensive. It is used for military appli-cations, like helmets and bulletproof vests, and many other everyday products, like tires. It has helped provide safety in areas where strength is important. • Kevlar is not metal, yet it is stronger than steel. According to Tucker Norton of DuPont, a spider web is even stronger. “If you look in a spider web, and if you just took one single strand of that spider silk, that strand is stronger than steel as well — a lot like Kevlar,” said Nor-ton. “The problem is, we haven’t fi gured out how to make that commercially at a large scale.” • Spiders, eight-legged arachnids, and their abil-ity to manufacture fragile-looking fi bers that are pound-for-pound stronger than steel, have been studied for decades. The individual threads of spider silk are extremely strong. Scientists are amazed that spiders seem to be able to match tasks with the type of silk needed.


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STRANGE STRENGTH (continued):• According to biologists from the Univer-sity of California at Riverside, “A typical garden spider can spin seven different types of silks.” Researchers are hoping to fi gure out how to produce the silk that spiders produce someday, possibly by splicing the silk gene into plants that can be planted and harvested. • Currently Professor Randy Lewis at the Uni-versity of Wyoming is splicing spider genes into goats and using the goat’s milk to come up with “goat-generated, man-made spider silk.” This silk looks promising, but the original spider silk is still about 10 times stronger than what sci-ence has come up with. • Dr. Lewis is hoping that someday, goat silk will be readily available for use in lightweight bulletproof vests, artifi cial ligaments, bones and tendons and more. The military is providing funding, hoping that in the future, wounded sol-diers will be helped by the combining of nature and science. • Not only are the webs of spiders amazing when it comes silk strength, but spiders are very productive workers. To see the awesome web work of “stretch” spiders, or Tetragnatha, visit Lake Tawokoni State Park in Texas. Many of these spiders work together to cover trees and other plants with a massive spider web. While most of us are probably not apt to enjoy being too close to the weird work, the park superinten-dent says it is one of the “best bug free areas in the park, acting as a giant mosquito net.”

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