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ENVIROMENT DAYby Rick Dandes

World Environment Day, celebrated every year on June 5, was established by the United Na-tions General Assembly in 1972. The day is in-tended to stimulate awareness of issues affecting the envi-ronment 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 ex-periments with solar power and photo vol-taics.• 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.• 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 tempera-tures, according to a new study.

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• Water is the most commonly used renewable energy resource, providing enough power to meet the needs of 28.3 million people.• If you drink a can of beer after work and then toss it in the recycling bin, that one (alumi-num) can saves enough energy to watchtelevision 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.• 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 im-por-tance of recycling aluminum? • If you were to add up the amount of sepa-rate pieces of paper trash that each American throws away per year, it would be approxi-mately 13,000 pieces of paper. A large per-centage 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 alto-gether, 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 car-bon dioxide emissions repre-sent about 82 percent of the total U.S. human-made green-house 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.• Every minute you cut from your shower is roughly 5 gallons (19 liters) of water saved. The less time your shower takes, the lower your im-pact on the environment.

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¥ It was multi-talented Sir Francis Bacon -- he was a statesman, lawyer, scientist, philosopher and author -- who made the following sage observation: “If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

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¥ The highest known life insurance pay-out occurred in 1970, when the widow of a cattle rancher was awarded $18 million in benefits. ¥ Those who study such things say that Italians drink, on average, 26 gallons of wine every year. ¥ It’s just common sense that people tend to behave better when they’re being watched, but it may come as a surprise that it doesn’t seem to mat-ter whether or not the watcher is real. Researchers made this discovery in an experiment conducted at the University of Newcastle in Australia. In a coffee lounge where paying for the bever-age was optional, a picture of a pair of eyes was placed next to the price list at some times, and at other times a pic-ture of flowers accompanied the list. On days when the eyes were posted, more than three times as much money was donated than on days when the flowers were in the same spot. ¥ People magazine reportedly paid $6 million for photos of Jennifer Lopez’s twin babies, Emme and Max. ¥ Between 1960 and 2006, the average American’s production of solid waste -- including everything from paper pack-aging to lawn clippings -- increased by 150 percent to 4.5 pounds every day.***Thought for the Day: “People of small caliber like to sit on high horses.” -- Magdalena Samozwaniec

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Fittingly, one of America’s great jazzmen, Louis Armstrong, was born on July 4, 1900. He came from extreme poverty and be-came one of the most well known perform-ers in the world. This week, Tidbits blows its horn in honor of the great Louis “Pops” Armstrong.• Louis Armstrong was born in the slums of segregated New Orleans, became a juvenile delinquent, then was relegated to the Colored Waifs’ Home for Boys. That’s where he was introduced to the cornet and began a lifelong commitment to jazz music.• Armstrong had many hit records includ-ing “What a Wonderful World,” “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “Hello Dolly.” • Armstrong formed his first band at age 14 and worked around New Orleans until 1923, when he went to Chicago. That’s where he made his first recordings with the King Oliver band in Richmond, Indiana.• With his trumpet he could reach F above high C with ease, a feat unheard of in the 1920s, as were his legatos, coupled with his pure tone, continuity of phrasing and sophis-ticated improvisations. • He was nicknamed Satchelmouth, for obvious physiological reasons, by an editor of the “London Melody Maker,” a music newspa-per. It was shortened to Satchmo for con-venience. He was also called Pops by those who loved him. • Louis’ career was constantly upwardly mo-bile. In New York he worked The Savoy and The Cotton Clubs and did a Broadway revue, Hot Chocolates, which brought him to the attention of white audiences. He recorded “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” one of his 1st big re-cords.• In 1930 he went to Los Angeles to work Frank Sebastian’s Cotton Club. The same year, he cut the first of many records with Lionel Hampton, “Memories of You.” • In 1943, Armstrong won the first Esquire magazine jazz poll in the trumpet and vocal categories. In January 1944, Esquire held its first jazz concert at the Metropolitan Op-era House in New York City, starring Louis, of course. He won their poll again in 1945, 1946 and 1947. • Armstrong made his first record with Ella Fitzgerald in 1947. At the same time, his agent and longtime friend Joe Glaser sug-gested forming the Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Band, which reached for and brought new highs to musicians and music lovers. • In 1964, Armstrong knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts with “Hello Dolly,” which gave the 63-year-old a U.S. record as the oldest artist to have a No. 1 song.• Louis was an internationally traveled, musical goodwill ambassador. He toured officially for the State Department, although there were parts of Africa he refused to visit because of their apartheid policy.• Armstrong was accepted by royalty. He was honored by U.S. presidents and for-eign heads of state. He was received by the Pope.

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machine-gunned their way to infamy.• Daniel Wesson was born to a family in Worcester, Massachusetts. At 18, he was apprenticed to his brother’s shoe manufacturing company, but grew dissatisfied and joined up with another brother, Edwin, as a journeyman gunsmith. In 1852, Daniel met Horace Smith, a fellow gun enthusiast who’d learned about firearms while working at the

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DEAR SHERRY: Thanks for reminding my readers, and for doing a great job being proactive about that dog. If the owner hadn’t responded, the next step would have been to contact emergency services -- fire or police -- to come and rescue the dog, before temperatures inside the car became too much for the pet to handle.In fact, a closed car, even on a mild day, can become life-threateningly hot, especially for dogs. United Animal Nations, an animal protection organization (www.uan.org), cited a San Francisco State University study that showed on an 80-degree F day, the temperature inside a closed car rose to 99 degrees in just 10 minutes. A dog can suffer a heat injury in an air temperature of 90 degrees.The organization also noted that just cracking the win-dows doesn’t help. So don’t leave your pet unattended in the car, not even for a few minutes. You can learn even more at www.mydogiscool.com.

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1. TELEVISION: Who was the star of the cable series “The Sopranos”?2. MOVIES: What kind of fish is Dory in “Finding Nemo”?3. ANATOMY: What organ in the human body produces bile?4. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the first U.S. president to lose a re-election bid?5. FAMOUS QUOTES: Who once said, “All you need in this life is ignorance and confi-dence, and then success is sure.”6. MATH: What is the perimeter of an equi-lateral triangle that measures 16 cm on one side?7. HISTORY: What is the earliest written sys-tem of laws known to us?8. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What are the wild dogs of Australia called?9. AD SLOGANS: What product was claimed in advertisements to be “good to the last drop”?

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