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During the summer months in the northern hemisphere — NOW — the heat is on and many people head to beaches to enjoy the sun, sand and water. So, slather on a bit of sunscreen as you read some Tidbits about beaches!• Even land-locked areas boast beaches ontheir lakes and rivers, and people use thosefor summer fun. But the majority of beach fun happens on the coasts. The Atlantic, the Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico and, of course,Hawaii are the largest areas of coastline for North America.
• Statesandprovinceswiththelongestcoastlinesmakethemostoftheirbeacheswhenitcomesto tourism. Florida is the beach capital of the continental United States, but for those who are able to hop on an airplane for a beach, Hawaiiisdefinitelyastatetovisit;afterall,asa group of islands, the state is surrounded by water.
•Anumberofbeachesclaimtobethe“world’slongest beach.” Long Beach, Washington, has a big sign proclaiming that on its beach. However, it is only about 25 miles (40 km)long.Itdoeshavesometerrificclaimstofamethough. It is a peninsula that sits north of where theColumbiaRivermeets the PacificOceanandiswhereLewisandClarkstoppedontheirtrekacrossthewestin1805.
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THE HEAT IS ON! (continued):• The Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery trav-eled more than 4,000 miles (6,437 km) on an ex-pedition to explore the area west of the Missis-sippi River. The beach area that they discovered in Washington was not a sun-fi lled beach. In fact, the area is known for lots of rainy days. Even so, the beach, on the southwest coast of the state, is a fun spot, with more than 60 festivals and cel-ebrations held on the Long Beach Peninsula in 2011. It is home to the World Kite Museum and also the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. • Another West Coast community named “Long Beach” is the city of Long Beach, California, south of Los Angeles. One of its main tourist attractions is the Queen Mary, a retired ocean liner that is
listed on the National Register of Historic Places. • Long Beach, Mississippi, is located on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It suffered a lot of damage during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 but is still known as the “friendly city,” its moniker since incorporation in 1905. • On the Atlantic side of the country are Long Beach Island, New Jersey, known as LBI, and Long Beach, New York. Both are islands. LBI is accessible via one bridge or by boat. Long Beach, New York, is an oceanfront island at the southern end of Long Island, New York. It has a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) beach and a 2.25-mile-long boardwalk that was built in 1914 with the help of elephants! • Do you know which state has the longest coastline in the continental United States? It is not Florida or California as you
1. Is the Book of Hebrews in the Old or New Testament or neither?2. To whom did God say, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations”? Daniel, Jeremiah, Noah, Thomas3. From 1 Chronicles 29, how many years did David reign over Israel? 7, 33, 40, 574. What do the seven lamp stands rep-resent in Revelation 1:20? Continents, Angels, Seas, Churches5. What was Aquila’s profession in Corinth? Tentmaker, Harp player, Map-maker, Servant6. Manasseh was the elder of whose two sons? Matthew, Joash, Joseph, Timothy
may guess, but Michigan. Michigan’s shore-line is 3,288 miles (5,292 km) long, includ-ing 1,056 miles (1,699 km) of island coasts. • Do you know which country has the lon-gest shoreline in the world? Canada. Canada also has an area named “Long Beach.” The Long Beach “unit” of beaches consists of Ra-dar Beach, Long Beach, Combers Beach and Wickaninnish Beach, which run from north to south for 15.5 miles (25 km) and comprise the most popular portion of Pacifi c Rim National Park. This is the only national park on Van-couver Island in British Columbia, the west-ernmost province of Canada. It has long, sandy beaches, rocky shoreline, a rainforest and more. • Tofi no, at the northern end of this Long Beach, boasts the highest annual mean temperature in Canada, 42 to 44 degrees F (6-7 degrees C), which is also the same as the water temperature. Wetsuits are needed for surfi ng, but despite the chilly wa-ter, the waves draw northwest surfers year round.• A truly long beach that always makes the “world’s longest” beaches lists is Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. The area is on the southeast-ern coast of Bangladesh and stretches for 75 miles (120 km). The country is vastly over-populated and impoverished, with most people living in the cities. The beach is never crowd-ed, and the humid, tropical area is shark-free! • In the lands “down under,” Aus-tralia and New Zealand both have beach-
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es named “90 Mile Beach,” (145 km) even though neither is exactly that long! • The New Zealand beach is about 55 miles (88 km) long and is known for its huge sand dunes that look like the Sahara Desert. Ninety Mile Beach Marine Park in Australia, located along Victoria’s southeast coast, is a long, thin beach that actually stretches for 94.5 miles (152 km). This park is known for having the highest diversity of species of any place in the world. Scientists found 860 different spe-cies living in the sand within 12 square yards (10 m2), and 187 species in 1.2 square yards (1 m2). • Apparently, in spite of others claiming the dis-tinction, Praia do Cassino in southern Brazil, near the Uruguay border, is actually the longest
beach in the world. It is 149 miles (240 km) long. • Cancun, Mexico, is known for its white sand beaches and the fact that the sand stays cool. The sand is composed of microscopic plankton fos-sils instead of silica, like most light-colored sand. • Opposite of Cancun’s white sand shores are the black sand beaches found in Hawaii, Alaska, Iceland and Black Sand Beach on the Lost Coast of California. Cooled lava from past volcanic eruptions formed the sand on these beaches, hence, the black color. Like asphalt, it absorbs the sun’s heat so you’ll need to wear shoes!• Wherever beaches are found, the tourists they draw are often a key part of keeping the adjacent towns and cities alive. Summer business sustains the economy year round for many beach areas. • In the state of Florida, beaches may be the most important stream of tourism and revenue. A lot of work is required to keep its beaches in good shape. Hurricanes are a major factor affecting beaches in Florida, as is erosion. In an average year, the state spends about $30 to $40 million for beach maintenance. The state collects approximately $3 to $4 billion from sales taxes paid by tourists, so they get a great return on their investment.
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When Heather Whitestone did not react to her mother dropping pans on the kitchen fl oor at 18 months of age, her mother knew there was a problem. A case of haemophilus infl uenza as a toddler and the antibiotics used to save her life left Whitestone with a profound hearing loss. • Whitestone’s mom encouraged her to learn to speak and read lips and discouraged sign language. She did learn sign language later.• At age 5, Whitestone started taking bal-let lessons. Her mother hoped this would im-prove her rhythm for speech, which it did, and it also was a huge boost to her self-esteem through the years. Ballet was her talent when she competed in the Miss America pageant. • Born in Dothan, Alabama, in 1973, Whitestone looked to another deaf Alabaman, Helen Keller, as her role model. Keller’s determination be-came determination for Whitestone as well. She worked hard to learn in school, attending Central School for the Deaf in St. Louis, Missouri, for a few years when she had fallen behind in regu-
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If you didn’t plan for a vacation this sum-mer but are determined to get a break, it’s still possible even at this late date. In fact, the ap-proaching end of summer might work in your favor as owners try to fi ll last-minute vacancies.Look for vacation rentals that are within a few hours drive of home. You’ll save pre-cious vacation time by not battling crowds and security at airports and wasting time in the air, not to mention saving money on air-
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Check www.vacationrentals.com, and again click on your state. You’ll be able to narrow your choices by date, reviews and whether the rental has a pool or allows pets. You can se-lect multiple rentals to compare. Check the ac-tivities on each listing for local attractions. This site provides the owner’s name and telephone number, as well as an online contact form.If you want a lot of amenities, consider a time-share rental. With timeshares, owners “own” a certain week or weeks each year when they have use of the accommodations. They can’t always use those weeks and will rent out the property. Time-shares generally have a full menu of amenities, and many are luxurious resorts. Search online for timeshares in your state. Call the timeshare of-fi ce directly, as it’s likely to have a list of rentals.As always, ask whether any discounts are available.
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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My pot-bellied pigs, “Penny” and “Norman,” again lost their hair very early this spring, when it was still very cold. Their skin was extremely itchy and very cracked and dry-looking. I contacted many vets, Humane Societies and others concerning this never-ending issue. Many told me that hair loss in pot-bellied pigs is normal, and there was nothing I could do. That was not good enough for me.Now I think I found something that is help-ing. I’ve been adding safflower oil in with their food pellets -- about a tablespoon each feeding. They have not grown back any hair, since I just started this about three weeks ago. But I can tell they don’t look as dry and they’re not scratching as much. I give safflower oil to my dogs and cats dur-ing the winter while our wood stove is op-
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NEW PRICE!! #324 Three bedroom, 2 bath manufactured home with attached garage, Quonset, Shop, Pond. 3.36 Acres, Near Hermann. MLS #10029448
MARKET STREET B&B! #355 Beau-tiful Victorian with lots of updates. Sale includes some furnishings and advance bookings. MLS #11024076
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JUST LISTED!! #364 Fishing Club House? Full time Living? Rental Prop-erty? Lots of options for this house within walking distance to Gasconade
JUST LISTED!! #363 Brick, 1 1/2 story, large living room, original wood fl oors. Located in historic district, commer-cial zoning. MLS # 11035146 $69,900
STARTER HOME! #361 Two bedroom, one bath, quiet street, eat-in kitchen, main fl oor laundry, full walkout base-ment, garage. MLS #11033736 $55,000
NEW PRICE!! #344 Sixty mostly Wooded Acres. On blacktop, south of Hermann. Walking and ATV trails, stocked clay pit, wet weather creek,
BRICK ON CORNER LOT!! #359 Three bedroom, eat-in kitchen, wood fl oors, nice porches, full, walkout basement, detached garage. MLS
CUTE AS A BUTTON! #351 Three bedroom, 2 bath, beautiful eat-in kitch-en, formal dining, original hardwood fl oors, patio, 1+/- Acre. MLS #11017706
STORE FRONT & GREENHOUSE!! #348 500 Square foot of retail space, restroom, storage area and small living quarters. Nice Lot. MLS #11015226
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¥ “Rather than using shelf paper in my pots-and-pans cabinet, I have lined the shelves with carpet scraps. There is less noise when I am getti ng a pot out or put-ti ng clean pans away.” -- P.O. in New Mexico
¥ Keep a spray bott le of full-strength white vinegar by your laundry area. Use it to spray the underarms of shirts that have deodorant stains on them.
¥ “Our family vacati oned at the beach this summer, and we learned a really neat trick to keep sand from getti ng
inside the house so much. We got a small, infl atable baby pool and set it up near the entrance, along with a chair and towel. The kids dipped their feet in the baby pool, rinsed off their legs and then dried off . The pool was less than $5, and it made a big diff erence.” -- N.N. via email
¥ Aft er washing and drying thoroughly, wrap an iron skil-let in wax paper to store.
¥ When arranging fewer fl owers in a large-mouth vase, use clear tape to create a grid across the opening. Then, you can arrange your stems in the holes. It gives some support to the stems, and the arrangement will be evenly spaced and very pleasing.
¥ For new vining plants, use a simple clothespin to guide the vines to a trellis. Be sure to remove it as soon as the plant has att ached itself, as it will grow stronger if it has to hold its own weight.
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lar school. She passed six reading levels in three years, catching up with her peers. Whitestone graduated from a public high school in Birming-ham, Alabama, with a 3.6 grade point average. • She won her fi rst beauty pageant in the Miss America system as a student at Jack-sonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. From there, she followed up as
fi rst runner up to Miss Alabama in 1992. • In 1994, Whitestone won the Miss Alabama contest and went to the Miss America Pageant to represent her state for the 1995 contest. She danced a ballet to “Via Dolorosa” for her talent. • Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford were the hosts of the Miss America Pageant when Whitestone won her title. When Regis an-nounced the fi rst runner up, Miss Virginia, Whit-estone couldn’t hear the announcement. She didn’t know she had won until Miss Virginia turned to her and pointed as she hugged her.• With her win, Whitestone became the fi rst per-son with a disability to win the title of Miss Amer-ica. Another interesting Tidbit about the 1995 pageant: The telecast lasted for three hours, the longest in pageant history. The organization high-lighted its 75-year history during the program. • During her reign, Whitestone showcased her program called S.T.A.R.S., which stands for “Success Through Action and Realiza-tion of your DreamS.” The fi ve points of the S.T.A.R.S. program are: positive attitude, be-lief in a dream, willingness to work hard, facing
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If you’re uncertain about computer use, those who use computer for any amount of ti me are 44 percent less likely to have mild cogniti ve impairment. Add in exercise, and you can delay (or even prevent) mental decline.
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Stroke, Heart Attack Risks Are Similar
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I read all the time about the risks of having a heart attack. I never see anything said about the risks for having a stroke. What are they? I fear a stroke more than I do a heart attack. -- P.S.
ANSWER: The risks for both are similar. They include uncontrolled high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol, too little exercise, a large waist, excessive alcohol consumption and a high ratio of Apo B to Apo A-1. This last item needs an explanation. Apo B is similar to LDL cholesterol -- the bad kind of cholesterol, the kind that clogs arteries. Apo A-1 is more like HDL cholesterol -- good cholesterol, the kind that keeps arteries clean. I have to admit that these tests are not usually ordered.This subject is complicated by the fact that there are two different kinds of stroke. The more-common variety comes from obstruction of blood fl ow to a part of the brain from a plugged artery, like the plugged heart artery of a heart attack. The less-common variety comes from the breaking of a brain artery, something called a hemorrhagic stroke.The two require different treatments and different approaches to prevention.P.S. is like most people who live in greater fear of a stroke than a heart attack. The booklet on strokes explains the kinds of strokes and what can be done to prevent and treat them. Readers can obtain a copy by
writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 902W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.***DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Recently I had what the hospital doctors called a panic attack. I would like to know what causes them and if there is a cure. Would lack of sleep or medication have anything to do with it? -- W.B.
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• Whitestone is married and has three sons. She is a motivational speaker affi li-ated with the Washington Speaker’s Bureau. Some of the topics she speaks on are: achieve-ment, Christian faith & inspiration, courage and overcoming obstacles and challenges.
HOT SALSASalsa is the Spanish word for hot sauce. Whether you like it hot, medium or mild, it is a taste that has grown in popular-ity in North America in the last 20 years. • The mixing of tomatoes, onions, hot pep-pers and other ingredients for salsa has been happening since at least as far back as the 1500s in Central and South Amer-ica among the Aztecs and other cultures.• A Spanish priest and missionary, Alonso de Molina, is credited with call-ing the hot sauce mix “salsa” in 1571. • The fi rst bottled hot sauce appeared in the United States in Massachusetts in 1807. In 1868, Edmund McIlhenny started bottling his hot sauce, Tabasco, on Avery Island, west of New Orleans. Tabasco hot sauce surged in popularity and continues to be a huge seller. Other hot sauces soon emerged, and many have been around for 100-plus years like Tabasco. • Charles Erath of New Orleans manufactured a salsa product in 1916 called “Extract of Loui-siana Pepper” Red Hot Creole Sauce. It, like Tabasco, was a hot sauce but not a dippable salsa. • In 1917, La Victoria Foods in Los Ange-les started making Salsa Brava, a true salsa. It wasn’t until 1941 that Henry Tanklage formed the La Victoria Sales Company to market the fi rst salsa hot sauces in the United States. • David and Margaret Pace, founders of Pace Foods in San Antonio, Texas, created Pace Picante Sauce in 1947. The chunky tomato-based hot salsa quickly grabbed followers and gained market share and shelf space at grocery stores.• How about a little hot trivia? Pace Foods uses more than 25 million pounds (11,339,809 kg) of fresh jalapeños every year! They are hand picked across the southern United States and Mexico.
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