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Of Greeley & West Weld County ColoradoOf Greeley & West Weld County ColoradoThe Neatest Little Paper Ever Read ® Issue 803
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By Matt D. Jones
Prevailing over cancer is a challenging battle for anyone. Read on to learn of the triumph of one inspiring young man’s rise above his circum-stances.
• Matt Jones was on the homestretch of com-pleting his communications degree, entering his senior year of college. A few weeks into the semester, he just couldn’t seem to shake the cold, flu and sore throat he had developed. An increasing lack of energy made it difficult to climb a flight of stairs, and be-fore long he was sleeping 16 hours a day. Because his symptoms were consistent with those of mononucleosis, Jones went in for the test.
• A test for mono came back negative, but the doctor had more serious news. Jones’ white blood count exceeded normal by more than five times. Following a bone marrow biopsy, the 23-year-old was diagnosed with acute my-eloid leukemia, a condition fatal in just weeks to a few months if left untreated.
• Three months of chemotherapy followed, five intensive treatments in all. At its completion, Jones was declared in remission, and given an 80-percent chance that the cancer would not return.
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• Yet it was not to be. Just seven months later, Jones’ leukemia had returned. After another round of chemo, it became clear that a bone marrow transplant would be necessary to save his life. It was his last semester of college, and, determined to graduate on time, Jones spent much of the final weeks in the hospital while completing his studies.
• After wrapping up both his degree and his chemo, he was once again in remission, but continued to wait for a bone marrow donor for his transplant. When he began experiencing extreme migraines, it was discovered that the cancer had spread to his cerebral spinal fluid, changing the odds to a 10 percent chance of survival.
• An experimental type of chemo was begun im-mediately, which brought on a severe infection with a skyrocketing fever and failure of one of his kidneys. After slipping into a coma, it appeared that Jones had reached the end of his journey. But this miracle man came out of it, although with memory and speech problems. He couldn’t remember how to take a step or tie his shoes.
• Eight weeks later, back on his feet, he was ready for his bone marrow transplant, followed by yet more chemo. In June of 2005, almost three years after his initial diagnosis, Jones’ treat-ments drew to a close. He has been cancer-free since that time.
• Jones’ goal since re-learning how to walk had been to run a marathon. One year after his transplant, he completed his first marathon in San Diego. His goal has now been updated to complete the race on every continent.
• He has now complet-ed his masters degree in Organizational Leadership and is pursuing his doctor-ate. He is the author of five books, and as a motivational speaker, he has inspired more than 500 groups across the nation. As he seeks to make a difference in the lives of those in the midst of adversity, he uses three points to spur on others: Visualize Your Victory, Take Action and Check Your Attitude. In his words, his experience with cancer has shown him, “the importance of having a positive attitude and has given me a greater passion for life.”
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NOVEMBER BABIESby Kathy Wolfe
Here’s a little research from Tidbits on all these folks, past and present, who claim November as their birth month. • Probably best known for her role as Dr. Izzie Stevens on the ABC medical
drama “Grey’s Anatomy,” actress Katherine Heigl got her start as a child model posing for the Sears catalog. She moved on from this $75-per-hour job to her first commercial, a TV spot for Cheerios. Although she has re-cently starred in several movie blockbusters, she also has the honor of hav-ing starred in the lowest-earning movie in recorded history, 2006’s “Zyzzyx Road,” which grossed $30 at the box office.
• The parents of Condoleezza Rice took her name from an Italian music-re-lated term con dolcezza, which translates “with sweetness.” The life of this 66th U.S. Secretary of State was filled with music from the age of three, when she be-gan music, figure skating, French and ballet lessons. At 15, it was her goal to become a concert pianist. Switching her college major to political science set the stage for many of her achievements. However, she has never abandoned her music, still practicing every day, and she even accompanied the celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma at Constitu-tion Hall at a National Medal of Arts Awards recital.
• Most folks have heard of the Hubble Space Telescope, an instrument car-ried into orbit by a 1990 space shuttle mission. But most don’t know that it was named for the American astronomer Edwin Hubble, the first to con-firm the existence of galaxies other than our own Milky Way, a discovery made in 1923. A Rhodes Scholar, he studied law and set up a legal practice before realizing that his passion was astronomy.
• Bo Jackson achieved fame as the first athlete to be named an All-Star in two major sports, baseball and football. His birth name was Vincent Edward Jackson, after his mother’s favorite television star, Vince Edwards of “Ben Casey” fame. Jackson achieved his nickname when his family described him as a “wild boar hog” constantly getting into trouble. He signed with baseball’s Kansas City Royals as a left fielder in 1986 and started playing for football’s Los Angeles Raiders as a running back the following year.
• Goldie Hawn has a distinguished ancestor, Ed-ward Rutledge, the youngest signer of the Dec-laration of Independence. This famous blonde actress is also an accomplished ballet dancer, having begun lessons at age three. At 11, she debuted in “The Nutcracker,” earning $1.50.
• The only child of famous automaker Henry Ford was born in November 1893. Edsel Ford grew up to marry into the Hudson’s department store family and founded Ford’s Mercury divi-sion. He also brought us the Lincoln Zephyr and Lincoln Continental. Fourteen years after Edsel’s early death from stomach cancer at age 49, the Ford Motor Company introduced its new brand of cars named after him. Unfortu-nately, the Edsel was considered a commercial failure and was discontinued after the 1960 models.
• If you’ve seen any James Bond movies, you’ve heard the musical work of composer John Barry, who wrote the soundtracks for 11 of the films. The winner of five Academy Awards and four Grammys, he also composed the music for “Out of Africa” and “Dances with Wolves.”
• That bump on November baby Owen Wilson’s nose is the result of having his nose broken twice, once in a high school fracas, the other in a friendly football game. Wilson is no stranger to mischief, having been expelled from high school as a sophomore for cheating on his geometry test. He spent his junior and senior years in military school.
• Back in 1930, 18-year-old Leonard Slye packed up his belongings and moved to California, hoping to make it big as a singer. He played in
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several groups over the next few years — The Hollywood Hillbillies, Rocky Mountaineers, Texas Outlaws —before forming Sons of the Pioneers in 1934. The following year, he ap-peared in the first of his 100 movies. Along the way came a name change to Roy Rogers. He acquired his golden palomino Trigger in 1938 and was seen astride that horse in every single movie and television episode. (Trigger died at the ripe old age of 33 in 1965.) At the height of his career, Roy Rogers received more than 75,000 fan letters a month.
• Back in 1968, clothing designer Calvin Klein, armed with $10,000, started out with just a coat shop in the York Hotel in New York City. Gradually expanding over the next several years, he added the original designer jeans in 1974, using Brooke Shields as a model. He sold $200,000 worth during the first week after their introduction.
• Baby boomers will recall the daily farewell message, “And that’s the way it is,” given by CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite as he wrapped up the television evening news. He started his broadcasting career on radio in 1937 and brought bulletins on World War II bombings and the Nuremberg trials. During his 19 years on the evening news, Cronkite reported the momentous events of Americans’ lives, including the death of Martin Luther King Jr., the Vietnam War, the Watergate scan-dal, the Iran hostage crisis and most notably, his emotional and tearful delivery of the news of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was the source for the news of the U.S. space program. Opinion polls named him “the most trusted man in America.”
• It should come as no surprise that movie hunk Matthew McConaughey was listed in his Longview, Texas, yearbook as “most hand-some.” He spent one year of high school as an exchange student in New South Wales, Aus-tralia.
• The world’s first set of septuplets to survive infancy, Iowa’s McCaughey children, turn 14 this month. Born nine weeks early, the three girls and four boys consumed 42 bottles and required 52 diapers daily during their first several months. These days the family goes through seven dozen eggs and five gallons of milk every week.
• Talent seems to run in the family of Kevin Eubanks, former leader of the “Tonight Show” band. A classical pianist/organist mother and jazz pianist uncle no doubt contributed to Eu-banks’ prowess, as well as two musical broth-ers, one a trombonist, the other a trumpeter. Eubanks is more than the jazz guitarist we see — He also plays trumpet and violin and has composed the scores for four feature films.
BOARD GAME BITSAlthough video games increase in popularity
on a daily basis, there’s nothing like a good old board game! Check out the origins of some of these longtime favorites.
• If you’re familiar with the names of Mrs. Pea-cock, Professor Plum and Colonel Mustard, you’ve played Clue. This murder mystery game was invented in England in 1944 by a solici-tor’s clerk who thought it would be a good way to pass the time while sitting in underground bunkers during World War II air raid drills. It was originally called “Murder!” The players move throughout nine rooms of a mansion seeking clues as to which character committed the crime and which weapon — rope, revolver, wrench, candlestick, knife or lead pipe — was used.
• Two Canadian journalists conceived the idea of the popular game Trivial Pursuit, commer-cially released in 1981. An 18-year-old artist created the final artwork for the game. In 1984 alone, more than 20 million games were sold.
• It’s not surprising that the best-selling board game in the world is the game of Monopoly, with more than 200 million games sold. It’s estimated that 500 million people have played
the game since its release during the Great Depression. It’s sold in 103 countries and in 37 languages. In the English version, the highest rent property is “Boardwalk,” but if you live in Spain, it’s Paseo del Pradeo named after a Barcelona street, and in France, it’s Rue de la Paix. During the game’s history, it’s been more than just a source of entertainment. During World War II, Monopoly games containing
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escape maps, compasses and files were smug-gled to prisoners in German POW camps. Real money was even hidden inside packs of the play money to aid in prisoners’ escapes.
• A serious illness was the catalyst for the creation of one of the most popular children’s games, Candy Land. Eleanor Abbott was recovering from polio in 1945 and wanted to create something to entertain children afflicted with the disease. She devised a race to find the lost King of Candy Land covering 134 wind-ing colored squares, so that no reading skills were required. Characters encountered along the route included Queen Frostine, Gramma Nutt and Lord Licorice, as players made their way through the Candy Cane Forest and Gum Drop Mountain. The first games sold for a dollar. There have been more than 40 million Candy Land games sold since.
• Chutes & Ladders was created to teach chil-dren good morals — Good deeds are rewarded with a trip up the ladder, while bad conduct results in a slide down. Originally called Snakes & Ladders, its origins are in India, with slithering serpents as the consequences of bad choices. Milton Bradley brought it to America in 1943 and changed the name and format.
• In 1964, to coincide with the Beatles’ arrival in America, Milton Bradley released its “Beatles’ Flip Your Wig” game, with a price tag of $2.98. There were four playing pieces, one of each Beatle, and players had to move around the board collecting four cards for their band member — a picture card, a signature card, an instrument card and a hit record card. Today, if you happen to have a mint condition copy of the game, it’s worth upwards of $300.
• Chinese checkers have nothing to do with China — The game was invented in Germany in 1892. The hexagram-shaped game came to the United States in 1928 marketed under the name of Hop Ching Checkers.
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• On Nov. 28, 1582, William Shakespeare, 18, and Anne Hathaway, 26, pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license in Stratford-upon-Avon. Six months later, Anne gave birth to their daughter, Susanna, and two years later, to twins. Shakespeare’s plays were not published until after his death, when two members of his troupe collected copies of his plays and printed the First Folio (1623).
• On Dec. 4, 1928, “Dapper Dan” Hogan, a St. Paul, Minn., saloonkeeper and mob boss, is killed when someone plants a car bomb under the floorboards of his new Paige coupe. The first car bomb was a horse-drawn-wagon bomb that exploded in 1920 outside the J.P. Morgan Com-pany’s offices in New York City.
• On Nov. 29, 1942, coffee joins the list of items rationed in the United States. Rationing was gen-erally employed to guarantee a fair distribution to all citizens and to give priority to military use in World War II.
• On Dec. 3, 1979, 11 people are killed in a stam-pede outside a Who concert in Cincinnati when a crowd of general-admission ticket-holders surges forward through shattered doors in an attempt to secure prime unreserved seats inside. After the crowd cleared, 11 concert-goers were found on the ground, dead from asphyxiation.
• On Nov. 30, 1989, Aileen Wuornos, America’s first female serial killer, picks up her first victim in Palm Harbor, Fla. She would kill a total of seven men in the next year. When caught, Wuor-nos confessed but claimed that they had all been killed in self-defense.
• On Dec. 1, 1990, workers 132 feet below the Eng-lish Channel drill through a final wall of rock, opening the “Chunnel” and connecting the two ends of an underwater tunnel linking Folkestone, England, and Calais, France.
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Positive AddictionsBy Ron Ross
A local body shop owner recently closed and the owner went bankrupt. I went by the same place recently and noticed it was under new owner-ship and bursting with business.“How come you guys are doing so well?” I asked the two new partners.“We’re just doing what we always do,” one of them said with a big smile, “Excellent auto body work.”“Why did the other guy fail?” I inquired.“We heard he like it to snow in July,” he said.It took me a moment to grasp the meaning of “snow in July,” but I finally realized he was say-ing the previous owner was addicted to cocaine. No wonder his business failed.Notice that both previous and present owners were/are addicted: the previous owner’s addic-tion was negative (cocaine) and the new owners’ addiction was positive (“we’re just doing what we always do…excellent auto body work!”).Here are a few positive addictions* to aspire to that will facilitate your personal and business success:• Be addicted to solving problems. It’s easy to
criticize, complain and whine, but much bet-ter to find real solutions to real problems. The big bucks are paid for finding solutions, not complaining about difficulties.
• Be addicted to showing praise and apprecia-tion. Let others know they are valued. A sim-ple rule is, praise loudly; blame softly.
• Be addicted to generosity. Give before you get; sow before you reap.
• Be addicted to good news. Never engage in worry talk or gossip sessions.
• Be addicted to cheerfulness. Always greet oth-ers with a positive, cheerful statement. Make every greeting up-beat, happy, encouraging and you’ll be welcome everywhere.
You could name another dozen positive addic-tions that when developed in your life and busi-ness will help you achieve significant success and happiness. Go ahead and write them down and start today to develop helpful habits and positive addictions. Get addicted to the things that make you a better person, your business more profit-able and your world a better place to live.*Positive Addictions were first described by Wil-liam Glasser in a book by that title (1985, New York, Harper Collins)
Dr. Ron Ross is the publisher of Tidbits of Greeley and the author of two books. He is available to speak to your business or group. To contact Dr. Ross, email him at [email protected]
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