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Of Greeley & West Weld County ColoradoThe Neatest Little Paper Ever Read ® Issue 805
To Advertise Call 970.475.4829Week of December 14, 2011
4875 W. 10th Street - Greeley - 970.378.7807 - Open Mon - Sat
Bring in your old vacuum& trade it for a NEW
RICCARand receive an extra
$50 to $100$50 to $100Additional trade on
selected models!
Perry’s Vacuum Center
The Last Vacuum You’ll Ever Buy!!
Made in the USA - Unbelievable Suction PowerTandem Air System - Sealed HEPA Filtration
Great for People with Allergies3 Year Warranty - 30 Foot Cord - On-Board Tools
One Year Financing Available
by Patricia L. CookTidbits crosses many paths in researching infor-
mation for your reading pleasure. This issue will look at some familiar crosses and cross-ings that we all encounter.
• The first type of crossing that comes to mind for most is a railroad crossing. Many drivers encounter railroad crossings every time they drive. Rail lines are prevalent in North Ameri-ca, which highlights the fact that railroads play a huge part in transporting goods and people across this continent.
• Where railroads exist, crossings also exist. Railroad crossings are intersections where a roadway crosses a railroad at-grade. In the United States, they are referred to as grade crossings. In Canada and many other places, they are called level crossings.
• As of 2005, there were 147,681 public grade crossings and 94,583 private crossings in the United States. Public crossings are maintained by a public authority, but private crossings, not
intended for public use, are not. They are for the use of the own-ers of the property and usually on farms or industrial complexes.
• Grade crossings in all countries have always been accident-prone areas. When vehicles or pedestri-ans cross the paths of trains, trains win. The good news is that in recent years, accident rates have gone down.
• The U.S. Department of Transpor-tation has reported that cross-ing accidents between vehicles and trains decreased 84 percent between 1972 and 2009. In 2009, there were 1,900 collisions, com-pared to 12,000 in 1972.
• Much of the improved safety at railroad crossings has been attrib-uted to the Operation Lifesaver program that was started in Idaho in 1972. The Idaho governor’s office, Idaho Peace Officers and Union Pacific Railroad started the program with a six-week public awareness campaign. Fatalities fell 43 percent in the inaugural year, and within a decade, the program spread all around the country. Canada added Operation Lifesav-er in 1981. A national office was created in 1986 for the non-profit organization to support the efforts of the states. The United King-dom, Estonia, Mexico and Argen-tina also have Operation Lifesaver programs.
• The warning signs at railroad crossings are similar worldwide. The “crossbuck” or X sign usu-ally contains the words “railroad crossing” in the United States and “railway crossing” in Canada. The “crossbuck” is also called a “saltire” or Saint Andrew’s cross. Saint Andrew was a disciple of Jesus Christ who was martyred on an X-shaped cross as opposed to a traditional cross. The saltire is used in many flags, including Scotland’s, where Saint Andrew is the patron Saint. Nova Scotia, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. states of Florida and Alabama are others with the saltire on their flags.
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• The Scottish flag, a white saltire on a blue background, is believed to be the oldest flag in Europe. The village of Athelstaneford, birthplace of the Scottish flag, has a Flag Heritage Centre and Saltire Memorial.
• The idea for the Red Cross was born in 1859 when a young Swiss man, Henry Dunant, saw soldiers in Italy on a battlefield wounded and dying and not receiving assistance. He organized local people to come to their aid.
• In 1863, five men from Geneva, Switzerland, including Dunant, set up the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became the International Committee of the Red Cross. This led to the creation of the Geneva Convention, in which 12 governments agreed to offer care for the wounded, and paved the way for medical services to be “neutral” on the bat-tlefield.
• The emblem for the Red Cross was set as a red cross on a white background, the inverse of the Swiss flag. While that emblem has changed a little through the years, the symbol of the Red Cross is recognizable worldwide.
• Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, was working in Washing-ton, D.C., in 1861 when wounded Civil War soldiers needed help. She gath-
ered supplies and dis-tributed them for the soldiers. She also read to them, wrote letters for them and prayed with them. Barton was known as the “Angel of the Battlefield.”
• Barton’s organizational efforts and commitment to helping soldiers along with observations of the International Red Cross at work in Europe led to the creation of the American Red Cross in 1881. Barton was 60 years old and led the new American organization for 23 years.
• Today, the American Red Cross is a part of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, which was founded in 1919. These organizations bring aid to victims of disasters throughout the world.
• The building housing the headquarters of the American Red Cross, located in Washington, D.C., was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. The building has many historical artifacts, writings and more from the organiza-tion’s past. An original set of paneled, stained-glass Tiffany Windows, com-missioned in 1917 and designed and constructed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, are on display in their original state. The beautiful windows illustrate the most significant values of the Red Cross: hope, faith, charity and love.
• One of the most loved poets of Victorian-era Britain, Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote the poem “Crossing the Bar:” It reads: “For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place, The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face, When I have crossed the bar.”
• Being a Poet Laureate meant being appointed as a member of the royal household for life. Tennyson was expected to write wonderful poems celebrating national and royal events in Britain.
• Written in 1889, three years before his death, “Crossing the Bar” was not his final work, but Tennyson requested that it appear as the final poem in all of his collections. The poem de-scribed his attitude about death, using a sand bar to describe the barrier between life and death. Another image that many thought he intended to convey with the poem was that of “crossing” oneself as Catholics do in a religious gesture of devotion.
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OVERCOMING THE ODDS:
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Named after Florence, Italy, the city of her birth, Florence Nightingale was born to wealthy par-ents on May 12, 1820. She felt called by God to help others as a nurse.
• In England in the 1800s, nurses were not valued in society. Being from a wealthy family, Nightingale was expected to marry, raise a family and carry on life in “high” society. Her social circle didn’t look kindly at working-class women. She lived with her parents and sister in Embley Park, Hampshire, England.
• Nightingale was very close to her father. He did not have a son and took great pains to edu-cate her. He taught her Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, mathematics, history and philosophy. Yet with all of the education he provided, he was opposed to her seeking train-ing as a nurse.
• Nightingale’s desire was not necessarily to be a career woman but to help others in need. She spent 11 years visiting the sick in hospitals. She was greatly encouraged when she visited two St. Vincent de Paul sisters at a convent in Alex-andria, Egypt. She felt they were more caring and were better nurses than the ones she had seen in England.
• Nightingale was further encouraged to pur-sue a medical career when she met Elizabeth Blackwell at a hospital in London. Blackwell was the first woman to qualify as a medical doctor in the United States. Blackwell had overcome great obstacles in pursuit of her medical career and urged Nightingale to keep trying to convince her father to allow her to study. Finally in 1851, when she was age 31, Nightingale’s father gave her permission to seek nursing training.
• Nightingale studied at the Institute of Protes-tant Deaconesses in Kaiserwerth, Germany. Two years later, she started work at a London hospital for women.
• In March 1853, Russia invaded Turkey, and Britain and France stepped in to help Turkey in what became known as the Crimean War. British soldiers soon became infected with cholera and malaria in great numbers. Night-ingale volunteered her services to help the sol-diers. She took 38 nurses with her to the army hospital near the conflict.
• Nightingale was appalled at the conditions of the army hospital. The lack of hygiene and good elementary care available to the Brit-ish soldiers was causing and prolonging a lot of the health issues. She started a campaign to improve the quality of nursing in military hospitals. She also encouraged the soldiers by establishing recreation and reading rooms at the hospitals.
• In 1856, Nightingale met with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and gave evidence of the horrible conditions to the 1857 Sanitary Com-mission. This resulted in the Army Medical College being formed.
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School & Home for Nurses at St. Thomas Hos-pital and became involved in training nurses for employment in workhouses that were estab-lished for the poor.
• Known as “The Lady with the Lamp” for her habit of making rounds at night, Nightingale was and will always be remembered as a nation-al heroine in England. Worldwide recognition is given to her in the Nightingale Pledge that is taken by new nurses, and the annual Interna-tional Nurses Day is held on her birthday.
There are some units of measurment that are just odd. For instance, the words knot, carat, cubit, ream, bale and dozen. Let’s spend about 40 dozen words looking at the ins and outs of dozen.
• A dozen equals 12 things. Eggs, doughnuts, flowers and more are often measured in dozens. • The word dozen is a contraction of the Latin word duodecim, which means two plus 10. The root
“duo” also appears in duodenum, the first part of the intestines, which happens to be about 12 inches (30.48 cm) long. Some language and math historians believe that a dozen is one of the earli-est groupings, hence there are a dozen cycles of the moon in a cycle of the sun. There are a dozen months in the year, and watches and clocks are based on 12 hours of A.M. and 12 hours of P.M.
• In the Bible, there are 12 tribes of Israel in the Old Testament, and Jesus chose 12 men to be his disciples in the New Testament. But these groups were never referred to as a dozen!
• Do you know the significance of giving a dozen roses? Even though many don’t think of this, it is said to convey that the gift giver is thinking of the recipient all 12 months of the year. True love!
• The original movie “Cheaper By the Dozen” was based on the 1948 autobiographical book writ-ten by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, two of the children of efficiency experts Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. and Lillian Moller Gilbreth. The couple had a dozen children, and the book is based on a comment that the father was often heard saying when people asked him why he had so many children. He’d say, “Well, they come cheaper by the dozen, you know.”
• Two more “Cheaper By the Dozen” movies were made in 2003 and 2005, but they were not based on the real family or book. The only similarities were that the family had a dozen children and a lot of chaos! Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt starred in those movies.
• A baker’s dozen is a collection of 13 items, instead of a normal dozen of 12. The tradition, usually just used in the baking industry, started in the 13th century, and continues today at many bake shops around the world.
• Also called a long dozen, devil’s dozen, rough rider’s dozen or long measure, giving a baker’s dozen most likely started because of se-vere punishments that existed in England when bakers shorted their customers. Bakers feared not giving their customers the proper weight of goods, so instead of not giving enough, they would give extra, just to be sure! An extra roll, pastry or loaf of bread would surely satisfy their customers and fulfill the law as well.• Bake shops were regulated by the Worshipful Company of Bakers, a trade guild to which most bakers belonged in medieval England. The guild regulated bread prices, what types were available for sale and where new shops could be estab-lished. The motto for the company was and still is, “Praise God for All.”• The next time you visit a dough-nut shop or bakery, ask what their policy is concerning a baker’s dozen. Chances are, they’ll throw in an extra for you!
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Phone Messages that SellBy Ron Ross
The ad attracted my attention and offered a service I needed. I figured it was a home-based business, so I wasn’t surprised when my phone call went immediately to a recorded message. The message sounded hurried and insecure, “Hi, uhhh, this is Bill with XYZ company…uhh, uhh, please leave a message and I’ll get right back with you. Uhhhh thanks for call-ing.”Because the phone went to voicemail, it was an early negative, even though I needed what this guy offered. The negative impact was doubled because his mes-sage didn’t tell me anything more than his busi-ness and personal name, both of which I already knew because they were in his ad.Learn from Bill’s mistake. Make your phone message sell by giving more than the old worn out line, “Your call is important to me.” Instead tell every caller with strong words that your business is important and here’s why. A good message stimulates a caller to leave a call back name and number.Here’s an example, “Thank you for calling ABC Bookkeeping Services. We ease the burden of the most important yet time-consuming and least profitable aspect of your business: keep-ing clear and accurate financial records. We will bring your business and your life into perfect balance if you leave your name and phone number after the beep.”Try this: call your own number and listen to your message. Then ask yourself if you would want to do business with the person who an-swers. Remember…write and record a phone message that sells!
===================================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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• On Dec. 18, 1620, the Mayflower docks at what today is Plymouth, Mass., and its pas-sengers disembarked to begin their new settlement, Ply-mouth Colony. The winter of 1620-1621 was brutal, and by spring, only 52 of the original 102 Mayflower passen-gers were still alive.
• On Dec. 16, 1773, in Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773. The value of the tea was more than $700,000 in today’s currency.
• On Dec. 14, 1909, workers place the last of the 3.2 million 10-pound bricks that pave the In-dianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana. Since then, all but a 1-yard-wide strip at the start-finish line has been buried under asphalt. Kiss-ing those bricks after a successful race remains a tradition among Indy drivers.
• On Dec. 13, 1916, a powerful avalanche kills hundreds of Austrian soldiers in barracks near Italy’s Mount Marmolada. Over a period of several weeks, avalanches killed an estimated 10,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers.
• On Dec. 17, 1961, a fire at a filled-to-capac-ity circus in Brazil kills more than 300 people and severely burns 500 more. The cause of the fire was never conclusively determined, but it may have been the result of sparks from a train passing nearby.
• On Dec. 15, 1973, Jean Paul Getty III, the grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, five months after his kidnapping by an Italian gang. Getty had initially refused to pay his 16-year-old grand-son’s $17 million ransom, but finally agreed after the boy’s severed right ear was sent to a newspaper in Rome.
• On Dec. 12, 1980, American oil tycoon Ar-mand Hammer pays $5,126,000 at auction for a notebook containing writings by the legen-dary artist Leonardo da Vinci. The manuscript, written around 1508, contained 72 loose pages featuring some 300 notes and detailed draw-ings, all relating to the common theme of water and how it moved.
