The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read ® Display until Nov 26, 2013 e average annual consumption of turkey has in- creased from 8.3 pounds in 1975 to 18.5 pounds to- day. Come along with Tidbits as we talk turkey! TASTY TURKEY Turkey meat is higher in protein and lower in fat and calories than many other meats, averaging 26 percent protein and 11 percent fat. It has 25 percent less fat than roast beef, and 46 percent less than pork loin. Skin accounts for six percent of the bird’s weight. e highest concentrations of fat are found in the skin and the pan drippings, which is why you should avoid both. TURKEY FACTS • e size of an average turkey breast has increased 22 percent since 1979. • A typical turkey will consume 110,000 calories in its lifetime. • It takes 3 lbs of feed to produce one pound of turkey, but it takes 7 lbs of feed to produce one pound of beef. • A typical 15-pound bird will have 70 percent white meat and 30 percent dark meat. • e first meal eaten on the moon by Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin in 1969 consisted of a foil packet full of turkey with trimmings. TURKEY QUESTIONS ANSWERED You go to buy a turkey, and wonder how big a bird you Tidbits tells you all about... Of Greeley, Centerra, Loveland & More! Issue 906 Listen to... Tidbits Talk Wednesdays at 8:18am TURKEY by Janet Spencer
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The average annual consumption of turkey has in-creased from 8.3 pounds in 1975 to 18.5 pounds to-day. Come along with Tidbits as we talk turkey!
TASTY TURKEYTurkey meat is higher in protein and lower in fat and
calories than many other meats, averaging 26 percent protein and 11 percent fat. It has 25 percent less fat than roast beef, and 46 percent less than pork loin. Skin accounts for six percent of the bird’s weight. The highest concentrations of fat are found in the skin and the pan drippings, which is why you should avoid both.
TURKEY FACTS• The size of an average turkey breast has increased 22
percent since 1979.• A typical turkey will consume 110,000 calories in its
lifetime.• It takes 3 lbs of feed to produce one pound of turkey,
but it takes 7 lbs of feed to produce one pound of beef.• A typical 15-pound bird will have 70 percent white
meat and 30 percent dark meat. • The first meal eaten on the moon by Neil Armstrong
and Edwin Aldrin in 1969 consisted of a foil packet full of turkey with trimmings.
TURKEY QUESTIONS ANSWEREDYou go to buy a turkey, and wonder how big a bird you
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should get. An 11 lb. turkey will yield 5 to 6 lbs. of meat. The bigger the bird, the greater the ratio of meat to bones, so the cheaper the serving. You wonder if it would be more economical to get a turkey breast, roast, or roll. Whole turkeys are cheaper per serving. Sometimes turkeys are so cheap that you wonder if you should stock up. A frozen turkey will keep for up to a year if stored at zero degrees. You wonder if you should get a self-basting bird. According to taste tests, there is no reason to choose a self-basting bird over one that is not self-basted. Basted birds have more salt. You wonder how long it will take to thaw. It should be thawed in the fridge for 24 hours for each 5 lbs. of weight. You debate between homemade or Stove-Top. Stuff the bird at the very last minute before cooking to cut down on bacteria, or cook it unstuffed.
SMOKED TURKEYTo celebrate the wealth of turkey farms in the area, the
town of Frazee, Minnesota erected a gigantic turkey statue. Standing 22 feet tall, it was billed as the world’s largest turkey. On July 1, 1998, city workers wanted to spiff up Big Tom (as he was called) in preparation for the annual Turkey Days Festival. How-ever, they decided to clean the fiberglass and paper maché statue with blow torches. Big Tom caught fire and burned to the ground. But civic pride kicked in and by September, another equally im-pressive Big Tom was installed in its place.WHITE vs DARK
Myoglobin is the dark-colored protein that stores oxygen in mus-cles of some animals, just like hemoglobin stores oxygen in red blood cells. The oxygen stored by myoglobin is used for power to drive muscles, and is present in large amounts in muscles that do a lot of work, such as the legs. Muscles that do little work, such as the breast, have less myoglobin.
THE INVALUABLE SNOODBesides the fleshy wattle that hangs below a turkey’s
chin, a male turkey also has a fleshy appendage that hangs over its beak called a snood. The snood indi-cates virility and stretches to twice its length during the macho strutting preceding mating. The ladies pre-fer a long snood. The snood also plays an important role in the rivalry between males. Males will access the length of a rival’s snood before engaging in battle. One researcher wanted to find out just how impor-tant the snood is. He constructed two turkey decoys and placed them three feet apart in a small arena. Each of the decoys stood next to a pile of birdseed. The decoys were identical except that one had a large snood and the other’s snood was small. One at a time, the researcher placed 28 young male turkeys into the yard and waited to see what would happen. Only four of the 28 turkeys took birdseed from the pile in front of the decoy with a huge snood, while 17 stole seed from the decoy with the smaller snood. Seven of the
real turkeys stole birdseed from both decoys. The re-searcher theorized that the length of the snood may be determined by the bird’s testosterone level.
WILD vs DOMESTICOne difference between wild and domestic turkeys is
that the domestic variety is unable to fly, whereas wild birds are extremely good fliers. They need no runway for takeoff, can climb vertically, are capable of attain-ing speeds of 40 m.p.h. in the air, and can glide for a mile without fluttering a wing.
TURKEY HISTORYTurkeys originated in Central and North America. Ar-
cheologists have found turkey fossils over 10 million years old. They’re the only breed of poultry native to the Western Hemisphere. There are two species of wild turkey: the Yucatan turkey inhabits Central America, and the North American turkey lives in the U.S. (Continued next page)
TURKEY TALKNo one is sure where the word “turkey” came from.
Some claim that when Columbus saw them, he thought they were related to the peacock. Because
he thought he was in India, and because the word for peacock in India is “tuka,” he named them thusly. Others say that it got its name because it was imported through the coun-try of Turkey. Still others swear it was because the bird’s head resembles the helmet of Turkish soldiers. Some think it’s because the call of the bird sounds like “turk-turk-turk.”
ACCORDING TO GUINNESS:• Vincent Pilkington of Ireland plucked a turkey bald in
one minute, 30 seconds on November 17, 1980, mak-ing him the world’s fastest turkey plucker.
• One of the world’s largest turkey farms is located in Norfolk, Britain and is owned by Bernard Matthews. Over a million birds per year are raised there.
• One of the heaviest turkeys ever raised weighed 86 pounds dressed out, which is about the size of a large German shepherd dog. It won the annual Heaviest Turkey competition in London in 1989.
GOOD GIZZARDS!On the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, dodo
birds lived under the calvaria tree. The tree’s seeds were unable to sprout until they had been ground down by the dodo’s digestive tract. The dodo had no natural enemies and therefore had developed no de-fenses. When man came accompanied by rats, dogs, and guns, the dodo died off, and it looked like the cal-varia tree was soon to follow. At one point there were only 13 of the trees left in the world, some of them more than 300 years old. Then a professor from Wis-consin fed the seeds to turkeys, whose gizzards did the job that the dodo used to do. Just in the nick of time, the calvaria tree was saved from the dodo’s fate.
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• Annie Jump Cannon was born in 1863 to Elizabeth Jump and Wilson Lee Cannon. Growing up in Dela-ware, her mother taught her the names of all the con-stellations in the sky, imbuing her with a lifelong in-terest in astronomy. Annie excelled in school and was particularly adept at mathematics.
• In 1880 she enrolled in Wellesley College in Massa-chusetts, one of the top schools for women in a day and age when women rarely attended college. Here, a bout with scarlet fever left her nearly deaf, a handicap that barely slowed her pace.
• After graduating with a degree in physics in 1884, she returned home to Delaware, where she grew bored. When her mother died in 1894, she knew it was time for a change. She wrote to her former professor at Wellesley to see if there was a job opening at the school. The professor hired her to be an assistant, and the job allowed Annie to take graduate courses at the college.
• A new course in astronomy caught her attention, as did a class in spectros-copy, where she learned the science behind the dispersion of light. She was also fanatical-ly interested in photography. Later she en-rolled at Rad-cliffe Women’s College at Harvard in order to gain access to the Harvard Col-lege Observa-
tory. There she caught the attention of noted astrono-my Edward Pickering.
• Pickering hired Annie to be his assistant at the ob-servatory. His project was to map, define, and catalog every possible star in the sky. He paid Annie and a bevy of other astronomically inclined women a wage of 25 cents per hour for their labor, at a time when the secretaries at the college were earning up to a dollar per hour. Soon the work got bogged down because the system used to classify stars was bulky, difficult, and complex.
• Annie went to work on the problem, and soon devised a simpler system of star classification based on stellar temperatures. The system, called the Harvard Classi-fication Scheme, was so successful that it was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1922 as the official system for stellar classification. It is still be-ing used today.
FAMOUS WOMEN OF THE WORLD
ANNIE JUMP CANNON• Annie’s career in astronomy spanned more than forty
years. She received a doctorate of astronomy, became the curator of the Harvard Observatory, and was ap-pointed as an official Harvard astronomer. Harvard officials also named her Curator of Astronomical Pho-tographs. She was the first woman ever to receive an honorary degree from Oxford, and the first woman ever elected an officer of the American Astronomi-cal Society. In addition, she received the prestigious Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors available to any as-tronomy. Only one other woman has ever won it.
• The only time her deafness got in the way of her career was when she was nominated for membership in the National Academy of Sciences, but not elected, after a noted biologist made an issue of her deafness.
• Over the course of nearly half a century, she classified and cataloged around a quarter of a million stars, caus-ing Time magazine to label her “Census Taker of the Sky.” She also discovered about 300 new stars. In 1923 she was voted one of the twelve greatest living Ameri-can women by the League of Women Voters.
• She died in 1941, having lived long enough to see wom-en win a grudging place in the world of science. In her honor the American Asso-ciation of University Women presents the Annie J. Cannon Award each year to a woman beginning her astronomical ca-reer.
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• A flatworm, when cut in half, will regenerate both missing halves to form two complete new worms. McConnell and Thompson in 1953 taught flatworms that a bright light would be followed by an electric shock. Soon the worms curled into a ball whenever a light was shown, before the shock came. Now McConnell and Thompson wondered if you cut the worms in half and let them regenerate, which half would remember the knowledge? Experiments showed both halves remembered equally well. Another researcher split a worm halfway down the mid-dle, resulting in a two-headed worm. Two heads, he discovered, are better than one, as two-headed worms were able to learn faster than one-headed worms.
• Planarians are small flatworms that live in ponds
WEIRD WORMS and streams. Dr. William Corning put a num-ber of them in a bowl filled with water. He then turned on a bright light and followed it with a
mild electric shock. The worms curled into a tight ball when they received the shock. Dr. Corning wanted to see if he could teach the worms to curl up in a ball be-fore they received the shock. Two days later, when he turned on the bright light pri-or to giving them the shock, he was amazed to see the worms climb out of the water and perch on the bowl’s rim!• Between 20 to 30% of Flor-ida’s citrus trees are killed by weevils which attack the roots. Nematodes (tiny worms) can control weevils, but they die quickly if the soil dries out. Enter super slurper—a modi-fied corn starch product that absorbs water like a sponge and retains it. Scientists hope that soon citrus farmers will be able to buy pre-packaged nematodes, mix them with
super slurper, and sprinkle them on the roots be-fore planting. The result is happy nematodes, un-happy weevils, and happy citrus farmers.
• The sheep-liver fluke is a small worm which hatches inside a snail. The snail ejects it in a ball of slime. The slime is then eaten by a passing ant, whereupon the fluke makes its way to the ant’s brain. There it takes over the ant, forcing it to sit on top of a piece of grass, where a sheep soon eats it. From there the fluke makes its way to the sheep’s liver, thereby completing the cycle.• The tardigrade is a type of microscopic worm. The name tardigrade is Latin for ‘slow walker.’ It has six tiny legs with claws, two eyes, and a mouth adapted to piercing and sucking out the contents of plants and other microscopic creatures. The tardigrade is unusual because it is capable of going into suspended animation. Its
body is normally 85% water, but when conditions are dry, it dehydrates to the point of being just a husk, and can survive in a state of apparent death for decades. Tardigrades have been placed into vacuums; kept for months in pure hydrogen, ni-trogen, helium, carbonic acid, and hydrogen sul-phide; stored for months in liquid air at -392°F.; exposed to liquid helium at -519°; and dried for hours in temperatures up to 300°F. Still, when placed in room temperature water, they revived every time. Scientists examined a museum speci-men of dried moss, found tardigrade husks in it, and revived them. They had been in suspended animation for 120 years.
FAST FACTS• A type of parasitic worm lives only under the eyes
of a hippo, surviving on its tears.• Worms, flies, and snails have hearts.• A robin can eat up to 14 feet (4 m) worth of worms
in a day.• Earthworms have no lungs. They breathe through
their skin.
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Our nephew, an enlisted man in the Army, is head-ing to a dangerous part of the world for a second tour of duty. His parents and the rest of our family are justifiably concerned for his safety. A business-man watches carefully as a strong competitor opens a business two blocks down the street. Grand- m a is going to the doctor for her health check-up next week and she is apprehensive about what may be found.Each scenario is an occasion for worry. If my nephew’s parents spend an inordinate amount of time and energy conjuring up all the possible bad things that could happen to their son, they would never sleep because the possibilities for bad things to happen are endless. If the businessman sits and stews about how the competition will cause him to lose his business, he’ll probably lose his house, then his wife will di-vorce him, then his kids will think him a failure, and worse of all, his mother back in Des Moines won’t let him come home! In the meantime, he won’t have any time to think about the positive things he could do right now to solidify his customer base, expand his product lines, revitalize his marketing, etc.And Grandma, now in her mid 80’s; imagine all the things that could be wrong with here! She probably has all the latest information about some dreaded disease that her neighbor died of a couple of months ago and now what if she gets it? She could worry herself right into a whole variety of ailments.These are all examples of the negative self-talk that
You’re Something Special #10You Don’t Have to Worry
distracts the mind from focusing on the real prob-lems at hand. Worry is the archenemy of the im-agination. You must take those negative worrying thoughts that enter your mind, and change them into problem solving thoughts that will result in a creative solution. You must deny worry a resting place in your soul.
What’s important is what you can do today about the problems you face today. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow’s not yet here. Today is what you have to deal with and worry doesn’t get anything done.
The next time your mind begins to imagine all the bad things that could possibly happen, take that negative energy and put it to work to solve prob-lems. You will be surprised at how much can be ac-complished once the paralysis of worry and fear is crushed.
And once you’ve done what you can do, take your stand. Things will happen the way they will happen whether you worry about them or not.
Leo Buscaglia said, “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow it only saps today of its joy.”
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• OK, I’ll say it: I love tradition, but sometimes I want to mix it up for Thanksgiving dinner. I keep the main dishes the same as they always are, but I add my drama in the details. For instance, mix your choice of herbs into a stick of softened but-ter. Using plastic baggie with the corner cut off or a decorating bag, pipe the herbed butter onto a butter dish. Refrigerate and enjoy the oohs and ahs. -- JoAnn
• “In the week before Thanksgiving, have a leftovers day and get all those bits and pieces out of the re-frigerator. It will make it easier to clean so you’ll have room for the turkey and the sides.” -- S.T. in South Carolina
• “For easier cooking when making large holiday meals, simply choose two side dishes that can be oven cooked in the same amount of time at an av-erage temperature. I like one or two that can be cooked in the microwave as well.” -- E.U. in Texas
• “For a delightful twist on cranberry jelly, slice and sprinkle with orange zest. Dress up your mashed potatoes with a sprinkling of chopped fresh chives.” -- A Reader, via email
• The night before serving your large sit-down din-ner, put all the serving pieces on the table, and all the dinnerware in the dining room. You don’t want to have one person trying to get plates and spoons when you are getting dinner on the table.
• “You know what works really well to keep hot cas-seroles hot when waiting for other sides to finish? A cooler. Line it with a towel and set your cas-seroles inside. Then, when they are on the table, stick the cooler back in the kitchen. You can put the dirty casserole dishes back in the cooler after you pack away leftovers. Add some warm, soapy water, and they can even wait until the next day to get cleaned.” -- M.B. in Georgia
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1. Dr. David Livingstone walked three times across what continent?
2. Kofi Annan heads what organization?3. Who is Earl Spencer? Hint: he lives in Eng-
land.4. After the 9-11 attacks the Congress required the
TSA to handle passenger and baggage screening at airports. What does TSA stand for?
5. What is the most popular morning show on cable TV?
6. Peanuts are known as goobers because the African word for peanut is nguba. True or False?
7. Is Mother’s Day the first, second, or third largest card-sending holiday in the United States?
8. If you cheered for the Terrapins what uni-versity would you be supporting?
9. Do you eat radicchio, play radicchio, or smoke radicchio?
10. If you were a Cypriot what island would you live on?
11. What is found in the atmosphere in minute particles, especially after a thunderstorm?
12. Do you recon this is true or false: The AP reported that seal hunting will be allowed for another month off Canada’s east coast because the annual quota of 350,000 has not been reached.
13. What do you call the portion of the trunk between the diaphragm and the lower pelvis in humans and other vertebrates?
14. What is horehound?15. What is Elba: 1. A part of your arm; 2. An
Island; or 3. An African Antelope?16. Where do you find your fibula?17. What is the popular word for the volatile
mixture of hydrocarbons for use in inter-nal-combustion engines?
18. Where is Georgetown University located?19. Where is George Washington University lo-
cated?20. Speaking of George, what two metropolitan
areas does the George Washington Bridge connect?
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• It was lexicographer Samuel Johnson who made the following sage observation: “Always, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.”
• On Jan. 31, 2013, it officially became legal for women to wear pants in Paris. Before that, a law on the books only allowed women to wear pants if they were “holding a bicycle handlebar or the reins of a horse,” or if they had requested special permission from the police to dress like men.
• Japanese consumers are now able to buy a smartphone attachment that emits the odors of short ribs, beef tongue and buttered pota-toes. Other attachments are also available, with scents such as the ylang-ylang flower, cinna-mon rolls, coffee, corn soup, mint, strawberries, jasmine and curry.
• It’s well known that famed children’s book au-thor Dr. Seuss had no children of his own, but you might be surprised to learn that he created an imaginary daughter, Chrysanthemum Pearl. He dedicated his book “The 500 Hats of Bar-tholomew Cubbins” to her: “To Chrysanthe-mum Pearl, aged 89 months, going on 90.”
• If you’re like 6 percent of Americans, when you vacuum you do it in your underwear -- or na-ked.
• Before the invention of the electric light, peo-ple slept, on average, nine hours a night. Since then, it’s been about 7.5. Sleep researchers say that in a lab setting, people deprived of electric light go back to sleeping nine hours a night.
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Best Of Late Night HumorThe Tonight Show With Jay Leno• At a press conference President Obama talked
about Healthcare.gov and he said buying health insurance is never going to be as easy as buying a song on iTunes. The answer is simple. Fire the website people and hire the people at iTunes. There you go. Couldn’t be easier.
• According to a new poll, 52 percent of Americans describe President Obama as “not honest.” That makes him by far the most honest politician in American history.
• Yesterday at the White House, President Obama met with various leaders of the American In-dian tribes. He promised them, “If you like your medicine man, you can keep your medicine man.”
• The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won their first game of the season the other night. They beat the Mi-ami Dolphins 22-19. This was an important loss for the Dolphins because they proved they can embarrass themselves without Richie Incognito.
• On Monday, President Obama paid tribute to America’s oldest living veteran, 107-year-old Richard Overton. Overton credits his longevity to drinking whiskey and smoking 12 cigars every day. Now there’s a health plan we can all get behind.
• According to a new report, over a million Cali-fornians are losing their health insurance due to Obamacare. In fact, some are so angry they have already gone back to Mexico.
• A Dutch study has found that people suffering from depression age faster than those who are not depressed. They say being depressed can ac-tually take years off your life. Well, that should make depressed people feel a lot better, huh?
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• It seems that during his re-election campaign this year, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie paid $46,000 to get advice from former strate-gists for Mitt Romney. The advice he got: “If you ever want to be president, don’t listen to us.”
• Today a reporter asked Chris Christie, “What do you think of 2016?” And Christie said, “I think it’s a good weight to get down to.”
• German veterinarians have a tortoise mov-ing again after giving him a Lego wheel as a prosthetic limb. That Obamacare is amaz-ing, isn’t it? It’s just helping everyone.
The Late Show With David Letterman• Here in New York City we have a new mayor, Bill de
Blasio. He’s 6 feet, 7 inches tall and his wife is a for-mer lesbian. She’s a former lesbian although she can be called back to active duty on a moment’s notice.
• They caught a guy in the Secret Service sending out suggestive and graphic emails to women. On the bright side, it’s nice to know somebody in the White House knows how to operate the computer.
• A company is now selling bacon-scent-ed deodorant. That’s great if you’re dat-ing the governor of New Jersey.
• My wife got a hold of some bacon-scented deo-dorant and then she found some fried eggs co-logne. And then for Halloween we went trick-or-treating as a Denny’s Grand Slam breakfast.
Jimmy Kimmel Live!• Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has provided me with
so much entertainment this week that I feel like I should pay him a subscription fee. He’s like your drunk uncle who is fun but you’re just getting old enough to realize why your parents never let him take you any-where by himself.
Late Night With Jim-my Fallon • The Department of
Homeland Security revealed that hackers have attempted more than a dozen cyber-attacks on the Oba-macare website, but couldn’t get in. Then Obama said, “But when you do, let us know how you did it!”
• A growing number of women are join-ing the CIA. The CIA is now 46 per-cent women. Which explains that new method of torture: the silent treatment.
Conan• • Many scam art-
ists are trying to take
advantage of the problems with the Obamacare website. Experts say you can tell it’s a scam site if it quickly and efficiently signs you up for healthcare.
• Wal-Mart announced that this Thanks-giving they are opening earlier than they ever have. Because what better way to celebrate the pilgrims’ arrival than buying crap from China.
