The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read ® Display until Oct 29, 2013 Studies have shown that dancing reduces stress and ten- sion and can also help prevent heart disease. Come along with Tidbits as we look at different kinds of dancing! THE HULA • ‘Hula’ is a HawaiiWWaning simply, ‘dance.’ Originally, only men were allowed to dance the hula. It originated as a method of passing history down, with every single movement carrying a meaning that helped tell the sto- ry. e movements were accompanied by drumming and chanting. (Modern hula is more commonly ac- companied by ukeleles and guitars.) Hula dances also honored and appeased the gods in religious ceremo- nies (particularly the volcano gods) and paid homage to leaders. e hula was once outlawed by missionaries who considered it sinful. But David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii from 1874 through 1891, reinstated the tradi- tion of hula dancing, thereby earning his nickname, the ‘Merrie Monarch.’ Each year, the Merrie Monarch Festival is held in his honor. e peak of the festival is the hula competition, with both men and women dancing. An authentic hula skirt requires the leaves of about 60 ti plants, takes about four hours to weave, and wears out in 3 to 5 days of use. DANCING SHOWMANSHIP • In the 1800s people were fascinated with Native Ameri- cans, so P.T. Barnum imported a band of Sioux from Tidbits tells you all about... Of Greeley, Centerra, Loveland & More! Issue 902 Listen to... Tidbits Talk Wednesdays at 8:18am DANCE by Janet Spencer
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The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read ®Display until Oct 29, 2013
Studies have shown that dancing reduces stress and ten-sion and can also help prevent heart disease. Come along with Tidbits as we look at different kinds of dancing!
THE HULA• ‘Hula’ is a HawaiiWWaning simply, ‘dance.’ Originally,
only men were allowed to dance the hula. It originated as a method of passing history down, with every single movement carrying a meaning that helped tell the sto-ry. The movements were accompanied by drumming and chanting. (Modern hula is more commonly ac-companied by ukeleles and guitars.) Hula dances also honored and appeased the gods in religious ceremo-nies (particularly the volcano gods) and paid homage to leaders. The hula was once outlawed by missionaries who considered it sinful. But David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii from 1874 through 1891, reinstated the tradi-tion of hula dancing, thereby earning his nickname, the ‘Merrie Monarch.’ Each year, the Merrie Monarch Festival is held in his honor. The peak of the festival is the hula competition, with both men and women dancing. An authentic hula skirt requires the leaves of about 60 ti plants, takes about four hours to weave, and wears out in 3 to 5 days of use.
DANCING SHOWMANSHIP• In the 1800s people were fascinated with Native Ameri-
cans, so P.T. Barnum imported a band of Sioux from
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Iowa to perform in his New York museum. He hired them to perform their ritualistic dances on stage in front of an audience. Their favorite was the war dance, but they performed it so convincingly that Barnum was afraid someone would get hurt. So he asked them to perform the more sedate wedding dance instead. They agreed, as long as Barnum agreed to provide a new red woolen blanket so the bridegroom would have a gift to give the bride’s father. Barnum agreed, since the blan-ket cost only $10 and his box-office receipts were very good. But then they informed him that he must buy a new wedding blanket for every performance. Since the show was performed twice a day, six days a week, Bar-num was spending $120 a week on blankets. Soon the tribe got homesick for their native land. Barnum paid their passage back to Iowa.
• In 1942, the impresarios for Ringling Brothers, Bar-num and Bailey Circus decided they wanted to teach their circus elephants to dance. They contacted cho-reographer George Balanchine and told him to find a composer to help him. He chose Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, and the telephone conversation went like this: “I need you to compose a piece of music for me.” “What kind of music?” “A polka.” “For whom?” “Elephants.” “How old?” “Young!” “OK, if they are very young, I’ll do it!” The result was “Circus Polka” and it was performed 425 times.
• Aristotle told the story of the city of Sybaris, where the horses were taught to dance to the music of a pipe. When the Sybarites went to war against the Crotonians, the Crotonians brought along a lot of pipes. On the battlefield, the pipers began to play, the Sybarian horses began to dance, and the riders were easily slaughtered.
DANCE WORD ORIGINS• The old English word ‘jouk’ means to
dance, and from that we get our juke box.
• Thespis was a poet, dancer, and theat-rical manager around 500 BC. He did so much to pro-mote theater that he is still honored today in the word ‘thespian.’
• The word ‘carol’ comes from the Middle English word ‘carolen’ meaning to sing joyously. That word origi-nates with the Greek word ‘choraulein,’ which was a ring dance accompanied by flutes.
• ‘Polak’ means Polish man, and ‘polka’ means Polish woman. In addition, the Czeck word ‘pulka’ means ‘half-step.’ When a new dance originating in Bohemia took the world by storm, it was called the Polka. The polka was very popular and many different items were named after the dance. When a new fabric was invent-ed, the manufacturer decided to name the new design ‘polka dots.’
FAST FACTS ABOUT DANCE• It is illegal to dance to the Star Spangled Banner in sev-
eral states. • President James Polk banned dancing and drinking in
the White House. At his inaugural ball, these illicit ac-
tivities stopped— until the president and his wife left the ball.
• In 1865, somcone sprinkled cayenne pepper on the dance floor in Virginia City, Montana during a dance, causing a sneezing uproar.
• Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky was able to cross and uncross his legs ten times in a single leap.
• Barnum and Bailey Circus once had a troupe of danc-ing cows.
• Choreographer Paul Taylor once performed a solo dance on stage in which he simply stood motionless for four minutes. The critic for “Dance Observer” mag-azine reviewed his work by giving him four inches of blank white space.
DANCE ANTICS & ANECDOTES
• In France in 1960 a new disco opened up called Chez Régine. For weeks everyone who showed up at the door was turned away. A sign out front perpetually an-nounced that the disco was full. Finally the sign was removed, and customers flooded in. It was an instant success. The ‘Disco Full’ sign was a gimmick designed to get people’s curiosity up.
• In 1971 jazz composer Roger Kellaway wrote a modern ballet entitled mysteriously “PAMTGG.” Audiences soon realized the acronym stood for the TV commer-
cial jingle, “Pan Am Makes the Going Great.” The entire ballet was based on airport life, including takeoff, land-ing, and baggage scramble.• Dancer Marie Guimard was famous for her style of danc-ing which mostly involved graceful movements of the arms as she struck poses. When a piece of falling scen-ery broke her arm, French opera singer Sohie Arnould remarked, “What a pity it
wasn’t her leg; then it wouldn’t have interfered with her dancing!”
• British ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn went to see a troupe of black ballet dancers. One of the male per-formers invited her to join him on stage and she game-ly tried to keep up with the rhythm and movement of the vigorous dance as he guided her through the steps. He took her back to her seat saying, “You’re an attrac-tive girl; it’s too bad you can’t dance!”
CANADIAN DANCE FACTS• In Canada, the number of people who report earning
a living from dance grew from less than 400 in 1971 to over 6,000 in 2001.
• Over a million Canadians adults take dance classes or perform in their community.
• Over one-quarter of a million Canadian citizens take ballet lessons.
• Throughout Canada, dancers earn lower incomes than all other culture workers, and rank among the bottom 5% of all occupations.
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When Virginia Katherine McMath was born in Missouri in 1911, her young cousin had trouble pronouncing the name ‘Virginia,’ saying ‘Ginga’ instead, so Virginia became Ginger. Her mother divorced her father, and later married John Rogers, turning Virginia McMath into Ginger Rog-ers. Ginger’s mother was very actively involved in theater, writing Hollywood scripts for a living and touring with theatrical troupes, so Ginger grew up backstage. She got her first taste of the limelight when she won a Charleston dance contest, which allowed her to tour the Vaudeville circuit extensively. Her mother went along on the tour, acting as her manager.
• Upon arriving in New York City, she landed a role in a Broadway play called “Top Speed,” and then immediately landed the leading role in the Gershwin play “Girl Crazy,” which made a star out of both herself and Ethyl Merman. One of the crew members hired to help with choreography was a young dancer named Fred Astaire. In 1930, Ginger signed a 7-year contract with Paramount Pictures. She was 19 years old. In the decades to come, she would make over 70 films.
• In 1933, she teamed up with Fred Astaire for the first
time, making a film called “Flying Down to Rio” which turned out to be the first of ten films they made together. Although they played supporting characters in the film, their dance chemistry was so remarkable that audiences clamored for more. A string of feature films followed, in-cluding such hits as “Top Hat” and “The Gay Divorcee.” Although the two worked well together, they were never close off-stage. However, as Astaire later reflected, “All the girls I ever danced with thought they couldn’t do it, but of course they could. So they always cried. All except Ginger. No no, Ginger never cried.”
• By the mid-1940s, Ginger Rogers was Hollywood’s high-est paid performer. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1940 for her role in “Kitty Foyle.” In the 1942 film “The Major and the Minor,” she played the part of a woman who disguises herself as a 12-year-old. In the mov-ie, her real mother played the role of her film mother. She
starred with Ronald Reagan in the 1951 anti-Ku Klux Klan thriller, “Storm Warning.”
• By the 1950s as her film popularity began to fade, she re-turned to the stage for long successful runs in plays such as “Hello, Dolly!” and “Mame.” Her final film was the 1965 biopic “Harlow” in which she played the mother of actress Jean Harlow. In 1985, she fulfilled a lifelong dream when she directed the off-Broadway musical “Babes in Arms.” She was 74 years old at the time. Along the way, she mar-ried and divorced five times but never had any children. Her autobiography, “Ginger: My Story” was published in 1991.
• Her final appearance in a TV role was in 1987 when she appeared in the series “Hotel.”
• She continued making public appearances until a stroke left her partially paralyzed and dependent upon a wheel-chair. In spite of the stroke, she never saw a doctor.
• Ginger Rogers died of a heart attack in 1995 at the age of 83. Her ashes, interred next to her mother’s, are in the same cemetery where Fred Astaire is buried.
• Garson Kanin wrote of them, “The magic of Astaire and Rogers cannot be explained; it can only be felt. They created a style, a mood, a happening. They flirted, chased, courted, slid, caressed, hopped, skipped, jumped, bent, swayed, clasped, wafted, un-dulated, nestled, leapt, quivered, glided, spun - in sum, made love before our eyes. We have not seen their like since.”
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Judy was born in 1937 in Shanghai, in a dog kennel. A purebred pointer, she was a brown and white dog of exceptional intelligence and devotion. She was still very young when she was presented to the Royal Navy of Britain in order to serve as a mascot.
• Her first assignment was to the ship called the Gnat, where she narrowly avoided death when she fell overboard into the Yangtze River. She and her crew patrolled Chinese waters in spite of Japanese bom-bardment. The citizens of Hankow were so thankful that they awarded her a silver medal.
• When the Gnat was captured by the Japanese in 1939, Judy and her crew were transferred to another gun-ship called HMS Grasshopper. By now Judy had been trained to point whenever she sensed the approach of a Japanese aircraft. Because of her acute hearing,
JUDY she often knew of their approach long before humans could hear the engines.
• In 1942 the ship was attacked by bombers and forced to beach on a barren island. Two days later, Judy showed up, completely covered in oil. There was no water on the island – until Judy be-gan digging in a very determined manner in one particular spot, unearthing an under-ground spring. The crew was saved.
• The crew of the Grass-hopper was eventu-ally captured by the Japanese and sent to a
POW camp, with Judy smug-gled in under bags of rice. She eventually became the only animal ever officially listed as a POW. During her three-year interment, Judy met Frank Wil-liams, a POW from the British air force. Frank and Judy fell in love, and Frank faithfully shared his meager ration of rice with Judy on a daily basis. Not only did Judy alert prison-ers to the approach of Japanese guards, but she also pointed out dangers such as snakes and scorpions. • When she had puppies, one was given to the Commandant of the camp, and another was smuggled into the women’s POW camp.• In 1944, the men were trans-
ferred to Singapore aboard a ship. Dogs were not al-lowed, but Williams taught Judy to lie still inside a rice sack. When he boarded the ship, Judy climbed into a sack and Williams slung it over his shoulder. For three hours the men were forced to stand on deck
in searing heat as they were in-spected, and for the entire time Judy remained silent in the bag on his back. • The ship was torpedoed a few days later. In desperation, Williams pushed Judy out of a porthole, even though there was a 15 feet (4.6 m) drop to the wa-ter. He escaped, not knowing if Judy had survived. When Wil-liams was sent to a new POW camp in Sumatra, he began to hear stories of a dog who helped
save men from drowning by allowing them to hold onto her collar while she swam towards floating de-bris. Then one day, Williams was knocked flat when Judy arrived at the camp and bowled him over in her excitement to see him again.
• When the guards sentenced her to death, Williams sent her into the jungle to survive on her own. She ate rats and snakes, and a run-in with an alligator left her permanently scarred.
• When the war ended, Judy was smuggled aboard a troop ship headed for Liverpool, where the cook kept her well fed. Following a six month quarantine, she was presented with a Dickin Award, which honors animals in war. Simultaneously, Frank Williams was awarded the White Cross for his devotion to Judy. Interviewed by the BBC in 1946, Judy’s barks were broadcast to the entire nation. Frank Williams and Judy then spent the next year visiting friends and relatives of POWs who had not survived the war.
• Frank Williams cared for Judy until her death due to a tumor in 1950 at the age of 13.
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The specific combination of natural gifts and tal-ents that you have are absolutely unique to you. No one on earth has had or ever will have the same mix of abilities, interests, and passions. It is this mix that makes you something special.
Too many people go through life without tak-ing a close look at the variety of gifts and talents they possess and so live life at about 10%. If you want to live life at a much more meaningful rate, you must discover, develop, and use the special gifts and talents God has given you.
Discovering your gifts and talents is an ad-venture. It would be helpful, I suppose, if when you were born, you came with a spec sheet that made it clear exactly what you were designed to do. Because you’re not, it means you must go on your own person-al gifts and talents discovery tour. You do that when you examine a variety of possibilities: you try this and experiment with that, you find out what is easy and what is difficult for you to do, and you learn what you feel passionately about and what you don’t.
This discovery part is very important and is why your parents made you take piano lessons, or dance classes, or pushed you to join a softball team. They wanted you to try a variety of things not know-ing which one you would become good at or inter-ested in. But the discovery part shouldn’t end upon graduation from high school or even college. It goes on for a lifetime because as you age the things you can and cannot do and the things which interest you change.
You’re Something Special #7You Have Unique Gifts and Talents
Once you discover some of your interesting gifts and talents you must make it a priority to develop them to the fullest. The most naturally talented musi-cians take music lessons and practice a lot, and the most gifted athletes need coaches. Even Tiger Woods, the all-time greatest golfer in history, has a coach. If he needs help developing his skills, do you suppose you too might need some help?
Discovering and developing your gifts and talents is a life-long process. There should be no end to your discovery of the variety of things life has to offer. For instance, after September 11, 2001 my father became interested in the teachings of Islam. In his 80’s he re-searched and wrote a rather exhaustive comparative analysis of Islam and Christianity.
Discovering your gifts and talents is an adventure, developing them is a priority, but using your gifts and talents is a joy. It’s fun and easy to do things you’re really good at. It’s not work when you’re working on things about which you have great passion and pos-sess excellent skills. You were designed to live life with meaning and purpose and when you do, your useful-ness is your mission and joy is your reward.
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• It’s (past) time to weatherize your home. Temperatures are dropping, but if you haven’t done it yet, don’t sweat it. We have a few ide-as for you. Here’s mine: Layer up and keep a sweater on when lounging about the house. Extra clothes don’t cost anything to wear, and they don’t dry out the air, either! -- JoAnn
• Heavy drapes can be a great investment to draft-proof your windows. The best are insu-lation-lined, but you can double-hang some good, quality curtains to get a similar effect.
• “One of the best investments I made was a water heater cover for my unit. It’s in the ga-rage, and it gets very cold in there. The blan-ket was easy to install, and it keeps my water heater from having to work to keep all that water heated. It wasn’t very expensive.” -- R.A. in Washington
• “Don’t overlook your outlets when weather-proofing. They are really just a hole covered
by a plastic plate. The hardware store sells fireproof insulated in-serts that work very well to keep electrical boxes from stealing your house heat.” -- M.M. in In-diana• Draft dodgers, or door snakes, are easy to make and provide reasonable protection against drafts. To make one for yourself, you’ll need a pair of thick tights, fabric scraps cut into inch-wide strips and a big bag of rice. Cut the tights off into two long leg portions. Stuff them with fabric scraps and then add rice to give weight and fill in the holes. When the long “socks” are full, tie them off. Lay them out along the threshold, push-ing them tight against the door, where they will block the draft!• Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475 or e-mail JoAnn at [email protected].(c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.
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1. Benjamin Netanyahu is the prime minister of what country?
2. What is the capital city of Spain?3. Tinea is a superficial eruption of the skin
caused by a fungus. What is it’s common more common name?
4. Who was Chester Burton Atkins (1924 – 2001)?
5. If you were “on Bali”, would you be taking an anti-depressant drug, visiting a tropi-cal island, or riding in the back of a Toyota truck?
6. True or false: Celery is a member of the parsley family.
7. Is a contrabassoon a musical instrument, a terrorist, or a primate?
8. Dawson Creek is not a creek, but a town in Canada. True of false?
9. What was American inventor Thomas Edi-son’s middle name?
10. If you broke your femur what part of your body did you break?
11. Is there a book in the Bible titled “Gideon”?12. In what country is the city of Hiroshima lo-
cated?13. What does the United States Department of
the Interior deal with?14. Scott, Janis, and a city in Missouri all share
the same name. What is it?15. Where is the Yosemite National Park?16. If your were a koala would you be a Coke
in Vietnam, a marsupial in Australia, or a stringed instrument similar to a ukulele?
17. Where is the Uncompahgre River?18. What is desalination?19. What is the common word for the study of
the ultimate reality, causes, and principles underlying being and thinking?
20. What do you call the period of unseason-ably warm weather that occurs in October?
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• It was British author George Bernard Shaw who made the following sage observation: “If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.”
• If you’re planning a trip to Hollywood next summer, you might want to make a stop at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Not only can you visit the graves of such stars as Rudolph Valen-tino, Jayne Mansfield and Douglas Fairbanks (both Sr. and Jr.), but in the summer you also can picnic there while watching classic movies.
• You might be surprised to learn that eggplants have fairly high levels of nicotine.
• You may have heard that painting your kitchen red or yellow can help stimulate your appetite, while painting it blue can help suppress it. The kitchen isn’t the only living area in which color research has been done, though; those who study such things say that those who sleep in yellow bedrooms get an average of 7.7 hours of sleep per night, while those in purple bedrooms sleep only 5.9 hours per night on average.
• Penn Jillette, of the magic team of Penn and Teller, has a son named Zolten Penn Jillette and a daughter named Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette.
• Those of you who are pregnant might want to take note of some old superstitions: It was once thought that hiding a knife under the mattress of a laboring woman would cut the birth pains. Also, unlocking all the doors in the house and tying knots in the curtains were believed to guarantee an easy delivery. (Just don’t try these in the hospital.)
• ***• Thought for the Day: “Half of the harm that is
done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them.” -- T.S. Eliot
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20 Essential Truths
1. A king size water-bed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. foot house 4 inches deep.
2. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.
3. A 3-year-old’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.
4. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, how-ever, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20 by 20 foot room.
5. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. A ceiling Fan can hit a baseball a long way.
6. The glass in windows (even double pane) will not stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
7. When you hear the toilet flush and the words “Uh-oh,” it is too late.
8. Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke. Lots of smoke.
9. A six year old can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36 year old man says they can only do it in the movies.
10. Certain LEGOs will pass through the diges-tive tract of a four year old.
11. Play Dough and Microwave should never be used in the same sentence.
12. Super glue is forever.
13. No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can’t walk on water.
14. Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
15. VCR’s do not eject PB&J sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.
16. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
17. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
18. You probably do not want to know what that odor is.
19. Always look in the oven before you turn it on. Plastic toys do not like ovens.
20. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.
You pick up a hitchhiker... A beautiful girl. Suddenly she faints inside your car and you take her to the hospital. Now that’s stressful.
But at the hospital, they say she is pregnant & Congratulate you that you’re going to be a father. You say that you are not the father, but the girl says you are. This is getting very stressful!
You request a DNA test to prove that you are not the father.
After the tests are completed, The doctor says the test shows you’re infertile, And probably have been since birth. You’re extremely stressed but relieved.
