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TIDBITS® CROSSES SOMEPEDESTRIAN BRIDGESby Patricia L. CookMost bridges span natural obstacles, such as rivers or gorges. Some are strictly utilitarian in nature, serving the purpose of connecting land and people. Others are amazing architectural beauties that accommodate foot traffi c along with or instead of automobiles. • The Chihuly Bridge of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, is a unique pedestrian bridge link-ing the Museum of Glass with the Washington State History Museum. It is 500 feet long (152 m) with its walkway 70 feet (21 m) above Interstate 705. It displays the fascinating glass artwork of native Tacoma artist Dale Chihuly. Chihuly says he wanted to provide something that was “full of color and offers a joyous experience.” Many bridge visitors observe that he accomplished that! • The Henderson Waves pedestrian bridge in Singapore boasts an interesting design. The curvilinear structure connects Mount Faber Park and Telok Blangah Park 118 feet (36 m) above Henderson Road, making it the highest foot-bridge in Singapore. The horizontal distance is 899 feet (274 m), and the elevation change is 66 feet (20 m) between the two nature parks. The wavy look of the bridge is stunning when lit up at night, and the bridge provides a great view of the city. It has become a favorite destination for locals as well as tourists. turn the page for more!

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BRIDGES (continued):• Another pedestrian bridge that provides amazing views of Singapore is the Helix Bridge, opened in April 2010. It is an ultra-modern, curved double-helix bridge that links the Marina Centre with Marina Bay in view of the Singapore Flyer (Ferris Wheel). Double helix is a term from biochemistry describing “the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.” The bridge is part of a pedestrian loop around the bay that adds to the appeal of the city, especially when lit up at night. Singapore claims this is the fi rst bridge of its kind, however, there are two similar bridges in Seattle and London that were both opened in 2004.• The world’s largest biotechnology company, Amgen, has a double-helix design skybridge at its massive waterfront campus in Seattle, Wash-ington. The $10 million structure is an architec-tural gem.• Also named Helix Bridge is a footbridge at the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal in London. The canal is the longest single canal in the United Kingdom, linking London and Birmingham. This “helix” bridge retracts like a corkscrew to allow for the passage of boats. • Two other bridges in the Paddington Basin area were installed in 2004 in a large, ongoing redevelopment. The Station Bridge is a space-age glass and steel structure with a semi-trans-parent screen and cantilevered steel deck. It connects the rail station with new development in the area. • The third bridge is truly a marvel. Named the Rolling Bridge, this drawbridge lets boats through in a unique way. The bridge span curls up into an octagonal shape that sits at the wa-ter’s edge, resembling a hamster wheel.

¥ "Fill a quart-size zip-lock bag with water and double-bag it, making sure there is no air in the bag. Place it inside the toilet tank, on the opposite side from the pump. Secure it there, if you can. This will displace some of the water when you fl ush, and you will use less water as a consequence." -- E.S. in Florida

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www.tidbitskingman.com DDJ Enterprises, LLC 3BRIDGES (continued):• The first pedestrian-only bridge crossing the River Thames in London in more than a century is affectionately called the “Wobbly Bridge.” Two days after its opening in 2000, it was closed due to unexpected lateral vibration. In other words, it wobbled, and people were frightened! Following repairs, it reopened in 2002. Now, it is a popular London walking path. The real name for the bridge is the London Millennium Foot-bridge.• Another big city downtown improvement involving a bridge is the 130-foot-long (40 m) Denver Millennium Footbridge that opened in 2002. A distinguishing feature of the bridge is the tilted, 200-foot-tall (61 m) mast that re-sembles that of a sailboat, a feature that has become iconic to lower downtown Denver. The bridge goes over a railroad easement 25 feet (7.6 m) above street level and is an extension of the popular 16th Street pedestrian mall. • A bridge with breathtaking views of the Colo-rado River served as a route for automobiles and trucks for 66 years. The original Navajo Bridge was opened in 1929, replacing a ferry that crossed the river. In 1995, the bridge was re-stricted to pedestrian use due to the opening of a new, stronger bridge for vehicles. The bridges are side by side and look very similar. They are located in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona; a Navajo Bridge Interpretive Center is there as well.• Ogunquit, Maine, has a footbridge that cross-es the Ogunquit River to a section of beach called “Footbridge Beach.” Ogunquit Beach has been maintained as a public park since 1938 and is one of two municipally owned beaches in Maine.

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¥ On May 16, 1849, the New York City Board of Health finally is able to establish a hospital to deal with a cholera epidemic that, before it ends, kills more than 5,000 people. The dis-ease spread when boat passengers escaped from a mandatory quarantine.

¥ On May 17, 1943, the crew of the Memphis Belle, one of a group of American bomb-ers based in Britain, becomes the first B-17 crew to complete 25 missions over Europe. A fictional film about the B-17, called “Memphis Belle,” was released in 1990.

¥ On May 18, 1861, an obscure California newspaper relates how first lady Mary Todd Lincoln took it upon herself to appoint Mr. W.S. Wood as superintendent of Public Build-ings. The article suggested that Mrs. Lincoln had been smitten with Mr. Wood’s handsome features, luxuriant whiskers and graceful car-riage.

¥ On May 19, 1836, during a raid, Comanche, Kiowa and Caddo Indians in Texas kidnap 9-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker and kill her fam-ily. Adopted into the Comanche tribe, she lived a happy life, marrying a warrior and having three children, until Texas Rangers recaptured her in 1860. They forced her to return to live again among Anglo-Americans after killing her husband.

¥ On May 20, 1873, Levi Strauss secures the necessary patents for canvas pants with copper rivets to reinforce the stress points. Unable to sell a large supply of canvas in the California mining camps, Strauss had hit on the idea of using the durable material to make work pants for miners.

¥ On May 21, 1955, unknown singer Chuck Berry paid his first visit to a recording studio and cut “Maybellene.” The song became a No. 1 R&B hit and a No. 5 pop hit. It helped that DJ Alan Freed played the record for two hours straight during his WINS radio show.

¥ On May 22, 1969, legendary actor Paul New-man makes his onscreen racing debut in the action-drama film “Winning.” Newman played Frank Capua, a struggling race car driver who must turn around his fortunes by winning the biggest race of them all -- the Indianapolis 500.


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DEAR PAW'S CORNER: My 10-year-old son Randy really wants a dog as a pet. He's been very respon-sible with smaller pets, caring for two goldfi sh and a small turtle. However, I suffer from asthma and have allergic symptoms around furry animals like dogs and cats. I don't know that it's possible to keep a dog. Do you have any advice? -- Dorothy K., via email

DEAR DOROTHY: Allergies to pet dander (the fi ne undercoat most dogs and cats have beneath their fur) can range from annoying to life-threatening, so you're right to be concerned about owning a dog.If you're interested in the possibility of being able to keep a dog, study up on different breeds fi rst. There are a few breeds of dog that have much less of an undercoat and generate less dander, including many types of terriers and the Irish Water Spaniel.Next, fi nd out if keeping a dog is possible by borrow-ing a friend's dog for a few days -- whether keeping the dog at your house or having your friend bring the dog over for several "play dates" that last a few hours.

If you decide that, yes, Randy can have a dog, make some changes around the house to reduce the amount of allergens (dander, dust, pollen, etc.) that collect. Having smooth wood or tile fl oors that can be quickly dust-mopped daily helps. Choosing leather or vinyl-uphol-stered furniture rather than cloth will deter allergens from collecting on them. Randy will need to brush his pet daily to further reduce dander, and he should do that outside.Should your pet trial not work out -- your allergies just become too severe in too short a time -- work out an option for Randy to con-tinue caring for or playing with a neighbor or friend's dog on a regular basis, over at their house.

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OVERCOMING THE ODDS:WILMA RUDOLPHWilma Rudolph was born on June 23, 1940, in Clarksville, Tennessee, and weighed only 4.5 pounds (2 kg). She was unhealthy from the start of life. But as the seventeenth of 20 children, she had a large family around to encourage her growth and success. • As a tiny baby, Rudolph overcame scarlet fever and pneumonia when many died of the dis-eases. When she was four she contracted polio, the dreaded crippling disease that devastated so many lives at the time. It left her with a crippled leg, and doctors said she would never walk.• Tiny Rudolph had parents who would not give up on her. They had also been told that they could not raise a big family on the small income of a railroad porter and a maid, yet they were doing it. • Rudolph’s mother drove her daughter to a hospital in Nashville for tests. The doctors said that with years of daily massages her leg “might” be saved. The “might” was all her moth-er needed to hear. The family massaged her leg daily, and weekly trips were made to Nashville for other treatments. • Rudolph was almost walking by the time she was six. By eight, she was fi tted with a leg brace and then a special high-topped shoe. At this time she was fi nally able to start school. • Rudolph’s older brothers played basketball with a peach basket mounted on a pole in their yard, and she loved to join them. She was very determined and would play for hours. One day when her mom came home from work, she noticed her daughter playing without her special shoe. She was playing barefoot. She never wore the special shoe again and was walking normal-ly like everyone else.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: A recent blood check showed that my potassium was high. I was told to stop eating bananas and drinking orange juice. I also was told to return to the doctor's offi ce the next week. I did. They took another blood sample. They told me nothing more. What happens when potassium is high? -- F.H.

ANSWER: Potassium has many important jobs. It keeps the body's electrical charges balanced. It's involved in transmitting nerve signals. It's needed to keep the heart beating and muscles contracting. It takes part in keeping the body neither too acid nor too alkaline. High blood potassium raises blood sugar, weakens muscles, causes nausea and vomiting, and triggers erratic and dangerous heartbeats. When the level is very high, potassium paralysis and death occur. Your potassium must not have been all that high. You had no symptoms.The causes of a high blood level include kidney illnesses, nonworking adrenal glands, a lack of insulin, sudden death of body cells, overuse of potassium supplements and medicines like beta blockers.The blood level of potassium can be read erro-neously as high when the patient, during blood collection, keeps clenching and unclenching arm muscles. It rises when blood cells break apart in their journey from a patient's arm to the laboratory. It could be your reading was high because of either of these situations.It's hard to come up with an explanation that indicts an illness with raising potassium on one occasion and not keeping it raised for a short while.The electrolytes -- sodium, potassium, bicarbon-ate and chloride -- are not well understood by most people. Yet they are responsible for many body ailments. Readers can read about these minerals in the booklet describing their function. Write to Dr. Donohue -- No. 202W, 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.

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ANSWER: You're talking about a Schatzki (SHOT-ski) ring. It is as you say -- a fold of tissue encircling the lowermost part of the esophagus, and it does cause food to hang up there. How did you get it? Some theorize that refl ux of stomach acid into the esophagus explains why it developed. Acid refl ux is a fancy way of saying heart-burn. However, people can have refl ux and a Schatzki ring but not have any heartburn symptoms. Meat and large pieces of bread are the foods most likely to get stuck.Stretching the ring with a balloon or other device usually fi xes the problem. However, it can come back, and it often does. Because recurrence is com-mon, many doctors put their patients on medicines that suppress stomach acid production. ***Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newslet-ters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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BICYCLES (continued):• In the 1890s, the first “modern” bicycles

appeared: chain-driven vehicles with simi-larly-sized tires. These were safer than the high-wheel models (and were even called “safety bicycles” as a result), but proved a step backwards in comfort. While the long spokes of high-wheel bikes absorbed bumps and ruts, the smaller wheels on these new bikes, particularly when coupled with the hard-rubber tires of the era, made for jarring, unpleasant rides.

• More than a million bicycles were sold in the United States by the time 1895 rolled around, but one last improvement would propel the bicycle into the must-own category: the pneu-matic tire. Under the guidance of the Pope Manufacturing Company (which made bi-cycles), the Hartford Rubber Works produced America’s first pneumatic tires in 1895. Pro-viding a much softer ride, they soon became a standard feature on all bicycle models.

• Dozens of smaller-scale improvements boosted the speed, comfort, longevity and performance of bicycles during the 20th century. As women began to find them as necessary as men, two varieties of bicycle were made. Men’s bikes were built with an extra stabilizer bar across the top of the bike. Women’s bikes omitted the bar, providing for easier mounting and dismounting of the vehicle when wearing skirts.

• The 1970s saw the development of two bi-cycle extremes. First came bicycles that took you nowhere. Otherwise known as exercise bikes, these training aids first hit the home market at the beginning of the decade. Then, as time went on and the energy crisis sent fuel prices skyrocketing, mopeds appeared. These bicycle/motorcycle hybrids, most popular with city-centered business workers, could either be pedaled like a regular bike or powered using a small, low-powered gasoline engine.

WILMA RUDOLPH (continued):• Rudolph played basketball in high school and set a Burt High School scoring record of 803 points in 25 games. Coach Ed Temple of Ten-nessee State University saw her play basketball but was more impressed by her speed than her scoring ability. He recruited her to join his sum-mer “track camp.” • The camp was the start of a fantastic track career for Rudolph. She worked hard and quali-fied for the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Aus-tralia, during her senior year in high school. She was part of the 400-meter relay team that won a bronze medal. This was after only one year of training.• Rudolph ran track at Tennessee State and studied for a teaching degree. She also set her sights on the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Italy. She was a standout at those games. With her long legs, the crowd lovingly nicknamed her the “black gazelle” and “Chattanooga Choo-Choo.” • The little girl who was not expected to walk, and didn’t walk until she was eight years old, thrilled the crowds when she won three gold medals. She won the individual 100- and 200-me-ter races and was on the 400-meter women’s relay team that won. Rudolph became the first woman in history to win three gold medals in track and field at an Olympics. • She went on to be a wife and mom to four children and a teacher of great influence to her students. She was inducted into the Black Ath-letes Hall of Fame in 1973 and the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1974. An NBC movie was made about her based on her autobiogra-phy, “Wilma.”• An Olympic teammate, Bill Mulliken, said of Rudolph, “She was beautiful, she was nice, and she was the best.” The remarkable lady died in Nashville in 1994 at age 54.

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¥ It was British author Douglas Adams, best known for his "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" novels, who made the following sage observation: "Anyone who is capable of get-ting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

¥ In the African nation of Sudan, a traditional wedding includes a ceremony known as "sungkem," in which the bride and groom kiss the knees of their parents.

¥ "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, is one of the most beloved movies of all time, frequently being listed at or near the top of lists of the best films ever made. However, shortly after its release in November 1942, The New Yorker rated it only "pretty tolerable."

¥ Connoisseurs of frog legs claim that you should leave the toes on when frying -- they're good for picking your teeth after eating. ¥ The deepest hole ever drilled by humans reached a whopping depth of 7.62 miles. The project, known as the Kola Superdeep Bore-hole, was undertaken in Russia for the purpose of scientific research.

¥ At any given time, about two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered by clouds. ¥ American author, abolitionist, naturalist, historian and philosopher Henry David Tho-reau died on May 6, 1862, of complications of tuberculosis. Those who were with him dur-ing his final moments say his last words were "moose" and "Indian." ¥ The tiny nation of San Marino, which is entirely encircled by Italy, is the world's oldest surviving sovereign state and constitutional republic. It was founded by a stonecutter in the year 301, and the constitution was enacted in 1600 -- the world's oldest still in effect. ***Thought for the Day: "There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?" -- Kin Hubbard


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ROLLER SKATESInventors and adventurers started trying to fi gure out how to get wheels on feet as far back as the 1700s. The fi rst skates were not very maneuverable. Dr. James L. Plimpton of Medfi eld, Massachusetts, started the craze that really got roller skating going. His new design helped children and adults glide for hours of fun — and, yes, resulted in some broken bones and bruises!• Dr. Plimpton’s 1863 patent was for wooden skate platforms with four wheels each, made to be strapped onto ordinary shoes. He earned more than $2 million in royalties and license fees. (That was in 1863. Imagine that in today’s dollars!)• The fi rst public roller skating rink opened at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1866, under the guid-ance of Dr. Plimpton. He actually called his rink a “parlor” and invited the press and high society people to skate there. He wanted the sport to be for the aristocrats. He toured the country teach-ing and demonstrating dance, ballet and ice skating techniques that were adapted for roller skating. • The fi rst roller rinks were small, and the best used maple fl ooring. With the small size and the push to only appeal to high society, the real craze for skating wasn’t growing much. By the late 1870s and early 1880s, rink owners started making changes. Some hired orchestras as they tried to attract more adults and children to the sport. • The largest roller skating rink in history was the Grand Hall of London, which was open from 1890 to 1912. It was 68,000 square feet (6,317 sq m). Most of the rinks today are about 14,000 square feet (1,300 sq m). • Another noteworthy skating rink opened in 1908 at Madison Square Gardens in New York City. Many rinks opened in the United States and Europe. The sport of roller skating had ar-rived.

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ROLLER SKATES (continued):• During the early 1900s, roller skating became a favorite activity both inside and outside. As the sport became more popu-lar, the comfort and design of the skates improved. • Through the years since their invention, roller skating has gone in and out of fash-ion. In the 1960s and 1970s, when roller skating and disco dancing were combined with music, it seemed the public was in love with the sport. There were over 4,000 roller-discos in operation, and Hollywood helped increase interest by making movies about skating. • In 1979, two hockey-playing brothers from Minneapolis, Minnesota named Scott and Brennan Olson found an antique pair of roller skates. It was actually a very early pair that used in-line wheels rather than George Plimpton’s four-wheeled design. The brothers were impressed with the in-line design and began working on a new design using the best things they saw in the old model but using new materials. They attached the skates to good qual-ity ice hockey boots, used polyurethane wheels and added a rubber toe-brake to their design. • The Olson brothers founded the company, Rollerblade, Inc., and “rollerblade” became the new term for in-line skates. Roller-blades defi nitely took a lot of the market away from traditional roller skates. But they did something really cool and impor-tant too. More people started exercising, rolling along paths and zipping through parking lots on wheels! • To learn more about the history of skat-ing, visit the National Roller Skating Mu-seum in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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