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This Tidbits shares some interesting election trivia. With another presidential election happening shortly in the United States, maybe it is time for some election news you may not have heard; funny, sad, and maybe a bit absurd!

• The youngest man elected president was John Kennedy who was 43. Most Ameri-cans are aware of that news but did you know that Theodore Roosevelt was actu-ally younger, 42, when he was elevated to president from vice president? He filled the position when William McKinley was assassinated.

• The oldest president elected was Ronald Reagan who was 69. Reagan and Gerald Ford were the two presidents who lived the longest after serving, both living to age 93.

• Young Grover Cleveland was only nine-teen, not even old enough to vote, when he worked on James Buchanan’s success-ful Democratic run for the presidency in 1856. After Buchanan, there would not be another Democrat in the White House until Cleveland himself was elected 28 years later in 1884! Buchanan was the only presi-dent that never married.

• Reagan was the only president who had been divorced. Five presidents remarried after their wives died, two of them, John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson, while they were in office.

• Six U.S. presidents had no children. John Tyler had the most, fifteen! Tyler was called “His Accidency” by opponents,

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being the f irst vice president called to f ill the off ice of president by the death of his predecessor, William Henry Harrison. Harrison died of pneumonia after only be-ing in off ice 32 days, the shortest term of any U.S. president.

• There have been short and tall presi-dents, with James Madison the shortest at only 5’4” (1.62 m). Abraham Lincoln was the tallest at 6’4” (1.93 m), with Lyndon Johnson only a ½ inch (1.27 cm) under him. James Madison was also the light-est president, weighing only about 100 pounds (45.36 kg). William Howard Taft was the heaviest at about 300 pounds (136 kg) and actually had a bathtub installed in the White House that would f it four nor-mal sized men!

• His size was not the most unusual thing or memorable trivia about William Howard Taft, it was his activity after he was president. He served as a Profes-sor of Law at Yale until President War-ren G. Harding selected him to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court eight years after his service as president, in 1923. In 1925, Calvin Coolidge was the f irst and only president to be sworn in by a former president. • Taft, said that his greatest honor was serving as Chief Justice. He wrote: “I don’t remember that I ever was Presi-dent.”

• When the government for the United States of America was f irst formed, there were no political parties. George Wash-ington served as president with no politi-cal party aff iliation.

• The f irst political parties for the U.S. started in the late 1700s. On February 12, 1798, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Two political sects have arisen within the U.S., the one believing that the executive is the branch of our government which the most needs support; the other that like the analogous branch in the English gov-ernment, it is already too strong for the republican parts of the Constitution.” The former were called federalists, sometimes monocrats and sometimes aristocrats, sometimes tories like the corresponding group in the English government. The latter were called republicans, whigs, anarchists, jacobins, and sometimes disor-ganizers.

• When the U.S. Constitution was writ-ten, there was no mention of political parties. Most of the framers of the docu-ment hoped that no political parties would form. They hoped the new country would

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We’ve got a special article about how to pick and cook your Turkey for Thanksgiving, as well as a delicious recipe for Pumpkin Cinnamon Muffins you’ll love!

And don’t forget to check out the Seahawks schedule for the coming weeks. Bring it on Jets - we are ready for you this week! Any die-hard Seahawks fans out there? Post your picture to our Facebook page of you and your family cheering them on during this week’s game!

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A Note from the Editors be such that everyone would just “get along!” (agree!)

• The current two party system, with Democrats and Republicans, has been part of the political system in the U.S. for years. The f irst party was originally formed from many of the advisers that George Washington consulted with. Oddly the f irst political party, started in 1792, was called the Democratic-Repub-lican Party.

• Many changes have happened with the political parties through the years. Smaller parties have tried to gain power but have never been very successful. The Republicans and Democrats are still the main newsmakers.

• Canada has also been a country domi-nated by two political parties, today the Liberal and Conservative parties. An interesting time in Canadian history was when there were seven distinct political parties in the legislature in 1854.

• The Canadian parties at the time were four groups from Northern Canada: 1) the Tories, 2) moderate Conservatives, led by the f irst Prime Minister of Can-ada, John A. Macdonald, known as “Sir John A.,” 3) Baldwin Reformers, who were moderate Liberals, 4) and the Radi-cal or advanced Liberal party, known as the “Clear Grits.” The other three parties were from Lower Canada. They were: 1) Parti Bleu, the majority of the French Canadians, considered a liberal party even though most French Canadians were conservative, 2) the Parti Rouge, which was a small party of French Cana-dian Liberals, some who were rather rad-ical, and lastly, 3) an English-speaking minority in Lower Canada.

• People all over the world get fed up with politics. At a parliamentary election in Naples, Italy in 2008, a 41-year-old man ate his ballot in protest to the coun-try’s politicians! He was charged with destroying election materials.

• In 2004, a woman in England was f ined for trying to register her cows, Henry and Sophie Bull and her dog, Jake Woofies, as voters. Her barn was listed as a separate property and when forms asked who the residents of the property were, she listed the animals!

• For a last Tidbit on elections, imagine the confusion if our North American countries had the diversity of over 1,000 political parties! According to the Elec-tion Commission of India, that is the estimate of parties that exist in India. The commission has a list of symbols that political parties can use to repre-sent their groups, including a kite, diesel pump, kettle, pressure cooker and many others. As you vote, be glad that we do have elections and that our ballots don’t contain pressure cooker and kite parties!

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Not all debt is bad. In spite of our being encouraged to clear all debt so that we don’t owe anything to any-one, there are some types of debt that are good and can add positively to our quality of life.

The two key steps are to invest only in good debt, and to keep good debt from turning into bad debt.

Mortgages are considered good debt, and it’s the big-gest debt most families take on. It’s not likely that anyone can save enough to buy a house for cash. Mortgages allow families to buy their own home to live in and enjoy and to (theoretically) build up eq-uity. Turn a good debt into a better debt -- pay it off more quickly by making extra payments. Even $100 a month extra can shave years off the end of your mort-gage.

Where mortgage debt becomes bad is if you take on more than you can handle. Late payments lead, at the very least, to increased fees and penalties. Taken to the extreme, late payments can result in bankruptcy and ruined credit.

Other examples of good debt (that which will appreci-

ate or gain value down the road) are education loans for college (greater earning power), business loans (greater business-building power) and home-equity loans for needed improvements (increase the value of the home).

Bad debt is debt you incur for anything that won’t gain in value or that has only a momentary value, is disposable or is incurred for things you don’t really need.

Vehicles are considered bad debt because vehicles never gain in value. You lose value the minute you drive off the dealer’s lot. However, vehicles are ne-cessities. Make the largest down payment you can to keep your payments small, and then pay extra on the loan to pay it off quickly.

Nearly anything you put on a credit card makes it a bad debt. Don’t charge things of low value unless you’re going to pay off the balance at the end of the month. Meals out, groceries, oil changes, vacations and clothing are bad bets to charge because they’ll never gain in value and are disposable.

The rule of thumb is: If it doesn’t gain in value, try to pay cash.

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THE BERLIN WALL The Berlin Wall started as a barbed wire fence, constructed overnight as Berlin-ers slept. Imagine the shock of finding you couldn’t cross from one side of the city to the other.

• The city of Berlin and country of Germany was divided at the conclusion of World War II. The Soviet Union and communism con-trolled the East, with the allied powers of Great Britain, France and the United States controlling the West in a democracy. So it was a West vs. East; democracy vs. commu-nism divide.

• By 1949, the division of Germany and the city of Berlin was official. West Germany was called the Federal Republic of Germany and East Germany was the German Demo-cratic Republic. Since Berlin was entirely within the East, and it was agreed that the city would be divided, West Berlin was like an island of democracy within East Germa-ny, surrounded by a wall.

• When the Germans in the Soviet-con-

trolled East became disillusioned with the economic and political oppression of com-munism, many defected to the West. Approx-imately 1,500 people per day were fleeing to the West seeking democracy by 1961.

• Rumors arose that the German Demo-cratic Republic was going to do something drastic to stop the movement of people to the West. That became a reality during the night of August 12-13, 1961, when soldiers and construction crews were brought in after midnight. While the people of East and West Berlin slept, crews tore up the streets, put up concrete posts and strung barbed wire sepa-rating the east and west. They even cut the telephone lines.

• Upon awakening on the morning of August 13th, Berliners were shocked to see the bor-der. They could no longer visit friends and relatives on the other side. More than 60,000 commuters who went to better-paying jobs in West Berlin could not cross the line to work. If a person went to sleep on August 12th away from their loved ones on the other side of the city, they were stuck there, unable to return for decades.

• The fence constructed in 1961 was easy for people to cross so in 1962 a second fence

parallel to the first was erected. The area between the fences was cleared to create an empty space where guards could see escape attempts.

• By 1965 a concrete wall was added. It stood until a more sophisticated wall was built in 1975. This wall was also accompa-nied by over 300 watchtowers and thirty bun-kers to keep people from crossing the border.

• President Ronald Reagan spoke to the people of West Berlin on June 12, 1987. His words were some of the most memo-rable of his presidency: “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

• The Wall, in its final reinforced state, stood until November 9, 1989. Thousands of Ger-mans demanded passage through the gates after the government announced that “private trips abroad” would be allowed. They, liter-ally, tore the wall down.

• Reunification of Germany was formally concluded on October 3, 1990. The infamous wall stood from August 13, 1961 until No-vember 9, 1989.

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• It’s not known who made the following sage observation: “The sharper your words are, the more they’ll hurt if you have to swallow them.”

• Those who study such things say that South-erners watch more TV than residents of any other region of the country.

• Any given major ballet company will go through about 3,000 pairs of toe shoes every year. Under normal use, one pair will last for about one hour of performing.

• If you average out the depth of the world’s seas and the elevation of the land, you’ll find that the ocean is four times as deep as the land is high.

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, one of the leading artists of the Impressionist movement, died in 1919, at the age of 78. His last words were, “What a pity I have to go now just when I was beginning to show promise!”

• Researchers studying the workings of memo-ry briefly showed human volunteers sequences of five numbers on a computer screen. When asked to repeat the numbers, the test subjects could accurately do so half the time. The same researchers conducted the same test with a chimpanzee named Ayumu, who was able to recall the number sequences 80 percent of the time.

• A male sea otter shows affection by biting his mate’s nose.

• If you’re a young baseball player hoping to make it in the big leagues, you might want to keep this fact in mind: Only 8 percent of those who sign major-league contracts actually play in even a single big-league game. The other 92 percent spend their careers languishing in the minor leagues for a pittance.

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Whether you buy a fresh or frozen turkey, proper cooking and handling of the bird will ensure a delicious holiday meal. Here are some tips from the National Turkey Federation:

• Purchase one pound of turkey per person to be served. This formula allows for the holiday

meal plus a little left over for the prized turkey sandwich.• Check that the packaging is intact, and avoid purchasing a bird with packaging that has rips or tears.• Save on supermarket specials by purchasing more than one turkey. A whole frozen tur-key can be stored in your freezer for up to 12 months.• Select the size of turkey based on number of servings needed. There is no appreciable dif-ference between female (hen) and male (Tom) turkeys in tenderness, white/dark meat ratio or other eating qualities. Hens typically weigh between 14 to 16 pounds and Toms 15 pounds on up, so choose the size which best fits the number of dinner guests you expect.

TURKEY BUYING TIPSFinding the Right Turkey

• Consider alternative turkey cuts if you are hav-ing a small gathering for the holiday. Other tur-key products that are readily available include a turkey breast, tenderloins, cutlets, drumsticks or thighs. Or ask your butcher to cut a whole fresh bird in two halves, roast one half and freeze the other half to use later.

Frozen Turkey:• Purchase during special value sales and store the bird in the freezer until the thawing time begins.• Store at 0 degrees F or below.• Thaw under refrigeration, in cold water, or in the microwave:Refrigeration: Allow approximately 24 hours per five pounds to thaw in the refrigerator.Cold Water: Allow approximately 30 minutes per pound to thaw in cold water; change wa-ter every 30 minutes. Do not use warm or hot water.Microwave: Follow the manufacturer’s direc-tions and begin to roast the turkey immediately following the microwave process.

Fresh Turkey: • Store at 26 F and above.• Purchase for convenience because thawing is not required. Cost may be slightly higher due to special handling required by the store.• Order in advance to assure availability.• Place fresh raw poultry in a refrigerator that maintains 40 F and use it within the time frame on the package label, or freeze at 0 F.

Hard-Chilled Turkey:• Store at temperatures between 0 F and 26 F. Treat this bird like a fresh turkey; it has a shorter shelf life than a frozen product.

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2. In 2012, the Tampa Bay Rays ended their record run of consecutive games started by pitchers under the age of 30. How many games was it?

3. Who is the only person in NCAA Division I history to win three national

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1. Preheat oven to 400 F. Line 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.2. In large bowl, stir together apple cin-namon muffin mix, pumpkin, eggs, milk and vegetable oil until almost smooth. Divide batter among muffin cups. Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean; cool on wire rack. Makes 12 muffins.

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• “Unless the label states otherwise, the best rinse temperature for cloth-ing is cold water. It will help the clothing retain its shape and color better, and --bonus -- it’s the least-expensive setting.” -- I.F. in Texas

• When whipping egg whites, make sure you bring the eggs to room temperature beforehand. They will yield greater volume.

• Store asparagus in the fridge only for a few days before serving. Trim the cut end and use wet paper tow-els to wrap it. Keep it in the crisper drawer.

• Getting out your old deck of cards to play? If they feel gummy, put them in a plastic baggie, add a little bit of talc, baby powder or cornstarch, seal the bag and shake. Knock the excess off before remov-ing from the bag. Shuffle as usual.

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PICKS OF THE WEEK“The Expendables 2” (PG-13) -- The mean, pulpy-looking action heroes of yesteryear are back for another lighthearted bullet-fest. Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Ah-nuld, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren and some other dudes join up with Chuck Norris to de-feat the evil Jean Villain, (Jean-Claude Van Damme, and yes the bad guy of the movie is really named “Villain.”)This is not a revival of the tough-guys, huge-guns action genre of the ‘80s, but more of a self-mocking reunion special. Schwarzenegger and Willis have to cram into a tiny car. They trade dozens of one-liners referencing more famous one-liners. Things explode quite frequently. It’s a lot of fun, depending on how much you enjoy jokes about Predator and Termina-tor.

“Grave of the Fireflies” [Blu-ray] -- Originally re-leased in 1988, this classic work of dramatic anima-tion is coming to Blu-ray. Set in the final days of World-War II, Seita and Setsuko are children from a small town on the mainland of Japan. The children are torn from their home by bombing raids and must find their way to safety as more of the coun-tryside is engulfed in flames.Ghibli Studio produces amazing animated films. This movie is more serious than its usual work, but keeps the same artistic standard. It’s a tremendously sad story, filled with glimpses of intense beauty.

“Bringing Up Bobby” (PG-13) -- Olive (Milla Jovov-ich of “Resident Evil”) is a Ukranian-born con artist and single mother. Her precocious 10-year-old boy, Bobby (Spencer List), has a bowl cut and a mil-lion lines of adoration for his mother. The two are partners in crime, scamming their way across the American Midwest. Things turn from overtly cute to ham-handed melodrama when an accident gets Bobby in trouble and Olive has to become a law-ful, non-scheming person. The whole affair has an awkward, first-time director feel to it. A good choice if you want to catch a nap during a movie and not feel too left out.

“Black Magic” (1949) -- Orson Welles goes all-in on this hammy psycho-thriller about the POWERS OF THE MIND! Welles is Cagliostro, a hypnotist travel-ing with gypsies in some bygone era that demanded elaborate costuming and ridiculous set pieces. Ca-gliostro starts abusing his powers then gets reeled into a scheme to replace the queen of France. In many scenes, Welles gives the camera his most smoldering stares as the light filters directly onto his eyes. If you love the majesty and drama of “Citizen Kane,” then you can suffer through “Black Magic” and have a few laughs along the way.

TV RELEASES“Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl”

“Doctor Who: Limited Edition Gift Set”“Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Complete

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1. Ray Miller, who was fired after 139 games of the 1986 season.2. It was 764 consecutive games.3. Bud Wilkinson (1934-36 with Minnesota; 1950, 1955-56 with Oklahoma).4. Houston’s Hakeem Olajuwon, 1989-90.5. Lake Superior State.6. Only one set on the way to three gold medals.7. Sam Snead, with 82.

In many areas November is still “sweater weather.” It’s not cold enough for winter coats but a nice wool, cashmere or even a cotton or synthetic sweater is just right for the cool temperatures.

• Sweaters have been around for centuries. The need for something warm to add a layer for cool days brought about the hobbies of knitting and crocheting.

• Sweaters were only used for warmth or as athletic items, not fashion, until the 1920s. When Lana Turner appeared in a fashion-able sweater in the 1937 movie, “They Won’t Forget,” sweaters became a fashion statement “must” for women.

• Cardigans, pullovers, sweater vests and more are now fashionable for men, women, boys and girls. One man who became known for wearing a sweater was “Mr. Rogers.”

• Fred McFeely Rogers, started the series, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood in 1966. Prior to the show that made him a household name in children’s programming, he had produced The Children’s Corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the early 1950s, winning the first of many television awards.

• A gentle, humble television star, Mr. Rog-ers became the symbolic sweater-wearer. His show would start by him entering his “televi-sion house” after walking from his office. He entered wearing his formal business attire and as he sang the words, “won’t you be my neigh-bor,” he would change into more comfortable clothes like his sweater and sneakers. This was the way he chose to get comfortable with friends as he shared his day with them in the “land of make-believe” and other areas of his neighborhood.

• Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood is still showing, in fact, it is the longest-running program on public television. • President George W. Bush presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mr. Rog-

ers in 2002, recognizing his contribution to the well-being of children and his long career in public television that demonstrated kind-ness, compassion and learning. The medal is the highest civilian award given in the United States.

• In his show, when Mr. Rogers would change his shoes and put on his sweater, he was show-ing skills as well as routines that children needed to learn. He always put his shoes away and hung up his clothes, showing responsibili-ties that they needed to learn.

• The type of sweater that Mr. Rogers wore was a cardigan. Typically they button or zip down the front. Even though he made the sweater popular for his television audience, it had been around for centuries. The sweater was named after the 7th Earl of Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell, a British military com-mander. A cardigan sweater is normally made by machine or hand knitted from wool.

SWEATER WEATHER• Fishermen of France and the British Isles were probably the first people to use cardi-gans. The heavy, hand-knitted wool was help-ful in keeping them warm out on the water on gloomy days.

• The Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland at the mouth of Galway Bay on the Atlantic Ocean, an area where fishing and farming have been closely connected for centuries, are known for their wool sweaters. The outdoor workers needed warm coverings to keep warm during North Atlantic winters.

• The sweaters were made with many stitch-es that became associated with particular Irish clans. Aran sweaters have been knitted since the late 1800s and are still in demand today. While in the past they were made by hand, machines are used for most today. A true hand-stitched Aran sweater is quite valu-able.

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