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by Janet Spencer In the 1940s there were only 60 possible poisons that could be used to kill a person. Then came the chemical explosion, and by the mid-1970s there were some 5,000 poisons which could be combined in different ways to produce perhaps a quarter of a million different deadly doses. Come along with Tidbits as we avoid poisons!

BOTULISM • In a small town in Germany in 1735, thirteen people shared a sausage. A few hours later, they all became sick. Six died, and the other seven took months to recover. The strange illness was named after the Latin word for sausage— botulism.

• The botulism toxin is seven million times more powerful than cobra venom. One ounce, properly distributed, could wipe out everyone in the U.S. The botulism organism evolved on this planet some two billion years ago. At that time, there was no oxygen on Earth.

• Today botulism lives indefinitely as a dormant spore in air and dirt, surviving temperatures between absolute zero and boiling. When it finds the right conditions— plenty of food and an absence of oxygen— it multiplies, releasing toxins. Deaths from botulism are particularly worrying for home canners. If a jar has not been heated high enough or long enough, the botulism organism will thrive.

THE FACTS BEHIND POISONS • A poison called saxitoxin found in contaminated seafood is so deadly that 2/10ths of 1 milligram, or 1/100th of a drop, can kill a full grown man through paralysis. HOW can such a small amount of a substance kill such a large organism? One way is through enzyme sabotage.

• An enzyme is a catalyst for biochemical reactions.

In very tiny amounts, an enzyme has a great effect on a living system. The enzyme maltase takes water and other materials and turns them into glucose. The enzyme cytochrome turns oxygen in the blood into a usable form. There are thousands of enzymes in the human body. A single liver cell has about 50,000 enzymes. Find a substance that turns off a single important enzyme, and you have a major monkey wrench in the machinery of the body. A dose of cyanide weighing as much as a postage stamp will shut down the cytochrome enzyme. There will be plenty of oxygen in the blood stream, but no way to get it into the cells without cytochrome.

• Another type of poison is one that affects the nervous system. All important signals in the body are sent through the biological wiring of the nerves.

Many substances cause the signals to fail: either the “phone” is always busy; or the bell fails to ring; or the phone is answered but the voice is so distorted it can’t be understood. Important messages such as “Breathe!” fail to get through. Curare, a resin from tropical plants, does just that, by relaxing the body to such an extent that breathing stops, the same way saxitoxin works as well.

IT’S A FACT • The oleander is a shrubby tree that is so poisonous that single leaf is fatal to man. At a tragic beach party, a dozen people used oleander sticks to roast hot dogs

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1. Is the Book of 1 Peter in the Old or New Testament or neither?

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POISONOUS PLOTS • In 1776 a cook in George Washington’s camp overheard a plot to kill General Washington by poisoning his peas. The cook tipped off the General, who quietly ate the rest of his lunch, leaving the peas untouched. The peas were later fed to some chickens, who all died. It is not known what became of the traitor.

• Imprisoned for years until his death on the island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte was so ill that he was certain he was being poisoned. His doctors scoffed.

When he died, they said his death was due to stomach cancer. Years later, the science of toxicology had advanced to the point where researchers were able to analyze his hair for evidence of poison. They found that for weeks before his death, he had regularly been fed arsenic in his meals.

TOXIC FISH • The most venomous fish is the stonefish. Each of the 13 dorsal spines on the fish carries a dose of neurotoxin powerful enough to kill a full-size shark or a human who touches it. The neurotoxin attacks nerve cells, inhibiting their function. The result is paralysis, which is fatal if the toxin reaches the heart or lungs. Fortunately, the venom can be broken down if heat is applied, which generally involves immersing the affected area in water heated to 113F (45C) for as long as possible.

ACCIDENTAL DEATHS • Accidental poisonings are the leading cause of deaths in the home. Among children under the age of five, medicines account for 44% of poisonings, followed in frequency by cleaning agents, cosmetics, plants, and paint products. More children are poisoned on Sunday than any other day, possibly because parents are sleeping late and the children are unsupervised. Prime danger hours during the week are between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m., when parents are fixing dinner or otherwise distracted.

LESSONS LEARNED • A bean with the Latin name of Abrus precatorius is shiny and attractive, being red and black. These beans were regularly used in jewelry and bead work.

No one suspected they were poisonous, because a bean that has an unbroken shell will pass through the digestive system without doing any harm. But when holes were drilled through the bean, it provided easy access to the toxin. Children who put the beads in their mouths, or women who wore them on sweaty necks died. Finally the connection was made between the bead and death, and they are no longer used.

• In the 1800s hats made from felt were popular. Hat makers had to use mercury when forming the hats, and would breathe mercury vapor and get mercury on their skin. Soon their hands would begin to shake and they would undergo weird personality changes, eventually becoming “mad as a hatter” because of the toxic effects of mercury poisoning.

ANTIDOTE ANECDOTE • In 1830 a pharmacist from Paris rose before the members of the French Academy and told them that powdered charcoal was an effective antidote to many poisons of the day. To prove it, he swallowed ten times the amount of strychnine needed to kill a human, and followed it with half an ounce of charcoal. The strychnine would normally have killed him with terrible convulsions immediately, yet he walked away unharmed. For the next century, charcoal, because of its incredibly absorbent nature, was the premiere antidote the world over. In the stomach it absorbs and deactivates alcohol, arsenic, barbiturates, cocaine, digitalis, ipecac, morphine, nicotine, opium, and quinine, among other things.

Even today, a poison victim in a modern hospital is often treated with a hemodetoxifier, in which the blood is removed from the body, run through a fancy charcoal filter, then returned to the bloodstream.

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2. Between 1977 and 1979, a Pittsburgh Pirate won the N.L. stolen-base crown each season.

Name the two Pirates who won three titles between them.

3. When was the last time before 2015 that the University of Tennessee did not have a player selected in the NFL Draft?

4. Golden State’s Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson started in the 2015 NBA All-Star Game. When was the last time two Warriors started in an All-Star Game?

5. The Montreal Canadiens were the first NHL franchise to record 3,000 victories. Which one was the second to do it?

6. Where was the first Summer Olympics held after the end of World War II? 7. In 2016, Jason Day became the third multitime winner of the WGC Match Play golf event.

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After that big cumulus clouds build up and provide some intermittent shade.

There has also been a light breeze which all combines to moderate the hot temperatures right down on the water.

Apparently the fish love it because the hot bite continues on the lower White River. Adam Marston and Todd Cottrell were in town from Memphis with a group and this was their first visit to the White River. Man they really tore it up! They boated and released over one hundred Rainbows including the nice ones in the photos. They were Spin Fishing and used several baits which all worked to the max. Power Bait and Shrimp was the most productive though Spinners and Rapalas took their share too. They relaxed in the shade while I prepared a great shore lunch for them including Trout Fillets, baked beans, skillet fried potatoes and a nice green salad with home-grown tomatoes.

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SNAKE BITES • There are 20 species of poisonous snakes in the U.S., and about 8,000 people are bitten by them each year. Of those, 5 to 10 will die.

• There are two kinds of venom, which is a modified saliva. One is a nerve poison that stops the heart and lungs. The other attacks the blood cells and tissues, making the meal easier to digest. Small animals die quickly but large animals are seldom killed.

The snake has enzymes in its own stomach that deactivates the poison. Still, if a snake accidentally bites itself, it dies.

• Antivenin can provide relief, and generally cuts the hospital stay in half. Antivenin is produced by injecting horses (or sheep, rabbits, and goats) with ever-increasing doses of snake venom. The horse produces antibodies to protect it from the venomous proteins. Blood is then withdrawn from the horse, and those antibodies are separated and harvested.

When injected into a human who has suffered a snake bite, the horse antibodies bind to the poison and neutralize it. However, many people have severe reactions when horse proteins are injected into their bodies. It can trigger an allergic reaction known as serum sickness, which is sometimes worse than the snake bite itself. Symptoms can include fever, rashes, nausea, weakness, nerve inflammation, and sometimes permanent muscle atrophy.

• Researchers have found that when chickens are injected with venom, their antibodies become concentrated in the yolks of their eggs. It’s easier to extract pure antivenin from egg yolk, and humans are much less likely to suffer allergic reactions to egg proteins than to horse proteins. Researchers hope that this will one day be the method used to treat snake bites worldwide.

• An Australian snake called the taipan is so deadly that there has never been a documented case of anyone surviving a bite. One researcher who milked a single taipan calculated that a single bite would be enough to kill 23,500 mice. The taipan is considered the deadliest snake in the world.

• A cobra has enough venom stored in its glands to kill 30 people. The bite of a cobra can kill a man in 15 minutes if the dose is big enough. Weight for weight, cobra venom is 40 times deadlier than cyanide, five times more deadly than the venom of the black widow, and about the same toxicity as scorpion venom. Three drops can be deadly. Cobra venom is especially toxic because it contains a bundle of different poisons: one affects the nerves, one destroys red blood cells, and one paralyzes the muscles.

• The deadliest snake in the U.S. is the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, although it ranks #23 on the list of most world’s most toxic snake venoms.

• 75% of snake bites in the U.S. are from a rattlesnake.

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• Worldwide, more people in India die from snake bites every year than any other country, with around 11,000 yearly fatalities annually, accounting for over half of snakebite deaths worldwide. Pakistan comes second with about 8,200 fatalities each year.

• Although there are about 50 different kinds of venomous snakes in Australia, 80% of all snakebites in the country come from the eastern brown snake.

• Canada has only two species of venomous snakes and both are species of rattlesnake.

• The words “venom” and the “-venin” in “antivenin” come from the Latin “venene” meaning potion or poison.

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Cool Off With Fresh Homemade Lemonade The forecast called for wind and rain, but that didn’t stop 7-year-old Thomas Scott from getting up at dawn on the Saturday morning of our annual festival of neighborhood garage sales.

He painted a “Lemonade” sign in multiple colors (“People will see it better that way,” he told me) and tied polka-dotted balloons (borrowed from his older brother’s balloon-powered-car science project) on posts, and set out cups, ice and two pitchers -- one for lemonade, and the other for apple juice (“I’ll make more money with more choices,” he reasoned). On the side bench were tempting platters of wrapped crispy rice treats and brownies that he and his mom concocted at 7 a.m. while the signage was drying.

In spite of ominous dark clouds, the eager entrepreneur was ready for business at 8 a.m. And they came. By 10, his wooden moneybox was overflowing with ones and fives. (Some people said, “Keep the change.”)

When he was just about out of goods at 11, his mom appeared with a fresh batch of brownies and a tall pitcher of icy lemonade. That’s when I put a “Be back in a minute” sign on my garage sale, walked across the street, and joined the line.

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Pour over ice in a pitcher.

SLUSHY LEMONADE Let your child squeeze four lemons by hand with a juicer. Pour the lemon juice into a blender with 1/2 cup sugar, 2 1/2 cups of water and a handful of ice cubes. Blend until smooth, then pour into glasses.

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1. The Four Seasons released a single with “Little Angel” on the b-side. What song was on the a-side?

2. How did The Doors get their name?

3. Where did Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas get songs like “I’ll Keep You Satisfied” and “From a Window”?

4. Who released “Islands in the Stream” in 1983?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Ever since that night we’ve been together, Lovers at first sight, in love forever, It turned out so right ... .”

Answers 1. “Big Man in Town,” 1964.

2. From the title of a book by Aldous Huxley, “The Doors of Perception,” published in 1954.

3. From Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The duo had a cache of songs that weren’t right for The Beatles, and those songs were given to other artists. The U.K. album “The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away” contains 20 of these songs.

4. Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. The song was written by The Bee Gees.

5. “Strangers in the Night,” by Frank Sinatra, 1966. An instrumental version was used in the theme for the film “A Man Could Get Killed” and was called “Beddy Bye” in the credits. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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--Q: I spotted a vintage Pontiac service sign in a shop in Wyoming. It reads “Pontiac Authorized Service” and is about 42 inches in diameter. I paid $150 for it. -- Ken, Salt Lake City, Utah A: If your sign is authentic, the circular design was used during the 1930s and ‘40s. According to “Picker’s Pocket-Guide to Signs” by Ed Bradley and published by Krause Books, if authentic, the sign often sells for about $3,300. If it is the real deal and you bought it for $150, you got an incredible bargain. Be aware, however, this sign has been reproduced. *** Q: During the 1980s, I received a copy of “White Trash Cooking” by Ernest Matthew Mickler and published by Ten Speed Press. Is it worth more than just a few dollars? -- Debra, West Memphis, Arkansas A: Mickler was a visual artist who was based in Key West, Florida, at the time he published his cookbook. The recipe collection attracted rave reviews, due in no small part because the dishes were genuine and reflected downhome cooking.

“Trutti’s Fruited Porkettes” and “Lady Divine’s Chicken-Asparagus Pie” are two of my favorite recipes from this cookbook, which is worth about $15. There is also “White Trash Cooking 2: Recipes for Gatherin’s,” which was published in 1988. *** Q: I have a cookie jar marked “Holiday Designs USA.” I can’t find anything about this company and hope you can help. -- Polly, Tulsa, Oklahoma A: Holiday Designs was founded in 1964 in Sebring, Ohio, and continues to operate to the present day. Although ownership changed in 1983, the name was retained. This company makes ceramic canister sets in addition to a line of cookie jars.

Many of the pieces are unmarked or identified with paper labels. *** Q: Recently I discovered several dozen Budweiser menu sheets from a saloon/restaurant owned by my family during the early 1930s. The sheets feature an old logo not currently used, and I wonder if they have any value. -- Jean, Corrales, New Mexico A: Although your menu sheets are vintage and do seem interesting, they are probably worth only about $5 each.

Write to Larry Cox in care of KFWS, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803, or send e-mail to questionsforcox@aol.com. Due to the large volume of mail he receives, Mr. Cox cannot personally answer all reader questions, nor does he do appraisals. Do not send any materials requiring return mail. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

• What do ankle and anchor have in common? They share the Latin root word “ank” meaning “bend.”

The Anglo-Saxons borrowed “ank” to make the flexible ankle; the Greeks took the same root word and applied it to the curve of the anchor which held their ships in place.

• “Baby,” “babble,” and “barbarian” all spring from the Greek word “barbarous” meaning a foreigner or one who speaks an incomprehensible language.

It’s the same story for the rhubarb plant: the land along the river Volga was known to the Greeks as the Rha. Since this was an unknown territory, they called it “barbaron” or barbarian. A plant they found there was dubbed “rha barbaron” meaning “from the barbarian land of Rha” and then shortened to rhubarb.

• The words “bull” and “fool” both come from the Anglo-Saxon word “bula” meaning a swelled-up creature, such as a big bull or a big-headed fool.

• According to legend, St. Martin was an officer in the Roman army. He was riding his horse along a lonely road one cold winter day when a beggar stopped him and asked for alms. Martin had no money, but seeing that the beggar was shivering in his rags, he took off his cloak, cut it in two with his sword, and gave half to the beggar. The story goes that the beggar then revealed himself to be Christ. A shrine was erected on the spot to commemorate the divine event where Martin had offered Christ half of a cloak. The shrine was called a “cappella” which is Latin for “little cloak.” Through the years every roadside shrine became known as a cappella. The French turned the word into “chapelle” and the English translated it as “chapel.” The Latin word for cloak is “cappa” and gives us the word cape. Therefore, “cape” and “chapel” spring from the same source.

• The Anglo-Saxon word “heath” meant a wasteland, and gave us the words heath, heather, and heathen.

• “Polak” means Polish man, and “polka” means Polish woman. 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 invented, the manufacturer decided to name the new design “polka dots.”

• “Glamour” and “grammar” both come from the same root word. In the 1500s, anyone who could speak and write Latin grammar was thought be have special magical powers. In England such a person was said to have “gramarye” and the Scots pronounced it “glamour.” Both meant that any person capable of understanding Latin was surely capable of casting charms as well.

• “Trunk” is the Latin word for tree, so “tree trunk” is redundant. A traveling case became known as a trunk because the first ones were made out of the hollowed out section of a tree.

• “Infans” is Latin for “not able to speak” meaning a baby, or a member of the “infantry” who is not allowed to speak unless spoken to.

• “Bursa” is the Latin word for pocket, which explains why “disburse” means out of pocket and “reimburse” means back in the pocket. A closed, fluid-filled pocket in the human body which functions as a gliding surface to reduce friction between tissues of the body is called a burse. When a bursa becomes inflamed, the condition is called bursitis.

• In Old English, “grappe” meant a cluster of fruit growing together, and “grape” was the hook that they were gathered with. Today, “grape” means the fruit itself, and “grapple” means struggling with a problem much as a harvester struggles with a hook.

NOW THAT I’M HERE, I HAVE TO ASK MYSELF: “WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?” Not only are the residents of Elmcroft living happy lives, they’re growing in experience – trying new things, making new friends, having fun and going places.

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BIBLE TRIVIA ANSWERS:

1) New; 2) Yeast; 3) Balm; 4) Gilead; 5) Scripture; 6) Gideon

1. Ryne Sandberg of the Chicago Cubs, in 1990.

2. Frank Taveras (1977) and Omar Moreno (1978-79).

3. It was 1963.

4. Rick Barry and Nate Thurmond started the 1967 All-Star Game.

5. The Boston Bruins crossed the 3,000-win mark in 2016.

6. London, in 1948.

7. Tiger Woods (2003, ‘04, ‘08) and Geoff Ogilvy (‘06, ‘09).

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Summer and Spice, so nice, from Mount Olive on the White River with Clark Kent

Randy Crumby, born in Magnet Cove, Arkansas, retired from AT&T in 2006. He and his

Randy and Katie Crumby with Blue

family moved back from Texas to Mount Olive, an old riverboat community nestled along the White River in the Arkansas Ozarks near Mountain View. Mount Olive Outdoors, a private vacation cabin rental and trout fishing guide service, was developed to promote White River tourism and world class trout fishing. Randy served on the Board of Directors for the Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers in 2008-2009.

Growing and cooking with various peppers has always held a keen interest for Randy; from reaping the nutritional benefits to experimenting with preservation of peppers by using a slow, hickory smoke-dried process. Along with his wife Katie, they started the pepper business in their kitchen using a small coffee grinder and a self-designed pepper smoke house at Mount Olive.

Recently, Mount Olive Pepper Company LLC was awarded an invitation to participate in a grant “Fostering Enterprise Diversification to Expand Local Community Food Systems” won by the University of Arkansas. The Arkansas Food Innovation Center, located near the main university campus in Fayetteville, is now where they process and bottle their pure ground, hickory smoked pepper.

How to dry peppers at home…

Why dry peppers?

# 1 Reason? They last months-years dried! # 2 Reason? How am I ever going to use all these fresh peppers??

Quality is outstanding Great gifts for family & friends Grilled Garlic and Brussel Sprouts

Methods for home

Ripe Marconi peppers ready to slow-smoke

* Dehydrator – easy & quick * Oven * Smoker * Sun – dried * 120-160 degrees Fahrenheit desired * Before you start! * Ventilation/Air Circulation * Gloves * Protective Mask * Don’t touch/Wash often

Garlic and brussels sprouts grilled in rack; sprinkle garlic and halved brussels sprouts with light veg oil and Mount Olive Smoked * Save the seeds for planting Marconi pepper. Place on veggie grill pan * Grind w/spice mill or food processor and close so that veggies are secure. Grill 5 * Custom bottle or container minutes on each side over medium-high heat.

What now?

Guacamole with Poblano Pepper

Randy’s specially designed slow n cold smoke house

Peel and mash 4 avocados and squeeze juice of on lime into mixture. Add 1tsp of Mount Olive Smoked Poblano Pepper, stir and serve.

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