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This week, Tidbits is not only saying “Hey!” – we’re examining all sorts of words that begin with the letters yo-, everything from Yogi Bear to yodeling!

• You’ve probably never heard the term vitellus, but it’s the proper name given to an egg yolk!

The yolk, which contains all of the egg’s fat and cholesterol, accounts for about one-third of the liquid weight of an egg and contains approximately 60 calories. The egg yolk might have a bad reputation for its cholesterol content, but don’t overlook the 18 amino acids, vitamins A, D, E, and K, and minerals calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium that are all essential for various body processes.

• Can you yodel? If you’re able to make quick fluctuations between your normal chest singing voice and a falsetto, you can! The wellknown “Yodel-Ay-EEE-ooo” features the “EEE” sung in the head voice, with the other tones sung in the chest voice. It’s believed that yodeling got its start as a method of communication between shepherds and their stock in the Swiss Alps. The technique was made popular again in recent years with a song featured in Disney’s 1994 The Lion King called “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” Also known as “Wimoweh,” it was first recorded in 1939, then again in 1961.

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• The most important holiday of the Jewish calendar is Yom Kippur, which translates “Day of Atonement.” It’s a day set aside to repent from and atone for the sins of the past year. It occurs on the tenth day of the Jewish month of Tishri, which in 2013 will be September 14.

Yom Kippur is a day of fasting, and traditions include no eating or drinking, no bathing, and no wearing of leather shoes. It is also customary to wear white on this day as a symbol of purity, representing the promise that “our sins shall be made as white as snow.” Back in 1965, Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Sandy Koufax made the news when he decided not to pitch the first game of the World Series because that day fell on Yom Kippur.

• Renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma was born in Paris to Chinese parents. He began studying the cello at age four, shortly before the family moved to New York City. As a child prodigy he began performing at age five, and at seven, performed for Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.

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In 1961, Yogi was given his own show, which featured his adventures in Jellystone Park, accompanied by his faithful companion Boo-Boo. They spent their days stealing “pic-a-nic baskets” from campers and outsmarting Park Ranger Smith. Yogi was full of selfconfidence as he regularly proclaimed, “I’m smarter than the average bear!” Yogi’s character was modeled after the popular Honeymooners character Ed Norton, played by popular celebrity of the time Art Carney.

• Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra is considered one of baseball’s greatest catchers. Yogi, who played 17 years with the New York Yankees, was a 15-time All Star and was the American League MVP three times. He was later a player/coach for the NY Mets, a coach and manager for the Mets and Yankees, and a coach for the Houston Astros. As a player, coach, and manager, Yogi appeared in 21 World Series (14 years as a player). The Yankees retired his Number 8 jersey in 1972, the same year he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Yogi was well known for

his witty comments, often called “Yogi-isms,” such as, “Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” When asked why the Yankees lost the 1960 World Series, he responded, “We made too many wrong mistakes.” A childhood friend gave Yogi his famous nickname, saying he looked like a Hindu snake charmer he had seen in a movie.

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Some areas around Grand Forks have received more than six inches of rain over the last few weeks and that has mosquitoes developing in the larval stage. Mosquitoes go through four separate stages in their life cycle and they can reproduce anyplace that standing water collects and remains for an extended period. It generally takes 10-14 days for mosquitoes to go from egg to adult, but this time line can be faster during warmer conditions.

The Grand Forks Health Department has a comprehensive larvicide program that has identified and mapped more than 1,000 sites around our community. These sites are inspected on a regular schedule and treated with products that prevent mosquitoes from hatching.

However, we still need help from homeowners to identify and eliminate breeding sites on private property. We do not have the resources to inspect all private property in the city. You can help by inspecting your property and getting rid of any standing water. If you have a large site that cannot be drained or a swimming pool that is not being used or may not be used until later this summer, contact the Health Dept. at 701-787-8110 and we’ll inspect and treat the water with a product to prevent mosquitoes from hatch. This service is free for citizens with property located within the City of Grand Forks.

Common Mosquito Breeding Habitat: • Drainage Ditches • Old Tires • Swimming Pools not being used • Wading pools • Boats or a saggy tarp on a boat • Leaky garden hose or outside faucet • Plugged rain gutters

• Rain water collecting barrels • Cans, bottles, plastic jugs, jars • Any open container that has water – i.e. recycle bins, garbage cans and lids, wheel barrow, flower pots, even something as small as a pop bottle cap.

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• The name of Denton True Young might not be familiar, but surely you’ve heard his nickname, Cy. Cy Young had a 22-year baseball career that started in 1890 pitching for the Cleveland Spiders. He moved on to the St. Louis Perfectos after eight seasons. Young established records that still stand today after more than 100 years, including most wins (511), career innings pitched (7,355), most career games started (815), and most completed games (749). He earned the nickname Cy after his fastball destroyed several fences. Reporters wrote that the fences looked like a cyclone had hit them, and the name stuck. The Cy Young Award, given to the leagues’ best pitchers, was established in 1956.

• The Yorkshire Terrier breed of dog was developed in the 1800s in the county of Yorkshire, England, to catch rats in clothing mills.

The smallest Yorkie in recorded history was just 2.5 inches (6.35 cm) tall and weighed 4 ounces (113 grams). Famous Yorkie owners include Paris Hilton, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, and Vanessa Williams. Audrey Hepburn’s Yorkie Mr. Famous appeared with her in a scene in her 1957 movie Funny Face.

• The notorious Cole Younger Gang teamed up with the James Brothers in the 1870s and the eight-member band of outlaws went on a spree of train, stagecoach, and bank robberies. Their crimes came to a halt during a Minnesota bank robbery attempt in 1874. The James Brothers escaped, three other members were killed, and the three Younger brothers were captured.

Cole Younger had been shot 11 times, but survived to serve 25 years in prison, after which he was paroled. During his prison time, he founded the longest-running prison newspaper in the U.S.

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• Emily Post was born to a life of privilege in 1872, the daughter of a wealthy architect. She was educated by governesses and later attended New York City’s prestigious Miss Graham’s finishing school, where she was trained in all matters of ladylike conduct. As a young debutante, she met her future husband Edwin Main Post at an elegant ball in a posh Fifth Avenue mansion. Emily married the prominent banker when she was 20, and embarked on a lavish honeymoon tour throughout Europe.

• Emily gave birth to her first son a year after her marriage, and to another in 1895. Her husband’s infidelity a few years later led to a scandal and the couple divorced in 1905. Emily requested no alimony from Edwin, as he had recently lost nearly everything in a stock market crash. Instead she turned to writing to support herself and her sons.

• Emily started out writing romantic short stories that were published in popular fiction magazines of the day, as well as articles on architecture and interior design. She moved on to novels and had published five by the year 1910. A publishing company editor urged her to write a book on etiquette, and in 1922, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home – The Blue Book of Social Usage was released and almost immediately became a best seller.

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• It was Israeli diplomat Abba Eban who made the following sage observation: “Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.”

• John Tyler fathered 15 children, more than any other U.S. president in history. He also holds the distinction of being the oldest president with living grandchildren.

Tyler was born in 1790, and his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born in 1853. Lyon Gardiner, in turn, had children at a rather advanced age for fatherhood. Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. was born in 1924, when his father was 71, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. Both men were still living in 2012, and the younger of the brothers maintained the Tyler family historic home, Sherwood Forest.

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• The shamrock is often associated with Ireland, so you might be surprised to learn that it’s not the country’s national symbol. The official symbol is actually a Celtic harp, which makes Ireland the only country in the world to have a musical instrument for its national emblem.

• It’s been reported that Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.

• According to a recent survey of married people in the United States, fully one-quarter of respondents admitted to receiving a traffic ticket and hiding from their spouse. Nearly that many (24 percent) said they had kept a car accident secret from their husband or wife.

• Starting in 1931, Emily hosted a radio program, as well as producing a daily newspaper column, which was syndicated in 200 newspapers across the country. Along the way she continued to author new books, including The Personality of a House, Children Are People, Motor Manners, and The Emily Post Cook Book.

• Emily’s approach to good manners was that of bringing common sense to behavior. Her root belief was that manners included “good form in speech, knowledge of proper social graces, and charm.” She especially disliked pretentious people, dirty silverware, and hostesses who served themselves first. Although she authored an advice column, she consistently avoided giving “lonely hearts” advice. She did hold fast to her advice whenever a single girl asked if it was correct to visit a man alone in his apartment – the answer was “No.”.

• In 1946, Emily founded the Emily Post Institute, an organization designed to offer expert etiquette advice to corporations, which continues to promote standards of good manners and civility around the world. Emily’s third and fourth generation descendants still write books and columns, and conduct seminars and workshops based on the principles of honesty, respect, and consideration.

• In Emily’s words, manners are “a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”

• “A gentleman does not boast about his junk.”

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YO-YO FACTS June 6 has been proclaimed National Yo-YoDay in commemoration of the birthday of yoyo king Donald Duncan. Follow along and discover some facts you may not have known about this favorite toy.

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to interfere with the war effort. Anyone found guilty of such acts would be subject to a fine of $10,000 and a prison sentence of 20 years.

• On June 12, 1940, Edsel Ford agrees to manufacture 9,000 RollsRoyce-designed engines to be used in British and U.S. airplanes.

Edsel’s father, Henry, who still retained control over the company, personally and publicly canceled the deal, telling a reporter: “We are not doing business with the British government or any other government.”

• On June 14, 1777, during the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution describing the design of the national flag. It became • On June 16, 1961, Rudolf known as the “Stars and Stripes.” Nureyev, the young star of the So• On June 13, 1905, pitcher Christy viet Union’s Kirov Opera Ballet Matthewson of the New York Giants Company, defects during a stopthrows the second no-hitter of his ca- over in Paris. Nureyev threw himreer. Matthewson won 31 games and self into the arms of airport seculost only nine, and ended the 1905 rity people, screaming, “Protect me!” season with an earned run average • On June 11, 1979, John Wayne, of just 1.28, more than a run and a an iconic American film actor born half lower than the league average. Marion Morrison, dies at age 72. The “John Wayne” name was created during his first starring role “in The Big Trail” in 1930. The director didn’t think Marion was a good name for an actor playing a tough Western hero.

• Duncan moved the entire operation to Luck, Wisconsin in 1946, and the community became known as the “Yo-Yo Capital of the World,” cranking out 3,600 yo-yo’s per hour.

For 14 years, maple wooden yo-yo’s were manufactured, using 1,000,000 board feet every year. Plastic yo-yo’s came along in 1960.

• Competitors of Duncan didn’t like that he had the exclusive rights to the word “yo-yo” and fought for the rights to use it. Unfortunately for the Duncan company, in 1965, after a long and expensive court battle, a Federal Court of Appeals ruled that the trademark for

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• On June 15, 1917, some two months after America’s entrance into World War I, the U.S. Congress passes the Espionage Act. The Act essentially made it a crime for anyone to convey information intended

• In 1928, Pedro Flores launched the Yo-Yo Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California. Within a year, he had opened two more factories, employing a total of 600 workers, and producing 300,000 yo-yo’s every day. By the end of another year, Donald Duncan had purchased all of Flores’ assets and had the name “yo-yo” registered as a trademark, meaning only he could use that name for the toy.

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• On June 10, 1692, in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Bridget Bishop, the first colonist to be tried in the Salem witch trials, is hanged after being found guilty of the practice of witchcraft. In October, on order of the governor, the Salem witch trials, which resulted in the executions of 19 innocent women and men, effectively ended.

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• The official description of a yo-yo is “an axle connected to two disks, with a length of twine looped around the axle.” The first historical evidence of a yo-yo was found in Greece from the year 500 B.C., a vase featuring a painting of a boy playing with the toy. A 1789 painting of France’s King Louis XVII, which hangs in the Louvre, shows the young monarch with a yo-yo as well. Two Ohio men received the first U.S. patent on the item in 1866.

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He affixed ing, while involves throwtwoa strong woodensleeper, spokes,then thengently hitchedallowing the device ing the to a horse.

It plowed the heavy Illinois soil yo-yo to touch the floor, where it rolls forward likea adog charm. fact, a farmer who happened like on aIn leash. to be observing the test run immediately put • Enthusiasts seeown the John world’s largest in an order can for his Deere plow.yo-yo at the National Yo-Yo Museum in Chico, Cali• In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith fornia.

It measures cm) The high shop and focused 50 on inches making(127 plows. and weighsgrew 256 steadily lbs. (116 The museum company andkg.). added many emalso houses yo-yo’s dating back to the 1920s. ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the Chico is home to the National Yo-Yo Contest entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed each October. of his own lack of education, John sent his children the first state’s finest schools.

One of • The yo-yotowas taken into space in April his proudest days occurred when son Charles of 1985 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery earned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s when NASA introduced their Toys in Space Commercial College in Chicago. project.

• With his son Charles managing the company, • America’s National Hallphilanthropic of Fame wasinesJohn found time toToy pursue tablished in 1998.

Located Rochester, New terests. He co-founded bothinthe First NationYork, it pays tribute to those toys and games al Bank and the First Congregational Church. that haveelected maintained their popularity over He was the mayor of Moline in 1873, many years.

In order to be considered for the where one of his first actions – the replacehonor, “widely rement aoftoy the must city’sbeopen drainsrecognized, with a sewer pipe system – saved countless lives by reducspected, and remembered,” foster learning and ing the spread of disease. creativity, be more than a passing fad, as well as show innovation.

The yo-yo inducted • The original John Deere logo, was registered in into thedepicted Hall at aitsdeer inception, the 1876, that was along native with to Afrikite, rocking horse, ca. Thirty-six years jigsaw later, inpuzzle, 1912, itCheckers, was replaced the among image of a North American and doll with houses, many others. white-tailed deer. In the decades that followed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took Thanks for Reading Tidbits! over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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