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LIGHT BULBS (cont’d) • Today’s light bulbs use a filament of tungsten because it’s a strong metal that can withstand high temperatures without melting. It is heated to around 4,500 degrees F. (2,482 C). This high temperature makes the wire glow with heat. Tungsten comes from the Swedish language, with “tung” meaning heavy and “sten” meaning stone. • Three-way light bulbs have two different filaments: one 50-watt filament and one 100-watt filament. They can be turned on individually or together to produce 150 watts. • If there were any air inside the bulb, the filament would burn up. Most bulbs contain nitrogen and argon, which lengthen the life of the filament and prevent electricity from jumping around inside the bulb. • Different kinds of modern day bulbs such as black light and ozone lamps are used for such things as detecting ringworm, revealing art forgeries, finding minerals and water underground, killing odors, and inducing chickens to lay more eggs.
STREETLIGHT FACTS • Vapor lamps use a gas rather than a wire to produce light. Instead of heating up a wire, the gas is energized, giving off light. Mercury vapor gives off a blue light, and sodium vapor gives off a yellow light. Vapor lamps produce more light than incandescent bulbs and last up to 100 times longer. • Fluorescent lights are a type of vapor lamp that use a combination of mercury and argon vapor. When electrical current passes through the vapor, it gives off ultraviolet light. The inside of the bulb is coated with phosphor, which lights up when struck by the ultraviolet light. Fluorescent lights are popular because they use 20% of the energy of incandescent bulbs, and produce 20% of the heat. (cont’d) • Vapor lamps have some disadvantages. Sodium vapor lamps when used indoors can cause a variety of ills ranging from eye strain to nausea due to the absence of blue light. And fluorescent light has been implicated in some studies in which mice developed cancer more frequently when living under fluorescent light than those living under incandescent light. • In a compact fluorescent bulb, electricity passes through a gas-filled tube and produces ultraviolet light which is absorbed by a phosphor coating on the inside of the tube which produces the visible light. Phosphor emits light in a narrow wavelength. If a CFL used only one type of phosphor, it would give off a single color. The solution is to use a variety of slightly different phosphors to produce a wide spectrum of light. This can be customized for different purposes, giving us the choice of “daylight”, “soft white”, “warm white” and other colors. • A 100-watt incandescent light bulb converts only 2.6% of its energy into visible light. The rest is converted to heat, which is why you’ll burn yourself if you touch a light bulb that is turned on. Compact fluorescent bulbs are more efficient: they convert 7.7% of their energy into light, and the rest into heat. That may not seem like a lot, but it’s almost three times as energy efficient as the incandescent. • The most efficient commercial light bulbs are low pressure sodium lamps which convert 27% of their energy to light, but because they produce a harsh yellow color, they are not commonly used Continued on page 5
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UP IN LIGHTS • In 1911 the first neon sign was patented. Neon is a colorless, odorless gas found in our atmosphere at a ratio of 1 part neon to 55,000 parts air. When concentrated in a glass tube, it conducts electricity and produces a red glow. The color can be changed by altering pressure or adding other gasses. • If you would like to make your own neon tubes, here’s the recipe: Simply liquefy a large quantity of air, and allow it to boil. Collect the first gasses that escape when it reaches boiling point. That will be a mixture of helium, neon, and nitrogen. Remove the nitrogen through chemical absorption, then chill the remaining mixture to -310 f. (-190 C) and pass it over charcoal, which will absorb the helium. Now heat the charcoal to recover the neon.
LAVA LAMPS • What is a lava lamp made of? The moving blob is specially compounded wax, floating in a tube of mineral oil. When heated by the 40-watt light bulb below, it expands and becomes less dense than the liquid it’s suspended in and starts to rise. At the top of the globe, the wax cools and begins to sink again.
HANDY TIP • If you don’t want bugs buzzing around your porch lights, use yellow light bulbs. Yellow is invisible to many insects so they won’t be attracted to the light.
A WORLD RECORD • The world’s oldest functioning light bulb is located at the fire department in Livermore, CA. It was installed in 1901. It’s been lit ever since, and has been turned off only a handful of times, mostly accidentally, or when it was transferred to different locations. It’s listed in “Guinness Book of World Records” and “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.”
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Composting garden debris It's always wise to compost yard debris and avoid sending it to the landfill. But there are some precautions to keep in mind. If you had blight, powdery mildew or a fungus, put these plants into a bag in the trash and use bleach to sterilize containers they grew in or the cages and trellises they grew on. This avoids transferring plant diseases into next year's garden. Also avoid composting large vines from pumpkin or squash plants as they won't easily decompose. Then, compost the remaining plant debris. The final tuck-in Add fertilizer low in nitrogen and spread 2" of compost over the top of the garden. Don't worry if you can't get the compost down before it snows. You can pitch compost over the snow and it will still do its job - but this task should be done sooner rather than later. Fall clean-up, fertilizer and compost gives your garden the healthy rest it needs from now 'til the wake-up call next spring. Chris Dominy is the owner of Parker based BestYard.com and Weed Man Lawn Care. If you have additional questions about your lawn, search our lawn care library at denver.weedmanusa. com, or visit www.bestyard.com. Please see our ad on Page 1 of Tidbits!
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• The condor is the largest flying land bird in the Western Hemisphere -- and one of the slowest in reproducing. The female lays only one egg every two years. • Those who study such things claim that Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats. • Confectioner Milton Hershey suffered through founding two candy companies that ended in failure, then succeeded on his third attempt, and finally sold that company and used the proceeds to found the Hershey Company. After all his hard work, though, he seemed to be less interested in enjoying the fruits of his labors than in helping others. In 1909 he established the Hershey Industrial School for Orphaned Boys, and 10 years later he donated control of the company to a trust for the school. Today the institution is called the Milton Hershey School, and it continues to have a controlling interest in the candy company. • Don’t consider yourself uneducated if you’ve never heard of anthropodermic bibliopegy; the practice of binding books with human skin is not (one can hope) common in modern times. • Scotsman John Paul Jones is best known for his naval exploits for the nascent United States during the Revolutionary War, and for his infamous utterance, “We have not yet begun to fight!” Most people don’t realize, though, that he was born John Paul and only adopted the surname “Jones” on his first trip to America, where he came to flee charges in the deaths of two sailors under his command. *** Thought for the Day: “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” -- Albert Einstein
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Q: Please tell me the rumors I’ve been hearing about a “Say Anything” TV series are not true! -- Callie F., via email A: I am thrilled to tell you that NBC’s planned “Say Anything” TV show has been canned. Less than 24 hours after news broke -- lighting up the Internet -- about a comedy sequel based on the hit 1989 movie, which was directed by Cameron Crowe and starred John Cusack and Ione Skye, NBC pulled the plug on the series. Apparently, Cameron called producer Aaron Kaplan (who was producing the series with writer Justin Adler) and voiced his objections to the project. Aaron and Justin were unaware that Cameron had not been contacted about or approved of the project, so they pulled out. NBC and 20th Century Fox followed suit and canceled the series. *** Q: I saw Cameron Mathison in the Hallmark movie “Along Came a Nanny” and realized how much I had missed him. Can you tell me what else he has going on? -- Lola F., Erie, Pa. A: The sweet and sexy former soap star is currently hosting a home-renovation competition show in Canada called “Game of Homes.” I spoke with Cameron about it recently, and he’s really excited about this new project. “It’s a really fun renovation/reality show where they’re taking four dilapidated houses off their foundations, and moving these houses to a really cool downtown location. The contestants make up four teams, and every week they renovate a new room of their assigned house. And every week there is a new challenge with prizes. You can win a trip to Paris or a weeklong cruise in the Caribbean. The ultimate prize is you win your house and a piece of land to put it on. Initially it’s going to air in Canada, but I have a feeling it’s going to appear elsewhere.” Cameron continued: “Another aspect I like is that I graduated with an engineering degree like 700 years ago, and my dream was to go into a design firm with my best friend, who’s an architect. I was going to be the engineer, and he was going to be the architect. And then I bailed on him and went in the entertainment world. But since that time, this is the closest gig I’ve ever had that involves design, construction, engineering, load-bearing walls, header beams -- all that kind of stuff. For me it’s kind of coming close to my original dream of what I wanted to do with my life.” *** Q: When will “Hot in Cleveland” be back with a new season? -- Jeremy T., via email A: Season six of the hit TV Land sitcom returns Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Get ready for 24 new episodes of this fun series, with Betty White, Wendie Malick, Valerie Bertinelli and Jane Leeves all returning. Write to Cindy at King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475; or e-mail her at letters@cindyelavsky.com.
Red is the color most often connected to this gemstone that is often found in antique jewelry. However, the world of garnets is far more colorful than that just red Spectacular finds, especially in Africa, have enhance the traditional image of the garnet with a number of lovely hues including shades of green, a variety of yellows, a blazing orange and some very nice earth-colored shades. The only color never found in a garnet is blue. This number of garnet hues has enabled this gemstone to continue to be trendy and stylish. While fairly common, the garnets have some rare stones such as star garnets whose color changes depending on whether displayed in artificial or natural light. Garnets are found in several African countries, India, Russia and Central and South America. Skilled hand of cutters all over the world over cut garnets into both classical and designer shapes. If your jewelry features a garnet stone you can be confident that it will last a long time and the brilliance given to it by Nature will never dim. Scott McQueen is the owner of Pinetree Jewelers, Parker’s oldest jewelry store established in 1976. 2 store locations: 11028 S. Pikes Peak Drive in Parker and 190 S Wilcox in Castle Rock. For more call 303.841.2666 or 303-660-2696
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HOLLYWOOD By Tony Rizzo PHOTO: Robert Downey Jr. HOLLYWOOD -Jimmy Fallon’s recent duets with Barbra Streisand -- who returned to the talk-show genre after a 50-year absence -- as Elvis Presley, Blake Shelton Cindy Rose and Michael Buble, were magic moments! One of Barbra’s conditions for doing the show was to show only the left side of her face, which she favors. It would have cost a fortune to turn the entire set around, as Rosie O’ Donnell did when Barbra appeared on her afternoon show, so Fallon playfully suggested she take his seat and interview him. When Jay Leno graciously handed over “The Tonight Show” to Fallon, he said he had no hard feelings toward NBC, and he meant it. It’s obvious he still considers himself part of the NBC family. When Leno left his 22-year stint hosting “The Tonight Show,” he continued his nbc.com web series, “Jay’s Garage.” It became popular, and now he’s set to host a new show on CNBC centered around his love of cars. *** Last year was definitely the best for Bryan Cranston. Not only did he win the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Tony Award for his portrayal of Lyndon Johnson in the play “All the Way,” but he also won the Critic’s Choice, the Saturn and two Emmy Awards, one for himself and one for “Breaking Bad.” After a short stint battling “Godzilla” last summer, he’s jumping into “Trumbo,” the bio picture about Dalton Trumbo -- who was blacklisted during the McCarthy/House Un-American hearings era -- with Helen Mirren and John Goodwin. In January, he starts the thriller “The Infiltrator,” which will shoot in London, Paris and Florida ... Florida? *** Would you believe plans are afoot to reboot “Ghostbusters” with female leads? If director Paul Feig gets his way, “Ghostbusters 3” will be just that. It’s hard to believe they’ll be able to find female stars to equal the magic of Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson. ... Former “Superman” Tom Welling, who starred for 10 seasons in “Smallville,” then hit the big screen in “Draft Day,” will next star in the film version of Nicholas Sparks “The Choice.” *** Robert Downey Jr. told both David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres that he would not star in “Iron Man 4.” “Iron Man” grossed $585.1 million; “Iron Man 2” grossed $624 million; “The Avengers,” in which he played Iron Man, grossed $1.5 billion; and “Iron Man 3” grossed $1.2 billion. There will be an “Iron Man 4,” and there is no way it will be made it without him. These interviews must be a ploy to get a bigger paycheck. That franchise is not made of iron ... it’s made of solid gold!
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• On Nov. 6, 1789, Pope Pius VI appoints John Carroll bishop of Baltimore, making him the first Catholic bishop in the United States. He oversaw the creation of leading Catholic institutions, including the nation’s first Catholic university, Georgetown University, founded in 1789. • On Nov. 7, 1885, at a remote spot called Craigellachie in the mountains of British Columbia, the last spike is driven into Canada’s first transcontinental railway. Despite the logistical difficulties posed, the almost 3,000-mile-long railway was completed six years ahead of schedule. • On Nov. 9, 1946, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Army Cadets play to a historic 0-0 tie at Yankee Stadium in New York. Notre Dame-Army was college football’s biggest rivalry. Football tickets typically cost $1 to $5, but many fans had paid scalpers as much as $250, equal to $3,200 in today’s dollars.
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• On Nov. 3, 1964, residents of the District of Columbia cast their ballots in a presidential election for the first time. The passage of the 23rd Amendment in 1961 gave citizens of the nation’s capital the right to vote for a president and vice president. • On Nov. 8, 1974, Salt Lake City resident Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes being abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy. When Bundy was finally captured in 1978 in Florida, he confessed to the murders of 28 women, and was executed in 1989.
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1. Who holds the major-league record for most multihomer games? 2. In 1974, an Atlanta Brave led the National League in batting average, while a teammate led the league in ERA. Name them. 3. Who was the last quarterback before Alabama’s A.J. McCarron in the 2011-12 seasons to lead a team to back-to-back undisputed national championships? 4. In 2014, Mark Jackson became the sixth coach in Warriors franchise history to win 100 NBA games. Name three of the first five to do it. 5. Who has recorded the most saves during a shutout in an NHL game (including overtime)? 6. Who is the only U.S. athlete to win a gold medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympics in different events? 7. Who has compiled the lowest nine-hole score at a PGA Tour event? Answers 1. Babe Ruth did it 72 times between 1914 and 1935. 2. Ralph Garr (.353 batting average) and Buzz Capra (2.28 ERA). 3. Nebraska’s Tommie Frazier in the 1994-95 seasons. 4. Al Attles (557 wins), Don Nelson (422), Eddie Gottlieb (263), George Senesky (119) and Alex Hannum (100). 5. Buffalo’s Dominik Hasek had 70 saves during a four-overtime shutout in 1994. 6. Eddie Egan won a gold medal in boxing in 1920 and one in the four-man bobsled in 1932. 7. Corey Pavin shot an 8-under 26 at a PGA event in 2006.
• On Nov. 4, 1956, a spontaneous national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops. Thousands were killed and wounded, and nearly a quartermillion Hungarians fled the country. The Soviet action stunned many in the West, as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had pledged a retreat from the Stalinist repression of the past.
• On Nov. 5, 1994, George Foreman, age 45, becomes boxing’s oldest heavyweight champion when he KOs undefeated 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight. Foreman dedicated his upset win to “all my buddies in the nursing home.”
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Heed Message of "Save for Retirement Week"
Cindy Rose ease this risk?
You won’t see it on the calendar, and it doesn’t inspire any greeting cards, but National Save for Retirement Week is here again. The goal of this week is self-explanatory, but what does it mean to you? Are you vulnerable to the possibility of reaching retirement without sufficient financial resources? If so, how can you
Let’s look at the “vulnerability” issue first. How prepared you’ll be for retirement — or at least how prepared you think you’ll be — seems to depend, not surprisingly, on whether you are currently participating in a retirement plan such as a 401(k) or an IRA. Consider these statistics, taken from the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s 2014 Retirement Confidence Survey: • Nearly half of workers without a retirement plan were “not at all confident” about their financial security in retirement, compared with only about one in 10 with a plan. • 36% of workers say they have less than $1,000 in savings and investments. Of this group, 73% said they and their spouse did not have a retirement plan, compared to just 11% of those with a plan. Clearly, it pays to contribute to your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored plan, such as a 403(b) or 457(b). And, even if you do have a 401(k) or similar plan, you may want to consider funding a Roth or traditional IRA. Besides contributing as much as you can afford to your retirement plans, what else can you do to help boost your retirement savings? For one thing, try to control your debts. It’s not always easy, but try to consistently live within your means and make wise spending decisions. Every dollar you don’t spend on debt payments could be going toward your retirement savings. While it’s essential that you save and invest for retirement, you can’t forget other objectives you may have, such as helping pay for your children’s college education. Of course, if you’re like the vast majority of people, you don’t have unlimited resources — so working toward two major financial goals at the same time can certainly be challenging. Nonetheless, a college education can still be a springboard to a successful career, so you may well feel that you should do everything within your power to help your kids through school. How can you balance the two important goals of investing for your retirement and for your children’s college expenses? Your best move may be to start saving for college just as soon as possible — even when your children are quite young. By starting early, you’ll put time on your side, so you can put away smaller amounts each year than if you waited until the years right before your kids head off to school. Consider investing annually whatever amounts you can afford to a tax-advantaged college savings vehicle, such as a 529 plan. By investing as much as much as possible in your retirement plan, managing your debt load and balancing your retirement goals with other key objectives, you’ll be honoring the message of National Save for Retirement Week.
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Cindy Rose, Financial Advisor 2195 N Highway 83 #23 - Franktown, CO 80116 303.688-2127 Member SIPC
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