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Twin Pines Activity Kit Twin Pines Activity Kit This is Kit #13. Happy New Year! “Enhancing the quality of life for the community.” WOULD YOU LIKE TO STOP RECEIVING THESE KITS? CALL US AT 595-7444. 1 TWIN PINES NEWS BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENING RETURNS IN 2021 Screenings will be held on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 11:30- 12:30. No appointment needed. Screenings will be held outdoors near the Twin Pines Senior & Community Center. Must wear a face covering and practice social distancing. This service is provided by a Registered Nurse from Sequoia Hospital. AARP VOLUNTEERS RETURN TO PROVIDE REMOTE TAX PREPARATION SERVICES If you are low income, over 55, and were not able to process your Tax Return last year due to COVID, then you have preference to get free tax preparation services by AARP volunteers. Due to coronavirus precautions, the process will be very different from past years. Please call (650) 517- 6670 or go to www.belmont.gov/adults to find out more. WATCH OUT FOR THESE NEW COVID-19 SCAMS! • Someone offers to move you into an earlier group to get the vaccine, for a fee. • Someone tries to sell you a place on a COVID vaccine waiting list. • Someone on the street, online, or knocking on your door tries to sell you a shot of vaccine. • You get calls, texts, or emails about the vaccine, asking for your personal or financial information, like Social Security, bank account or credit card number. NEVER share these numbers or other per- sonal information with an unknown caller or in a text or email. To report a COVID-19 related scam, contact the District Attorney’s Office at (650) 363-4651 KNOWLEDGE CORNER Loie Fuller (January 15, 1862 – January 1, 1928) was an American actress and dancer who was a pioneer of tech- niques in both modern dance and theatrical lighting. She created the serpentine dance, but upon finding that her talents were unappreciated in the United States, she moved to Paris and received a warm reception there. She regularly performed at the Folies Ber- gère, and began adapting and expanding her costume and lighting, so that they became the principal features of her performance. Fuller unsuccessfully applied for a patent on the serpentine dance, to prevent imitators from copying her choreography. WORLD EVENTS IN JANUARY 1554 Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma. 1569: First recorded lottery in England. 1639: The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut. 1822: The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independ- ence process 1839: The French Academy of Sciences announces the 1st publicly available photographic process 1888: The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. 1910: The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. 1911: Norwegian Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes land- fall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. 1922: Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with insulin. Until insulin was made clinically available, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence, more or less quickly (usually within months, and frequently within weeks or days) 1923: Spanish engineer Juan de la Ci- erva makes the first autogyro flight, the predecessor to the helicopter 1967: Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. 1973: Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Ha- waii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. 2 LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE 3 TRIVIA This goes with that: Can you find a word US States: See if your phonetic skills can that goes with each of the 5 clues? figure out the state name. 1. Mother-of-, harbor, -y gates of wisdom 1. Arc and saw _______________ 2. Red, Tuesday, necklace, grapefruit, slippers 2. Can etiquette _______________ 3. Coast, city, green, isle, necklace 3. Mourn teen are ________________ 4. Baseball, in the sky, back in the rough, are a girl's best 4. Knee you hemp sheer ___________________ friend 5. Fleur it duh ________________ 5. Penny, coin, head, plate, pot 6. Tax us ________________ 6. Heart of, all that glitters is not, solid, standard, finger 7. Whisk own sun ________________ 7. Bells, born with a _____ spoon in your mouth, mine, 8. Mini soda ________________ chain, ware 9. I’ll ask ya ________________ 8. Fleece, goose, silence is, anniversary, years 10. Can sis ________________ 9. Shooting, twinkle twinkle little, North, bright, system 11. Mash a chews eds ________________ 10. Harvest, blue, honey, man on the, river 12. Knee you mix echo ___________________ 11. Pinkie, wedding, web, the bells around, the roses 13. How are ye ________________ 12. Sheets, spun, smooth as, spider's, worm 14. Call eye four knee ya ________________ 13. Green, palace, amulet, d, Jagger 15. Pencil vain knee ya ________________ 14. Gables, sea, snake, reef, islands 16. Why oh mean guh ________________ 15. Birthday, coffee, take, the angel food, fruit 17. Knee you’re orc ___________________ 16. Clear, goblet, rock, radio, ball 18. Gee your gee ah ___________________ 17. Heaven and, colors, what on, -shaking, wind and fire 19. Waist fur ginny ah ___________________ 18. Red, white, dandelion, and dine, jug of ___, loaf of 20. Knee you juris see ___________________ bread and thou 21. Low easy and ah ___________________ 19. Volga, Mississippi, Thames, old man, boat 22. Heir is own ah ___________________ 20. Fair-weather, feathered, best, old school, in need Answers on page 9 4 LET’S WORK THAT BRAIN How many blocks Which tank will fill up first? are in this picture? 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10? Four children (Jay, Kay, Leon and Mark) enter their pets (rabbit, frog, turtle and puppy) into a race. Use the clues to figure out which child has each pet and what place each pet finished in the race. A) Jay’s rabbit did not win the race. B) Kay finished right after Jay C) Leon does not have a frog and did not finish second. D) Mark’s pet finished right after the puppy. E) Kay does not won a reptile or amphibian. Her pet finished in 3rd place. Rabbit Frog Turtle Puppy 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Jay Kay Leon Mark 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Answers on page 9 5 BRAIN TEASERS Anagrams: Can you unscramble the capital Analogies: Find the best answer letters to find the answer to each clue? 1. Potatoes are to peanuts as apples are to_____. 1. CMARIHAS That special quality that makes a per- A) Fruit B) Fall C) Peaches D) Seeds son popular ______________ 2. GIRANADE A flower ______________ 2. Wolves are to pack as whales are to____. 3. PATSIRAE An animal or plant that lives in or on A) Pod B) Dolphins C) Fins D) Fish another, from which it gets its food _____________ 4. MAGLARIN Very slight _____________ 3.Concealed is to secret as as overt is to____ 5. TAGRROAN Plant with leaves used to flavor salads _____________ A) Large B) Revealed C) Thought D) Round 6. DENAMORE A person's behaviour or manner _____________ 4. Zeus is to Jupiter as Hermes is to____. 7. TGENERAE An adolescent _____________ A) Pan B) Mercury C) Jupiter D) Mars 8. TINEGRAL Shape with three sides _____________ 9. EMISSHAP Special importance given to something 5. Silver is to metal as rye is to____. _____________ A) Fiber B) Sandwich C) Food D) Grain 10. TRAMLINE A building where air passengers arrive or depart _____________ 6. Rabbit is to hop as snake is to_____. 11. UTMILATE Furthest in a series of things _____________ A) Slither B) Venom C) Reptile D) Jungle 12. ORELATIN Of the countries east of the Mediterra- nean Sea, especially China and Japan _____________ 7. Stalactites are to stalagmites as ceiling is to _____. 13. TLOTIRAL A thin disk of unleavened bread made A) House B) Floor C) Window D) Roof from masa or wheat flour and baked on a hot sur- face_____________ 8. Books are to libraries as weapons are to____. 14. SOYALIRT Alone, without companions _____________ B) Armories B) Soldiers C) Guns D) War 15. DBORELLO This is rung when one is at the front door of another's house _____________ 9. Solar is to sun as lunar is to _______. 16. BNOLESSE Not containing bones _____________ A) Moon B) Earth C) Planet D) Light 17. DCREITOR One who controls or manages _____________ 10. A medal is to bravery as wages are to____. 18. DIVSORCE To find _____________ A) Money B) Unions C) Work D) Banks 19. GMODELIN Place where a precious yellow metal is mined _____________ 20. UMINTELY Happening too soon or at an unsuita- ble time _____________ Answers on page 9 6 HIDDEN PICTURES Can you find each individual objects listed below? Answers on page 9 7 GASTRONOMIC MIGRATIONS TRIVIA The cuisines of many nations would not be what they are today were it not for the various ingredients that have circumnavigated the globe over the last millennium. Come along on a gastronomic journey. 1. Tofu is an important part of traditional Japanese cui- 6. Pizza, lasagna and spaghetti Bolognese are iconic sine, but the earliest known reference to it existing in Italian foods that have been embraced by people all Japan is in an 11th century document.
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