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• The following year, the daily Dayton Journal Herald asked for two columns a week, paying $50 apiece, which was big money to her. Within only three weeks, the articles went into national syndication, appearing in 36 major U.S. papers under the title “At Wit’s End.” Her columns drew inspiration from the humorous side of her life as an ordinary suburban housewife. Women instantly related to her stories and whimsical perspectives, and she developed a fast following of regular readers.

• Just two years later, Erma’s popularity had grown nationwide and she began giving lectures across the country. In 1967, her columns were compiled into a book published by Doubleday. During the 1970s, 30 million people in the U.S. and Canada were reading her columns in 900 newspapers and in several popular magazines.

• Erma then branched out into television, appearing as a regular on the Good Morning America show for more than 10 years. She was the author of 15 books, most of which were bestsellers, and one that was made into a movie, The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank.

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1. MUSIC: Who wrote the song “A Boy Named Sue,” which was made famous by singer Johnny Cash?

2. U.S. STATES: Which state’s capi-tal is Augusta?

3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which fashion designer popularized the miniskirt?

4. COMICS: What was L’il Abner’s last name in the comic strip?

5. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the first president for whom women could cast a ballot?

6. GEOGRAPHY: Which Canadian province lies between Alberta and Manitoba?

7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What bird is the fastest runner on land?

8. SCIENCE: What was inventor Thomas Edison’s middle name?

9. LITERATURE: What was the pen name of William Sydney Porter?

10. LANGUAGE: What kind of game is “draughts” in Great Britain?

Answers1. Shel Silverstein2. Maine3. Mary Quant4. Yokum5. Warren Harding, 19206. Saskatchewan7. Ostrich8. Alva9. O. Henry10. Checkers

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1. Who was the last Braves player before Justin Upton in 2013 to have seven home runs in his first 12 games of the season?

2. Name the pitcher who holds the major-league record for most games in a season.

3. When was the last time before 2012 that Stanford’s football team won a conference title in the Pac-12?

4. How many times did Wilt Cham-berlain average at least 30 points and 20 rebounds per game for a season?

5. Name the number of times since 1994 that a No. 8 seed beat a No. 1 seed in a playoff series in the NHL.

6. When was the last time Argenti-na’s men’s soccer team reached the semifinals of the World Cup?

7. Who recorded the best finish by a female jockey at the Kentucky Derby before Rosie Napravnik finished fifth in 2013?

Answers1. Dale Murphy, in 1985.2. Mike Marshall of the Los Ange-

les Dodgers pitched in 106 games in 1974.

3. It was 1999.4. Seven times during his 14-year

NBA career.5. Ten times.6. It was 1990.7. The same Rosie Napravnik fin-

ished ninth at the Kentucky Derby in 2011.


1. Name the 15-year-old singer who had a No. 1 hit in 1960 with “I’m Sor-ry.”

2. What was the very first song recorded by Roy Orbison?

3. Who was the first group to release “Hanging on the Telephone”? (No, it wasn’t Blondie.)

4. What was Diesel’s big hit of 1980?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “After I gave you everything I had, You laughed and called me a clown, Remember, in your search for fortune and fame, What goes up, must come down.”

Answers1. Brenda Lee, who won her first

singing contest at age 3 and was the main support for her family from the age of 10, when her father died. Lee also recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” at age 13.

2. “Trying to Get to You,” with The Teen Kings in 1956.

3. The Nerves, in 1976. Guitarist Jack Lee wrote it for the group.

4. “Sausalito Summernight.”5. “It’s Just a Matter of Time,” by

Brook Benton in 1959. Benton penned the song with Clyde Otis for Nat King Cole, but it was decided that Benton would use it as his first release. The song topped the R&B charts for nine weeks.


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As one of the world’s favorite syndicated columnists, Erma Bombeck’s wit and sense of humor caused us all to laugh at the humdrum routine of our daily lives. Here’s a look at how she began sharing her unique insights through her writing talents and achieved such great success. • Erma Fiste was born February 21, 1927 in

Bellbrook, Ohio, to a working-class family, and was raised in Dayton. After losing her father when she was nine, Erma and her mother moved in with relatives and her mother went to work to support them.

• While in junior high, Erma was already showing her gift for humorous writing, with a column in the school newspaper. Her column in her high school paper two years later was a serious column, with a mix of wit. At 15, she landed a job at the Dayton Herald as a part-time copygirl, and at 16, wrote her first journalistic effort to be published in a paid publication. This came when Shirley Temple was visiting Dayton in 1943, and Erma’s interview with the child star was run as a news feature.

• Following high school graduation, Erma joined the Herald full-time, writing obituaries and other minor assignments. Then it was on to the University of Dayton and a degree in English.

• In 1949, Erma married Bill Bombeck, a fellow student she had met at the University, and who later became a teacher. When they were told by doctors that having a child was improbable, they adopted a girl, Betsy, in 1953. Erma then decided to become a full-time housewife, and put her career as a journalist on hold. Despite the doctor’s prediction, Erma gave birth to a son, Andrew, in 1955.

• In 1964 she resumed her writing, producing weekly columns written in her small bedroom

system was created. • About 93% of the world’s icebergs are found in

the Antarctic, and they are much larger than their northern counterparts. The largest iceberg on record was sighted in the Pacific Ocean in 1956 and measured 60 x 208 miles, with over 12,000 square miles of area, which is larger than the country of Belgium. In the Northern Atlantic, a 551-ft-tall iceberg was reported in 1958 -- the equivalent of a 55-story building.

• If all the ice in the world were to melt at the same time, the volume of all the oceans would increase by 1.7%, with a rise in sea level of 1180 feet (55 m). This would be the equivalent of the Empire State Building standing in water up to the 20th floor.

• Water freezes from the outside in, expanding as it freezes. Tiny air bubbles are trapped in the water as it freezes, and the air is pushed to the center of an ice cube, which is why they have cloudy, opaque centers. Ice cubes made from tap water have more air content, making them even cloudier. If you want your ice cubes to be perfectly clear, start off with hot water, which has less air than cold water from the faucet. Or use bottled water, boiling it briefly before freezing.

• When can you trust walking on ice? Ice with a thickness of two inches will support the weight of a man. Ice that is four inches thick will support that man on horseback.

• Hail forms inside strong thunderstorm clouds when those clouds with updrafts pick up water droplets and carry them above the freezing level. Typical hailstones measure between .2 inches (5 mm) and 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter.

• In North America, the area where Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming meet is known as “Hail Alley,” where the incidence of hail is far above the national average. Cheyenne, Wyoming is the continent’s most hail-prone city, with about nine to ten hailstorms during the period from May to September. Vivian, South Dakota recorded the United States’ largest hailstone in July, 2010, with a diameter of eight inches and a weight of 1.93 lbs. The world’s largest recorded hailstone fell in 1986 in Bangladesh. About the size of a cantalouope, it weighed 2.25 lbs. That deadly storm killed 92 people.

• What’s the difference between regular ice and dry ice? Regular ice is frozen water, while dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide. Dry ice is much

colder, with temps below -108 degrees F (-78 C). Carbon dioxide does not go through a liquid state as it cools from gas to a solid state, and it also doesn’t melt. Rather, it changes directly from a solid into a vapor. Its unusual properties cause it to “boil” mysteriously when placed in water and emit a cold, smoke-like vapor that rolls down instead of rising up, due to its heavier-than-air weight. Movie makers have used dry ice for decades to create eerie effects, as in the proverbial “mad scientist’s” laboratory.

• The word “ice” doesn’t always refer to water that has frozen into a solid form. It can also refer to

The largest piece of ice ever to fall to earth landed in Scotland in August of 1849. It mea-sured 20 feet across and is thought to have been many smaller pieces fused together by a bolt of lightning.

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1. What’s the properscientific name for themoment that the springseason begins?

2. What flower istraditionally thefirst to bloom asspring

Unscramble this word:

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Four high school seniors sufferingfrom “spring fever” skipped theirmorning classes and went to thebeach instead. After lunch, theyreturned to school and told their

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1. What’s the properscientific name for themoment that the springseason begins?

2. What flower istraditionally thefirst to bloom asspring

Unscramble this word:

S A L A N U NThis word means: springflowers that last one season

A N N U A L S

“Spring is Nature’s way ofsaying ‘Let’s party!!’”

~ Robin Williams

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• Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Indian independence movement, political and spiritual leader, advocated a practice of non-violent resistance to injustice. This London-trained lawyer lived a simple life and believed that “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Although Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times, he never received it. A 187-minute film chron-icled his life in 1982, winning eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Actor Ben Kingsley who portrayed this hero stood 5’8”, although Gandhi was just 5’3”. In 1948, as Gandhi walked to a prayer meeting, he was shot in the chest at point-blank range, the sixth and final attempt on his life. Two million mourners made up the 5-mile-long funeral procession.

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received the goods and or services you contracted for and if you have made every attempt to work this out with the contractor. From what you write, this is not a billing er-ror, but rather it is a matter of quality and customer satisfaction. Working directly with the contractor is probably the best way you can get this matter set-tled. If after every attempt, you are unable to work out a favorable decision with your credit-card issuer, find out what help your state consumer protection agency can provide. For contact information, go to www.consumeraction.gov/state/shtml. And if all else fails, and you must make pay-ment in order to protect your credit rating, you have the option of suing in your county’s small claims court.

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We Need More Whistleblowers Let’s give a big thumbs-up to Dr. H, a phy-sician at a regional Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center ... and a whistleblower. Dr. H testified before a House Veterans Af-fairs oversight and investigations subcommittee about her whistleblower complaints to the Office of Special Counsel, which have resulted in numerous investigations and findings of serious wrongdoing at the regional center. For example: Nurse practitioners weren’t supervised. They were labeled Licensed Independent Practitio-ners, which they weren’t, and they were “practicing outside the scope of their licensure.” There was nev-er any oversight or review of the care they gave. Thus empowered, nurse practitioners pre-scribed narcotics “in flagrant violation of Federal and individual state laws and VA Handbook regulations,” using one-size-fits-all institutional DEA tracking numbers on the drugs, with no physician oversight whatsoever and no means of tracing who prescribed what. Doctors were pushed to sign prescriptions for patients they hadn’t even seen. When the doctors objected, the chief of staff brought in residents from a local medical school to write prescriptions after hours. Veterans were scheduled into fictitious “ghost” clinics where there were actually no doctors, only nursing staff. Many veterans were unaware that they were being seen only by a nurse, not a doctor. Doctors were pushed to sign collaborative agreements concerning the nursing practitioners’ status (essentially monitoring agreements), and when they objected (they could be sued for the work of the nurse), they were told that 55 percent of their performance pay would be withheld. Nurses weren’t taking complete histories for patients, just “pasting in” previous information. I’ve read a lot of terrible medical-center re-ports over time, but this beats them all. I haven’t named the medical center because I fear these prob-lems aren’t unique in the VA health-care system.

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The Hollywood Man-Child and Your Dog’s Maturation Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a movie in which grown men act like little boys. Can you guess the movie?

What? You’re overwhelmed by the possibilities? “Old School,” “Failure To Launch,” “Stepbrothers,” “Anchorman,” “The Hangover,” “Grown Ups,” “Grown Ups 2” or just about any other Adam Sandler vehicle. If you’ve seen any one of these movies, then you know that the state of being fully grown has absolutely nothing to do with maturity.

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This is one of the reasons why the common thinking that “one human year is the equivalent of seven dog years” fails. It’s not about years, and it’s not about looks. It’s about maturation. In two short years, that Maltese will cover the 18 human years of infancy, childhood and adolescence -- or in the case of the typical Sandler character, the 40 and counting human years. At the age of 5, that Great Dane will be the canine equivalent of a 40-year-old. Whether he’s a 40-year-old Charlie Sheen or a 40-year-old Matt Damon is up to you and fate.

Maturation is an important factor in your dog’s learning. I reject the cliched notion that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But it is easier to teach a young dog who hasn’t yet developed bad habits.

People often resign themselves to living in compromised circumstances because they hear: “You have to train them when they’re still a puppy, or it’s just impossible.” It’s never impossible to improve on a bad scene. But it’s also helpful to know what “when they’re still a puppy” means. Just because your dog doesn’t look the part of a pup anymore doesn’t mean he’s not a pup. For a human example of this phenomenon, I direct you to the latest Vince Vaughn vehicle, “Delivery Man,” in theaters now.

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Commitment to a Healthy Lifestyle Is More Important Than Weight in Determining Longevity These days, being overweight or frankly obese is the rule rather than the exception. The body mass index is used to assess obesity, as it corrects weight for height. People with BMIs between 19 and 23 are said to be at their ideal weights, those between 23 and 30 are considered overweight, and obesity is defined as a BMI above 30. Anyone with a BMI above 40 is deemed mor-bidly obese. Surprisingly, studies have shown that life expectancy is the longest in individuals who are overweight but not obese, while those at their ideal weights and below have a 5-15 percent reduction in life expectancy. Life expectancy is also lower for the obese and much more so for the morbidly obese. Why do overweight individuals live the longest? Weight itself is a very poor predictor of longevity. Far more important are genetic factors (having parents who lived long lives), exercise, diet, stress levels, smoking, high cholesterol, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and waist circum-ference. Among overweight individuals, life expec-tancy is longest in those who eat a balanced heart-healthy diet, exercise frequently, don’t smoke, have a waist circumference less than 44 inches and are compulsively treated for chronic medical problems. Clearly, for those who are pleasantly plump, staying healthy does not depend on aggressively dieting in order to lose weight. In fact, the exact opposite is true -- most weight loss programs are usually doomed to failure, especially if fad diet approaches are involved. Any program promising rapid weight loss can only succeed in the short term. Dramatically reducing calorie intake leads to weight loss that may be as high as 10 to 15 pounds in a week. But this loss more reflects a significant reduction in the amount of total water in the body rather than the melting away of fat. The most avail-able form of energy in the body is glycogen, which is stored in muscle. Cutting food intake initially leads to its mobilization so it can be used as fuel to maintain normal metabolism. A depletion of mus-cle glycogen causes a nine-fold decrease in the amount of water in muscle, accounting for the initial weight loss. Another reason why rapid weight loss is doomed to failure is the fact that our bodies have an exquisite ability to adjust to less food intake. The calories we consume in our food are primarily used as fuel for every bodily function. The excess is either lost in the warm air we breathe out, as sweat or converted to fat. Before dieting, our weight may be stable, even when we consume as much as 3,000 or more calories daily. If we reduce food intake to as little as 1,200 calories per day, the

body quickly adjusts its calorie requirements to be lower. Less calories are lost as heat or in sweat. Now, a stable weight can be maintained on just 1,500 calories daily. From this point onward, weight loss declines very slowly. Living on this highly restricted diet is difficult, and sooner or later, the willpower fails, calorie intake increases and weight gain returns with a vengeance. Not surprisingly, we become disheartened and just give up. The solution is not dieting but rather com-mitting to a total lifestyle makeover. The ideal diet is the “don’t diet” diet and learning to eat right. The best approach are programs such as Weight Watchers or the not-for-profit TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Club, both of which teach ap-proaches to eating the right foods in the right amounts, providing continued support to improve chances of success. Just as important is exercise, controlling stress, improving self-image by dressing well and managing any chronic disease. Does this approach apply to those who are frankly obese? Here, new research shows that the major reason why obesity reduces life span is primarily because of a sedentary life style, elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes, all of which are commonly associated with obesity. Any approach aimed at losing weight must be accom-panied by lifestyle changes and a commitment to taking care of chronic medical conditions. If morbid obesity is an issue, bariatric sur-gery can help with weight loss, as well as help in reversing high blood pressure and diabetes. But to truly succeed, health and lifestyle are key to lon-gevity and a more productive life.

Dr. David Lipschitz is the author of the book “Breaking the Rules of Aging.” To find out more about Dr. David Lipschitz and read features by other Creators Syn-dicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. More information is avail-able at: DrDavidHealth.com



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Social Security: Who’s In and Who’s Out Every time I write a column about various offsets that impact Social Security benefits payable to folks who spend the bulk of their working lives in jobs not covered by Social Security, as I did about a month ago, I obviously get lots of follow-up ques-tions about those offsets. But I also get questions from other readers who wonder why some workers are not required to pay into Social Security. I’ve ad-dressed this issue before, but I guess it’s time to go over it again. The last time I checked, about 93 percent of all workers in this country were mandatorily cov-ered by Social Security. The other seven percent is made up mostly of railroad workers and some state and local government employees who have separate retirement pension plans. Here is the story behind that. When Social Security first started in the 1930s, most people in this country didn’t have pen-sions, so a government-sponsored retirement pro-gram like Social Security was a welcome relief for them. Just about everyone who worked for wages was covered by Social Security from day one. (Self-employed people came under Social Security’s um-brella a decade or so later.) But some groups of employees already had pension plans in place. The two largest were railroad workers, who were covered by the railroad retire-ment system, and federal government employees (including the president, members of Congress, etc.), who were covered by the civil service retire-ment system. Both of those pension plans had been around long before Social Security started. So it was decided to exclude these two large groups from So-cial Security -- simply because they didn’t need it. In addition, Congress felt that it would be unconstitutional to force a federal government pen-sion plan (Social Security) on state and local govern-ments. So, employees of state and local government entities were given the option of joining Social Se-curity or not. Most did. About 80 percent of all such public employees became part of Social Security. So that’s what happened when Social Securi-ty started in the 1930s. Nobody thought twice about any of these decisions because they made sense. Over the years, people started griping about the fact that members of Congress and other high-level gov-ernment officials were not covered by Social Secu-rity. Stories began to spread that Congress had spe-cifically excluded itself from Social Security in order to set up its members with a better pension system.

Eventually, there was simply too much political pres-sure on Congress to remain outside of Social Secu-rity. So in 1983, as part of a package of major So-cial Security reform legislation, they passed a law mandating that all members of Congress, the presi-dent and vice president, all other government lead-ers, as well as all federal employees hired after 1983, would be covered by Social Security. Today, that leaves railroad workers as the only major nationwide group of employees still not covered by Social Security. Even though many as-pects of railroad and Social Security pensions over-lap, people who spend at least 10 years working for a railroad will have all of their benefits (including Social Security payments) managed by the Railroad Retirement Board, not by the Social Security Admin-istration. And at the state and local level, there are thousands of groups around the country still not under the Social Security umbrella. They could be anything from a small sewer district in Washington state of maybe 10 employees to a large group of thousands of employees like California teachers. In fact, the largest groups of non-Social Security cov-ered workers tend to be teachers -- in states like Cali-fornia, Texas and Ohio. Also many law enforcement agencies and firefighters in these same (and some other) states are not in Social Security. So that is why some jobs in this country are not covered by Social Security. But will that last? Whenever there is talk about Social Security reform, one proposal often mentioned is universal coverage. That means mandating Social Security coverage for everyone, including all those teachers and firefight-ers mentioned above. Such a proposal is a relatively easy political fix because it would only impact a small percentage of the population, i.e., voters. But it really isn’t all that much of a practical fix for Social Security, be-cause it would wipe out only about 10 percent of the program’s long-range debt. Also, such a fix obviously could have a huge impact on the people who currently work in these non-Social Security-covered jobs. Although if it were to happen, current non-covered workers would like-ly be grandfathered into their employer’s pension plan and only newly hired workers would be covered by Social Security. There is precedent for this. When newly hired federal government workers were manda-torily covered by Social Security in 1983, they set up a plan for the new federal employees to replace

the old civil service retirement system. It is called the Federal Employees Retirement System. I know several former colleagues who have retired with the new FERS/Social Security pension, and they love it. In fact, because of the extra benefits they can accrue through something called the Thrift Savings Plan, many of them are doing better than me, an old goat federal retiree who is getting the old-fashioned civil service pension.

If you have a Social Security question, Tom Mar-genau has the answer. Contact him at [email protected]. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.


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Try Medicines First for Enlarged Prostate DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have to trot to the bathroom many times during the day and many more times at night. Is this due to my prostate gland? I’m 74 and wasn’t bothered by bathroom visits a year ago. Does this mean sur-gery for me? How do I know if this is prostate cancer? -- R.R.

ANSWER: Odds are you have benign pros-tatic hyperplasia, the official name for a large pros-tate gland. In their 40s, a quarter of males have a gland that’s larger than normal. In their 70s, 80 per-cent of men have an enlarged gland. Not all these men have symptoms like repeated trips to the bath-room, a hard time starting the urinary stream and a decrease in the force of the stream. The prostate gland lies directly below the urinary bladder, and the bladder’s drainage tube, the urethra, runs through the gland. A large gland press-es on the bladder and obstructs the urethra. That’s why many men with a large gland have to run to the bathroom so often -- they cannot completely empty their bladder. You don’t have to jump to surgery right off the bat. Medicines often solve the problem. One class of medicines stops the forceful bladder contrac-tions that signal an urgent need to void. Uroxatral, Flomax and Rapaflo are examples of this drug family. Their effect is seen within a week. Another family of drugs shrinks the gland.

Emergency-Room Stay Can Cost a Bundle The length of time you might spend in the emergency room has gotten longer -- and longer -- as many Medicare patients are held under what’s called “observation status.” AARP recently completed a study called “Rapid Growth in Medicare Hospital Observation Services: What’s Going On?” that shows the length of time patients are held that way has grown, sometimes to more than 48 hours. If you’re a Medicare patient, you can be tot-ing up out-of-pocket costs with every passing hour you’re held in this medical limbo. There’s no cost-sharing cap with these observation status stays, not to mention that you might not receive the level of care that you should have. As an observation outpatient, you’re liable for the costs of tests and procedures. Additionally, if you end up in skilled nurs-ing, the observation status time you spend in the hospital doesn’t count for the Medicare requirement that you have three days as an inpatient. Your por-tion of the costs can skyrocket, and you might even be denied skilled nursing care because you weren’t in the hospital long enough as an official inpatient.Here are some specifics from the AARP study: ● Observation status stays have increased 94 percent. ● Patient status (observation versus inpa-tient) is sometimes changed by the hospital after the patient is sent home. ● The average cost for skilled nursing that Medicare didn’t cover (due to being originally held in observation limbo) was $10,503. A number of senators in Congress have proposed legislation that would require time spent in observation status to count as part of the three-day inpatient requirement. To read the full 25-page report, go to aarp.org and put the study’s title in the search box.

Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].

Avodart and Proscar are two such medicines. Their effect isn’t seen for up to six months. Combining both classes of drug is another method of treatment.If medicine therapy fails, a variety of surgical proce-dures can remedy the problem. You don’t know if an enlarged gland has can-cer cells in it. The PSA blood test, flawed as it is, pro-vides some evidence for cancer. Biopsy of the gland is the ultimate cancer test. A urologist will solve this problem for you. The booklet on prostate enlargement and prostate cancer deals with these common male prob-lems in detail. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 1001W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. *** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My son is 43. When he was 20, he started getting lumps, which the doctors called lipomas. He has them on his whole body in varying sizes, except for on his face. No one else in the family has them. What can be done besides cutting them out? -- M.F.

ANSWER: Lipomas are mounds of fat en-cased in a tough covering material. They range in size from a golf ball to two or three times that size. They’re soft, and they are not painful. Surgical removal, at present, provides the best results. If your son has too many for total re-moval, a select few, the most bothersome ones, can be excised. Research is ongoing to find a substance that will dissolve these fatty tumors. Injection with corti-sone medicines can shrink them a bit, but it doesn’t totally get rid of them. The results are somewhat mixed, and it isn’t a popular treatment. ***Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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● On Dec. 19, 1732, Benjamin Frank-lin of Philadelphia first published “Poor Richard’s Almanack.” The book, filled with proverbs preaching industry and pru-dence, was published continuously for 25 years and became one of the most popular publications in colonial America.

● On Dec. 17, 1843, Charles Dickens’ classic story “A Christmas Carol” is pub-lished. Dickens never lost momentum as a writer, churning out major novels every year or two, often in serial form. Among his most important works are “David Copper-field” (1850), “Great Expectations” (1861) and “A Tale of Two Cities” (1859).

● On Dec. 18, 1912, after three years of digging in the Piltdown gravel pit in Sussex, England, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson announces the discovery of two skulls that appear to belong to a primitive hominid and ancestor of man.

● On Dec. 21, 1945, Gen. George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army, dies from injuries suffered not in battle, but in a freak car accident. He was 60 years old. Descended from a long line of mili-tary men, Patton graduated from the West Point Military Academy in 1909.

● On Dec. 22, 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo enters the world at the Colum-bus Zoo in Ohio, becoming the first-ever gorilla born in captivity. She went on to be-come a mother, grandmother, and in 1996, a great-grandmother to Timu, the first sur-viving infant gorilla conceived by artificial insemination. Colo is still alive today.

● On Dec. 16, 1960, two airliners col-lide over New York City, killing 134 people aboard the planes and on the ground. A miscalculation by the pilot of the United flight put his plane directly into the path of a TWA Super Constellation. Christmas presents carried by the planes’ passen-gers were strewn all over the streets.

● On Dec. 20, 1989, the United States in-vades Panama in an attempt to overthrow military dictator Manuel Noriega, who had been indicted in the United States on drug-trafficking charges. Noriega’s Panamanian Defense Forces were promptly crushed.


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Resolutions 2014! Q: The new year is just around the corner and my wife is after me again to make my list of resolutions. She makes one every year and, surprisingly, she actually gets most of them done. I’m a hit-and-miss kind of guy when it comes to resolutions, and mostly miss. I’m now in my mid-70s and realized long ago that I’m far from perfect. I know I could ac-complish more, drop some bad habits and be of more to help others by volunteering. My excuse is always: “Why bother -- I’ll never accomplish them anyway.” I am going to try my best to make and keep a few resolutions in 2014, so I’d like to know what you think would be some worth-while ideas to put on my list. Suggestions?

A: You already have a good list started without any help from me. I also don’t think your problem is finding items to put on your list. Your real challenge is to muster up the determination to follow through and actually accomplish them. Try this: Begin by writing down a list of all the areas in your life that you know in your heart need improvement. Start by listing broad categories -- Health, Finances, Social life, Spare time, Relation-ships, Spritual, and so forth. Under each one, jot down what it is in that area that should be corrected, and note what you could and should do to fix it. This isn’t your list of resolutions; it’s only a bird’s eye view of those things in your life that you can see need correcting. Now carefully go through that list and check off only the ones that you honestly feel you could ac-complish if you set your mind to it. And be realistic! Don’t resolve to earn $20 million next year, or some other lofty goal you know you’ll never reach. Then after each choice -- and this is key -- jot down the benefits and rewards you will gain by ac-complishing that goal. Keep these in plain sight where you will see them often. This will encourage you to stay the course and not give up. And finally, resolve to accomplish these goals -- not for your wife, but for YOU. Take ownership of these promises to yourself, and remember, “To thy own self be true.” * * *

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A: Researchers have explored that ques-tion for many decades, focusing on a number of factors in an effort to understand why this occurs. Among them, genealogical, environmental, mental, physical, educational and other variables. So far, no studies have been able to provide conclusive answers. Even identical twins growing up under identical conditions will often have different personalities, abilities and interests. With today’s rapidly growing information ex-changes, science is allowing us to learn more about personality development and the differences in peo-ple’s psychological makeup. In the future, research-ers will hopefully be able to lead us down the path to learning specifics about not only why we differ, but also how to change ourselves!

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Pub Pitcher Pleases Collectors Q: I have sent a photo of a cobalt blue mug that must be at least 100 years old. On the side are these words in gold: “Seagram’s VO Canadian.” On the bottom are these words: “Canadian Whisky -- 86.8 Proof A Blend -- 6 Years Old -- Distillers Co. N.Y.” It stands over 5 inches tall, and the square bottom is 4 inches square. It holds 24 ounces and is in mint con-dition. What can you tell me about its value?

A: You have a Seagram’s stoneware pub/bar pitcher. It is an example of advertising memo-rabilia. You pitcher would appeal to collectors of alcohol-related items, barware and also advertis-ing. There is a plethora of these pitchers that can be found for sale on the Internet and also in antiques and collectible shops. Your pitcher was made in the mid-20th century and would probably be worth $25 to $45. * * *

Q: I have a set of porcelain china that is marked with the enclosed trademark. It is a service for 12 and includes cake plates, serving pieces and two tea services, each with creamer and sugar bowls. The dishes are white and decorated with multicolored flowers in the center. On the borders are flowers and scrolls. The edges are scalloped and trimmed in gold.

I purchased the set starting in the late 1970s and through the 1980s. I do not know the name of the pattern. I emailed the factories in East and West Germany, but they were of no help. Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

A: Philip Rosenthal founded his porcelain factory in Selb, Bavaria, Germany, in 1879. It is still in business and also produces glassware. The mark you enclosed was used after World War II. The Ger-man Democratic Republic was located in the Soviet Zone from the end of World War II until 1990, when the GDR was dissolved and Germany reunited. I found no information on the name of the pattern. If you are looking for pieces to add to your set, you might consider sending a clear photo and a detailed description to a matching service. The insurance value of your circa 1970s din-nerware would probably be $2,500 to $2,800. Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, she cannot answer individual letters. To find out more about Anne McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate writ-ers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.


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On the Trail of the Assassins My wife -- pretty, demure and a child of the late ‘70s -- had never seen the Zapruder film until last year. When she saw it, she had a peculiar reaction: She cried. As a student of history, I was surprised by that. The Zapruder film, which shows the assassi-nation of President John F. Kennedy as his motor-cade cruised through Dealey Plaza in November 1963, has ceased to be seen as the important document of time that it is. Instead, it has tran-scended and become more a piece of pop culture -- a document about pillbox hats, pocket squares, conspiracy theories, spies and Mafia culture. But at its base, what it really is, is some-thing even simpler than that. “It’s murder,” my wife said. “I just saw my first murder.” “Shut it off,” she says, shielding my young son from the TV. It dawns on me that my kid is about the same age as John-John was when Kennedy was killed. Our Sundays are spent trying to watch foot-ball with each other, but more often than not the practice devolves into foot-bawl, as he would rath-er play something else. That’s fine by me, since the JFK assassination has, predictably, taken over the halftime shows and sports networks, too. We’re reminded that the NFL played the Sunday after the shooting while the country mourned because, hey, JFK would have wanted it that way (and I actually believe he would, too). Flip a channel, and there are the Kennedy kids at the compound, still playing touch football after all these years, just like millions of Americans ... except that most backyard games are not tele-vised or interrupted by Leslie Stahl or Katie Couric for a touching interview about the player’s daddy issues. I have tried to explain to my son what it is that I do. He gets that I’m a “newspaperman,” but that’s an antiquated term. When I introduced him to the world of superheroes, what I saw as an easy entry turned out to be far more com-plex. Seemingly every superhero is a journalist or philanthropist with a dead father ... Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker being the foremost examples. You know, that bugs me. My kid knows that, too. This column is called “A Sporting View” be-cause I like what it represents to me and hopefully my kid and all the readers. Let the other columns and sports talk shows scream and yell with their “strong takes” and stories about illicit affairs and drugs. That market has been cornered. Let this column be one about stories and sports and sporting lives. This year, I’m hitting the road in a sporting recreational vehicle in an at-tempt to even better tell these stories. There’s a lot more to see than the obvious when it comes to our lives, and I don’t want them to be missed. I’m not hoping for a Zapruder mo-ment, but I will endeavor to bring you something about sports you might have missed, and hope-fully we will be all the better for it. And, hopefully, I will live to tell it, too ... there’s that.

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Deep Fairway Rough When you find yourself in deep fairway rough, it is tempting to take a longer iron or fairway wood and try to hit it as far as humanly possible. But the smarter and safer approach is to just get it back into the fairway and set yourself up for your next shot. So the next time you are in deep fairway rough, here are a few things to consider:

• Make sure you use a club with enough loft. You don’t want to use anything more than an 8-iron. This ensures you can get the club face to the ball with enough loft to get it out of the rough. • Open the club face slightly when you set up to the ball. At impact the heel of the club tends to get caught up in the grass, causing the club face to shut down a bit, causing the ball to go left. By opening the club face at address you are allowing for this. • Set up with your weight slightly on your front leg, play the ball back in your stance, and open your stance just a bit. All of this promotes a steeper swing, helping the club face strike the ball first instead of getting caught up in the heavy grass. • Grip the club firmer than usual to ensure it doesn’t come loose in your hands at impact.

Keep these factors in mind when you find yourself in deep fairway rough and you will get yourself out more easily and consistently.

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ENDANGERED SIGHTS & SOUNDS (cont’d):• How long has it been since you’ve used a

typewriter eraser? Or, if you’re younger, have you moved your belongings into a long-unused desk, only to find a strange-looking gadget with fiber-like hairs bushing out of one end? What you’ve found is a typewriter eraser. Usually shaped like a pencil, the tip was made of an especially-abrasive rubber, which was used to “erase” the typing error. The other end featured a small brush made of stiff plastic strands that was used to sweep the remnants of the erasure off the page.

• There’s no shortage of litter on the ground to-day, but thankfully, we no longer see discarded pull-tabs. The tabs on older easy-open beverage cans pulled completely off the can. People who walked in bare feet were constantly dodging these carelessly-dropped metal hazards.

• The rhythmic “beep” of the scanner is the musical accompaniment to the supermarket checkout line. But if you’ve ever wondered where the cliché of saying “ka-ching!” in re-lation to money comes from, that’s the sound that the old-style electric, not electronic, cash registers made. Cashiers of that era had to manually punch a series of buttons to ring up your purchase, followed by a smack of the “total” button with the heel of the hand.

• “Do you want your carbons?” used to be an automatic question asked by merchants after you’d signed for a credit card payment. At that time, credit card receipts were filled out by hand in triplicate, with a small piece of carbon paper inserted between each sheet. It didn’t take long for thieves to realize they could retrieve the used carbons from the trash and steal valuable credit card information. Once that scam gained popularity, waiters and cashiers regularly of-fered the carbons to customers, giving them the opportunity to destroy them.

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Front PageHow many have paid good money fora ticket to a horror film, only to cover their eyes and “see” very little of it?

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Some people just seem to love having the living daylights scared out of them. Why else would horror and suspense movies be so popular? To celebrate Halloween, Tidbits goes behind the scenes of some classic thrillers.• When Alfred Hitchcock purchased the film

rights for Psycho, he also bought up as many copies of the original novel as he could find, hoping to keep the story’s ending a secret.

• The famous shower scene of Psycho was filmed using a double for Norman Bates, as Anthony Perkins was appearing in a play (Greenwillow)in New York at the time. The first time Perkins actually saw that scene was back at the studio, watching the daily “rushes,” and he said he was just as scared as everyone else.

• Take a close look at Michael Myers’ mask in the 1978 camp classic Halloween. Does the face look familiar? The movie was filmed on such a tight budget, that the prop department had to make do with what they had. For Myers’ disguise, they used an old Captain Kirk (StarTrek) mask, which they spray painted white and then re-shaped the eyeholes.

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• A glacier forms when multiple snowfalls occur over many years, even centuries in mountainous or polar regions. Glaciers form only on land, and flow very slowly across the land, powered by gravity, carving away the shape of the terrain by creating valleys, morasses, crevasses, and changing the shape of landforms. Not surprisingly, the world’s largest glacier, Lambert Glacier is located in Antarctica. □

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7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What bird is the fastest runner on land?

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3. When was the last time before 2012 that Stanford’s football team won a conference title in the Pac-12?

4. How many times did Wilt Cham-berlain average at least 30 points and 20 rebounds per game for a season?

5. Name the number of times since 1994 that a No. 8 seed beat a No. 1 seed in a playoff series in the NHL.

6. When was the last time Argenti-na’s men’s soccer team reached the semifinals of the World Cup?

7. Who recorded the best finish by a female jockey at the Kentucky Derby before Rosie Napravnik finished fifth in 2013?

Answers1. Dale Murphy, in 1985.2. Mike Marshall of the Los Ange-

les Dodgers pitched in 106 games in 1974.

3. It was 1999.4. Seven times during his 14-year

NBA career.5. Ten times.6. It was 1990.7. The same Rosie Napravnik fin-

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1. Name the 15-year-old singer who had a No. 1 hit in 1960 with “I’m Sor-ry.”

2. What was the very first song recorded by Roy Orbison?

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4. What was Diesel’s big hit of 1980?

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singing contest at age 3 and was the main support for her family from the age of 10, when her father died. Lee also recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” at age 13.

2. “Trying to Get to You,” with The Teen Kings in 1956.

3. The Nerves, in 1976. Guitarist Jack Lee wrote it for the group.

4. “Sausalito Summernight.”5. “It’s Just a Matter of Time,” by

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The idea of Go Figure is toarrive at the figures given atthe bottom and right-handcolumns of the diagram by fol-lowing the arithmetic signs inthe order they are given (thatis, from left to right and top tobottom). Use only the numbersbelow the diagram to completeits blank squares and use eachof the nine numbers only once.

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DIFFICULTY THIS WEEK: ��

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GO FIGURE!

© 2006 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

by Linda Thistle

The idea of Go Figure is toarrive at the figures given atthe bottom and right-handcolumns of the diagram by fol-lowing the arithmetic signs inthe order they are given (thatis, from left to right and top tobottom). Use only the numbersbelow the diagram to completeits blank squares and use eachof the nine numbers only once.

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