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This week, Tidbits is not only saying “Hey!” – we’re taking a look at all sorts of words that begin with the letters yo... everything from Yogi Bear to yodeling! So follow along and read about a few things you probably never learned from yo’ mamma!• You’ve probably never heard the term vitellus, but

it’s actually 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 included and essential for various body processes.

• Can you yodel? If you’re able to make quick fluct-uations between your normal chest singing voice and a falsetto, you can! The well-known “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

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Her name is synonymous with correct manners, proper etiquette, and good taste. This week Tidbits looks into the life of Emily Post, whose well-known and respected name is used as an authoritative guideline to the do’s and don’ts of social etiquette more than a half century after her death.• Born in 1872 into a life of wealth and privelege,

Emily Price was the daughter of Bruce and Josephine Price of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Her father was a prominent architect and well respected in elite social circles.

• Emily received a private education in her early years by governesses at the Price family home. She later attended the prestigious Miss Graham’s finishing school in New York City, after her family moved there. There she was thoroughly trained in all matters of ladylike conduct and social protocol.

• As a young debutante, she met her future husband Edwin Main Post, a prominent banker, at an elegant ball in a posh Fifth Avenue mansion. The couple married in 1892 when she was 20, and embarked on a lavish honeymoon steamship cruise and lengthy tour through several countries in Europe. They returned to live in New York’s fashionable Washington Square, and also spent summers in upstate New York at a country cottage in exclusive Tuxedo Park. The cottage was one of four that Emily had inherited from her father.

• 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 highly publicized scandal involving chorus girls, young actresses, and blackmail. The couple divorced in 1905. Emily requested no alimony from Edwin, as he had recently lost nearly everything in a stock market crash. She felt he carried enough financial burden and social scorn, and had already suffered enough.

• When her two sons were old enough to attend boarding school, Post began to write. She began in various styles, including humorous travel books and romantic short stories that were published in popular fiction magazines of the day. She had also learned enough through her father’s work and from her own studies about the field of architecture and interior design that she was able to write several articles for various publications. From there she moved on to full length novels and by 1910 had five of them published.

• Knowing of her social background and formal finishing school training, a publishing company editor encouraged her to write a book devoted to the topic of etiquette. It was indeed a subject she knew well, and she felt that such a project would be one she would enjoy.

• 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. In the years to come, ten editions of the book were published.










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1. What was waiting 26 miles across the sea in the song by the same name? Who recorded it?

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romance, off the coast of California. The song was big for The Four Preps in 1958.

2. Pink Floyd, in 1972. The album was created as a result of the soundtrack they wrote for the French film “La Vallee.”

3. Bob Dylan, on his “Another Side of Bob Dylan” album in 1964. The song seems to indicate a dissatisfac-tion with his previous beliefs. He didn’t perform the song in public until 1988.

4. The Nazz, and before that The Spiders. The band changed its name to Alice Cooper after fooling around with a Ouija board.

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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 performed for presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.

• Baby boomers will recall a favorite cartoon character created by Hanna-Barbera in 1958. Yogi Bear made his debut in the animated Huckleberry Hound Show. 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 self-confidence 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 television 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.

• 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 practice

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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

teacher that they were late becausethey’d experienced a flat tire whilecarpooling together to the school.

Much to their relief, she smiled.“You missed a test today,” she

continued, “but you can make it upright now. Take seats apart fromone another and then get out apencil and a piece of paper.”

She waited for them to sit down,and then began. “Question One:Which tire on the car was flat?”

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

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

~ Robin Williams

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Holly Hunter . . . . . . . 3/20/58

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was first recorded in 1939, then again in 1961. • When you open a carton of yogurt, do you

know what you’re eating? It’s a mixture of milk and cream that has been fermented with live bacteria at a warm temperature. Because your body needs to have a certain amount of “good” bacteria in the digestive tract, lactic acid-producing bacteria such as acidophilus are added to the mix.

• Nomadic Bedouins process camel’s milk into drinkable yogurt, and often live on nothing else for six months. Although yogurt has probably been around for about 8,000 years, the well-known Yoplait has only been existence for 49 of those. In 1964, a group of French dairy farmers agreed to merge in order to sell their goods nationwide. They linked the names of two of the farmers, Yola and Coplait to form their new brand Yoplait.

• 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

fastball had destroyed several wood 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

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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

teacher that they were late becausethey’d experienced a flat tire whilecarpooling together to the school.

Much to their relief, she smiled.“You missed a test today,” she

continued, “but you can make it upright now. Take seats apart fromone another and then get out apencil and a piece of paper.”

She waited for them to sit down,and then began. “Question One:Which tire on the car was flat?”

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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• 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-yos per hour. For 14 years, maple wooden yo-yos were manufactured, using 1,000,000 board feet every year. Plastic yo-yos 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 the word itself was not valid. Duncan lost its rights, and profits diminished to the point that the company had to declare bankruptcy three years later. They were bought out by Flambeau and surrendered the company and even the famous name of Duncan.

• Donald Duncan’s entrepreneurial efforts were not just limited to the yo-yo. He is also credited with popularizing the parking meter and introducing Good Humor “ice cream on a stick.”

• Well-known yo-yo tricks include “sleeping,” which keeps a yo-yo spinning at the end of its uncoiled string. “Loop the loop” keeps the body of the yo-yo in constant motion without sleeping, while “walking the dog” involves throwing a strong sleeper, then gently allowing the yo-yo to tap against the floor, where it rolls forward like a dog on a leash.

• Enthusiasts can see the world’s largest yo-yo at the National Yo-Yo Museum in Chico, California. It is an exact scale replica of a Tom Kuhn “No Jive 3 in 1 YoYo.” Fifty inches tall and 31.5 inches wide, the yo-yo is made of California sugar pine, baltic birch from the former USSR, and hardrock maple. It was first launched in San Francisco on October 13, 1979. The museum also houses yo-yos dating back to the 1920s. Chico is home to the National Yo-Yo Contest each October.

• The yo-yo was first taken into space in April of 1985 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery when

NASA introduced their Toys in Space project. • Located in Rochester, New York, America’s

National Toy Hall of Fame was established in 1998. It pays tribute to those toys and games that have maintained their popularity over many years. In order to be considered for the honor, a toy must be “widely recognized, respected, and remembered,” foster learning and creativity, and be more than a passing fad as well as show innovation. The yo-yo was inducted into the Hall at its inception, along with the kite, rocking horse, jigsaw puzzle, Checkers, and doll houses, among many others.

• More than half a billion yo-yos have been sold in the United States since the toy was introduced in 1928.

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June 6 has been proclaimed Naitonal Yo-Yo-Day in commemoration of the birthday of yo-yo king Donald F. Duncan. Follow along and discover some facts you may not have known about this ancient but still favorite toy.• The yo-yo is the second oldest known toy in

the world (only the doll is older), and was born over 2,500 years ago in the days of ancient Greece. The first historical evidence of a yo-yo was found in Greece from the year 500 B.C., on 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.

• The official description of a yo-yo is “an axle connected to two disks, with a length of twine looped around the axle.”

• Before anybody called it “yo-yo” (meaning “come back” or “return” in the native language of the Philippines, Tagalog), it was popular in seventeenth- through nineteenth-century Europe under many names, including “quiz,” “l’emigrette,” “coblentz,” and “incroyable.” It was called “disk” by the ancient Greeks. Napoleon’s nemesis, the Duke of Wellington, was an accomplished yo-yo player. At that time, the yo-yo was known as a “bandalore.”

• Two Ohio men received the first U.S. patent on the item in 1866. 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 a yo-yo assembly line operating at full capacity. 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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With Generic Drugs, You Gotta Speak Up I want to tell you about a shocking encoun-ter I had recently at my local Rite Aid pharmacy. But first,alittlebackgroundinformation. For years, my doctor has prescribed two preventive-type medications. Both are generics, and together they have cost me about $24 for a 30-day supply for quite a few years. Given that my health insurance at the time included prescriptions, it never dawned on me to check into the details or to search for a cheaper alternative. I changed health insurance providers recently. My new coverage does not include pre-scriptions, a small matter that slipped my mind as I drovethroughtopickupmymostrecentrefills.Thepharmacist asked if I’d changed insurance, I said yes I had, and she responded with, “That will be $178, please.” What?! OnceIpickedmyjawupoffthefloor,Iasked her why the price was so high. She had a long explanation about my previous insurance cov-erage, pharmaceuticals and the high cost of meds. I could not get home fast enough to search for a cheaperplacetogetthesemedsfilledinthefuture. I had to look at the search results three times before I could believe what I was reading. One of the links was to Rite Aid Rx Savings Pro-gram. I input the two medications in the search box provided, and the price quote came back as less than $26 total for a 90-day supply for both medica-tions -- about $8.75 per month, not even close to the $26 I had been paying with insurance all those years before. I grabbed the receipts, bottles and paper-work, and stormed back to Rite Aid. I asked the same pharmacy employee about the Rite Aid Rx Savings Plan and would my prescriptions qualify? She hesitated, then asked me why I hadn’t request-ed information on the program when I was there earlier. I bit my tongue. I did not lash out with, “Well thatwouldberatherdifficultinthatIdidnotknowabout your Savings Plan.” It took a lot of restraint, but I remained calm as she handed back my pre-scriptions, receipts and $150 cash. I learned this is a discount program offered

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Veterans Claims Still Backlogged Six months ago, we looked at the claims pro-cessing time for a number of small and large loca-tions across the country. Given the Department of Veterans Affairs’ efforts to reduce the time to pro-cess a claim to less than 125 days, let’s check in with a few of the same locations and see how they’re do-ing. In November, White River Junction, Vt., had 969 veterans awaiting claims, with 510 waiting an av-erage 239 days. Now they have 834 veterans waiting an average of 239 days. However, average wait time for first claims is now at 559 days. Lincoln, Neb., had 4,476 veterans waiting, 1,678 of them over 125 days. Now they have 2,560 veterans, with 695 over 125 days. Average wait time is 143 days. Clearly there’s been some progress made. Let’s take a look at some of the more popu-lated areas: Last November, St. Petersburg, Fla., had 46,366 veterans waiting an average 207 days. Of those, 30,321 were past the 125-day mark. Now there are 50,492 veterans waiting an average of 319 days. Of those, 34,860 are over 125 days. As usual, the dev-il is in the details. The office receives 4,293 claims per month and only completes 3,687. Baltimore, Md., had 19,662 claims waiting last November, with 16,472 past the 125-day mark. Average claim time was 343 days. Now it has 18,421 veterans with 15,326 waiting over 125 days with an average claim time of 417 days. Here, too, the incom-ing exceeds the outgoing: 1,023 claims coming in each month, and only 880 completed. To see how your local claims office is doing, go online to http://cironline.org/ and click on Returning Home to Battle, then click on the backlog map.

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Cholesterol Figures Key to Choice of Treatment Lowering cholesterol is highly effective in lowering heart disease and stroke risk. Elevated cholesterol is an important risk factor in the devel-opment of heart disease. When measuring choles-terol in the blood, we not only assess total levels of this waxy, fat-like substance but also the low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high-density lipopro-tein (HDL), cholesterol and triglycerides. The most important risk factor for heart dis-ease is having high LDL and low HDL cholesterol. Total cholesterol of greater than 200 and an LDL greater than 130 are the upper limits of “normal.” The best measure of heart disease risk is the ratio of the LDL divided by the HDL. A value greater than 5 is cause for great concern. In assessing the need for treatment, these measurements are more important than your total cholesterol. For example, someone with a total cho-lesterol reading of 240 (that would be considered quite high) but who has an HDL of 100 and an LDL of 110 is considered to be at low risk, and treatment is not warranted. Thefirstapproachtoloweringcholesterolisdietandexercise.Adiethighinfiberandrichinomega-3 fatty acids and the monounsaturated fats foundinoliveandcanolaoil,fish,nutsandcertainvegetablescansignificantlyreducecholesterollevels. Add to this appropriate weight loss and ex-ercise, and risk of vascular disease can be reduced dramatically. For most people with abnormal cholesterol, diet and exercise alone are inadequate to reach tar-get levels. For those who have no vascular disease, the target LDL should be less than 100 and the LDL-to-HDL ratio less than 3. For those who have a history of heart disease or stroke, a target LDL should be less than 70, and the ratio should be as low as possible. Unless there is a major con-traindication, their initial treatment should include a generic statin (such as pravastatin, lovastatin, simvastatin), most of which cost less than $12 for a three-month supply. And recently Lipitor (atorvas-tatin), the most popular statin, has become avail-able as a generic drug. Most patients tolerate statins, which means they can take these drugs without damaging side effects, and with dose adjustment, most people are able to achieve their target levels for cholesterol. A survey of 27 studies published in the journal Lancet showed that statin treatment in normal individuals withmoderatelyelevatedcholesterolsignificantly

reduced the risk of heart attacks and strokes. The results were so compelling that experts have sug-gested that everyone over 50 should be treated with the drug. Today in Britain and most of Europe, statins are available over the counter. In the past few years, much attention has focused on the development of medications to raise the good HDL cholesterol (its levels are not affected by statin treatment). The most promising approach is the use of large doses of Vitamin B-1 or niacin; this raises the HDL cholesterol while simultane-ously lowering elevated triglycerides, which also can increase the risk of heart disease. Many people cannot tolerate niacin because it causes intense flushingandburningoftheskin.Toovercomethis,niacin has been combined with laropiprant, an anti-flushingagent.This“drug”ismarketedasNiaspan. Recently, the results of a large clinical trial that studied the combined effects of Lipitor and Niaspan on reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes was presented at the 2013 meeting of the American College of Cardiology. There was great hope that the combination would be a highly effective strategy at eradicating heart disease as the major cause of death in America. The study examined 25,673 patients, and, sadly, the addition of Niaspan to Lipitor did not reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke. And the unacceptably high level of side ef-fects, which included a 25 percent increased risk of diabetes, infections and bleeding, raised grave con-cern. This study has seriously questioned whether niacin should ever be used. Readily available over thecounter,non-flushingniacinistakenbymanyand may cause more harm than good. While a heart-healthy lifestyle is most im-portant, medications appear to be highly effective approaches to prevention. While statins still remain the cornerstone of therapy, I hope future research will develop novel approaches to further reduce the overwhelming burden of heart disease and stroke, which reduce the quality and quantity of life for so many. Dr. David Lipschitz is the author of the book “BreakingtheRulesofAging.”TofindoutmoreaboutDr.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.COPYRIGHT 2013 CREATORS.COM

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Q. I just came back from a cruise through the Caribbean. Each night, I sat at a dinner table with a group of older widows like myself. As you might guess, Social Security was a frequent topic. One woman said she was getting full widow’s benefits and full retire-ment benefits. No one else was getting that. Another woman said she was receiving a state retirement pension and couldn’t get any of her

deceased husband’s Social Security. A third woman said that when her husband died, she never got the burial benefit, while all the rest of us did. And finally, I explained to my dinner companions that when my husband died, I was given the option of taking my widow’s pension first, and then later switching to my own retire-ment benefits when I was 66. The other women said this option was never offered to them. Can you comment on this?

A. Obviously, I don’t know any of the facts about each of your tablemate’s Social Security affairs other than what you told me. But here are my guess-es. The first woman was either telling a big fib, or she really didn’t know what she was getting from Social Security. The second woman was a re-tired teacher. The third woman was divorced and was probably talking about death benefits from her ex-husband. And finally, my hunch is your husband died when you were in your early 60s, while the oth-er women lost their husbands later in life. Now let me go over each of these situations one by one. The first woman simply didn’t know what she was talking about. No one can get two full So-cial Security benefits. My hunch is that she was get-ting her own retirement benefit when her husband died (probably sometime after she was 66 years old). Then her own Social Security check would have been supplemented up to whatever her husband was getting at the time he died. I’m guessing the second woman was a teach-er who taught in a state where educators do not pay into the Social Security system. Just as a Social Secu-rity retirement benefit offsets any potential widow’s benefits, a teacher’s retirement pension also offsets any widow’s benefits she might be due from her hus-band’s Social Security record. Actually, teachers are given a bit of a break. While an entire Social Security retirement pension is used to offset any widow’s ben-efits; only two-thirds of a teacher’s pension is applied as an offset. The third woman said she didn’t get the death benefit from her husband’s account when he died. I’m guessing they were separated or divorced or otherwise living apart; because the rules say the one time death payment can be doled out only to a spouse who was living with the deceased at the time of death. And that leaves you. A woman who has

worked and has her own Social Security account and then becomes a widow before age 66 has some op-tions. She can take reduced benefits on one Social Security account (her own or her husband’s) and then at age 66, or possibly even 70, switch to higher benefits on the other account. Which benefit she takes first depends entirely on the money amounts involved.

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ANSWER: If a doctor examined the eyes of most people over 60, the doctor would tell them they have the beginning of a cataract. Do you know what a cataract is? Right behind the pupil is the eye’s lens, a small, oval-shaped, perfectly clear structure. The lens focuses light on the retina in the back of the eye, so we get a clear picture of what we see. A cataract is a smudge in the lens. Proteins in the lens have stuck to each other to produce a stain in the lens like a thumbprint on the lens of glasses. Your cataract must not be large. You have no com-plaints of it interfering with your vision. Most cata-racts result from aging. Smoking, alcohol excess, constant exposure to sunlight and long-term use of high doses of cortisone drugs also contribute to cata-ract formation. The evolution of your cataract to one that blurs vision is unpredictable. The process is pain-less. Difficulty seeing at night and difficulty reading fine print are early symptoms of cataracts affecting vision. Treatment is close to miraculous. When the lens smudge greatly affects vision, the eye doctor removes the lens and replaces it with a lens made

Volunteer at Your Local Schools A gentleman in Iowa has gone back to school, although not in the traditional sense. He’s found his way to the local elementary school, where he volunteers doing a variety of tasks -- not just a few hours a week, but every day. He’s 74 years old. Some days he spends time one-on-one with children who need help with math. Other times he helps those struggling with reading. During his “spare” time he reorganized the school’s library. His school feels lucky to have him. All across the country there are schools in trouble. They’re victims of budget cuts that take away valuable resources, perhaps the resources that the kids need most. Instead of a reading specialist in each school, maybe that specialist is spreadoutoverfiveschools,andtoomanykidsare falling through the cracks. The federal infusion of “turnaround” dollars for the past three years is about to end. Less money will mean even fewer resources. It can be a vicious cycle. But it’s one that we can break -- by volunteering at our schools.Here are some things you can do: --Help struggling students with math and reading at all grade levels. --Answerphonesinthefrontoffice. --Help with building maintenance on an ongoing basis. --Teach art classes. --Assistwithfieldtrips. --Give presentations on a topic you know a lot about. --Organize bake sales. --Catalog, repair and shelve books in the library. --Give music lessons. --Chair an afternoon special-interest club. We have the time; we have the experience. Who better than seniors to lend a helping hand at our local schools? To get started, call the school principal,theheadofthePTAorthedistrictoffices.

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of plastic or silicone. Cataract removal is done as an outpatient. You can be up and about by the evening of surgery or the following day. You’ll be astounded at the minimum inconvenience of the procedure and with the vision that results from it. *** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: What’s the best time to take a multivitamin? I take one in the morning. That way I don’t forget to take it. -- L.M.

ANSWER: I believe this is the most fre-quently asked question I get. Vitamins A, D, E and K are fat-soluble vita-mins. They’re better absorbed if they’re taken after a meal that has some fat or oils in it. Vitamins B and C are water-soluble and can be taken at any time. I’m not convinced that the timing of vitamin-taking is all that important. Take your multivitamin when it’s most convenient. *** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I lift weights seven days a week. I see that I am making prog-ress. My arms are much bigger than they were. I’ve been told I’m overdoing it by lifting every day. Am I? -- R.S.

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● On June 4, 1896, Henry Ford unveils the “Quadricycle.” The 500-pound vehicle had two driving speeds, no reverse, no brakes, rudimentary steering ability and a doorbell button as a horn. It could reach about 20 mph.

● On June 7, 1913, Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, leads the first suc-cessful ascent of Mt. McKinley, the highest point on the American continent at 20,320 feet. Stuck and two others began the climb inMarch and faced challenges of difficultweather anda fire at oneof their camps,which destroyed food and supplies.

● On June 6, 1933, eager motorists park their automobiles on the grounds of the Park-In movie theater in New Jersey, the first-ever drive-in movie theater. InventorRichard Hollingshead had come up with the idea in the driveway of his own house, where he perfected projection and sound techniques.

● On June 8, 1949,Hollywoodfigures,including film stars Frederic March andEdward G. Robinson, are named in a FBI report as Communist Party members. The FBI report relied largely on accusations madeby“confidential informants,”supple-mented with some highly dubious analysis. Helen Keller also was on the list of radicals.

● On June 5, 1968, U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Kennedy was shot by 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, and died a day later.

● On June 9, 1972,aflashfloodhitsRap-id City, S.D., when 15 inches of rain fall in only six hours. The spillway for the Pactola Dam got clogged with debris, leading to the collapse of the dam and a devastating wave of water that crushed most of the nearby buildings and swept away 238 people.

● On June 3, 1989, with protests for democratic reforms entering their seventh week, the Chinese government authorizes its soldiers and tanks to reclaim Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. By nightfall on June 4, Chinese troops had forcibly cleared the square, killing hundreds and arresting thou-sands of demonstrators and suspected dis-sidents.


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A: Fathers mostly want to know they’re loved and appreciated; they usually don’t just want more stuff. They want to hear “Thanks” and “I Love you.” Too often families are so wrapped up being busy with their daily routines that they forget how important this is. One family I know, when told by a family member that they love them, always responds with “I love you more!” I think that’s great! Ask each family member, including youself, to sit down and write Dad a short letter telling him why he is the best dad ever. Remind him how impor-tant and needed he is and how much he has helped each of you in so many ways. Your kids can say how he’s helped them with their schoolwork, learning to throw a baseball, how to ride a bike and drive the car, and how much all of this has meant to each of you. Remind him how he is appreciated for the way he has always been there whenever a family mem-ber needs his special support and encouragement. Then hand him the letters with a big hug! Even though caring families have mutual love and respect for each other, guiding children in the right direction can sometimes cause friction and frustration. Your kids should thank him for always having their best interest in mind even when correc-tion is needed to keep them on track. They may be at that stage when they are beginning to understand that they also may become parents one day and can learn from the values and principles instilled by their own mom and dad. Rarely do fathers receive acknowledgement like this. You can bet he will cherish these letters and read them again and again for years to come. * * *

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charges me, and I can actually accomplish more after I wake up. When I suggest he that he take a nap too, he scoffs and says naps are timewasters. How can I convince him that naps are beneficial and not just a sign that you’re get-ting “old.”

A: Research conducted by the Mayo Clinic has concluded that naps are indeed beneficial in sev-eral ways. Simply stated, naps reduce the effect of the common mid-afternoon “droops,” improve our mood and greatly increase mental alertness. Also, the Harvard Health Letter states that an afternoon nap allows people to retain information better when attempting to learn something new after they have had a short rest period including sleep. Suggest to your husband that he check the research findings and give it a try himself. My bet is that if he does he’ll quickly become a believer!

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Antique Buffet Fit for a Continental Breakfast Q: My husband purchased this an-tique buffet seen in this photo. He found it at a moving sale in Texas about six years ago and paid $100 for it. It is over seven feet long and is decorated with carvings of medieval figures and has large bun-shaped feet. Someone who saw it said his parents had one very similar to it, and he thought it was made in Europe, pos-sibly Germany. He then offered my husband $800 for it, which he turned down because we wanted to keep it. Can you tell where you think it is from, about how old it is and its value? Any informa-tion you can furnish would be greatly appreci-ated.

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made in Germany and France in the early 1900s. Your Continental European buffet is circa 1930 and would probably be worth $1500 to $2500.

Q: I have enclosed the mark that is on the bottom of a covered water pitcher that I have. The pitcher was my grandmother’s, and I remember she always kept it in her refrigerator. It is decorated on both sides with orange cat-tails against a cream colored background. The cork lining on the stopper is in good condition and the pitcher has a round shape and stands about seven inches tall. What can you tell me about the maker, age and value of my water pitcher?

A: Universal Potteries Inc. made your semi-porcelain water pitcher. The round shape was inspired by Art Deco designs. They made semi-por-celain kitchenware and dinnerware and were located in Cambridge, Ohio, from 1934 to 1976. The “Cattail” pattern was made for Sears, Roebuck and Company in the 1930s and 1940s. The design is a decal rather than hand painted. The pattern was used on a pleth-ora of dishes that included water pitchers, butter dishes, platters, bowls, salt and peppershakers, cups and saucers. The popular pattern can also be found on table linens, glassware and tinware. Your water pitcher can be found selling in an-tiques shops in the range of $50 to $75. 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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The Mantle of History History is written by the winners. President Harry Truman, the guy who dropped the big ones on Japan to end World War II, was a big fan of the expression. Years after his presidency, he was offered a “Frost/Nixon” sort of deal that would have had him visit Japan to meet the newly installed government. Truman had the gumptiontofirethelegendaryGen.DouglasMacArthur, but many still were surprised to learn thatheagreedtogo--withonespecificcaveat:“I’m not going to kiss anyone’s ass.” Thoughheleftofficewithoneofthelow-est approval ratings ever, Truman’s legacy has withstood the test of time, and he is now generally considered one of our greatest presidents. Some 60 years later, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was running a disastrous campaign for president. A few years earlier, when America was sucker-punched on 9/11, Giuliani took the mantle as “America’s mayor” and offered some semblanceofcalmunderfire.Beforethatcareerturn, he was putting away the mob as a U.S. attor-ney. Now, Giuliani has picked up another mantle -- Mickey Mantle’s, to be precise -- and once again, anotherhistoricfigureandherotomany,anotherpersonwhofigureslargeintherecordbooksandlooms large in our minds, is being subjected to the firingline. Almost two decades after his death and halfacenturyafterhehobbledoffthefieldatYankee Stadium for the last time, a two-bit auction house is claiming to sell an authentic bat of his. That would not be spectacular in and of itself, but this item is different, the auctioneers proclaim. For the bat in question has been X-rayed, and it has been deemed to be tampered with ... corked. Corking a bat is a tactic many sluggers have employed, in much the same way that pitch-ers use sweat and rosin to manipulate the move-ment of the ball. Essentially, the top part of a bat is removed, the barrel drilled out, replaced by cork sprig and capped with the same piece of wood to disguise the ploy. Corking a bat gives a hitter maximum surface, but shaves off a few ounces in weight, allowing for a rapid swing. The Mantle family is not amused. They have decided that they are not going to let Mickey Mantle -- a man who wasn’t allowed inside his house at night until he hit 10 straight balls off his surly father who had spent all day mining coal in Oklahoma -- be rewritten as a loser or a cheater. And the guy they hired to make sure of that? Rudy Giuliani. For the record, Truman never made the trip to Japan. One assumes there was too much down-side for the ex-president and no need to assist his detractors in their attempts to rewrite history. Lifelong Yankee fan Giuliani, however, is going to be swinging away in court within weeks. Let the games begin.

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• 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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• 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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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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7. HOLIDAYS: When was Mother’s Day declared a national U.S. holiday?

8. THEATER: What city was the set-ting for the original “The Phantom of the Opera”?

9. COMICS: What comic strip had an imaginary character called “Stu-pendous Man”?

10. WAR: What was the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War?

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2. When Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan notched 383 strikeouts in 1973, whose American League record did he break?

3. In 2012, Arkansas had the sec-ond-biggest fall in the AP college football poll, going from No. 8 to out of the top-25 rankings. Who had the biggest drop?

4. Entering the 2013 playoffs, Jason Kidd was third on the list of NBA postseason career assists (1,239). Name the players in the top two spots.

5. In 2013, Jaromir Jagr became the 12th NHL player to reach 1,000 career assists. Who was the 11th to do it?

6. When was the last time an Ameri-can driver won a Formula One Grand Prix race?

7. Serena Williams, in 2013, became only the fourth woman to win a WTA tennis event six times. Name two of the other three to do it.

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and John Stockton (1,839).5. Colorado’s Joe Sakic, in 2008.6. Mario Andretti, in 1978.7. Chris Evert, Steffi Graf and Mar-

tina Navratilova.© 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

1. What was waiting 26 miles across the sea in the song by the same name? Who recorded it?

2. Who released “Obscured by Clouds,” and why?

3. Name the artist who wrote and released “My Back Pages.”

4. What was the name of the band before it was Alice Cooper?

5. Name the song with this lyric: “I used to be a renegade, I used to fool around, But I couldn’t take the pun-ishment, and had to settle down.”

Answers1. Santa Catalina, the island of

romance, off the coast of California. The song was big for The Four Preps in 1958.

2. Pink Floyd, in 1972. The album was created as a result of the soundtrack they wrote for the French film “La Vallee.”

3. Bob Dylan, on his “Another Side of Bob Dylan” album in 1964. The song seems to indicate a dissatisfac-tion with his previous beliefs. He didn’t perform the song in public until 1988.

4. The Nazz, and before that The Spiders. The band changed its name to Alice Cooper after fooling around with a Ouija board.

5. “Hip to Be Square” by Huey Lew-is and the News (1987). Football play-ers Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott sang background vocals.


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