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This week Tidbits examines a crucial mechanism that we tend to take for granted every day in our routine tasks of standing and walking. At the ends of our legs are architectual wonders of bones, tissue and muscle that, combined, allow us to transport the weight of our bodies for our entire lives. Follow along as we consider the wonderfully designed marvel of engineering called the human foot!• With 26 bones, 114 ligaments and 20 muscles,

the foot is truly an amazing creation. A quarter of the bones in the human body are located just in the feet. (Add in the bones in the hand, and that accounts for fully half of our bones.) In order to do what they do, feet need to be structural marvels.

• Consider that the average adult travels around 1,000 miles a year on foot, taking about 10,000 steps per day. A typical 70-year-old human will have walked a distance equivalent to traversing the circumference of the earth four times. The feet strike the ground 17,000 times in a 20 mile marathon run, but even a mile of gentle walking subjects the feet to about 80 tons of weight. Feet must be sturdy.

• Although 98% of us are born with healthy feet, 80 out of 100 Americans develop foot problems during their lifetime. At any given moment, about 30 million Americans suffer from foot problems, ranging from corns and ingrown nails to club feet

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Born in 1952, Jeana Yeager grew up in Commerce, Texas. Her early hobbies included horseback riding and track running, and she also had an interest in some day learning to fly. She studied drafting in high school, a skill that would later serve her well. At the age of 26 she earned her private pilot’s license, little knowing that it would all come together one day and lead to an adventure that would take her around the world and land her name in aviation record books.• Yeager’s dream was to some day become a

helicopter pilot, but began her early career using her school training as a draftsman. After a brief failed marriage, she moved from Texas to Santa Rosa, California and took a job doing drafting and surveying for a geothermal energy company.

• She became involved in experimental aerospace design when she met Bob Truax in 1980, at about the time she received her pilot license. Truax was an engineer working on spacecraft design and hired Yeager to do drafting work at his company.

• Through Truax, she met Dick Rutan at an air show in California. Rutan had flown combat missions in Vietnam, was 14 years older than Yeager, and was a featured aerobatic flyer at the show.

• Rutan and his brother ran their own aircraft company and worked on developing new aircraft designs. Rutan hired Yeager to work with him, and they became romantically involved. Over the next year, she set several speed records as a test pilot for the planes Rutan’s company was designing.

• In 1981, Yeager (no relation to famed test pilot

Chuck Yeager) and Rutan began working to design an endurance plane that could circle the globe without landing or refueling. The aircraft was first imagined by Jeana Yeager, Dick and his brother Burt Rutan as they were at lunch in 1981. The initial idea was first sketched out on the back of a napkin.

• The unique aircraft was built in Mojave, California over a period of five years, and Yeager gave it the name Voyager. She drafted the engineering drawings and ran the operation that kept the project financially viable. Because it was a private endeavor, the plane was built using volunteer labor and donations.

• Yeager and Rutan decided to pilot the mission together as a team. As it was being designed and constructed, Yeager underwent extensive training in ocean navigation and communications. She expanded her flying credentials to include commercial, multi-engine and instrument ratings, and became one of the first civilians ever to complete an Air Force water survival training course.

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4. Who was the first player in NCAA men’s basketball history to have a quadruple-double in a game?

5. In 2013, Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos became the fourth-youngest player to score 200 career goals (age 23). Who did it at a younger age?

6. Who was the last U.S. man before David Boudia in 2012 to win a gold medal in Olympic diving?

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5. Wayne Gretzky (age 21), Mario Lemieux (22) and Dale Hawerchuk (22).

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2. The Beach Boys. They originally recorded the song in 1968 but were unsatisfied with the arrangement.

3. The Royal Spades. Booker T. Jones was a member and eventually formed Booker T. & the MGs.

4. Kiss, in 1979, on their “Dynasty” album. The b-side of the single release was “Hard Times.”

5. “You Got What It Takes,” released in 1959 by Marv Johnson. Nearly every song Johnson released was writ-ten by Berry Gordy, Jr., the founder of the legendary Motown record label.


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name, one exception is the toe bones. They are known only as “metatarsal digits #1-5.”

• A fourth-year medical student at Yale decided to correct the injustice by bestowing names on the toes. He called them porcellus fori, porcellus domi, porcellus carnivorus, porcellus nonvoratus, and porcellus plorans domun. In Latin, these names translate as “little pig at market,” “baby pig at home,” “meat-eating piglet,” “small pig that has not eaten,” and “piggy crying all the way home.” Some orthopedic surgeons have picked up his names, but most medical practitioners have not fully accepted the idea.

• Not surprisingly, the place on the body where the skin is thickest is the heel of the foot, where it’s about 1/16th of an inch thick. Compare that to the thinnest skin on the body— the eyelids— at 2/1000 of an inch. Although the heel is the area on the body that is least sensitive to pain, it’s also the sweatiest area. The 125,000 sweat glands in a single foot can excrete as much as half a pint of sweat per day.

• Research done at the University of Miami centered on foot odor. How does a research team study foot odor? First you get a bunch of volunteers to sit for extended periods with their feet in plastic bags. Then you have a laboratory staff dedicated enough to actually sniff the results! They discovered that people with foot odor had large numbers of a certain bacteria on their bodies— the same type of bacteria found in Limburger cheese. They also discovered that antibiotics can reduce the number of bacteria, and thus improve the smell of feet.

• Why some people carry large amounts of this bacteria and others don’t is still unknown, but it’s being studied. It could be differences in a person’s sweat or pH balance. Since it’s not a good idea to take antibiotics to reduce odor, this valiant research team is now trying to find ways to keep bacteria from sticking to the skin, preventing it from getting a “foothold.” Around 80 million Americans suffer from smelly feet.

• One company called Sweet Feet combated foot odor with scented socks. Impregnated with various scents such as talcum powder, citrus, strawberry, and peach, the footsie socks threw off a long-lasting fragrance that remained even through several launderings. The socks cost about $20 per pair.

• Many people do not wear the correct shoe size for their feet. Often this is because people stick to the size they were measured for when young and fail to realize that their feet change shape.

• The only thing worse for feet than high heels was the Chinese practice of foot-binding. A young girl’s feet were wrapped with a bandage ten feet long, strapped in a figure eight around the foot and ankle. It was tightened daily and

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

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

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and fallen arches. • Four times as many women as men deal with

foot problems, mostly due to high heels. Podiatrists trace 95% of the 500 known foot ailments to ill-designed shoes or improper foot care.

• High heels prevent the ankles from absorbing their normal share of the force of walking, shunting it instead to the toes. A three-inch heel puts more than seven times the pressure on the forefoot than a flat shoe. This promotes many foot ailments such as bunions, hammer toes, and neuroma, which is a painful thickening of the nerve that connects the toes. A study of 3,000 surgeries performed on the forefoot found that 87% of the bunion surgeries, 81% of hammer toe surgeries, and 89% of the neuroma surgeries were done on women’s feet.

• High heels also affect the knees. A study published in the British medical journal The Lancet showed that high heels cause strain and pressure on the joint that joins the kneecap and the underlying thigh bone. The rotational forces on the inner part of the knee joint were 23 percent higher when women participating in the study walked in heels than when they walked barefoot.

• Surprisingly, the big toe has only two bones while the rest of the toes have three. Although nearly every bone in the body has an official

pulled so taut that the four smallest toes were forced under the foot, breaking the bones. The bones in the arch of the foot would also break, forcing the arch into a sharp inverted “V” shape. Every two weeks the girl was given a pair of shoes two tenths of an inch smaller

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1. About 56,000 people have parts of their feet and lower legs amputated each year because of what disease?2. What causes plantar warts?

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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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world’s press in attendance with cameras rolling, the Voyager took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California, with Yeager and Rutan stationed in a cockpit not much larger than a horizontal telephone booth. Rutan was pilot in command, with Yeager as co-pilot and navigator.

• The wings, which also functioned as fuel tanks, were filled to capacity and heavy as the aircraft’s two in-line, propeller-driven engines (one front and one back) were shoved to full throttle. As the aircraft lumbered down the 15,000-foot runway struggling to reach takeoff speed, the flexing wings drooped enough to allow both wing tips to scrape the pavement. Although it caused pieces of the winglets to break off at both ends, the damage was not severe enough to abort the flight. Because of its weight, the aircraft accelerated very slowly and needed over 14,000 feet of runway to reach its liftoff speed.

• During the flight, the two pilots had to deal with extremely noisy and cramped quarters. They had originally intended to fly the plane in three-hour shifts to reduce stress, but instability of the flight handling characteristics prevented this. Maintaining straight and level flight required their constant attention and they both became very fatigued.

• Traveling across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, over Africa, and then across the Atlantic before crossing the U.S., the flight was full of peril. They had to maneuver around bad weather numerous times, most perilously around the 600-mile-wide Typhoon Marge in the South China Sea.

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• Then they attached a briefcase to his body with a leather-wrapped chain of the same type bank messengers use when carrying valuables. This would prevent the briefcase from floating away from the body, as well as alerting the Germans to the importance of the corpse.

• Fake letters from high ranking officers were sealed and placed in the briefcase. The letters proposed how it might be possible to make the Germans falsely believe the next attack would be on Sicily, leaving Sardinia unprotected. The mis-information was, of course, the exact opposite of their actual goal.

• Next they had to get the body into the hands of the Germans, by making it appear as if his plane had crash-landed into the sea. They knew that

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• A Spanish fisherman found the body. Military officers were summoned. A German Naval officer took the briefcase and all the personal documents found in the clothing. A doctor, finding fluid in the lungs (due to pneumonia) pronounced the cause of death as drowning.

• The body was turned over to British diplomats, and they arranged a formal military funeral. “Pam” sent flowers for the grave. The British asked that Major Martin’s briefcase be returned, and eventually it was. But examination showed that all the “secret” documents had been removed and then carefully replaced.

• German officials forwarded copies of the documents all the way up to Hitler. Nazi troops were heavily deployed to Sardinia. Submarines moved out of Sicilian waters.

• On July 10, 1943, the Allies invaded Sicily incurring only slight losses. Even after the invasion started, the Germans were convinced it was not a legitimate attack but merely a diversionary tactic. Allies liberated Sicily in only 39 days and used it as a launching point for the invasion of Italy and, ultimately, Europe.

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Identity Theft Is Hilarious, but It’s No Laughing Matter Stealing someone else’s personal infor-mation to commit theft or fraud -- also known as identity theft -- has exploded into the national consciousness. Credit card companies now market their security features, and consumers warily guard their Social Security numbers. And it doesn’t stop there. The use of stolen Social Security numbers allows thieves to steal tax refunds, open bank ac-counts and do all manner of illegal operations using another’s identity. Recently, I saw the comedy movie “Iden-tity Theft.” Because it is so entertaining, the story comes off as fictionalized in a way that could not possibly play out that way in real life. The sobering truth is that this exact scenario is being played out every day. Unsuspecting people are having their identities stolen and their futures compromised as thieves open credit card accounts, finance new cars and clean out bank accounts. Identity theft has become epidemic! And it’s not just the thievery. It’s the months and even years of hassle and expense working with police, banks and credit agencies, trying to get things straight-ened out. And in the meantime? The fallout can be devastating because, when it comes to identity theft, you’re pretty much guilty until you can prove yourself innocent. And even then you may never be made whole. For me, the risk of having my identity stolen is so great that I carry insurance. Lifelock is the company I use because it has proven to me that it can stay ahead of thieves. Lifelock monitors my identity, constantly scanning for threats. And if something should ever get past them (hard to imag-ine, but thieves using sophisticated technology are very clever these days), I have a $1 million dollar guarantee. That’s how much Lifelock will spend to restore what has been stolen, including my money, my good name and my credit score.

Routinely, I read horror stories from readers who discovered too late just how vulnerable they were. What a mess. They file police reports and contact credit bureaus, usually with nothing more than a promise that “we’ll get back to you when we can.” I’m not willing to sit around for months waiting for someone else to find the time to look at my situ-ation. You should not be, either. You cannot afford the risk. Of course, there are other identity theft-protection plans. Wells Fargo offers two levels of protection, as does the company Identity Guard -- and each comes with different types of coverage and premiums. I have chosen Lifelock because I believe in this company. I’ve been a satisfied Lifelock mem-ber for nearly a decade and highly recommend the service. For about $20 a month, I get cheap insur-ance from a reliable company that watches out for me. It’s hard to put a price on peace of mind. You can get that rate, too, when you go to Lifelock.com and use the code EC30 to join. They were also kind enough to not only give our readers a great dis-count, but also 30 days free to get you started. I laughed during “Identity Theft” -- not so much because Jason Bateman and Melissa McCar-thy are hilarious in their roles, but because I didn’t spend one second worrying that this could happen to me. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com, a personal finance member website. You can email her at [email protected], or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630. To find out more about Mary Hunt and read her past columns, please visit the Creators webpage at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2013 CREATORS.COM

Women Vets Get Their Own Hotline The Department of Veterans Affairs recently opened a hotline for women veterans, their families and caregivers. The hotline is a welcome addition, if only for one reason: Women veterans aren’t as knowledgeable about the benefits, resources and services that are available to them. According to a news release, women make up 15 percent of active duty and 18 percent of Na-tional Guard and Reserve personnel. However, in VA health care, only 6 percent of the patients are women. Since 2000, the number of women using VA health care has doubled, but they can’t use services and benefits they don’t know about. Here are just a few areas where the hotline can help: --Referrals to homeless and mental-health services --Disability compensation --Vet Center information --Information on VA cemeteries and memo-rial benefits, claims, education and health-care ap-pointments, including pharmacy --Home loans --Employment assistance The Women Veterans Hotline can be reached at 1-855-829-6636. To reach the Veteran Crisis Line, for urgent needs, call 1-800-273-TALK and Dial 1 for Veterans. Female veterans also can go online to www.eBenefits.va.gov. Search the College Navigator, read the Compensation and Benefits Handbook, access the Form 10-EZ Application for Medical Benefits, see the benefits fact sheet, access the veterans job bank and read about federal benefits for veterans, depen-dents and survivors. Once you’re signed up, manage your health care online at TRICARE Online or My HealtheVet. Consider this column a Clip ‘n’ Save: Hand it off to a female veteran who can use it, perhaps just before this summer’s Stand Down in your area. Stand Downs are a great place for all veterans to con-nect with benefits and services in a one-stop event.

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Red Meats, Fried Foods Fuel Heart Attacks, Strokes, Death Is there anything more American and deli-cious than a Texas-size T-bone steak with French fries fixed just the way Grandma used to? Just writ-ing about it makes my mouth water. And how often does the “All American Breakfast,” consisting of fried eggs, bacon, grits and two biscuits with gravy, tempt me? Like so many of my peers, it took a heart attack to change my habits. It’s not surprising that the Western diet is unhealthy. A recent study published in the American Journal of Medicine followed 3,800 men and 1,600 women, with an average age of 51, from 1985 to 2009. Researchers monitored their diet and as-sessed their mental and physical abilities. Those who “aged ideally” maintained excel-lent strength, cognitive function and had no chronic diseases. Those who “aged normally” had few chronic diseases and average mental and physical abilities. By the end of this study, 73 percent aged normally and 4 percent aged ideally. None of the subjects who consumed a typical Western diet aged ideally. They were much more likely to have heart disease and physical and cognitive disabilities. Furthermore, consuming the Western diet was associated with higher death rates from cardiac and noncardiac causes. The typical Western diet is high in saturated animal fats and rich in the unhealthy Omega-6 fatty acids. Many foods are fried, and sugary drinks and rich desserts are common. While deep-fried foods may taste great, they are definitely not good for your health. Most of their calories come from fat, which, because of the frying process, becomes saturated, and the pre-dominant fatty acids are the omega-6s. All saturat-ed fats, irrespective of the source, and all omega-6 fatty acids increase cholesterol and triglyceride levels and that in turn leads to atherosclerosis, which is the underlying cause of coronary artery disease, strokes and impaired blood supply to the lower limbs. The problem is made worse as many restaurants add trans fats to their fryers to improve stability, allowing the oils to be used for longer peri-ods of time. And the longer they are used for frying, the worse the health effects.

And then there is a problem with red meat. The higher the fat content, the tastier the meat. Un-til recently, it was thought that red meat increased the risk of vascular disease exclusively because of its high content of saturated fats and omega-6 fatty acids. Producing leaner cuts of meat and grill-ing rather than frying was thought to be healthier. Similarly, organic red meat is said to be healthier as meat from grass-fed cattle has higher concentra-tions of the healthier omega 3 fatty acids. Sadly, fat content is not the only reason red meat is unhealthy. New research published in the journal Nature Medicine has shown that bacteria in the bowel convert carnitine, a chemical contained in red meat, into a compound called trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO), which enters the blood stream and damages blood vessels. This in turn facilitates the deposition of cholesterol, leading to significant vascular disease. The researchers also showed that a diet high in carnitine stimulated the proliferation of these bacteria causing greater production of trimethyl-amine-N-oxide and, hence, a higher risk of severe vascular disease. Subjects consuming a diet high in red meat had higher levels of carnitine and the damaging oxide in their blood and a much greater risk of heart attacks and strokes. By contrast, veg-etarians and vegans had low carnitine and TMAO levels and a much lower risk of vascular disease. If we want to live long and live well, we must consider how and what we eat. It may not be how much but which foods we eat that contribute to longevity and disease-free life. Every day more and more evidence touts the Mediterranean diet that is rich in fish, nuts, olive oil and abundant fruits and vegetables. If you must have those delicious foods that we grew up with, moderation is the key. We must sauté rather than fry, keep animal fats to a mini-mum, stick to olive and canola oil, eat lots of fruits and vegetables and limit red meats to one serving a week. Our hearts and even our brains will thank us for it. 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:www.drdavidhealth.com



















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one applying for disability benefits must provide medically documented proof of their condition. Fre-quently, they are sent to a “Social Security doctor” for further review. About 65 percent of all first-time claims for disability benefits are denied. (Of course, that means that 35 percent are approved, belying the rumor that Kathy heard that all initial disability claims are auto-matically denied.) The 65 percent denial rate is high, but that’s because many people file for disability benefits out of desperation. They’ve been laid off, they can’t find work, so they figure it can’t hurt filing for Social Se-curity disability benefits, citing whatever relatively minor ailments that might be afflicting them as their disability. Unfortunately, there isn’t too much I can suggest to Kathy to help her. If she’d been denied for Social Security disability once, I would tell her to file an appeal. If she’d been denied twice, I’d tell her to consider hiring a lawyer. But Kathy said she’s filed and been denied three times. She might simply have to accept the fact that her condition simply doesn’t meet the legal definition of disability. Or maybe she should talk to Phil. He must know the secret because he seems to think it’s so easy to qualify for Social Security disability. The Supplemental Security Income program is our country’s major welfare program for the elder-ly and disabled poor in this country. SSI is managed by the Social Security Administration, but it is NOT a Social Security benefit and it is NOT paid for out of Social Security taxes. It is funded by general tax revenues. I know from my emails that many people think as Dave does: that SSI (welfare) benefits are essentially handed out like candy by the government to anyone who comes up with a good hard luck story. But Ellen’s real hard luck story proves this is simply not the case. To get SSI, it isn’t enough to be just down on your luck. You have to be downright poverty stricken. I think most of my readers would consider Ellen poor. Yet even with her very meager monthly income of $1,100, she can’t get a dime of SSI money. SSI levels vary from state to state, but in almost all states, you won’t start getting an SSI check unless your monthly income is less than $800 per month, and you have less than $2,000 in assets. I defy any of my readers to try living on $1,100 per month. And then assuming they can’t, I defy them to tell me that people on SSI are ripping us

off! And finally, I really don’t have too much good information for Ellen. She is getting all that she can get from Social Security, and she isn’t due anything from SSI. She might want to contact her local Area Agency on Aging office to find out if there are other programs or benefits for which she might qualify.

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ANSWER: Strokes come in two varieties. The less-common kind is bleeding from a broken brain artery, often one that has an innate weakness in its wall. That’s an aneurysm. It has an explosive onset and produces a “worst headache ever.” This is a hemorrhagic stroke, accounting for 15 percent of strokes. The more-common kind of stroke is an isch-emic (is-KEY-mick) stroke, one that results from a blockage of blood flow through an artery serving the brain. It’s similar to what happens in a heart at-tack when a heart artery is plugged up. Your dad had this kind of stroke. The CT scan your dad had is one way of differentiating a hemorrhagic stroke from an ischemic one. Signs of both kinds of stroke are a sudden inability to speak, an inability to understand the spo-ken word, loss of sensations from parts of the body, weakness of a leg or arm and vision changes. Deprived of blood, brain cells and tissues die fairly quickly. As in your father’s case, clot-dissolv-

Don’t be Fooled by Fancy Title A recent report to Congress by the Con-sumer Financial Protection Bureau details the many problems seniors have in determining wheth-er financial advisers are genuine. The long title of the report was “Senior Designations for Financial Advisers: Reducing Consumer Confusion and Risks of the Broker or the Investment Adviser.” It focuses on the special credentials that are used to market senior financial services. Here are a few examples: At least 50 different “senior designation” credentials are used to market advisers’ services, all designed to confuse us. Some of those titles and acronyms sound similar to others or imply a le-gitimacy that isn’t real, such as “Registered Senior Investment Adviser.” The report says that “all too often, these are just clever marketing ploys to bait the hook.” Those senior designation credentials give the impression that advisers have specialized training or expertise in dealing with the finances of seniors. The report notes that there’s a big differ-ence between a college-level course and a week-end seminar. There’s no oversight or enforcement for the use of those designations. Another study showed that, unfortunately, seniors are more likely to rely on someone who uses one of those senior desig-nations. Seniors are the targets of financial market-ing, since it’s assumed we have loads of retire-ment savings, inheritance money and equity. We’re invited to “free lunch” seminars, which are ways to get us in one place to sell us financial products. To get help if you question the “senior designations” you’re shown, call the CFPB at 855-411-2372. To report violators, call the whistleblower line at 855-695-7974, or send an email to [email protected]. The CFPB even has an Office of Financial Protection for Older Americans, so it has our best interests in mind.

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ing drugs can establish circulation to the brain area deprived of blood. If such treatment is given within three to four hours from the onset of symptoms, peo-ple can make a complete or near-complete recovery of function. The booklet on strokes provides informa-tion on this common and often tragic malady. Read-ers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 902W, 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 ad-dress. Please allow four weeks for delivery. *** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My son is 33. During his last visit, he happened to mention that he had floaters in his eyes, and they drove him crazy. He didn’t go into detail about this, but I would like to know about floaters and their implications. I never had them. -- L.H.

ANSWER: Floaters are dark, small spots that dart across a person’s field of vision when the person moves his eyes. They’re deposits of debris in the vitreous, a gellike substance that fills the entire back two-thirds of the eye. Nearsighted people are prone to developing them. I would bet that your son is nearsighted. There is no treatment for floaters. People learn to deal with them. A sudden onset of a large number of float-ers indicates that the retina is tearing away from its attachment to the back of the eye. Detachment of the vitreous can do the same. If such an event takes place, an immediate examination by an ophthalmolo-gist is mandatory. *** Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer indi-vidual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column when-ever 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 May 30, 1431, in Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Her most serious crime, according to the tribunal, was her rejection of church authority in favor of direct inspiration from God. She was 19 years old.

● On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam in Johnstown, Pa., collapses, causing a flood that kills more than 2,200 people. It was the largest earthen dam (made of dirt and rock, rather than steel and concrete) in the United States. Reportedly, a baby sur-vived on the floor of a house as it floated 75 miles from Johnstown.

● On May 29, 1914, heavy fog on the St. Lawrence River in Canada causes a col-lision of boats -- the Empress of Ireland and the Storstad -- that kills 1,073 people. Caused by a horrible series of blunders, it was one of the worst maritime disasters in history.

● On June 2, 1924, with Congress’ pas-sage of the Indian Citizenship Act, the gov-ernment of the United States confers citi-zenship on all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the country. Before the Civil War, citizenship often was limited to Native Americans of one-half or less In-dian blood.

● On May 27, 1937, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public af-ter five years of construction. On opening day -- “Pedestrian Day” -- some 200,000 walkers crossed the bridge, which spans the Golden Gate Strait at the entrance to San Francisco Bay and connects San Fran-cisco and Marin County.

● On May 28, 1957, National League own-ers vote unanimously to allow the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to move to San Francisco and Los Angeles, respec-tively, at the mid-season owner’s meeting in Chicago.

● On June 1, 1980, CNN (Cable News Network), the world’s first 24-hour televi-sion news network, makes its debut. Today, CNN is seen in more than 89 million Ameri-can households and more than 160 million homes internationally. In its first years of operation, CNN lost money and was ridi-culed as the Chicken Noodle Network.


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A: It is all about a change of attitude! The trick is to learn how to smile more and not allow yourselves to dwell on the “downers.” First and foremost, remember this: Happi-ness and contentment are not determined by the cir-cumstances in our lives; it is determined by how we react to those circumstances. How we react is deter-mined by our attitude -- and our attitudes are chosen. So it all comes back to you. We all have our share of aches, pains, bur-dens and woes -- and you’re no exception. If you stay focused on those negative things and allow them to keep eating at you by harboring feelings of hurt, self pity or anger, you are giving those things control over your behavior and your whole outlook on life. This is at the very core of every bad attitude. It’s very simple: The way you choose to think is the way you are. And be aware, it is also the way others perceive you. A person’s attitude effects ev-eryone around them, whether good or bad. People are either drawn toward you because of your pleas-ant, friendly and cheerful demeanor, or they are re-pelled by your negative words and mannerisms. If people don’t like the way you make them feel, they will avoid you. My recommendation is for you to keep up your relationship with this happy couple and spend as much time with them as you can. They are setting a good example to follow. Hopefully, their cheerful attitude will rub off on you! * * *

Q: We, like most of the other people we know, are growing more and more pessi-mestic about our economy, sickened by poli-tics, and disgusted by the insanity of our own government. What’s the outlook for seniors?

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A: Your No Parking sign would appeal to collectors of JFK memorabilia. It was installed along the presidential motorcade route to the area where Kennedy was sworn in as president and where he gave his inaugural speech. Jan. 20, 1961, was also the day President Dwight Eisenhower and Vice Presi-dent Richard Nixon left office.

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Q: This mark is on a set of dishes that my grandmother purchased in the 1950s. It is a service for eight set and also includes serving pieces. Each dish is hand painted and decorated with a yellow and brown plaid design against a cream background, and the edges are trimmed in dark brown. My grandmother rarely used the dishes, and they are in excellent condition. I plan to pass the set down to my daughter and would like to learn more about its history and value.

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Plugs and Pugs The iPad isn’t yet where it needs to be as a personal computer, television or consumption device, but it does offer some pretty compelling applications for the sports fan and news junkies in general. So far, the best news-reading application I have come across is Flipboard. What Flipboard does is aggregate news by topic, like say, the Indiana Pacers, or source, such as The Chicago Tribune. The application also allows you to follow twitter feeds and tumblrs, and when all of these components are compiled, the program turns it into an aesthetically pleasing format closely resembling a magazine. Its latest update allows users to create their own personally curated magazine, and being on the bleeding edge of technology, as I so often am, I have done so. The application is free, so if you have an iPad, why not give it a spin and search for the two magazines I’ve put together: “A Sporting View” (natch) and “Ali,” and subscribe. Again, there is no charge ever to do so, and it is not advertiser supported or anything like that ... it’s just a com-panion piece to this column. The “A Sporting View” magazine is updated daily and is an aggregate of sports stories I find particularly interesting that could be used to spur enough thought to create a column out of, and ev-ery share comes with added, ahem, “expert com-mentary.” The “Ali” magazine was born out of a discussion I had with a casual boxing fan in his 40s who said he really didn’t know anything about Muhammad Ali -- whom I, much like Ali himself did, consider to be the greatest of all time. His father-in-law, himself a great fan of the “sweet science,” and I began to prattle on and on in a brandy Manhattan-fueled (no cherry) oration to Ali and began ticking off his major accomplish-ments inside and outside the ring. I also suggested he take some time to watch his fights, most of which were on YouTube, the popular Internet video service. Then it struck me like a Larry Holmes left ... why not create a Flipboard for him, a multi-media site combining the written word, photographs and videos of Ali’s greatest hits all in one site. So, on the evening that Floyd Mayweather was thoroughly outclassing a kid they call “the ghost,” I set to work on the document, and I hope it’s one that all can enjoy. If you are not aware, boxing is in a very precarious situation. The sport cannot sustain another death in the ring, particularly amid the increased scrutiny on head injuries in sport nowa-days, and decades of pay-per-view championship bouts have shaken off a generation’s worth of would be fans. In a future column I’ll touch on box-ing reform -- a concept that is way overdue -- but in the meantime, I will continue to unabashedly revel in some of the sports all-time greatest moments here, there and everywhere.

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How many times have you hit a nice approach shot only to have the ball run through the green, leaving you with a tricky “short-sided” chip shot? When there’s very little green to work, my tech-nique for this shot should help you lob it in close to the hole for a short and easy putt. To see if your shot is short sided, pace off your distance and see if the half way mark is off the green. If so, you’ll need either a lob wedge or a sand wedge for the shot. Open your stance and the clubface slightly in your set up. If your stance is opened 10 degrees, the clubface should be opened by 10 degrees as well. Grip the club with your thumbs on top and slightly to the left. The technique for this swing is simple; make a half swing so the hands are about hip high, and a quarter swing in the follow through, keeping the clubhead below your hips. This swing should sweep through the ball very smooth-ly, like a pendulum. As you make your forward swing, make sure you have support from your lower body. Notice in the photo how my right hip has turned through to the target to give support to the upper body. The key to hitting this shot successfully is to brush the grass under the ball. Brushing the grass gets the ball high on the clubface resulting in a lofted arc and a soft landing. You’ll get very little roll and stay close to the hole.

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Many times we have hit a nice approach shot only to havethe ball run through the green, leaving us a very difficult shortsided chip shot. “Short siding” means that you have very littlegreen to work with on the chip shot. My technique for the lobshot can help you hit these shots close to the hole for a shortputt.The way to check to see if you are short sided is to pace offyour shot and establish a half way mark between your balland the hole. If the half way mark is off the green, than youwill want to play this lob shot.First off you want to play the shot preferably with a lobwedge. If you don’t have a lob wedge than go to your sandwedge. In your set up you will want to open your stance upslightly to complement you opening up your clubface. Thesetwo angles will match each other. If you open up the stance10 degrees than have the clubface angled open at 10degrees as well. Now that the clubface is open grip your clubwith your thumbs on top. This will actually make your gripwhat I call “weak”. The thumbs are actually left of the bottomgrooves on the clubface. The technique for this swing is very simple, make a halfswing in the back swing so the hands are approximately hiphigh and a quarter swing in the follow through, where theclub head stays below your hips. This swing going throughthe ball is like a pendulum, very smooth.As you make your forward swing you want to make sure thatyou have support from the lower body. Notice in the picturehow my right hip has turned through to the target to give theupper body support.The key to hitting this shot is to brush the grass under theball. This brush of the grass gets the ball high on the clubface and results into a high flying and soft landing shotwhere the ball will have very little roll and stay close to thehole.Rob Stanger is recognized by Golf Magazine as a 2007-2008 TopTeachers West Region. He teaches in the Desert at The College Golf Performance Center. To view more tips or video golf instructiongo to www.robstanger.com . You can contact Rob at 760-409-8628for inquiries about your golf game.

Lob Shot Around the Greens

Many times we have hit a nice approach shot only to havethe ball run through the green, leaving us a very difficult shortsided chip shot. “Short siding” means that you have very littlegreen to work with on the chip shot. My technique for the lobshot can help you hit these shots close to the hole for a shortputt.The way to check to see if you are short sided is to pace offyour shot and establish a half way mark between your balland the hole. If the half way mark is off the green, than youwill want to play this lob shot.First off you want to play the shot preferably with a lobwedge. If you don’t have a lob wedge than go to your sandwedge. In your set up you will want to open your stance upslightly to complement you opening up your clubface. Thesetwo angles will match each other. If you open up the stance10 degrees than have the clubface angled open at 10degrees as well. Now that the clubface is open grip your clubwith your thumbs on top. This will actually make your gripwhat I call “weak”. The thumbs are actually left of the bottomgrooves on the clubface. The technique for this swing is very simple, make a halfswing in the back swing so the hands are approximately hiphigh and a quarter swing in the follow through, where theclub head stays below your hips. This swing going throughthe ball is like a pendulum, very smooth.As you make your forward swing you want to make sure thatyou have support from the lower body. Notice in the picturehow my right hip has turned through to the target to give theupper body support.The key to hitting this shot is to brush the grass under theball. This brush of the grass gets the ball high on the clubface and results into a high flying and soft landing shotwhere the ball will have very little roll and stay close to thehole.Rob Stanger is recognized by Golf Magazine as a 2007-2008 TopTeachers West Region. He teaches in the Desert at The College Golf Performance Center. To view more tips or video golf instructiongo to www.robstanger.com . You can contact Rob at 760-409-8628for inquiries about your golf game.

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than the previous pair. Infection often resulted, sometimes followed by gangrene, amputation of toes, and even death. After two years, the ideally deformed foot fit a shoe only four inches long, and would proudly be called “lotus feet” or “lily feet.” Because women with lily feet could only put weight on their heels and couldn’t walk without pain, they hobbled with a mincing step which men considered charming.

• No one knows why the custom became habit, though it’s conjectured that the practice was popular because it prevented unhappy wives from running away. The practice began with the higher classes in order to prove that the family was so rich that the daughters didn’t need to work. However, a majority of low-class girls had their feet bound anyway in the hopes that they would find a high-class marriage. Only the most poverty-stricken families, whose daughters needed to work in the fields, failed to follow the practice.

• Beauty in the feet was considered more desirable than fair facial features. Foot-binding was the norm in China for a thousand years, until being outlawed in the Revolution of Sun Yat-Sen in 1911. A 1997 study of elderly women in Beijing who had suffered from foot binding in their youth found they tended to fall easily, were often unable to rise from a chair without help, could not squat, and had much higher rates of osteoporosis.

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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?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM TIDBITS!

SCARY MOVIESby Ryan Toepfer

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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1. ANIMAL KINGDOM: By what other name are a cat’s whiskers known?

2. ANCIENT WORLD: Where is the Acropolis?

3. HISTORY: Who was the com-manding Union general at the Battle of Gettysburg?

4. MEDICINE: What is scoliosis?5. GEOGRAPHY: What two coun-

tries share Niagara Falls?6. MOVIES: What was the name

of Gary Cooper’s character in “High Noon”?

7. ENTERTAINMENT: What kind of horse was Trigger, Roy Roger’s trusty steed?

8. SCIENCE: What metal is liquid at room temperature?

9. ANATOMY: Where is the medulla oblongata located?

10. LITERATURE: Who created the “Tom Swift” series of novels?

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2. Name the catcher who holds the modern major-league record for most passed balls in a season.

3. In 2012, Steve Weatherford of the New York Giants became the third punter in NFL history to receive a franchise-player tag. Name the other two.

4. Who was the first player in NCAA men’s basketball history to have a quadruple-double in a game?

5. In 2013, Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos became the fourth-youngest player to score 200 career goals (age 23). Who did it at a younger age?

6. Who was the last U.S. man before David Boudia in 2012 to win a gold medal in Olympic diving?

7. In 2013, Tiger Woods tied the mark for most career victories at one PGA event (eight). Who else holds the record?

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1987.3. Todd Sauerbrun (2003 with Car-

olina) and Michael Koenen (2009, Atlanta).

4. Tennessee-Martin’s Lester Hud-son, in 2007 (25 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals).

5. Wayne Gretzky (age 21), Mario Lemieux (22) and Dale Hawerchuk (22).

6. Mark Lenzi, in 1992.7. Sam Snead.


1. Who released “Heaven Is a Place On Earth” and when?

2. Name the group that covered the old 1940s standard “Cotton Fields” in 1970.

3. What was the name of the Mar-Keys when they first began?

4. Name the group that released “I Was Made For Lovin’ You.” Bonus for knowing the album name and year.

5. Name the song with this lyric: “You don’t drive a big fast car, no, You don’t look a-like a movie star, And on your money we won’t get far.”

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2. The Beach Boys. They originally recorded the song in 1968 but were unsatisfied with the arrangement.

3. The Royal Spades. Booker T. Jones was a member and eventually formed Booker T. & the MGs.

4. Kiss, in 1979, on their “Dynasty” album. The b-side of the single release was “Hard Times.”

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