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Ronald Popeil is best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco. He is well known for his lively infomercials for the Popeil Pocket Fisherman (“The greatest fishing invention since the hook!”), the Showtime Rotisserie (“Set it, and forget it!”) and for using the phrase, “But wait, there’s more!” on television as early as the mid-1950s.

• Popeil learned his trade from his father, Samuel, who was also an inventor and carny salesman of kitchen-related gadgets such as the Chop-O-Matic and the Veg-O-Matic.

• The invention of the Chop-O-Matic caused a problem that marked the entrance of Ron Popeil into television. It turned out that the Chop-O-Matic was so efficient at chopping vegetables, that it was impractical for salesmen to carry all the

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Boulevard was originally the path of a 1780s cattle trail that began at the Pueblo de Los Angeles and stretched 22 miles west to the ocean. Today, it starts in downtown Los Angeles and runs the same 22 miles, ending at the Pacific Coast Highway in the Pacific Palisades.

• A drive along the length of Sunset Boulevard takes the traveler through various neighborhood transitions that touch every extreme of the

socioeconomic scale, ranging from low-income housing to opulent mansions of the very rich.

• The boulevard is at least four lanes wide its entire length, and because of its heavy traffic along with curvy, winding turns in some sections, fender-benders are common.

• As the road continues west it passes, among other areas, through Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills and the exclusive Brentwood area.

• The best known section of the Boulevard is Sunset Strip, a 1.5 mile-long section in West Hollywood that has been famous for its active nightlife since the 1950s. Before its glory days, this section was known as Beverly Boulevard, and was little more than several scattered buildings and a few garden nurseries.

• It picked up its nickname as LA police and county workers began referring to the stretch of road as “that strip.” But once the movie industry took off, production studios and glamorous homes of movie stars began popping up everywhere.

• The Strip is rich with sights and attractions all along the way, encompassing a surplus of

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4. AD SLOGANS: What movie was promoted with the slogan, “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water”?

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3. When was the last time before 2011 that the Detroit Lions started a season 5-0?

4. Harvard made the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in 2012, the first time for the Crimson since when?

5. Who is the leading goal scorer in Buffalo Sabres history?

6. Which NASCAR Cup driver has the most victories at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway?

7. In 2012, Maria Sharapova became the sixth woman in the Open Era of tennis to have a career Grand Slam. Name four of the first five to do it.

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Brooks Robinson and Pete Rose.3. It was 1956.4. It was 1946.5. Gilbert Perreault, with 512.6. Richard Petty, with 13.7. Billie Jean King (1972), Chris

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1. Name the group that released “Quinn the Eskimo (Mighty Quinn)” in 1968.

2. Who recorded “We Don’t Talk Anymore,” and when?

3. Which group had hits with “Sleep-ing Bag” and “Stages”?

4. Don Van Vliet performed under what stage name?

5. Name the singer-songwriter who had a No. 1 hit with “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again.”

6. Which group released “Where Did Our Love Go,” “Baby Love” and “Come See About Me”?

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written by Bob Dylan in 1967.2. British pop singer Cliff Richard,

in 1979. Richard was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his ser-vices to music.

3. ZZ Top, both in 1985 on their “Afterburner” album. The group start-ed as a blues band but moved toward rock. VH-1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock” list ranks them as No. 44.

4. Captain Beefheart. He released 13 albums during his career and was said to have a vocal range of five octaves.

5. Eric Carmen, in 1976. He reached the top of the charts again in 1988 with “Make Me Lose Control.”

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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?

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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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vegetables they needed to chop. The solution was to film an actual demonstration. Once they were able to show the device in action, the next logical step was to start broadcasting the demonstration as a TV commercial.

• Popeil received the Ig Nobel Prize in Consumer Engineering in 1993. The awards committee described him as the “incessant inventor and perpetual pitchman of late night television” and awarded the prize in recognition of his “redefining the industrial revolution” with his numerous innovative devices.

• A good example of the classic “see a problem, sell a solution” method of invention is the “Snap-It Screw.” It’s a way to replace those tiny, hard-to-handle little screws that hold eyeglasses together.

• “Snap-It Screw” inventor Nancy Tedeschi recalls, “The old saying that necessity is the mother of invention is what inspired me.” And she means that literally since it was her own mother who was the inspiration for her idea.

• Tedeschi’s mother was overseas doing volunteer work when a hinge screw in her glasses fell out and she couldn’t find it. Left with no other immediate remedy, she slipped the post out of one of her earrings and plugged it in where the former hinge had been.

• “She wore her glasses with the bead still dangling from the hinge for about a year,” Tedeschi said. She traveled to several foreign countries with it, and people would literally stop her on the street and ask where she got this cute, glittery little charm. She finally came to me and said, ‘You really have to make these charms for glasses!’”

• For Tedeschi, creating the “Snap-It Screw” was the easy part. The hard part was doing all the organizing and legwork necessary to

produce and market her little invention. She found herself having to obtain legal patents from countries all over the world, then she opened a factory in China and a warehouse in Seattle. She spent countless hours strategizing ways to market her idea to retail sellers.

• Today, the “Snap-It Screw” is a success, and Tedeschi says that despite all the hard work she had to go through, she wouldn’t change a thing.

• “Bling To Go” was invented by Abby Appelt during a period where she was forced to use crutches. She felt the gray metal frame was boring and could use a little color and pizzazz. So she created some decorative wrap-on decals to give her crutches some personality -- and her invention was born.

• Appelt said, “When I wore my crutch décor, I had people stop me, literally everywhere I went, complimenting me on how awesome my crutches looked!”

• As Appelt notes, people decorate a million different things with all kinds of stickers, so it made sense to make some just for crutches. “Bling To Go” also works on canes, walkers and bed posts.

• Her company’s slogan is “express your health,” and they back up their words by being active contributors to several physical and emotional health charities.

• Perhaps one of the more peculiar and innovative creations making the invention circuit is the “Bogdon Bass.” It’s a standing acoustic string bass player whose main component is -- of all things -- a cardboard box!

• The “Bogdon Bass” is literally a large cardboard box reinforced with duct tape, with a wooden neck and vinyl strings. It can be played with or without an amplifier. Because of the use of these materials, the instrument is lightweight, inexpensive -- and recyclable.

• Its inventor, Chris Badynee, named it after his father, Bogdon. “The inspiration to make my Bogdon Box Bass was that I badly wanted to own something that I couldn’t afford to buy, so I made one myself,” Badynee said. “All I wanted was a natural-sounding upright bass for my own home recordings of songs I wrote.”

• After assembling what he thought was just a goofy idea that only he would use, Badynee was amazed by how good the makeshift instrument sounded. “The tone was so fantastic that I had to tell someone about it. So I taped a 60-second video and posted it on the web. I got 1,000 hits on YouTube in less than a day!”

• The video became a bit of a viral sensation, and Badynee was asked by “Good Morning, America” for the right to show the video on

their program.• Almost immediately after the GMA broadcast,

Badynee began receiving requests to buy a “Bogdon Box.” He brought in his uncle and a couple of acoustic technicians to help him perfect it. Once they got the instrument exactly right, they began selling it on eBay and received a huge response. Hundreds of orders

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• One of the most famous nightclubs in the ‘40s and ‘50s was the glamorous Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset, said to host the most beautiful girls in the world. After it was sold, it functioned as Moulin Rouge for a number of years.

• A n o t h e r f a m o u s fixture on the boulevard is The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, where many f a m o u s comedians got their start. Among them are Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Rosanne Barr and Jerry Seinfield, to mention but a few.

• Built in 1904, Hollywood High School on Sunset Boulevard has a reputation for being one of the most beautiful schools in the state. Many famous entertainment personalities are listed among its graduates.

• The iconic thoroughfare inspired the popular 1950s feature film “Sunset Boulevard,” starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson. It was later followed by a 1993 musical named “Sunset Boulevard” that starred Glen Close.

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● It was beloved American poet Robert Frost who made the following sage obser-vation: “A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”

● In 1938, Time magazine featured Adolph Hitler on the cover as its Man of the Year.

● You might be surprised at some of the amazing feats that can be accomplished with the aid of modern medicine. In 2008, two women in India gave birth at the age of 70. With the aid of egg donation and postmenopausal in vitro fertilization, Rajo Devi Lohan gave birth to her only child, a girl. Charan Singh Panwar and his wife, Omkari Panwar, already had two daugh-ters and five grandchildren, but they want-ed a son. Using the same procedure, Om-kari had twins, a boy and a girl.

● The first time a toilet was ever seen on television was in the pilot episode of “Leave It to Beaver,” in 1957.

● The most common name in the world is Muhammed.

● If you live in the South, home of huge roaches, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that a cockroach can live for a week without a head. When the headless insect does finally die, it’s from starvation, not from the loss of its head.

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the smaller ones tended to end quickly — some of the failures included California Film Co., Century Film Co., H. Paulis Studio and Francis Ford Studio. But some now-famous film companies were able to survive and thrive, including Warner Brothers Studios, Christie Film Co. and Columbia Studios.

• Today, tourists from all over the world visit Sunset Boulevard to get a glimpse of what makes Tinsel Town glitter and glow. ■

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• Using their former radio personality Bob Circosta as the network’s first home shopping host, Circosta would eventually sell 75,000 different products in over 20,000 hours of live television.

• Today, The Home Shopping Network is a $3 billion retailer that stretches across multiple channels and includes online, mobile, catalog and brick and mortar stores. It offers products 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 364 days a year.

• HSN now reaches 96 million homes, and its online site is one of the top 10 e-commerce sites on the web. Its catalog division, Cornerstone, distributes 275 million catalogs a year, costing an exorbitant amount in postage alone, but miniscule compared to the profits they generate.

• In 2010, legendary rocker Rod Stewart was the first popular performer to spotlight a new album on a shopping channel. He debuted his CD “Fly Me To The Moon” with a live, one-hour concert on HSN. It was the highest viewed program in the history of the network and broke all of its music sales records.

• The other prominent shopping channel, QVC, (standing for Quality, Value, Convenience) was founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel, founder of the Franklin Mint. Seasoned viewers of late-night TV commercials will recognize the Franklin Mint as the seller of commemorative plates, painted figurines, limited edition coins and many other collectible items.

• QVC’s first live broadcast was shot in a studio in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The company broke American business records for sales by a new public company. Part of its early success came through an exclusive agreement with Sears to sell their products on the air.

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There’s a good chance you have an item or two in your household that you purchased without ever leaving your house -- and you even had it delivered right to your door. Home shopping is big business, to the tune of billions in revenue per year. Read on to learn more about this innovative and lucrative consumer phenomenon that keeps millions of viewers locked and loaded with their credit cards ready!• The concept for a broadcast venue dedicated

solely to home shopping originated in a roundabout way in 1977. A local radio station in Clearwater, Florida was unable to collect advertising payment due to a cash flow problem by one of its advertisers. As a last resort, the station owner, Tom Paxson, reluctantly agreed to accept the only items of value the advertiser had to offer -- a case of 112 avocado-colored electric can openers.

• Faced with the challenge of turning the goods into cash, he instructed radio personality Bob Circosta to go on the air and hype all the benefits he could dream up of owning one of these $9.95 can openers. Encouraged by the number of calls that started coming in, he kept hyping away until he had sold out the entire case in less than an hour!

• It didn’t take a lot of figuring to convince Paxson that he was on to something. Using the can opener selling technique, he starting featuring a regular radio shopping show he called “the Suncoast International Bargaineers Club.” The show soon developed a faithful audience following -- and an industry was born.

• Realizing that live, on-air product selling is best suited for TV, Paxson and financier Roy Speer co-founded a local cable TV channel in 1981 and named it “the Home Shopping Channel.” Broadcast out of Tampa Bay and selling products directly to Florida viewers, it also drew a fast following.

• Seeing a golden opportunity to take the show to the national level, they purchased a new network in 1985 and launched the first ever 24-hours a day nationwide home shopping

more than just niche programming, QVC reported record sales of T-shirts heralding “Dallas Cowboys 1994 Super Bowl Champs.” The network sold over 6,000 shirts in just the first few seconds after the game ended!

• In 1995, QVC’s success in home shopping was expressed by a few remarkable landmarks. In March of that year, they recorded over 250,000 phone calls in a single day.

• It also shipped its 200 millionth package during March of that year, the equivalent of one package for every person in America at the time. In August that same year, QVC held a “Klondike Gold Rush Day,” where sales revenues topped $19 million in 24 hours.

• Today, QVC receives more than 181 million calls in the United States per year, and it ships about 166 million packages worldwide. Its reach is to more than 166 million homes, and its annual sales recently topped $7 billion. ■

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Too Many Cardiac Tests, Treatments Occur In U.S. Hundreds of thousands of healthy Ameri-cans have an annual electrocardiogram, EKG, and stress test to screen for coronary artery disease. The stress test can be done in one of two ways. The heart can be stressed either by exercising on a treadmill while monitored by an EKG or by injecting a radioisotope and scanning the heart before and after exercise. If exercise is difficult, the heart can be stressed by injecting the medication persantine. In either case, abnormalities can identify coronary artery disease. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently reaffirmed the opinion of many experts by recommending against routine EKGs and stress tests for healthy individuals at a low risk of having heart disease and who have no symptoms, such as chest pain or shortness of breath. The task force found the tests often yield false results, leading to needless additional investigations that may cause more harm than good. Furthermore, a normal test is not a good predictor of future cardiac risk problems. Even for those at a higher risk of heart disease, the task force does not believe there is enough evidence either for or against EKG and stress testing, and it suggests that a decision be made on a case-by-case basis between doctor and patient. So how do you determine your risk for hav-ing a heart attack? This can easily be accomplished by entering information into a risk assessment tool developed by the American Heart Association at heart.org. Their heart-attack risk calculator factors in the common conditions that contribute to a higher chance of having a heart attack: age, being a male or a post-menopausal female, strong family his-tory of heart attacks, high blood pressure, elevated LDL (bad) cholesterol, a fasting blood sugar count greater than 100, smoking, being overweight, being sedentary and eating poorly. Once completed, the tool provides information about the risk of having a heart attack within 10 years (mine is 12 percent) and what steps should be taken to address any prob-lems. As heart disease is clearly the leading cause of death, it is fair to assume that everyone is in some danger. So taking steps to improve your heart health is far more important and valuable than find-ing out during a stress test that significant coronary

artery disease is already present. This means being compulsive about living a heart healthy lifestyle, including exercising, eating right, not smoking and managing stress, as well as working closely with a physician to identify and cor-rect treatable risk factors. If heart attack risk is moderate or high, a dialogue with a primary-care physician or cardiolo-gist to determine if a stress test should be done is appropriate. And for someone whose assessment indicates a very high risk of a heart attack within the next 10 years, a screening stress test is a realistic consideration. But there must be an understanding that the result may lead to angiograms, angioplasty or even open-heart surgery. No matter your risk, should symptoms de-velop -- such as shortness of breath or chest pain -- a stress test is then used as a diagnostic rather than a screening tool. Some experts may even forgo a stress test and opt for an immediate angiogram if symptoms are sufficiently compelling. For anyone who is known to have coronary artery disease but is being optimally managed with medications and has either no or stable symptoms, annual stress tests may do more harm than good. In this circumstance, any invasive procedure to open a blocked artery (by angioplasty using stents or surgery) will neither prolong life nor reduce the risk of a heart attack. Invasive procedures will relieve symptoms, but sadly, angiograms and even open-heart surgery are done frequently on individuals with no symptoms at all. Nothing is scarier than dealing with a heart problem. The evidence is compelling that aggressive diagnostic and invasive procedures are highly effec-tive when done for the appropriate indication. But numerous studies have shown that aggressive care is frequently unnecessary. In relation to heart health, the more you know and the more involved you are, the better. 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 Syndicate writers and cartoonists visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com. More information is available at: drdavidhealth.com

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be OK, but would require extensive hospitalization that quickly used up what little health insurance they had, there was a scene in which his wife was talking to the doctors. She said something like this: “I want you to make sure Elmer gets the best care possible. And don’t worry, I’m going to go home and sell the farm so that we will be able to pay all of these hospi-tal expenses.” And then we got to the Medicare pitch. One of the doctors tells her: “Oh you won’t have to con-cern yourself with that, Mildred, for you see, the gov-ernment has a brand new program called Medicare, and it’s going to pay most of Elmer’s bills. Why, you’ll just have to pay a small deductible out of your own pocket, and that’s all. So you’ll be able to keep the farm, and once we get Elmer up and around again, he can go back to raising those fine hogs of his.” Mil-dred had the last line in the movie: “Thank God for the government and this wonderful new Medicare program!” Fade to black. And it just so happened that the very evening following my storeroom cleaning stint and viewing the old Medicare movie, I was watching TV at home with my wife. A commercial came on promoting a Medicare supplement plan. It featured several obvi-ously well-to-do men playing golf. As a guy was get-ting ready to putt, one of his colleagues asked about his recent gall bladder surgery. “Oh, I’m doing just great,” he said, “but I tell you, I’m kind of ticked off because that darn government Medicare program stiffed me with part of the bill. Why, I had to pay $100 out of my own pocket!” And that led to a pitch from one of the other golfers for the Medicare supplement plan that would have picked up those extra expenses not paid by Medicare. I know both the old movie and the TV com-mercial I watched were fiction. But I think their mes-sages did reflect the tenor of the times. And here is what struck me. I was amazed by how people’s ex-pectations of their government had changed so dra-matically in just 10 years. In 1965, we had a woman who was willing to sell the farm in order to pay her husband’s hospital bill. And 10 years later, we had a rich guy on a golf course griping because the govern-ment was forcing him to cough up a measly hundred bucks out of his own pocket to pay for his hospital stay! And contrast that corny pro-government Medicare movie message with today’s ever-so-cyn-ical anti-government, anti-”Obamacare” mood that envelops this country. It seems to me that many folks

want all the inexpensive government health care they can get, as long as they don’t have to help out the other guy. We sure are a wacky -- some might say hypo-critical -- people when it comes to government-spon-sored health care in this country!

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ANSWER: That swelling is edema, and it has many causes. One is sitting for long periods with the legs dangling down. With the legs in that posi-tion, gravity pulls fluid from the legs’ blood vessels. Treatment for this kind of edema consists in elevat-ing the legs. Every hour, lie down for 10 minutes with pillows under your legs and feet so that they are above heart level. When sitting, squeeze the leg muscles over and over. Muscle contractions stop the oozing of fluids from the blood vessels. And take a morning and afternoon walk. Elastic hose can keep fluid in blood vessels and out of the surrounding tis-sues. Dilated leg veins -- varicose veins -- promote edema. A clot in a leg vein is another cause. That’s usually quite painful, and you’d be aware that some-thing is going on if you had a clot. Liver ailments can lead to edema. The liver makes a blood protein, albumin, that keeps fluid in circulation. With a low production of this protein, fluid leaks out of vessels. Kidney failure is another reason why edema occurs. Medicines can lead to it. The popular non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines such as Advil and Aleve are two examples. So are medicines called calcium channel blockers, such as nifedipine and verapamil. If you increased the dose of your water pill on your own, you shouldn’t. You can develop a potassium deficiency from overuse of water pills. Try the things I mentioned. See if they bring down the swelling. If they don’t, you’ll have to con-sult your doctor. A much more important cause of ankle-foot edema is heart failure, something that your doctor must check you for. The booklet on edema and lymphedema ex-plains this kind of swelling in detail. Readers can ob-tain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 106W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please al-low four weeks for delivery. *** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I’d been on Am-bien for three years. I’m off it now. I take mela-tonin. It works better. What are the good things and bad things about it? -- R.M. ANSWER: The pineal gland in the brain makes melatonin, a hormone-like substance that contributes in regulating our internal clock. Melato-nin is secreted at night and signals the body to go to sleep. The benefits ascribed to melatonin are amaz-

ing: quelling inflammation, acting as an antioxidant, bolstering the immune system, preventing cancer. The evidence for these benefits is not over-whelming. It does, however, prevent jet lag and fos-ter sleep. Long-term side effects and safety are not known Chronic insomnia is best treated by consult-ing a sleep specialist. *** Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an or-der form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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A: Studies by experts confirm your expe-rience. It has been shown that the average senior watches TV up to eight or nine hours every day. Why? TV can be considered a form of com-panionship, a way to escape guilt, a relief from lone-liness, an opportunity to forget problems, gratifica-tion, excitement and a variety of other needs. Some men watch sports as a way to relive the athletic expe-riences of their youth. TV is easily available and requires no effort except to point and click the remote. Cozying up to the “idiot box” is also a way to avoid personal interac-tion, and also a way to isolate oneself socially. On the plus side it tends to keep you updated and current on the news. The lack of exercise will eventually become a major health issue. Various excuses are given for not exercising, including overall poor health, pain, the fear of falling, no desire to change, excessive use of alcohol, medications, stubbornness and other nega-tive reasons. Discuss possible options with your hus-band’s doctor, your clergy and his male friends, who may be experiencing a similar problem. Group ther-apy is also healthy. Recently, while jogging around the block, I passed by a neighbor walking with a cane. He com-mented: “I wish I could still do that.” That certainly brought reality home.

Q: Now that our parents have settled into retirement, they appear to be entirely con-tent. They have worked hard, earned their lei-sure days and are now having fun after raising a wonderful family. They are grateful for good health and happiness. However, on occasion when we visit, they express some guilt about spending their assets because they see that oth-

er family members could use a little financial help. We try to minimize those thoughts. We in no way begrudge their happiness and totally agree it is their turn to enjoy life. In fact, we insist they do so. How can we help them get over their self-guilt?

A: Tell them how much pleasure you are receiving by simply seeing them happy. Thank them for sharing and guiding you to the level you now share with your own families. Remind them of all that they did for you and of all the love and time that has already been expressed through the genera-tions. Not every family has had that opportunity or will experience that. Tell them to spend their money. It’s theirs and they earned it. Encourage them to enjoy their independence and let them know how lucky you are to have them for parents. Share with them how much you are enjoying how happy and enthusiastic they are and that that makes you equally as happy. And make sure you tell them often that you love them!

Doug Mayberry makes the most of life in a Southern Cali-fornia retirement community. Contact him at [email protected]. To find out more about Doug Mayberry and read features by other Cre-ators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.



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● On Sept. 9, 1776, the Continental Con-gress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the “United States” of America. It replaced the term “United Colonies,” which had been in general use.

● On Sept. 3, 1783, the American Revolu-tion officially comes to an end when repre-sentatives of the United States, Great Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris. The signing signified America’s status as a free nation, as Britain formally recognized the independence of its 13 former American colonies.

● On Sept. 7, 1936, Charles Harden Hol-ley is born in Lubbock, Texas. Writing and performing under the name Buddy Holly, he would have an influence on rock ‘n’ roll that would far outlast his tragically shortened ca-reer. He left behind a legacy that includes “That’ll Be The Day,” “Peggy Sue,” “Not Fade Away,” It’s So Easy,” “Everyday,” “Oh Boy!” and “Maybe Baby.”

● On Sept. 6, 1943, a new high-speed train traveling between New York City and Wash-ington, D.C., derails, killing 79 people and se-riously injuring 100 more. The Congressional Limited traveled at an unprecedented speed of 65 mph.

● On Sept. 4, 1957, Ford Motor Company unveils the Edsel, the first new automobile brand produced by one of the Big Three car companies since 1938. One reporter called it “an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon.” In addi-tion, at highway speeds the famous hood or-nament had a tendency to fly off and into the windshield.

● On Sept. 5, 1972, during the 1972 Sum-mer Olympics at Munich, Germany, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, kill-ing two and taking nine others hostage. The terrorists were part of a group known as Black September.

● On Sept. 8, 1986, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” is broadcast nationally for the first time. It went on to become the highest-rated talk show in TV history. By 2008, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” had an estimated weekly audience of some 46 million viewers in the United States and was broadcast around the world in 134 countries.


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Before he hit the 40-feet hook shot out of the straw to take him to within two putts of the Green Jacket, a little bit of banter in the room turned to what Bubba Watson was wearing.

As most of us know by now, Bub-ba Watson won the Masters, largely due to his monstrous 300-plus yard drives and unorthodox swinging style. But I, too, became curious about Watson’s game and, yes, his style, too.

For the techies out there, Watson uses a PING G20 driver with a cus-tom pink True Temper Grafalloy Bi-Matrix shaft. The same exact driver will be made available to pro shops this year, the company announced after the tournament.

Pink is a color that most sports fans are becoming accustomed to. It appears in splashes on various uni-forms these days to signify the fight against breast cancer, a cause that has successfully managed to co-opt that color and increase awareness. Knowing this, we were all a little leery of making fun of the color.

And we were right: Ping donates $300 to Watson’s charity for every 300-foot drive he makes. His Phoe-nix-based charity aims to donate $1 million to various organizations

during the year, and after this win, it’s a safe bet to say it will do so.

But his manner of dress and that unorthodox swinging style also reminded me of former PGA tour-nament winner from the ‘60s, Doug Sanders.

Known as the “Peacock of the Fairways,” Sanders came out of nowhere to win the Canadian Open as an amateur. His best finish at the Masters was a fourth place tie, and he won 20 events on the Tour, but Sanders was best known for his manner of dress. Sanders was famous for his “Mad Men”-esque devotion to what he wore. He was known to wear golf shoes that looked more like dress shoes, pleated golf plants, button-down cardigans and a golf polo. Each out-fit had complimentary colors of the same shade, and he even made sure his golf bags matched his outfit.

While both Sanders and Watson are philanthropists and champions, they have something else in com-mon — they’re both self-taught golfers. Neither has taken a lesson in his life. Sanders grew up a poor cotton farmer’s son; Watson’s father was a Green Beret Vietnam veteran who gave him a 9-iron once and told him to “beat it down the fairway.”

Well, Watson surely will be beat-ing it down the fairway for a while now, and nobody will make fun of his clothes anymore, but I have one suggestion — and I’m sure Mr. Sanders would agree — you should at least shave before putting on the Green Jacket. Sure he won in a play-off, but this isn’t hockey, you know.

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A: Hutschenreuther Porcelain was found-ed by Carl Hutschenreuter in Hohenberg, Bavaria, Germany, in 1914. They are known for their ex-tremely high quality dinnerware and figurines. They are still in business and also produce limited-edition pieces. The word “Spahn” is actually “Spahr.” Ger-man designer, Carl Spahr, developed a technique of decorating porcelain and glass with silver overlay. His overlay was used by Hutschenreuter Porcelain Factory and Rosenthal Porcelain and Glass Co., as well as other factories and glass designers. Objects marked “Spahr 1000” show that the purest form of silver was used. “Favorit” refers to the shape of the porcelain dishes. Your set was made in the mid-20th century and would be worth $800 to $1,200.

Q: I have enclosed the mark that is on the bottom of a porcelain cat figurine that was my mother’s. He has white fur, a blue tail, toes and collar. His ears are touched with both blue and pink. His tail is straight up in the air, and his overall height is 10 inches. I remember my mother always kept him on the top shelf of the china cupboard. She told us we could look at him but not to touch or pick him up. My mother recently decided to give him to me, and I hope you can tell me something about his history and value.

A: Kay Finch made your figurine. She and her husband, Braden, opened a small pottery in 1939 in Corona Del Mar, Calif. She created and de-

signed animals and birds, especially dogs. Her son, George, eventually joined the pottery and designed nonfigural pieces. In 1963, Finch closed her pottery shop following the death of her husband. Your cat is known as “Hannibal, the Angry Cat” and was made in the early 1940s. Several years ago, the value was in the high hundreds. Today it would probably be worth $75 to $125.

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Crushing on England The United States of America “won” the XXX Olympics -- which is fitting in oh-so-many ways. For if there’s any country that can turn an XXX trick, it’s the United States. No, I’m not a self-loathing liberal or a drum-beating right winger --- there’s a reason why I write sports. I typically care not about the political arena, and I consider myself to be one of those “moderate” types in that I don’t stockpile shotgun shells, but still, on occasion, brush with fluoride toothpaste. My point is this: England -- sorry, Great Britain and (more to the point) the great city of London -- showed why they’re our favorite crush. Try as we might, for all of our preening and Ameri-can braggadocio, England always socks us right in the kisser, and we love her all the more for it, don’t we? That little island once dominated and colo-nized most of the world. Sure, their food always sucked (still does, save for the chocolate and genuine Indian food), and for a time they just kind of hung out in the soot and smog of their indus-trial age, but at least they have been around long enough to have “ages.” And they had character --- characters, I should say. When they weren’t burning down the White House (Wikipedia that, kids), they were still careful to avoid the Plague, Nazis and the Artful Dodger. Ever since the Fab Four caught that flight into Idlewild Airport, we’ve been smitten with our one-time oppressors. Sure, every so often they pull our pigtails and say silly things like “we invent-ed baseball, divorce and tank warfare,” but we are able to look past that because we’re in love. The television coverage of the 2012 Olym-pics reminded us of that fact in so many ways. We certainly looked -- NBC pulled in its biggest ratings ever. And what a show it was. The Queen jumping out of planes with James Bond. The Spice Girls, pleasant weather, Mitt Romney’s dancing horse and no terrorism. Simply smashing! So we “won” the games, hauling in 104 medals in total -- 46 of which were of the golden variety. China came in second, scoring 88 med-als, but they can take solace in the fact that our athletes have to pay taxes on those medals (partly true, according to Snopes.com), so a chunk of our medals will be going to them anyway. In the end, our National Broadcasting Company made sure to sell out. When it wasn’t holding back the goods by delaying coverage (but telling us the outcomes beforehand), NBC was cutting off the closing ceremonies. Britain was giv-ing us The Who, and we were off screwing around with some stupid sitcom. Maybe, like most long relationships, we can just laugh off our faults (and Bob Costas) and hope our lovers see them as charming quirks. At least we’re consistent.

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• Some phobias relate to what’s up above,such as the sun (heliophobia), the clouds(nephophobia), the moon (selenophobia),and the stars (siderophobia). Some folks arejust afraid of looking up – they are calledanablephobes.

•Not all phobias seem that abnormal oruncommon.Lotsofpeoplemighthaveafearof death, known as necrophobia. But thosewith an extreme form might be terrified ofbeing buried alive.A nosocomephobe has afearofhospitals,averminophobeisafraidofgerms,andahydrophobehasanirrationalfearofwater.

• Individuals suffering from extreme agora-phobiararelyleavetheirhomes,duetotheirfearofpublicoropenspacesand the inescapablesituationsthatmayoccurthere.Onlyhomeissafe.

• Somephobiascanbea learnedbehavior thatcomes from listening to others describe atraumaticevent.Anindividualinone’slifecantriggeraphobia,suchaspeladophobia,thefearofbaldpeople.Thosewithnosto-phobia,afearof returninghome,maybeable tocontributetheirpanictoaspecificincident.

• Peoplewhoareafraidoflookingintomirrorshave cataptrophobia, while those with cyberphobia have a fear of working withcomputers.A person with an anxiety aboutmemories is a mnemophobe.

•Don’tconfuselevophobia, thefearofobjectstoaperson’sleft,withdextrophobia, thefearofobjectstotheright.

•Although some of us fear the possibility ofcancer,anextremecarcinophobewillconvincehimself he has cancer because he touchedsomeone who has it.

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• A well-known invention marketed very successfully via television infomercials is the Snuggie. This soft and fleecy blanket with the big, droopy sleeves quickly rushed to the rescue and solved a problem most people didn’t even know they had.

• Since the Snuggie covers your entire body but keeps your arms free thanks to its sleeves, wearers stay warm while still retaining the ability to take a sip of their drink, change the channel or turn the page of a book.

• Snuggie TV commercials were first introduced in 2008 and were an instant success. And with the help of shapely and attractive female Snuggie-wearing models with seductive winks and smiles, more than 20 million Snuggies were sold the following year.

• But the Snuggie wasn’t the first product of its kind on the market. An earlier version of this same idea was the Slanket, invented by young college freshmen Gary Clegg.

• But because it’s not easy to patent a textile product, and because Clegg was totally inexperienced in product manufacturing, advertising and marketing, his Slanket idea never quite made the big time.

• Although imitation may be considered the sincerest form of flattery, it’s a pretty safe bet that Clegg felt something less than pride as he watched the Snuggie rocket to success and completely corner the market. ■

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1. FOOD & DRINK: What is French “pate de foie gras” made from?

2. GEOGRAPHY: The island of Madagascar lies in what body of water?

3. LANGUAGE: What is a similar way to describe a “ribald” joke?

4. AD SLOGANS: What movie was promoted with the slogan, “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water”?

5. HUMAN ANATOMY: What is the most common type of blood?

6. POLITICS: What longtime Ohio senator was known as “Mr. Republi-can”?

7. LITERARY: What famous author used the pen name “Boz” in his early career?

8. MOVIES: Which three actors have starred in major roles as Inspec-tor Clouseau in the Pink Panther mov-ies?

9. CHEMISTRY: What does the “Ag” stand for in the chemical symbol for silver?

10. HISTORY: When did Queen Anne’s War (Third Indian War) begin in colonial America?

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Steve Martin9. Argentum, the Latin word for silver10. 1702


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3. When was the last time before 2011 that the Detroit Lions started a season 5-0?

4. Harvard made the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in 2012, the first time for the Crimson since when?

5. Who is the leading goal scorer in Buffalo Sabres history?

6. Which NASCAR Cup driver has the most victories at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway?

7. In 2012, Maria Sharapova became the sixth woman in the Open Era of tennis to have a career Grand Slam. Name four of the first five to do it.

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Evert (1982), Martina Navratilova (1983), Steffi Graf (1988) and Serena Williams (2003).


1. Name the group that released “Quinn the Eskimo (Mighty Quinn)” in 1968.

2. Who recorded “We Don’t Talk Anymore,” and when?

3. Which group had hits with “Sleep-ing Bag” and “Stages”?

4. Don Van Vliet performed under what stage name?

5. Name the singer-songwriter who had a No. 1 hit with “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again.”

6. Which group released “Where Did Our Love Go,” “Baby Love” and “Come See About Me”?

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written by Bob Dylan in 1967.2. British pop singer Cliff Richard,

in 1979. Richard was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his ser-vices to music.

3. ZZ Top, both in 1985 on their “Afterburner” album. The group start-ed as a blues band but moved toward rock. VH-1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock” list ranks them as No. 44.

4. Captain Beefheart. He released 13 albums during his career and was said to have a vocal range of five octaves.

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