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• “The first time we painted the walls in our house,one of us had stepped in some paint while wearingsocks and, not realizing it, had tracked some painton the carpet. Since then, we always go barefootwhen painting, since we can feel it if we step inpaint and can clean it off before it gets trackedaround the house.” — M.M. in Florida

• “If you have leftover bits of fabric that is pretty orstill useful, save it in a box or bag for other projects.

You can use fun fabric scraps to patch kids’ clothesor for doll clothing. They also can be used to makesachets or for gift decoration. Quilters mightappreciate these scraps for their projects.” — E.D. inMassachusetts

• “When threading a needle, spray the end of thethread with hairspray to make it stiffer and to holdthe fibers together.” — O.A. in New Mexico

• It’s important to clean your exterior windows andscreens at least yearly, and many people do this inthe spring. Here’s a good way to make putting thoseclean screens back up a little easier. As you removethem, number each one on the inside with apermanent marker. Number each window casingwith the same number as well. Do this in a discreet

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• Unlined leather gloves can be easily washed. Justput them on and wash your gloved hands with alittle warm water and mild detergent. Rinse and blot,then smooth into shape to dry. Lay on a flat towelto dry, flipping several times during the dryingprocess.

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Don’t Cage CatDEAR PAW’S CORNER: I have a precious little kitty (1 year old) that I got

from a rescue that has taken a liking to relieving herself on my bed! What do I doother than keeping her caged? — Frustrated in Philadelphia

DEAR FRUSTRATED: Take her out of the cage! I have a good idea whyshe’s relieving herself on your bed. I don’t know much about your living situa-tion, but cats should not be caged or crated for long periods of time, and only toprotect them from harm — not as a barrier or punishment.

Cats are very different from dogs, and using a cage will not “train” her to doanything but be more angry. And cats will express anger and frustration in a waythat you can’t miss. Her relieving habit is most likely directly related to beingstuck in the cage. She knows full well that you sleep on that bed!

I’ve had only one cat do the same to me, and it was entirely my fault. I acci-dentally shut him in my bedroom as I left for work. Cut off from my other cat,his food and his litter box, he expressed his displeasure quite clearly. But it onlyhappened once. I made sure he was out of the room from then on before closingthe door, and he never again was put in that position of having only one way tocommunicate.

If you don’t want your cat to soil the bed, keep her outside of your bedroom.Even if you’re in a studio and can’t close off the bedroom, you can screen thebed (literally — a roll of window screening at the hardware store costs less than

10 dollars) to keep her away. Butshe needs relatively free reinaround the rest of the house orapartment, access to food andher litter box, and a view of theoutside. And put the cage into acloset, out of sight. Don’t use itunless you’re transporting her tothe vet.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — DanicaPatrick, the only woman ever to win an Indy-car race, made a successful debut in stock carsby finishing sixth in the Lucas Oil Slick Mist200, an Automobile Racing Club of Americarace at Daytona In-ternational Speed-

way run on Feb. 6.The event, won for the

sixth time by Pennsylvaniadriver Bobby Gerhart, pro-vided Patrick with neededexperience in the Daytonadraft.

“It’s a little harder than Ithought it would be, but I feltreally good,” she said. “Iworked on closing that dis-tance between two carlengths and being right on

them at a half a car length because, with my Indy-carexperience, I thought two car lengths was on them butit’s not, which is understandable why the accidents areso big because you have nowhere to go because you areliterally nose to tail.

“I think that, for a long, long time to come, it will besomething that you get better and better at,” said Patrick,who will turn 28 on March 25.

“A lot of these drivers are new to me. I don’t know alot of them,” she said. “There are a lot of nice guys outthere, and its nice to be around some good drivers.”

A native of Roscoe, Ill., and resident of Phoenix, Ariz.,Patrick drives for JR Motorsports, which is aligned withHendrick Motorsports, NASCAR’s premier team. TonyEury Jr., Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s first cousin and former crewchief, is helping her learn the ropes in stock-car racing.

“He’s a very good crew chief,” she said. “In IndyCar,our engineers are crew chiefs. I’m lucky to have greatengineer-crew chiefs in both places. Tony’s very talented.... He knows what he’s doing. I tell him what the car isdoing and he fixes it.

Monte Dutton has covered motorsports for The Gaston(N.C.) Gazette since 1993. He was named writer of the year bythe National Motorsports Press Association in 2008. His blogNASCAR This Week (http://nascar.rbma.com) features all of hisreporting on racing, roots music and life on the road. E-mailMonte at [email protected].


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A new study has shown that we seniors take in more infor-mation from the environment. Researchers call it “hyper-en-coding,” when we notice more of what’s going on around usand merge it with other information we’re getting at the sametime. And we’re 30 percent better at it than our younger coun-terparts.

Here’s an example: Let’s say you’re with your daughtertalking to a friend, Mr. Jones, on the street, listening to whathe’s saying. Not only do you listen to him, but you also noticethat he’s wearing a red tie and a blue shirt. Later you say toyour daughter, “I’d like to buy your father a shirt like Mr.Jones was wearing.” To which your daughter will likely re-ply: “What shirt? I didn’t notice it.” Not only that, but if youhappen to spot that same shirt in a store, you’re more likely toremember where you first saw it.

Does this make us wiser? Perhaps. I suspect we’re betterat making decisions because we’ve noticed so much morearound us over time. We understand cause and effect becausewe’ve witnessed events and taken in information, and whennew information is presented, we can tie it to the previousevents we’ve seen.

We’re good at problem solving, likely because of past ex-perience. We take the parts and pieces and put them togetherin ways that our younger counterparts don’t. We tend to getgood grades in classes we take, likely because we rememberold information and tie it to the new.

On the other hand, this reduced ability to filter out extra-neous information can explain why many of us find televi-sion commercials so annoying. Not only do we remember thecontent of the show we’re watching, but we can also recallthe commercial information, repeated over and over.

Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader ques-tions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Write toher in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].


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• It was British journalist Jeremy Campbell who

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into its design. The brain’s strong point is itsflexibility.”

• In 1911, it became illegal in China to wear apigtail.

• One of Ernest Hemingway’s early English

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