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Q. Approximately how many birthdays does the average person have?

A. Just one. All the others are anniversaries.

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Mothers Day Cards, Flowers & Gifts

21,135 Number of florists nationwide. Their 101,861 employees will be especially busy selling bouquets for Mother’s Day. The flowers you buy mom probably were grown in California or Colombia.

12,473 Number of employees of 120 greeting-card publishing establishments in 2005.

12,854 The number of cosmetics, beauty supplies and perfume stores nationwide in 2005. Perfume is one of the most popular gifts given on Mother’s Day.

29,624 Number of jewelry stores in the United States in 2005 -- the place to purchase necklaces, earrings and other timeless pieces for mom.

New Moms

4.3 million Number of women who have babies each year. Of this number, about 450,000 are teens, and more than 100,000 are age 40 or over.

25.2 Median age of women when they give birth for the first time - meaning one-half are above this age and one-half are below. The median age has risen nearly three years since 1970.

40 Percentage of births taking place annually that are the mothers’ first.

36,000 Number of births each year attended by physicians, midwives or others that did not occur in hospitals.

1-in-31 The odds of a woman delivering twins. Her odds of having triplets or other multiple births was approximately 1-in-539.

August The month with the highest number of births, with 369,316 taking place that month in 2005.

Tuesday The most popular day of the week in which to have a baby, with an average of more than 13,169 births taking place on Tuesdays during 2005.

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• On May 19, 1836, during a raid, Comanche, Kiowa and Caddo Indians in Texas kidnap 9-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker and kill her family. Adopted into the Comanche tribe, she lived a happy life, marrying a warrior and having three children, until Texas Rangers recaptured her in 1860. They forced her to return to live again among Anglo-Americans after killing her husband.

• On May 16, 1849, the New York City Board of Health finally is able to establish a hospital to deal with a cholera epidemic that, before it ends, kills more than 5,000 people. The disease

spread when boat passengers escaped from a mandatory quarantine.

• On May 18, 1861, an obscure California newspaper relates how first lady Mary Todd Lincoln took it upon herself to appoint Mr. W.S. Wood as superintendent of Public Buildings. The article suggested that Mrs. Lincoln had been smitten with Mr. Wood's handsome features, luxuriant whiskers and graceful carriage.

• On May 20, 1873, Levi Strauss secures the necessary patents for canvas pants with copper rivets to reinforce the stress points. Unable to sell a large supply of canvas in the California mining camps, Strauss had hit on the idea of using the durable material to make work pants for miners.

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• Each serving equals: 157 calories, 5g fat, 2g protein, 26g carb., 225mg sodium, 2g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 1 Starch, 1 Fat, 1/2 Fruit.

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May 5 - 11, 2011

This stage of Kasey Kahne's career is tumultu-ous almost by definition. What should be the prime

of the 31-year-old's career is a bit muddled, if only for now. Kahne left Richard Petty Motorsports near the end of last season. In 2012, he will join Hendrick Motorsports, replacing Mark Martin.

This year, though, Kahne is taking a one-year ride with Team Red Bull as a teammate of Brian Vickers.

What's more, Kahne underwent knee surgery recently to repair a torn me-niscus. Still, he planned to participate in the next Sprint Cup race at Richmond International Raceway.

Thus far, in the No. 4 Toyota, Kahne has collected three top-10 finishes, though a disastrous Talladega showing relegated him to 18th in the Sprint Cup standings. He was 11th four races ago.

"We've been learning some things," said Kahne. "The cars are a lot different than what we've had in the past ... we've been off every week, but ... we have a great team with Red Bull behind it.

"It's really nice to drive awesome equipment, nice cars. TRD (Toyota Racing Development) does a good job. ... The teams came together really well, really quickly, and I think we can run pretty strong throughout this entire season."

It's hard to believe this is actually Kahne's eighth season in NASCAR's premier series. In 2006, he collected six wins and finished eighth in the final standings. The most recent of Kahne's 11 victories occurred in September 2009 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Understandably, Kahne prefers not to look ahead to next year, when he will join NASCAR's premier team, Hendrick. For now, he wants to concentrate on his present status at Team Red Bull.

"It's back to kind of how it should be, I think," he said. "I think racing should be fun. It's a job, but it should be fun, too.

"It's nice to see all the little things they do to pre-

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pare. I think my car is probably one of the nicest cars in that whole garage over there. ... I'm just happy to be where I'm at."

• • •Monte Dutton covers motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette. E-mail Monte at nascarthi

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Kasey Kahne is taking a one-year ride with Team Red Bull before replacing Mark Martin at Hendrick Motorsports next season. (John Clark/NASCAR This Week photo)


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By Samantha Weaver

• It was the multitalented Pierre Beaumarchais -- born in the 18th century, he was a revolutionary in both France and America as well as a watchmaker, diplomat, musician, spy, inventor, publisher and arms dealer --

who made the following sage observation: "It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."

• If you live in Florida, you probably won't be surprised to learn that there are more than 3,000 different species of mosquitoes.

• The experts claim that roses don't really have thorns. Botanically speaking, thorns are considered to be modified branches and are difficult to break off the stem. What roses have are known as prickles, which are just outgrowths of the stem's outer skin -- and they are, fortunately, much easier to break off.

• Statistics show that after having her first child, a woman's driving sees a measurable improvement.

• The name of the great state of Missouri comes from a Native American word meaning "town of large canoes."

• A man named Henry Budd, before his death in 1862, directed in his will that if his sons, William and Edward, grew moustaches they would receive nothing from his estate. In further discrimination against facial hair, one Mr. Fleming, a British upholsterer, left 5 pounds in his will to each of his mustached employees, but double that to those who were clean-shaven.



DEAR DR. DONOHUE: A recent blood check showed that my potassium was high. I was told to stop eating bananas and drinking orange juice. I also was told to return to the doctor’s office the next week. I did. They took another blood sample. They told me nothing more.

What happens when potassium is high? -- F.H.ANSWER: Potassium has many important jobs.

It keeps the body’s electrical charges balanced. It’s involved in transmitting nerve signals. It’s needed to keep the heart beating and muscles contracting. It takes part in keeping the body neither too acid nor too alkaline.

High blood potassium raises blood sugar, weakens muscles, causes nausea and vomiting, and triggers erratic and dangerous heartbeats. When the level is very high, potassium paralysis and death occur.

Your potassium must not have been all that high. You had no symptoms.

The causes of a high blood level include kidney illnesses, nonworking adrenal glands, a lack of insulin, sudden death of body cells, overuse of potas-sium supplements and medicines like beta blockers.

The blood level of potassium can be read errone-ously as high when the patient, during blood collection, keeps clenching and unclenching arm muscles. It rises when blood cells break apart in their journey from a patient’s arm to the laboratory. It could be your reading was high because of either of these situations.

It’s hard to come up with an explanation that indicts an illness with raising potassium on one occasion and not keeping it raised for a short while.

The electrolytes -- sodium, potassium, bicarbonate and chloride -- are not well understood by most peo-ple. Yet they are responsible for many body ailments. Readers can read about these minerals in the booklet describing their function. Write to Dr. Donohue -- No. 202W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

• • •DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Swallowing became a

real problem for me. Food would get stuck on its way to my stomach. I tried all sorts of over-the-counter medicines, but nothing worked. I saw a gastroenterolo-gist, who put a scope down my swallowing tube. He discovered that there was a constricting ring of tissue at the bottom of it. How did I get it? He opened it with a balloon. Can it come back? -- C.W.

ANSWER: You’re talking about a Schatzki (SHOT-ski) ring. It is as you say -- a fold of tissue en-circling the lowermost part of the esophagus, and it does cause food to hang up there.

How did you get it? Some theorize that reflux of stomach acid into the esopha-gus explains why it

Potassium Plays Many Roles In Body

developed. Acid reflux is a fancy way of saying heartburn. However, people can have reflux and a Schatzki ring but not have any heartburn symptoms. Meat and large pieces of bread are the foods most likely to get stuck.

Stretching the ring with a balloon or other device usually fixes the problem. However, it can come back, and it often does. Because recurrence is com-mon, many doctors put their patients on medicines that suppress stomach acid production.

***Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual

letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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Q: I recently inherited a set of American flatware from the 1930s. How can I determine whether it is sterling or plate? -- Susan, Athens, Ga.

A: Any item with 92.5 percent silver content is considered sterling and is marked as such. Some pieces are identified as coin or pure coin, indicat-ing that it is 90 percent silver rather than the cus-tomary 92.5 percent. By international law, silver

Sterling or Plate?

plate can’t be marked as sterling, bear an English hallmark nor have the numerical marking of the better silver grades. Since more than 90 percent of all sterling is marked as such, the other 10 percent must be determined by an expert.

One of the better references is Warman’s Sterling Silver Flatware: Value and Identification Guide by Mark F. Moran, which features more than 18,000 listings with current values. This is an essential guide to prominent silversmiths, manufacturers and patterns. It is $24.99 and available through www.krause.com.

• • •Write to Larry Cox in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475,

Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected]. Due to the large volume of mail he receives, Mr. Cox is unable to personally answer all reader questions. Do not send any materials requiring return mail.



Q: I read somewhere that my all-time favorite band, KISS, is back in the studio working on a new album. Is that true? If so, when can we expect some new material from them? -- Rodney G., via e-mail

A: It’s true: KISS is working on a new studio album. The band began recording in April, and lead singer/songwriter Paul Stanley told me that they expect to release the album in late fall or early 2012, depending on how things go. He said: “So far, it sounds phenomenal. It’ll be worth the wait, I promise.”

In the meantime, Paul also is working with the House Re-search Institute to help bring awareness to teen hearing loss. Having been born deaf in one ear as well as being a mega rock star, Paul knows all about protecting his hearing, and he wants to help spread the word any way he can. “Hearing loss affects kids, it affects teens, and it affects adults. I tell people, ‘If you won’t listen to somebody in a white coat, maybe you’ll listen to somebody in black leather.’”

For more info on how you can protect your hearing, go to earbud.org and soundrules.org.

• • •Q: Will “Memphis Beat” and “Rizzoli and Isles” be back

on TV? I’m already getting tired of all the summer reality shows! -- Glenda F., via e-mail

A: “Memphis” and “Rizzoli” will be back this summer on TNT, starting June 14 and July 11, respectively. In fact, TNT recently announced its all-new summer programming slate, which includes two new series, “Franklin and Bash” with Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer, and “Fall-ing Skies” with Noah Wylie. Other returning series include “Men of a Certain Age” on June 1, “HawthoRNe” on June 14, “Leverage” on June 26 and “The Closer” on July 11. So get ready for some summertime drama, because TNT is filled to the brim with it!


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Puzzle Answers

DEAR PAW'S CORNER: I was wondering how to choose the right day-care center for my dog, "Chet," a medium-size Collie mix. Price is a consideration, though it seems that all these day cares are pretty expensive. I'd like to find a place to board him for two weeks while my family goes on vacation. -- Barbara C., Atlanta

DEAR BARBARA: It's clear that you're already thinking through some of the requirements a day care or boarding cen-ter will need to meet before placing Chet there. You're looking for longer-term care that includes overnight care, but which provides an active environment for an energetic dog.

Here are a few questions to ask each prospective care provider:

--How long has the facility been open? How much experi-ence do the owners have in boarding dogs?

--Are certified dog trainers on staff? How much training do other staffers have?

--Will a certified trainer be on duty at night?--Talk with one of the trainers; ask specific questions about

how training is handled.--Can you drop in and tour the facility at any time during

normal business hours?--Ask for a look at the actual living area for boarding dogs

to make sure Chet will be provided for adequately.--How does the facility screen dogs for health or behav-

ior problems? How does it handle behavioral issues and fights?

These are just a few of the questions you should ask when visiting prospective day-care centers, in addition to the usual

Choosing the Right Doggie Day CareBy Sam Mazzotta

questions about cost, day-care rules and so on. If you don't have a good feeling about a facility, move on.

Send your questions or comments to [email protected], or write to Paw's Corner, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Find more pet advice and resources at www.pawscorner.com.



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