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were nothing more than dusty dirt tracks. When it rained or snowed they became slippery grease tracks, soft enough to mire exasperated motorists axel deep in mud. The network of roads that did exist were largely haphazard, unorganized auto trails that people used to connect themselves from one place to another. America was growing, and was in dire need of better roads.

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4. Name the player who holds the NCAA Division I record for most consecutive games with at least one 3-point shot made.

5. Who was the last defenseman before Erik Karlsson in 2011-12 to finish in the top 10 in scoring for an NHL regular season?

6. When was the last time before 2012 that Dale Earnhardt Jr. led the NASCAR Cup points standings dur-ing a season?

7. How many Grand Slam singles finals did Ivan Lendl lose before win-ning his first of eight in 1984 (French Open)?

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2. Who were the Bar-Kays, and whatever happened to them?

3. Which jazz great recorded the “Blue Train” album, and when?

4. Name the singer who had a stint with the circus.

5. Name the song that contains these lyrics: “I’ll just use you then I’ll set you free.”

Answers1. They snagged the gig as backup

for Lennon and Ono on the “Some Time In New York City” album in 1972 under the name Plastic Ono Ele-phant’s Memory Band.

2. The Bar-Kays started as studio musicians in Memphis, at one time backing Otis Redding. In 1967, on the way to a gig, their plane crashed in Wisconsin. Six of them died, includ-ing Redding.

3. John Coltrane, in 1957. The short-est track on the five-song album was seven minutes. A 2003 re-release add-ed two bonus tracks.

4. Stacey Q., best known for her 1986 hit “Two of Hearts.” She spent two years with Ringling Bros. & Bar-num & Bailey Circus as a showgirl and then an elephant rider.

5. “Baby, Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” by Mac Davis, 1972. Some peo-ple objected to the song’s sexist story: “I’m not ready for no family ties, ... don’t start clinging to me.”


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• Doctors suspected that the problem was a malfunctioning pituitary gland, but nothing could be done to correct it. By late 1842 at age four, Stratton had not grown an inch in height or put on a pound in weight since he was six months old. Apart from this, he was a completely normal, healthy child, with several siblings who were of normal size and stature.

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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

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2. What flower istraditionally thefirst to bloom asspring

Unscramble this word:

S A L A N U NThis word means: springflowers that last one season

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

~ Robin Williams

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Eisenhower joined the military’s very first transcontinental road trip. A three-mile long caravan of vehicles carrying 260 enlisted men, 35 officers, and a 15-piece band set off from the White House in Washington, D.C. for San Francisco, 3,251 miles away.

• It took the convoy 62 grueling days to cross the entire country from east to west. They averaged five miles per hour on roads that ranged from fair to horrible. Eisenhower reported the deplorable condition of our nation’s road systems, but little was done to seriously address the problem.

• Twenty six years later in 1945, now as a five-star general and Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces at the end of World War II, Eisenhower toured Germany after V-E day. When he was taken for a drive on the Autobahn highway system that the German war machine had built, he was greatly impressed by the smoothness and ease of travel it provided. Moreover, he noted that although the railroads could be taken out with a single well-placed bomb, the Autobahns were far more difficult to destroy, even if they were pocked with bomb craters. Good concrete highways, he concluded, were essential for national defense. It was a lesson he never forgot.

• On June 29, 1956, and now as U.S. president, Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, and the Interstate Highway system was born. To help fund the project, the bill increased

the federal tax on gas by a penny per gallon. The project’s goal was to build 41,000 miles of divided, limited-access highways including 16,000 interchanges and 55,000 bridges and overpasses. The average distance between exits was three miles.

• Deciding on a color for interstate signs was not a simple matter. Bertram Tallamy, the federal highway administrator, insisted on blue signs with white lettering, but a committee with the American Association of State Highway Officials wanted green signs with white letters.

• To settle the color issue, the Bureau of Public Roads built a special three-mile test road in Maryland and hired hundreds of citizen drivers to travel it at 65 m.p.h. Along the road they passed three test signs in blue, green, and black, all with white lettering. At the end of the road they were to vote on the color they preferred. Green got 58 percent of the vote; blue 27 percent; and only 15 percent chose black. Tallamy reluctantly conceded, and all highway signs are now green. Only later was it realized that Tallamy suffered from color blindness. To him, the green signs appeared to be pale yellow.

• Interstate highways running north and south are assigned odd numbers starting on the west coast and moving east, with Interstate 5 following the Pacific coast and Interstate 95 following the Atlantic coast.

• Interstate routes going across the country east and west have even numbers starting with Interstate 10 in the south and moving up to I-94 in the north. Primary interstate highways use either a one-digit or a two-digit number.

• Auxiliary interstate highways that link up with the primary highways all have three digits, composed of the number of the interstate ‘parent’ highway, plus a multiple of the number 100. Generally, three-digit interstates that both start and end at a primary interstate, such as a beltway, will all begin with an even number, such as I-418. Auxiliary interstates which dangle without ending at another interstate will usually begin with an odd number. Three-digit highway numbers are unique within a state, but can be duplicated across the country. For instance, there are seven different highways called I-295 ranging from Maine to Florida.

• Kansas was the first state to begin constructing an interstate highway. Eight days after Eisenhower was re-elected in 1956, the nation’s first stretch of Interstate opened near Topeka, only 70 miles from Eisenhower’s hometown of Abilene. That prompted work in states all over the nation, and construction proceeded at the average rate of 1,000 miles per year.

• Ironically, a self-perpetuating mechanism of events were set into motion as more miles of highway were opened. The more highways there were, the more cars were able to travel; the more that cars traveled, the more gas they used; the more gas they used, the more tax was paid; the more taxes paid, the more money for new highways; the more highways built, the more cars traveled... and so on.

• Along with the speed and convenience offered by the new highway systems, they also created

effects that were, and still are, detrimental to the urban communities surrounding them. Highways made it easier for downtown workers to leave the noisy and crowded city to live in the suburbs. Those those who could afford to dwell in the cleaner and greener outlying areas did so, leaving behind those who couldn’t afford such a move, generally minorities.

• Businesses quickly followed, reopening in suburban locations where they catered to lucrative suburbanites with a great deal more

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• Charles was a fast learner and, it seemed, a natural-born performer who loved being the center of attention while making people laugh.

• Barnum wasted no time working him into his traveling show act, and took him on his first tour of America at the age of five. He changed Charles’ stage name to General Tom Thumb, and billed him as being an 11-year-old child prodigy from England. The crowds loved the act, and Barnum immediately began billing Tom Thumb as a regular feature attraction.

• When the tour traveled to Europe, he was billed as being American, and as he grew older Barnum began revising his age downward.

• After appearing on stage in a new comedy routine with two 8-foot giants, the hilarious act was a huge success and the enthusiastic audience approval brought the house down.

• Newspapers around the world carried stories about the Tom Thumb phenomenon and ran rave reviews about how audiences loved him. He had become the darling of the entertainment world and an international celebrity. With 15,000 people a day flocking to see him at 25-cents a ticket, the money was pouring in for Barnum wherever they played.

• On one trip to England, Barnum very much wanted audience with the Queen, knowing the visit would guarantee international publicity. But the Queen was in mourning at the time they were there and had refused to see any visitors.

• Hearing this news, Barnum cleverly announced that he would instead have to leave England in order to introduce Tom Thumb to the King of France. Barnum knew that a fierce social rivalry existed at the time between the British Queen and the King of France. As Barnum expected, a

polite invitation to visit the Queen was quickly sent, and Barnum, of course, accepted.

• After traveling the world with Barnum’s show, Stratton returned to his hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and, with his newly-acquired wealth, had a lovely home custom built to his exact specifications, with all the furniture and furnishings constructed in the correct proportion to his size.

• When Barnum hired a 32-inch-tall female performer named Lavinia Warren Bump, Tom Thumb instantly fell in love, and in February of 1863 at age 25, the two were married. Their celebrated wedding was featured in every newspaper and magazine in the nation.

• The newlyweds toured the world together, performing in nearly 600 cities around the globe. By the time they returned to Connecticut, they had performed in front of more people than anyone else in history – a record they held until the advent of television.

• They were also rich beyond their wildest dreams. When Barnum went bankrupt after investing unwisely, it was Tom Thumb’s earning power that put him back into solvency.

• When Charles Stratton died of a stroke at the age of 45, he stood 3 feet, four inches tall and weighed just 71 pounds. More than 10,000 mourners attended his funeral, and newspapers around the world carried the sad news of his death and detailed descriptions of the funeral service. His wife lived to the age of 77, and is buried beside him in Connecticut. ■

● It was American bridge expert Phillip Alder who made the following sage ob-servation: “We are born with talents, but we acquire skills.”

● The inventor of Life Savers was Clar-ence Crane (incidentally, he was also the father of poet Hart Crane). In 1913, a year after coming up with the recipe for the candy, Crane sold the patent for his sweet treat for $2,900. Seems like a paltry recompense for creating a pop culture icon that is still going strong after 100 years.

● Do you suffer from arachibutyro-phobia? If so, you probably refuse to eat PB&J sandwiches, for fear that the peanut butter will stick to the roof of your mouth.

● There are 120 drops of water in a single teaspoon.

● In 1976, John Moore, a California man, had his spleen removed at the UCLA Medical Center in order to treat his cancer. The operation was success-ful -- in more ways than anyone antici-pated. It seems that the doctors, upon studying the removed organ, found cer-tain cells that had unique cancer-fighting properties. The discovery led to a new -- and profitable -- treatment. When Moore found out that his spleen had led to this discovery, he sued the Regents of the University of California for a share of the profits. In 1990, 14 years after his cancer was cured, he lost his court case.

● Those who study such things say that ants stretch and yawn when they wake up.

● If you’re like 43 percent of the Ameri-can population, you refuse to ever try eating snails, regardless of the fact that they’re regarded as a delicacy in other parts of the world. *** Thought for the Day: “The fear of be-coming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.” -- Eric Hoffer

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“Mosca” is Spanish for fly, and “ito” means small: mosquito. They live at altitudes up to 8,000 feet in the Himalayas and below sea level in California’s Death Valley. They live in the jungle and the tundra. Approximately ten trillion mosquitoes invade the U.S. every summer. That’s about 41,000 mosquitoes per person! • At certain places in the Canadian Arctic, huge

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• The female’s antennae are long and thread-

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• An electrical power station built in Canada malfunctioned over and over until engineers found that the equipment was getting gummed up by tens of thousands of male mosquitoes who were attracted to the whining sound of the machinery which perfectly imitated the sound of a female mosquito. Male mosquitoes will even be attracted to a tuning fork that vibrates at the same frequency of the humming of a female’s wings.

• Pregnant female mosquitoes need a meal of blood to get protein they need to lay their eggs. If you look closely at a female mosquito, you will see only one thin needle-like proboscis. However, there are four different tools inside this sheath. The first two function much like electric carving knives, with serrated edges that slice up and down to cut a hole in the donor’s skin.

• A third tool acts like a hose, injecting saliva which thins the blood, prevents it from clotting, and makes it easier to suck. It’s the allergic reaction to this saliva that causes the itch. The average time between the sting and the itch is about three minutes.

• The fourth tool acts as a straw, drawing blood into the mosquito’s body. In 90 seconds of sucking, she can take in more than her weight in blood, supplying enough protein to enable her to lay several hundred eggs.

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A: NBC recently announced that “Com-munity” -- which stars Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Don-ald Glover and Chevy Chase -- has ping-ponged back to its original Thursday night at 8/7c time slot, be-ginning Feb. 7. “Community” takes the place of “30 Rock,” which will have concluded its final season by then. We’ll both have to wait patiently for 13 more episodes of one of the best, and most underrated, comedies on television today. ***

Q: On your recommendation, I watched Bill Pullman in Scott Turrow’s “Inno-cent,” which carried on the story of “Presumed Innocent” main character Rusty Sabich 20 years later, where he is accused of murdering his wife. I absolutely loved it, and it got me to thinking that in my opinion, Bill Pullman is un-derutilized in Hollywood. Can you tell me what I can see him in next? -- Virginia F. in Connecticut

A: Begin-ning Thursday, Jan. 10, at 9:30/8:30c, Bill does a 180 from his “Inno-cent” role to star as the president of the United States in the NBC com-edy “1600 Penn.” The series was co-created by Jason Winder, director for “Modern Fam-ily,” so I can only hope that some of that comic genius carries over to this new series. And Bill is no strang-er to being the POTUS (see: “Independence Day”), nor is he averse to being funny. In fact, when I spoke with the star of the dark comedy “Mr. Wrong” earlier this year, he told me he was eager to get back into comedy if he got the right script. ***

Q: My roommate told me that there is going to be a new “Battlestar Galactica” movie on the Syfy channel. Is that true? If so, when? -- Harold W., Boston

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Handy Reminders Save Money I don’t know if the world is getting older or we all just have too many things to remember, but more and more memory-saving tips are landing in my inbox. Let me just say: “Thanks! Keep ‘em com-ing!” COUPON REMINDER. I used to have such a challenge remembering to use the instant cou-pons that came stuck to the front of a product. I’d get home from the grocery store, and there it was, still stuck to the product. One day, it dawned on me what to do. When I pick the product off the shelf, I IMMEDIATELY stick the coupon over the bar code. That way, if I get busy unloading the basket, the clerk will have to remove it to scan the product! -- Sylvia, Louisiana

ODOR-FREE ONION STOCKPILE. Make sure when you are freezing onions to use freezer bags, not just sandwich zip-type bags. Bags de-signed for the freezer do a better job of keeping the food’s odors from escaping. Who wants their freezer to smell like onions? -- Tina, EC blog

NO KETCHUP MEANS MEATLOAF. When I was growing up, a nearly empty ketchup bottle meant that my thrifty mother’s delicious meatloaf would soon appear on our dinner table. Mom added about 1/4 cup of water to the ketchup bottle, shook well and poured the thinned ketchup over the un-baked loaf. Just as tasty as tomato sauce and not a drop of ketchup wasted! -- Rick, Michigan

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LOTTERY TICKET FUNDRAISERS. It seems that lottery tickets are a big seller for fun-draising. I don’t believe in gambling, so we don’t buy or sell the tickets. I made that clear to the organizers of the fundraisers when my children were in school. I never got any hassles about it, either. Instead of selling lottery tickets, I donated my time. I worked the concession stands at football games, was a girl scout leader, etc. My kids knew they would never get any top-seller prizes, but they knew that was the way it was. Everyone was fine. -- Cecile, email

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Many Vets Struggle as College Students A study this summer shows that a large per-centage of veterans who use their benefits to go to school are dropping out. There are a number of rea-sons: --Peers are different: For veterans who’ve been in combat, interacting with laid-back students can be stressful. --Colleges teach in a different way from the military: Topics will be different, in line with civilian life and jobs. There is less structure and certainly less rank-directed respect. --There are stresses that other college stu-dents don’t generally have: PTSD, TBI or more sub-tle brain injuries, or a need for hyper-vigilance. --Military skills don’t easily translate into classroom successes. The more war-oriented the military experience, the harder it is to function in class and study settings. The Department of Veterans Affairs is ac-knowledging the military/civilian divide, and it hopes to pair third- and fourth-year student veterans with incoming veterans. If you’re in school and thinking about quit-ting, don’t -- not until you’ve explored every single op-portunity to make it right for you. You worked hard to earn those benefits. The military made you a prob-lem solver, so solve the problem. If something isn’t right, figure out what it is and look for a solution. Trouble with a class and need a tutor? Get one. Different frame of mind than your class peers? Ignore them. They haven’t walked in your boots. Go to www.vetsuccess.gov and follow the link to On Campus. Click the map or the link to Cam-pus Locations and Contacts. Ask for help. Find out if there’s a chapter of Student Vet-erans of America at your school. Call 202-223-4710 or go online to www.studentveterans.org. Also ask about veterans-only classes, or introduction to col-lege programs for veterans. There’s a way to be successful in school. You just have to find it.

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Finally, Mom didn’t want to crate her pup-py because she thought it was mean. Done right, though, a crate is exactly the opposite. Your dog’s crate should be a safe, warm, comfy retreat, a place all his own. It isn’t a punishment and should never be used as such. The perfect crate will give your dog enough room to stand up and lie down comfortably. It should be of wire construction with good visibility from all angles. Ideally, you’ll line the bottom with a padded fleece bed or soft blankets. And he’ll even find a few of his favorite chew toys waiting for him inside. The perfect placement of the crate is in your bedroom or another open, friendly room in the home where the rest of the family congregates. Neither dog nor crate belongs in a laundry room or a closet. Puppies and dogs, when new to a home, should not have free rein of the house. Housebreak-ing, for one, requires routine and supervision, and it takes time for a new dog to learn the rules of the home. His crate is a safe place for him to rest when you’re sleeping or have to be away for a couple of hours. For more information on how to get off on the right foot with your new pup, check out my book “I Just Got a Puppy. What Do I Do?” Woof!

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A. Well, your last point is certainly valid, and I understand the overall message of your email. However, I still think I’m correct in explaining wid-ow’s benefits the way I do. Let’s follow this example. Mary worked on and off during her life, taking time off to raise a family. She is now 68 and getting $900 per month in retirement benefits. Her husband, Stan, is 72 and is getting $2,100 per month from Social Security. If Stan dies, Mary will start get-ting $2,100 per month in total monthly benefits. But, according to Social Security’s records, she is being paid $900 off of her account and $1,200 from her husband’s record. It may be just an internal book-keeping practice on the part of the Social Security Administration, but I still am correct in saying that she is getting benefits from two different accounts. And frankly, I think all Mary is concerned about is that a check for $2,100 shows up in her bank account every month.

Q. In a recent column, you talked about a husband who was getting $2,000 per month and a wife who was getting her own retirement benefit of $900, and she was also getting $100 in extra spousal benefits. In other words, her benefit was supplemented up to half of his rate. Well, I happen to be getting about the same So-cial Security benefit as your example (actually $1,950 per month). And my wife gets $850 on her own Social Security. However, she doesn’t get a nickel from my account. Shouldn’t she be getting supplemented up to half of mine, or an extra $125 in wife’s benefits? Should I talk to my local Social Security people about this?

A. Whenever I mention spousal benefits in this column, I get many emails similar to this one. The key difference, between the examples I used in the prior column and the situation presented by those emailing me, almost always comes down to the age at which the spouse signed up for Social Secu-rity. In my example, the wife waited until age 66 to claim her benefits. At that age, a spouse can get up to one-half of her husband’s Social Security. But the majority of women sign up for Social Security be-fore age 66, many of them at age 62. In that case, the spousal rate goes way down -- to about 30 percent. The person who sent this email didn’t give me any ages, but I will bet his wife was well below age 66 when she started getting Social Security ben-efits. That’s why she isn’t getting supplemented up to half of her husband’s rate.

Q. I didn’t take my Social Security until age 70. So I am getting my full benefit plus the delayed retirement bonus -- $2,800 per month. My wife has never worked outside the home. She just turned 66 and applied for spousal benefits on my account. I expected she would get half of my rate, or $1,400 monthly. But she is only getting $1,080. Can you tell me what went wrong?

A. Nothing went wrong. The rules say a spouse does not share in the delayed retirement bo-nus. Therefore her benefit is based on your rate at age 66, which must be about $2,160. (Half of that is the $1,080 that your wife is receiving.) I’m usually pretty good at explaining the ra-tionale behind various Social Security laws. But this is one that has always escaped me. I’m really not sure why your spouse cannot be supplemented up to your full benefit amount, including the bonus. One bit of good news: when you die, your wife’s widow’s rate will be 100 percent of your entire benefit, including the bonus payment. Of course the bad news is that you have to die to make that hap-pen!

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ANSWER: My guess is trigger finger. The tendons that bend the fingers travel from the fore-arm into the palm and then onto each finger and the thumb. On their way to the fingers, a sheath of tough tissue encircles them. Repetitive movements of the fingers irritate the protective tendon sheaths, and they swell. The swelling squeezes the tendon, and the popping noise you hear is the tendon freeing itself from its swollen sheath. That snapping noise sounds like the noise heard when cocking a gun’s trigger. As time goes by, the finger might become locked for some time in the bent position. You don’t want to hear this, but rest is essen-tial to permit the tendon to move smoothly. If you must work, padded gloves afford some protection for the finger. Gripping a tool like a hammer is partic-ularly hard on the tendon and its sheath. Tools with a larger-than-normal handle are less of a problem. The best protection is wearing a metal splint so that the finger can’t move. Your doctor can give you a cortisone injec-tion into the problem area, and that often reduces the swelling quickly. You must rest your finger after the injection for at least three days. If two injections fail to free the finger, then you need to consult an orthopedic surgeon for an opinion on surgical release of the tendon. *** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: This past sum-mer, I got the shock of my life at a family get-together. My cousin, whom I hadn’t seen in 10 years, has bulging eyes. Her mother -- my aunt -- told me it was due to a thyroid problem. I’d never heard of a thyroid problem affecting the eyes. Does it? -- G.D.

ANSWER: It can. An overactive thyroid gland can lead to deposits of material in the eye sock-ets, which causes the eyes to protrude. There are treatments for this complication of hyperthyroidism. I’m sure this cousin is under the care of a thyroid specialist and an ophthalmologist. The booklet on thyroid disorders explains the many conditions arising from a malfunctioning gland. To order a copy, write: Dr. Donohue -- No. 401W, 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: Can hair grow on the lips if a person shaves very close to the upper and lower lips? Some informed individu-als say no. -- L.G.

ANSWER: Never in my life have I seen hair on people’s lips. Lips have no hair follicles. You even could shave the lips if you felt so inclined (but please don’t try this), and hair would not grow on them. If you have evidence to the contrary, let me know.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: All my friends have menstrual cycles that last 28 days. Mine don’t. They vary from 23 to 34 days. Is that normal? I feel fine. I am 23 and active. My pe-riods are not painful. -- J.F.

ANSWER: The average menstrual cycle is one of 28 days. That’s only an average. The cycle can vary from 21 to 35 days and still be considered nor-mal. ***

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Air Travel Without the Baggage Air travel isn’t much fun anymore, and get-ting through the airport is the worst of it. Between the crowds, the TSA rules and dragging heavy lug-gage, some of us just want to stay home and not bother. There is a way, however, to take care of at least one of the problems with air travel: send your luggage early. UPS, FedEx and DHL all will pick up your luggage at your home and ship it to your desti-nation for you. UPS, for example, has specially designed boxes to hold your suitcases. As with anything else, there are both plus-ses and minuses to using this service.The benefits: --No standing in line only to be told that your bag is overweight and will cost even more. --No lost bags at the airport. --No chance of thieving airport personal go-ing through your suitcases and stealing things, or at least rummaging through your belongings. --Less chance of damage to your bags. --No wasted time at baggage claim and then pushing through the crowd to pull your lug-gage off a moving carousel. --No wrestling with luggage through the airport or onto the hotel bus or into your rental car. The downside: --The cost. It can be expensive to use a service to get your luggage to your destination so it’s there when you arrive. But it can be a life (or back) saver if dealing with luggage in crowded airports is a big hassle for you. Hint: Have your bag shipped days in advance. That way you’re not paying overnight shipping costs. Also, don’t bother using a “luggage shipper.” They use the same DHL, FedEx or UPS services, but they then add their own handling fees on top. Why pay them for what you can just as easily do yourself?

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A Computer Gives You the Power Q: After being a widower for over three years now, I find myself feeling a bit disengaged from my family. I fill most of my time with News and sports TV, reading, napping and going out for meals. But the truth is I am basically lonely and I guess I’m just using these things to fill a void. I would like to have more contact with my family but they’re all too busy to be bothered with letters and phone calls. They’re either wrapped up with work, school, sports practice, committees -- you name it. It's just one ridiculous thing after another. They don’t really like it when I bother them, so I hardly do it any more. So I'm in sort of a Catch-22 situation. Any suggestions for me?

A: First, let me say that it is very possible you’re mistaken about how your family feels about you and the fact that you’re trying to open up communications with them. It could even be that you’re the very cause of the problem yourself. I can tell from your brief comments that you’re harboring some negativity and resentment toward them, and I would guess they can sense this from you the moment they pick up the phone. Chances are you’ve built up a wall of bitterness against them for something that is probably even not true in the first place. One of the greatest fears seniors experience is loneliness, yet at the same time we all want to retain our independence. As we age, we focus on our aches and pains and what lies ahead. Will we require a caretaker? Will we need to move to an assisted-living facility, or have the money to do so? Will our kids come and visit, call or even care about our situation? To change your attitude and become proactive in reuniting with your family, consider changing your lifestyle. For example, start going on daily 30-minute walks, volunteer your time for a worthwhile cause, and sign up for a beginner’s class in computer use at your library or senior center. E-mail is today’s primary communication highway. However, less than half of individuals over 65 are computer users. Tell the family you want to learn how to e-mail. This is the simplest, fastest and cheapest way to keep in contact with your loved ones. I hope that they will encourage you to do so. If you don't presently own a computer, most all libraries have them for your use and training. Suggest that your adult children and grand-children visit and ask them to bring their laptops for training. Basic computer is simple to learn, even 5-year-olds run computers. Amazingly, you will find yourself back in the loop with your family. Just do it. Don’t miss the opportunity!

Q: Our grandson’s latest high school psychology class assignment is to interview us (his grandparents) about the most important things that they have learned in life. We have started our list, but are wondering what would you include.

A: Thoughts that could be helpful include the following: Make your family your priority. Make a habit of choosing and keeping a positive attitude so that it becomes a natural part of your personality. Find a compatible marriage partner with the same values and outlook. Stay committed to your spiritual beliefs. Learn the difference between love and sex. Prioritize your needs versus your wants. Live below your income and save the difference. Do not whine about your misfortunes. Life is not fair -- get used to it. Find your passion and make it a reality. Keep your eyes open for opportunities. Think for yourself

and don’t blindly follow others. Schedule fun in your life. Commit to learning something new every day. Character, not assets, is most important. If you are always honest, you won’t have to worry about being forgetful. And don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life!

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● On Dec. 1, 1830, French novelist Vic-tor Hugo is due to turn in a draft of his book “Notre Dame de Paris” (“The Hunchback of Notre Dame”). Despite his contract, he in-stead wrote two plays, “Marion de Lorme” and “Hernani,” and the book is not published until 1831.

● On Nov. 26, 1862, Oxford mathema-tician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson sends a handwritten manuscript called “Alice’s Ad-ventures Under Ground” to 10-year-old Al-ice Liddell. Dodgson made up the story one day on a picnic, and Alice insisted he write it down. He published it under his nom de plume, Lewis Carroll, in 1865.

● On Nov. 28, 1914, the New York Stock Exchange reopens for bond trading after nearly four months, the longest stoppage in the exchange’s history. The outbreak of World War I in Europe forced the NYSE to shut its doors on July 31, 1914.

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The Smasher and the Simply Smashing

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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Q: I have sent you the mark that is on the bottom of a bowl with matching lid that my elder-ly neighbor gave me. The bowl is white porcelain trimmed with blue circles with yellow centers, and the lid is a knob in the shape of a green leaf. The overall measurements are 5 inches in di-ameter and 5 inches tall. It is in mint condition. I would like to know how old it is, if it is a

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A: Stanislaw Wiza founded his stoneware pot-tery in Boleslawiec, Poland in 1963. They produced high-quality, lead-free, white stoneware that was fired at a high temperature. Most of their ware was decorat-ed with cobalt blue as the primary color. They made casserole dishes, thimbles, trinket boxes, plates and piggy banks, table accessories, lamps, cups, butter dishes and figurines. Today Wiza employs approxi-mately 120 people. Your covered dish is either a small casserole or a trinket box and could easily be used for buttons. It was made in the late 20th century. It would probably be worth $50 to $75.

Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, she cannot answer individual letters. To find out more about Anne McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.comCOPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM

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The Terrible Turk vs. Goofy There’s only so much “Mickey Mouse Fun-house” a father can take. Desperate, I download a Spiderman story to the iPad for my 3-year-old son, an auto-turning storybook narrated by none other than Stan Lee. But as I listened, the story arc went in a way I wasn’t expecting from a child’s book. You know ... at that age, they kind of gloss over the stuff about inner-city murders. In this story, Spider-man decides to use his new powers for greed. His first stop is the local coliseum, where he takes on a wrestler offering anyone $100 if they can last 15 minutes in the ring. Spiderman easily wins the fight, goes to collect his earnings and demands to be paid in cash. Then the cashbox is stolen at gunpoint and Spiderman lets the burglar go, be-cause it’s not his problem, right? He’s counting the money. Well, later that day, Spiderman’s uncle is murdered ... shot in the streets. An enraged Spidey finds the murderer, and what do you know? It was the burglar from earlier, yada yada yada, and the takeaway of the story being, kids bitten by radio-active spiders should not be greedy and use their powers for prizefighting or their uncle will get shot. (At least that’s how I explained it.) The prizefighting thing ... did people actu-ally do that? So I went to the history books and came face to face with a 300-pound mustachioed wres-tler named Youssof, “The Terrible Turk.” And some-thing told me Stan Lee was familiar with the man, too. The Terrible Turk barnstormed America dur-ing the late 19th century. Unlike the “productions” we get to see now, in Youssof’s day, wrestling was about two guys going into a ring and ripping the other guy apart, literally. Youssof was a national sensation. He brought a carnival atmosphere to town with him and, yes ... if you had the guts, you could win $100 ($1,000 at today’s inflation) if you could last 15 minutes in the ring with him. Legend has it that he never lost. Youssof was greedy. He demanded to be paid in gold coins before every match. He would put the coins in a money belt around his waist, concealed by one of those sarong-type belts, and go wrestle. When he hit $10,000 in coins, he an-nounced his retirement and sailed for home ... until a storm hit and the order came to abandon ship. Youssof reached the deck as the ship began to keel over, and was out of range of the lifeboats ... he’d have to swim. Only he didn’t have a life preserver around his waist ... he had a money belt filled with gold coins! In seconds, he was dragged under to his death. The takeaway being to always use trav-eler’s checques and wear a life preserver ... at least that’s what I told my kid as we both sat down to watch Goofy learn to count gold coins in order to get past the large, mustachioed bad guy Pete. The story never ends.

Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in Kansas City.

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Too many players put an emphasis on “hitting” the ball when putting instead of concentrating on getting the ball rolling properly. A good roll includes topspin, which results in the ball dying toward the hole instead of trailing off to the left or right of the hole. Many players set up to a putt with too much weight on their forward foot. This causes a steep-er putting stroke which results in backspin. The ball jumps a bit, and you don’t get the topspin you are looking for.

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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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