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• When you’re asleep, your body may be resting but your brain certainly isn’t! It remains hard at work constantly giving orders to the body’s various systems to keep it breathing, pumping blood, and digesting. Short-term memories are recorded in the brain during sleep. Did you know that sleeping shortly after learning something new will actually improve your ability to remember it? • Rapid eye movement, or REM sleep, is characterized by rapid and random movement of the eyes and accounts for about 25% of a total night’s sleep, 90 to 120 minutes. Prior to that are stages of light sleep, when our eye movements stop and brain waves are extremely slow. The first period of REM occurs about 90 minutes after a person falls asleep and lasts about 10 minutes. A sleeper will experience about four or five periods of REM, with each lengthening toward morning. Brain activity is heightened and this is the time of intense dreaming. turn the page for more!
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Z-Z-Z’S (continued): • Sleep deprivation has numerous negative effects on the body’s functions and well-being. A recent Harvard study has tied insufficient or irregular sleep to an increased risk for colon cancer, Type 2 diabetes, and heart disease in those who slept less than six hours a night. A shortage of sleep can put the body into a state of “high alert,” which can drive up blood pressure, putting a person at risk for heart attack and stroke. Just one extra hour a night can decrease your heart attack risk by 33%. And consider what that extra sleep will do for your family, social, and work relationships when you are less irritable, impatient, anxious, and depressed! • Lack of sufficient sleep can even lead to obesity! The hormones leptin and ghrelin are instrumental in controlling feelings of hunger and fullness. Inadequate sleep can increase production of ghrelin, which stimulates the appetite, raising the sensation of hunger by as much as 25%. Leptin signals the brain when the body is full, but not enough shut-eye drives leptin levels down. Combine these two and it’s a recipe for obesity. • Even an increase in wrinkles can occur when you don’t get enough rest. Your body releases extra cortisol, the “stress hormone” when you don’t get enough rest. Cortisol breaks down the skin’s collagen, that substance that maintains skin’s elasticity. • It’s a little alarming to know that 23% of commercial airline pilots admit that sleep deprivation affects their performance at least once a week. One-fifth of those surveyed disclosed that they have made serious mistakes as a result. Fourteen percent of truck drivers confess a “near miss” due to lack of sleep, while 44% of them say they never or rarely get enough sleep on work nights. continued on next page
Guinea Pigs Hide Signs of Illness By Sam Mazzotta DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My male guinea pig, “Dale,” was always healthy. He was fat and not losing weight. One day, we cleaned his cage and noticed that he was sticking his head out repeatedly and opening his mouth -- like yawning. The vet said to come in right away, and within five minutes of hanging up, Dale was dead. The vet looked at him and said he looked healthy and that maybe he had a heart attack or stroke, but I didn’t see any symptoms. Any help would be great because we have two others. -- Julie G., via e-mail DEAR JULIE: Sadly, it often can be difficult to tell when a guinea pig is getting ill. They’re very good at hiding signs of illness, and often they are acutely ill before their owners can tell what’s wrong. It’s clear that you pay close attention to your guinea pigs, as you were aware of Dale’s weight and normal behavior. However, guinea pigs can become ill very quickly. You were right to contact the veterinarian immediately after noticing Dale’s strange behavior, which I agree, could have
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been a sign of a stroke or heart attack. I’ll refer again to the late Peter Gurney’s brilliant Guinea Pig Health Guide. One suggestion, which you may be able to apply to your surviving guinea pigs, is to have the vet listen to their heartbeat. A heart murmur can indicate valve problems. Another possibility is an undetected fungal or bacterial infection that got into Dale’s system, eventually causing a heart attack. But as you pointed out, he showed no external signs of illness. For this mystery, I’ll turn to my readers. Any suggestions for Julie on monitoring her two surviving cavies? Send your questions or comments to ask@pawscorner.com. Did you know mosquitoes can transmit heartworm larvae to dogs, but fleas don’t? Find out more in my new book “Fighting Fleas,” available now on Amazon. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.
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The last days of summer are upon us. Maybe you’ll choose one last visit to the beach or maybe a trip to a state park or maybe even your own backyard. Wherever you choose to “party,” be sure to take this easy pasta dish along. It’s sure to please. 1/2 cup fat-free French dressing 2 tablespoons fat-free mayonnaise 3 cups cold cooked rotini pasta, rinsed and drained 1 cup finely chopped celery 1/2 cup finely chopped onion 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh parsley
1. In a large bowl, combine French dressing and mayonnaise. Add pasta, celery, onion and parsley. Mix well to combine. 2. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Gently stir again just before serving. Makes 6 (3/4 cup) servings. Each serving equals: 132 calories, 0g fat, 4g protein, 29g carb., 259mg sodium, 2g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 1 1/2 Starch, 1/2 Vegetable. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc. One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. ~Winston Churchill
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On Oct. 6, 1683, encouraged by William Penn’s offer of 5,000 acres of land in the colony of Pennsylvania and the freedom to practice their religion, the first Mennonites arrive in America aboard the Concord. The German Mennonites were founded in Europe by Menno Simons in the 16th century. On Oct. 2, 1780, British Major John Andre, an accomplice of Benedict Arnold, is hanged as a spy by U.S. military forces in Tappan, N.Y. Andre wrote a letter to Gen. George Washington asking that he be executed by firing squad, that being a more “gentlemanly” death than hanging. On Oct. 4, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln observes a balloon demonstration near Washington, D.C. Both Confederate and Union armies experimented with using balloons to gather military intelligence in the early stages of the war, but the balloons proved to be dangerous and impractical for most situations. On Oct. 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed in Detroit. The cheapest one initially cost $825, or about $18,000 in today’s dollars. It had a 22-horsepower, four-cylinder engine that could run on gasoline or hemp-based fuel. On Sept. 30, 1954, the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy. In August 1958, Nautilus accomplished the first voyage under the geographic North Pole. After a career spanning 25 years and almost 500,000 miles steamed, Nautilus was decommissioned in 1980. On Oct. 3, 1967, writer, singer and folk icon Woody Guthrie dies in New York. Guthrie, originally from Oklahoma, introduced a form of music called protest folk. Most famous was “This Land Is Your Land,” written in 1940 and first recorded in 1944. On Oct. 5, 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature. Singer wrote in Yiddish about Jewish life in Poland and the United States, and translations of his work became popular in mainstream America as well as Jewish circles. One of his stories, Yentl, was made into a movie directed by and starring Barbra Streisand in 1983. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Z-Z-Z’S (continued): • Staying awake for just 17 hours leads to decreased performance equivalent to a blood alcohol level of 0.05%. No sleep for 21 hours is comparable to 0.08% blood alcohol content. • How do you know if you’re sleep deprived? A sure sign is if it takes you less than five minutes to fall asleep at night. The optimum amount of time is between 10 and 15 minutes. Other symptoms include irritability, nervousness, and inability to tolerate stress, and problems with concentration and memory. You might also notice blurred vision, hand tremors, or a change in appetite. • We each have an internal “master clock” in our brains that coordinates the rhythm of our body’s functions. Known as the “circadian clock,” it is affected by external environmental factors, with light as the main factor influencing our 24-hour circadian cycle. These rhythms influence our sleep cycles, hormone release, and body temperature, and function best with a normal light-dark cycle. This master clock controls the productions of the hormone melatonin, the one that makes us sleepy. When there is less light, the clock tells the brain to produce more melatonin, resulting in drowsiness. When a person’s work hours are scheduled during the normal sleep period, it’s difficult to stay awake, but it can also be a health risk. It’s believed that melatonin protects the body against cancer. For those who are exposed to light at night, melatonin levels are reduced, and researchers believe those people are more prone to colon and breast cancer. • Studies indicate that the risk of cardiovascular disease declines significantly when a person regularly sleeps seven hours a night. continued on next page
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those homeless veterans just change locations? Veterans service organizations that are ready to step up to combat veterans homelessness can help by getting out information about available services. Go online to va.gov/homeless and get busy printing out information. The site offers brochures, fact sheets, posters, videos and Web ads. The videos have information for legal professionals, social workers and first responders about inquiring if someone is a veteran. Read the fine print about how you can work with existing groups to fill in the gaps that always exist. If your organization has a website, look for the coding and graphics you can put on your site to lead veterans to information they need. At the very least, print out the wallet cards and hand them out to all your members to carry. The cards have the toll-free number for homeless veterans to get help: 877-4AID-VET (424-3838) Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@ gmail.com. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Tidbits of Rogue Valley Z-Z-Z’S (continued): • It’s estimated that sleeplessness contributes to one in six fatal highway accidents. It seems that men are more likely than women to drive while drowsy and twice as likely as women to fall asleep while driving. Also related to gender, women need about an hour more sleep per night, yet are twice as likely to have insomnia. Unfortunately, the loss of that hour, coupled with stress level, biological stages, and responsibilities makes them more prone to depression. • A lack of sleep decreases your attention and concentration and inhibits the cementing of memories, so that you cannot remember what you learn from day to day. A scientific study has determined that a 60 to 90 minute nap can be as beneficial as a full night’s sleep for learning a new skill. A “power nap” can improve alertness, creativity, productivity, motor skills, and accuracy, as well as reduce stress and risk of heart attack, and aid in weight loss. • What about those folks who never seem to need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning? These individuals are awakened by the release of a stress hormone called adrencorticotrophin as they unconsciously anticipate the stress of waking up. • If you’re one of those who kicks and punches while asleep, you are more susceptible to neurological disease. Experts say that “violent sleepers” have a 50% chance of developing Parkinson’s Disease or dementia and should consult a neurologist to diagnose the problem. • If you think that drinking coffee will help you stay awake, consider that those folks who drink four or more caffeinated beverages on a daily basis have a higher risk for sleep apnea.
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by Samantha Weaver • It was Israeli politician Abba Eban who made the following sage observation: “A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.” • Moose are so nearsighted that they have been known to try to mate with cars. • According to tradition, a bride whose dress is made of silk will have good fortune in her marriage. A woman who wears velvet to her wedding will face poverty, and a satin wedding gown will bring bad luck. • On average, there are 50,000 earthquakes around the world every year. • Beloved composer Frederic Chopin died in 1849 in France. He was terrified of being buried alive, so at his request, after his death his heart was removed, preserved in alcohol and returned to his native country, Poland. Once in Warsaw, the urn containing his heart was sealed into a pillar of the Holy Cross Church with the inscription, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” • Spanish explorers named California after a mythical island of Amazon women ruled by a warrior queen named Califa. • An assemblyman in Alaska once wrote and tried to pass legislation mandating a $100 fine for “public flatulence, crepitation, gaseous emission and miasmic effluence.” • In 1903, a now-unknown inventor (and breeder of chickens, one might venture to guess) submitted a request to patent eyeglasses for chickens, designed to prevent injury due to pecking by other chickens. The request was refused. • The Sphinx in Egypt is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence. Thought for the Day: “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” -- Albert Einstein (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.
Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You might need to get more facts to help you work out those problems with your new project. As always, a friendly approach shows the charming Arian at his or her persuasive best.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Your busy schedule has drawn down much of your energy levels. Restore them by spending a well-earned time out enjoying the arts -- perhaps with that special someone.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Information is what energizes ambition, and this is a good time for the ambitious Bovine to expand his or her range of knowledge and to be ready for the challenges that lie ahead.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Make that presentation with confidence. Remember: When you show you believe in yourself, it helps persuade others that you truly know what you’re doing.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is a good time to consider making some long-overdue decorating changes at home or in your workplace. A splash of color can help raise spirits, even on the grayest day.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Although you usually prefer doing things on your own, a group effort might be advisable at this time. Try to keep an open mind about suggestions from colleagues.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Learn more. Earn more. That’s the formula for Moon Children looking to expand their career horizons. Investigate the best places to get those training courses you’ll need.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) This could be a good time to reassess some of your recent decisions and see if any adjustments should be made based on facts that you might have just uncovered.
LEO (July 23 to August 22) Your creative side helps gain attention for many of your ideas. But don’t neglect the practical aspects involved in implementing their move from paper to production. Good luck.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20) An emotionally charged situation creates uncertainty about the future of your relationship. Best advice: Talk things out while there’s still time to reach a new understanding.
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A health problem should not be ignored. The sooner you check it out, the sooner you can deal with it and then move on. Some job advice comes from an unlikely source.
BORN THIS WEEK: You tend to act on matters of principle despite what others might advise.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) A relationship takes an unexpected shift that could leave you puzzled and hurt. Asking for an explanation could help uncover the reason for this sudden turn of events.
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signments with the paper was covering the coronation Mansion – performances of opera, ballet, Shakespeare, of Queen Elizabeth. and jazz. She had an elegant sense of style, and her fashions set trends around the world. Jackie met Massachusetts senator-elect John F. Kennedy at a 1952 dinner party after he “leaned across the aspar- • Jackie was 34 years old in 1963 when her husband was agus and asked her for a date.” They were married the assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas. following year. She had experienced the death of her three-day-old son just three months before. After spending several months Although she always wished to write a novel, instead she in Washington following his death, she moved to New encouraged her husband to write Profiles in Courage, York City to establish the John F. Kennedy Library. which she helped him edit, a book that won the Pulitzer Prize. • In 1968, Jackie married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who was 23 years her senior, and the couple Jackie suffered a miscarriage in 1955, and delivered a split their time among homes in Athens and Skorpios stillborn daughter, Arabella in 1956. Daughter Caroline Island, Greece, and Paris. Seven years later, she was a was born the following year. In 1960, John Kennedy widow once again. was elected the 35th president of the United States, and three weeks later their son John, Jr. was born. • As a widow in her mid-40s, Jackie returned to the literary world, taking a job as an editor with Viking Press, later Shortly after the inauguration, Jackie began her famous moving over to Doubleday Books. At age 64, she was project of redecorating the White House and historically diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She gave up restoring the public rooms, hunting down furnishings her three-pack-a-day smoking habit and cut back on her that had been removed from the White House. She was work schedule at Doubleday, but the cancer continued awarded an Emmy for her TV special highlighting the spread. Just four months after her diagnosis, she passed tour of the White House following the restoration. Jackaway. She is buried in Arlington National Cemetery ie hosted many fine cultural events at the Executive next to JFK, their son Patrick and daughter Arabella.
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JACKIE KENNEDY One of the most popular and beloved First Ladies in American history, Jacqueline Kennedy was a symbol of style and elegance. Learn more about the life of a member of one of America’s most famous families. • Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was the first First Lady to be born in a hospital. The daughter of a wealthy stockbroker, Jackie experienced a privileged childhood full of ballet lessons, French lessons, and equestrian training and events. At age 15, she was enrolled at the prestigious Miss Porter’s School, a Connecticut boarding school established in 1843 that stressed demanding academic courses, as well as proper manners and social skills. During her senior year, Jackie was named “Debutante of the Year” by the local newspaper. • Jackie’s choice of college was Vassar with studies in history, literature, art, and French, spending her junior year studying in Paris. Following a transfer to George Washington University and subsequent graduation, she took a job at the Washington Times-Herald photographing and interviewing local citizens. One of her final as-
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Pipes and Joists and Squeaks. Oh My!
Q: I’ve got a squeaky-floor problem, but it’s a little bit weird. When people walk along the ground floor I can hear wood squeaking against the pipes that are down in the crawlspace. Is this a risk to the pipes? How can I fix the squeaking noise? -- Jim in Buford, Ga. A: You won’t know for sure without getting into the crawlspace and visually inspecting the pipes
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and the underside of the floor, including the joists. The pipes running along the crawlspace are likely suspended from the floor joists. If they’re in contact with the joists, then you might hear the faint screech of wood across metal as the joists rub against the pipes.
good condition -- it’s sagging, or you detect wood rot or water damage -- contact a flooring or foundation specialist. Damaged joists can cause problems throughout the house, so you’ll want that problem addressed immediately.
How serious is the problem? It depends. If the floor and joists are in good condition, then you can reposition the pipe very slightly so it doesn’t contact the wood. Do this by lowering or loosening the existing pipe hanger slightly, or replacing it with another pipe hanger or a plastic pipe strap.
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You must support the pipe in place as you do any loosening or replacing of the hangers. It should not move more than a few centimeters in any direction, and it shouldn’t hang unsupported even during a quick rehanging job. Doing so could cause it to work loose at a pipe joint, and you’ll have a much bigger problem than a squeaky floor. To avoid this you can either rig up a substitute -- a sturdy rope or cloth tacked to the joist and wrapped underneath the pipe, for example -- or keep the old pipe hanger in place as you attach a new pipe hanger just a little lower. Once you’ve hammered the ends of the new hanger into the side of the joist, carefully work the old hanger loose as a helper holds the pipe in place. Gently lower the pipe into the new hanger. Repeat at other hanger locations along the run where the pipe contacts the joist. If, on inspection, you see that the joist is not in All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~T. E. Lawrence
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September 19 - September 25, 2013 1. Name the last team before San Francisco in 2012 whose starting pitchers earned victories while allowing one run or less in the first three games of the World Series. 2. Who had more career shutouts as a pitcher: PeBy Chris Richcreek dro Martinez or Babe Ruth? 3. When was the last time in franchise history before 2012 that the Arizona Cardinals started an NFL season 4-0? 4. The Arizona Wildcats men’s basketball team knocked off three No. 1 seeds on the way to an NCAA championship in 1998. Name two of the three teams. 5. When was the last time before 2013 that there was a three-overtime game in the Stanley Cup Finals? 6. Only five schools in 32 years have won an NCAA team title in women’s gymnastics. Name three of them. 7. In 2013, Jordan Spieth, at 19, became the youngest golfer to win a PGA Tour event in 82 years. Who was the 19-year-old winner in 1931? 1. Is the book of 2 Revelation in the Old or New Testament or neither? 2. From the book of Matthew, where did Jesus stay when John the Baptist was in prison? Beersheba, Capernaum, Assos, Cana 3. What king slew the Gibeonites, breaking his promise of peace and angering God? Neco, Joash, Jehu, Saul 4. In 1 Corinthians, what churches worshipped on the first day of the week? Adventist, Galatia, Gideon, Balaam 5. Whose wife’s mother lay sick of a fever and was healed by Jesus? Mark, Judas, Simon, Joel 6. From Proverbs 22:1, “A good name is rather to be chosen than great ...”? Riches, Witness, Corruption, Love
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tarian diet for much of his life. Franklin believed that the diet was not only healthier, the money he saved on expensive meat could be spent on books. He is credited with introducing tofu to America around 1770.
It’s estimated that about 3.2% of the U.S. population are vegetarians. There are many reasons that folks choose to abstain from meat – let’s examine some of the information about those who like to veg out!
• Vegetarians can’t all be lumped together in one group, • While some people opt for vegetarianism out of resince their preferences differ so widely. A strict vegspect for animals’ rights, others have health-related an diet is completely plant-based and excludes anior religious reasons. Motivation might also be culturmal products of any kind, including eggs and dairy, al, environmental, or economic. The practice has its and even beeswax and honey. An ovo-vegetarian roots in ancient India, where they based the tradition eats eggs, but not dairy products. A lacto-vegetarian on nonviolence toward animals. There are more vegincludes dairy products in their diet, but not eggs. etarians in India than in any other country, claiming An ovo-lacto vegetarian eats both eggs and dairy. If 70% of the world’s vegetarians. The ancient Hellenes you’re a pescetarian, you are a vegetarian who eats and Egyptians cited medical purposes and purificaall plant-based foods, dairy, eggs, and fish. tion rituals for the practice. A Buddhist vegetarian abstains from not only animal products but all veg- • There seem to be many health benefits associated with vegetarianism. The American Dietetic Associaetables in the Allium family, including onions, gartion reports that vegetarians have a lower Body Mass lic, leeks, chives, and shallots. They find the odor of Index, lower cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, these offensive and believe the “anger up the blood.” less Type 2 diabetes, lower rates of hypertension, and • The 6th-century Greek philosopher and mathematiless incidences of prostrate and colon cancer. Studcian Pythagoras was one of the first famous vegetariies indicate that a low-fat, high-fiber plant-based ans, and those of his era were actually called Pythagdiet also decreases the risk of developing gallstones. oreans. He believed that nonviolence toward animals Some research shows that a vegetarian diet increaswas the first step toward the same among humans. es the body’s metabolism, enabling the body to burn In his words, “For as long as men massacre animals, calories at a faster rate than a meat-based diet. they will kill each other.” • More people can be fed on a vegetarian diet than a • The word “vegetarian” was coined in the 19th century, meat-based one. One acre of land can yield about and England was home to the world’s first Vegetarian 20,000 lbs. (9,072 kg) of potatoes whereas only Society, formed in 1847 to demonstrate that it was about 165 lbs. (75 kg) of beef can be produced on that possible to live a healthy life without eating meat. same acre. Only 20% of America’s corn is eaten by humans, with the remainder consumed by livestock. • Some cultures are primarily vegetarian due to poverLivestock eat 95% of the oats grown in the U.S. ty. A large percentage of those populations are poor farmers who cannot afford meat and subsist on beans, peppers, legumes, and grains. • Founding father Benjamin Franklin followed a vege-
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