50plus LIFE Lebanon County July 2016

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How Medicare Handles Second Medical Opinions

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Dear Searching, Getting a second medical opinion from another doctor is a smart idea that may offer you a fresh perspective and additional options for treating your back condition so you can make a more informed decision.

Or, if the second doctor agrees with your current one, it can give you some reassurance.

Yes, Medicare does pay for second opinions if your current doctor has recommended surgery or some other major diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.

If you’re enrolled in original Medicare, 80 percent of the costs for second medical opinions is covered under Part B (you or your Medicare

supplemental policy are responsible for the other 20 percent), and you don’t need an order or referral from your doctor to get one.

Medicare will even pay 80 percent for a third opinion, if the first two differ.

Most Medicare Advantage plans cover second opinions too, but you may need to follow certain steps to get it paid for.

For example, some plans will only help pay for a second opinion if you have a referral from your primary-care doctor, and/or they may require that you can only use a doctor in their network.

If you have a Medicare Advantage plan, you’ll need to call it to find out their rules.

Finding another Doctor To find another doctor for a second opinion, you can either ask your current doctor for a name or two, or you can ask another doctor you trust for a referral, or you can

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find one on your own.

Whatever route you choose, it’s best to go with a doctor that’s affiliated with a different practice or hospital from your original doctor. Hospitals and practices can be set in their ways when it comes to treatments and are likely to offer similar advice.

If you choose to find one on your own, use Medicare’s online Physician Compare tool (www.medicare.gov/ physiciancompare). This will let you find doctors by name, medical specialty, or geographic location that

accept original Medicare.

You can also get this information by calling Medicare at (800) 6334227. Or, if you’re enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, call or visit your plan’s website for a list of candidates.

After you’ve gotten a few doctors’ names, there are a number of free online resources to help you research them, like Healthgrades (www. healthgrades.com) and Vitals (www. vitals.com).

Or, consider Angie’s List (www.

angieslist.com, (888) 888-5478), which is a membership service that currently offers doctor ratings and reviews from other members in your area for $3.50 for one month or $11.32 for the year, but the site will be offering free reviews this summer.

After you find another doctor, before you get a second opinion you’ll need to have your current doctor’s office send your medical records ahead to the second doctor, or you may have to pick them up and deliver them yourself.

That way, you won’t have to repeat the tests you already had. But, if the second doctor wants you to have additional tests performed as a result of your visit, Medicare will help pay for these tests too.

For more information, see the Medicare publication Getting a Second Opinion Before Surgery (www. medicare.gov/pubs/pdf/02173.pdf).

Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org

At Your Fingertips Helpful numbers, hotlines, and local businesses and organizations eager to serve you—all just a phone call away.

Emergency Numbers Poison Control Center (800) 222-1222 Food Resources Food Stamps (800) 692-7462

CONTACT Helpline (717) 652-4400

PA Crime Stoppers (800) 472-8477

Kidney Foundation (717) 652-8123

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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (717) 652-6520

Recycling (800) 346-4242

Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging Meals on Wheels (717) 273-9262

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Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY Home Care Services Senior Helpers (717) 920-0707 Hospitals Medical Society of Lebanon County (717) 270-7500 WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital 252 S. Fourth St., Lebanon (717) 270-7500 Hotlines Energy Assistance (800) 692-7462 Environmental Protection Agency Emergency Hotline (800) 541-2050 IRS Income Tax Assistance (800) 829-1040 Medicaid (800) 692-7462 Medicare (800) 382-1274

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (800) 827-1000 Housing — Apartments Community Homes of Lebanon Valley, Inc. (717) 273-3333 Housing Assistance Housing Assistance & Resources Program (HARP) (717) 273-9328 Lebanon County Housing & Redevelopment Authorities (717) 274-1401 Lebanon HOPES (717) 274-7528, ext. 3201 Independent Living Communities Country Acres Manufactured Home Park, LP 1600 Kercher Ave., Myerstown (717) 866-5496 Insurance Medicare Hotline (800) 638-6833 Legal Services Pennsylvania Bar Association (717) 238-6715 Office of Aging Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging (717) 273-9262

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Dancing Boosts Body, Mind, and Soul

By Lori Van Ingen At age 65, Marian Condon wasn’t miserable or depressed, but she wasn’t joyous either.

She had been divorced for a number of years, but had a “wonderful job and good friends.”

Condon is an adjunct nursing professor and has two grown sons.

“I was not as happy as I could be,” Condon said. “It was not as much fun. It was like I was marching, not skipping, through life,” Condon said. “I could feel better if I exercised, but I hated exercise. I tried it all—running, lifting weights, machines, gyms, yoga studios. I was never a physical person.”

However, weighing over 200 pounds, Condon was a good 65 pounds overweight and the doctor was warning her about her blood pressure and blood sugar.

And as a registered nurse with a master’s degree in primary care from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in adult education from Penn State, Condon knew she needed to make a “significant change in my life.”

Condon said she “felt bad being overweight. I was chubby by 11 years old. I went through the cycle of emotional eating, being ashamed of how I look [followed by] more eating,” she said.

It is very difficult to stay away from sweet foods when you are “addicted” to them, she said.

“I know as a nurse what an addiction is. You can become dependent on sugary foods.

They elevate your mood almost instantly. You eat chocolate cake and it makes you feel better physiologically. (It’s made with sugar and flour) and the glucose, or the sugar, triggers the release of endorphins and dopamine, which raise your mood instantly.”

That’s the mechanism behind emotional eating and few educated people know that it’s unhealthy, she said. A lot of women can relate to it.

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Marian Condon and Arthur Murray instructor Tim Hippert competing at the 2015 Harrisburg Area Showcase ballroom dance event.

“I know how difficult it is to control when you are 60, 70, 80 pounds overweight. You think it’s an impossible challenge. ‘So what if I give up? I’ll just die a few years early,’” Condon said.

That’s when one day in her email she found a Groupon coupon for a dance studio.

“My parents liked to jitterbug and took me with them. I loved it,” she said.

But Condon thought she couldn’t learn to dance because she didn’t have a partner. She contacted the dance studio anyway and was told it didn’t matter that she didn’t have a partner because one of the instructors would dance with her at their dance parties.

She decided to give it a try and “it changed my life, absolutely,” Condon said.

She learned ballroom dancing, which encompasses many smooth dances like the foxtrot, waltz, tango, Latin dances (rumba, merengue, cha-cha), swing, hustle, and country-western.

“There’s something for everyone,” she said.

Dancing is “so much fun. I felt happier. I went almost every night after work. I got into better shape and became more attracted to

exercise. I’d go to the park to walk, then jog. I bought weights ... ” She finally could fit into the “sparkly” dresses the dancers wore.

Condon had a new motivation, a joy in the music and the positive people around her laughing and joking as they danced. She felt happier and able to control her eating. She was able to stick to a healthy diet and she lost 65 pounds in a year.

“I’m five years out now and have not regained any weight.”

Most people, she said, regain the weight they have lost over time.

Condon loved dancing so much that she decided she would write a book about how dancing can help people lose weight.

For her book, Thinner, Fitter, Happier: Dancing Will Change Your Life!, Condon interviewed 40 dancers around the country: Some are teachers and some are students, but all said dancing changed their lives.

Dancing affects your mind, spirit, soul, and relationships.

“It’s the best-kept health secret,” Condon said.

Some of the benefits of dancing are that it’s an aerobic activity, you get a mental lift from the music, you are with people having fun, and you make new friends.

“You don’t talk about politics or religion. There’s no negative conversation on the dance floor.

It’s a very positive, upbeat, happy place to be,” Condon said.

“Research shows the people you hang around affect your mood.

Debbie Downers suck your energy, but you don’t find that at dance studios. Music uplifts your soul.

You learn to move in sync with another person and it reminds us of being rocked in the womb. It’s sublime.

“You don’t think about your feet or your body; you just feel every slight shift in weight. Longstanding married couples have rekindled their relationships through dance. Dancing also is www.50plusLifePA.com

phenomenal for the brain.”

Condon said dancing is not only for the young, slim, and athletic.

“If you can walk, you can dance”—even at age 98, like one of Condon’s new friends at her dance studio.

“I took up dancing late in life,” said Condon, who is now 71. “I did a lot of research. Dancing confers more protection against dementia than any other activity.”

According to a 20-year longitudinal study on people in their 70s, dancing had the highest degree of protection for their cognition. It was higher than chess, board games, walking, golf, or tennis.

“While dancing, the aerobic exercise is pumping blood to the

brain, and it keeps you thinking where your body is in space, processing the music and processing where your partner’s body is located.

Dancing puts a demand on your brain and you form new neurons.”

Dancing also could fit into anyone’s budget. You don’t have to dance at a franchise studio. There are dance clubs around the area that are inexpensive because they rent their studios from fire halls, she said.

Thinner, Fitter, Happier: Dancing Will Change Your Life! is available through http://thinnerfitterhappier. drmariancondon.com and Amazon. com.

Condon also can be contacted on her Facebook page or on her website (www.doctormariancondon.com).

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6 Travel Tips for Smartphones Abby Stokes

Are you planning a trip out of the country this summer? Let’s talk about precautions you should take so you don’t come home to a smartphone bill that’ll ruin your vacation afterglow.

1. Call Your Cellphone Service Provider – Before traveling overseas, call the company you pay for your cellphone service and ask what packages they offer for international use.

Think about how you might use your phone (calling the U.S., calling within the country you’re visiting, texting, email …) and ask how each of those is billed under your provider’s international plan.

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Better that you control specifically when the cellular data is used. You can turn the cellular data on and off as you need it so as not to exceed the plan you’ve chosen.

3. Wi-Fi Is Your New BFF – If the hotel or home you’re visiting has WiFi, you’re all set. When on Wi-Fi you can check email, visit websites, send photos, text, and use the GPS feature on your phone.

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Wi-Fi is a free zone where you can use almost all of the features of your phone without incurring additional charges.

The one exception is voice calling.

You may still be charged international fees for phone calls (in and out). You might have the option of turning on Wi-Fi calling, or better yet, use a service like Skype.

4. Skype Your Phone Calls – Skype is a free app that allows you to use your smartphone, tablet, or computer to call, text, or video chat internationally for free or at greatly reduced prices.

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(and I mean very small) amount to call people who aren’t registered with Skype. I have yet to see a phone company offer more competitive pricing than Skype for international phone calls.

5. When in Doubt, Use Airplane Mode – If you arrive at your destination and can’t remember what your smartphone plan allows for, simply go to your settings and turn on airplane mode.

Airplane mode will stop all transmission to or from the phone.

So no emails, texts, phone calls, or visiting websites. No signal = no ugly phone bills. You can still take and view photos, read your notes, or listen to any music saved on your phone.

Once back in the safety of a Wi-Fi area, you can turn off airplane mode and turn on Wi-Fi. 6. Document with Your Camera – Of course you’re going to take photos of everything you love about your visit. Why not also take a photo of your passport and the back and front of your credit cards so you’ll have that information on your phone at all times?

When traveling, I even take a photo of my rental car and its license plate to make it easier to identify in a parking lot full of cars.

Remember that to put away your smartphone for a day is a great vacation choice. Smell the roses, enjoy the sea breeze, and linger in a museum while your smartphone becomes your personal assistant taking all of your messages.

Bon voyage!

Abby Stokes, author of “Is This Thing On?” A Friendly Guide to Everything Digital for Newbies, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming and its companion website, AskAbbyStokes.com, is the Johnny Appleseed of Technology, singlehandedly helping more than 300,000 people cross the digital divide.

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Fast Food: Wendy’s

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Seafood: Devon Seafood Grill

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Steak: LongHorn Steakhouse Outdoor Dining: Quentin Tavern

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Romantic Setting: The Franklin House Tavern & Restaurant

Celebrating: Blue Bird Inn Bakery: Zig’s Bakery & Deli

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Politicians are human. comptroller-treasurer “stole $53 There are surely times when you’d million … money right out of the like to think otherwise, but the truth pockets of her friends and neighbors.” is that they laugh, they cry, they There have been sex scandals love—and they do boneheaded things. aplenty in politics, words that went In the new book Political Suicide by awry, and a lot of big mouths. Racism Erin McHugh, you’ll see that all kinds has reared its terrible head, as has of things can go wrong. double-crossing and blame-laying.

Their greed gets the better of them.

History repeats itself in contentious Their egos need stroking, or their elections and Supreme Court tempers take over. nominations. And at least one political Take, for instance, Daniel Sickles. “man among men” wasn’t a man at all Though the New York state … assemblyman was a known Looking for a little levity in the philanderer himself, wreckage of this political he was furious that year? his missus enjoyed a You’ll find some dalliance. Sickles killed between the lines in his wife’s lover and went Political Suicide, but to trial but pleaded don’t expect belly laughs temporary insanity, or goofy stories. No, becoming the first author Erin McHugh person to successfully gives readers lots of true be acquitted in that (and outrageous!) tales, manner. but the humor comes Also lucky was a from the situations California congressman themselves more than who killed a man over from the author. a lack of breakfast; he McHugh is quick Political Suicide

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258 pages Throughout history, happened, but she there have been many also puts things into scandalous quirks in politics. One historical and cultural perspective; sitting congressman served his country what’s more, her accounts seem from an insane asylum. One was sympathetic now and then, especially reelected to Congress while in jail. when naiveté is involved.

And one notable congressman told That gives readers a nice balance of a mega-whopper of a lie to gain his silly, sad, and scandalous. What’s not seat, and then tried to explain it by to like about that? saying that he was “a prisoner” of his Nothing, that’s what—so, White own story.

House watchers, voters, fed-up folks, There’s money to be found in and historians should want to read politics—although, unfortunately, it this book. If you need a hint of doesn’t always belong to the politician. disgracefully laden lightheartedness That doesn’t necessarily stop them between now and Nov. 8, Political from taking the cash, however: One Suicide is just the ticket. state treasurer who called himself The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer.

Honest Dick “in fact, was not.”

Terri has been reading since she was 3 Questionable loans are altogether too years old and she never goes anywhere common. without a book. She lives on a hill in And imagine the shock when Wisconsin with two dogs and 14,000 books. one small town discovered that its

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Pickleball, Mini Golf Prove Popular at Senior Games

By Sam Peeples The Senior Games returned to Lebanon County for their 31st year on May 18. Lasting a full week, the games allowed residents of the county over age 50 to participate in a variety of events to both stay healthy and have fun.

The games have been a part of Lebanon since 1985, promoting physical fitness among the senior population. Participants could compete and earn medals in 15 different events, from table tennis and basketball to bocce ball, swimming, running, and more.

“We had about 85 [athletes] participate and it was slightly more than last year,” said Brian Wolfe, YMCA VA director at the Lebanon Family YMCA and head of the county’s Senior Games.

held at the Lebanon Family YMCA “Overall, [we had] a good number May 18-25. Miniature golf took of participants.” place at Yogey’s Wolfe was put in Miniature Golf charge of the games when the Lebanon Course, which was rented out County Area specifically for the Agency on Aging occasion. asked the YMCA to The Lebanon take over running the events. As the Senior Center was used for Veteran Affairs several less director, they active games, fell under his All the Senior like pinochle jurisdiction as Games participants well as that of and bingo, while both Darin Pickles, are impressive. the YMCA horseshoes and the closing director of operations. ceremony were held at “Everything Ironwood Community Park. ran smoothly as it usually does,” The largest change for 2016’s said Wolfe. events was a new venue for bowling.

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Instead of a local alley in Lebanon, which was moving locations, participants went for strikes at the Goodwill Fire Company in Myerstown.

Of these events, Wolfe noted mini golf as the most popular event among the competitors. Pickleball proved to be the most entertaining for the spectators, with the doubles elimination matches having no clear winner until the very end of the event.

The dedication of the staff, volunteers, and those competing in the events themselves made the games a resounding success.

“All the Senior Games participants are impressive,” said Wolfe. “I hope that I am still that active when I become a senior.”

The games will return to Lebanon in May 2017.

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Tinseltown Talks

Singer Toni Tennille’s Brush with Hollywood Nick Thomas

She put the “Tennille” in the popular ’70s music duo of the Captain and Tennille and enjoyed two huge No. 1 Billboard hits: “Love Will Keep Us Together” and “Do That to Me One More Time.”

But Toni Tennille also brushed shoulders with Hollywood’s biggest stars.

Born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, Tennille recently left five decades of West Coast life behind her, as well as nearly 40 years of marriage to musical partner Daryl “the Captain” Dragon, and returned to the South.

“I’m now living just northeast of Orlando near my sister,” said Tennille, who released her April autobiography Toni Tennille: A Memoir, written with niece Caroline Tennille St. Clair (see www.tonitennille.net).

The Captain and Tennille in early years.

“It took two years to write and looks back at my childhood growing up in the segregated South,” she said.

After arriving in California in 1961, Tennille worked in repertory theater, wrote music, and eventually met and married musician Daryl Dragon.

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exploded onto the pop music scene in 1975, they were given their own primetime weekly TV variety show on ABC also called The Captain and Tennille.

Tennille says working with the weekly guests was a highlight.

“I was so excited about meeting all

those fabulous stars like George Burns and Bob Hope.”

A reoccurring skit throughout the series was Masterjoke Theater, where a guest would perform a short monologue and close by tossing a pie in his own face.

“Big stars like Vincent Price, Raymond Burr, Bob Hope, and Tony Randall were all game to be silly.”

The show, however, only lasted one season. But with her cheerful and engaging personality, Tennille was back on television again in 1980 starring in her own program, The Toni Tennille Show, a nationally syndicated series featuring musical numbers and her interviews with special guests.

She also drew on advice her mother had offered years before.

“She once told me: ‘Toni, always be really nice to your lighting guys,

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S ’ N E M Toni Tennille today with niece and book co-author Caroline Tennille St. Clair.

because they can make you look like an old hag if they want!’ So that’s what I did.”

The show only lasted a year, too, but the parade of stars was once again stellar and included Ginger Rogers, Ernest Borgnine, and Charlton Heston. However, one of her most memorable encounters occurred offscreen at Dodger Stadium in 1978.

“I used to sing the national anthem there,” she recalled. “I was sitting at a table during one of the events and a man came up to me and said, ‘Miss Tennille, I’m Cary Grant. I just wanted to tell you that I have never heard the national anthem sung more beautifully.’

“Wow, such high praise from Cary Grant. And I found it so endearing that he felt the need to introduce himself to me!”

Her glitzy entertainment career now in the distant past, Tennille, 75, says she found the perfect house

Tennille and Dragon with George Burns on The Captain and Tennille Show.

last summer after moving to Florida and easily slipped back into Southern living.

But her decision to divorce Dragon in 2014 took many fans by surprise, as the duo was publicly perceived as a devoted couple performing their string of love songs for years.

However, says Tennille, throughout the marriage there were problems that became overwhelming, so it was time to move on.

“We were not the lovebirds that the public saw,” she said. “We still talk regularly and care for each other. But my message for people who are in a bad relationship is to get all the help you can to remove yourself from the situation. We all deserve happiness.”

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Traditions of Hershey Veterans Club members were part of the parades for the third year. This is an annual event for the Traditions of Hershey Veterans Club, which led the Pledge of Allegiance at the ceremony following the Palmyra parade.

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The concert marked the start of VAMC’s second year of “Evening Out” concerts for veterans.

“We have been very fortunate to have extremely talented performers who are dedicated to our veterans, From left, Joe Chesnutt, co-founder of Corsair like the American Blue Jazz Orchestra, performing with American Bombshells (2016) and Bombshells Lydia, Vanessa, and Gabby. the Manhattan Dolls (2015), appear with CBJO,” Joe Chesnutt, co-founder of CBJO, said.

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Art & Antiques by Dr. Lori

The Art of Storing China and Heirlooms Lori Verderame

If you have your heirloom china, crystal, porcelain, and knickknacks in a lighted china closet or display case with lamps inside, don’t position your collectibles too close to the lamps.

Once, during an in-home appraisal service call, I had to break some bad news to a Waterford crystal collector who had her entire collection on display in just such a cabinet. She told me that every Sunday she turned on the lights inside that cabinet so her dinner guests could admire her lovely collection.

Well, I found all of the damage that they were admiring. Every one of those Waterford pieces on the top shelf, the ones closest to the lights, were cracked from the heat trapped in that glass display cabinet.

My client had been unknowingly damaging her crystal with a weekly dose of high-intensity heat.

And, like the hot china cabinet, another poor locale for storing your

Cardboard art or boxes will antiques is soak up any the attic, water like where a sponge. temperature Water means and humidity moisture, changes take moisture place as often means mold, as the seasons change. and then we have a recipe The for disaster. basement Circa 1930s ceramic Mickey Mouse child’s tea I have had has all the set in original box. clients and room in the audience world for the members ask me, “Dr. Lori, what if storage of your treasures, like china and crystal, yet it is usually too damp my antique or collectible (like my circa 1930s Mickey Mouse child’s tea set to store those precious pieces. worth $500) came in a cardboard box Now that you know where not originally? Should I keep that box?” to store your stuff, here’s a tip on Just because it came in a cardboard how to store it. No cardboard boxes. box doesn’t mean it has to stay in a That’s right, no cardboard boxes. cardboard box when you store it. Of They attract bugs, are high in acid content, and will stain your ceramics, course, the original box should be kept and does have value, but to preserve photographs, and works on paper.

the antique object, take it out of the cardboard box for long-term storage.

Depending on what your object is, store the object and the box separately wrapped in acid-free paper or in a plastic tub.

Remember, bubble wrap is not for long-term storage but for short-term transport. You should wrap your heirlooms in white, acid-free tissue paper or white cotton cloths. Bubble wrap traps heat, and it captures damaging moisture.

You want to keep your art and antiques dry and in good shape, even while you are storing them.

dipping the end of their abdomens into it, dropping an egg on a water plant at the surface with each dip.

When they hatch, the tiny, brown naiads sink to the bottom of the impoundment where they blend into the mud, which makes them invisible to fish and other predators.

and mates. Only empty shells on emergent plants silently testify to the dragonflies’ past in the water.

Dragonflies are attractive, interesting, and entertaining, as well as beneficial. This summer, enjoy these large, darting insects around waterways and impoundments.

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a little like white-tails. But male twelve-spots have three brown spots alternating with two white spots on each wing. Females of this species have clear wings.

Females of both species, after being fertilized, spawn by hovering just above the water and repeatedly

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There they catch and consume aquatic invertebrates until grown in a year’s time. And there they have gills to take oxygen from the water.

When grown, the naiads climb plant stems out of the water, emerge from their larval shells, and, eventually, fly away to look for food

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Deal Me In

By Mark Pilarski

A Shorter Timeline is No Predictor of Winning

Dear Mark: Any time I start playing slots, I always seem to win at the beginning but end up going home a loser. I should just quit while ahead, but I do not because it takes me an hour to drive to the casino, and I do not want to play for just 15 minutes and leave.

Is there any chance that the slot machine senses a new player has not been at a particular machine for a specific period and then pays off initially, and then stops paying? – Joy C. First off, Joy, slot machines do not have an onboard motion detector or operate with artificial intelligence.

Slots are preprogrammed to pay out a certain percentage on a random basis with streaks—both good and bad— appearing at any time.

The slot machine doesn’t reason: “If I give Joy a bunch of loot on the front end, after we’ve hooked her, we’ll snag all that money back.”

The grind is that the casino is capable of eventually winning your entire bankroll due to the huge, builtin advantage it has over you when you play slots. And your willingness to keep playing these cybernetic onearmed bandits is the reason you will eventually be relieved of your hardearned money.

Actually, Joy, when you begin playing, it doesn’t take much to prove a winning session because you have not been playing long enough to lose a sufficient sum of money to the machine, at least yet.

That doesn’t take away from the fact that slot machines are rigged—I think that’s a good word—so that they pay back less money than you invest in them. Therefore, the longer you play, the more likely you are to give back whatever winnings the machine provided you at the outset. www.50plusLifePA.com

By the way, Joy, I believe you might be the victim of selective memory here and somehow seem to have forgotten all those sessions when you struggled from the getgo and never did get ahead.

Another factor is that the casino knows that you, as you stated, won’t stay for just 15 minutes and play through your money just once, but you will keep playing your credits over and over again during your stay.

So, for example, on a 93 percent return machine, if you were to play your entire $100, you can expect back, “in theory,” $93. Of course, the casino anticipates your playing the $93, so expect a return of $86. Put in the $86, and your return will be $80.

Play through the $80 and you will get back $74.

Can you see how the casino is grinding away at your initial $100, and why coming home a winner after a lengthy session is an unlikely outcome for any slot player?

The bottom line here, Joy, is that the result of every spin is an independent event. What is for sure is that you lose less money when you play for a shorter time; but a shorter timeline is no predictor of winning.

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He says, “If there was a saved him from the worseway to go wrong, I found than-hopeless path his life it and took it.” had taken to that point.

He was a lad whose He asked his mother to sign a note with her father had trouble holding a job and was away from permission for him to leave school after the home a lot. His mother, ninth grade. Of course, on the other hand, “was she wouldn’t, and she a saint” who spent much begged him to stay on and of her time working a low-paying job so she do well in school. So he asked his father, and no would be home when the rd Radarman 3 Class youngsters got there and problem. He got the note George T. Heidig at he needed, and at age 16 so she could provide food Charleston Naval Base, left school. for the family.

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The USS Tills, the Navy destroyer school.

There, recruits He then worked escort on which George Heidig served in the 1950s. were given a battery his way through of tests to determine Millersville State their educational and skill levels. And College, earning a B.A. in industrial with his spotty school experience, arts.

Heidig did not do well. All recruits He taught at a junior high school were then trained in ordnance and for 30 years before he retired in 1988 gunnery, seamanship, firefighting, and went to work for a funeral home. physical training, and military drill.

Since his retirement from their support Upon graduation, Heidig was staff in 1996, he has kept in shape by shipped to Charleston, South Carolina, swimming, playing golf, and riding his where he was assigned to the destroyer bicycle. escort USS Tills. She made two-week Does he think often of his Navy training cruises to the Caribbean with days? naval reservists undertaking refresher “All the time,” he says quietly. “It and reserve training cruises, and she absolutely laid the solid foundation for also used her radar to perform a host everything I did with my life.” of tasks.

Col. Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Heidig fondly recalls the day when Europe in World War II. he was lingering near the “off-limits” radar room, and the older radarman 1st class in charge invited him in and visited with him over a cup of coffee.

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Calendar of Events

Lebanon County

Community Programs/Support Groups Free and open to the public

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July 27, 6 to 7 p.m.

Alzheimer’s and Dementia Family Support Group Linden Village 100 Tuck Court, Lebanon (717) 274-7400

Annville Senior Community Center (717) 867-1796 200 S. White Oak St., Annville July 8, noon – Garden Tour and Pizza Lunch July 13, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Teddy Bears Picnic July 27, 1 p.m. – Carpool to The Timbers: Everything is Rhythm

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Library Programs Annville Free Library, 216 E. Main St., Annville, (717) 867-1802 July 5, 6:30 p.m. – Adult Coloring Club Lebanon Community Library, 125 N. Seventh St., (717) 273-7624 Matthews Public Library, 102 W. Main St., Fredericksburg, (717) 865-5523 Myerstown Community Library, 199 N. College St., Myerstown, (717) 866-2800 Palmyra Public Library, 325 S. Railroad St., (717) 838-1347 Richland Community Library, 111 E. Main St., Richland, (717) 866-4939

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Auto crashes. A study of truck drivers who routinely work on long hauls found that coffee drinkers (or consumers of other caffeinated drinks) seem 63 percent less likely to be involved in crashes while driving.

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Dear Pharmacist

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Which Should You Take, Advil or Tylenol?

When you’re in pain, what do you reach for, Tylenol or Advil?

What about fever or body aches from the flu?

How about if your precious grandbaby is teething or gets an earache—which do you give?

These are questions that you might be asking yourself today, and I’m going to help you.

There are some primary differences between these two medications, both blockbusters sold worldwide under various brand names. The ingredients themselves are included in thousands of multitasking formulas.

If you read labels, you’ll see the generic names as follows:

away from Tylenol because it could exacerbate the liver damage caused by the alcohol.

Ibuprofen is a drug mugger of folate, whereas acetaminophen is a drug mugger of glutathione.

If you run out of folate, you could develop high homocysteine (increases risk of heart disease), cervical dysplasia, depression, chronic diarrhea, gray hair, and mouth sores.

If you run low on glutathione, fatigue, general pain, and liver problems occur.

There are dozens of other symptoms that I don’t have space to list, and also, these depletions take time. You don’t run out of the nutrients with normal dosages, taken Tylenol = acetaminophen properly for a short term.

Advil, Motrin = ibuprofen Don’t live in pain because you are worried about this; just keep it Fever – You can use either one in mind if you take them every day. unless you’re giving it to a baby Supplement with what the drug less than 6 months old. Babies less mugger stole. than 6 months old should be given Do you take blood thinners acetaminophen (Tylenol). (warfarin) or anticoagulant medications? You’re better off with Pain – I’d choose ibuprofen because acetaminophen in this case because it directly reduces some pain-causing ibuprofen can further thin the blood. cytokines, whereas acetaminophen Heart disease or hypertension? impacts the way you feel pain, You’re better off with acetaminophen. essentially “numbing” you to the A recent study suggests taking sensation. No one is 100 percent sure acetaminophen affects your ability to how it works; we just have clues. We empathize with someone else during know it works, though. their own physical or emotional pain.

If you have severe pain, it’s Does ibuprofen blunt your sometimes recommended to emotional reactions too? While alternate between ibuprofen and no study ever tested ibuprofen, I acetaminophen every few hours. Back personally think it does. Whenever pain and osteoarthritis respond better you reduce your own ability to feel to ibuprofen, according to the British pain, it’s certainly harder to feel pain Medical Journal. for another.

Finally, you may be concerned PMS or cramps – Definitely about addiction, so let me reassure ibuprofen for this; it is a stronger anti- you, both medications are completely inflammatory. Just FYI, a combination safe in this regard. of B complex and magnesium may help mood swings, water retention, This information is not intended to tearfulness, and cramps. diagnose, prevent, or treat your disease.

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