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May 24, 2013

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• muscles, a foot is an amazing invention. A quarter of the bones in the human body are located in the feet. (Add in the bones in the hand, and that accounts for fully half of our bones.) Feet need to be structural marvels.

• Consider that the average adult travels around 1,000 miles a year on foot, taking about 10,000 steps per day. A typical 70-year-old human will have walked a distance equivalent to going around the circumference of the earth four times. The feet strike the ground 17,000 times in a 20 mile marathon run, but even a mile of gentle walking subjects the feet to about 80 tons of weight. Feet must be sturdy.

• Although 98% of us are born with healthy feet, 80 out of 100 Americans develop foot problems during their lifetime. At any given moment, about 30 million Americans suffer from foot problems, ranging from corns and ingrown nails to club feet and fallen arches.

• Four times as many women as men deal with foot problems, mostly due to high heels.

Podiatrists trace 95% of the 500 known foot ailments to ill-designed shoes or improper foot care.

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2. ANCIENT WORLD: Where is the Acropolis?

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FEET FACTS (continued) • High heels prevent the ankles from absorbing their normal share of the force of walking, shunting it instead to the toes. A threeinch heel puts more than seven times the pressure on the forefoot than a flat shoe. This promotes many foot ailments such as bunions, hammer toes, and neuroma, which is a painful thickening of the nerve that connects the toes. A study of 3,000 surgeries performed on the forefoot found that 87% of the bunion surgeries, 81% of hammer toe surgeries, and 89% of the neuroma surgeries were done on women’s feet.

• High heels also affect the knees. A study published in the British medical journal The Lancet showed that high heels cause strain and pressure on the joint that joins the kneecap and the underlying thigh bone. The rotational forces on the inner part of the knee joint were 23 percent higher when women participating in the study walked in heels than when they walked barefoot.

• Surprisingly, the big toe has only two bones, while the rest of the toes have three.

Although nearly every bone in the body has an official name, one exception is the toe bones.

They are known only as “metatarsal digits #1-5.”

A fourth-year medical student at Yale decided to undo the injustice by bestowing names on the toes. He called them porcellus fori, porcellus domi, porcellus carnivorus, porcellus nonvoratus, and porcellus plorans domun. In Latin, these names translate as little pig at market, baby pig at home, meat-eating piglet, small pig that has not eaten, and piggy crying all the way home. Some orthopedic surgeons have picked up his names, but doctors have not yet gone hog wild over the idea.

• The measuring device in shoe shops is called a Brannock Device, after the inventor who designed it in the 1920s. The firm is still going strong.

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● On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam in Johnstown, Pa., collapses, causing a flood that kills more than 2,200 people. It was the largest earthen dam (made of dirt and rock, rather than steel and concrete) in the United States. Reportedly, a baby survived on the floor of a house as it floated 75 miles from Johnstown. ● On May 29, 1914, heavy fog on the St. Lawrence River in Canada causes a collision of boats -- the Empress of Ireland and the Storstad -- that kills 1,073 people. Caused by a horrible series of blunders, it was one of the worst maritime disasters in history. ● On June 2, 1924, with Congress' passage of the Indian Citizenship Act, the government of the United States confers citizenship on all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the country. Before the Civil War, citizenship often was limited to Native Americans of one-half or less Indian blood. ● On May 27, 1937, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public after five years of construction.

On opening day -- "Pedestrian Day" -- some 200,000 walkers crossed the bridge, which spans the Golden Gate Strait at the entrance to San Francisco Bay and connects San Francisco and Marin County. ● On May 28, 1957, National League owners vote unanimously to allow the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to move to San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively, at the mid-season owner's meeting in Chicago. ● On June 1, 1980, CNN (Cable News Network), the world's first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut. Today, CNN is seen in more than 89 million American households and more than 160 million homes internationally. In its first years of operation, CNN lost money and was ridiculed as the Chicken Noodle Network.

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● On May 30, 1431, in Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Her most serious crime, according to the tribunal, was her rejection of church authority in favor of direct inspiration from God. She was 19 years old.

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Often we do not obserbe the day as it should be; a day where we actively remember our ancestors, family members, loved ones, neighbors, and our friends who have given the ultimate sacrifice.

You can do your part by participating in a “National Moment of Rememberance” at 3 P.M. to pause and think upon the true meaning of the day, and for Taps to be played. Also, by flying the U.S. Flag at half-staff until noon. My staff and I will be observing by closing the restaurant on Memorial Day, we will re-open on Tuesday. Knowing that there will be lots of cookouts Monday here are some grilling tips that will help your day go smooth.

At The Goose, while training on the grill, I teach them to never press or cut into meat while grilling and only to flip meats when they release easily from the grill grates. Lastly, we never press our meats, if you’re in a hurry, close the lid.

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FEET FACTS (continued) • Not surprisingly, the place on the body where the skin is thickest is the heel of the foot, where it’s about 1/16th of an inch thick.

Compare that to the thinnest skin on the body— the eyelids— at 2/1000 of an inch. Although the heel is the area on the body that is least sensitive to pain, it’s also the sweatiest area. The 125,000 sweat glands in a single foot can excrete as much as half a pint of sweat per day. Research done at the University of Miami centered on foot odor. How does a research team study foot odor? First you get a bunch of volunteers to sit with their feet in plastic bags. Then you have the laboratory staff sniff the feet. They discovered that people with foot odor had large numbers of a certain bacteria on their bodies— the same type of bacteria found in Limburger cheese. They also discovered that antibiotics can reduce the number of bacteria, and thus improve the smell of feet. Why some people carry large amounts of this bacteria and others don’t is still unknown, but is under investigation. It could be differences in a person’s sweat or pH balance. Since it’s not a good idea to take antibiotics to reduce odor, this valiant research team is now trying to find ways to keep bacteria from sticking to the skin, to prevent bacteria from getting a “foothold.”

Around 80 million Americans suffer from smelly feet.

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Impregnated with various scents such as powder, citrus, strawberry, and peach, the footsie socks threw off a long-lasting fragrance. The odor remained even through many launderings and the socks cost about $20 per pair.

• Many people do not wear the correct shoe size for their feet. Often this is because people stick to the size they were measured for when young and fail to realize that their feet change shape.

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● It was noted wit Ambrose Bierce who, in his "Devil's Dictionary," defined faith as "Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." ● Those who study such things say that an ordinary human being can live four weeks without food, four days without water and four minutes without air.

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For Advertising Call (740) 446-4543 FEET FACTS (continued) FOOT BINDING • The only thing worse for feet than high heels was the Chinese practice of foot-binding.

A young girl’s feet were wrapped with a bandage ten feet long, strapped in a figure eight around the foot and ankle. It was tightened daily and pulled so taut that the four smallest toes were forced under the foot, breaking the bones. The bones in the arch of the foot would also break, forcing the arch into a sharp inverted “V” shape. Every two weeks the girl was given a pair of shoes two tenths of an inch smaller than the previous pair.

Infection often resulted, sometimes followed by gangrene, amputation of toes, and even death.

After two years, the ideally deformed foot fit a shoe only four inches long, and would proudly be called “lotus feet” or “lily feet.” Because women with lily feet could only put weight on their heels and couldn’t walk without pain, they hobbled with a mincing step which men considered charming. No one knows why the custom became habit, though it’s conjectured that the practice was popular because it prevented unhappy wives from running away. The practice began with the higher classes in order to prove that the family was so rich that the daughters didn’t need to work. However, a majority of low-class girls had their feet bound anyway in the hopes that they would find a high-class marriage. Only the most poverty-stricken families, whose daughters needed to work in the fields, failed to follow the practice. Beauty in the feet was considered more important that beauty in the face. Foot-binding was the norm in China for a thousand years, until being outlawed in the Revolution of Sun Yat-Sen in 1911. A 1997 study of elderly women in Beijing who had suffered from foot binding in their youth found they tended to fall easily, were often unable to rise from a chair without help, could not squat, and had higher rates of osteoporosis.

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She moved to California and got a job designing experimental planes.

• In 1980, she met Dick Rutan at an air show in California, where he was a featured aerobatic flyer. Rutan and his brother ran their own aircraft company, designing new planes.

Rutan hired Yeager to work with him, and they later fell in love. Over the next several years, she set several speed records as a test pilot for the planes Rutan was designing.

• In 1981, Yeager and Rutan began working to design a plane that could circle the globe without landing or refueling. Yeager named the plane Voyager. Because it was a private endeavor, the plane was built using volunteer labor and donations. As it was being designed and constructed, Yeager underwent extensive training in ocean navigation and communications, expanded her flying credentials, and became one of the first civilians ever to complete an Air Force water survival training course.

• On December 14, 1986, the Voyager took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California, with Yeager and Rutan stationed in a cockpit about the size of a telephone booth. The wings, which were heavily loaded with fuel, scraped the pavement upon take-off and were damaged, but not badly enough to abort the mission. Traveling across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, over Africa, and then across the Atlantic before crossing the U.S., the flight was full of peril. They used much fuel avoiding a hurricane.

• After the flight, Rutan and Yeager went on an extensive speaking tour in an attempt to raise enough money to pay off some of the debts incurred during the mission.

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For Advertising Call (740) 446-4543 JEANA YAEGER (continued) • Libya refused to allow access to air space, requiring an unexpected detour. A fuel pump failed mid-flight causing an engine to shut down.

Moreover, the craft was extremely difficult to fly.

Unstable in the air, it required constant attention to keep it aloft. Constant engine noise left both pilots with hearing damage by the end of the flight, and chronic fatigue dogged their every moment.

• Nine days after it had taken off, Voyager landed at Edwards Air Force, having traveled 26,366 miles at an average elevation of 11,000 feet. Whereas 3,500 people had been on hand to see them take off, about 55,000 people showed up to see them land, along with 23 news cameras.

Yeager and Rutan had traveled 28,000 miles at an average speed of 116 mph. When they landed, they had eight gallons of fuel to spare, enough to have taken them only another 100 miles.

• From a record standpoint, Rutan and Yeager became the first aviators to circumnavigate the globe nonstop, without landing or refueling in mid-flight. They also endured the longest flight up to that time, doubling the previous flight record for distance. President Ronald Regan awarded them with Presidential Citizen Medals of Honor, which had been bestowed only 16 times previously. They also received the Collier Trophy, aviation’s highest honor, and many other prestigious awards.

• The Voyager is now displayed in the Smithsonian Institute next to other historic aircraft. Unfortunately, the relationship between Yeager and Rutan ended shortly after their historic flight, and they went their separate ways.

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MAJOR MARTIN (continued) • Allied operatives in charge of the project secured the body of a soldier who had died of pneumonia. They made up fake ID papers which named him as Major William Martin. Two letters from Major Martin’s “girlfriend” named Pam were handwritten and placed in his pocket, along with a snapshot of a woman. In the letter she talked about their upcoming wedding, and they placed a bill from a jewelry store for an engagement ring in the billfold. A bill for an overnight stay at the Naval and Military Club was included, dated the day before the Major was to meet his unfortunate “death.” His pockets were filled with coins, keys, a pencil, cigarettes, matches, and theater ticket stubs. A watch was placed on one wrist. An ID tag was placed on a chain around his neck. A wallet in his back pocket contained two pictures of “Pam,” a book of stamps with two missing, and some money.

Then they attached a briefcase to his body with a chain of the same type bank messengers use when carrying valuables. This would prevent the briefcase from floating away from the body, as well as alerting the Germans to the importance of the corpse.

• Fake letters from high ranking officers were placed in the briefcase. The letters discussed how it could be possible to make the Germans believe the next attack would be on Sicily, leaving Sardinia unprotected.

• Next they had to get the body to the Germans, by making it appear as if his plane crash-landed into the sea. They knew that a German secret agent was stationed at Huelva, Spain. So they commissioned a submarine to carry the body to the coast of Huelva and release it. The body was packed in dry ice to prevent decomposition on the submarine. Major Martin was wrapped in a life jacket before being released to be sure the body would float. The plan kicked into action.

• A Spanish fisherman found the body.

Military officers were summoned. A Naval officer took the briefcase and all personal documents.

A doctor, finding fluid in the lungs (due to pneumonia) announced that the death had been due to drowning. The body was turned over to British diplomats, and they arranged a military funeral. “Pam” sent flowers for the grave. The British asked that Major Martin’s briefcase be returned, and eventually it was. But examination showed that all the “secret” documents had been removed and then replaced.

1. Who was the first second baseman to win back-to-back National League MVP Awards?

2. Name the catcher who holds the modern majorleague record for most passed balls in a season.

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In 2012, Steve Weatherford of the New York Giants became the third punter in NFL history to receive a franchise-player tag. Name the other two.

4. Who was the first player in NCAA men's basketball history to have a quadruple-double in a game?

5. In 2013, Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos became the fourth-youngest player to score 200 career goals (age 23). Who did it at a younger age?

6. Who was the last U.S. man before David Boudia in 2012 to win a gold medal in Olympic diving?

7. In 2013, Tiger Woods tied the mark for most career victories at one PGA event (eight).

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In the emergency room, the doctor had a CT scan done and then gave him a clot-busting drug. It worked unbelievably. He regained his speech and could move. Is this common? I thought strokes came from bleeding in the brain. What's going on? -- T.M. ANSWER: Strokes come in two varieties. The lesscommon kind is bleeding from a broken brain artery, often one that has an innate weakness in its wall. That's an aneurysm. It has an explosive onset and produces a "worst headache ever." This is a hemorrhagic stroke, accounting for 15 percent of strokes.

The more-common kind of stroke is an ischemic (isKEY-mick) stroke, one that results from a blockage of blood flow through an artery serving the brain. It's similar to what happens in a heart attack when a heart artery is plugged up. Your dad had this kind of stroke.

The CT scan your dad had is one way of differentiating a hemorrhagic stroke from an ischemic one.

Signs of both kinds of stroke are a sudden inability to speak, an inability to understand the spoken word, loss

of sensations from parts of the body, weakness of a leg or arm and vision changes.

Deprived of blood, brain cells and tissues die fairly quickly. As in your father's case, clot-dissolving drugs can establish circulation to the brain area deprived of blood. If such treatment is given within three to four hours from the onset of symptoms, people can make a complete or near-complete recovery of function.

The booklet on strokes provides information on this common and often tragic malady. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 902W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient's printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

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There is no treatment for floaters. People learn to deal with them.

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1. Who released "Heaven Is a Place On Earth" and when?

2. Name the group that covered the old 1940s standard "Cotton Fields" in 1970.

3. What was the name of the Mar-Keys when they first began?

4. Name the group that released "I Was Made For Lovin' You." Bonus for knowing the album name and year.

5. Name the song with this lyric: "You don't drive a big fast car, no, You don't look a-like a movie star, And on your money we won't get far."

1. Belinda Carlisle, the lead singer of The Go-Go's, in 1987. The song went to No. 1 in multiple countries, including Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.S. 2. The Beach Boys. They originally recorded the song in 1968 but were unsatisfied with the arrangement.

3. The Royal Spades. Booker T. Jones was a member and eventually formed Booker T. & the MGs. 4. Kiss, in 1979, on their "Dynasty" album. The b-side of the single release was "Hard Times."

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--Service Programs: Check whether your area has a Summer of Service program for "tweens," children who are too old for a sitter and not old enough to be left alone. They'll spend the summer under supervision doing a variety of volunteer tasks in the community.

Aim for variety week by week. Perhaps grandparents will come visit (and child sit) for two weeks. Alternate between YMCA programs, church programs, recreation department day camps, your vacation days and a hired college student.

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No wonder mom Angie always has her favorite chewy power bar recipe handy for easy reference. She and the kids enjoy making the tasty snack that is chock full of healthy ingredients, including flaxseed, wheat germ and raisins. Reese's Pieces are added to the mix, but she controls the amount.

"The original online 'Ultimate Power Bar' recipe, which has been passed from friend to friend, comes from Lunds, our neighborhood market where you can easily find all the ingredients," she says. "But, like most recipes I prepare, I tweak the ingredients to suit our tastes. The bars are ideal for school lunches, picnics and rest stops when we bike around town with our cycling club, the Mill City Cyclomaniacs. I don't know a kid who doesn't like them -- even the picky eaters ask for the energy snack."

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Don't be Fooled by Fancy Title A recent report to Congress by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau details the many problems seniors have in determining whether financial advisers are genuine.

The long title of the report was "Senior Designations for Financial Advisers: Reducing Consumer Confusion and Risks of the Broker or the Investment Adviser." It focuses on the special credentials that are used to market senior financial services.

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Those senior designation credentials give the impression that advisers have specialized training or expertise in dealing with the finances of seniors. The report notes that there's a big difference between a college-level course and a weekend seminar.

There's no oversight or enforcement for the use of those designations. Another study showed that, unfortunately, seniors are more likely to rely on someone who uses one of those senior designations.

Seniors are the targets of financial marketing, since it's assumed we have loads of retirement savings, inheritance money and equity. We're invited to "free lunch" seminars, which are ways to get us in one place to sell us financial products.

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Women Vets Get Their Own Hotline The Department of Veterans Affairs recently opened a hotline for women veterans, their families and caregivers. The hotline is a welcome addition, if only for one reason: Women veterans aren't as knowledgeable about the benefits, resources and services that are available to them.

According to a news release, women make up 15 percent of active duty and 18 percent of National Guard and Reserve personnel. However, in VA health care, only 6 percent of the patients are women. Since 2000, the number of women using VA health care has doubled, but they can't use services and benefits they don't know about.

Here are just a few areas where the hotline can help: --Referrals to homeless and mental-health services --Disability compensation --Vet Center information --Information on VA cemeteries and memorial benefits, claims, education and health-care appointments, including pharmacy --Home loans --Employment assistance The Women Veterans Hotline can be reached at 1-855829-6636. To reach the Veteran Crisis Line, for urgent needs, call 1-800-273-TALK and Dial 1 for Veterans.

Female veterans also can go online to www.eBenefits. va.gov. Search the College Navigator, read the Compensation and Benefits Handbook, access the Form 10-EZ Application for Medical Benefits, see the benefits fact sheet, access the veterans job bank and read about federal benefits for veterans, dependents and survivors. Once you're signed up, manage your health care online at TRICARE Online or My HealtheVet. Consider this column a Clip 'n' Save: Hand it off to a female veteran who can use it, perhaps just before this summer's Stand Down in your area. Stand Downs are a great place for all veterans to connect with benefits and services in a one-stop event.

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You don't have to outfit your house with a complete solar panel array, wind turbines or other top-line (and topdollar) gadgets to start cutting your energy bills. Savings can start as easily as turning off unnecessary lights and unplugging electrical or electronic items that don't see much use: for example, a clock radio in the guest room.

Set your summertime thermostat no lower than 68 degrees F. If you have a programmable thermostat, have it shift to a slightly higher temperature, say, 74 F, when no one is at home. And here's a thermostat fact that not everyone knows: It's better to simply set the temperature higher, rather than turn off the air conditioner, during the hottest months. When you get home and want to low-

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Another enemy of energy efficiency is dust. Keep the air-conditioning vent covers free of dust, and vacuum the registers monthly. Likewise, change the air conditioner's filter screen once a month during the cooling season. And, because dust can gunk up a refrigerator's cooling coils and reduce its efficiency -- as well as its lifespan -- clean the coils and vacuum under and behind the fridge every couple of months throughout the year.

Weatherstripping around window and door frames, usually a fall-season chore, can reduce the amount of cool air escaping the house. If you really want to tackle the problem, get a home-energy audit -- offered at low or no cost by many utilities -- to locate the areas of greatest air leakage.

HOME TIP: My husband likes to watch TV until he falls asleep, but then the TV is on all night, running up the electric bill. I solved the problem by programming the television to turn off at a scheduled time -- a feature found on the menu screen.

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A: One of the better references is the "Antique Trader Tools Price Guide" by Clarence Blanchard and published by Krause. Some of the values listed are a handsaw manufactured by Henry Disston & Sons, $1,210; a plow plane from 1884, $14,300; a plumb and level with wooden arch and lead plumb bob, $440; early hatchet, $50; miniature brace, Dutch origin, $120; and a box of letter stamps, set of 27, A to Z plus &, $33.

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Q: I have a partial set of Sakura china in the Laredo pattern. Although I originally had a complete service for 12, I have managed to break several plates, cups and saucers during the past 20 or so years. I really like this pattern and would like to replace my missing pieces. Can you help me? -- Terry, Bluffton, S.C. A: Your pattern was discontinued during the late 1990s.

Replacements, Inc. is the go-to source for missing pieces of sterling flatware, china and crystal. I checked the company's website and found several pieces, including a cup and saucer for $9.99; a 9-inch vegetable bowl, $79.95; and a dinner plate, $23.99. The toll-free number is 800-737-5223.

Q: I have an opportunity to buy a recording by Caruso, "Chanson de Noel," issued by Victor on its red seal label. I can buy it for $50. Deal or not? -- Carl, Ramona, Calif.

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