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• In December of 1968, Armstrong was offered the post of commander of Apollo 11, the spacecraft slated for a lunar landing. The mission was launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969. On July 20, the craft touched down on the moon, and Armstrong radioed, “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed,” referring to the name given to the lunar module.

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* It was Robert Wright, journalist, scholar and author of best-selling books about science, who made the following sage observation: “Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for its skill than its virtue.”

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* Famously flamboyant country singer and songwriter Dolly Parton once anonymously entered a Dolly Parton look-alike contest ... and lost. * The small Asian country of Bhutan, nestled in the mountains between China and India, had no access to TV until 1999. * You’ve doubtless heard of narcolepsy, a medical condition that causes sufferers to sleep excessively -- sometimes up to 18 hours a day. But you’re probably not familiar with philagrypnia. People with this condition -- I won’t call them “sufferers” -require only three or four hours of sleep a day. What would you do with all that extra time?

1. Know your loans.

It’s crucial that you keep track of the lender, balance and repayment status of each of your student loans. If you’re not sure, ask your lender or visit NSLDS.ed.gov. You can log in and see all this information.

2. Know your grace period.

A grace period is the amount of time between leaving school and the due date of your fist payment. It’s six months for federal Stafford loans. For federal parent or PLUS loans, there is no grace period.

Grace periods for private student loans vary, so consult your paperwork, or contact your lender to find out.

* Those who study such things say that the average woman changes her hairstyle 20 times between the ages of 18 and 24.

Between the ages of 50 and 80, though, women change it only four times.

3. Stay in touch with your lender.

Whenever you move or change contact information, tell your lender right away. If your * The English word “velvet” comes from lender needs to contact you and your information the Latin for “shaggy hair.” isn’t current, it can end up costing you a bundle.

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If you’re having trouble making payments because of unemployment, health problems or other unexpected financial challenges, you have options for managing your federal student loans.

There are legitimate ways to temporarily postpone your federal loan payments, such as deferment and forbearance. Just keep in mind that the interest will continue to accrue and be added to the principal amount, even though your payments may have been suspended.

6. Stay out of trouble.

Ignoring your student loans has serious consequences that can last a lifetime. Not paying can lead to delinquency and default. For federal loans, default kicks in after nine months of nonpayment. Talk to your lender right away if you’re in danger of default. You can also find helpful information at StudentLoanBorrowerAssistance.org.

7. Lower the principal.

When you make a federal student loan payment, it covers any late fees first, then interest and finally the principal. If you can afford to pay more than your required monthly payment -- even occasionally -- you can lower your principal, which reduces the amount of interest you have to pay over the life of the loan.

Include a written request to your lender to make sure that the extra amount is applied to your principal. Otherwise, it will automatically be applied to future payments instead.

8. Pay off the most expensive loans first.

If you’re considering paying off one or more of your loans ahead of schedule or trying to reduce the principal, start with the one that has the highest interest rate.

If you have private loans in addition to federal loans, start with your private loans, since they almost always have higher interest rates.

9. Consolidation.

A consolidation loan combines multiple loans into one for a single monthly payment and fixed interest rate. If this is appealing, make sure you know all of the pros and cons first.

You can consolidate your federal student loans through the Direct Loan program. They have an online calculator to help you figure out what your interest rate would be.

10. Loan forgiveness.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness is a fairly new program that purports to forgive federal student debt in certain situations. There’s a lot of misinformation out there making forgiveness appear to be a viable option for just about anyone. Since the program began, 99% of the applications have been rejected. Find out more at IBRinfo.org.

Best advice: Don’t count on your loans to be forgiven, canceled or paid off for you.

Instead, create a plan, and then buckle down so you are out of debt as quickly as possible.

* * *

Mary invites questions, comments and tips at EverydayCheapskate.com, “Ask Mary a Question.” This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually.

Mary Hunt is the founder of Debt-Proof Living, a personal finance member website and the author of the book Debt-Proof Living, Revell 2014. To find out more about Mary visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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When I asked her why she would do that, she hemmed and hawed and finally said it: “I don’t want to believe my dog is aggressive.”

A woman with an aggressive pit bull mix put off dealing with it for two years -- calling it assertiveness, playing it down, deeming it everything other than what it was -- and now she’s pregnant.

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Last week, a man called me up and said, “My dog is a problem.” Refreshing, I thought to myself, calling it what it is. He told me that his dog just bit him. But during the course of the discussion, it came out that the dog had sunk his teeth into the man’s 15-year-old daughter two weeks prior. I asked him why he hadn’t called me then, and he said, “It wasn’t that bad of a bite. Mine was bad.”

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by Tom Margenau

Two Views of Social Security From the 1970s

My sister lives in a home she inherited from my mother after my mom died in the early 1990s. She was recently cleaning out the basement, and in a far corner, she found a box my mom had labeled, “Tom’s writings.” It was full of essays and other reports I’d written while in grade school, high school and college. There were also clippings of Social Security-related artiicles I wrote occasionally for newspapers and magazines -- long before I started writing this weekly column.

My sister sent the box to me. And going through it brought back many memories from my early days working for the Social Security Administration. I’m going to share two of them with you today.

In my mom’s box was a 1973 newspaper clipping that generated a letter to the editor from me. It was the story about some university economists who said that “people under 35 have absolutely no chance of collecting Social Security.” Their advice to young people was to “avoid the system if you can and save for your old age on your own.”

The story included the picture of a 30-something mother burning her Social Security card while her three small children looked on with puzzled looks on their faces.

That faded newspaper clipping was yellowing around the edges. I thought that was entirely appropriate. (“Yellow journalism” -- get it?) What a pile of hooey that story was. I hope the economists cited in the article lost their tenure and have since been lucky to get bookkeeping gigs for bowling alleys and fireworks stands.

Well, actually, they might deserve a small amount of credit if their advice to “save for your old age on your own” encouraged some readers of that newspaper story to do just that. Everyone knows that you were never supposed to live on your Social Security check and that you need to supplement it with savings and other investments. So if some people listened to them and did what they suggested, then they are now probably living comfortably in retirement with savings AND their Social Security check.

If that mother who was burning her Social Security card is still alive, she must be in her 70s or 80s. And she has probably been getting a Social Security check for 10 or 20 years. I wonder if she burns those checks, too! (Well, OK, there is no check to burn because she would have direct deposit. But I think you get my point.)

As I’ve discussed many times in past columns, for the past 50 years, hundreds, if not thousands, of people have come up to me following a speech, or sent emails to my column, predicting the downfall of Social Security. I have always told them the same thing. Sure, Social Security faces some challenges. But it has faced many other challenges before. And Congress always eventually does the right thing.

It happened in the early 1980s, not too long after the economists gave their ill-considered advice. Back then, Congress raised the retirement age and added a very small increase in the Social Security payroll tax. And that has kept the system chugging along. And in the not-too-distant future, it will happen again. Some relatively modest reforms

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“For as much as your people care for you, will be implemented that will keep Social Security and you for them, absolute financial dependence solvent and relevant for generations to come. is a terrible, crippling thing. Social Security helped writ“Tom’s the from The other clipping

ings” box that caught my eye was a piece I wrote change that. It gave the elderly a measure of digfor a magazine in the mid-1970s about an elderly nity. Not to have to ask for the little things, the silly woman I will call Nancy who lived in a remote cabin little things that made you remember you were still in the mountains of central Idaho. I was working in a woman. To be able to buy a lipstick. To ease your the Boise, Idaho Social Security office at the time, drying skin with a pot of cream.”

Gosh, how I wished those economists who and had asked to meet Nancy after reading a story she wrote about Social Security in a Boise newspa- encouraged young people to drop out of the Social per. I ventured out to her place that sat on a small Security system had talked to Nancy. Maybe they rise overlooking a stream called Grimes Creek to wouldn’t have been so flippant with their advice. I a plaqueAPRIL hanging 24 on her livinterview her. The article I wrote was titled, “Wis- recall that Nancy had TUES., ing room wall. It read: “Old age and treachery will dom of the Grimes Creek Sage.” Please review carefully.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: Seven years ago, I had a stroke. I was immediately put on Lipitor and Plavix. The statin drugs made my arms and shoulders ache, and the doctor tested me and found no reason for it. He said anecdotally that he had many patients who complained of the same thing.

He then put me on fenofibrate. The pain stopped immediately. Now he says new research shows that any cholesterol-lowering drug makes the blood tests show lowered cholesterol levels but it does not prevent heart attack or stroke. So he took me off it.

I wonder if you know anything about this study that said there was no benefit to taking statins. I did not really understand what he said. -- G.C.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: Last summer I hospital, but not always. went camping and ran out of clean water.

Recently, a former chief pharmacist at a I had to boil water and drink it without any veterans care home admitted that he stole 12,000 treatment tablets. doses of various opioids and tampered with the

That evening, I had painful cramps electronic and manual prescription logs to cover it in my stomach, and in my upper abdomen, up. And how long will he stay in the slammer? It’s under my ribcage. Since then, my digestion likely to only be four years. has been horrific. I have constant rank gas There are problems in veterans care homes, ANSWER: It sounds like the message got and bloating when eating foods I’ve never but it isn’t always drugs that are taken. Sometimes a bit confused.

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DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: Can men get osteoporosis or is it a problem exclusively for women? When I fell and broke my wrist last winter the doctor that treated me told me I might have osteoporosis. I never followed through and got checked for it, but I am curious to know if this is really possible.

Can you shed any light on this for me?

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Dear William: Many people think osteoporosis is a woman’s disease, but men can get it too, especially in their later years. Here’s what you should know: Osteoporosis in Men

Osteoporosis is a disease that causes the bones to become weak and brittle and more susceptible to fractures. Though women are four times more likely to acquire it, around two million American men have osteoporosis today, and another 12 million have “pre-osteoporosis,” or osteopenia.

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It is oak, and it has five drawers behind the left door and a pole for hanging clothes in the center, which I now use for a TV. For transport, it breaks into five parts: the top and bottom pieces, the left side with the door attached as one unit, the Armoire shown is a blend of two periods of design center section with the right door attached, and the left door to be carried separately.

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Your armoire was made around 1900 and would probably be worth $1,500 to $2,500. ***

This mark is on the bottom of a porcelain bowl that was my great-grandmother’s.

Also included with the mark are the words: “Hand Painted - T & V - Depose.”

The bowl is decorated with red-orange poppies and gold trim. It is about 14 inches in

Your mark was used by Pickard China in Chicago. It was founded by Wilder Pickard in Chicago in 1894. They purchased porcelain blanks from European porcelain factories and decorated the pieces in their Chicago studio.

John Loh, one of Pickard’s most prolific and talented artists, painted many of the poppy patterns around 1898 to 1912. He painted such a large number of the poppy patterns that he came known as “Poppy John.”

“T & V” represents Tressemanes and Vogt, the porcelain factory located in Limoges, France, that made your bowl. “Depose” is the French word for registered. Loh often signed his work. Take another close look at your bowl: It may be signed.

Your bowl was made around 1905 and would probably be worth $150 to $250.

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* On July 26, 1775, the U.S. postal system is established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general. Franklin set up more efficient colonial routes and standardized delivery costs based on distance and weight.

* On July 22, 1933, American Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York, becoming the first aviator to fly solo around the world. Piloting a Lockheed Vega monoplane named the Winnie May, he circled the globe in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes. * On July 27, 1949, the world’s first jet-propelled airliner, the British De Havilland Comet, makes its maiden test-flight in England. The jet engine would revolutionize the airline industry, shrinking air travel time in half. * On July 24, 1959, during the grand opening ceremony of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev engage in a heated debate in a model kitchen set up for the fair. The “kitchen debate” became one of the most famous episodes of the Cold War. * On July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, performing a rock-and-roll set publicly for the first time. The dismayed audience shouted and booed when he launched into an electrified version of “Maggie’s Farm.” * On July 28, 1976, a nighttime earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude on the Richter scale flattens Tangshan, a Chinese industrial city with a population of 1 million. The 23-second temblor leveled 90 percent of Tangshan’s buildings, killing an estimated 242,000 people in the city and surrounding areas. * On July 23, 1996, at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team wins its first-ever team gold. The American women’s best finish to that point had been a silver at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

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