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EYES (cont’d): blink of an eye. Did you know that we spend about 10% of our waking hours with our eyes closed, blinking. Each blink lasts about 1/10th of a second, and takes place about 25,000 times a day, about every 12 to 15 seconds. A person blinks more when talking, but less when reading or staring at a computer screen. Because we blink less often during screen time, that’s what makes our eyes tired. Blinking keeps our eyes lubricated as well as protecting the eye from foreign particles. • Each fingerprint has 40 distinctive characteristics. The colored part of your eye, the iris, has 256, which is why eye scans are gaining widespread use for security purposes. • One of the most common eye injuries is poking the eyeball with a mascara wand! But the good news is that it takes only about 48 hours to repair a minor scratch on the cornea. • The iris, that colored part of the eye, has an important function – controlling the size of the pupil and the amount of light reaching the retina. The color of your eyes is due to the amount of the pigment melanin. A high concentration of melanin in the front layer of the iris results in brown eyes, while blue eyes have a lower amount. Although brown is the world’s most common eye color, 86% of the population of Ireland and Scotland have either blue or green eyes. • Most newborn babies with European ancestry have blue eyes at birth. But as the child grows, cells within the iris of the eyes begin to produce melanin, and by 3 to 6 months of age, the adult eye color is established. • Speaking of newborns, although they do a whole lot of crying, they don’t produce any tears until they are between 4 and 13 weeks of age. • The eye’s cornea is the only tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels. • Vision is measured in fractions, known as Snellen fractions, named for the Dutch ophthalmologist who developed the system in 1862. If a person has 20/20 vision, he or she is able to (continued on next page)

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WHAT’S BEHIND DOG’S HEAVY PANTING? DEAR PAW’S CORNER: We have a large property of several acres, and I let our dog “Boomer,” a big Labrador mix, run out there every day for at least an hour. Yesterday he came in panting very rapidly and drooling a bit, and looked agitated. He kept that up for over an hour before settling down. Boomer seems fine today, but what could have caused that rapid breathing? -- Dan J., Bloomington, Indiana DEAR DAN: Even though he’s returned to normal, take Boomer to the veterinarian to be checked out, just to make sure there are no underlying issues. It’s normal for dogs to pant heavily after lots of exertion or on a hot day, but prolonged, heavy panting should catch your attention, especially if it’s accompanied by other behaviors. The causes can be many: On hot days, heat exhaustion or heat stroke are a big concern. A neurological or heart problem could be the silent culprit. Or, Boomer could have gotten into something that’s poisonous to him. Write down all of the symptoms you noticed during his panting episode, and include the temperature that day, what you fed him, how much he ate and how much water he drank during the day. Take those notes to the vet with Boomer. If no underlying chronic cause is found, the vet probably will recommend that you keep a watchful eye on Boomer for a few days and make sure he gets plenty of water to drink. I also recommend that you go with him on his next couple of romps to see where he typically roams, looking for plants, chemicals left unattended or anything that he could accidentally ingest. Send your tips, questions and comments to ask@ pawscorner.com. (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

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clearly see an object at a distance of 20 feet (6.1 m). The distance from the person to the eyechart is 20 feet, and the letters on the chart are a certain size, getting larger as the fractions increase. If a person can only see the big single “E” at the top of the chart, vision is 20/200. The smallest letters on the Snellen chart correspond to 20/10 vision. If you’re fortunate enough to have 20/10 vision, your eyesight is twice as sharp as a person with 20/20. • Cells in the eyes come in different shapes. Rod-shaped cells are very sensitive to light and allow us to see shapes. There are 100 million of these rods, which also enable us to see better in the dark. The cone-shaped cells are responsible for the eyes seeing color. The 7 million cone cells can differentiate between about 10 million colors. • Folks whose cones don’t have all the necessary pigments – red, green, and blue -- have trouble seeing certain colors. Deuteranomoly is the most common form of color blindness, affecting 5% of all males. The green cone pigment doesn’t work properly, making yellow and green look redder, and making it difficult to distinguish blue from violet. • When the red cone is deficient, known as protanomaly, orange, red, and yellow look greener. Tritanomaly is the result of missing or limited blue cones. Blue looks greener, and it’s hard to tell pink from yellow and red. Some rare indi (continued on next page)

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HOW TO CHOOSE A GOOD HOME STAIR LIFT Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend some good stair lift companies? I have a difficult time getting up and down the stairs anymore and am interested in purchasing a stair lift for my house but could use some help choosing one. Arthritic Ann Dear Ann, A good home stair lift is an excellent solution for those with mobility challenges who have trouble with steps. A stair lift will carry you up and down the stairs in a safe seated position, providing easy access to the second story or basement level of your home. To help you choose a quality stair lift that meets your needs and budget, here are a few shopping tips, along with some top-rated companies that make them. Types of Lifts There are two basic types of stair lifts that are sold today: straight and curved. The type you need will depend upon the design of your staircase. A straight stair lift is one that travels in a straight line up a flight of stairs uninterrupted by landings, bends or curves, and costs between $2,500 and $5,000 installed. Curved lifts, however, are much more elaborate and will go around corners, bends and changes in direction. Curved lifts are also much more expensive, typically running between $8,500 and $15,000 or more depending on the complexity of the installation.

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viduals have no pigments in any of the eyes’ cones, and see no color at all. This condition is known as monochromacy or achromatopsia. • One in 12 men of European descent is colorblind, while just one in 200 women are affected. This is because the condition is located on the X chromosome, of which men have only one. Women have two X chromosomes, so that if a female has the colorblind gene, she has a normal gene as a “backup.” • Each of your eyes has about 100 eyelashes on the top eyelid, and 50 on the lower lid, each with a lifespan of about five months. Over the course of your lifetime, you will shed eyelashes amounting to a length of over 98 feet (29.9 m). • When you hit about age 45, you may have to don reading glasses due to an increasingly worsening ability to focus clearly on small print and close objects. This condition, simply due to the aging of the eye, is known as presbyopia. • The number 80 is an important one when it comes to eyes. Our eyes account for 80% of what we learn, 80% of our memories are determined by what we see, and 80% of vision problems around the world are avoidable or curable.

STAIR LIFT (cont’d) To get started, contact some stair lift companies who will put you in touch with a dealer in your area. All dealers provide free in-home assessments and estimates and can help you choose an appropriate lift. Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book.

You also need to know that all stair lifts mount to the stair treads, not to the wall, so they are very sturdy and can be installed in almost any home. If you are a large person, you may need to get a heavyduty lift with a wider seat and bigger lifting capacity – all companies offer them. Or, if you’re tall, find out about raising the seat height during installation. Most stair lifts available today also have seats, armrests and footplates that fold up out of the way, and swivel seats that make getting into and out of the chair easier. They also come with standard safety features like seatbelts, breaking systems and footrest sensors, push-button or rocker-switch controls located on the armrest for easy operation, and “call send” controls which allow you to call or send the unit to the other end of the stairs. Make sure the lift you choose has all these features. Depending on the company, you may also have the option of choosing between an electric (AC) and a battery powered (DC) stair lift. Battery powered units charge at the base station (some recharge anywhere on the track) are quieter, smoother and better than electric lifts, and will work even if there’s a power failure in the home. Where to Shop While there are many companies that make and sell stair lifts, two of the best, based on reputation and customer satisfaction ratings, are Bruno (Bruno.com, 800-454-4355) and Stannah (Stannah-Stairlifts.com, 888-465-7652). Unfortunately, original Medicare does not cover stair lifts nor do Medicare supplemental (Medigap) policies, but some Medicare Advantage plans may help pay. There are also many states that offer Medicaid waivers that will pay for lifts to those that qualify, and the VA offers cash grants to veterans with disabilities for home safety improvements. To save some money, you may want to consider purchasing a used or refurbished model. Or, if you need a stair lift for only a short period of time, consider renting one. Most companies offer these options, and many offer financing programs too. (continue in next column)

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MADAM C.J. WALKER In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, Tidbits pays tribute to Madam C.J. Walker, one of the first American female selfmade millionaires. • Madam Walker was born as Sarah Breedlove on a Louisiana cotton plantation, two years after the Civil War ended, into a family of freed slaves, the first in her family born free. Orphaned at the age of seven, Sarah lived with her sister and picked cotton as a sharecropper. • After years of living with an abusive brotherin-law, Sarah married at age 14 to escape her situation. At 20, she was a widow with a twoyear-old daughter. She moved to St. Louis to be near her brothers, and worked as a washerwoman for $1.50 while she attended night school. She married Charles Walker, an advertising (continued in next column)

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salesman for the local newspaper. • In her 20’s, Sarah developed a scalp condition that caused much of her hair to fall out. She began using a product known as “Annie Malone’s Great Wonderful Hair Grower,” and after achieving success with the concoction, she joined Malone’s team of African-American sales agents, and moved to Denver, Colorado. While employed, Sarah began experimenting with her own hair products, and in 1905, she launched her own brand, “Madam Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower,” as well as conditioners and straighteners. • Charles created the advertisements and helped Sarah establish a mail order business, and the pair traveled throughout the South promoting the products, giving lectures and demonstrations. In 1908, with the profits from her business, (continued on next page)

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MADAM C.J. WALKER (cont’d): she opened a factory and beauty school in Pittsburgh. She and Charles divorced two years later, and Sarah relocated to Indianapolis, where she built a new factory. • While in Indianapolis, she continued to train sales beauticians, sending them out into African-American communities, promoting her philosophy of “cleanliness and loveliness.” In 1913, she branched out into Latin America and the Caribbean, and eventually employed 40,000 African-American women and men in the U.S., Central America, and the Caribbean, offering generous commissions for their sales work. In 1917, she founded the National Negro Cosmetics Manufacturers Association. • As Sarah traveled, her daughter A’Lelia, now 31, was seeking property in Harlem, New York, as a base for expansion of the business. Sarah moved there in 1916 and quickly became Did you hear about the family who got stuck involved in Harlem’s social and political activion Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? ties.Apparently, their vehicle would neverShe was a noted philanthropist, donating never land. heavily to the NAACP, establishing scholarship funds, and soliciting donations for homes for the elderly, focusing on improving the lives of African-Americans. The Indianapolis YMCA also received a large amount of money toward its new construction in 1913. • In 1916, construction began on a 34-room mansion on the Hudson River in Irvington, New York. Sarah’s mansion was built at an estimated cost of $250,000 and included a RLOOTDOANWM gymnasium, pipe organ, billiard room, and Home of “Mission to Mars,” “Space accommodations for eight servants, along with Mountain,” and “Finding Nemo Voyage” numerous guest rooms. It was here that Madam Walker passed away from kidney failure at age 51, after only one year of residence. She remained the sole owner of her business to her 1. Disneyland death, valued at moreParis than $1 million in 1919. 2. Frontierland Two-thirds of her substantial funds were be3. The Monorail queathed to charity. 4. Space Mountain •5. The Madam Walker Beauty College is still Fantasyland operating and her original products are still manufactured and distributed.

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Oreo Cookie Day is celebrated every March 6, honoring the day that the treats were first marketed in 1912 by the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco). This week, Tidbits has all the info on these little sandwich cookies. • Nabisco produced the first Oreo cookies in their factory in the Chelsea Manhattan section of New York City factory. They were packaged in tin containers with glass tops and sold for 25 cents a pound (453 g). The first Oreo was sold in a Hoboken, New Jersey grocery store. • Oreo’s weren’t the first chocolate sandwich cookie. The Sunshine Company had already been baking Hydrox cookies for four years before the introduction of Oreo’s. The Hydrox cookie was a little crunchier and the filling was a little less sweet. • A lemon meringue variety was also offered at the Oreo debut, but was discontinued in the 1920s. • When Oreo’s were introduced, they were known as Oreo Biscuits. A name change to Oreo Sandwich came along in 1921, and another in 1948 to Oreo Crème Sandwich. Since 1974, they’ve been known as Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookies. • A regular Oreo cookie is 71% cookie and 29% cream, and contains 45 calories. Double Stuff Oreo’s, introduced in 1975, don’t really have double the filling. In 2013, a high school math school conducted an experiment in 2013 to determine the ratio, and found that Double Stuff have just 1.86 times the filling in the original. And Mega Stuff, which reportedly have three times the filling, have only 2.68 times the cream of a regular Oreo. • It takes about 59 minutes to make an Oreo. A rotary mold forms the cake dough into (continued on the next page)

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the round shape before the cookie enters a 300-foot-long (91 m) oven • Oreo has had several advertising slogans over the years. Their first slogan and jingle was in 1950 – “Oh! Oh! Oreo.” During the 1980s, the company changed slogans five times, and included “For the Kid in All of Us,” “The One and Only,” “Who’s the Kid with the Oreo Cookie?”, “Oreo, the Original Twister,” and “America’s Best Loved Cookie.” And in fact, Oreo is not only America’s best-loved cookie, it’s the best-selling cookie in the entire world, available in more than 100 countries, with over $2 billion in annual sales. In the U.S. alone, about 20 million Oreo’s are consumed every day. • Also during the 1980’s, advertising copywriter Edna Robinson wrote the famous lyrics, “A kid’ll eat the middle of an Oreo first, and save the chocolate cookie outside for last.” Since 2004, Oreo’s slogan has been “Milk’s Favorite Cookie.” • The name Oreo was trademarked just eight days after its introduction. There are several theories as to how the Oreo got its name. Some say that because the original packaging was gold, the cookie took its name from the French word for gold, “oro.” Others contend that the (continued in next column)

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two “O’s” represent the round wafers, and the “RE” is the cream. Yet another theory insists that the names comes from the genus of the laurel wreath imprinted on the original cookie, the Latin word “Oreodaphne.” • In 2018, Google purchased the former Nabisco factory for $2.4 billion. The street where the building stands on Ninth Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets is known as “Oreo Way” in commemoration of the cookie.

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