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A SHAVE AND A CURE • Originally, barbers also performed as surgeons.

Blood-letting, a remedy of the time believed to cure diseases, was one of their main tasks. The red-andwhite striped barber pole originally symbolized a bleeding arm swathed in bandages. Fortunately, the practice of blood-letting has vanished, as well as the barber/doctor. A side note concerning blood-letting, is the fact that the average healthy person can lose as much as one-third of his or her blood without fatal results.

I HAVE A HEADACHE, OR DO I? • Pain from any injury or illness is always registered by the brain. Yet, curiously, the brain tissue itself is immune to pain; it contains none of the specialized receptor cells that sense pain in other parts of the body. The pain associated with brain tumors does not arise from brain cells but from the pressure created by a growing tumor or tissues outside the brain.

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In fact, Ketchup was once used as a medicine in the United States. In the 1830s it was sold as Dr. Miles’s Compound Extract of Tomato.

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• Healthy eating, soups retain fat-soluble vitamins A, D, and E, which are often lost in other foods when cooking.

• Caviar, or fish eggs, contain the same healthful omega-3 fatty acids as salmon.

NATURAL REMEDIES • Twenty percent of China’s plants are used in medicine.

• Extracted from a flower, echinacea is the most widely used botanical in the creation of herbal medicines in the United States. Clinical studies have suggested that when it is taken at the onset of a cold, echinacea stimulates the immune system.

• Roughly 25 percent of all prescription medicines in the United States are derived from plants, including alkaloids from the rosy periwinkle of Madagascar.

This plant has been successful in arresting childhood leukemia and Hodgkin’s disease.

• The mints, particularly peppermint, have a history of use in herbal medicine dating back to the ancient Egyptians. The Greeks and Romans also used mint varieties medicinally. British apothecary shops in the late 1600s kept dried mint, mint water, spirit of mints, and syrup of mints on the shelves. Peppermint tea or tincture can be taken for indigestion, intestinal gas build up, nausea, and fevers accompanied by colds.

• In France, chocolate was initially met with skepticism and was considered a barbarous, noxious drug. The French court accepted chocolate after the Paris faculty of medicine gave its approval.

• Carrots were first grown as a medicine, not a food.

The ancient Greeks called carrots karoto.

• Pumpkin seeds were used as a traditional diuretic and as a cure for tapeworms and roundworms by American Indian medicine men.

• Some cultures call the papaya tree “the medicinal tree” because its seeds and leaves have been used to make medicine.

• Soup in Asia is used as an alternative medicine - tom yum in Thailand; bone marrow soup, soybean sprout soup, or seaweed soup in Korea. Sweet dessert soup in China is eaten to balance one’s yin and yang.

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• It is estimated that during the height of the Plague years, between 1344 to 1353, as many as 20 million people in Europe died as a result of the disease.

• At the turn of the century, infectious diseases were the leading cause of death in the United States.

Tuberculosis, diarrheal disease, and pneumonia accounted for 30 percent of all deaths.

• Tuberculosis is one of the world’s oldest diseases.

Some ancient mummies found in Egypt and Peru had tuberculosis.

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• In all of history, the most destructive disease is malaria. More than 1.5 million people die from malaria every year.

• The Spanish flu, misnamed since it likely originated in the United States, was unlike most flu viruses, as it hit the young and healthy hardest. The pandemic killed 20 million to 40 million people in 1918.

Comparatively, about 13 million died in the battles of World War I.

SOMETIMES THE CURE CAN BE WORSE THAN THE DISEASE • The swine flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.

• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 18 million courses of antibiotics are prescribed for the common cold in the United States per year. Research shows that colds are caused by viruses. Fifty million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.

• Until recent years, people living in remote areas of Afghanistan and Ethiopia were immunized against smallpox by having dried powdered scabs from victims of the disease blown up their noses. This treatment was invented by a Chinese Buddhist nun in the eleventh century. It is the oldest known form of vaccination.

VITAMINS & MINERALS • Everyone knows about vitamins A, B, C, D, and E. Few are aware that there are also vitamins K, T, H, and U. These vitamins are helpful in proper liver function, treating anemia, and the healing of ulcers.

• The body’s daily requirement of vitamins and minerals is less than a thimbleful.

• The shelf life of vitamins is six or more years if they’re protected from heat, moisture, and light.

• The most essential minerals to the human body are: salt for maintaining water levels, iron for red blood cells, and calcium for bones.

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• Studies conducted at Vanderbilt University and the University of Iowa School of Medicine found no evidence that sugar causes hyperactivity in children.

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• The death rate from cardiovascular diseases - heart attack, hardening of the arteries, and so on - has decreased in the United States since 1950.

• Although the female hormone estrogen is generally prescribed to women to combat the symptoms of menopause, a study suggests that low doses of the hormone also may reduce the risk of heart disease in older men.

• Though we seriously advise against putting this to the test, most healthy adults can go without eating anything for a month or longer, but they must drink at least two quarts of water a day.

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• Approximately 40 percent of Americans believe they have food allergies, while in reality, fewer than 1 percent have true allergies. Most of the others involve symptoms caused by food intolerances or other disorders. Children often have more food allergies, which most will outgrow.

• Allergies cause students in the United States to miss 1.5 million school days a year. Allergy sufferers experience a significantly reduced ability to learn, researchers have found.

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• The daughters of a mother who is colorblind and a father who has normal vision will have normal vision.

The sons will be colorblind, however.

• The average person’s field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

• Some totally blind people can somehow sense light, says a New England Journal of Medicine study.

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LET’S COME TO HEALTH TERMS • “Soldiers disease” is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

• Zoonoses are animal diseases communicable to man.

• The term “allopathy” is used by homeopaths, chiropractors, and other advocates of alternative health practices to refer to traditional medicine.

• The word “toast,” meaning a proposal of health, originated in Rome, where an actual bit of spiced, burned bread was dropped into wine to improve the drink’s flavor, absorb its sediment, and thus make it more healthful.

• “Wassail” comes from the Old Norse “ves heill”--to be of good health. This evolved into the tradition of visiting neighbors on Christmas Eve and drinking to their health.

• Someone who thinks constantly and anxiously about his or her health can be called a “valetudinarian.”

• Synesthesia is a rare condition in which the senses are combined.

Synesthetes see words, taste colors and shapes, and feel flavors.

FINAL HEALTH SNIPPETZ • According to Chinese folklore, peaches not only kept lungs healthy, but those grown in a mythical garden were the fruit of eternal life.

• Germany was the first European country to establish a system for health insurance for its workers in 1888.

• According to Greek historian Herodotus, Egyptian men never became bald. The reason for this was that, as children, Egyptian males had their heads shaved, and their scalps were continually exposed to the healthgiving rays of the sun.

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• Milk is generally not healthy for adult Orientals or for adult people of black African origin, because they tend to lack enzymes needed to digest the natural sugar in milk.

• The most obese people in the world are in Russia, at 25.4 percent, followed

by Mexico, at 25.1 percent. Obesity is defined as 30 pounds or more over a healthy weight.

• A study by researcher Frank Hu and the Harvard School of Public Health found that women who snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

• A healthy man who is good physical shape has about 12 to 15 percent body fat. A woman in good shape has between 15 to 18 percent. The models used in most of the advertising for abdominal machines, on the other hand, have less than 10 percent body fat.

• Permanent hearing loss can result from prolonged exposure to sounds at 85 decibels (0 decibels is the threshold for hearing). For comparison, a busy street corner is about 80 decibels, a subway train from 20 feet is 100 decibels, a jet plane from 500 feet is 110 decibels and loud thunder is 120 decibels. A rock band amplified at close range is 140 decibels, which is 100 trillion times the hearing threshold and more than 100,000 times as loud as the level necessary to produce permanent hearing loss.

• Babies have taste buds all over the insides of their mouths, not just on their tongues. Adults and children have no taste buds on the center of their tongues.

• Electrical impulses travel from the skin toward the spinal cord at a rate of up to 425 feet per second.

• About one-third of bone in the human body is living tissue. The rest consists of calcium, phosphorus, and other minerals.

• Sixty percent of Americans who call in sick at work apparently aren’t sick at all. Many take it off as a personal “mental health” day.

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• There are people who spend their time counting the number of times people blink and why, but they still can’t explain why an adult in a calm state of mind blinks 15 times per minute, while a newborn baby blinks only twice per minute.

• A couple more tidbits from the files of musical performers’ unusual backstage requirements: Pop and R&B singer Christina Aguilera must have Flintstones vitamins, and singer and actress Mariah Carey insists on having drinking straws with a bend rather than the straight variety.

• You might be surprised to learn that residents of New York City get a white Christmas roughly only once every four years.

• Have you ever committed catachresis? I try to avoid it (in this column, at least), but unless you are unusually articulate -- or simply don’t speak or write much -- then it’s almost certain that you have. Catachresis is just a fancy term for the misuse of words.

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’ve made my New Year’s resolution a little early.

I found out about a “healthy heart” exercise program through the local hospital. Classes meet at the college in an indoor arena with a walking track. (The bonus is that the building is heated.) I go three times a week at dawn and combine fast and slow laps around the track with mild stretching exercises run by two employees of the hospital’s program.

So far I like it. It’s a chore to get there before the sun is up (we have to be finished before the college students swarm in), but once I’m there and working out, I’m energized for the rest of the day.

My resolution, then, is to keep at it. Perhaps if I do this now, before I actually need a “healthy heart” program, I might not ever need it at all.

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It’s not supposed to. I want you to keep it for three days. If you don’t like it, we’ll send it back, but tell me what you think after three days”. So she has all of her family in and a couple of other friends and neighbors to see what they think, and everybody walked in and what was the reaction? It wasn’t, “Oh, that’s a nice entertainment center.” It was, “Wow! Is that a great piece!” In the end, she was glad she didn’t match what she had. It was a different wood tone; it was old; it looked like it had character.

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ur second step in our ten steps to the perfect room is what we call case goods. Case goods are pieces of furniture that are wood. Think about your chairs, tables and dressers as examples and don’t forget your cabinets, flooring, and any other wooden pieces you have such as a wood blind or shutters in the room. One of the rules to consider when mixing case goods is to take the word “matchy” out of your vocabulary, “matchy-matchy.” I know people come in with a piece of flooring and a piece of cabinet and want a wood blind to match. Why do you want it to match? You need a little bit of life in your room. You need a little bit of contrast.

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So let’s try to take that word “matchymatchy” out of our vocabulary. Also, when considering your case goods, look for pieces that have flexibility because those pieces can reinvent themselves in a room. Think about that armoire that I put in Becky’s home. It could also be in the bedroom to hold wardrobe, in the bathroom full of plush towels and wonderful smelling bath essentials or the dining room to hold crystal, silver and all of her other treasures. This is a case good that can reinvent itself in many different rooms making it a valuable and flexible piece in a furniture collection.

Psychologists tell us we crave contrast in our lives. That’s why we use chair rails and crown molding and why we mix two patterns in a room. There are so many reasons why we do have some contrasting elements in our rooms, but somehow when it comes to our wood pieces, if they don’t match, they don’t go. There used to be a furniture store in Chicago, (everybody has one, no matter where you live) the type of furniture store that you go in and you buy a sofa, a love seat, a chair and it’s probably in a brown plaid. The set probably also includes two end tables, a coffee table, two lamps and three pictures. It’s all the same and begs the question “Does this person have a personality?”

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I also like chests of drawers for the same reason as they could be in the bedroom, in the foyer to hold your keys, mittens and gloves or even in the dining room to hold serving pieces and table linens. So, look for case goods that don’t “match” your room so there are pieces that offer character and give the room life. Also, remember to include pieces that have flexibility so when you want to update that room you can use that case good in another area of your home.

Coming next will be Step 3 when we will discuss Upholstery!

It’s so fun to add some personality to your room by mixing pieces, colors and finishes. Rooms full of complexities and contradictions say, “Wow! Look at me!” For example, one of my best friends, Becky, has a very contemporary living room, and she needed a new entertainment center. I’m not

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• On Jan. 2, 1811, Sen. Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts becomes the first senator to be censured by the Senate. Pickering was accused of violating congressional law by publicly revealing secret foreign-policy documents communicated by the president to the Senate.

• On Dec. 29, 1890, the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee in South Dakota. The Cavalry surrounded the Sioux near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded they surrender their weapons.

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Western couple gets married. Roy Rogers, star of numerous Westerns and television and radio shows, wed his co-star, Dale Evans. Rogers and Evans had performed together for years, but didn’t marry until a year after Rogers’ wife passed away.

• On Jan. 1, 1962, the Beatles audition for London record company Decca on the same day as Brian Poole and the Tremeloes.

Decca signed the Tremeloes, but not the Beatles. The Tremeloes first hit the charts with “Twist and Shout,” later also done by

• On Dec. 30, 1922, in post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established. Also known as the Soviet Union, it was the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.

the Beatles. The Tremeloes band is still active today.

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• On Jan. 3, 1938, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an adult victim of polio, founds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which he later renamed the March of Dimes Foundation. In response to a fundraising appeal, the public flooded the White House with 2,680,000 dimes and thousands of dollars in donations.

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Next, teach her not to react to sudden movements. At home, put Sandy on a leash. Throw a tennis ball across the room or hallway and say “Off!” or “Nyaah!” When Sandy leaps to chase the ball, tug the leash firmly and repeat “Off/Nyaah!”

When Sandy responds to your command, praise her.

Start by honing her basic obedience skills at home, making sure she will respond to your commands. On your daily walks, have her sit and stay at random times. When a jogger approaches, move to the side of the walk, and have Sandy sit and stay. (Of course, keep her on a leash

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Repeat this exercise in other locations, indoors or out, with few distractions. Try it with other objects, DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My or a willing friend who can play the dog, “Sandy,” gets very excited “jogger.” when people pass us while we’re out walking. She is not mean, but Finally, add the command during she likes to bark and tries to paw at her daily walks -- when a person or jump up as people get close. San- approaches, use the command if she dy gets particularly excited when a starts toward them. You may need to jogger passes us. How can I stop her sit Sandy down at first and wait for from doing this? the person to pass, giving the “Off/ -- Bill in Boulder, Colo. Nyaah!” command if needed. But gradually begin training her to obey DEAR BILL: Getting Sandy ad- this command from the heel. justed to all the exciting activity on the sidewalk will take some time.

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for him.

He is tired all day long. He works hard, comes home, takes a nap, eats and then says he’s still tired. He sleeps a lot on weekends, too. Does snoring have anything to do with this? -- B.K.

BLAME SLEEP APNEA FOR DAYTIME FATIGUE DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have lived with my boyfriend for a year, and we are going to get married soon. One obstacle to marriage for me is his snoring. It’s so loud that I cannot sleep with him. He starts out with a soft snore that builds into a sound that rivals a jet engine. He says snoring is a family thing

ANSWER: Let me describe sleep apnea, and you judge whether it applies to your fiance. Typically, it involves snoring that gets louder and louder and then suddenly stops. Silence reigns.

After a short while, the snorer makes a grunting sound and the snoring cycle repeats.

The period of silence is the apnea period. “Apnea” means “no breathing.”

Apnea episodes last 10 or more seconds, and they end when the snorer makes a grunting sound and resumes his snoring. During apnea, blood oxygen content dips, and the dip partially rouses the person to begin breathing.

Sleep apnea is a health menace. The drop in blood oxygen has several important consequences. It affects the

heart and can lead to dangerous heart rhythms. People with sleep apnea often develop high blood pressure and all the complications of increased pressure.

These people do not get restorative sleep. They feel drugged during the day.

ANSWER: That happens to lots of people, and sometimes it happens when a person is just wakening. There’s a temporary disconnect between the brain and muscles at those times, and it results in a short jerk. It’s not a sign of any illness.

The diagnosis of sleep apnea is made with special studies done in a sleep lab. Portable equipment is available for home testing.

I don’t know of any treatment for it.

Most people fall asleep shortly after it happens.

If your fiance is overweight, weight loss might put an end to snoring and apnea. He should drink no alcohol after 5 p.m. A CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machine keeps air flowing past the throat obstruction that blocks its entry into the lungs. Talk your fiance into discussing these matters with his doctor.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Is eating cereal with added vitamins and minerals as good as taking a vitamin pill each day? -- M.L.

The booklet on chronic fatigue syndrome includes a discussion of sleep apnea. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 304W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 38253-6475.

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. *** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Sometimes I jerk awake just before falling asleep.

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ANSWER: Sure it is. A well-balanced diet provides all the needed vitamins and minerals. The catch lies in eating such a diet. Our ancestors survived pretty well without taking vitamin pills. *** Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. (c) 2008 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

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ave you ever heard the excuse, “I can’t keep the weight off because I have a slow metabolism”? Some people are believers of the set-point theory. This is the idea that some people are destined to regain lost weight because their bodies lower their metabolic rate after weight loss, causing them to regain weight.

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed research findings that the metabolic rates of overweight women were identical to those who are not overweight and do not have a tendency to gain weight.

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One of the first facts the book offers is something of a shock: The average American will spend approximately $320,000 on cars over a lifetime. That equates to 18 percent of a consumer’s income. The only thing that costs more is our homes.

The true cost of auto ownership isn’t limited to the price of the car. Add to that fuel and oil, repairs and maintenance, insurance, the cost of a loan or lease, depreciation (a significant amount in the cost of ownership), fuel efficiency and taxes, and that $320,000 doesn’t seem so far-fetched.

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“What Your Car Really Costs” walks you through a number of important steps.

• The use of Consumer Reports magazine auto information to compare models for reliability and road-worthiness.

As the authors point out, CR’s “recommended” vehicles often hold their value longer.

• The true cost differences between owning a small sedan, large sedan, SUV or minivan.

• The resale value when it comes time to sell or trade in.

• Buying new vs. buying used.

• How to calculate the real meaning of promotional offers of low interest rates or rebates and how those translate into dollars.

• An explanation of MSRP (the window-sticker price) when it comes to buying.

• Understanding a lease.

• Auto insurance basics.

At the end of the book are charts to fill in with your own figures, as well as consumer protection contacts by state.

To order “What Your Car Really Costs,” see www.aier.org online or call 413528-1216. Copies are $12 each.

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Write to him in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 328536475, or send e-mail to columnreply@ gmail.com. (c) 2008 King Features Synd., Inc.

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f you’re an investor, you might be shaking your head in dismay after looking at your recent brokerage statements. In fact, you might even be thinking about giving up on Wall Street altogether. But before you do, consider the following story.

Two typical American children, Mary and Michael, begin their day with a hearty breakfast of oatmeal produced by Quaker Oats, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, based in Purchase, New York. At school, they work on a computer, using a Windows operating system produced by Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington. Upon returning home, they do their homework under a lamp containing light bulbs produced by General Electric, headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. That night, their parents, pressed for time, take them to McDonald’s, whose corporate office is in Oak Brook, Illinois, and the children eat Big Macs and drink Cokes, produced by CocaCola, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Before going to bed, Michael and Mary wash up with Ivory Soap, produced

by Proctor & Gamble, based in Cincinnati, and are thrilled to learn their parents are going to take them to Walt Disney World, owned by The Walt Disney Company, which operates out of Burbank, California.

You get the picture. None of these businesses are on Wall Street — and when you invest in them, you’re not investing in “Wall Street,” which is really just a shorthand term for our system of trading stocks.

Unfortunately, many people seem to think they are actually investing in the system itself, rather than in indi-

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But that’s not the case. As you can tell by their products, the companies mentioned above are likely to be around for a long time — or at least until people stop using computers, washing their hands and eating hamburgers.

Does that mean that the stock prices of these types of companies will just keep climbing? Of course not.

These businesses, like all businesses, will go through good and bad periods, and their stock prices will reflect these ups and downs.

But here’s the key point: Barring an unforeseen calamity of epic proportions, there will be always be businesses in which you can invest. And if you buy quality companies, and hold them for the long term, you’re going to increase your chances for success.

So when you’re considering your investment strategy, don’t worry about today’s turbulence on “Wall Street.”

Instead, look at tomorrow’s prospects for the companies in which you’re interested. Are their products competitive? Do they belong to an industry that is on the ascent or the decline? Do they have good management teams? Have they been consistently profitable over the years?

By answering these and other key questions, you should be able to get a good sense of whether a stock is a good investment candidate.

By thinking more about the individual businesses in which you might invest, and less about “Wall Street,” you can become a more focused investor. And, over the long term, that focus can pay off for you.

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

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If you are in the military, and if you and your spouse have lived in Colorado for more than 90 days and your children have been here for more than six months, a Colorado court can divide your property and debts, determine whether maintenance (alimony) is appropriate, and make all decisions regarding parental responsibilities (parental decision-making and parenting time).

Military pensions are divided much the same as civilian pensions. There is another popular misconception that unless the spouse of the military service person has been married to the service person for at least ten years, the non-military spouse cannot receive part of the service person’s pension. Ten years is significant only in that the military will not pay part of the pension to the

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CALL MICHAEL 719-338-7028 non-military spouse unless the ten-year requirement is met. This means is that if the marriage is less than ten years, the Court will order the service person to pay part of the retirement directly to the non-military spouse, rather than the military itself making the payment.

Some people in the military believe that they can convert part of their pension to disability and avoid paying part of the disability to the non-military spouse, thereby reducing the total amount the non-military spouse gets. It is correct that the Court cannot divide the disability. However, the Court can adjust the division of the pension or adjust the maintenance award to make up for the difference, so that the total amount awarded to the non-military spouse is not diminished by the disability.

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If you are legally separated from a person in the military, you are still eligible for the same benefits you enjoyed while you were married. This scenario is an example of a good reason to look into a legal separation in Colorado, rather than getting a divorce. If you have been married to a person in the military for twenty years while the military person has been active service for twenty years, you retain your military benefits such as health insurance, etc., even if you get a divorce.

Good luck with your military divorce or legal separation as you leave the marriage zone.

Chris Meyer is an attorney practicing family law in Monument. Chris’ law practice is limited to domestic relations cases. Chris has been practicing law since 1977. He is a former prosecutor and is licensed to practice law in Colorado, Florida, California and Wisconsin. Chris can be contacted at 719-488-9395. Chris’s website (www.cmeyerlaw.com) has additional divorce and family law information.

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The pricing decline of Single Family Homes has been dramatic this year Nationwide. Too many homes were purchased with no money down, 100% financing, no doc loans (also referred to as “liar loans”), and the financial reality of the adjustable rate mortgages was ignored. The purchase was based on what is called the “greater fool theory” that assumes that “no matter what I paid, there is a greater fool who will pay more.” Well, when the market starts turning south, that theory just isn’t going to float.

The concept that makes the leveraging theory work is to “Buy Low, Sell High”, just as it is with the Stock Market. There is money to be made in real estate, as in the stock market, or most any other market, when it is at the bottom of the curve. We are at or near that

Interest rates are still low, in the 6.0% to 7.0% range and real estate prices are bottoming out. What this tells me is that now is the time to start looking and deciding what portion of your investment dollar will go into real estate. Your investment dollars can also go into the Stock Market, Gold, Bonds, etc., but just remember that only real estate has the multiplying benefit of Leverage!

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1. Name the last black pitcher before Cleveland’s CC Sabathia in 2007 to win a Cy Young Award.

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3. Name the first two quarterbacks to have beaten 31 other NFL teams in their careers.

4. Pete Maravich holds the top three spots for highest pointsper-game average for a season in Division I college basketball. Who is No. 4?

5. Two teams hold the NHL’s longest current streak for failing to make the playoffs. Name them.

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1. Name the 1960 instrumental hit of the year.

2. Name a song by Solomon Burke that was used in a movie.

3. How did Motown Records Corporation get its name?

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5. What was the source of the name of the band AC/DC?

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The movie picks up where the first film left off: Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence) gets sent to the loony bin, where she meets the creepy Dr. Channard. She tries to convince the doc that there’s a portal to Hell that she’s opened, but he’s not buying it. Then Kirsty begins to get these calls for help from her dead dad, begging her to rescue him from Hell. Oh, then her mom comes back from the dead, and she’s got no skin and she’s brought along the Cenobites, led by the deliciously sadistic Pinhead.

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“A Christmas Carol”) to show him the error of his Liberal Ways.

Seeing as this stinker made about 18 bucks at the box office, I’m pretty sure no one will bother to buy or rent it on video. All politics aside, this movie just plain isn’t funny. “An American Carol” is to comedy what Stephen Hawking is to figure skating. Thank you. I’m here all week. Try the veal.

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TRIVIA TEST ANSWERS 1. Radiation belts surrounding the Earth 2. Bears 3. The game of darts and the darts themselves 4. Bill Cosby 5. Pancho Villa 6. Turmeric 7. Jif 8. Massachusetts 9. Lake Mead, created by the Hoover Dam 10. Fear of ghosts

SPORTS QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets in 1985.

2. Rickey Henderson, with 33 stolen bases.

3. Peyton Manning and Tom Brady achieved the feat in 2007.

4. Frank Selvy averaged 41.7 points per game for Furman in 1953-54.

5. The Florida Panthers and Columbus Blue Jackets, with seven seasons each entering 2008-09.

6. Fernando Alonso was 24 when he won the season title in 2005.

7. It was 1981.

FLASH BACK ANSWERS 1. “Theme From a Summer Place,” by Percy Faith Orchestra, was written for the movie “Summer Place,” starring Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee. 2. “Cry to Me (1962) was used in the 1987 hit “Dirty Dancing,” starring Patrick Swayze.

3. Motown, short for Motor City, is based in Detroit, the automotive capital. Motown, the first record company owned by an African-American, was started by Berry Gordy as Tamla Records in 1959.

4. Born Gordon Matthew Sumner in 1951, Sting attended college and became a teacher in England after holding a number of lesser jobs.

5. AC/DC got its name when a band member’s sister saw it on the back of a sewing machine. AC-DC means Alternating Current/Direct Current, which fit the band’s high energy image of itself.

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TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your creative approach leads to a quicker-thanexpected solution to a workplace problem.

Now you can devote more time to that proposal you hope to introduce by midmonth.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A temperamental flare-up creates negative feelings that need to be dealt with immediately. But things once again go well after the apologies are made and hurt feelings are soothed.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) An early impulsive act causes confusion. But all is smoothed over once explanations are made. Expect a friend or family member to ask for your kind and always wise advice.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Technological glitches create problems early on. But by midweek, all runs smoothly once again, and you’re well and truly on your way toward meeting all your deadlines.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) You might have to do some juggling of your priorities, as a personal matter appears to require more time and attention.

Put your pride aside and accept help from those who offer it.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your energy levels are high, and you feel you can handle everything that comes along. But try to take a break from your hectic pace for some quiet time with someone close to you.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Your creative aspect is strong. Not only does it help you accomplish your goals, but it also inspires others. This could lead to a potentially rewarding collaboration opportunity.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) Before you pounce on that shiny new opportunity, take more time to check it out to see how much substance actually lies beneath all that glitter. A family member has important news.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Be careful about making major decisions when you’re not really committed to them.

And resist any pressure to do otherwise.

Better to delay action until all doubts are resolved.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A personal situation you thought was resolved resurfaces, thanks to a possibly well-intentioned move that went awry.

Deal with it as soon as possible. Accept the help of a trusted friend.

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BORN THIS WEEK: You set goals and are rarely distracted by any attempt to move you off the path you’ve chosen to reach them. (c) 2008 King Features Synd., Inc.

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