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FAST FACTS ABOUT HAIR Hairs live two to six years before falling out, to be replaced by a new hair. Because of this, it’s rare for hair to reach lengths exceeding several feet. Hair will be replaced at least 12 times during a normal life span. A strand of hair is stronger than a copper wire of equivalent diameter. A typical strand of hair can withstand a weight of about six pounds (2.7 kg) before breaking. An entire head of hair can hold about two tons. Whereas people of African decent have the lowest hair growth rate, and Asian hair grows the fastest, it’s also true that African people have the densest hair of all. In terms of texture, blond hair is the finest, while black hair is the coarsest. Black hair is the most common hair color worldwide. About 13 percent of the Scottish population has red hair, the largest percentage in the world. Worldwide, about 1 percent of the population has red hair, the rarest hair color. Hair is composed of carbon (50%), oxygen (21%), nitrogen (17%), hydrogen (6%), and sulfur (5%). Darker hair tends to have more carbon present than lighter hair. It’s not true that the “baldness gene” comes from the mother’s side of the family. The responsible genes can come from either side of the family, but it’s definitely true that the more family members with hair loss problems, the higher your chance of developing such issues yourself. Over 50% of men have male pattern hair loss by age 50. A horse, a mouse, and a human all have approximately the same number of hair follicles. Humans and chimpanzees have the same number of follicles as well, but chimpanzees have thick hair while human body hair is short. (cont’d next page)

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you’ll be using: peanut butter or beef broth, for example. Or, give it a dab of the toothpaste as a treat. * Start with one section at a time. Put a dab of paste on the brush, gently lift your dog’s lip, and brush downward from the gumline. * If your dog struggles, pause and hold its muzzle lightly until it calms down. Then try again. If it really raises a fuss, stop and try again tomorrow. * Don’t reprimand it for misbehaving. This is really weird stuff for a dog. Use a soothing voice and give it lots of praise during and afterward. More details can be found at the ASPCA website: www.aspca.org/pet-care/virtual-petbehaviorist/dog-behavior/brushing-your-dogsteeth Send your questions or tips to ask@ pawscorner.com. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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® of®Gallia, Tidbits Jackson, Vinton, & Mason Counties Tidbits of Gallia, Jackson, MeigsMeigs & Mason Counties Noteworthy Inventions HAIRY INVENTORS: QUIZ

• In 1855 a boy was born in Wisconsin and his mother called him King. Forty years later, King was angry to find his straight razor was too dull to shave well. Back then, men shaved with razors that had to be sharpened often. What a man really needed, King thought, was a razor that was so cheap that dozens of them could be purchased and each one could be thrown away when it became dull. The idea of a disposable razor was born. Toolmakers and engineers told him it was impossible. • Then he teamed up with an inventor named Nickerson, and they perfected the design. In 1903 the first disposable razors went on sale. That year only 51 razors and 168 blades sold, but in 1904, sales totaled 90,000 razors and 12 million blades. The government ordered 3.5 million razors and 36 million blades during World War I. King died in 1932, a millionaire. The company he founded, named after his last name, is one of the largest manufacturers of shaving supplies in the world. What was King’s last name? (Answer at top of next page)

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• Jacob was a career soldier who found shaving difficult. The disposable razor was issued to all soldiers, but it required water, shaving cream, a basin, and a towel– items not readily available in combat. Jacob wanted a way to shave that required nothing but the razor, so he decided to invent an electric shaver. He drew up plans and sent them to manufacturers, but no one was interested, so he did it himself. • His first model was a two-handed affair, one to hold the motor and one to hold the razor. It was introduced in 1929 but sales were slow and he nearly went bankrupt. (cont’d)

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For Advertising Call (740) 446-4543 Answer: Gillette invented disposable razors. HAIRY INVENTOR #2 (cont’d) • In 1931 Jacob introduced a smaller one-handed model, and sold about 3,000 electric razors for $25 each. He invested every extra penny in advertising, and more than 1.5 million had sold by the time he died in 1937. • The business got a big boost during World War II when a steel shortage made Gillette’s disposable razors hard to come by. Jacob named the company after himself, a German word which means ‘elegance.’ Name it. (Answer at bottom of page)

HAIRY INVENTOR #3: QUIZ

• By the time John was 21, he was already balding. It was 1898 and shampoo didn’t exist. John was sure his hair loss could be blamed on the poor quality of soaps available. He decided to find a soap that would save his hair. So he got a degree in chemistry and spent ten years experimenting. He found the problem with the soaps people used on their hair was that the pH balance was wrong. By 1930 he introduced pH-balanced shampoos for both oily and dry hair, naming the product after himself. It was America’s first shampoo. • When customers failed to ﬂock to his product, John hired an artist to create beautiful fullcolor illustrations of ordinary women with extraordinarily shiny hair, placing the ads prominently in large magazines. It worked. • Alas, the shampoo did not keep John’s hair from falling out, but he became a very rich bald man. In recent times, commercials for John’s shampoo launched the careers of famous models, including Brooke Shields, Kim Basinger, Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Tiegs, and Cybill Shepherd. What’s the name of John’s shampoo? (answer below) Answer: Schick invented electric razors. Answer: Breck invented shampoo.

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• In ancient Rome, vain women had marble statues made of their heads. Many wealthy women also equipped their statues with removable marble wigs, so they could be changed to match the hairstyles. • Queen Elizabeth I of England suﬀered from smallpox at the age of 29. She survived the illness, but her hair did not and she was bald from then on. To hide the condition, she began to wear ornate and elaborate wigs. As a result, wigs became all the rage across England and Europe, a fashion that lasted for centuries. • King Louis XIV employed 40 wigmakers and needed an entire corridor to hold all his wigs. His personal barber was the only human being ever allowed to see him bald. • Many people powdered their wigs with flour to absorb grease and dirt and make them look cleaner. This led to a shortage of flour in Marie Antoinette’s day, adding to the social unrest and riots that led to the French Revolution. When wig-powdering in England led to a flour shortage in 1795, Parliament decided to tax every citizen who used hair powder. Huge sums were raised before wig-wearing went out of style. • In 1765, men in London began to give up their wigs in favor of natural hair. This worried wigmakers, who staged a demonstration by marching through the streets to the palace. They presented a petition to King George, asking him to force all adult males to wear wigs by royal edict. An opposing group staged a counter-demonstration in which they pretended to represent the wooden leg-makers. They petitioned the king to have a leg removed in order to promote their trade. The King got the point and denied both petitions.

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The 5000+ Percent Advantage 4.6: Proceed Forward –Nourishes Your Soul By Ron Ross Doing nothing is the hardest work there is. If you do physical work all day long you will come home tired. If you get up late and lay around the house all day in your pajamas, eat junk food, leave the dishes in the sink, let the yard go to seed and then moan and complain that all you have is bad luck you will also be exhausted at the end of the day. Laziness and work are both exhausting: work exhausts the body but laziness exhausts the soul. The exhaustion that comes from laziness is disheartening and destructive while the exhaustion that comes from meaningful work is restorative and constructive. When you finally decide to seek the 5000+ percent advantage and proceed forward toward your goals you will find the hard work you do, the difficult tasks you face, the problems you encounter and solve will make you tired, but it will be a good kind of tired; the kind of tired that lets you know you made real progress, that your presence on this planet makes a difference. People with no purpose for living, no identifiable goals, no vision for a better life are miserable, pathetic, selfish and goodfor-nothing. They don’t seek to improve themselves, they blame others for their plight, and should some opportunity come their way, they do all they can to find fault with it and sabotage it so they can return to their comfortable misery. Those kinds of people have their own theme song called The Worm Song. It goes like this: “Nobody loves me, everybody hates

me, guess I’ll go eat worms. Long thin slimy ones, short fat juicy ones, itsy, bitsy, squirmy little worms.” How depressing is that? You want the opposite of depression, you want joy, and that requires the pursuit of a meaningful life. That requires taking action toward fulfilling your God-given destiny. Do not be afraid of the work it will take to become the person you were meant to be. Your soul is nourished when your mind and body work together to accomplish goals, improve skills, solve problems, fix what is broken, strengthen what is weak, and finish what needs to be completed. Your soul is nourished when you have done something that cost you some real effort; that pushed you to the edge; that made you get out of your fetal crouch and stand tall and proud. Your soul is nourished as each accomplishment and each step forward gives you courage to proceed ever farther forward – even if they are baby steps. Your soul is nourished when your attention is focused on progress not retreat, on hope not despair and on courage not cowardice. Lots of people have the desire but few have the determination. People wish their lives were better but only a few get the 5000+ advantage. They are the ones who proceed forward and pursue every opportunity to improve their lives, to make a difference, to enjoy a life with meaning. The wisest and richest man who ever lived said, “The sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.”* The difference between the sluggard and the diligent is the difference between success and failure. *Proverbs 13:4 ©2015 Ronald D. Ross

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A: Window blinds manufactured for sale in the U.S. are required to have a safety feature installed to prevent children or pets from getting tangled up in the pull cords. Older window blinds manufactured before 1991 may not have this feature. The blinds’ manufacturer should include instructions for cord safety. If you can’t locate them, you can find general information at websites like the Window Covering Safety Council at windowcoverings.org. Look on the pull cords of your window blinds for cord stops. These are small round plastic discs threaded through the cords. Here’s how to use them to make the pull cords safer, from the WCSC (www.windowcoverings.org/how-to-retrofit/): 1. Lower the blind to its proper closed length and tug the cords slightly to the right to lock them in position. 2. To install a new cord stop, pinch together a section of the pull cord (near the top of the cord) and slide the plastic disc over the pinched-together cord so that you create a loop threaded through the disc 3. Keeping the loop large for now, bring the bottom part of the same pull cord through the loop and then tug it into a loose half-knot under the disc. 4. Adjust the disc until it is about 2 inches below the blinds’ head rail and tighten the knot. Repeat with the other cords. 5. The bottom of each cord shouldn’t hang past the bottom window sash when the blinds are closed. Shorten them by cutting each cord above the plastic tassel to a safer length, then re-threading the tassel onto the cord and securing with a knot tied on the end. If you have young children or adventurous pets, consider replacing the blinds with safer cordless models as soon as possible. TIP: A quick add to your advice on calibrating digital thermostats: Check the batteries. If they’re worn out, the thermostat behaves erratically. -- Denis in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Send your home tips and questions to ask@ thisisahammer.com.

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Herbed Roasted Potatoes Potato chunks tossed with parsley and butter cook into tender morsels when foil-wrapped. 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated lemon peel 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper 1 1/2 pounds small red potatoes, cut in half 1. Preheat oven to 450 F. In 3-quart saucepan, melt butter with parsley, lemon peel, salt and pepper over medium-low heat. Remove saucepan from heat; add potatoes and toss well to coat. 2. Place potato mixture in center of 24-by-18inch sheet of heavy-duty foil. Fold edges over and pinch to seal tightly. 3. Place package in jelly-roll pan, and bake until potatoes are tender when pierced (through foil) with knife, about 30 minutes. Makes 6 accompaniment servings. * Each serving: About 126 calories, 4g total fat (2g saturated), 2g protein, 20g carbohydrate, 10mg cholesterol, 241mg sodium. For thousands of triple-tested recipes, visit our website at www.goodhousekeeping.com/ recipeﬁnder/. (c) 2015 Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved

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Living With a Purpose Seniors who have a purpose in life are less likely to develop damage in the areas in the brain that can cause stroke, according to a recent study from the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Chicago. Damage in the same areas also can cause disability, death and dementia. In this study, more than 450 seniors with an average age of 84 were tested until death. Those with purpose were 44 percent less likely to have larger areas of damage in the brain. In another study of some 1,000 seniors at the Rush Center, those who scored high on having purpose to their lives were 2.4 times more likely to avoid Alzheimer’s and cognitive impairment. It even cut the mortality rate in half. Here are some ideas to get you thinking about ways you can add purpose to your days. * Check up on others to make sure they’re OK. Maybe they will be residents in your building who come to count on your twice daily checks. Maybe it will be friends you reach by phone. * Volunteer, and then follow through. Read to small children at daycare or kindergarten. Shelve books at the library once a week. If you’re still driving well, sign up to help other seniors get to doctor appointments, shopping, personal errands and more. * Discover what is rewarding and fulfilling to you. Join a book club, take a class, assist with socializing animals at a shelter, become the adopted grandparent in a school classroom, attend free art shows or films, train to be a museum docent ... the list is nearly endless. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Forms Now Required for Claims, Appeals The back-of-the-envelope method of filing a disability-benefits claim with the Department of Veterans Affairs is no more. Any veteran wishing to file claims or appeals now will need to use the correct form. The forms will walk you through describing your symptoms or conditions, which will help get your claim moving in the right direction. The change is to help the VA clear up the backlog by the end of this year. The following situations need the standardized forms: Veteran or survivor application for disability compensation or pension: VA Form 21526EZ, Application for Disability Compensation and Related Compensation Benefits, for veterans filing for disability benefits, or Wartime veteran filing for pension: VA Form 21-527EZ, Application for Pension, or Survivor filing for dependency and indemnity compensation, pension and accrued benefits: VA Form 21-534EZ, Application for DIC, Death Pension, and/or Accrued Benefits. Veteran wishing to appeal a disability decision: VA Form 21-0958, Notice of Disagreement. (Right now veterans and survivors won’t have to use that form to start appeals for pension or survivor benefit decisions.) There are three ways to start the claims process with an intent to file (giving yourself a year to get it done): Access eBenefits online; complete a VA Form 21-0966, Intent to File a Claim for Compensation and/or Pension, or Survivors Pension and/or DIC; or call the VA at 800-827-1000. The VA recommends that veterans filing claims or appeals work with a Veterans Service Organization representative, who’s skilled with a computer or familiar with the forms. Consider it a way to get your claim right the first time.

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