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In Taylor Stevens’ latest thriller, “The Doll,” readers are once again thrown headlong into the sinister world of “information specialist” Vanessa “Michael” Munroe. Best described as a lethal hybrid between Jason Bourne, Jack Reacher, Lisbeth Salander and Sydney Bristow, motorcycle enthusiast and language expert Munroe is kidnapped and thrust inside the underground world of human trafficking and sex slaves. She is taken to Central Europe -Croatia and Slovenia -- where she must outsmart and outmaneuver a creepy, morally bankrupt and deadly figure known only as “the Doll Maker.” Captured to repay a debt to an unknown enemy who is bent on revenge and retribution, Munroe is offered a Hobson’s Choice deal: deliver merchandise in the form of a high-value

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ANSWER: It sounds more like peripheral artery disease, PAD, a condition that 5 percent of adults over 40 and 20 percent of those over 70 have. Peripheral artery disease is the same process that occurs in heart arteries, an obstruction to blood flow due to the buildup of cholesterol and fat on the artery wall. In the heart, it causes the chest pain of angina when a person engages in physical activity. In the legs, it causes pain in the buttocks, thighs, calves or feet when a person walks farther than usual or faster than usual. The leg muscles are not getting the amount of blood they need to support such exertion. An

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Don’t Get Tricked on Obamacare We’ve all heard about the coming “Obamacare,” the new Affordable Care Act that will provide health insurance. The scammers have heard about it too, and are taking advantage of all the confusion -especially with seniors. Here are some tricks that scammers might try to use on you: --You might get a phone call saying you can be one of the first to get your new health insurance card -- if you’ll

provide certain information. --You might be told that it’s illegal not to sign up for the insurance and that you must give your personal information or you could go to jail. --You could be told that your Medicare information has to be verified and updated, or it will be canceled. They might ask for an “upfront” fee to help you sort it all out. --The scammers might try to sell you a health policy as a way of getting your credit card or bank numbers. These are all lies. The sharpies are trying to trick you into revealing your bank-account information, your Social Security number, your credit-card numbers, your address and your Medicare card number. Even if they say they’re from “the government,” and even if they do have some of your informa-

than one who has. --Asked why they hadn’t gotten help for suicidal thoughts, two responses stood out: 43 percent were concerned it would affect their career, and 33 percent were concerned about peer perceptions. To view the rest of the information on the survey, along with the charts and graphs, go online to iava. org. Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.com. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

tion, that doesn’t mean it’s legitimate. The government isn’t going to call you to insist you sign up for Obamacare. Here are a few of the facts: --If you’re already signed up with Medicare, you don’t have to sign up for Obamacare. --Others who have to sign up for the insurance can start signing up in October, with it taking effect next January. Remember: These scammers are very slick and very convincing. Don’t be fooled. Just hang up. Then call the Federal Trade Commission to file a complaint at 1-877-382-4357. Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@ gmail.com. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

¥ On Aug. 30, 30 B.C., Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, takes her life following the defeat of her forces against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome. She committed suicide possibly by means of an asp, a poisonous Egyptian serpent and symbol of divine royalty. ¥ On Aug. 29, 1876, Charles F. Kettering, inventor of the electric self-starter, is born in Loundonville, Ohio. Kettering’s inventions spread far beyond the automotive industry: He helped develop the refrigerant Freon, and took an active role in the medical industry, inventing a treatment for venereal disease, an incubator for premature infants and artificial fever therapy. ¥ On Aug. 27, 1908, future president Lyndon Baines Johnson is born on a farm near Stonewall, Texas. As president, Johnson pushed through the creation of Medicare/Medicaid, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

newest car, the small, affordable Mark I Mini. The Mini went on to become one of the best-selling British cars in history. At only 10 feet long, the $800 Mini could sit four adults and had a trunk big enough for a reasonable amount of luggage. ¥ On Sept. 1, 1964, pitcher Masanori Murakami becomes the first Japanese man to play in U.S. baseball’s major leagues. Murakami was a teenage baseball prodigy in Japan, and his left-handed sidearm delivery proved an asset in the United States. ¥ On Aug. 28, 1972, the U.S. Air Force gets its first ace designation since the Korean War when Captain Richard S. Ritchie and his “backseater” (radar intercept officer), Captain Charles B. DeBellevue, shoot down his fifth MiG near Hanoi.

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1. Is the book of 3 Kings in the Old or New Testament or neither? 2. “Satan” is found 15 times in the Old Testament, with 11 in which book? 1 Chronicles, Job, Psalms, Zechariah 3. In the sight of the elders of Israel, where did Moses bring water out of a rock? Horeb, Carmel, Pisgah, Gilboa 4. What did Sarah say she had not done, therefore lying to God? Walking, Eating, Laughing, Lusting 5. From the gospel of John 1:1, what was “in the beginning”? The Earth, The Heavens, The Word, The Spirit 6. Of these, which isn’t a biblical nationality? Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Woolites

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It’s a tough pill to swallow -- apparently. Seventy-five percent of North Americans don’t take their much-needed meds as directed or skip them entirely. And almost 15 percent of folks 40-plus with chronic medical conditions get a failing grade for mismanagement of important medication! This matters -- big time. One study of people on high blood pressure medication found skipping doses boosts the risk for deadly strokes two- to five-fold. But only about half of you take those meds as prescribed. Another example: If you’ve had a heart attack or other cardio event and you have recently stopped taking clot-blocking, low-dose aspirin (many of you have), you raise your odds for a nonfatal heart attack 60 percent. And it’s estimated that up to half of folks on statins don’t take them regularly or at all, denying themselves protection from heart attack and (new info) some cancers. But heart-related meds aren’t the only ones that go untaken. Only 30 percent of teenagers stick with their asthma-control regimen, with potentially lethal consequences. And most startling, less than 2 percent of adults with diabetes do regular blood-glucose monitoring, take their medications as prescribed and follow recommended dietary guidelines. That leads to a roster of complications, including cardiovascular disease, neuropathy (nerve pain or numbness), blindness, amputation and kidney disease, not to mention impotence and brain dysfunction. Solution No. 1: Slash the cost. You may not take your meds because they are too expensive, but boycotting them can seriously increase your long-term health expenses. Talk to your doc about taking generics -- the health-giving benefits are generally the same as brand-name drugs (only a few are known to not work for some people), but the price tag is 30 percent to 80 percent lower. Use the website Pharmahelper.com to find trustworthy online drugstores;

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Cool Ideas With Ice Ice is nice when it’s hot outside. Nothing’s more refreshing than a tall glass of ice-cold lemonade or iced tea with a sprig of mint on top for a reprieve from the heat. And who doesn’t love a slushie or snow cone while strolling in flipflops at an amusement park or on a boardwalk when the temps soar. Here are more icy ideas for a hot summer day to keep kids busy, creative and most of all, cool. COOL “ICE BEAD” NECKLACE This ice necklace is refreshing on a hot day whether indoors or out. Open a standard cotton bandana, fold in half, and set ice cubes in a horizontal r o w a few inches from the fold. Carefully roll the bandana to contain the cubes in the row, tie around your neck, and head outside to play and pick veggies in the garden. Or, simply soak a cotton bandana in cold water, ring it out so it is moist and not dripping, and pop it in the freezer. Wear it around your neck outdoors for a hike or bike ride. COOL RINK FOR PLAYTIME FUN Fill a rimmed cookie sheet or rectangular cake pan with water and freeze. Unmold and set the large ice sheet outside on a picnic table, porch or kid’s activity table. Grab some mini toy penguins, polar bears

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or Lego characters and let them skate around the “rink” until it melts. COOL GAME TO BEAT THE HEAT Make ice cubes for each player. (For older kids and adults, use larger chunks of ice made in pintsize milk cartons.) The object of the game is to see who can melt his or her ice cube first. The ice must be touching the player’s body at all times until it’s completely melted. But you can’t put it in your mouth! COOL ICE-CUBE PAINTING Mix water and tempera paint in tiny bowls to desired shade. Pour into ice cube trays. Or, mix directly in ice cube tray compartments. Freeze u n t i l slushie, and then add icecream sticks, wooden skewers or toothpicks for handles. They can stand at an angle. Freeze solid. Pop “paint cubes” out and use to draw colorful pictures on heavy white drawing paper until the ice melts. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday. com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” (c) 2013 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.

Pizza Squared I was planning dinner and thinking about how I could transform some leftover, grilled chicken sausages and bell peppers into another meal. Then it hit me, pizza! Dinner dilemma solved. I decided to slice the sausages, chop up the peppers, combine them with some mild salsa and cheeses, and use it as a topping for homemade, deep-dish pizza. Pizza has been pleasing taste buds for a very long time. In prehistoric times, people baked large pieces of bread on flat cooking stones. Later, in Italy, these flat pieces of bread were spiced up with herbs and called focaccia bread. Italians still love to eat focaccia as an appetizer or snack. This snack was handy because you didn’t need utensils, and it could be seasoned with extra scraps of food and fresh produce. When Europeans came to the New World, they were introduced to tomatoes, which they then took back to their home countries. The Italians needed something a little different to add to their bread-filled diet, and the people of Naples were the first to put tomatoes on focaccia bread. At first, no one wanted to use tomatoes because they thought this delicious red fruit was poisonous! The world’s first pizzeria opened in 1830 in Port’Alba in Naples. Pizzas were baked in an oven lined with lava from a local volcano! The first pizza delivery occurred in 1889 when an Italian restaurant owner was asked to create a special dish for the guest of honor, Queen Margherita Teresa Giovanni. He wanted to include the colors of the Italian flag in his dish to honor the queen, so he added tomatoes (red), mozzarella cheese (white), and basil (green) to focaccia bread. The restaurant owner named this meal the Margherita Pizza, using part of the guest of hon-

or’s name along with part of the name of his restaurant -- Pietro II Pizzaiolo. The pizza was delivered to the palace because the queen did not want to travel to the restaurant! In 1905, Gennaro Lombardi opened the first American pizzeria in New York City, and it is still there today. However, pizza did not become popular until after World War II, when war veterans stationed in Italy returned home craving the pizza they had eaten there. Soon, pre-made pizza pie mixes, frozen pizza and pizzeria chains sprang up around the country. Today, pizza is one of the most popular and delicious foods in the world! More pizza facts: --Pizza Hut is the largest pizza company in the world. --The world’s largest pizza measured 123 feet in diameter, and was baked in South Africa in 1990. --The world’s largest pizza order came from the VF Corporation in North Carolina, which ordered 13,386 pizzas for its 40,160 employees nationwide. --October is National Pizza Month. --Kids between ages 3 to 11 prefer pizza to all other foods for dinner. --Three of the top 10 weeks of pizza consumption occur in January. More pizza is consumed during Super Bowl week than any other week of the year. --62 percent of Americans prefer meat toppings on their pizza, while 38 percent prefer vegetarian pizza. --Mozzarella cheese was originally made from the milk of water buffalo! Using convenience products like pre-made pizza crusts or boxed crust mixes make creating this recipe for Savory Pizza Squares for a weeknight or weekend pizza party an easy task. SAVORY PIZZA SQUARES

2 tablespoons minced onion 2 teaspoons ground basil 1 teaspoon ground oregano 1/2 teaspoon ground sage 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 cup warm water 3 tablespoons olive oil plus 1 tablespoon olive oil for pan 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup cornmeal Topping: 1-1/2 cups cooked and chopped ham, chicken or turkey; or cooked ground beef or ground turkey; or cooked and sliced chicken, turkey or beef sausages or pepperoni slices 1-1/2 cup shredded Parmesan or mixed Italian cheeses 1/2 cup ripe olives, chopped 1/2 cup fresh parsley, minced 1/4 cup olive oil 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1. Preheat oven to 400 F. Grease a 13- by 9-inch pan with olive oil. Sprinkle with cornmeal for a crisp crust. Set aside. 2. For crust, combine pizza crust mix and dry spices in a large mixing bowl. Add water and olive oil. Blend well with a fork. Cover bowl and set crust mixture aside in a warm place for at least 5 minutes or up to 1 hour. 3. Sprinkle flour on a cutting board. Knead crust mixture on the floured board 8 to 10 times. Press crust into the bottom of prepared 13by 9-inch pan. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Set aside. 4. Combine topping ingredients. Sprinkle over top of crust. Bake an additional 20 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Cut into squares. Makes 12 to 15 servings. *** Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children’s author, culinary historian and author of seven cookbooks. Her new cookbook is “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook.” Her website is www.divapro.com. To see how-to videos, recipes and much, much more, Like Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva!, on Facebook and go to Hulu.com. Recipes may not be reprinted without permission from Angela Shelf Medearis.

Puzzle & Trivia Answers BIBLE TRIVIA ANSWERS:

ANSWERS: 1) Neither; 2) Job; 3) Horeb; 4) Laughing; 5) The Word; 6) Woolites

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1. “Walkin to New Orleans,” “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans” and “New Orleans.” 2. Billy Joel, in 1977. Joel wrote the song for his first wife, and later claimed after their divorce that he never liked the song. 3. Paul Simon, in 1973. Background vocals were done by soul/gospel group The Dixie Hummingbirds. 4. The 1969 Cream song wasn’t titled until the last minute, when the scrawled word “bridge” on the sheet music was misread as “badge.” 5. “Hats Off to Larry” (1961) by Del Shannon. Oddly enough, “Larry” ranked higher on the charts than his “Little Town Flirt.”

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to his room, Alvey’s sight had been restored. Even after thorough examinations by two ophthalmologists, no cause was found.

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• Further superstitions say that if your left foot hits the floor first when you get out of bed, you’ll have a bad day. And be careful at wedding receptions! Some swear that giving a toast with your left hand is the same as placing a curse on the people you’re toasting! • The world seems to be built for righthanders. Power tools and machinery are generally manufactured with a leaning toward right-handed users. The emergency on/off switch is usually placed in a location convenient to righties. Scissors and a computer mouse are designed with the righthander in mind. How many school desks are built for left-handers? Pick up a coffee mug with a novelty design on it, and you’ll see that the picture is placed for a righthanded pick-up. Those items specifically designed for lefties frequently cost more. On the bright side, some scientists believe that left-handers are more independent because they’ve had to adapt to a world built largely for righties. • Four out of the seven most recent U.S. Presidents have been left-handed – Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Gerald Ford. Ronald Reagan was ambidextrous, but he was not the first president with this characteristic. The 20th president, James Garfield, was not only ambidextrous, he frequently entertained his friends by writing Greek with his left hand while writing Latin with his right. • There is one community in America where everyone is left-handed. Left Hand, West Virginia, population 390, can legitimately call all its residents “Left Handers.”

It was Napoleon Bonaparte who made the following sage observation: “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” In 2006, an 87-year-old Oregon man, Marty Alvey, lost nearly all his sight, due (unsurprisingly) to age-related causes. This is not noteworthy. However, three years later, the same man became faint and dizzy, so he called 911. He began to feel better on the ambulance ride to the hospital, but he wanted to be checked out anyway. By the time the doctor made it

If you’re pregnant in Switzerland, don’t tell anyone the name you plan to give your baby; it’s considered to bring bad luck. Smugglers will never stop trying to find creative ways to transport illicit goods from one part of the world to another. In 2009, a German man tried to smuggle 44 lizards out of New Zealand in his underwear; it seems that he had sewn special pockets in his undergarments specifically for the creatures. If a frog eats too many fireflies, it will begin to glow.

You’ve probably heard or seen pictures of bioluminescent lagoons, but the bacteria that cause this phenomenon are not limited to small bays and inlets. In fact, there is a bioluminescent patch of ocean to be found off the horn of Africa. “Patch” may not be quite the right word to describe it, though; the area that glows is the same size as the state of Connecticut. You might be surprised to learn that the sweatiest part of the human body is not the armpits; it’s the palms of the hands. *** Thought for the day: “I hate women because they always know where things are.” -- Voltaire (c) 2013 King Features Synd.,

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Wings/Chicken Fingers/Salads Sandwiches/Pulled Pork Wraps/Pizza Custom Menu Items Available

IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT MEDICATION It’s about your safety. Every prescription we fill goes through the Walgreens 10-Point Safeguard Check that includes reviewing for potentially unsafe drug interactions with other Walgreens prescriptions and over-the-counter medications you tell us about. If there’s a problem, we’ll work with your doctor to provide you with another option.

Switch all your prescriptions to Walgreens today. Simply bring in your prescription bottles, use the Transfer by Scan feature on our free mobile app*, call to transfer or go to Walgreens.com/pharmacy.

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