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• By July of 1940, the rabbit had a new look and a new name. The first official Bugs Bunny cartoon, “A Wild Hare,” was the first film in which Mel Blanc used a new voice for Bugs, one described as “a mixture of Brooklyn and Bronx accents.” It was also the first time that Bugs used his famous catchphrase, “What’s up, Doc?” The film’s writer/director Tex Avery said it was a common saying in his Texas hometown, and he thought nothing of adding it to the script. When it became popular, it was added to Bugs’ films permanently.

• Dell Comics featured Bugs in their “Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies” comic books beginning in 1941, and continued using him for 153 issues until 1954. From 1952 to 1983, Bugs was published in 245 issues of his own comic book, and another 81 issues of “Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny” from 1970 to 1983.

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“A Wild Hare” was such a success that it received an Oscar nomination in 1940 for Best Animated Short Film. Another Academy Award nomination came along the following year for “Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt,” in which Mel Blanc voiced all the characters.

• Bugs starred in Merrie Melodies cartoons under the direction of Leon Schlesinger until 1944, when Schlesinger retired and sold his studio to Warner Brothers. The cartoons then became known as “Looney Tunes,” with “Buckaroo Bugs” marking the studio’s debut.

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Sam, Marvin the Martian, Road Runner, the Tasmanian Devil, and several other Looney Tunes characters. The only major Warner character he did not voice was Elmer Fudd. Blanc went on to work for Hanna-Barbera, and was the voice behind The Flintstones’ Barney Rubble and The Jetsons’ Mr. Spacely, and the original voice of Universal Pictures’ Woody Woodpecker.

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Resolved: No More Denial The word “acceptance” gets a bad rap. Acceptance is not resignation. It’s not defeatist or complacent. Acceptance is powerful and progressive -- a symbol that marks that point in time when a person seizes control of their life. Acceptance is the antidote to denial. Denial fuels paralysis. It destroys relationships, drains bank accounts, limits potential, inhibits progress, wreaks havoc on our health and leaves questionable politicians in power for far too long. And it’s certainly no way to deal with a dog. An acquaintance of mine is having trouble with his neighbors -- if you ask him. If you ask them, they’re having trouble with his dogs. I asked him what the problem was, and he said, “My neighbors say my dogs bark when I’m not home, but I don’t think they do.” Not “but I know they don’t because I recorded them while I was out.” Not “but I know they don’t because I pretended to leave and then caught the neighbor red-handed provoking my dogs.” Nope. For him it was enough to simply deny the possibility outright and assume his neighbors are lying. The irony is that he is an elementaryschool teacher. No one is more familiar with the frustrations of denial than a teacher of young children. “Thank you for coming in, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Your son hid a dead squirrel in my desk drawer today.” “Oh, our Bobby would never do that.” Barking is a behavioral problem that frequently gets blown all out of proportion because of denial. Yes, barking is communication, it’s natural, it’s protection. But it’s also annoying and disruptive when excessive. Barking isn’t the problem. Excessive barking is the problem. And if your dog is accused, the first step should be determining whether he is an excessive barker. If so, there are a multitude of options available to help manage or cure the problem behavior. But if we’re too busy denying it exists, they’ll be of little help. Casey's Corner: Turn to page 10

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The ‘Burial Benefit’ That Won’t Bury You About a month ago, I wrote a column explaining what family members need to do when a loved one who was getting Social Security benefits dies. I primarily discussed what might need to be done about returning the last Social Security check (depending on the timing of the death). I also used that column to help a surviving spouse know what possible widow’s (or widower’s) benefits might be due and how to apply for them. I only briefly mentioned the one-time $255 so called “burial benefit” that is sometimes payable. I guess that was a mistake because I got lots of follow-up emails asking me about that penurious, yet popular, Social Security benefit. I confused why I was getting all those questions because I thought I had recently covered the topic. After checking my records, I learned that “recent” column was from 2011. (Time flies when you are having fun.) So it’s time, once again, to discuss the infamous Social Security “death benefit.” It didn’t start out as a death benefit, per se; at least not in the context it is thought of today. It certainly was never meant to be a “burial benefit,” as many people call it. As part of the thinking that went into the original Social Security act passed in 1935, Congress realized that many of the new Social Security taxpayers would die before they ever had a chance to collect benefits. Or they would die without having earned enough “quarters of coverage” to be insured for survivor benefits for any dependents. So they decided to compensate the families of a loved one who died with some form of reimbursement for the Social Security taxes that the deceased had paid into the system. They set up a one-time benefit they called the “lump-sum death payment” and it was originally intended to reimburse the family with an amount equal to 3 1/2 percent of the money the deceased had paid into the system. It was supposed to be a temporary benefit; Congress knew that as time passed, most workers would be paying a sufficient amount of money into Social Security that they would be insured for survivor benefits. In other words, when a taxpayer died, the widow or widower (and any minor children) would get monthly benefits. So this lumpsum payout would no longer be needed. And as often happens with government programs, once you start paying a benefit, it’s hard to take it away. Over the years, there have been any number of proposals to eliminate the lumpsum death payment. But as miserly as the benefit is, it’s a popular feature of the Social Security program. Politicians soon learned that to tamper with it meant an automatic loss in the next election. So the “temporary benefit” never went away. But occasionally, Congress has made some relatively minor adjustments to the original law. In 1954, they capped the benefit at $255 -- and it’s remained at that level ever since. And in 1983, when politicians were looking for ways to save money in the Social Security system, they restricted the payment of the one-time death payment only to a “spouse who was living with the deceased at the time of death.” And that’s where we are today. We have an essentially meaningless “death benefit” paid only

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started getting divorced widow’s benefits on his record. But I have two questions. Why did she have to return his Februar y check? And why didn’t she get the $255 death benefit?

to a widow or widower. Perhaps 50 years ago, $255 paid the cost of a funeral. Today, it barely covers the price of the flowers. If I were the king of the Social Security world, I would do one of two things. Either I would raise the death benefit to something meaningful, like say $2,500. Or I would simply eliminate it. But I’m a columnist, not a king. So all I can do is explain the law and answer any questions you might have about it.

If you go back and read that prior column I mentioned earlier, you will learn why no one was due the proceeds of your father’s February Social Security payment. In a nutshell, it’s because Social Security benefits are not prorated. Because your father didn’t live the entire month of February, the check for that month had to be returned. But there is an upside to that lack of proration. Your mother is going to get a divorced widow’s benefit for the whole month of February, even though she was a widow for only three days in that month. As far the death benefit goes, the law says it can only be paid to a widow who was living with the deceased at the time of death. I assume your divorced parents weren’t living together. So that’s why the $255 can’t be paid to her. * * * If you have a Social Security question, Tom

My wife recently died. She was a homemaker all of her life so she was getting spousal benefits on my record. Ever ything went fine with stopping her Social Security checks. But I have two questions. When will I get the $255 death benefit? And will my benefit go up to give me credit for the spousal share that was being deducted from my checks?

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is only paid on the account of someone who had worked and paid Social Security taxes. It sounds like your wife never did that because she was just receiving spousal benefits, not her own Social Security. And the money paid to a spouse is just an “add on” benefit. In other words, nothing was taken out of your retirement check to pay her. So your benefit rate will remain the same.

Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM

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Is Acupuncture for Real? DEAR DR. ROACH: You have mentioned acupuncture as a treatment for several conditions. I have read otherwise. How strong is the evidence for its use? -- R.L. ANSWER: The effectiveness of acupuncture for over 50 different medical conditions was reviewed by the Cochrane Collaboration, an evidence-based medicine group. Some of these show significant benefit; for example, acupuncture improves pain and function in people with fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis, when compared with placebo pills. Acupuncture also was better than doing nothing and better than some other treatments. On the other hand, the Cochrane group could not find enough evidence to say whether acupuncture is effective for many other conditions, such as depression or shoulder pain. More importantly, some authors have argued that the benefit from acupuncture is a placebo response, and that the apparent benefit of acupuncture compared with a placebo pill is merely that acupuncture is a more effective placebo than just a pill. There certainly is evidence that even surgery has a potential for a placebo response, and one interesting recent study showed that people with Parkinson’s disease got more improvement in motor skills from a placebo pill they were told cost $1,500 than they did with the identical placebo if they were told it cost only $100. This shows me that our minds have a tremendous ability to improve our bodies if we really believe we can. I think that to a very large extent, and perhaps entirely, the real benefits seen by people who undergo acupuncture are a manifestation of the placebo response. Acupuncture has far fewer side effects than many medications and helps people with a variety of conditions. Whether its effect is “real” or placebo is almost not an issue. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: Last year I started getting Raynaud’s. remember from my AIVIRT I canTRIVIA youth that my father had it, so it didn’t seem NEWSFRONT SREWSNA TNANSWERS ORFSWEN too terrible. It’s not just the fingertips that turn white, but also some of my toes are affected. I asked people who know of it or have it how one gets this. What is the cause? No one knows. So I asked my doctor. Even he said he did not know. How do I get these episodes, and what can I do to prevent them? -- R.S.

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Taking a Veteran’s Name in Vain Why is it some people have such a sense of entitlement that they think it’s OK to steal from veterans? Worse, why is it that the crooks think they’re not going to get caught? A handful of government departments -- notably the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service’s OIG and the FBI -- banded together to nail yet another person who claimed that his small business was owned by a disabled veteran. In this case, the suspect took in nearly $12 million in construction contracts from 2007 to 2015 while working on a few VA medical centers. The person he claimed was the disabled veteran didn’t actually work for the company. Per the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses program, at least 51 percent of a company claiming disabled veteran status has to be owned by the veteran. Part of that program is to give at least 3 percent of all contracts to service-disabled veteranowned small businesses. More specifically, per the program requirements, the small business must “have one or more service-disabled veterans manage day-to-day operations and also make long-term decisions.” In other words, you can’t just lend your name to a business. Inquiring minds want to know, however, how something like this can go on for so long. The fast track to discovery of a scam like this seems so simple: Once a year send a form to the disabled veteran owner and ask that it be signed in front of a notary to verify that he/she is indeed still involved in the day-to-day operations of “X” business. Lying would put their benefits at risk. At this point the guy has only been indicted. But he did plead guilty to one of the accessory charges. * * * 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) 2018 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Edwin M. Knowles China Co. was founded in Chester, West Virginia, around 1900. A second plant was added in Newell, West Virginia. The limited-edition collector plates were issued from 1978 to 1985. Artist Raymond Kursar painted the original scenes. Your set would probably be worth $125 to $225. *** Enclosed is the mark on the bottom of a porcelain female figurine that was given to me by a friend years ago. The figurine stands about 8 inches tall. She is wearing 18th-centur y pastel clothes, has blond hair and is holding a basket of flowers. What can you tell me about the maker, vintage and value of my figurine?

This is a photo of a covered vegetable dish that is part of a dinnerware set my late husband inherited. The set is a five-piece ser vice for 12 and includes a gravy boat, butter dish and large platters. It was purchased in 1930 and is in mint condition. Each piece is marked with a crown, crossed hammers and the words “Pirkenhammer - Czechoslovakia.” Could you please let me know the histor y of my dinnerware and its insurance value?

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• On May 5, 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French military leader who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, dies as a British prisoner on the remote island of Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean. His body was returned to Paris in 1840. • On May 4, 1886, a peaceful labor protest in Haymarket Square in Chicago turns into a riot, leaving more than 100 wounded and eight police officers dead. Seven of the eight fatalities and the most of injuries were caused by shots fired by fellow officers. • On May 2, 1933, the modern legend of Scotland’s Loch Ness Monster is born when a newspaper reports a couple’s sighting of “an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface” of the lake. The “monster” became a media phenomenon, and a circus offered a huge reward for the beast’s capture. • On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000year” Reich. • On May 3, 1951, the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees begin hearings into the dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur by President Harry Truman. The American public liked MacArthur’s tough stance on communism, and he returned home to a hero’s welcome. • On April 29, 1968, the musical “Hair” premieres on Broadway. The show featured a much-talked-about scene in which the cast appeared nude on the dimly lit stage. “Hair” quickly became not just a smash hit, but a cultural phenomenon. • On May 1, 1991, Oakland Athletics outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 939th base to break Lou Brock’s career record. Henderson would steal a 1,406 bases in his major league career, almost 500 more than the next closest player. (c) 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc.

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