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Interest.” We were not expecting Carter to be killed off! She, Reese and Finch are the program. Without her, it won’t be the same. Why was Carter written out? -- Laura K., via email

I love “The Witches of East End.” Can you tell me if it will be back for another season? -- Lynn W., via email

Lifetime recently announced that “Witches” will return for a second 13-episode season, to air sometime in 2014 (an exact date has not been decided yet). The hit drama stars Julia Ormond, Madchen Amick, Jenna Dewan Tatum and Rachel Boston as a family of witches living in the secluded seaside town of East Haven. The show also stars Eric Winter, Daniel DiTomasso and Virginia Madsen. And don’t miss the season one finale, which airs Sunday, Dec. 15, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. ***

Can you tell me why “King and Maxwell” wasn’t renewed? My husband and I really liked that show. We like most of the TNT shows; we especially miss Brenda and “The Closer.” -- Karen J. in Florida

The consensus reason for the show’s demise is the ever-popular “low ratings.” And while the drama series -- which centered on former Secret Service agents who become private detectives, played by Rebecca Romijn and Jon Tenney -- didn’t have rock-bottom ratings, the show was enough on the bubble that TNT decided not to renew. On top of low ratings, “King and Maxwell” also lost one-third of its “Major Crimes” lead-in audience, which is usually a nail in the coffin for any struggling freshman series. ***

Taraji P. Henson, who played Officer Joss Carter for two and a half seasons on the CBS drama, was just as surprised as you were that her character died. However, she knows it was time for her character to go, and it was a great way to surprise and stun the audience. She recently told “Entertainment Weekly”: “You portray a character for so long, you care about her and her life. But art imitates life -- it comes to an end unexpectedly. It was bittersweet, Taraji Henson because I enjoyed portraying Carter. What a strong, powerful woman on television.” But don’t get too sad about Carter’s death, because you could see her again someday -- in a flashback. The show is known for using flashbacks to propel the story lines, and Taraji said she definitely would be up for returning to film flashback scenes. Write to Cindy at King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475; or e-mail her at letters@ cindyelavsky.com.

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Commitment to a Healthy Lifestyle Is More Important Than Weight in Determining Longevity These days, being overweight or frankly obese is the rule rather than the exception. The body mass index is used to assess obesity, as it corrects weight for height. People with BMIs between 19 and 23 are said to be at their ideal weights, those between 23 and 30 are considered overweight, and obesity is defined as a BMI above 30. Anyone with a BMI above 40 is deemed morbidly obese. Surprisingly, studies have shown that life expectancy is the longest in individuals who are overweight but not obese, while those at their ideal weights and below have a 5-15 percent reduction in life expectancy. Life expectancy is also lower for the obese and much more so for the morbidly obese. Why do overweight individuals live the longest? Weight itself is a very poor predictor of longevity. Far more important are genetic factors (having parents who lived long lives), exercise, diet, stress levels, smoking, high cholesterol, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and waist circumference. Among overweight individuals, life expectancy is longest in those who eat a balanced hearthealthy diet, exercise frequently, don’t smoke, have a waist circumference less than 44 inches and are compulsively treated for chronic medical problems. Clearly, for those who are pleasantly plump, staying healthy does not depend on aggressively dieting in order to lose weight. In fact, the exact opposite is true -- most weight loss programs are usually doomed to failure, especially if fad diet approaches are involved. Any program promising rapid weight loss can only succeed in the short term. Dramatically reducing calorie intake leads to weight loss that may be as high as 10 to 15 pounds in a week. But this loss more reflects a significant reduction in the amount of total water in the body rather than the melting away of fat. The most available form of energy in the body is glycogen, which is stored in muscle. Cutting food intake initially leads to its mobilization so it can be used as fuel to maintain normal metabolism. A depletion of muscle glycogen causes a nine-fold decrease in the amount of water in muscle, accounting for the initial weight loss. Another reason why rapid weight loss is doomed to failure is the fact that our bodies have an exquisite ability to adjust to less food intake. The calories we consume in our food are primarily used as fuel for every bodily function. The excess is either lost in the warm air we breathe out, as sweat or converted to fat. Before dieting, our weight may be stable, even when we consume as much as 3,000 or more calories daily. If we reduce food intake to as little as 1,200 calories per day, the

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body quickly adjusts its calorie requirements to be lower. Less calories are lost as heat or in sweat. Now, a stable weight can be maintained on just 1,500 calories daily. From this point onward, weight loss declines very slowly. Living on this highly restricted diet is difficult, and sooner or later, the willpower fails, calorie intake increases and weight gain returns with a vengeance. Not surprisingly, we become disheartened and just give up. The solution is not dieting but rather committing to a total lifestyle makeover. The ideal diet is the “don’t diet” diet and learning to eat right. The best approach are programs such as Weight Watchers or the not-for-profit TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Club, both of which teach approaches to eating the right foods in the right amounts, providing continued support to improve chances of success. Just as important is exercise, controlling stress, improving self-image by dressing well and managing any chronic disease. Does this approach apply to those who are frankly obese? Here, new research shows that the major reason why obesity reduces life span is primarily because of a sedentary life style, elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes, all of which are commonly associated with obesity. Any approach aimed at losing weight must be accompanied by lifestyle changes and a commitment to taking care of chronic medical conditions. If morbid obesity is an issue, bariatric surgery can help with weight loss, as well as help in reversing high blood pressure and diabetes. But to truly succeed, health and lifestyle are key to longevity and a more productive life. Dr. David Lipschitz is the author of the book “Breaking the Rules of Aging.” To find out more about Dr. David Lipschitz and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. More information is available at: DrDavidHealth.com

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CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) This is one of the reasons why the common thinking that “one human year is the equivalent of seven dog years” fails. It’s not about years, and it’s not about looks. It’s about maturation. In two short years, that Maltese will cover the 18 human years of infancy, childhood and adolescence -- or in the case of the typical Sandler character, the 40 and counting human years. At the age of 5, that Great Dane will be the canine equivalent of a 40-year-old. Whether he’s a 40-year-old Charlie Sheen or a 40-year-old Matt Damon is up to you and fate. Maturation is an important factor in your dog’s learning. I reject the cliched notion that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But it is easier to teach a young dog who hasn’t yet developed bad habits. People often resign themselves to living in compromised circumstances because they hear: “You have to train them when they’re still a puppy, or it’s just impossible.” It’s never impossible to improve on a bad scene. But it’s also helpful to know what “when they’re still a puppy” means. Just because your dog doesn’t look the part of a pup anymore doesn’t mean he’s not a pup. For a human example of this phenomenon, I direct you to the latest Vince Vaughn vehicle, “Delivery Man,” in theaters now. Woof! Dog trainer Matthew “Uncle Matty” Margolis is coauthor of 18 books about dogs, a behaviorist, a popular radio and television guest, and host of the PBS series “WOOF! It’s a Dog’s Life!” Read all of Uncle Matty’s columns at www. creators.com, and visit him at www.unclematty.com. Send your questions to dearuncle.gazette@unclematty.com or by mail to Uncle Matty at P.O. Box 3300, Diamond Springs, CA 95619. COPYRIGHT 2013 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

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1. The book of Isaiah 2 is in the a) Old Testament b) New Testament c) Neither 2. Who was Herod’s information source as to where the Christ Child was to be born? a) Wise men b) Reuben c) Micah d) Scribes and pharisees 3. From Luke 2:13, what term describes an army of angels praising God? a) Manoah b) Heavenly host c) Spirit multitude d) Angelic choir 4. What group received the angels’ announcement of the birth of Jesus? a) Magi b) Shepherds c) Tentmakers d) Scribes 5. Where was the young child when the Magi came to visit Him to present gifts? a) House b) Temple c) Manger d) Not known

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SOCIAL SECURITY by Tom Margenau

Social Security: Who’s In and Who’s Out Every time I write a column about various offsets that impact Social Security benefits payable to folks who spend the bulk of their working lives in jobs not covered by Social Security, as I did about a month ago, I obviously get lots of follow-up questions about those offsets. But I also get questions from other readers who wonder why some workers are not required to pay into Social Security. I’ve addressed this issue before, but I guess it’s time to go over it again. The last time I checked, about 93 percent of all workers in this country were mandatorily covered by Social Security. The other seven percent is made up mostly of railroad workers and some state and local government employees who have separate retirement pension plans. Here is the story behind that. When Social Security first started in the 1930s, most people in this country didn’t have pensions, so a government-sponsored retirement program like Social Security was a welcome relief for them. Just about everyone who worked for wages was covered by Social Security from day one. (Selfemployed people came under Social Security’s umbrella a decade or so later.) But some groups of employees already had pension plans in place. The two largest were railroad workers, who were covered by the railroad retirement system, and federal government employees (including the president, members of Congress, etc.), who were covered by the civil service retirement system. Both of those pension plans had been around long before Social Security started. So it was AIR GREENS decided to exclude these twoBEL large groups from So6th pg. cial Security -- simply because they didn’t need it. Nov. 2010 In addition, Congress felt21st, that it would be unconstitutional to force a federal government pension plan (Social Security) on state and local governments. So, employees of state and local government . Seentities were given the option of joining S ..Social ’ T curity or not. Most did. About 80Ipercent E of all such R public employees became part of Social Security. E Social So that’s what happened when SecuriH ty started in the 1930s. Nobody thought twice about any of these decisions because they made sense. Over the years, people started griping about the fact that members of Congress and other high-level government officials were not covered by Social Security. Stories began to spread that Congress had specifically excluded itself from Social Security in order to set up its members with a better pension system.

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Eventually, there was simply too much political pres- the old civil service retirement system. It is called sure on Congress to remain outside of Social Secu- the Federal Employees Retirement System. I know several former colleagues who have retired with the rity. So in 1983, as part of a package of major So- new FERS/Social Security pension, and they love it. cial Security reform legislation, they passed a law In fact, because of the extra benefits they can accrue ThriftNOV Savings mandating that all members of Congress, the presi- through something called the TUES., 19 Plan, dent and vice president, all other government lead- many of them are doing better than me, an old goat Please carefully. Double Phone  civil Spelling  federal retireecheck: who is  getting theNumber(s) old-fashioned ers, as well as all federal employees hiredreview after 1983, service pension. would be covered by Social Security. Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or c Today, that leaves railroad workers as the If760-320-0997 you have a Social Security question, Tom MarFax: 760-320-1630 only major nationwide group of employees still not Office: genau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcovered by Social Security. Even though many ascast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read pects of railroad and Social Security pensions over- past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate lap, people who spend at least 10 years working forHELP writers and cartoonists, the Creators Syndicate website at U HEAR c/o JNSvisit Media a railroad will have all of their benefits (including1/4 www.creators.com. pg. 4C 26x disc. Social Security payments) managed by the RailroadNov.COPYRIGHT 2013 CREATORS.COM 24, 2013 Vol. 9 - No. 48 Retirement Board, not by the Social Security Administration. And at the state and local level, there are thousands of groups around the country still not under the Social Security umbrella. They could be anything from a small sewer district in Washington state of maybe 10 employees to a large group of thousands of employees like California teachers. In fact, the largest groups of non-Social Security covered workers tend to be teachers -- in states like California, Texas and Ohio. Also many law enforcement agencies and firefighters in these same (and some other) states are not in Social Security. So that is why some jobs in this country are not covered by Social Security. But will that last? Whenever there is talk about Social Security reform, one proposal often mentioned is universal coverage. That means mandating Social Security coverage for everyone, including all those teachers and firefighters mentioned above. Such a proposal is a relatively easy political fix because it would only impact a small percentage of the population, i.e., voters. But it really isn’t all that much of a practical fix for Social Security, beProperty of cause it would wipe out only about 10 percent of the AdVenture Media, Inc. program’s long-range debt. Also, such a fix obviously could have a huge 4 Million Readers Weekly impact on the people who currently work in these Nationwide! FREE Hearing Aid salespersons of Coachella Valley are non-Social Security-covered jobs. Although if it were The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read NOT required to have a college to happen, current non-covered workers would like760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 education in the State of California. ly be grandfathered into their employer’s pension ►At Help All U Rights HearReserved we ONLY plan and only newly hired workers would be covered employ Audiologists with a by Social Security. Masters or Doctorate Degree. There is precedent for this. When newly hired federal government workers were manda• Our Doctors of Audiology are educated torily covered by Social Security in 1983, they set in detecting & correcting your hearing loss, up a plan for the new federal employees to replace

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Avodart and Proscar are two such medicines. Their effect isn’t seen for up to six months. Combining both classes of drug is another method of treatment. If medicine therapy fails, a variety of surgical procedures can remedy the problem. You don’t know if an enlarged gland has cancer cells in it. The PSA blood test, flawed as it is, provides some evidence for cancer. Biopsy of the gland is the ultimate cancer test. A urologist will solve this problem for you. The booklet on prostate enlargement and prostate cancer deals with these common male problems in detail. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 1001W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. 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: My son is 43. When he was 20, he started getting lumps, which the doctors called lipomas. He has them on his whole body in var ying sizes, except for on his face. No one else in the family has them. What can be done besides cutting them out? -- M.F.

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The length of time you might spend in the emergency room has gotten longer -- and longer -- as many Medicare patients are held under what’s called “observation status.” AARP recently completed a study called DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have to trot to “Rapid Growth in Medicare Hospital Observation the bathroom many times during the day and Services: What’s Going On?” that shows the length many more times at night. Is this due to my of time patients are held that way has grown, prostate gland? I’m 74 and wasn’t bothered by sometimes to more than 48 hours. bathroom visits a year ago. Does this mean sur If you’re a Medicare patient, you can be totger y for me? How do I know if this is prostate ing up out-of-pocket costs with every passing hour cancer? -- R.R. you’re held in this medical limbo. There’s no costsharing cap with these observation status stays, ANSWER: Odds are you have benign prosnot to mention that you might not receive the level tatic hyperplasia, the official name for a large prosof care that you should have. As an observation tate gland. In their 40s, a quarter of males have a outpatient, you’re liable for the costs of tests and gland that’s larger than normal. In their 70s, 80 perprocedures. cent of men have an enlarged gland. Not all these Additionally, if you end up in skilled nurs ANSWER: Lipomas are mounds of fat en- men have symptoms like repeated trips to the bathcased in a tough covering material. They range in ing, the observation status time you spend in the room, a hard time starting the urinary stream and a size from a golf ball to two or three times that size. hospital doesn’t count for the Medicare requirement decrease in the force of the stream. that you have three days as an inpatient. Your porThey’re soft, and they are not painful. The prostate gland lies directly below the Surgical removal, at present, provides the tion of the costs can skyrocket, and you might even urinary bladder, and the bladder’s drainage tube, the best results. If your son has too many for total re- be denied skilled nursing care because you weren’t urethra, runs through the gland. A large gland pressmoval, a select few, the most bothersome ones, can in the hospital long enough as an official inpatient. es on the bladder and obstructs the urethra. That’s Here are some specifics from the AARP study: be excised. why many men with a large gland have to run to the ● Observation status stays have increased Research is ongoing to find a substance that bathroom so often -- they cannot completely empty 94 percent. will dissolve these fatty tumors. Injection with cortitheir bladder. ● Patient status (observation versus inpasone medicines can shrink them a bit, but it doesn’t TUES., MAR. 15 You don’t have to jump to surgery right off totally get rid of them. The results are somewhat tient) is sometimes changed by the hospital after the bat. Medicines often solve the problem. One patientisHours sent home. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling the  Prices mixed, and it isn’t a popular treatment. class of medicines stops the forceful bladder contrac ● The average cost for skilled nursing that ADVERTISING PROOF *** tions that signal an urgent need to void. Uroxatral, Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Medicare didn’t cover (due to being originally held Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual Final Changes DUE: MON., NOV. 18 5:00 Flomax and Rapaflo are examples of this drug family. letters, but he760-320-0997 will incorporate them in his column whenever in observation limbo) was $10,503. Office: Fax: 760-320-1630 Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pric Their effect is seen within a week. possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of A number of senators in Congress have Another family of drugs shrinks the gland. available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL proposed legislation that would require with timechanges spent or correc Contact your Tidbits representative immediately 32853-6475. in observation status to count as part of the threeBob’s Clock Repair Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 day inpatient requirement. 2013 North America Synd., Inc. BZ 4C (c) 26x To read the full 25-page report, go to aarp. Rights Reserved Mar. 20,All2011 Vol. 7 - No. 12 org and put the study’s title in the search box.

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The new year is just around the corner and my wife is after me again to make my list of resolutions. She makes one ever y year and, surprisingly, she actually gets most of them done. I’m a hit-and-miss kind of guy when it comes to resolutions, and mostly miss. I’m now in my mid-70s and realized long ago that I’m far from perfect. I know I could accomplish more, drop some bad habits and be of more to help others by volunteering. My excuse is always: “Why bother -- I’ll never accomplish them anyway.” I am going to tr y my best to make and keep a few resolutions in 2014, so I’d like to know what you think would be some worthwhile ideas to put on my list. Suggestions?

Researchers have explored that ques tion for many decades, focusing on a number of factors in an effort to understand why this occurs. Among them, genealogical, environmental, mental, physical, educational and other variables. So far, no studies have been able to provide conclusive Ad Proof:answers. Even identical twins growing up under identical conditions will often have different Bram’s personalities, abilities and interests. 1/16th page, BW, rapidly 26x rate [$59/wk] With today’s growing information exchanges, science is allowing us to learn more about February 17, 2013 personality development and the differences in peo[Volume 9: Issue #8 - ] ple’s psychological makeup. In the future, researchCorrections due Fri.down 02/08/13 ers will hopefully be by: able5topm, lead us the path to learning specifics about not only why we differ, but also how to change ourselves! Doug Mayberry makes the most of life in a Southern California Retirement community. Contact him at deardoug@ msn.com. To find out more about Doug Mayberry and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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● On Dec. 17, 1843, Charles Dickens’ classic story “A Christmas Carol” is published. Dickens never lost momentum as a writer, churning out major novels every year or two, often in serial form. Among his most important works are “David Copperfield” (1850), “Great Expectations” (1861) and “A Tale of Two Cities” (1859).

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● On Dec. 18, 1912, after three years of digging in the Piltdown gravel pit in Sussex, England, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson announces the discovery of two skulls that appear to belong to a primitive hominid and ancestor of man. ● On Dec. 21, 1945, Gen. George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army, dies from injuries suffered not in battle, but in a freak car accident. He was 60 years old. Descended from a long line of military men, Patton graduated from the West Point Military Academy in 1909. ● On Dec. 22, 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo enters the world at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, becoming the first-ever gorilla born in captivity. She went on to become a mother, grandmother, and in 1996, a great-grandmother to Timu, the first surviving infant gorilla conceived by artificial insemination. Colo is still alive today. ● On Dec. 16, 1960, two airliners collide over New York City, killing 134 people aboard the planes and on the ground. A miscalculation by the pilot of the United flight put his plane directly into the path of a TWA Super Constellation. Christmas presents carried by the planes’ passengers were strewn all over the streets. ● On Dec. 20, 1989, the United States invades Panama in an attempt to overthrow military dictator Manuel Noriega, who had been indicted in the United States on drugtrafficking charges. Noriega’s Panamanian Defense Forces were promptly crushed. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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