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who lived in this small town 100 years ago -- is the Gray Lady. She died in a mysterious way, and there are all these weird things happening that are lining up a little too much like the Gray Lady.” ***

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I, too, am counting the days until “Catching Fire” opens. And now, with the knowledge of the casting news about the two-part “Mockingjay,” I am counting the days until those movies open, too.

It seems that one of my favorite actresses, Julianne Moore, has been cast as President Alma Coin in the “Hunger Games Trilogy” finale. “Mockingjay, Part One” and “Part Two” are scheduled for release in November 2014 and 2015, respectively. ***

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-- Brianna T., Tampa, Fla.

I am sorry to report that Anderson Cooper’s daytime talk show was canceled after airing for two seasons. The final show aired at the end of May. *** READERS: In more Hallmark Channel news, I just received word that “Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove,” which stars Andie MacDowell, has been renewed for a second season, which will premiere some time in 2014. Hallmark Channel’s first-ever scripted primetime series has been smashing records for the channel since its debut this past July. Andie MacDowell, Dylan Neal, Teryl Rothery, Bruce Boxleitner and Barbara Niven will all return for the second season.

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by Mary Hunt can count on one hand those I would rate with five stars.

Where I live in Orange County, Calif., hotels, motels and inns are pricey. I’m sure that has a lot to do with the popularity of Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, Aquarium of the Pacific, Hollywood, Universal Studios and on it goes. Tourism is a big deal here.

Recently we had some work done at our home, which required us to be away from it for two nights.

I booked a room at a hotel close by and nearly passed out when I saw the tab: $388 for two nights.

Sure, that included parking and breakfast, but come on. All we needed was a place to unwind, shower and sleep.

When I couldn’t get that $388 number out of my mind, I decided to check around.

Over the past 30 years I’ve driven past Don’s Turf Motel no fewer than a thousand times, I’m sure. The place gets rave reviews, so I decided to cancel the $388 reservation and book two nights at Don’s instead. The rate? $60 per night.

Driving onto the property, I wasn’t impressed.

It looked a little dumpy. We found our room and

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chuckled as we walked in. We’re talking no-frills here. None. Not a picture on the wall, no Internet service. But what this roomed lacked in fancy upgrades, it more than made up for in cleanliness.

The towels and bath mat were fluffy and pristine. The tub and shower were not new, but there was not a scratch, not a crack, not a hint of mildew, not a stain, not a molecule of scum or residue. The chrome shone like a new penny.

We found two tiny bars of soap, an extra roll of toilet tissue and that’s it. No hair dryer, shampoo, conditioner or body lotion; no mouthwash, shoeshine mitt, shower cap or sewing kit.

Don’s Turf Motel has no room service, no food options and no binders of information sitting in the room. You will not find valet parking or bell staff, concierge or shuttle bus. Don’t expect frequent flyer points or breakfast. You won’t find $10 bottles of water or $15 cashews. You won’t get an electronic key or a TV with games and movies on demand.

What you will get at this unique vintage motel is a great night of sleep, one of the cleanest rooms I have ever seen in all the years I’ve traveled, a very nice staff and the services of professional housekeepers. I want to take lessons from the people who care for these rooms. They deserve awards and accolades.

And now for bonus round: Centrally located and close to the freeway on Katella Avenue in Los Alamitos, Don’s Turf Motel is 6 miles from Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, 9 miles from Disneyland in Anaheim and 10 miles from Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.

Don’s Turf Motel gets five stars from your humble columnist. Now that the word’s out, I suggest you book early if you see a trip to California in your future and this is the kind of overnight accommodation that appeals to you and your wallet.

Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com and author of 23 books, including her 2012 release, “7 Money Rules for Life.” You can email her at mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630. To find out more about Mary Hunt and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Operation S.A.V.E. is a Department of Veterans Affairs training program designed to prevent suicide in veterans. While the program is geared for suicide-prevention coordinators, there are points that can be helpful for family and friends of veterans who might be at risk.

The initials themselves outline parts of the program:

- Signs of suicide

- Asking about suicide

- Validating feelings - Encouraging help and expediting treatment.

Those who work or live with veterans can help stop many veteran suicides. Here are some must-have resources:

--Go online and study the program that is given to VA suicide prevention coordinators. Google this title: Operation S.A.V.E.: VA Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training.

--Google “veteran suicide” and look for the .pdf entitled “Department of Veterans Affairs Operation SAVE Suicide Prevention.” As you scroll, don’t miss the Myths and Misinformation section, as well as the S.A.V.E steps.

--Go to www.mentalhealth.va.gov and click Suicide Prevention on the left side. You’ll find a full menu of choices, including warning signs and resources.

The official guesstimate of the number of veteran suicides is 22 per day. As more people and groups read the “Suicide Data Report 2012” they eventually come to the conclusion that the number is low, for many reasons: Not all states participated in the survey and didn’t provide numbers. Information in some cases was provided by funeral homes (who got their information from family members) and not by the VA. Information from states with large veteran populations wasn’t used. Information wasn’t current, and so on. In other words, the problem might be even worse.

For more-immediate help for yourself or someone you know, call 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. Or you can chat online at www.VeteransCrisisLine.net. Or send a text message to 838255 for free support.

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.

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The Overwhelming Threat of Infections for Which No Treatment Is Available

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a report entitled “Antibiotic Resistance -- Threats to the United States, 2013.” Infections that are resistant to almost all antibiotics are becoming more frequent and often lead to fatal infections.

Annually, more 2 million Americans are infected with an antibiotic resistant bacteria resulting in 23,000 deaths. Experts in the field maintain that the numbers quoted in the CDC report are conservative and the actual number of deaths may be much higher.

For a number of infections, the CDC indicates that degree of resistance is most urgent. This includes a bowel infection caused by C. Difficile.

When infections are treated with an antibiotic, a negative effect is the eradication of all the normal bacterial fauna that live in the bowel. This creates an opportunity, in the bowel, for overgrowth of C. Difficile that causes severe diarrhea, dehydration, blood loss and even death. Sadly, C. Difficile is becoming more difficult to treat. It causes about 14,000 deaths annually.

The CDC also defines as urgent infections by bacteria called carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). These infections usually occur in hospitalized patients on a ventilator for breathing problems, and those with indwelling bladder catheters or a pacemaker. These infections are severe and life threatening, and many fail to respond to treatment with any antibiotics.

Just as urgent is a new strain of antibiotic resistant gonorrhea, which is becoming rampant worldwide. This sexually transmitted disease is very difficult to treat and a major cause of infertility.

The CDC identifies a number of bacteria where the threat of total resistance is defined as serious. This includes the well know methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus or MRSA and certain Salmonella bacteria that cause food borne infections.

Although not as yet a widespread health threat, there is growing concern about the progressive resistance and aggression of the so-called flesh-eating bacteria called A. Streptococcus.

Unless action is begun now, we may, in the very near future, be in the so-called “post antibiotic era,” where therapies to prevent and treat infections become non-existent. The deaths and suffering from this scenario is overwhelmingly frightening.

To provide a sense of the overuse of antibiotics, a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that physicians are prescribing six times as many antibiotics for sore throats and colds as they should. The researchers showed that between 1997 and 2010, 94 million visits were made to the doctor for sore throats and bronchitis. Antibiotics were prescribed for 60 percent of sore throats and 78 percent of acute bronchitis. The researchers state that antibiotics should have been prescribed for only 10 percent of sore throats and none of the patients diagnosed with acute bronchitis.

Unless this practice changes, we are likely to be overwhelmed by dangerous untreatable infections in the coming years. The CDC recognizes the potential of an apocalypse and recommends a series of steps to prevent catastrophe.

First, we must prevent infections by avoiding contaminated foods, compulsive hand washing, vaccination and a major effort at public education to increase awareness of how infections can be prevented and to understand that not every illness warrants treatment with an antibiotic.

Second, it recommends a worldwide monitoring program to identify and track the development of resistance organisms. This in turn will allow aggressive intervention to prevent further resistance.

Third and most importantly, the CDC proposes much better antibiotic stewardship. Physicians must be more aware of the needless use of antibiotics and be able to accurately identify infections caused by viruses and those caused by bacteria. Physicians and other health care providers are also guilty of readily prescribing the newest and most powerful antibiotics for minor infections.

And the more an antibiotic is used, the quicker bacteria transform and become resistant.

Lastly, in the past 20 years, little emphasis has been placed on discovering new antibiotics. Nor have tests been developed to accurately diagnose the cause and strain of a specific infection. This is needed to assure that treatment is as targeted as possible in order to minimize the risk of further resistance.

The bottom line: Remember most coughs, colds and sore throats are viral. Don’t call your doctor and ask for an antibiotic rather ask if one is indeed necessary.

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CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) pers away from Rover as it is to prevent the ingestion of the candy itself. Chocolate and xylitol are toxic to dogs and can be fatal in some circumstances. Don’t take any chances. Keep the goodies for the kiddies out of reach.

--Ditto for cords. Keep electrical cords from the jaws of dogs. The reasons are obvious.

--Be costume conscious. Only put your dog in a costume if he’s clearly into the idea. If he appears terrified or tortured at the notion, leave him to his birthday suit. And of course, any costume you outfit him in must allow him to see, hear, move, bark and breathe normally. No restrictions of any kind.

Also check to be sure there are no chewable parts accessible to your dog and that it is flame-retardant.

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1. Which group released “The Tears of a Clown”?

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3. Which group had a hit with “Save Your Heart for Me”?

4. What do these songs have in common? “Rockin’ Robin,” “Turn the Beat Around” and “Video Killed the Radio Star.”

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine, any time, night or day. Only trouble is, gee wiz ...”

Answers 1. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, in 1970.

2. “Venus” and “Why,” both in 1959.

Between 1958 and 1962, Avalon had 31 singles on the Billboard charts.

3. Gary Lewis and the Playboys, in 1965. It was originally recorded as a b-side by Brian Hyland in 1963.

4. The were the sole hits for their one-hit-wonder artists.

5. “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” by the Everly Brothers in 1958. They recorded the song in only two takes.

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blood sugar reading was 109. I am an 84-yearold woman weighing 134 pounds. Do I have to worr y? -- Anon

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What are you doing next Valentines Day? Even if you’re not in a relationship, you can do something special ... for your heart.

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Its slender Grand Cayman and Cozumel. The company will high 130s and low 140s for systolic and 85 to 90 for diastolic. When considering all the warn- central cavity was blocked, and bacteria grew in the take a portion of fares (up to a half-million dollars) ings and risk factors for people with high blood blocked cavity. That caused swelling. The appendix and match it with another half-million to donate to pressure, do I fit into that categor y? Or, can I finally burst and spilled bacteria into the abdominal the AHA. You’ll get a tax deduction as well, with the safely assume I no longer have high blood pres- cavity. Treatment included surgical removal of the company providing you with written acknowledgeappendix and the right side TUES., of the colon.

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tudes we choose to have. He defines this as the ability to take control regardless of the situation or one’s emotional state.

You’re allowing yourself to be stuck in your past and throwing yourself a pity party. Dumping your jealous feelings in your friend’s lap will only make her self conscious and will likely cause permanent damage to your friendship.

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Even though they were sturdy and operated as well as the American Singers, there is not a demand for these sewing machines as collectibles. In most cases, their value is low and can be found selling from $20 to $100. Occasionally, one pops up on the Internet in the $100 to $500 range. Those sellers are optimistic, and I can’t document any actually selling that high.

You have a fine example of R.S. Prus sia porcelain that is highly desirable. This mark was used by Reinhold Schlegelmilch in Tillowitz, Silesia, Germany. They were in business from the 1870s to 1956. Your chocolate pot set was made around 1880 and would probably be worth $275 to $375.

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The Reid Option

I could hear it in the voices of the callers and the sports-radio jocks themselves: fear and doubt. Somebody was going to get hit.

“I think we’re gonna have a tough time with the [Kansas City] Chiefs,” one caller said.

“Yeah, I’m going to have to agree with you,” was the reply.

It is rare in this day and age to see much emotion on a professional athlete’s sleeve. The locker rooms are stocked with multi-millionaire athletes wary of getting themselves injured on the field or saying something off the field that could raise the ire of their high-paid, talented opposition.

The difference between a winning team and a losing team in these days of increased parity can be a razor-thin margin.

But you knew the Chiefs, 2-0 at the time (4-0 as of this writing), were psyched to play their only scheduled nationally broadcast television game, in Philadelphia versus the Eagles. Four days after their Sunday game, they were ready to go on Thursday night at Lincoln Financial Field in what promised to be (and was) an all-out zoo.

Andy Reid, the winningest coach in Eagles history, fired at the end of last season and hired immediately by Clark Hunt, was back in town. Reid ... derided for being a poor finisher and too conservative; Reid ... replaced by the flashy Chip Kelly, mastermind of a tricked-out, high-speed read-option style of play that lit-up the Washington football franchise and nearly scorched the Chargers; Reid ... backed by a Chiefs team who understood that no, sometimes emotion does matter.

“We got this for you, coach,” was the mantra in the Chiefs locker room, a locker room that bore little resemblance to the locker room of one year previous when the proud franchise sported a 2-14 record in one of the more disastrous seasons in professional sports history.

No, this team, with nearly the same roster that moped through the tunnels of Arrowhead, now has a buzz that shows in their play. They are welltrained. They fight from beginning to end, and they are led by the incredible Alex Smith, the ball-control quarterback with the biggest chip any quarterback ever had.

And while Kelly’s team performed as advertised, obtaining more yards and first downs than the Chiefs, Reid’s squad won where it mattered: on the scoreboard. And while the fans hit each other in a rumble beneath the press box, Reid hit you in the heart.

At the end of the game he embraced his son, the team’s defensive coordinator. It was only a year earlier that Reid’s eldest son had died of a heroin overdose in the Eagles training facility.

“It was interesting at the end. That was when it all hit, that I was playing in Philadelphia again,” Reid said after the game. “I don’t know if you let your guard down or whatever, but when the players are coming up to you and you congratulate them, that’s kind of when you felt it, when I felt it.”

The Chiefs have their own Reid option now, and the hits will likely keep coming for years to come.

Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in Kansas City. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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