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the airship from which they took their name. Eva said the band were “shrieking monkeys” who were not entitled to “use a privileged family name without permission.”

• Rolling Stone magazine described Led Zeppelin as “the heaviest band of all time” and “the biggest band of the 1970s.” • Led Zeppelin has sold more than 300 million albums worldwide, including over 111 million Proof: soldAd in the United States. ▄

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• Led Zeppelin’s 1973 album, “Houses of The Holy,” was banned in Spain and in parts of America because its cover depicted naked children crawling up the causeway in Antrim, Northern Ireland.

• The album “Led Zeppelin IV” is one of the best-selling albums in history and its massive popularity cemented Led Zeppelin’s superstardom in the 1970s. To date, this album has sold 23 million copies in the United States alone. • In case you’ve ever wondered, the four symbols on the label and inside sleeve of “Led Zeppelin IV,” represent (from left to right) Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham and Robert Plant.

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James Bond James Bond, the debonair secret agent created by writer Ian Fleming, has remained a popular iconic figure for decades. The 23 (so far) movies featuring this colorful character have garnered a total box office gross of over $4.7 billion. • The first Bond movie, “Dr. No,” was released on May 8, 1963. It featured a then relatively unknown Scottish actor, Sean Connery, as Agent 007. The movie was an immediate hit, and Connery was on his way to superstardom. He made six more Bond films after that initial portrayal. • Sean Connery was not Ian Flemming’s first choice to portray his James Bond character.He had originally favored Roger Moore to play the part of the super spy, but he was voted down by film executives. • Previous attempts to adapt the James Bond novels resulted in a 1954 television episode of “Climax Mystery Theatre,” based on the first novel, “Casino Royale.” The short-lived TV Bond starred American actor Barry Nelson as “Jimmy Bond.” • “You Only Live Twice” is the first James Bond film to scrap the plot of the original Fleming script material. As in the book, the movie places the story in Japan, uses Blofeld as the main villain and features Bond’s girl as Kissy Suzuki. Beyond those basic elements, however, the story departs completely from the original.

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of the profits, which previous directors of Bond films never received. An agreement was never reached, and a Bond film was never added to Spielberg’s long list of accomplishments. • The reason James Bond always wants his vodka martinis shaken, not stirred, is that shaking makes the drink colder in less time. It also puts more air into the mixture making the flavor stronger. • The real James Bond was an ornithologist (a person who studies and classifies birds) from Jamaica who was most famous for his book, “The Birds of the West Indies.” In exchange for the use of his name, ornithologist James Bond used Fleming’s name to classify a rare species of Jamaican birds. • “From Russia With Love” was made into a movie only because it was one of President John F. Kennedy’s favorite books.

Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. • It is only with the advent of the Craig era that film directors outside of Great Britain have been used for Bond movies. In fact, all were from the Commonwealth until 2008’s “Quantum of Solace,” which is the first Bond film by a non-United Kingdom director. That director, Marc Foster, is German-Swiss. ▄

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As the only son in our family, and as the father of a new daughter, I am experiencing the differences between sons and daughters. I now realize how little I really appreciated my mother in my growing up years. Because of my stubbornness and wanting to show my independence, I made her life pretty difﬁcult when she never deser ved it. Today, I am ver y sorr y for treating her this way. Why do kids take so long to learn how their mother’s love and caring impacts their future? Dad is not in good health, and I know mom needs help too, although she has not asked for it. How can I best show my regret for being such a difﬁcult son and ease my conscience?

Until children grow up and experience parenthood for themselves, they really don’t understand that parental discipline and correction originates in love, caring and an enormous sense of responsibility for their child. Now that your eyes have been opened you can begin to see that the differences you once rejected and dispised about your mother were all about the self-centered attitude you had adopted. Now is the time for you to take the lead and make an honest confession to your mother, letting her know that you regret the disrespect you showed to her in your younger years. Apologize, ask for her forgiveness and assure her that you do love and appreciate her. Show your love by offering your help in caring for both her needs and your dad’s. Keep the

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My husband has serious health problems, and I have been caring for him over three years. He is a great husband and we have a happy marriage. My problem is that I am running out of steam and beginning to feel the effects of too much responsibility. Our family wants to help me, but they live at a distance. I realize it is time to ﬁnd helpers, but I’m not sure know how to do so. Do you have any advice for me?

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My wife and I are both in our 70s and we each get our own Social Security beneﬁt. I’m confused about what she would be due if I die. Can you help?

First, she’d be due that miserly one-time $255 Social Security death benefit. Frequent readers know I’ve often written about this embarrassing pittance the government doles out to the spouse of someone who has died. I say it should be raised (to maybe $2,500) or simply eliminated. But no one listens to me. So again, your wife would get a check for $255. She would also receive a widow’s supplement from your Social Security account IF her own benefit is less than yours. As a general rule, the supplement would take her total benefits up to whatever amount you were getting when you died. For example, let’s say you are collecting $2,000 per month, and your wife gets $1,500 per month from her own retirement account. If you die, she’d keep receiving her $1,500 payment, but she’d start getting an extra $500 in widow’s benefits to take her up to your $2,000 per month level. CONTENTS One other little bit ofTABLE Social OF Security business: ISSUE 2010.19benefits She’d have to return any Social Security deposited to your bank account for FISHING the month you GONE die -- and any subsequent months.pages In other 1-4 words, if you die on Aug. 15, she’d have to return the Social Music Legend: Security benefit sent on yourLED behalf in September ZEPPELIN (which is the August payment).pages Many 5-6times this won’t be an issue because the Social Security check JAMES BOND isn’t even given once the government knows you’ve pages 7-8 died, or the bank automatically returns the funds to the government if the Social Security check was authorized before the government learned of your death. But if your check falls through one of those cracks, it’s your wife’s job to return it. No matter how the money gets returned, the bad news is that even though you were alive half of the month, the entire month’s payment has to be sent back. The good news is that your wife would be due that widow’s supplement for the entire month of August, even though she was a widow for only half the month.

My husband died several years ago and I received the $255 death benefit. I never received any monthly widow’s benefits because my own Social Security was more than my husband’s rate. Now I’ve learned that when I die, my children won’t get the $255 death benefit. Is this true?

A: Yes, it’s true. A number of years ago, in an

attempt to save a few nickels for the Social Security trust funds, Congress restricted the payment of the death beneﬁt to “a spouse who was living with the deceased when he or she died.” When your husband died, there was a “living with spouse” (you), and that’s why you got the $255 check. But when you die, you will leave behind no spouse, so there is no death beneﬁt due.

Q: In a past column, you said a widow gets

100 percent of her husband’s Social Security. I don’t receive anywhere near that. How do I get the full 100-percent rate?

I usually say a widow can get “up to” 100 percent of her husband’s Social Security benefit. How much she actually receives depends on several factors, primarily her age when she started getting widow’s benefits. If those benefits start before age 66, they are permanently reduced roughly one-half of 1 percent for each month a check is paid before that magic “full Social Security age.” For example, at age 60 -- the earliest that widows can receive benefits -- she’d get about a 70 percent rate. At age 62, it would be about 82 percent.

Q: I am getting widow’s beneﬁts from my

deceased husband’s account. I am due to inherit a substantial amount of money from my sister’s estate. I was told that because the amount is more than $14,000, my Social Security beneﬁts will be suspended when I claim the inheritance. How long will that suspension last?

Your Social Security benefits will not be suspended. The $14,000 limit (it’s actually $14,160) applies only to earned income. In other words: If you were working and earning more than $14,160, and if you were under age 66, you might lose some or all of your widow’s benefits. But the money you’ll get from your sister’s estate is not “earned” income. So, you could inherit a million dollars and you will still be eligible for Social Security benefits. If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM.

Senior Benefits 1/16th page, 26x Feb. 28 - Aug. 1, 2010 ♦ [Vol. 6: Issue #10 - #32] Corrections DUE: 3 p.m., Tuesday ♦ 02/23/10 Q. What fish can perform operations? Q: Who do injured fish go to see for an A. A sturgeon. emergency operation? Q. Where does a fish keep its money? A: A sturgeon A. In a riverbank.

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LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) balanced approach to oflife ANSWER: TheYour rotator cuff is a band made up proves to be helpful this week when the tendons of four back muscles. The tendons wrap someone you care for needs your spiriaround the topmost part of the upper arm bone, the tual comfort, while someone else benehumerus, to keep the bone in the shoulder socket. fits from your tough-love practicality. Tears of the rotator cuff are a(October common 23 problem and SCORPIO to Novemone the principal causes of shoulder pain. Small ARIES (March 21 to April 19)of The ber 21) Once again, you’re likely to be tearstaking can healasked on their own. Larger almost Lamb is usually excited about to keep a secret fortears someone. But • On May 7, 1902, Mount Pele on the surgical correction. All surgical on a new challenge. But ifalways that’s require a do you really want to do so? Be honest French Caribbean island of MarADVERTISING touch of doubt you’re feeling, maybe procedures demand respect. Something always with yourself and PROOF with can your needs tinique begins the deadliest volcanic it’s you telling yourself toFinal go on before you make any such commitgoslow wrong. Most people who have had surgery to TUES., MAR. 30 eruption of the 20th century. The city Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. this until you learn more about it. a rotator ment. correct cuff tear are Number(s) glad theyhad it. By Saint Pierre was buried and 30,000 Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Spelling  Prices of Hours TAURUS (April 20 to most, May I20) SAGITTARIUS (November mean more than 95 percent. I would 22 not to people died when a cloud of gas with a Accepting new commitments when December 21) Taking a more direct hesitate to have this surgery. temperature of more than 3,000 F sent DEAR DR. DONOHUE: beginning to get the batch on approach from the more diplomatic you I’m haven’t yet finished *** an avalanche of boiling ash down the little knobs on my finger thisBetter handjoints. could Ibebelieve a bit rash. ease regrets one you’ve before could make a Dr. to Donohue that he isused unable to answer individual side of the mountain. is arthritis, and I haveupseen this on the newcondition ones untilin you get further difference finally resolving a tooletters, but he will incorporatein them in his column whenever others in the advancedalong stages. can I do withWhat your current lot. possible. Readerslong-held may write him or request anTry order disagreement. it.form of • On May 9, 1926, according to their health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, (May 21 to available June 20) to prevent it from gettingGEMINI worse? -- Anon. CAPRICORN (December 22 to FL Janclaims, polar explorer Richard E. Byrd 32853-6475. 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a terrible blow to our family. We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy.” Friend and former “Designing Women” co-star Annie Potts told People magazine: “Dixie Carter was a goddess. The kind of wife and mother that every mother hopes their daughter will become, and the kind of friend that is absolutely irreplaceable. She loved ﬁercely and was adored in return.” ***

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her breast cancer treatment? Will she be back on TV soon? -- Greta D., via e-mail

Maura’s representative, Christina Papadopolous, said that the 45-year-old actress “has ﬁnished treatment and is doing very well, and is happy to move forward with the next phase of her life.” That next phase happens to be returning to the FX network’s action-drama “Rescue Me,” where she’ll return in 2011 for four episodes as Denis Leary’s love interest during the show’s seventh (and ﬁnal) season. ***

I thought Conan O’Brien was going to be heading to Fox with his late-night talk show, but now I hear he is going to TBS. Is this true? And is he taking over George Lopez’s timeslot? -- Trista W., Seattle

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While the former “Dawson’s Creek” star hasn’t revealed if there are wedding bells in the future for him and girlfriend Kimberly Brook, I do predict plenty of diapers and paciﬁers. James recently revealed via Twitter (the latest go-to forum for celebs to reveal personal, breaking news) that he and Kimberly are expecting their ﬁrst child later this year. Write to Cindy at King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475; or e-mail her at letters@cindyelavsky.com. For more news and extended interviews, visit www.celebrityextraonline.com and twitter. com/Celebrity_Extra. (c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.

Conan recently announced that he will indeed be bringing his latenight-hosting duties to TBS. His show will air at 11 p.m., with George Lopez taking on the midnight timeslot with “Lopez Tonight.” However, make no mistake: There is no animosity in this timeslot switcharoo. George is the Conan O’Brien one who actively courted and pursued Conan to sign with TBS, and he couldn’t be happier that Conan accepted. “I can’t think of anything better than doing my show with Conan as my lead-in,” George said. “It’s the beginning of a new era in late-night comedy.” With a reported eight-ﬁgure deal, as well as allowing Conan to own his own show (which he would not have been able to at Fox), the move to TBS was the most proﬁtable, creativity-wise and monetary-wise. ***

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