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• As high school and college sports grew in popularity, schools used mascots to distinguish and set apart their team on the field. In the 1800s, mascots were actually live animals. Professional sports teams didn’t begin using mascots until the 1960s. The New York Mets were the first team to debut a mascot, Mr. Met, a man with a giant baseball for a head, who made his debut in 1962 at the Polo Grounds, the Mets’ stadium at the time. The Mets’ farm team, the Brooklyn Cyclones, have their own mascot, Sandy the Seagull. • The San Diego Chicken made his debut in 1974, but not at a Padres game. The chicken first made appearances at the San Diego Zoo, concerts, and other sporting events before first performing at the Padres stadium in 1977. A 20-year-old college Mascots: Turn to page 3

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Mascots: (from page one) student named Ted Giannoulas first donned the suit at the Zoo for $2 an hour, and is still playing the part. This fowl character

doesn’t limit his appearances to Padres games, but works independently around the world, having made more than 17,000 appearances, with 8,500 of them at sporting events in 917 different arenas in all 50 states, four continents, and eight countries. Giannoulas has worn out more than 100 chicken suits.

as Joe Juranitch, who has played the part for 21 years, has now demanded a major increase in pay for his services, from $1,500 per game to a hefty $20,000 for each event. • NFL’s Tennessee Titans chose their state animal as the mascot of their team. T-Rac is a raccoon who dresses in Titan garb and has frequently zip-lined into Nashville’s Nissan Stadium to cheer on the team. • Four NFL teams have no mascot – the New York Giants, the New York Jets, Oakland Raiders, and the Green Bay Packers, although thousands of Packers fans don cheeseheads for their team’s games. The most recent team to add a mascot was the St. Louis Rams, who added “Rampage” in 2010. Rampage will be on the move back to Los Angeles for the 2016 season.

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I have been married three times. All three of my husbands are dead. I divorced my first husband when I was 38. He died several years ago. I was married to my second husband for 15 years. He died when I was 62, and I am getting divorced widow’s benefits from him. I married my third husband when I was 66, and he died several months ago. I called Social Security to see if I could get benefits from my third husband. The call screener said no without any explanation. When I asked about my first husband, she said that marriage was too long ago so I don’t qualify. I am confused because I have a neighbor who told me she is getting widow’s benefits from both of her ex-husbands. So why can’t I?

married to all three women for more than 10 years. If I understand Social Security rules correctly, when Henr y dies, all three of his ex-wives could get Social Security benefits on his record, right? No wonder the system is going broke!

from your second husband’s record. So my hunch is that his Social Security account is the most generous. But I am a little puzzled by what you allege the Social Security representative told you over the phone. There is no law that says a marriage from a long time in the past disqualifies you for Social Security benefits. So if you were married to your first husband for more than 10 years, then you are potentially due divorced widow’s benefits from his Social Security account. But again, only if it would pay a higher rate than what you are currently getting from husband number two. Also, you said you were given no explanation for why you were not due benefits from husband number three. Again, if his Social Security benefit is higher than number one’s or number two’s benefit, then you should get benefits from his record. I suggest you pay a visit to your local Social Security office where you can sit down with a representative in person. He or she can look up the records of all three of your ex-husbands and show you which husband has the highest Social Security benefit rate. As I said before, my educated guess is that it is husband number two. But you deserve a better explanation than the one you got over the phone. For those readers who are wondering why this woman was getting widow’s benefits from husband number two while she was married to husband number three, please read the next question and answer.

Well, that scenario -- three women collecting benefits from one man’s Social Security account -- is technically possible, but highly unlikely. In the real world, one or more of those ex-wives probably would have remarried. And assuming those remarriages took place before they were 60 years old, that means they would no longer be due any of Henry’s Social Security benefits. Also, in the real world, it is very likely that one or more of Henry’s wives would have worked and earned her own Social Security benefit. And those benefits would be paid first before they could collect anything from poor old Henry’s Social Security record. In my 40-plus years of working on Social Security cases, I only saw one record where there were three women collecting benefits off of one guy’s Social Security account. In fact, it’s really not all that common to find records with two wives or widows getting benefits from one Social Security account. I know from experience that people like to pin the blame for Social Security financial woes on suspected abuses of the system. Allegations of overly generous spousal benefits, too lenient disability rules and supposed excess payments to the minor children of retirees are frequent targets. As I’ve explained a hundred times in this column, there really is only one major cause for Social Security’s long range shortages: aging baby boomers. There are just so darn many of us. There are about 10,000 old geezers filing for Social Security retirement benefits every day, and thousand more with creaking timeworn bodies signing up for disability benefits. ***

I am 72 years old and getting widow’s benefits from my husband of 45 years, who died two years ago. I’ve met a wonderful man, and we’d like to share our remaining years together. But a friend told me that if we get married, I would lose my widow’s benefits. Is this true?

It was true about 40 years ago. But not today. Original Social Security rules said that if a If you have a Social Security question, Tom woman was married to husband number two, she Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.marcould not get widow’s benefits from husband numgenau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Marber one’s Social Security account. genau and to read past columns and see features from But there were just too many news reports other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit about older couples “living in sin” because a formal the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. marriage would cause the elderly bride to lose her COPYRIGHT 2016 CREATORS.COM widow’s benefits. That got members of Congress PROOF all embarrassed, and ADVERTISING they couldn’t act quickly enough to change the law. That means for about TUES., APRIL 26 Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours the past four decades or so, the rules have said that if a woman Contact remarries after the age of 60, she can your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Please carefully. Double Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours continue to review get widow’s benefits from check: the firsthusOur Student Clinic is Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 band. open to the public. Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. $

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I’m afraid your neighbor is either lying to you or she is confused about what she is getting from Social Security. No one can get benefits from two (or more) husband’s Social Security accounts -- at least, not all at the same time. If you have been married more than once and if you are potentially due spousal benefits from more than one husband’s Social Security, you don’t get them all. You can only be paid off the record of the husband who has the highest benefit rate. You said you are getting widow’s benefits

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I tried over-the-counter treatments, which did not help. I read on the Internet that this is a common side effect. I’m concerned and don’t know what to do to get relief. Do you have any suggestions? -- E.B. ANSWER: I also have read in online forums about diarrhea lasting for months after oral terbinafine, a powerful antifungal agent that can be used as a cream. However, the published reports state that the diarrhea, which isn’t uncommon, usually goes away by itself pretty quickly.

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General advice for acute diarrhea (that is, lasting less than two weeks) includes drinking plenty of fluids with some salt and sugar, not eating at all for the first 24 hours and then only modest amounts of bland foods, such as rice, potatoes, bananas and crackers. The over-the-counter drug loperamide usually is safe. If you are having more than six bowel movements a day on this regimen after two days, it’s time to call your doctor again. Oral terbinafine rarely causes serious liver damage. Although it’s not life-threatening, it can cause taste disturbances, which can become permanent. I recommend thinking twice before taking oral terbinafine. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2016 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

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