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HOCKEY FACTS (from page one) • While the modern game was developed in Canada, ice hockey made it to the USA and was first played there in 1893. By the beginning of the 20th century, the sport had spread to England and other parts of Europe and now is very popular in North America and Eastern Europe. • The National Hockey League is considered the most important Ice Hockey league in the world and is made up of teams from the United States and Canada. For many years almost all NHL players were Canadians. • In 1917, the NHL began with the following “Original Six” teams: Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. Through a sequence of team expansions, reductions and relocations, the league currently consists of 30 teams, 24 based in the United States and six in Canada. • The team that wins the NHL championship wins the Stanley Cup trophy. • The first Olympic Games to include ice hockey for men took place in Antwerp, Belgium in 1920; it was the Summer Games. However, the first Olympic Winter Games took place in 1924 in Chamonix, France, and also included hockey. Women’s hockey was added to the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, in 1998. • Pucks weren’t always the same. Now, a puck must meet guidelines set forth by the NHL for weight and dimensions. In 1940, Hockey Hall of Famer Art Ross came up with the idea of having all pucks meet certain standards. Pucks have remained the same since then, with each

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She waited for them to sit down, began. “Question One: andinthen their franchise’s first win over the New York being 3 inches (8 centimeters) in diameter and was thehecar tireinon puck up off theflat?” picked 1979, Islanders an inch (3 centimeters) high. The puck must Which

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the ice as the goaltender tried to return it to the linesman for a face-off. Pierce kissed the puck and was given a two-minute penalty for delay of game.

• When a hockey player scores three goals in one game, it is called a “hat trick.” So who came up with the term? Some think it derives from the habit of a Toronto haberdasher presenting a new hat to any three-goal scorer in Maple Leaf by Kara Kovalchik & Sandy Wood Gardens. Others say the term hat trick may have originated with the Biltmore Hat Company, which sponsored the Guelph Biltmores of the In the 1979-80 season, at age 19, Wayne Gretzky proper theLeague. became the youngest hockey player ever to score 1. What’s Still another theory is Ontario Hockey 50 or more goals and 100 or more points in a seaPROOF ADVERTISING and refers also a cricket this: “Hat trick” is the forterm, name scientific son, and the youngest player to be voted Most �� Valuable Player. Turn to page 15 HOCKEY FACTS: Final Changes DUE:

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• Don Koharski was the first Canadian referee ever requested by the Soviets in an international Canada-U.S.S.R. match, Game One of the 1987 Canada Cup Final. Before that, there were numerous controversies concerning Russians and their tactics surrounding officiating. • The first goaltender to regularly wear a facemask during a game was Montreal’s Jacques Plante. A shot busted his nose in 1959. The injury required seven stitches, and he always wore one after that. He was made fun of at first, but now every goaltender wears a mask. • Before 1914, referees used to place the puck on the ice between the players’ sticks for faceoffs. This led to many cuts, bruises and even broken hands for the referees. Starting in 1914, the referees were allowed to drop the puck between the players’ sticks. • The best ice for professional hockey is approximately 3/4 of an inch (2 centimeters) thick and is held at 16° Fahrenheit (-9° Celsius) for proper hardness. The thicker the sheet of ice becomes, the softer and “slower” it is. Commercial ice shows often perform on warmer, slower ice. • Randy Pierce of the Colorado Rockies was so thrilled with his goal at 19:27 of the third period

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• In October 1979, the group released their second album “Reggatta de Blanc,” which was a major seller throughout Europe. The album topped the British charts for four weeks and spawned the UK number-one singles “Message in a Bottle” and “Walking on the Moon.” The instrumental title track won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

In July of that same year, a tense, short-lived reunion in the studio produced only subdued re-recordings of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” and “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.”

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• Xyst is an unusual word that refers to the entryway of an ancient Greek gymnasium where the athletes exercised during the winter months.

• Her name was Xanthippe, and she was the wife of Greek philosopher Socrates and bore him three sons. You have to wonder what her temperament was like, since the word xanthippe is now a term for a scolding shrew. Unusual synonyms are termagant and virago, all meaning a nagging woman.

• Everyone is afraid of something, but those individuals with the rather odd fear of unfamiliar accommodations are called xenodochiophobics. Similarly, the word xenial is a term that refers to anything having to do with hospitality.

• Xanthin and xanthein are very close in spelling and have related meanings. Xanthin is the yellow nonwater-soluble coloring matter present in flowers, while xanthein, the same yellow coloring, is water-soluble. The “xan” root is present in many words related to the color yellow. That beautiful yellow color of autumn leaves comes from the presence of xanthophyll, a pigment found in the leaves. Some butterflies have yellow wings due to the pigment xanthopterin. If your girlfriend has blonde hair and a pale complexion, she is scientifically known as a xanthochroid. If you suffer from xanthoma, you have a disease that plagues you with yellowish patches on your skin. • A different type of skin ailment also begins with “X” — xeroderma, which creates extreme skin dryness. Likewise, if a living thing is xerophilous, it is suited for a dry climate. Making copies of letters, photographs, manuscripts, etc. through a dry printing process

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1. The quilting tradition began in America in what A: century? I am happy 2. A quilt is often described as a textile to report that Name TNT’sthe three layers that sandwich. hit comedy starring comprise a quilt.

Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula has been renewed for a second season, which will premiere Nov. 29. You can relive the ﬁrst season soon, as Season One will make its DVD debut Nov. 2. The two-disc DVD set will include all 10markets episodesand yard sales are Flea from the ﬁrst season. great places to look forRay oldRomano quilts Bonus features include or quilt blocks. Startgag byreel looking commentary, deleted scenes, and behindthe-scenes footage.bags or boxes. Fragile through ***

pieces can be matted and framed Q: Iunder just glass foundinout that actors the same way asBradley Whitford and Jane Kaczmarek have divorced. a sampler or other hand-worked How are they doing, and how do they make it textiles. work with their children? -- Sasha F., Ontario,

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I spoke with Jane recently while she was promoting her Lifetime movie “Reviving Ophelia” (which I highly recommend), and she told me how she and Brad are able to make it work since getting divorced in 2009: “Brad and I have a really wonderful relationship. The marriage couldn’t work anymore, but I think that we still have an incredible fondness and love for each other that we really want our kids to see as we become 10/17: Mulliganfriends. Day We just think of it as a family that lives in two different houses.” 10/18: National Chocolate Cupcake Day *** 10/19: Evaluate Your Life Day 10/21: Credit Day Stuart I wasGet so Smart sad to About read that Gloria Dayis one of my all-time had 10/22: passed Caps away. Locks “Titanic” 10/23: iPod Day favorite movies, and Gloria did a wonderful job in it. What other ﬁlms has this beautiful actress been in? -- Phyllis S., via e-mail

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Recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine, two excellent commentaries discussed the concerns of “Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing.” First, authors point out that there is no knowledge currently available on how to interpret many of these results. For example, if a young man is found to have a gene increasing the risk of prostate cancer, should he have more examinations and tests or even a biopsy? There is no answer to these questions, especially because the nature of prostate cancer suggests that knowledge of future risk may be of limited value -- if anything, it may prove more harmful than beneﬁcial as patients grapple with the emotional turmoil of potentially developing a serious illness. There is also concern that the suggestion of increased risk of an illness may affect the ability to obtain employment or receive health insurance. Genetic testing offers incredible beneﬁts for many patients but until further information is known, it’s best to use this technology under the careful supervision of a trusted physician. Your primary care physician can help you assess any future risk of illness and determine the appropriate path for prevention.

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might have been due. Before the GPO law went into effect, teachers were among the few working people in this country who could get their own retirement pension AND a dependent’s benefit from Social Security. And the GPO law actually gives teachers a bit of a break. Social Security retirement pensions offset spousal benefits dollar for dollar. But a teacher’s retirement pension causes only a three-for-two offset. In other words, for each $3 you receive in a teacher’s pension, you lose only $2 from Social Security spousal benefits. To help illustrate the law, I’d like you to meet Bob and Carol -- and their neighbors Ted and Alice. They live in a nice suburb of Dallas. Their stories explain why the pension offset is fair. Bob and Carol both worked all their lives. And they worked at jobs that were covered by Social Security. In other words, Social Security taxes were deducted from both their paychecks. Neighbor Ted also worked at a job covered by Social Security. But his wife, Alice, was a teacher in Dallas. Texas teachers pay into a state teachers’ retirement system, but they do not pay into Social Security. Bob retired and is getting $1,200 per month in Social Security retirement benefits. Carol actually made a little more than Bob most of her life, so she’s getting a Social Security retirement pension of about $1,500 per month. Carol can’t get (and frankly, doesn’t expect) any wife’s benefits on Bob’s record because her own Social Security benefit precludes any spousal payments. In other words, Carol’s own retirement benefit offsets any wife’s benefits she might have been due on her husband’s record. And for that matter, Bob can’t get a husband’s benefit on Carol’s record because his own retirement benefit would offset it. Across the street, Ted is receiving roughly the same Social Security benefit as Bob, about $1,200 per month. His wife, Alice, is getting a $3,000 monthly Texas teacher’s pension. Before the pension offset law was in place, Alice would have been eligible for a $600 dependent wife’s benefit from Social Security in addition to her teacher’s pension. But now, the government pension offset law prevents that from happening. Alice thinks she and other teachers are being singled out for Social Security penalties. What she doesn’t understand is the law treats her the same way her neighbor Carol has always been treated. Again, it says that neither woman will get a dependent wife’s benefit from Social Security because she is getting her own retirement pension. For years, teachers and their unions have been “fighting to change this unjust law.” And every year, they find some pandering politician who needs a few votes from educators to introduce a bill to eliminate the government pension offset. And every year, the bill goes down to defeat because, as Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice have shown you, the law is eminently fair. Having said that, I will admit there is a selfish side of me that hopes these fighting mad teachers prevail. Because you see, I am also impacted by the offset. I get a civil service retirement pension that offsets any husband’s benefits I might potentially be due on my wife’s Social Security record. That’s the selfish side of me. But the practical side of me wonders why in the world I should be able to get my

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comfortable civil service retirement pension AND a dependent’s Social Security beneﬁt -- especially when the law prevents more than 90 percent of the population from doing the same. To learn more about the government pension offset, and a related law called the windfall elimination provision, send an e-mail to thomas. margenau@comcast.net and ask for a free copy of my pension offset fact sheet. 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.

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The scammers who want to separate us from our money never sleep. And they’ve gotten more creative than ever. ADVERTISING PROOF Scammers are targeting those who make MAY 31 Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. purchases on Amazon.com and are raking in Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P.O. Box Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours millions of dollars. 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, They send out a mass e-mail, complete with she cannot answer individual letters. To ﬁnd out more about a duplicate of the Amazon logo, with a thanks for Anne McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate the most recent purchase. A variation is to send an writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at e-mail saying that the Amazon.com account has www.creators.com. Victoria’s Attic been compromised. The purchaser is asked to click I have enclosed a photo of a metal music 1/16th page, 4C, 13x rate a link, which either downloads a virus or brings COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM box that I recently inherited from my mother- June 6, 2010 up a webpage that asks for login and credit-card in-law. She was born in 1919 and her mother information. was born around 1889. I am not sure to whom Since so many people buy from Amazon.com, �� it originally belonged, so I don’t know its age. the scammers actually are hitting large numbers of It measures 5 inches in diameter, and when purchasers. With personal information in hand, they the lid is removed, it plays a tune that I don’t go on a spending spree. recognize. On the lid, there’s a medallion with And here is another new theft method to watch the images of people in old-fashioned clothes. • American Antique out for: Hotels are notorious for lack of security in What can you tell me about my music box Browse hundreds of Furniture Multiple their computers, and scammers are having a field quality items from and its value? • Roseville & CaliDealers! fornia Pottery day with it. It’s thought that hotel computers are the reputible dealers in our • Mid-Century Modern No. 1 location for credit-card scammers to attack. Your music box is brushed metal. It was Furniture spacious 5,000 sq. ft. showroom. And it’s not just the mom-and-pop motels -- the actually a powder box and had a powder puff when • Vintage Jewelry    major chains are getting hit too. There’s not much opened. They were popular dresser accessories in • Advertising Collectibles that can be done, except to check your credit-card the 1940s. • Large Art Collection statements the minute you get them. Antiques & Collectibles Your circa 1940 music box would probably be There’s a movement afoot to have credit-card worth $25 to $35. 67-777 Palm Canyon Dr., #9 • Cathedral City (Between Lumpy’s & Innovative Flooring. Across from Del Taco) holders check their purchases and balances on (760) 328-7999 a daily basis to stop the frauds faster. However,

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This mark is on the bottom of my clear glass bowl. My mother received it around 1938 and it’s still in perfect condition. Decorated with round bubble shapes, she told me the pattern is called “Provincial.” The diameter is 13 inches. Anything you can tell me about the mark, vintage and value of my bowl will be appreciated.

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