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Tidbits crosses many paths in researching and gathering information for your weekly reading enjoyment. This week we’ll look at some familiar crosses and crossings that we all encounter in our daily lives. •The first type of crossing that likely comes

to mind for most is a railroad crossing, since motorists encounter these almost every time they drive. Wherever railroads exist, such crossings are inevitable. These are the intersections where a roadway crosses railroad tracks at-grade -- rather than under or over via a bridge. In the United States, they are referred to as grade crossings, while in Canada and other places they are called “level crossings”.

•As of 2005, there were 147,681 public gradecrossings and 94,583 private crossings in theU.S. Public crossings are maintained by a public authority, while private crossings, not intended for public use, are not. They are for the use of the private owners of the property, usually on farms or industrial complexes.

• Grade crossings in all countries are notoriousfor being accident-prone areas. When vehicles or pedestrians and trains try to occupy the same space at the same time at these intersections, the train wins.

• The good news is that in recent years, theseaccident rates have declined. The U.S.

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•Nightingalewasveryclosetoherfather.Hedidnot have a son and took great pains to educate her.HetaughthertobefluentinLatin,Greek,French,ItalianandGerman,andsawthatshewas well versed in mathematics, history and philosophy. Those in her social class stayed within their own circles and generally held working-class women in low esteem.

• InEnglandin the1800s,nurseswere lookedupon as common laborers and not considered of any great significance to society.With theextensive education her father had provided along with the training in proper etiquette and social skills she had received, he was appalled whenhisdaughterannouncedin1844thatshefelt led to enter into the study of nursing. Her decision also angered her mother and sister, who felt such a foolish venture would discredit the family name. It was considered a rebellion against the expected role of a woman of her status.

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•AturningpointforNightingalecameasaresultof meeting Elizabeth Blackwell at a hospitalinLondon.Blackwellwas thefirstwoman toqualify as a medical doctor in the United States, and had herself overcome great obstacles while earning her medical degree. She urged Nightingale to keep trying to convince her father to support her pursuit of medical studies.

• Finally in 1851, when she was age 31,Nightingale’s father recognized that hisdaughter’s desire to study medicine and help others was much more than a passing phase. He gave his permission and provided the funds she needed to properly pursue her passion.

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DepartmentofTransportationhas reported that crossing accidents between vehicles and trains decreased84percentbetween1972and2009.In2009,therewere1,900collisions,comparedto12,000in1972.

• Much of the improved safety at railroadcrossings has been attributed to the Operation Lifesaver program that was started in Idaho in 1972. The Idaho governor’s office, IdahoPeace Officers and Union Pacific Railroadstarted the program with a six-week public awarenesscampaign.Fatalitiesfell43percentin the inaugural year, and within a decade, the program spread all around the country. CanadaaddedOperationLifesaverin1981.Anationalofficewascreatedin1986forthenon-profitorganizationtosupporttheeffortsofthestates.TheUnitedKingdom,Estonia,MexicoandArgentina also haveOperationLifesaverprograms in place.

• The warning signs at railroad crossings aresimilar worldwide. The “crossbuck” or X sign usually contains the words “railroad crossing” in the United States and “railway crossing” in Canada. The “crossbuck” is also called a “saltire” or Saint Andrew’s cross. SaintAndrewwasadiscipleofJesusChristwhowasmartyred on an X-shaped cross as opposed to a traditional cross. The saltire is used in many

flags, including the flag of Scotland, whereSaintAndrewisthepatronSaint.NovaScotia,Australia,NewZealandandtheU.S.statesofFloridaandAlabamaareotherswiththesaltireontheirflags.

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•Theideafor theRedCrosswasbornin1859when a young Swiss man, Henry Dunant,sawsoldiersinItalyonabattlefieldwoundedand dying and not receiving assistance. He organized volunteer teams of local people tocome to their aid.

• In1863,fivemen fromGeneva,Switzerland,including Dunant, set up the InternationalCommittee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became the International Committee of the Red Cross. This led to the creation of the GenevaConvention,inwhich12governmentsagreed to offer care for the wounded, and paved the way for medical services to be considered “neutral”onthebattlefield.

•TheemblemfortheRedCrosswassetasaredcross on a white background, the inverse of the Swissflag.While thatemblemhaschangedalittle through the years, the Red Cross today is arecognizedsymbolworldwide.

• Clara Barton, founder of the American RedCross, was working inWashington, D.C., in1861whenwoundedCivilWarsoldiersneededhelp. She gathered supplies and distributed them for the soldiers. She also read to them, wrote lettersforthemandprayedwiththem.Bartonwasknownasthe“AngeloftheBattlefield.”

• Barton’sorganizationaleffortsandcommitmentto helping soldiers led to the creation of the AmericanRedCross in1881.Bartonwas60yearsoldatthetimeandledthenewAmericanorganizationfor23years.

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Treasure What America Still Offers Like most Americans, you probably spent Thanksgiving weekend eating turkey once or twice and then sitting stuffed on the couch watching inter-minable football games or dozing off to be roused only when a touchdown was scored. You may have ventured out to do some holiday shopping, getting caught in the crush of people seeking great deals on stuff they may or may not need. Hey, this is not a story with a moral. If that’s how you spent a few days, it was relaxing and fun. If you were the cook (and dishwasher), it was pleas-antly exhausting. And if you have a job with a retail-er, you were certainly too busy to think about global issues. And that brings up a question: What would happen to the world’s economic and political woes and wars if we just didn’t think about them? It’s not an idle question. Thanksgiving is an American holiday. But Canadians have their Thanksgiving holiday in Oc-tober, so they were busy building a pipeline to the West Coast, so they can export the oil that America doesn’t want badly enough to allow them to build a pipeline to our country. In the Middle East, militants killed dozens in Yemen, NATO attacked Pakistan killing 24 soldiers, and the Arab League voted to sanction Syria. The Occupy Wall Street movement moved to London, where protestors set up a tent city in the heart of the financial district. Germany and France are still trying to fix the euro, and European banks

are still scrambling to borrow money in a bond mar-ket that is demanding high interest rates as a huge risk premium. All while we were dozing on the couch. Even at home as the campaign for the Re-publican nomination draws closer to the Iowa pri-mary, the networks were reduced to rehashing the foreign affairs debate from earlier last week. Newt Gingrich remained a strong contender, and no one could stoke a fire on the immigration issue. Presum-ably the candidates and their supporters were also dozing in front of the TV. The only economic issue that could rally in-terest was the extent of the deals being offered on Black Friday, which started on Thursday night. Shop-perTrak predicted a more than 6 percent increase in sales -- based on foot traffic in the stores. But it remains to be seen if those sales will be profitable ones for retailers or just loss leaders that put them in the red for the season. For many consumers, the mania of the shop-ping season will end in the depression of January as the bills come due. But this is the season for thinking of the here and now. This is the fifth holiday season in which we’ve faced economic challenges and uncertain-ty about our financial future. In 2007, we had just seen the market take a sharp drop from its August peak. In 2008, the holiday season began just after the September collapse of Lehman. In 2009 (after the market made its lows around 6700 in March), we were swept into the holidays with a report that the recession had ended in July -- something no one be-lieved. And last year, the holidays came in the midst of ever-rising unemployment numbers. This year, we know we’re mired in slow growth, a stagnant housing market, a lean job mar-ket and a scary stock market. Not to mention an im-minent financial collapse in Europe. But we’re still going shopping. In fact, every year at this time, people hit the malls to spend bil-lions of dollars in just a few weeks. This year, it’s

estimated that we will find more than $11 billion to spend. Gosh, compared to the problems of the rest of the world, things aren’t so bad in America. We still go shopping. We still have a choice of political candidates. We still believe in our system, sort of. And we still have football -- at least for a few more weeks. No wonder the U.S. dollar is so strong. A lot of people around the world want what we have. We should treasure that -- even if we aren’t thinking about the world’s problems. And that’s the Savage Truth. Terry Savage is a registered investment adviser and is on the board of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. She appears week-ly on WMAQ-Channel 5’s 4:30 p.m. newscast, and can be reached at www.terrysavage.com. She is the author of the new book, “The New Savage Number: How Much Money Do You Really Need to Retire?” To find out more about Terry Savage and read her past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.


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2. Make a plan. Your mind is a wonderful thing, but not a good place to keep your holiday shopping list. You need a written plan that starts with the amount of money you have to spend, fol-lowed by your gift list. Be sure to include the ex-penses you have beyond gifts such as entertain-ment, gift wrapping, mailing costs, tickets to events and travel expenses. The amount you have to spend needs to cover all of your intended expens-es.

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are great places to find stationery items, memo books, calendars, pens and pencils. Create a fun craft kit for a child, filling it with inexpensive finds in these stores. Hardware and home-improvement stores are your best bet for all kinds of gadgets and wid-gets. For the home chef, try an 18-inch length of a two-inch wooden dowel for a professional style rolling pin; a large unglazed terra cotta tile for a piz-za/baking stone; or a new paintbrush for a pastry brush. A collection of screws, cup hooks and small tools can all be packed in a toolbox for the home-owner. Other alternative shopping locations to con-sider: military surplus outlet, marine supply store, garden center, health food store and restaurant supply store.

4. Come back later. If you’re having trouble resisting that scarf or $1,500 TV (neither of which happen to be on your list), get out of the store FAST! If you find yourself digging for your plastic because you’ve run out of cash -- but feel guilty that you’ve not spent enough or purchased the right gifts -- make your way to the nearest store exit. If you still feel that way 24 hours later, you can always go back. Once you’ve had time to cool off and come to your senses, my guess is you won’t!

Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com and author of 19 books, including her January 2012 re-lease, “7 Money Rules for Life.” You can email her at [email protected], or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2135, Paramount, CA 90723. To find out more about Mary Hunt and read her past columns, please visit the Cre-ators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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A: I’ll discuss your luck-versus-laziness ar-gument in a minute. But I think you’re wrong about your generational generalizations. Statistics show that it’s older Americans, not young people, who rely way too much on the government for their livelihood. These are some of the surprising statistics I pointed out in that prior column: For about 65 per-cent of all senior citizens, their Social Security check represents fully one-half of their total income. For one-third of older Americans, their Social Security check makes up 90 percent of their monthly income. And sadly, for 20 percent of older Americans, their Social Security check is the only income they have. So I’m afraid that many of your generation -- which, by the way, is also my generation (I’m a gee-zer myself) -- are not the self-reliant, pull-ourselves-up-by-the-bootstraps class of people we like to think we are. As the studies show, many of us are relying way too much on Social Security (i.e., the govern-ment) to take care of us. But I should point out that it tends to be the more elderly seniors, those currently 70 and older, who depend more heavily on Social Se-curity for their primary income. And I’m not so sure you can entirely blame the government for that. I can show you government brochures from the very earliest days of Social Se-curity that tell people not to rely on the government and Social Security for all of their income. These bro-chures talked about a “three-legged stool” for retire-ment. Social Security was supposed to be one leg. Savings and investments were supposed to make up the second leg. And a pension from your employer was supposed to be the third leg. The first leg, Social Security, has always and will always be there. For a variety of reasons, Americans have never done a very good job with the second leg (savings). And we all know that Ameri-can business has dropped the ball on the third leg (pensions). Pensions are now dinosaurs, replaced, if they are replaced at all, with 401(k) plans, which can really work out for some people but can be a bust for

others. So who’s to blame if the older seniors didn’t get the message and relied too much on the govern-ment to take care of them? Were they lazy or just unlucky? Obviously, some people simply didn’t plan well. But many times, it was circumstances beyond their control that drove them towards poverty. My own parents didn’t save very much for their retirement. But when I discussed this with my then-widowed mother shortly after I started working for the Social Security Administration, she told me that even though both she and my dad were work-ing (both at low-paying jobs that offered no pension), there was simply no money left at the end of each month after paying the rent and utility bills and buy-ing groceries to feed four children. Putting money aside for retirement was just a pipe dream for my parents -- and many like them. And there are hundreds of other examples of circumstances that caused people to be unlucky. For example, a large number of those very poor, older senior citizens are women whose husbands wouldn’t allow them to work. Then, as they approached what was supposed to be their golden years, their hus-bands dumped them to marry some younger wom-an. Suddenly, the wife who spent a lifetime putting food on this bum’s table, washing his underwear and raising his kids, was left with a meager divorced wife’s pension from Social Security. I don’t think you would call her lazy. The good news in this story is that every study I’ve ever seen shows that for about the past 10 to 15 years or so, more and more people have gotten serious about financial planning for their retirement years. That’s why so many people retiring today have something in those other two legs of the three-legged stool to help support them and their Social Security in retirement. So I think you’re wrong to criticize younger people. They’re more educated about Social Security than we were, and they do not expect to live off of their Social Security in retirement.

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ANSWER: Seborrheic (SEB-uh-REE-ik) keratoses are brown, warty-looking spots on the back, chest, arms, legs and sometimes the face. They are not cancers and don’t become cancers. There may be only a few, but there can be hundreds of them. Their cause is a mystery, but they appear at older ages, so aging is somehow involved. A doc-tor can scrape them off or freeze them. They might come back, but they can be retreated if they do. The tendency to develop them is inherited. *** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Years ago, after the birth of my son, the doctor said I had milk leg. It was a very painful ordeal that eventually went away. Are you familiar with this, and do

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A: It is all about a change of attitude! The trick is to learn how to smile more and not allow yourselves to dwell on the “downers.” First and foremost, remember this: Happi-ness and contentment are not determined by the cir-cumstances in our lives; it is determined by how we react to those circumstances. How we react is deter-mined by our attitude -- and our attitudes are chosen. So it all comes back to you. We all have our share of aches, pains, bur-dens and woes -- and you’re no exception. If you remain focused on those negative things and allow them to keep eating at you by harboring feelings of hurt, self pity or anger, you are giving those things control over your behavior and your whole outlook on life. This is at the very core of every bad attitude. It’s very simple: The way you choose to think is the way you are. It is also the way others perceive you. A person’s attitude effects everyone around them, whether good or bad. People are either drawn toward you by your friendly cheerfulness, or repelled by your words and mannerisms. My recommendation is for you to keep up your relationship with this happy couple. They are setting a good attitude example to follow, and their cheerful demeanor is bound to rub off on you! * * *

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● On Dec. 18, 1620, the Mayflower docks at what today is Plymouth, Mass., and its passengers disembarked to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony. The winter of 1620-1621 was brutal, and by spring, only 52 of the original 102 Mayflower passen-gers were still alive.

● On Dec. 16, 1773, in Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773. The value of the tea was more than $700,000 in today’s currency.

● On Dec. 14, 1909, workers place the last of the 3.2 million 10-pound bricks that pave the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana. Since then, all but a 1-yard-wide strip at the start-finish line has been buried under asphalt. Kissing those bricks after a successful race remains a tradition among Indy drivers.

● On Dec. 13, 1916, a powerful ava-lanche kills hundreds of Austrian soldiers in barracks near Italy’s Mount Marmolada. Over a period of several weeks, avalanches killed an estimated 10,000 Austrian and Ital-ian soldiers.

● On Dec. 17, 1961, a fire at a filled-to-capacity circus in Brazil kills more than 300 people and severely burns 500 more. The cause of the fire was never conclusively de-termined, but it may have been the result of sparks from a train passing nearby.

● On Dec. 15, 1973, Jean Paul Getty III, the grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, five months after his kidnapping by an Italian gang. Getty had initially refused to pay his 16-year-old grandson’s $17 million ransom, but finally agreed after the boy’s severed right ear was sent to a newspaper in Rome.

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A: Your cake stand is an example of early American, pattern glass. Campbell, Jones and Co. made your canary yellow, cake stand. They were founded in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1886. The pattern is “Rose Sprig” and was produced in canary yellow, clear, blue and amber. A plethora of table pieces were made that included cake stands, spooners, pitchers, bowls, punch bowls, tumblers, creamers, sugar bowls and celery holders. In the 1960s, gob-lets and salt dips were reproduced and can be rec-ognized by the inferior quality of color, detail and workmanship. Your circa 1886 cake stand would fetch $75 to $125 in an antiques shop.

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Q: I have a silver charm bracelet that was given to me in 1944. My mother gave me the first charm, and I have a total of seven. All of the charms are engraved with the names of family and friends. Marked on the backside of each charm are the words “Coro Sterling Sil-ver.” Does my bracelet have any value?

A: The Cohen Xerger Co., founded in 1900, in New York City, made your bracelet. They also had a factory in Providence, R.I. In 1943, the company changed its name to Coro. They used the first two letters of Cohn and Rosenberger. Coro Craft Sterling was produced from 1943 to 1944, and it was one of their most expensive lines. The company was sold to Richton Intl. in 1970 and it eventually went bankrupt. Coro costume jewelry is very collectible.

Your bracelet would probably be worth $75 to $125. Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inqui-ries, she cannot answer individual letters. To find out more about Anne McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndi-cate website at www.creators.comCOPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM

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The idea of Go Figure is toarrive at the figures given atthe bottom and right-handcolumns of the diagram by fol-lowing the arithmetic signs inthe order they are given (thatis, from left to right and top tobottom). Use only the numbersbelow the diagram to completeits blank squares and use eachof the nine numbers only once.


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1. GEOGRAPHY: What is the third longest river system in the world?

2. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is another name for totipalmate feet?

3. MUSIC: Who is the vocalist for the pop band “Blondie”?

4. U.S. STATES: What state’s motto is, “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you”?

5. BUSINESS: What is the currency of South Africa?

6. LITERATURE: What was the first land Gulliver encountered in the satiri-cal novel “Gulliver’s Travels”?

7. TELEVISION: How many years was the Western drama “Gunsmoke” on the air?

8. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was Dwight Eisenhower’s vice president?

9. SCIENCE: What does beta caro-tene add to food?

10. MOVIES: What animated film featured the theme song “Circle of Life”?

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2. When was the last time a pitcher captured the A.L. Cy Young Award with 16 or fewer wins in a season before Zack Greinke in 2009?

3. In 2010, Baltimore’s Anquan Boldin became the fastest NFL receiver to 600 career receptions (98 games). Who had been the fastest?

4. When was the last time the Atlan-tic 10 Conference had five teams make the NCAA Tournament in men’s basketball?

5. Name the person who was the first general manager of both the Philadelphia Flyers (1967) and the Vancouver Canucks (1970).

6. In 2011, Uruguay won the men’s soccer COPA America for a record 15th time. What country had been tied with Uruguay at 14?

7. In 1988, two boxers, within three days of one another, became the first two to win five world titles in five dif-ferent weight divisions. Name them.

Answers1. Pete Schourek (18) and John

Smiley (12) in 1995; Bronson Arroyo (17) and Johnny Cueto (12) in 2010.

2. Kansas City’s David Cone was 16-5 when he won the A.L. Cy Young Award in the shortened 1994 season.

3. The Colts’ Marvin Harrison accomplished it in 102 games.

4. It was 1998 (George Washington, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Tem-ple and Xavier).

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1. How many No. 1 U.S. hits did The Doors have?

2. Name the two main groups that Eric Burdon was in.

3. Remember when the group Fear was on “Saturday Night Live” in 1981? What happened?

4. In what year was the term “Bea-tlemania” first used?

5. Which group had hits with “Jive Talkin’” and “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”?

6. What do Buddy Holly, Pete Town-shend, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton have in common?

Answers1. Two. “Light My Fire” in 1967, and

“Hello, I Love You” in 1968. Most of their singles didn’t crack the Top Ten.

2. The Animals and War. He had a shorter stint with the “Eric Burdon/Brian Auger Band.”

3. Punk group Fear played offensive songs with obscene language, which necessitated a fast cut of the audio, and their dancers trashed the set, forc-ing producers to zip to commercial.

4. 1963, in the U.K. The term caught on is the U.S. in 1964 when the Bea-tles went on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

5. The Bee Gees, in 1975 and 1971, respectively.

6. They all were fans of the Fender Stratocaster guitar. Hendrix’s guitar, which he once set on fire onstage, went for $497,500 at auction.


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