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April

pages 2-7 ..................Opinion
pages 8, 9........................Weird News
pages 22, 23...............Health
page 20...............Social Security & You
pages 27...........Light for the Journey
He Is Risen!!
May The Clouds Never Burst &
The Son Always Find You!
pages 12,13,14,30.......Life Fest 2012
page 10.........SRDA Menu
pages 28, 29.............Finances
page 26..........Fremont/Salida Menu
pages 16, 17...............Travel
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APRIL, 2012 Vol. 30: No. 9 Established Aug., 1982 357 Consecutive Months!
Choosing A Personal Rep Of Your Estate
Legal Lines:
Choosing a Personal
Representative of
Your Estate
This is a column the Colorado Bar Association provides as a
public service.
Question: How do I choose the personal representative of my estate?
Answer: A personal representative,
also sometimes
called an “executor,” is the
person in charge
of administering your estate
when you die. In order to name
someone to be your personal representative, you must execute a valid
will or written statement naming a
personal representative. If you die
without a will, Colorado law states
who has priority to serve as your
personal representative. It is important to know that
even if you name someone or someone has priority to be the personal
representative of your estate, they
may not be available or willing to
take on the job, or the probate court
may override your decision or a person’s priority for appointment if the
court finds that the person to be unfit
to serve as the personal representative. A personal representative is
a fiduciary, meaning that he or she is
held to a very high standard of care
when
a d ministering
t h e
estate
and is expected to act in the best
interests of all of the interested parties in the probate case. A personal
representative will likely have to
collect, value, preserve, and then
distribute assets, and will be responsible for taking care of your final
tax issues. Thus, it is important to
choose someone who is honest, is
comfortable being a leader, is reasonably good at managing property,
and that can understand and make fi-
nancial decisions that are in the best
interests of the estate’s beneficiaries. Many people choose a family member as their personal representative, but you may also name
a professional fiduciary, trustee, or
other trusted advisor. Whether a
family member or a professional, a
personal representative is entitled to
reasonable compensation, has specific duties to the beneficiaries of
the estate, and may or may not be
supervised by the probate court. The Colorado Bar Association welcomes your questions on
subjects of general interest. This
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Salute to Seniors
Celebrates the Maiden
Voyage of the Titanic
with Molly Brown’s
Great Granddaughter
Denver, CO. First class passenger with ticket number 17613 belonged to Margaret “Molly” Brown,
age 44 when she boarded the maiden
voyage of the RMS Titanic as it sailed
from Cherbourg, France on April 10,
1912 on its’ way to New York. With
more than 2200 people on board –
1,316 passengers and about 900 crew
members, the RMS Titanic collided
with an iceberg during her maiden
voyage on April 15 just three hours
after striking an iceberg at 11:40 pm. Molly Brown’s great-granddaughter, Helen Benziger McKinney
will appear in person to share first
hand impressions and stories with
“Tea and Memories of the Titanic”
at the 23rd Annual Salute to Seniors
on May 11, 2012 at the Colorado
Convention Center sponsored by the
Colorado Gerontological Society. She
will also do a “meet and greet” in the
Café Parisian later in the day.
The Titanic was the largest
ship afloat with some of the most luxurious amenities such as an on-board
gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent
cabins. The ship featured a powerful
wireless telegraph for use by the passengers. Another feature was watertight compartments and remotely
activated doors, but the ship only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people. Margaret “Molly” Brown,
Colorado’s own American socialite,
philanthropist, and activist became
famous as she helped others board the
lifeboats, but was finally convinced to
leave the ship in Lifeboat No.6. She
became a heroine for efforts to take
an oar herself and trying to go back
to search for more survivors, which
earned her the title “The Unsinkable
Molly Brown”. The Titanic Day will feature
the theatre group, Laughter as Wellness sponsored by Kaiser Permanente,
free food samples by Albertsons, scores
of theme music, swing dancing, and
“Ballroom Dancing with the Stars” in
the Upper Deck Dining Room.
A museum exhibition of artifacts from the Molly Brown House
Museum will be featured in the State
Room. Small memoirs from the gift
store will be on sale.
Living history performers
from the Molly
Brown Summer
House invite you
hear more about
the historic second
home of Molly
Brown, the Avoca
Lodge
enjoyed
by Molly Brown
and her husband
JJ. The story is
preserved by five
generations of the
Robert Fehlmann family who have
labored to preserve this historic home
in Lakewood Colorado.
Despite all of the class and
luxury of the Titanic, those of Irish
and Italian descent did not enjoy the
same luxuries. The Lower Deck Dining Room will feature music of their
own - Irish singers, rebel songs, bag
pipers, and dances. Enjoy Colorado’s largest senior resource fair and experience the
feeling of the Titanic as you enter the
Upper Deck. Dress in Edwardian attire and win prizes, join the fun and
gaze at the grand staircase in the lobby.
Before you leave, check the
Passenger lists to see if you are a “survivor” at the Colorado Gerontologi-
swer questions
of
interest to
members
of the public for their
general information.
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members – almost three-quarters of all attorneys in the state – founded in 1897. The
bar provides opportunities for continuing
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likewise works to secure the efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation and perpetuate the
history of the profession and the memory
of its members. For more information, visit
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Just Another Day At The Races
by James R. Grasso, Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
2012 Senior Citizen Of The Year
This year’s Senior Citizen of the Year who will presented at the
Pueblo Seniors’ Life Festival at the Sangre De Cristo Arts and Conference
Center in Pueblo at 11:00am on Friday, April 27, 2012. is Edward A. Rizer.
For more information on Mr. Rizer see page 13.
Senior Life Festival 2012
Great news everyone!!!!! The 15th annual Senior Life Festival
has a new home this year!!!! The Sangre De Cristo Arts and Conference
Center!!!!!! We are very excited about our move and hope all of you will
join us to Celebrate our annual tribute to Older Americans Month. Don’t
forget the date!!!! April 27, 2012. For info please call 719-634-2343.
Thanks, Kathilee Champlin for shepherding this wonderful event since its
inception fifteen years ago. You’ve certainly made a difference.
Observations From The Cave
“Amen, amen, I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes
him who sent me, has life everlasting, and does not come to judgement, but
has passed from death to life.” John 5: 24
Man, it doesn’t get anymore succinct than that!
I wish that BHO would run on his record. The first two years he
got everything he wanted. From cash stimuli to Obamacare and regulations
as far as the eye can see. That is his record. Republicans then gained the
House in 2010 and BHO’s records of victories werer stymied. As the overwhelming force of we the people in 2010 shouted from the mountaintops,
“We don’t like your ideas, BHO,” the House valiantly has produced bill
after bill that would seemingly help stimulate the country to move forward
as a team instead of “sharing the wealth” among the hardworkers and the
less hardworking and pretend to believe that that kind of government could
ever sustain itself. At every turn BHO’s party in the Senate has shunted
every single bill brought forward by the lower house and in the meantime
BHO has acted the part of King. He makes recess appointments upon
recess appointments. He has myriads of czars who are beholding to no
one other than BHO himself. He speaks to us like he is the “Dear Leader”
of North Korean fame. In other words he says “jump” and we say “how
high?”
He blew $500,000,000 on the sun-loving Solyndra only to watch
it file for bankruptcy. He gave another one-half billion dollars to a battery
manufacturer named Fisker that brought many jobs to his Veep Joe Biden’s
attention
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home state of Delaware and then he dared to dream: “Imagine a world
where people pop the hood of their cars, and they see stamped on the battery “Made in America.’” How about a fuel-efficient engine instead?
Well, Fisker had the bad taste of pulling most of its workers from
Delaware and now the only place these batteries are made is in their home
base of Finland. So there goes his dream, it’s now ‘Made in Finland.’
That’s one trillion dollars down the drain. We now find out that
Obamacare isn’t going to cost less than $1,000,000,000 nope, not even
close. The new CBO numbers (and remember they are non-partisan numbers) show what we all knew to be true in the first place that Obamacare
will now cost 1.76 trillion dollars from now until 2022 and then in 2023
it’s “Katie bar the door.” Some estimates are as much as a trillion dollars a
year from then on. If they are estimating that now, I wonder just how much
it will really be?
I got a kick out of BHO slapping down Rush Limbaugh for the
latter’s use of some vile language concerning the lady in law school that
is so active sexually that it costs her some $3,000 a year for birth control
and wants her Catholic insurers to pay for it. He waxed nostalgic about his
own two female children and how they should stand firm to Limbaughtypes of rhetoric. I wonder how he explains that he is for late term abortion
and worse yet when the abortion is botched how he would stand aside as
he watches a doctor bring the innocent into a cold dank room to breathe
its last breaths alone and unwanted?
And now he tells us how the United States is producing more energy than anytime in the last eight years. Trumpeting like he was responsible
for it. Only problem is in 2011 he allowed one, one drilling permit and the
reason why we’re doing so well is that WFC and GWB were responsible
for the leases allowed that contribute to “our best energy production in the
last 8 years.”
He’s now moving “full steam ahead” to run an oil pipeline from
Oklahoma to Texas that will be a bigtime job maker. But that pipeline
was already in the pipeline so to speak. If that little southern part of the
Keystome XL pipeline is such a good idea then why isn’t the whole operation from the tar sands in Canada to the refineries in Texas an even better
idea. I hope he and his ilk are on the first sun-powered or wind-powered
airplane. I wondered just how many of them would give that a go?
I’m tired of this man as our President and I can say that because
I’m a white man and he’s half white without being prejudicial in any way.
His ideas are not consistent within the country I grew up in and have
remained true to. Why don’t people like BHO and all his mind-numbed
robot followers go to Europe (I hear they are in need of immigrants in
the worse way there) and take over the EuroZone and show us how great
things can be under Obama-Utopia and leave the United States to the
business of being the greatest, most compassionate and caring place on
earth. America’s moral compass is consistent with John 5:24. Just look at
our laws and our constitution. So leave us to the tasks at hand. Oh yeah
and take your $5.6 trillion of debt and dictating to us how we can’t pursue
religious freedom with you. Godspeed.
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Saving Money On Your Prescription Drugs
by Ron Pollack, Executive Director,
Families USA
April 2012
It’s that time of year again:
Pretty soon, you’ll be sitting down
with piles of paper in front of you,
getting ready to fill out your f e d eral income tax forms, wishing for
some good news, for a change!
Cheer up. There actually is
some good news. Even if you end up
having to pay Uncle Sam, you’re almost certain to save money on your
prescription medications this year.
That’s partly because more generic
drugs will be available, and they’re
cheaper than the brand-name drugs
they replace. It’s also partly because
the “doughnut hole” in Medicare
drug coverage is gradually being
closed.
Starting with generics, sev-
eral big-name drugs are scheduled
to become available in generic versions this year, including the blood
thinner Plavix and the diabetes drug
Actos. In fact, generics will have 80
percent of the drug market in 2012.
And, since generics cost only 15-20
percent as much as brand-name
drugs, this will mean a big savings
to seniors.
You shouldn’t be afraid of
switching to generics. They’re subject to the same rigorous review by
the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) as brand-name drugs. The
FDA makes sure the generic and the
brand-name drug give you the same
amount of the active ingredients. They just cost less because
the generic manufacturers didn’t
do the original research and devel-
by Ann Coulter
Any Republican governor
of a blue state who manages to balance the budget without raising taxes should be a nominee for Mount
Rushmore, to say nothing of president.
Mitt Romney was governor
of a state so blue, it’s North Korea
with more Irish people, and he balanced the budget without raising
taxes.
Even Ronald Reagan raised
taxes as governor of California, imposing a $1 billion tax increase his
first year in office. It was the largest tax hike by a governor in the nation’s history, raising income, corporate, sales and inheritance taxes.
Five years later, Reagan raised taxes
again by another $1.5 billion.
To be fair, unlike liberals, he
also provided tax rebates that, over
his tenure in office, totaled $5.7 billion, including $4 billion in property
tax rebates.
But even Reagan didn’t stop
the growth of state government:
While he was governor of California, the budget increased from $4.6
billion to $10.2 billion.
Republicans are able to contextualize Reagan’s record -ñ it was
California! -- but seem unable to
contextualize Mitt Romney’s record,
even though he had to govern a state
far more liberal than California was
half a century ago.
When Reagan was governor,
the California Assembly was majority Democrat, but the Senate was
evenly split between Republicans
and Democrats.
Gov. Romney had to contend
with a 200-person state Legislature
that included only 29 Republicans.
As Reagan tax guru Arthur
Laffer has admitted, Reagan’s specialty was cutting taxes, not spending. Reagan, he said, found “it hard
to say no” and cutting spending is
a “green-eyeshade budget thing,”
that requires poring over budgets,
whereas cutting taxes can be done
in the abstract.
Romney is a green-eyeshade
guy.
Like Reagan, Romney inherited a huge, Democrat-created budget deficit. The existing Massachu-
setts deficit was already more than
half a billion dollars when Romney
took office halfway through a fiscal
year, with a projected deficit of $3
billion for the following fiscal year.
And yet, Romney balanced
Massachusetts’ budget each year he
was in office and left the state with a
surplus, without raising taxes.
To the contrary, every single
budget Romney submitted included
income tax cuts -- all of which were
rejected by the 85-percent Democratic Legislature. (The last time
Massachusetts legislators approved
an income tax cut was when it was
attached to a bill raising their own
salaries by 55 percent.)
Romney balanced the budget by slashing spending, eliminating
ridiculous corporate tax loopholes
and increasing user fees for government services consumed by only
some citizens, such as court filings,
taking the bar exam, boating, hunting and golf licenses.
He cut state spending by
$600 million, including reducing his
own staff budget by $1.2 million,
and hacked the largest government
agency, Health and Human Services, down from 13 divisions to four.
He did this largely by persuading the
Legislature to give him emergency
powers his first year in office to cut
government programs without their
consent.
Although Romney was not
able to get any income tax cuts past
the Democratic Legislature, he won
other tax cuts totaling nearly $400
million, including a one-time capital
gains tax rebate and a two-day sales
tax holiday for all purchases under
$2,500.
He also vetoed more bills
than any other governor in Massachusetts history, before or since.
He vetoed bills concerning access
to birth control, more spending on
state zoos, and the creation of an
Asian-American commission -- all
of which were reversed by the Legislature.
As Barbara Anderson, executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation, said, “What else could
he do?”
Romney left his successor,
Deval Patrick, Democrat and friend
of Obama, with a “rainy day fund”
of $2.1 billion, more than tripled
from $640 million when Romney
took office. (Of course, as soon as
Romney was gone, Patrick raided
the rainy day fund, increased government spending and raised taxes.)
Meanwhile, when he was in
Congress, Santorum wouldn’t even
vote to eliminate federal funding
for the National Endowment for the
Arts. Santorum supported all sorts
of big-government spending plans
-- No Child Left Behind, prescription drug coverage for seniors and
the “bridge to nowhere.”
But you’d think we would at
least have Santorum’s vote against
federal funding for pornographers
and deviants. Alas, no.
The NEA, you will recall,
uses federal taxpayer money to subsidize crucifixes submerged in urine,
photos of bullwhips up a man’s derriere, poems celebrating the Central Park jogger’s rapists, photos of
amputated human genitalia, vomit,
SEE “POLLACK” PAGE 19.
Send Lizzie Borden To Halls Of Washington
SEE “coulter” PAGE 5.
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National Perspective: The Writer And The President
by David M. Shribman
It was a meeting of a gothic
genius and a political magus.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, the
novelist from Salem, Mass., and Abraham Lincoln, the politician from New
Salem, Ill., didn’t speak to each other
-- one of the great missed opportunities of history -- but Hawthorne did
accompany a delegation of businessmen from a Massachusetts whip factory to a White House session with
the 16th president in March 1862.
That meeting, 150 years ago
this month, was nothing remarkable,
one of the many sessions a chief executive customarily has with visitors
to the capital, and yet it produced remarkable insights about the president.
At this event, Lincoln was given what
Hawthorne described as “a splendid
whip,” a handy tool, perhaps, to keep
his Cabinet of rivals together, to move
his leading general to action, and by
year’s end to overcome the opposition
from the South and the skepticism
from the North over his Emancipation Proclamation.
The 9 a.m. session was late
in starting; the president was having
breakfast. “His appetite, we were glad
to think, must have been a pretty fair
one,” Hawthorne wrote, “for we waited about half an hour in one of his
antechambers.” Lincoln had a big appetite and he made a big impression,
for the group soon glimpsed what
Hawthorne described as “the homeliest man I ever saw, yet by no means
repulsive or disagreeable.”
Hawthorne set forth his observations in a broader essay on his
trip to Washington and Virginia that
appeared in The Atlantic Monthly.
The article is included in the Library
of America’s newest volume on the
Civil War, an anthology of contemporary accounts, speeches, diary entries
and reminiscences covering 1862, the
second year of the conflict.
As the country observes the
sesquicentennial of the war, the observations of one of the nation’s greatest
writers on one of the nation’s greatest
leaders possess unusual power. Here
are some annotated excerpts:
-- President Lincoln is the essential representative of all Yankees,
and the veritable specimen, physically,
of what the world seems determined to
regard as our characteristic qualities.
In this regard Lincoln seems
little different from most American
presidents, including the modern
ones. Theodore Roosevelt personified
American vigor at the turn of the last
century, Woodrow Wilson stood for
American idealism, Franklin Roosevelt for American determination - and, with the New Deal, American
experimentation.
Later, Harry Truman stood
for American practicality in an age of
ideology, John Kennedy for American
sophistication at a time when American culture was thought to have come
of age, Jimmy Carter for American
innocence and Ronald Reagan for
American optimism.
-- There is no describing his
lengthy awkwardness, nor the uncouthness of his movement; and yet it seemed
as if I had been in the habit of seeing
him daily, and had shaken hands with
him a thousand times in some village
street; so true was he to the aspect of the
pattern American, though with a certain extravagance which, possibly, I ex-
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aggerated still further by the delighted
eagerness with which I took it in.
James T. Fields, the editor of The Atlantic, objected to this
characterization and at his bidding
Hawthorne removed it. But Lincoln’s
rough-hewn looks were as much a part
of his political identity as Kennedy’s
handsome bearing and Bill Clinton’s
joyful openness. Lincoln was awkward
and homely. He was also the greatest
American political figure of his time,
perhaps of all time.
-- A great deal of native sense;
no bookish cultivation, no refinement;
honest at heart, and thoroughly so, and
yet, in some sort, sly -- at least endowed
with a sort of tact and wisdom that are
akin to craft, and would impel him, I
think, to take an antagonist in flank,
rather than to make a bull-run at him
right in front. But, on the whole, I liked
this sallow, queer, sagacious visage, with
the homely human sympathies that
warmed it ...
Lincoln had uncommon common sense, was wise but not pedantic,
honest but crafty. The latter is often
ignored. There may have been an internal dishonesty to Lincoln’s emancipation plan (it covered territory over
which he had no power), or to his assault on civil liberties (declaring martial law and suspending habeas corpus aren’t ordinarily celebrated), but
the overall package was more than a
sagacious visage. It was virtuosity in
action.
-- He is evidently a man of keen
faculties, and, what is still more to the
purpose, of powerful character. As to his
integrity, the people have that intuition
of it which is never deceived.
Make no mistake: Not everyone thought of him as Honest Abe.
The rail-splitter was a hair-splitter,
too. He was derided by abolitionists
and black leaders as too timid, by
moderates as too radical, by many
as being dishonest not only with the
country but also with himself. Was
the war to preserve the Union or to
free the slaves? Did he believe blacks
were equal to or inferior to whites?
Should slaves be freed or returned to
Africa? Often his answer to questions
like this, infuriating to us even 150
years later, was: both.
-- But the president is teachable
by events, and has now spent a year in a
very arduous course of education; he has
a flexible mind, capable of much expansion, and convertible towards far loftier
studies and activities than those of his
early life; and, if he came to Washington
as a backwoods humorist, he has already
transformed himself into ... a statesman
Presidents come to office on
a wave of determination: Win the
war. Withdraw from the war. Cure
poverty, disease, the economy. Reach
out to one group, comfort another,
put a third in its place. They do a
few of these things, often poorly, and
then forget about the rest. Reality -- a
synonym for the modern presidency
-- intrudes.
“One of the things about being president,” Barack Obama said
last month, “is you get better as time
goes on.”
There is, however, plenty
of evidence to the contrary. As time
went on, Woodrow Wilson’s stubbornness divided the country over the
League of Nations, Lyndon Johnson’s
demons produced the credibility gap
and the Vietnam quagmire, Richard
Nixon’s lust for power produced Watergate, Ronald Reagan’s hands-off
style produced the Iran-Contra affair,
Bill Clinton’s lack of discipline led to
impeachment.
But Obama, who in the past
has harnessed the audacity of hope,
has chosen the right role model. Abraham Lincoln got better as time went
on. From our perspective 150 years
after his encounter with Nathaniel
Hawthorne, he’s still getting better.
(David M. Shribman is executive editor of
the Post-Gazette (dshribman@post-gazette.
com, 412 263-1890). Follow him on Twitter at
ShribmanPG.)
Case Of Trayvon Martin Hauntingly Familiar
by Cynthia Tucker
There are few black families who don’t have a personal story
about an unsettling encounter with
the police, usually one involving male
relatives. For all the encouraging -- astonishing, really -- racial progress over
the last 50 years, the relationship between black Americans and white law
enforcement officers remains fraught
with fear, suspicion and, let’s face it,
racial prejudice.
The deeply troubling case of
Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black
teenager shot dead by a white Florida
man claiming to be part of a neighborhood watch team, has brought
those tensions vividly to the surface,
reminding black folk that we don’t
get the benefit of the doubt in our encounters with the criminal justice system. That remains true even if you’re a
kid lying dead in the grass after you’ve
done nothing -- nothing -- wrong.
That’s because too many law
enforcement officers still harbor prejudices that live deep in their subconscious minds, where they record stereotypes, archive bad data and make
snap judgments without any conscious thought. Those “implicit biases,” as researchers call them, are not
easily dislodged by sensitivity training
or diversity guidelines.
In the Martin case, many observers, including several Florida lawmakers and prosecutors, have pointed
to problems inherent in the state’s
notorious “Stand Your Ground” law,
which has invited the violence-prone
to claim innocence after provoking
deadly confrontations. Even though
the investigation is continuing, the
law’s broad parameters may allow
George Zimmerman, Martin’s killer,
to go unpunished.
But I’m equally disheartened
by the failure of the Sanford, Fla.,
police to even arrest Zimmerman. I
don’t know a single black person who
believes that a black shooter in identical circumstances would not have
been arrested and charged.
It would not have mattered if
the black shooter were a Ph.D. college professor at a nearby university
or a petty criminal well-known to the
police. He would have been arrested if
he had killed an unarmed white teenager who was returning from a convenience store to the home where his
father was visiting. The college professor may not have been convicted if he
could afford a good attorney, but he
would have been arrested.
That’s because police, like
prosecutors, have a huge amount of
discretion at their disposal, and they
don’t treat black citizens with the
same deference that they automatically -- perhaps unconsciously -- give to
whites. We are troublemakers. We are
suspects. We are criminals. See stereotypes, above.
Last week, as calls for justice
ricocheted around the country, gaining power, the Sanford City Council
issued a “no confidence” vote in its
police chief, who decided to “temporarily” step down. Meanwhile, however, City Manager Norton Bonaparte
Jr., to whom the police report, issued
a statement defending them -- and
straining credibility.
“According to Florida statute,
law enforcement was PROHIBITED
from making an arrest based on the
facts and circumstances they had at
the time,” the statement said, according to The Washington Post.
The
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That interpretation of the law
is so far-fetched that it borders on
outright dishonesty. As the Orlando
Sentinel has reported, police officers
in jurisdictions throughout central
Florida have made arrests in several
cases where the survivor claims selfdefense. Moreover, two of the Florida
lawmakers who crafted the law say
Zimmerman should be arrested.
“Police are not allowed to
make an arrest unless they have probable cause. There is supposed to be a
legal reason, otherwise it’s an illegal
arrest,” Willie Meggs, state attorney
(prosecutor) for Florida’s 2nd Judicial
Circuit, told me. (His circuit does not
include Sanford.)
Coulter
from page 3.
mutilated corpses and dead fetuses.
(And that was just the children’s
wing of the museum!)
But Rick Santorum voted
against cutting funding for the NEA
every time a vote was taken both
as a representative and a senator - in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997
and 1998. These weren’t accidental
votes. Each one was deemed a key
conservative vote on which members of Congress would be graded
by the American Conservative Union.
There’s your “true conservative,” values voters.
Unfortunately, the more
time a person spends in Washington,
the more likely he is to consider it
perfectly reasonable for the federal
government to redistribute money
from hardworking taxpayers to pornographers, con men, charlatans and
thieves.
America is on a precipice.
Unless we send Lizzie Borden to
Washington next January, our coun-
But when I asked Meggs if
“probable cause” is a subjective judgment, he acknowledged as much:
“Every day,” he said. In other words,
there is no “prohibition” against arrest
in the statute.
Prosecutors, too, have wide
latitude in the cases they pursue - a discretion that benefits whites
much more often than it does blacks.
Among criminal justice experts, it’s
well-known that prosecutors press
cases against black defendants even
as they drop similar charges against
white defendants.
Many of those prosecutors
would be gravely offended if they
see “tucker” page 7.
try will begin an inevitable decline
into a useless socialist country, with
no money for national defense, no
entrepreneurship, no new businesses being created, no new pharmaceuticals or cancer cures -- just the
endless redistribution of an everdwindling pool of wealth from the
makers to the takers, overseen by
career politicians like Rick Santorum.
Mitt Romney has spent no
time in Washington. He was a rabidly frugal fiscal conservative in
a state where cutting government
spending was as foreign an idea as it
is in Washington today.
Do you think a man who
slashed government spending in
North Korea, put the corrupt and
financially bleeding Olympics on
solid financial footing and rescued
dozens of companies from bankruptcy would consider a photo of a
bullwhip stuck in a man’s buttocks
a wise investment of the taxpayers’
money?
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by Donald Lambro
WASHINGTON -- The government’s monstrous budget deficits
continue their meteoric rise under
Barack Obama’s big-spending policies, further threatening America’s
shaky economy and future growth.
The Congressional Budget
Office (CBO) last week released a revised estimate of the Obama administration’s spiraling deficit, forecasting
it will hit $1.2 trillion in the 2012 fiscal year. This latest revision pushes the
deficit up by another $100 billion,
and it will likely climb higher before
the fiscal year ends, a few weeks before Election Day.
This is the fourth straight trillion-dollar-plus deficit under Obama’s
presidency and the highest in U.S.
history.
He came into office in 2009
with thousands of proposals to spend
trillions of dollars and has run up annual deficits totaling more than $5.2
trillion, pushing total U.S. debt to
more than $15 trillion.
This means the entire national
debt exceeds our gross domestic product (GDP), the measure of all the
goods and services we produce each
year. In other words, Obama is spending beyond our means.
Obama’s
record-shattering
deficits are as follows: $1.4 trillion in
2009, $1.3 trillion in 2010, $1.3 trillion in 2011 and an estimated $1.2
trillion in 2012.
In 2007, the year before the
nation’s economy plunged in the
Great Recession, the federal budget
deficit was a tame $167 billion.
Even in 2008, the first full
year of the subprime mortgage debacle and the last year of George W.
Bush’s presidency, the deficit was a
manageable $438 billion.
But it isn’t just the budget
deficit that has been climbing at a furious pace under this president. Gas
prices, which were around $1.80 for
a gallon of regular on Jan. 1, 2009,
have on average skyrocketed to nearly
$4 for a gallon of regular, according to
AAA. The average price was running
$3.52 just a month ago.
If the pump price on a gallon
of gas isn’t shocking enough for you,
sharply rising health care costs under
the new Obamacare law make the cost
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of a gallon of gas look like a bargain in
comparison.
In 2009, Obama promised
the American people that his mandated health insurance plan would cost
“around $900 billion over 10 years.”
But the CBO reported last
week that Obamacare will cost at
least twice that much, or $1.76 trillion. And the costs will likely rise in
the years to come as the baby boomers grow older.
That’s why Republicans have
begun to wage a political assault on
the unpopular Obamacare law as it
nears the two-year anniversary of its
enactment.
“The president promised, ‘If
you like your doctor or health care
plan, you can keep it,” Texas Sen.
John Cornyn, the chairman of the
GOP’s Senate campaign committee,
says in an op-ed column for the Austin American-Statesman.
“In fact, employers have already started dropping insurance coverage in direct response to Obamacare.
The president promised his law would
‘slow the growth of health care costs
for our families, our businesses and
our government.’ Instead, premiums
for family coverage rose by 9 percent
last year,” Cornyn writes.
Higher costs for gasoline
and health care, along with a weak,
high-unemployment economy, will
be lethal issues in the coming general election, both for Obama and the
Democrats generally.
A Gallup poll says the lackluster Obama economy and the nation’s
persistently high unemployment rate
are the two top concerns that Americans say will most influence their vote
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But Obama’s record budget
deficits and the nation’s growing debt
load are at No. 3, with 79 percent of
voters saying the issue is either “extremely or very important” in how
they will vote in November.
Obama is already out on the
hustings defending his failed presidency, but he has little, if anything, to
say about his budget deficits and the
national debt. It’s as if the issue does
not exist in his political thinking, or
he does not think voters will vote on
that issue.
Obama’s campaign strategists
hardly touch the deficit and debt issues, either, and you rarely hear Democratic leaders in Congress calling for
action to bring down the deficit. It
is an orphan issue for which no one
wants to take responsibility. Democrats are focused on more spending,
not cutting.
In the past three-plus years
of this administration, even when
Obama’s party controlled both houses of Congress, Democrats have not
passed a budget.
The Republican House this
week unveiled its budget plan to curb
spending and shrink the deficit, but
it’s already dead on arrival in the Senate, where Democratic leader Harry
Reid wants to spare his party the
discomfort of voting against GOP
spending cuts in an election year.
But this isn’t an issue that’s
going away. Instinctively, voters connect growing deficits and debt as the
enemy of a prosperous economy and
rising employment. Economic analysts have arrived at the same conclusion.
“Ultimately, what goes up
must come down. In the case of the
federal budget, this means that a
deficit-financed boost to growth will
eventually lead to a drag,” financial
analysts Jan Hatzius and Alec Phillips
concluded in a study published last
year.
Writing in the American Economic Review at the end of 2009,
economists Carmen M. Reinhart and
Kenneth S. Rogoff wrote: “Our main
finding is that across both advanced
countries and emerging markets, high
debt/GDP levels (90 percent and
above) are associated with notably
lower growth outcomes ...”
The budget plan Obama sent
to Congress last month is filled with
preposterous assumptions, such as a
near-4 percent economic growth that
he says will sharply cut the deficit by
2017, when he hopes he’ll be leaving
office after a second term.
If you buy that one, says economist Peter Morici, New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg “is selling shares
in the Brooklyn Bridge.”
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Invasion? Let’s Try Something Else For A Change
by Georgie Anne Geyer
WASHINGTON -- Remember, after the 9/11 attacks, when we
went into Afghanistan and then detoured to even greater “glory” in the
sandy no-man’s land of Iraq?
The first foray, into Afghanistan, where the al-Qaida rebels were
supposed to be hiding out, started
during the fall of 2001, but that apparent win was then halted when
American “statesmen” George Bush,
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld
looked out at Baghdad and declared,
as one voice, “MINE!” We were to be
greeted with flowers and kisses and
establish relations with both countries
that would serve our stead forever.
I can hear the critics already
saying, “Oh, that old story again. ...
Leave me alone!”
TUCKER
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were accused of racism because they
believe themselves to be fair and unbiased representatives of the criminal
justice system.
Despite remarkable societal
progress, some things haven’t changed
very much at all. Perhaps that’s the
most depressing thing.
(Cynthia Tucker, winner of
the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a visiting professor at the University of Georgia. She can be reached
at [email protected].)
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But only this winter and spring
have the details of both invasions truly
been reported. Not only did the Iraqis
and the Afghans not greet us with joy,
but we can now see that, quite to the
contrary, we are leaving them with hatred in their hearts toward just about
everything American.
In Iraq, even with the government that we patched together
despite unswerving savagery between
factions, we are essentially unacceptable. These “kept” Iraqis, now that
they have power, refuse to give the
U.S. military the necessary “status of
forces” agreement that enables American troops established in any foreign
country to be tried for crimes only
under American jurisdiction. This is
so common as to go unnoticed -- except with our “friend,” Iraq.
So now the U.S. has essentially left much of its blood and wealth
behind in the desert that has always
been Babylon, ever since the father
of the three great religions, Abraham,
walked out of southern Iraq. We also
leave behind our appallingly large embassy in Baghdad. It was to have been
the symbol of our lasting friendship
with Iraq, but now most of it stands
empty.
Perhaps worse of all, the great
oil and mineral wealth of Iraq has
been claimed by countries such as
China and the United Kingdom. So
much for the American left’s fear that
we were invading Iraq to get the oil -
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- we didn’t even have that much common sense!
As for Afghanistan, which
virtually all analysts agreed we could
have “made do” had we not segued to
Iraq because of our ego and pomposity, we are virtually being pushed out
after the burning of the Qurans and
the one crazed American sergeant’s
killing of 16 innocent Afghans. Huge
mineral discoveries there have gone to
other countries, after we discovered
them, and polls show that Americans
are the most hated people to the Afghans.
Now, if we were the Mongols,
who simply wanted to wipe out anyone who passed through their minds
that day, it would be one thing. But
the neocons behind these policies
argued that by relieving these two
countries of their radicals, we would
be making friends in the Middle East.
Relationships that would last! An entirely new strategic balance!
So, OK, sweep it all under the
rug and let historians cry over it a century from now.
But, the Israeli-centric neocons and those Americans with imperial ambitions are at it again. Conservative magazines such as Commentary
are now pushing for an invasion of
Iran, even before the last American
troops have left (or been pushed out
of ) Afghanistan. Syria is just behind
Iran as the next choice for war. Apparently, it is never to end.
Ladies and gentlemen, America is at a serious turning point. We
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Hispanics and 450 points higher
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perhaps an even larger question is
that of intervention, of invasion, of
how we best relate to other nations
and peoples.
Since the “shock and awe” of
all-out invasion has been shown not
to work, are there any other experiences we can learn from?
Burma, that small and lovely
country in the middle of Southeast
Asia, once was called “the Golden
Land.” It had the best of education,
of resources, of beauty. Then the military took over and put the country in
virtual chains.
When I was there nine years
ago, the once-beautiful old British
colonial city of Rangoon was moldering away. Peasants were impressed by
soldiers for brutal labor brigades. The
three leading generals (known as No.
1, No. 2 and No. 3) slept together
at military headquarters, critics said,
each with one eye open for the others.
Burma, now inexplicably called Myanmar, was one golden horror.
Suddenly this winter, the regime opened up. Elections will actually be held again. Foreign investment
is invited in. Burmese now can leave
the country. What thrills me is that
Rangoon, with its magnificent 1930s
buildings, is being revamped by international architects.
Why this sudden change? Because miserable Burma was surrounded by the “Asian wonders” -- China,
India, Indonesia, countries that were
at least starting to “work.” The Burmese generals realized they could not
keep Burma in this cruel straightjacket. So, we see that setting an example also becomes a forceful power for
change, the kind of change America
used to exercise all over the world.
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users. In a world of advancing
technology and declining map-reading skills, some GPS navigator users blindly over-rely on the devices,
and News of the Weird has reported
enough of their predicaments to
mark the category “no longer weird.”
However, three Japanese students
on holiday near Brisbane, Australia,
in March created a new standard
for ignoring common sense. Bound
for North Stradbroke Island (about
eight miles offshore), the driver (according to authorities cited by the
local Bayside Bulletin) apparently
put maps and eyesight aside, in favor of the all-powerful Navigator,
which had instructed him to proceed. As news spread on the Internet, photographers rushed to capture
the car, half-buried in sand. (In the
students’ defense, the beach seemed
to extend to the horizon at low tide
-- although the word “island” might
have deserved more respect.) [Bayside Bulletin (Cleveland, Australia),
3-15-2012]
The Continuing Crisis
-- The entire village (almost!) of Sodeto, Spain, shared the
grand prize in the country’s huge
Christmas lottery in December,
earning each of the 70 households
the equivalent of at least $130,000.
The joint buy-in of tickets is a town
ritual, but one resident missed the
canvassing: filmmaker Costis Mitsotakis, who said he was happy that
everyone else was happy. (The dark
side of winning: Hucksters flooded
the town from all over the country.)
[New York Times, 1-31-2012]
-- The town of Betws-yCoed, Wales, holds the distinction
of having its name likely butchered
by more misspellings on Internet
search inquiries than any other.
Website managers told BBC News
in February that they have compiled
a list of 364 different spellings from
All
New!
people ostensibly looking for the
town. The most common references
were to “Bwtsy Code” and “Betsy
Cowed.” [BBC News, 2-16-2012]
-- Anthony McDaniel, 47,
voluntarily returned to North Carolina from his new home in Texas in
February after being charged with
embezzlement by his old employer.
The owner of Fayetteville’s Skibo
Skillet (now out of business) accused McDaniel of having pocketed
meatballs, corn on the cob and anchovy dip while he worked there.
[Greensboro News-Record, 2-232012]
-- Make Yourselves at
Home: (1) Keith Davis, 46, was
caught red-handed in Ashley Murray’s house in South Bend, Ind., in
February and charged with burglary.
Murray, though, said she had mixed
feelings because, while there, Davis
had folded Murray’s clothes and
vacuumed the house. (Police said
that some drug or other had made
Davis believe he was in his own
home.) (2) Officials at the county
courthouse in Charlotte, N.C., were
startled to learn in January that Paul
Frizzell, 30, had commandeered a
vacant office in the building and for
two months had been running his
business out of it (with telephone,
copy machine and bulletin board,
among other trappings). [WNDUTV (South Bend), 2-10-2012] [Gaston Gazette, 1-12-2012]
Family Values
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be appropriate for the 7-year-old
daughter of Britain’s notorious specimen of plastic surgery known as the
“Human Barbie”? For little “Poppy”
Burge, it was a gift certificate worth
the equivalent of about $11,000
for future liposuction (redeemable
beginning at age 18). Mom Sarah
had already given her a voucher for
breast augmentation. (Poppy, developing her early-onset need for attention: “I can’t wait to be like Mummy
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with big boobs. They’re pretty.”)
Mom, who recently turned 51, celebrated with about $80,000 worth
of additional plastic surgery to run
her lifetime total to the equivalent
of (depending on source consulted)
$800,000 to $1 million. [Daily Mail
(London), 1-4-2012]
-- Sheriff’s detectives told
the Everett, Wash., Daily Herald
in January that they had recently
tracked down a 21-year-old man
who confessed to stealing checks
from the Money Tree store in Lynnwood, Wash., and forging signatures. According to the detectives,
the man was clear about his motive:
“I don’t have an addiction. I don’t
need to use drugs. I (was) doing this
to show my parents that I can make
it on my own, without them.” [Daily
Herald, 1-25-2012]
Wisconsinites, Doing It the Hard
Way
In October, Robbie Suhr, 48,
of Pleasant Prairie, Wis., sought the
affections of the young exchange
student living with Suhr and his
wife and children, but she had so
far declined. According to police, a
disguised Suhr snatched the woman
one night, intending to tie her up,
leave, and then return undisguised
to “rescue” her. However, she fought
back, sending the masked man fleeing. (Suhr got off easier than Jordan Cardella, 20, of Milwaukee did
several months earlier. To win back
his girlfriend, Cardella convinced a
buddy to shoot him, hoping for the
girlfriend’s sympathy and a change
of heart. Although he requested
three shots in the back, he wisely
settled for one in the arm. Alas, the
girlfriend continued to ignore him.)
[WTMJ-TV (Milwaukee), 10-302011] [Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee), 7-26-2011]
It’s Everywhere!
(1) Two ministers in the Indian state of Karnataka were pressured into resigning in February after allegedly being spotted watching
pornography on a cellphone in the
state legislature. Minister Laxman
Savadi said he was actually doing
research on the dangers of “rave”
parties. (2) A 54-year-old court
clerk at Inner London Crown Court
was caught by his judge looking at
pornography during the victim’s
testimony at a notorious rape trial.
He said he was just “bored” and admitted previously browsing porn in
court. [BBC News, 2-8-2012] [Daily Mail, 2-7-2012]
People With Issues
Now in its third season, the
TLC cable channel’s series “My
Strange Addiction” continues to
raise the bar for News of the Weird
stories. This season’s highlights include the man sexually attracted to
his car, plus women who surround
themselves with mothballs or eat cat
food or drink nail polish or dig into
their ears or eat adhesive tape. In one
episode, “Ayanna,” 54, who has not
cut her fingernails in three decades,
reports that she has recently been
cultivating her toenails, which are
now 4 inches long and hampering
her use of shoes. Another episode
this season features Sheyla Hershey,
mentioned in News of the Weird
four weeks ago after she credited
her gigantic breast implants with
cushioning her body during a recent
car crash. [ABC News, 2-10-2012;
Daily Mail (London), 3-6- 2012]
Least Competent Criminals
One of the largest methamphetamine busts in U.S. history was
made in March by police in Palo
Alto, Calif., who used the popular Find-My-iPad app. Apparently,
someone at the drug house had stolen the iPad, and police turned on the
owner’s global-positioning “app,”
pointing to an apartment complex
in Santa Clara County. Almost 800
pounds of meth was confiscated,
with a street value of about $35
million. Said the father of the iPad
owner, “They have $35 million, and
they can’t go out and buy an iPad?”
[Mercury News (San Jose), 3-32012]
Recurring Themes
News of the Weird reported
in 2006 and 2008 on precocious
5-year-old boys who, according
to their parents, were certain they
wanted to live the rest of their lives
as girls (that is, were not just “going
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through a phase”). In Essex, England, recently, Zach Avery, then 4,
made British medical history when
the National Health Service diagnosed him with gender identity disorder and endorsed his desire to live
as a girl. Zach was so unhappy as a
boy that he once tried to dismember himself. [Daily Telegraph (London), 2-20-2012]
The Classic Middle Name (allnew!)
Arrested recently and awaiting trial for murder: Justin Wayne
Green, 30, Clay County, Texas
(March). Kenneth Wayne Thompson, 28, Doniphan, Mo. (March)
(arrested in Arizona). Gerald
Wayne Little, 60, Princeton, W.Va.
(March). Michael Wayne Lindsay,
48, Baileyton, Ala. (March). Keith
Wayne Johnson, 19, Buna, Texas
(February). Ryan Wayne Koebel,
17, Holts Summit, Mo. (January).
Derrick Wayne Hunt Jr., 18, San
Antonio (October). Ronald Wayne
MacDonald, 50, Reno, Nev. (September) (charged in a 33- year-old
cold case). Jeremy Wayne Manieri, 31, Baton Rouge, La. (July)
(arrested in Florida). Christopher
Wayne Dixon, 25, Sanford, N.C.
(August). Indicted for murder:
Mark Wayne Thibodeaux, 52, Lake
Charles, La. (March). Re-sentenced
for murder: Carl Wayne Buntion,
Houston (March) (once again sentenced to death). Murder conviction overturned on appeal: Michael
Wayne Hash, Richmond, Va. (February). Green: [Times Record News
(Wichita Falls, Tex.), 3-20-2012]
Thompson: [Associated Press via
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3-17-2012]
Little: [Bluefield Daily Telegraph
(Bluefield, W.Va.), 3-21-2012] Lindsay: [The Arab Tribune (Arab, Ala.),
3-22-2012] Johnson: [Beaumont Enterprise, 3-20-2012] Koebel: [Associated Press via Columbia Tribune,
1-22-2012] Hunt: [San Antonio Express-News, 10-16-2011] MacDonald: [Sky Valley Chronicle (Monroe, Wash.), 9-24-2011] Manieri:
[New York Daily News, 7-13-2011]
Dixon: [Fayetteville Observer, 87-2011] Thibodeaux: [KPLC-TV
(Lake Charles, La.), 3-22-2012]
Buntion: [KHOU-TV (Houston), 36-2012] Hash: [Associated Press via
Washington Post, 2-29-2012]
Can’t Possibly Be True
-- Louis Helmburg III filed a
lawsuit in Huntington, W.Va., in February against the Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity and its member Travis
Hughes for injuries Helmburg suffered in May 2011 when he fell off a
deck at the fraternity house. He had
been startled and fallen backward off
the rail-less deck after Hughes attempted to fire a bottle rocket “out of
his anus” -- and the rocket, instead,
exploded in place. (The lawsuit does
not refer to Hughes’ injuries.)
-- U.S. Immigration agents in
a $160,000 Chevy Suburban that had
been custom-designed and -armored
specifically to protect agents from
roadside kidnappings became sitting ducks last year when kidnappers
forced the vehicle off the road near
San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and got the
door open briefly, enabling them to
fire 100 rounds and kill one of the
two agents inside. According to a
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February Washington Post report,
the Department of Homeland Security had failed to modify the vehicle’s
factory setting that popped open the
door locks automatically whenever
the driver shifts into “Park.”
-- When Rose Marks and
her extended family of RomanianGypsy “psychics” were indicted
last year for a 20-year-run of duping South Floridians out of as much
as $40 million, victims of the clan
were elated that justice might be at
hand. (A typical scam, according to
prosecutors, was to take a client’s
cash, “to pray over it,” promising
its return but somehow figuring out
how to keep it.) However, in December, the Markses’ attorneys reported
that “several” of the so-called victims had begun to work with them to
help clear the family, including one
who reportedly paid Rose over time
$150,000. According to the lawyers,
these “victims” call the Markses
“friends,” “life coaches” and “confidants,” rather than swindlers.
Unclear on the Concept
-- Jason Bacon, 41, was arrested in Eureka, Calif., in March
after responding to a classified ad
for a used motorcycle by offering
to trade about $8,000 worth of his
home-grown marijuana for it. According to an officer on the scene,
Bacon told a deputy, “I know you
can’t sell it, but I thought it was OK
to trade it.”
-- Kathleen Mathews was
outraged that the local community
could turn on her 26-year-old son,
Jesse, who had been charged with
capital murder for killing a Chattanooga, Tenn., police officer. She
told the judge in a letter that Jesse is
a “good man,” and lamented, “You
do one little thing that pisses people
off, and they want to hold it against
you forever.” [Chattanooga Times
Free Press, 2-12-2012]
Our Dynamic Democracy
-- Oklahoma state Sen. Ralph
Shortey, a staunch abortion opponent, introduced a bill in January
to ban the use of human fetuses in
processed food. Although the principal anti-abortion advocacy official
in the state said he had never heard
of such a practice, Sen. Shortey asserted that it was a problem and that
he had been reading up on it on the
Internet.
-- Kyle Bower, 19, was
elected in November to a seat on the
Alburtis (Pa.) Borough Council. Before being sworn in, however, he was
sentenced to probation for stalking
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an ex-girlfriend and tossing a brick
through her window. Now that he is
seated, he still must answer to 2010
charges in Kutztown, Pa., of resisting arrest for public drunkenness. In
both incidents, he also displayed an
uncanny ability to slip out of handcuffs and wander away from arresting officers.
Least Competent Criminals
Law enforcement officers
turn to Facebook nowadays to help
solve crimes, knowing that some
perpetrators cannot resist bragging
about or even showing off things
they’ve recently stolen. For example, Steven Mulhall, 21, will be
easily prosecuted for stealing the
nameplate off the door of Broward
County (Fla.) judge Michael Orlando -- since he posted in March
a photograph of himself holding
it following a courtroom visit. (In
other Facebook news, in Tacoma,
Wash., in March, corrections officer
Alan O’Neill, 41, was charged with
bigamy after his long-estranged first
wife found out about the second one
when Facebook suggested the two
be “friends.”)
Recurring Themes
In February, a 41-year-old
man in a pond in Gosport, England,
apparently suffered an epileptic seizure while feeding swans in water
about three feet deep. Firefighters
were called, but the first one to arrive remained on shore, explaining
that he had been trained only for
“ankle deep” water and would have
to await a colleague trained in “chest
high” water. In July 2011, a man
committed suicide in San Francisco
Bay by wading into neck-deep water
and remaining until he died of hypothermia. Firefighters from the city
of Alameda watched from the shore
because they lacked water-rescue
“training.” (In neither situation was
it proved that the victim would have
survived if rescued sooner.)
Armed and Clumsy (all new!) Men (almost never a woman) Who Accidentally Shot Themselves Recently: Lee Miars, 30,
Myrtle Creek, Ore., while pointing
a gun at his head to illustrate a story
for friends (January). A 22-yearold Navy SEAL, San Diego, Calif.,
while pointing a gun at his head to
convince friends it was unloaded
(January). Riki Ingram, 18, Baker,
La., shot his leg while “holstering”
his gun to his pocket following a
robbery (December). Ethan Bennett, 36, Monroe, Wash., aiming at a
squirrel running up his leg, shot his
foot (November). Special Deputy
Ted Maze, Bedford, Ind., shot his
hand while reloading at a training
session (June). Kenneth Fortson, 21,
Atlanta, was killed in a police chase
following a home invasion (by, apparently, holding a gun as his pickup
truck hit a tree and jarred his trigger
finger) (October). Larry Godwin,
68, Redfield, Iowa, shot himself
twice firing at a raccoon in a live
trap (February). Page 10 - Senior Beacon - Apr., 2012 Visit Us at http://www.seniorbeacon.info
Begin Spring Cleaning By Reducing Toxic Stress
by Charlene Causey
In the day and age we live in
stress is unavoidable. It seems that
lately worry, anxiety, and overall pressure is mounting. Some would call it
the birthing pains of things to come,
and others are hopeful that eventually
everything will “turn out alright”. Either way you look at it, everyone deals
with a tremendous load of stress and
it is important to find healthy ways
to detoxify this particular health risk. Reducing toxic stress regularly will
bring proper focus to what really matters in life.
Ever since 911 there has been
a heightened awareness that things
will never be the same, and ever since
then it seems that life is more and
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more insane. People who are not
firmly grounded in a belief system
tend to vacillate between apathy and
hopelessness. Others choose to bury
their heads in a plethora of multi-media escapism and just accept the “inevitable”. Some, however, desire to be
proactive and not only find solutions
to the stress in their lives, but be part
of a community who seeks to lessen
the stress for others.
Stress raises the cortisol levels
in the blood which is a powerful “fight
or flight” hormone. Designed to help
when true emergencies occur, cortisol
has its place, but with chronic ongoing stress the cortisol levels remain
high and can cause various stress-related disorders. Some of those issues
include heart disease, cancer, diabetes, digestive troubles, mental disorders and the dreaded accumulation of
belly fat. These all tend to create a
vicious cycle, which like a carousel in
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APRIL 2: Sloppy Joe/Bun, Sicilian
Mixed Veggies, Spinach, Diced
Peaches, Potato Leek Soup.
april 3: Chicken Fajita, Flour
Tortilla, Black Beans, Jello, Garden
Vegetable Soup.
april 4: Pork Fried Rice, Oriental
Veggies, Lima Beans/Carrots,
Yogurt, Beef Barley Soup.
april 5: Chicken Suyiaki, Carrots
Broccoli, Chocolate Ice Cream,
Navy Bean Soup.
april 6: Pasta Primavera, Spinach,
Stewed Tomatoes, Orange Cream
of Broccoli Soup.
april 9: Beans/Ham, Confetti
Rice, Peas/Mushrooms, Fresh
Orange, Seafood Gumbo.
april 10: Chicken Cacciatore,
Orzo Pasta, Spinach, Bananas/
Oranges, Black Bean Soup.
april 11: Beef Soft Taco, Mixed
Vegetables, Calabacita,Pineapple
Tid Bits, Tomato Florentine Soup.
april 12: Fish/Pueblo Salsa, Oven
Roasted Potatoes, Italian Mixed
Veggies, Apricots, Minestrone
Soup.
april 13: Roast Beef/Au Jus,
Parslied Potatoes, Sugar Snap Peas,
motion, can be very difficult to stop
and get off.
Since everyone has different
stressors and various ways of dealing
with them, there are some general
guidelines that will apply to most individuals. Careful introspection is
a good place to begin to determine
from where the most amount of stress
is coming. Once the major areas of
stress are identified, then a plan can be
formulated to reduce, as much as possible, the causes of that stress. Deep
breathing exercises play an important
role in slowing the heartbeat, lowering the blood pressure and just relaxing the nerves so that one can think
more clearly and gain some perspective about the situation.
Taking a break from news,
media, and technology in general is
recommended for those inundated
with those facets of life. Sitting at a
computer for long hours causes stress
on the back, shoulders, and the eyes. Partaking in a “news fast” as Dr. Weil
likes to call it, can be refreshing, freeing up some extra time to do something else more enjoyable. Choosing
only one source to receive news from
is a good idea, since you avoid being
bombarded by repeated negativity.
Regular exercise is a great
stress reducer as is getting adequate
sleep. Having a bedtime routine such
as no eating for two hours before
bedtime, dimming the lights, drinking some warm tea, and not looking
at computers, T.V. or smart phones
within an hour of going to bed may
promote more restful sleep. Wise eating goes a long way to keeping blood
sugar and hormone levels stable. A
proper balance between protein, carbohydrates and fats, adequate water
and eating at least every four to five
hours will ensure that stability.
Other suggestions for stress reduction include listening to enjoyable
music, having a pet, particularly a cat,
journaling, praying and meditating,
or joining a group that has a focus of
interest in which your participation
gives you much pleasure. For some,
gardening or just being outdoors
brings renewal. Others like cooking
and homemaking or spending lots of
time with loved ones. Finding something that helps you is the key. For a
free stress index test, email me, and
I will send it to you so that you can
begin ridding yourself of toxic stress.
Charlene Causey is a former registered
nurse, who has also been a model,
nutrition and fitness instructor, and
educational consultant. She is currently a Certified Natural Health Professional, a certified personal trainer, and
lifestyle developer, whose main focus
is a natural approach to health and
wellness. She can be reached at (719)
250-0683 or [email protected]
Call SRDA at 545-8900 for congregate meal site and Meals-On-Wheels Info!
Mixed Veggies, Orange Chicke,
Barley Soup.
april 19: Texas BBQ Sandwich,
Carrots, Breen Beans, Bananas &
Oranges, Veggies, Florentine Soup.
april 20: Breaded Fish w/ Lemon,
Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Mixed
Veggies, Cream of Spinach Soup.
april 23: Chili Mac, Mexican
Corn, Winder Mixed Veggies, Diced
Peaches, Navy Bean Soup.
april 24: Spaghetti/Meat Sauce,
Italian Mixed Veggies, Yellow
Squash, Orange Chicken, Noodle
Soup.
april 25: Pork Green Chili, Garlic
Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans,
Apple, Tomato Rice Soup.
april 26: Lemon Chicken,
Mushroom Barley Salad, Mixed
Veggies, Banana, Navy Bean Soup.
april 27: Tuna Noodle Casserole,
Winder Mixed Veggies, Brussel
Sprouts, Apricots, Garden Veggie
Soup.
Diced Peaches, Seafood Gumbo.
april 17: Chili Relleno Casserole, april 30: Beef Pot Roast, Baked
april 16: Roast Turkey/Gravy, Broccol, Black Eyed Peas, Fruit Sweet Potato, Peas/Carrots, Diced
Green Beans, Acorn Squash, Cocktail, Green Chili Soup.
Peaches, Minestrone Soup.
Strawberry Applesauce, Apricots, april 18: Smothered Pork Chop,
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Split Pea Soup.
Peas & Carrots, Scandinavian
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&Pueblo West. Why Not Stop By Or Give Them A Call And Thank Them?
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Senior Community Update
Taxpayer Information for
2011 Tax Season
The AARP Free tax preparation
will begin on February 1, 2012 at 230
N. Union, Joseph Edward Senior Center,
(SRDA). There are some very important
changes that need to be addressed before
taxpayers come to have their returns
completed. Every person that is to be
listed on a return must have a physical
Social Security Card or a letter from the
Social Security office giving the complete
Social Security number of the individual.
Financial institutions and employers are
now only required to print the last four
numbers of a social security number on
any forms sent to taxpayers. A document
(card or letter) from the Social Security
Office is needed to verify the complete
number for an individual. If you do not
have, either a card or letter, the taxpayer
needs to visit the local Social Security
Office to obtain a card or letter.
Tax Preparation
Volunteers needed
The Pueblo VITA Coalition
(Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) is
looking for volunteers to become IRScertified tax preparers for the upcoming
tax season. Training will be on January
7, 2012 in Pueblo and is free of charge.
This year the VITA program is
funded through Pueblo County United
Way. This will be the fifth year this
service will be available in Pueblo. Last
year we served 800 families and individuals in Pueblo bringing $900K back into
the community through refunds which
include many tax credits and eliminates
the cost of a private tax preparer. Call
296-8768 in Pueblo for more information.
TAX PREP SCHEDULE
Thank you for all your help in
getting the word out about free tax prep
for people in the community. Charlene
Gardner if you need more information
please call me: 719-564-9452 or 719242-8510 or e-mail: [email protected]
Begin Feb. 1, end April 13, 2012
(Closed Feb. 20)
Joseph Edward Senior Center
(SRDA), 230 N. Union Avenue
Pueblo, CO 81003
Monday - Thursday 9:30 AM to 2:30
PM Friday 9:30 AM to 12 Noon
Sign up on Second Floor
First come - First served
Feb. 4 and 11, end April 7:
10 AM to 3 PM
Westminster Presbyterian Church
10 University Circle
Pueblo, CO 81005
Feb. 16, Mar. 27 and Apr. 5
Walsenburg Senior Center
928 Russell Street
Must call for appointment: 719-7382205.
Take your place in History!
Become a Volunteer at El
Pueblo History Museum
Experience unique opportunities while working with museum professionals or interacting with visitors. You
will also explore Colorado’s history in a
completely new way. History Colorado/
El Pueblo History Museum is currently
seeking volunteers for the front desk/gift
shop.
Volunteers that serve at least 100
hours in a calendar year receive membership to History Colorado, which includes
free admission to all State museums and a
discount in the gift shops, as well as many
other exciting opportunities.
For more information, please call
Kathleen Byers at 719/583-0453 x102.
Thank you for your support.
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
“The Southeastern Colorado
Genealogy Society holds regular meetings on the second Saturday of the month
beginning at 2:00pm in the Meeting Room
“B,” Robert Hoag Rawlings Library, 100
Abriendo Ave., Pueblo. There is a continuing Refresher/Beginners class starting
at 1:00PM. Call 250-5782 for details.”
Guests welcome and there is no charge.
SOCO SENIOR CLUB
Southern Colorado Social Club
will host a Rootin-Tootin Western dance
and dinner. April 14, at the D .A. V. 2850
O’ Neal . Dinner 6:00, dance 7:00-11:00
with music by Sierra Gold.
Tickets are $15.00 for club members and $17.00 non-members. For tickets call 948-3986.
STROKE SURVIVORS SUPPORT
GROUP
The Stroke Survivors Support
Group has two chapters. The Pueblo
West Chapter meets at 2:00 pm the first
Thursday of every month at the Pueblo
West Library. The Pueblo Chapter meets
at 2:00 pm the second Tuesday of each
Quality care,
Compassionate Touch
W
hether you need short-term rehabilitation
or long-term residential care, Pueblo Care and
Rehabilitation Center’s interdisciplinary team
offers the specialized healthcare services you
deserve in a homelike environment.
Contact us today for more information.
(719) 564-1735
2611 Jones Ave. • Pueblo, CO
www.sunbridgehealthcare.com
month at the Joseph Edwards Senior
Center in Pueblo On Union Ave.
Call Chuck at 583-8498 for all
the information.
LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE
SUPPORT GROUP
Support group for Lou Gehrig’s
Disease (ALS). Second Thursday each
month, 6-7 PM. Thatcher Bldg. 503
N. Main, Suite 103, Pueblo, CO . Call
Peggie at 719-584-3068 for all the info.
OWLS MEETING
The OWLS (older-wiser-livelier-seniors) invites new members for their
social group that has activities including
dining out, bowling, movies, picnics and
others. For more information please call
Joe or Marie @ 545-2803
RIDE TO CHURCH?
Looking for a ride to church?
Call Wesley United Methodist Church at
561-8746 and we can make arrangements
to transport you to worship and fellowship.”
SRDA CALENDAR
SRDA at 545-8900 has activitites for seniors every weekday of the
month. From quilting to bridge and from
computer classes to movies with popcorn
and exercise classes, SRDA tries have
offer something for everyone in terms of
activities throughout the month.
LIVING WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS?
Osteoarthritis does not only
strike the knees, hips and hands. In an
estimated one million Americans, it also
affects the small, vulnerable joints of the
neck, and can cause sudden attacks of
severe pain that may radiate into the head
and arms.
How can they ease the pain, deal
with the limitations it causes, and support
their doctor’s treatment? With the help of
some of the world’s leading spine specialists, the American Arthritis Society
has compiled twelve practical tips for
self-care that are effective and easy to
follow. Please visit the Society’s website
at: www.americanarthritis.org.
AARP Schedule of Activities
Pueblo Information Center
AARP PHONE: (719) 543-8876, 1117
Prairie Avenue. HOURS: Mon-Sat 103pm Pueblo, Colorado 81005
Safe Driving Classes, Benefits
Check-up, exercising, Tai-Chi, eating
right, Census Bureau testing, Model T
care group, Convergys recruiting, classic cars, Food Share America, Better
Breathers, preparing taxes, quilters group,
medicare and financial planning assistance and more available this month.
TOASTMASTERS
What: Pueblo Toastmasters
#179 Public Speaking Class
Pueblo Senior
Safety Triad
Safety for seniors is our goal.
• Information & Referral
• Senior Resource Directory
• Senior Safety Kits
• Senior Advocates
• Provides Educational
Programs
• Assists Senior Victims &
Seniors At Risk
• Promotes Safety To Reduce
Fear Of Crime
Senior Helpline
583-6611
Where: 310 East Abriendo Ave.
Next to the Dept. of Revenue/Driver’s
License Office (in the Conference Room
on the 2nd floor of the Security Service
Federal Credit Union’s building)
When: 2nd & 4th Mon., of every
month, 6:15 - 7:15PM
Contact: Robert W. Johnson,
719-251-8841
Alzheimer’s Support
The second Tuesday of each
month at 7 pm at the Ecumenical Church
located at 434 S. Conquistador Room C
an Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group
will meet Call 544-5720. Tom Reyes,
Facilitator.
COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVES
Please call Julie Scott at (800)
365-0006, press 0. ext. 2873 julie_scott@
bonfils.org for Pueblo and Pueblo West
Community Blood Drivesfor info.
job seekers
Southern Colorado Job Seekers
meets the third Tuesday of each month.
Contact Bill Smith, 719-583-1837,
Patrick Hurley 719-561-1134 or email
them at [email protected]
HOW DO YOU FEEL?
Come and join us for
C.H.A.N.G.E. Canceling Habits Affirming
New Goals Easily at 1:00 P.M. on the 3rd
Saturday every month at the Rawlings
Library 100 E. Abriendo Ave. Pueblo,
Colorado. For more information please
contact: Ramona Lombard (719) 5832732 [email protected] Ramona
Lombard.com
Pueblo and Pueblo West
Senio/Retirees
We would love to have you
join us for our Thursday Feb. 9th St
Valantine’s Day monthly potluck luncheon, 11:45 to 1:45, at the PW Memorial
Recreational Center. Plan your covered
dish or dessert to share.
For information and directions
call 647-8969 or 404-4413.
ADULT SURVIVORS OF
CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE
WINGS provides therapist facilitated support groups for men and women
in which survivors are believed, accepted
and no longer alone. There is a women’s
group on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. For more information contact the
WINGS office at 1-800-373-8671.Visit
our website at www.wingsfound.org.
THE BREAKFAST CLUB
(For Senior Singles)
Please come out and enjoy breakfast with with our senior singles (55 plus)
group at the Golden Corral here in Pueblo
on the 3rd Saturday of each month at 8:30
am. We are a new chapter of “The Breakfast Club” for senior singles which has
over 500 members (and growing) in four
chapters from Pueblo to Denver. A member of one chapter enjoys the benefits of
all chapters. For more information call:
719-242-8762.
Hildebrand Care
Center
Where Quality of Life
Always Comes First
1401 Phay Avenue - Cañon City, CO
719-275-8656
OFFERING SINGLE OCCUPANCY
ROOMS TO ALL PAY SOURCES.
NO ANCILLARY CHARGES
• Skilled nursing care
• PT, OT and Speech Therapy
• Music Therapist
• Respite Care - Hospice Care
• Special needs unit for
Alzheimer’s Disease &
Related Disorders
• Ice cream parlor-Country store-Library
• Chapel-Rec Room-Beauty/Barber Shop
Owned and operated by the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows & Rebakahs of CO.
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Senior
LifeFor
Festival
My name is Derek Evilsizor
I’m a Colorado native, I’ve been a
bag boy, a bus boy, a shag boy, a car
washer, a MARINE, an emissions
control systems specialist, an electricians apprentice, pizza delivery boy, a
car salesman, an advertising salesman,
a copy-machine repairman, then I
started a karaoke business and shortly
after I began singing Frank Sinatra
to a small crowd at a restaurant-- I’ve
been singing for a living ever since. That was ten + years ago. I perform all over the world!
From Denver, Keystone and Steam-
boat Colorado to Boston, Dallas,
Houston, San Francisco, San Diego,
Desert Highlands, Sacramento, Palm
beach, Kentucky, Kansas, Hawaii,
Mexico and even Walla Walla. I’ve
been lucky enough to donate some
of my time to organizations such as;
The battered women’s shelter, Special Olympics, the Griffith center for
children, Ovarian Cancer, Children’s
Hospital, The good samaritan foundation, Cancer league, and many
anonymous events for Seniors, Senior
Centers and nursing and Alzheimer’s
care centers.
Booth Participants For 2012 LifeFest
Here is the list of booths for this year’s Life Festival of 2012. Life
Care Center, University Park Care Center. Physician’s Choice Medical,
Pueblo Transit, Pueblo Chemical Depot, Home Instead, Lincare, Senior
Blue Book, United Health Care, AARP, Southern Colorado Better Business
Bureau, Argus Home Care, Rocky Mountain Health Plans, Senior Beacon,
Sangre De Cristo Hospice, Humana INC, SRDA/ARCH/211, Saunders
Implant and Denture Care, Modern Woodmen, Total Longterm Care, Pueblo Athletic Club, State Nursing Home in Florence, Minnequa Medicenter,
Legacy Commons, Colorado State Nursing Home Walsenburg, Critical
Nurse Staffing, Fesmire Heating and Air Conditioning, Book One/Book
Two, Tupperware by Connie, Pueblo Area Agency on Aging, Thirty-One
Gifts, Scentsy, MaryKay, Xocai Healthy Chocolate, Home Source Partners, InnovAge Home Care (formerly Seniors Inc.).
Parking for the Senior Life Festival is at all parking lots at the
Sangre De Cristo Arts and Conference Center and also parking between
3rd and 4th streets on Santa Fe. There is also parking on the street if
needed.
Kathilee Champlin, Director
Boy talk about tooting my
own horn huh? Anyhoo... I hope this
helps you get to know me a little better. Pretty much all ya need to know
is that I’m a Son and a Brother, A
Friend and A Father, a Christian and
a Sinner, a Husband. At times a genius and an idiot, I’m also a Singer. These things define my past
and give you a preview of my future.
I am a Dreamer...and I’m willing to share. I’m blessed to be able to
do what I love for a living. Dream and
Sing, live out dreams in the present,
and dream of good times yet to come. God is a great people maker and has
made each of us very different. I am
thankful that He has given me the
opportunity to share with others how
different I am. I am equally thankful that I have the opportunity to help
others have a great time and share
that different side of themselves too. Soooo, All together now, let’s all be as
different as we like.
Since God has allowed me the
opportunity to show you what a great
Odds And Ends
people maker he is, I’ve been able to
extend and receive more “thank you’s”
than anyone I know.
Thank you for giving me another opportunity to shine!
Cleo C. Corsi-Zarr, Community Outreach Specialist, InnovAge Life on Your
Terms, 553-0400
Cleo began her career in senior care at S.R.D.A. the Senior Resource Development Agency of Pueblo. While there she began the work with SRDA’s Board of
Directors, Senator Abel Tapia, County Commissioners, City Council and Catholic
Charities to bring a new non-profit into Pueblo County. Two years later Total Longterm Care (now known as InnovAge) opened its doors to care for our Communities
seniors in a completely Innovative Caring way.
Cleo will speak about this progressive Federal and State Funded P.A.C.E.
Program a Non-Profit Medical Center located at 401 W. Northern Ave, Pueblo.
(P.A.C.E., Providing all inclusive Care for the Elderly)
Now Accepting New Patients
121 S. 5th St.
Cañon City, CO 81212
(719) 275-1101
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1/17/08
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From: Jim Grasso 719-406-4539
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volunteer services over more than a
quarter of a century developing various delivery “routes”, packing meals
for delivery, fitting in emergency addons and personally delivering meals
on several Mesa routes for the Home
Delivered Meals Program, with state
and federal funding by the Pueblo
Area Agency on Aging (PAAA) under
a contract with Senior Resources Development Agency (SRDA), as well
as, local funding raised through bequests, consumer contributions and
persistent fundraising activities. Edward A. Rizer was born in
Pueblo to Edward F. and Bess Rizer
on December 13, 1920. Ed was married to Berna Else in 1942. Together they were blessed with two sons,
George and James and a daughter Effie Fern. He became a US Postal Carrier in 1943 at $.65 an hour, retiring
in 1974. From 1974 to 1994, Ed was
the owner/operator of a Saint Charles
Mesa Hardware store, and another
store on Sunset Drive from 1980 to
1990. In 1986, Ed was approached
by Darlene Shiflet, the SRDA Meals
Supervisor at the time, and asked him
to assist with planning the delivery
“routes” because of his tremendous
knowledge of Pueblo locations and
street patterns. “Meals on Wheels”,
as this vital program is known, has
served 250-300 meals each weekday,
with a smaller number on weekends
and Holidays. Since that time, Ed has
been an irreplaceable key player and
Edward A. Rizer, was named the 2012
Senior Citizen of the Year by the Pueblo Area Agency on Aging in conjunction with Senior Resurces Development
Agency, and will be feted at the 15th
Annual Seniors Life Festival on Friday
April 27 at the Sangre De Cristo Arts
Center in Pueblo.
the backbone of the Meals on Wheels
program. Ed has shown tireless dedication to mapping out routes in the
most efficient way, with a strong
concern for the safety of the volunteer drivers, constantly reworking the
routes because of the changing needs
of the Home Delivered Meals program. Ed thoughtfully packs lunches
in order of delivery. Ed began delivering meals seven days, then five days,
then three days a week. Edward A.
Rizer truly exemplifies all the wonderful attributes of Pueblo Senior Citizen
of the Year 2012. This year’s Older Americans
Month theme is “Never Too Old to
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15th
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Two Will Receive Community Service Awards
Ed. Note: Every year Kathilee Cham- 30 years. I thank the Lord for givplin, the Director of the Life Festi- ing me this opportunity and being
blessed with a wonderval for the past 15 years,
ful wife and three chilfetes two people as Senior
dren who have helped
Community leaders. This
me throughout as well
year C.C. Wood and your
as Jan McLaughlin
Editor and Chief, Cook
and Randy Gottula.
and Bottle Washer, James
I enjoyed the bowling
Grasso, were chosen. As for
and golf tournaments
my part in being a recipiwe’ve put together as
ent I have done what I’ve
well as this wonderful
loved every month since
Life Festival.
August 1982 in publishOh yeah and if you
ing Senior Beacon. I am
think I look bad in the
blessed with a great fampicture on this page,
ily and I’ve done my very
best to inform and entertain the wait until you see me in person
Cecilia Wood, affectionately
Senior Community over these past
MORE LIFEFEST 2012 INFORMATION ON PAGE 30.
APRIL 27, 2012
known as C.C., is a
retired City of Pueblo
Government employee
who retired in 2003
after 30 years of service in the public sector.
In addition to her responsibilities as Payroll
Administrator for the
City’s Police, Fire, and
General Service, C.C.
volunteered her time
serving as the Treasurer
and Vice President for
the City’s Union. C.C., also, served
on the negotiating committee for the
General Service City Employees.
C.C. became actively involved
in the Miss America-Colorado Pageant
System in the late 1990s as her daughter, Heather Wood, became interested
in pageantry. From 1998 thru 2003,
C.C. held the franchise for the Miss
America Organization and was a Certified Miss America Judge. She also was
the director of the Pueblo Jr. Teen/Miss
Teen Pageant. C.C. has also donated her
services to the Pueblo Youth Hockey Association, from 2000 -2008, and served
in the capacity as Tournament Director
and Treasurer. CC also served on the
Board of the Pueblo Youth Project and
CHASE Middle School Program. She
is very active in the community and
has been involved in Relay for Life, Senior Life
Festival, FBLA Judging, and Empty Bowls.
CC has been a DECA
judge for the area high
school competitions and
currently serves as the
DECA Judges Chair,
responsible for recruiting volunteer judges for
both the regional and
state levels of DECA
competition. C.C. is a
member of the Southern Colorado
Heritage Center and Pueblo Performing Arts Guild.
CC is currently the Director
of the Miss Pueblo County Scholarship pageant. CC’s passion is working with the girls of her pageant
where she strives to teach them selfconfidence. She also teaches the girls
to give back to the community by
volunteering time and effort to make
Pueblo a better place to live. CC has
been married to her loving husband,
Daryl, for 29 years. They have three
children, Aaron, Heather, and Jeremy, and have three grandchildren. In
her “spare time”, CC enjoys boating
at Pueblo Reservoir, camping, hunting, and fishing.
Pueblo County Commissioners Will Be At LifeFest 2012
Ed. Note: Each year the County Commissioners donate coffee and ice tea free of
charge for all the seniors at the Life Festival. Here is some info on about the County
Commissioners.
John B. Cordova Sr.
Mr. Cordova Sr. moved to Pueblo
from the State of New
Mexico in 1952 when
his father was hired by
CF&I. He was raised
in Eastwood Heights,
attended schools in
the Pueblo City School District,
and went on to graduate from the
University of Southern Colorado
(CSU-Pueblo) with a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Civil Engineering Technology.
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Railroad. He became a general
contractor, an occupation he still
holds.
Commissioner Cordova was
elected in September 2007; and was
re-elected in November 2008 to a
four-year term. He is Commissioner
Chairman Pro Tem and belongs to numerous boards and organizations. He
is president of AFSCME, Colorado
Public Employee Retiree Chapter 76,
and president of board for Colorado
Bluesky Enterprises. He also serves
on at least 11 more boards.:
Commissioner Cordova, has
2 sons, 1 daughter, 7 grandchildren
and 2 great-granddaughters..
Anthony Nuñez
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himself. Anthony is also a very successful entrepreneur, owning several businesses in the community.
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Colonel Jeff Chostner
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School in 1969. He
was inducted into
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Hall of Fame in
March 2001. Colonel
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Answer: It is important to name a
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You may appoint a guardian
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children you currently have, as well
as those you may have in the future.
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revoke the nomination at any time before a guardian is appointed. It is important to know that the probate court
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What Criminals Do
Often, the problem is a scam
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these scams. These crimes can seriously affect the lives of their victims
and their families.
The criminals tend to talk a
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The scammers can “spoof ” caller
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money order or cash. They may try
to get you to send money that’s just
for “taxes and fees.” Scammers might
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as an advance on the winnings, with
instructions to cash and return the
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than just the odds are against you.
Fortunately, The United
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What You Can Do
If you or a loved one receives
an unsolicited offer, Postal Inspec-
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• Hang up the phone or delete the e-mail;
• Don’t give out personal or
financial information to anyone over
the Internet or phone;
• Never wire or send money
to anyone, anywhere who says you
have won a foreign lottery;
• Don’t let anyone pressure
you into making an immediate decision;
• Never purchase anything
until you get all information in writing.
What The Law Says
Foreign lotteries aren’t just a
risky proposition for American consumers; under many circumstances,
they are also illegal. A federal statute
prohibits mailing lottery tickets, advertisements or payments to purchase
tickets in a foreign lottery.
What’s Being Done
Combating foreign lottery
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Postal Inspection Service. Inspector
Paul Krenn says if you suspect you’re
a victim of a fraud or have received
a suspected fraud through the U.S.
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There’s Nothing Like A Holiday
Cruising Safely, Minding The Pleas & Crews
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Most of us spend little time
thinking about safety on vacation.
Yet, the same dangers at home follow us around the world and may
sting if we let our guard down just
because we are on holiday.
Experts say that the key to
traveling safely is to manage the
risks. That means being aware of
your surroundings and the level of
seriousness of potential dangers, being prepared for what could happen,
and being careful about venturing
into the unknown.
There’s not a whole lot you
can do about natural or unnatural
disasters that arrive without warning. You follow instructions, use
your common sense, and hope for
the best.
Such events as airplane
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or a cruise ship that strikes a rock
and sinks off the coast of Italy cannot be anticipated. Without diminishing the impact on passengers and
crew of the late Costa Concordia that
sunk in January, safety experts point
out that such disasters are highly unlikely. Danger is more probable in
highway traffic on the road to your
home airport.
That said, managing risks can make
a big difference in saving travelers
from cruise injury, including accidents, robbery, and rape.
A cruise ship is about as
safe a place as you can choose for
vacation. The ship is full of security
video cameras in all public areas
(chances are if you leave your cell
phone on deck or drop your wallet in the hallway, security guys are
watching), restaurants are as clean
as you find anywhere, and you never
have to worry about who will drive
home after a little too much wine.
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for emergencies; consider efforts by
the crew of Carnival Splendor that
brought everybody home safely after an engine fire off the coast of
Mexico.
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cruisers I talk with place little im- Outside of alcohol-related
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Yet, not everyone comes cruisers face food and water-borne
home safely from a cruise.
illnesses, he said. Then comes being
Passengers are injured on a victim of crime, theft and scams
motorbikes in the Bahamas and Car- both onboard and offboard the ship.
ibbean, fall seriously ill from eating “People tend to let their norat dirty restaurants during port stops, mal defenses down on a cruise,” said
and are victims of robbery, assault McIndoe, “and assume everyone
and rape, on and off cruise ships.
there is like them and not a risk.”
Safety experts emphasize that just McIndoe says that travelers would
because people are on vacation be better off if they hear their mothdoesn’t mean that common sense er talking:
goes out the window. Said one se- “Moderate the alcohol, be
curity guy who didn’t want to be cautious in your activities, stay in a
quoted by name: “Young women group (as opposed to wandering off
who get drunk and follow strange alone with a stranger), off the ship
men to shadowy areas of a ship are eat only what is cooked or you peel,
just as likely to be victims at sea as don’t let your guard down, and if
they are on land.”
something doesn’t feel right, listen
Bruce McIndoe, president of to your body.”
iJet, a company that provides risk All this is a valuable lesson
management to multinational corpo- to remember: You are not safe from
rations and governments, says that harm just because you are on vacamost cruise ship risks are related to tion.
David Molyneaux writes monthly about
the use of alcohol.
He is editor of TheTravelMavens.
Mixing drinks with on-board cruising.
com
activities, such as wave pools and
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Home Sweet Home
Home Grown: Cool Crops For The Summer Garden
by Marty Ross
Take your pick. Vegetable
gardening is hotter than ever this
year, and seed suppliers are tempting novice gardeners and old hands
alike with new, healthy and easy
crops of every description.
Tomatoes lead the pack, as
always, but hybridizers are not finished tinkering with squash, peppers, cucumbers and greens, either.
All-time favorite vegetables are
showing up in new sizes, shapes
and colors in seed catalogs this year,
alongside interesting crops from
around the world.
“The great thing about the
business is there’s always something
new, it’s a non-stop learning curve,”
says Lynn Byczynski, the owner of
Seeds from Italy and editor of Growing for Market, a newsletter for market gardeners. Byczynski owns a
cut-flower farm in Lawrence, Kan.,
and has been growing for market for
20 years.
Fresh vegetables just can’t
get any more local than your own
backyard, and every new season
stimulates gardeners’ appetites to try
new varieties. Burpee’s annual seed
catalog, for example, lists 150 new
varieties for 2012. Seeds are more
popular than ever, says George Ball,
CEO and chairman of Burpee, but
you don’t have to start from seed:
All the traditional seed-sellers offer transplants ready to set out in the
garden, too.
One of Burpee’s biggest introductions this year is the BOOST
line of vegetables, developed for
their extra-high vitamin and nutritional values and great taste. Three
tomatoes, a pepper, a cucumber, and
a healthy blend of lettuce and baby
greens are all designed to hit “that
sweet spot,” Ball says, where taste
and nutrition are at their peak. These
vegetables have up to five times
more of the healthful antioxidants
beta-carotene and lycopene than
standard varieties.
Another new Burpee tomato,
Big Daddy, is a hybrid developed
from the all-time favorite Big Boy,
with even more disease resistance.
“Big Daddy can resist the many
plagues that a summer can bring,”
Ball says. “We went through a lot of
tomatoes to find it.” It takes about
five years to hybridize and bring a
tomato to market, Ball says.
Gardeners are looking for
crops that will flourish in small
spaces, says Josh Kirschenbaum,
who works in product development
for Territorial Seed. The company’s
“urban jungle basket” for tiny, jampacked farms right in town, includes
seeds of tomatoes, broccoli, carrots,
cucumbers, lettuces, radishes and 10
other vegetables suitable for small
gardens, for pots or even for window
boxes. A new summer squash, Patio
Star, grows on plants half the size of
standard zucchini plants but produces full-sized fruit by the bushel.
“I’m going to try it,”
Like Burpee,
she says. “I don’t know
Territorial Seed is
if it will be successful,
introducing quite a
but I’m going to try.”
few new tomatoes,
Taking chances with
including the bluenew crops is part of the
skinned Indigo Rose,
fun of growing your
which has a naturally
own. You always learn
high concentration
something, Byczynski
of antioxidants. The
says: “Every year is difcompany was the
ferent, every garden is
first to offer gardendifferent.” Even if you
ers grafted tomato
have an occasional crop
plants, with rootstock
chosen for vigor and Harvest an abundance of failure, the satisfaction
disease resistance, garden-fresh nutrition with of harvesting your own
BOOST vegetables.
and scions selected Burpee’s
Three tomatoes, a sweet pep- tomatoes, fresh kale or
for taste. Grafted per, a cucumber and a blend homegrown broccoli
tomatoes are aston- of lettuce and greens were all quickly erases the disespecially for their appointment of a crop
ishingly productive, hybridized
high vitamin and antioxidant
that didn’t make it.
Kirschenbaum says. values. photo: Burpee
The success of the crop
Grafted eggplants,
new this year, are especially good can’t really be measured in the size
for gardeners in cool climates, of the harvest: When you pick them
where heat-loving eggplants often yourself, even cherry tomatoes are
huge.
fail to mature.
The growers who sell their IT’S TIME TO PLANT
The new crop of seed cataproduce at farmers markets are always looking out for early crops, logs is in full flower. Most mail-orand greens of every description der companies also have impressive
fit into what Byczynski calls the racks of seeds at garden shops, and
“shoulder seasons” of spring and many offer transplants, ready for the
fall. “Greens are so quick,” she garden. Here are some of the best
says. You can plant a crop of kale, new introductions this year:
-- Burpee (burpee.com): Big
arugula or mixed salad greens, and Guy jalapeno pepper; Easy Peasy
start picking within weeks.
“The whole notion of let- pea; Orange Wellington tomato
-- The Cook’s Garden
tuce, tomato and cucumber salads is out the window,” she says. “We’re (cooksgarden.com): Cherry Stuffer
growing some lettuces, a bunch of pepper; Mole sauce peppers; Delizia
chicories, baby spinach and baby tomato
-- Territorial Seed (territoarugula.” Byczynski is excited about the new “Flower Sprouts,” rialseed.com): Cute Stuff pepper;
which is being sold as a hybrid be- Early Hakucho edamame; Golden
tween Brussels sprouts and kale, in Rod squash
the Johnny’s Seed catalog.
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Home Sweet Home
Log Cabins And Luxury Get Together
by Bill LaHay
Little house on the prairie,
move over. There’s a new shelter in
town. A number of them, actually,
and while they share your roughhewn roots, these homes are anything
but the crude structures typically associated with rustic construction. The
materials might be familiar -- natural
stone, rough-sawn or recycled timbers, hand-wrought metals, and massive logs -- but they are worked with
an uncommonly high level of artisanship, and on an impressive scale.
Think of a log cabin, on steroids, that
went to finishing school.
These are the homes featured
in Ralph Kylloe’s book “Rustic Elegance.” Kylloe has authored other
books on cabins and rustic homes,
but he’s aimed for something a little
different with this volume. For starters, these are mostly upscale properties -- architect-designed, fitted with
costly and carefully selected materials, and built by highly skilled teams.
They also happen to derive from a
Pollack
from page 3.
opment to come up with the drug
(that’s why brand-name drug makers are given exclusive rights to sell
a new drug for a period of time - so
they can recoup their investment).
Nor do they pay for the expensive
marketing campaigns, especially all
single source -- a Montana-based architect named Larry Pearson and his
team of in-house designers.
Pearson claims influences
ranging from LeCorbusier to Frank
Lloyd Wright and the Greene brothers,
all of which show up in his respectful
use of natural materials and a reliance
on well-placed windows to bring daylight into the homes. And like most
rustic buildings, these homes make
no attempt to hide their engineering
features. In fact, large stones, timbers
and other structural elements are deliberately highlighted in order to create a feeling of solidity and strength.
As much as the inherent warmth of
the materials, this display of strength
surely accounts for much of the visceral comfort evident in the homes.
There’s a reassuring sense of shelter,
almost primitive, that derives from it,
especially as many of the homes are
situated in mountainous northern areas where the outdoor elements can
be unfriendly to living things.
Being very site-specific in de-
sign and located in some magnificent
country, most of these homes cannot
be duplicated literally elsewhere, but
some signature elements would certainly translate to other locations and
designs. Here are some key themes:
-- Use regional stone: Handworked rock from local sources helps
the structure blend more naturally
into its surroundings. Feature it
prominently in foundations, exterior columns or piers, fireplace surrounds, or chimneys. Include some
large stones for an anchoring effect,
and keep them low to create a better
visual balance. Multiple hearths are
ideal; place them prominently as focal points.
-- Play with big round logs:
Large limbs or even sections of tree
trunk make ideal posts and beams.
Not every wood member should be
this scale, but you need some big
bones. Large exterior posts featuring
the butt flare of trunk roots can make
the home appear to grow out of the
ground, like the surrounding forest.
-- Use recycled and
repurposed
materials:
Almost any
rough or
hand-hewn
material
that’s had a chance to weather can
add rustic character. Doors, windows
and their frame/trim materials often
have to be sawn boards, but try to
find old barn siding or hand-hewn
beams rather than installing a lot of
new wood.
-- Get creative with lighting:
Pearson favors hand-forged metal and
even elk antlers for light fixtures, but
he achieves some of the most dramatic effects when the fixtures aren’t seen.
Instead, they are recessed or hidden
behind beams or trim and only their
output is visible. This placement can
create beautiful highlights on architectural details.
-- Add “civilized” touches: If
those TV ads we’ve gotten so used
to.
Generic drugs may use different fillers, coatings, and colorings, so they may not look like the
brand-name version, but there won’t
be any difference in how the drug
works in your body, which is what
really matters. That, and the much
lower price. There’s so much money at stake that brand-name drug
manufacturers are doing all kinds
of things to keep generic drugs off
the market. This past year, when the
anti-cholesterol brand-name drug
Lipitor became available as a generic, Lipitor’s manufacturer cut a deal
with insurance companies, letting
them offer Lipitor for a lower price.
Some insurance companies would
not even cover the generic version.
That kind of sweetheart deal is not
good for consumers in the long run
since it interferes with real competition and drives up health care costs.
In addition to more options
for cheaper generic drugs, there’s
also good news about Medicare Part
D prescription drug coverage. If you
have high drug costs and you hit the
“doughnut hole” in Medicare’s drug
coverage, Medicare will pay for
half the costs of brand-name drugs
and 14 percent of the (lower) cost
of generics in 2012. In 2013, Medicare will pay a little more for both
brand drugs and generics and you’ll
pay less of the total cost. Because of
these changes in the new health care
law, the average Medicare beneficiary who hits the doughnut hole will
save $735 in 2012. And, by 2021,
the doughnut hole will be closed
completely. For good.
If you have the chance to
use generics instead of brands, do
it. This is a rare opportunity to save
money and still get the same thing.
You can get more information from
Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
website, which has information to
help you make sure you’re getting
the best deal on a variety of prescription drugs. So talk to your doctor and your pharmacist about your
options for generics.
And, about those taxes: I
have to do mine, too. Maybe I’ll see
you in line at the post office on April
17th.
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from Melinda Minor, District Manager - Pueblo
efits on work credits. Anyone born in
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1929 or later needs 40 Social Security
GENERAL
credits to be eligible for retirement benQuestion:
I live in a hurricane zone and efits. You can earn up to four credits a
there’s always a good chance I’ll have year, so you will need to work at least
to evacuate. What should I do if I’m ex- 10 years to become eligible for retirepecting my check and a hurricane dis- ment benefits. Learn more by reading
the publication How You Earn Credits
rupts the mail?
at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10072.
Answer:
To avoid this situation alto- html.
gether, get your payments sent elec- Question:
Will my son be eligible to retronically. Direct Deposit and Direct Express are the fast, easy and secure ceive benefits on his retired father’s
ways to receive your benefit payment. record while going to college?
For more information, see www.social- Answer:
No. At one time, Social Secusecurity.gov/deposit.
rity did pay benefits to eligible college
RETIREMENT
students. But the law changed in 1981.
Question:
How long does a person need We now pay benefits only to students
to work to become eligible for retire- taking courses at grade 12 or below.
Normally, benefits stop when children
ment benefits?
reach age 18 unless they are disabled.
Answer:
We base Social Security ben- However, if children are still full-time
students at a secondary (or elementary)
school at age 18, benefits generally can
continue until they graduate or until two
months after they reach age 19, whichever is first. If your child is still going
to be in school at age 19, you’ll want to
visit www.socialsecurity.gov/schools.
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My brother had an accident at work last
year and is now receiving Social Security disability benefits. His wife and son
also receive benefits. Before his accident, he helped support another daughter by a woman he never married. Is the
second child entitled to benefits?
Answer:
The child may qualify for Social Security benefits even though your
brother wasn’t married to the second
child’s mother. The child’s caretaker
should file an application on her behalf.
For more information, visit us online at
www.socialsecurity.gov.
Question:
What is the “definition of disability” for
children filing for Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?
Answer:
A child is disabled if he or she:
• Has a physical or mental condition (or a combination of conditions)
that results in “marked and severe
functional limitations.” This means that
the condition very seriously limits the
child’s activities; and
• The condition has lasted, or is
expected to last, at least one year or is
expected to result in death; and
• Is not working at a job that we
consider to be substantial work.
To determine whether your
child meets the definition of disability,
we look at medical and other information (such as information from schools
and from you) about the child’s condition. We also consider how the condition
affects the child’s daily activities. We
consider: what activities is your child
not able to do, or is limited in doing;
the type of extra help and how much
extra help your child needs to perform
age-appropriate activities for example, special classes at school, medical
equipment; and whether the treatment
interferes with your child’s day-to-day
activities.
Remember that SSI is a needsbased program where family income
and resources also play a role in determining eligibility for benefits. For
more information, read Benefits For
A Chilling Statistic
In 1965, Daniel Patrick
Moynihan published a report on
behalf of LBJ about the ‘crisis’
in the black family in that 24
percent of black children were
born out of wedlock. Today, 73
percent are! And 41 percent
of all children are born to
unmarried women.
Children With Disabilities at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10026.html.
SSI
Question:
I’m going to visit relatives outside the country for two weeks during
the holidays. Can I still get Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI) payments
while I’m there?
Answer:
Your SSI usually will stop if
you leave the United States for 30 consecutive days or more. Since you are
going to be away for only two weeks,
your SSI should not be affected. However, it’s important that you tell Social
Security the date you plan to leave and
the date you plan to come back. Then
we can let you know whether your SSI
will be affected. For more information,
visit www.socialsecurity.gov or call our
toll-free number, 1-800-772-1213 (TTY
1-800-325-0778).
Question:
Are Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments paid only to disabled or blind people?
Answer:
No. In addition to people with
disabilities or blindness, SSI payments
can be made to people who are age 65
or older and have limited income and
financial resources. For more information, read our publication, Supplemental Security Income, at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/11000.html.
MEDICARE
Question:
How do I obtain a copy of the
form, Application for Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs?
Answer:
If you wish to apply for Extra
Help with Medicare prescription drug
plan costs, we recommend you use our
online application at www.socialsecurity.gov/i1020/. Meanwhile, you can
view a sample at www.socialsecurity.
gov/prescriptionhelp. There, you also
can find instruction sheets in 15 different languages to help you understand
the English application. Soon, the online application also will be available in
Spanish.
If you prefer not to fill out this
application on the Internet, you can call
our toll-free number, 1-800-772-1213,
to ask for a paper application. Also, you
can make an appointment at your local
Social Security office to apply for Extra
Help with Medicare prescription drug
plan costs. If you are deaf or hard of
hearing, call our toll-free TTY number,
1-800-325-0778. Representatives are
available Monday through Friday from
7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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two lots for sale at Imperial
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I Buy Old Cameras and Lenses,
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Clean ovens, refrigerators, whatever
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Colorectal Cancer Screening Test Shows Promise
(NAPSI)—Colorectal cancer
is the second-leading cancer killer in
the U.S.1—more than 143,000 people will be diagnosed with the disease
and almost 52,000 will die from it
this year, according to National Cancer Institute estimates.2 Older adults,
especially, are more likely to get colorectal cancer, with about 60 percent of
new diagnoses occurring in people 65
and older.3
Despite its high incidence,
the disease is often considered the
most preventable, but least prevented
cancer. Colorectal cancer is highly
treatable if found early, but more
than 40 percent of adults age 50 and
older have not been screened as recommended.4 However, an investigational, noninvasive, in-home screening test, developed by Exact Sciences
in collaboration with Mayo Clinic,
currently shows promise as a potential
addition to other available screening
tools for colorectal cancer.
“Colorectal cancer is highly
treatable if caught early, but most patients are diagnosed with the disease
in its late stages, primarily due to
poor screening compliance,” said Dr.
Robert Hardi, gastroenterologist and
principal investigator for a clinical
study evaluating the Exact Sciences
test. “If approved, this simple, noninvasive test that accurately detects
pre-cancer and early-stage colorectal
cancer may improve screening participation and help save lives.”
Clinical Study Now Enrolling
Exact Sciences’ investigational stool DNA test works by detecting
altered DNA from precancerous or
cancerous polyps in the colon. A nationwide clinical study is underway to
further evaluate this screening test.
“Early studies have been very
promising,” said Dr. Hardi. “Now
more research is ongoing to evaluate the test’s performance in a large
population, especially among people
65 and older who are more likely to
develop colorectal cancer.”
Exact Sciences is actively recruiting participants between the ages
of 65 and 84 for a
pivotal research study
called The Multi-Target Colorectal Cancer Screening Test
for the Detection of
Colorectal Advanced
Adenomatous Polyps
and Cancer (DeePC). The study is enrolling more than
10,000 participants at approximately
100 sites across the U.S. and Canada.
Qualified participants may be eligible
for compensation for their time.
For more information about
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com. Note, Mayo Clinic and some of
the investigators associated with this
research have a financial interest in
the technology being studied in this
April Is Low Vision Awareness Month
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by Courtney Corsentino,
COT (Low Vision Specialist)
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References
1. Basic Information about Color-
ectal Cancer. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. (Link)
2. Colon and Rectal Cancer. National Cancer Institute. (Link)
3. About Colorectal Cancer. New
York Department of Health. (Link)
4. Cancer Screening - United
States, 2010. Centers for Disease Control.
(Link)
different contrast adjustments and a
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(NAPSI)—Prostate cancer is
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death in men in the U.S., but if detected early, it has a five-year survival
rate of nearly 99 percent. While surgery and radiation therapy may have
similar outcomes for early-stage prostate cancer, radiation therapy is the
primary option for locally advanced
prostate cancer and can also be used
for localized prostate cancer.
When deciding on a treatment route, the best option is the one
that most effectively treats the tumor
and spares surrounding healthy tissue and organs, which reduces the
risk of side effects. All of this can be
accomplished with proton therapy, a
treatment option available at the MD
Anderson Proton Therapy Center.
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When free-trade guru Milton Friedman visited China he was taken to a large canal that was being built. Friedman noted that while there
seemed to be many workers with shovels, there didn’t seem to be any bulldozers or earth-moving equipment. The interpreter said that the project
created more jobs, to which Friedman replied, “then why don’t they use
spoons?”
I, for one, could tolerate all of the infrastructure spending the
Democrats want to do, if I thought the aim was to actually get it built. The
point always seems to be creating the work, not getting the job done. The
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type of radiation treatment that uses
a beam of protons to deliver radiation directly to the tumor, destroying
cancer cells while sparing surrounding healthy tissue and vital organs. It
is because of the precision of proton
radiation and its ability to reduce the
risk of short- and long-term side effects that Arkansas resident Terry Lavy
decided to come to Houston, Texas to
undergo proton therapy treatment at
MD Anderson.
Terry, a 72-year-old retired
University of Arkansas professor, received an alarming phone call from
his urologist in March 2008; he had
been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
“My first reaction was shock
and disbelief,” Terry said.
He sat down with his local
urologist to discuss his treatment options, but before making a decision,
Terry decided to talk it over with his
friends and family. During this time
he spoke to a family friend, who had
just received proton therapy at the
MD Anderson Proton Therapy Center in Houston.
“I was anxious about having
surgery and the side effects of the
treatment options I had discussed
with my doctor,” he said. “But, when
my friend told me proton therapy
is noninvasive, has fewer side effects
and works just as well as other radiation options with no hospitalization,
I knew this was the route I wanted to
go.”
Immediately, Terry called MD
Anderson to inquire about proton
therapy and scheduled an appointment. In July of 2008, Terry and his
wife temporarily relocated to Houston.
Terry received proton radiation five days a week for a total of 38
treatments over a two-month period.
After his last session, he rang the ceremonial gong symbolizing the end of
his cancer treatment. He said he was
most impressed with how easy his
treatment was.
Terry’s physician, Seungtaek
Choi, M.D., an assistant professor of
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“I am so fortunate to have
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An Answer
An American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN)
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England Journal of Medicine in 2008.
Now that there is proof that virtual
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CT colonography employs Xrays and virtual reality technology to
produce three-dimensional images of
the colon that permit a thorough and
minimally invasive evaluation. It also
requires no sedation.
The Disease
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second-leading cause of cancer death
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-- Budget for customization:
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for Disease Control and Prevention
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prevented if all those age 50 and older
were screened regularly. Studies at National Military Medical Center have
shown that availability of the virtual
exam significantly boosted screening
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The Doctor’s Advice
As C. Daniel Johnson, M.D.,
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colorectal cancer screening tool for
the traditional Medicare-age population. Wider availability made possible
by Medicare coverage of CT colonography would attract more seniors to
be screened for colorectal cancerwhich is so successfully treated when
detected early. Making CT colonography more available to seniors ultimately could save lives.”
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Fashion: Looooking Gooood!
Ilene Pearl Makes The Coats Of Dreams
by Patricia McLaughlin
ILENE PEARL MAKES THE
COATS OF HER DREAMS,
AND MAYBE YOURS
It has to be her sixth or seventh career so far.
There are a million (at least)
stories of enthusiastic young fashionistas who decide to turn pro on
the apparent assumption that working in fashion design or merchandising will be as much fun as shopping,
only better because you get paid.
Ilene Pearl’s bio doesn’t really fit the genre. For one thing, she
was 57 when she took the plunge.
She’d worked as a hotel manager,
fundraiser, university administrator,
manufacturing executive, etc., and
so had developed a range of skills
and insights that most 18-year-olds
don’t have. She’d also learned more
about apparel than most people pick
up from shopping.
Pearl grew up in St. Louis,
where both her grandparents worked
in the industry, her grandfather as
a tailor, her grandmother as a coat
finisher. Shopping with her grandmother was an education: Everything would be turned inside out,
each seam and hem and interfacing
scrutinized to be sure it was properly
executed. So Pearl learned to notice
and to judge details of construction.
Even better, her grandmother, who could make anything beautifully, was happy to make her any
garment that caught her fancy, in
any fabric she liked. So she learned
to love beautiful fabrics, and learned
how different ones behaved, and
which ones worked best for which
sorts of designs. She also learned
what flattered her, what felt right,
what worked.
But much as she loved the
game of putting styles and fabrics
together, she says, it never occurred
to her to pursue it as a career. People like her grandparents had come
from “the old country” -- in their
case, a place on the Polish-Russian
border that changed hands so often
its residents could never be entirely sure for very long what country
they lived in -- and had worked in
the garment industry so that their
children could have better lives, and
their grandchildren could go to college and enter a profession. So Pearl
got a degree in psychology from
Washington University and became
a teacher. Then, after a while, she
worked in management at the Chase
Park Plaza, the city’s grand old ho-
tel. Next she worked for the St. Louis
United Way, and then for Washington
U. She moved to Philadelphia to take
a job in development at the University of Pennsylvania and, after several
years, moved on to the Philadelphia
Orchestra.
By now, she was in her 50s,
her son was launched and she was
ready for a change. What did she
want to do with the rest of her life?
She says people kept telling
her: “What you want to do for your
career is find something you absolutely love, and then find a way to
make a living doing it.”
But what?
All along, she’d continued to
dress as she always had -- falling in
love with a great fabric, finding the
perfect style for it, and then finding
someone to make it for her -- which
is basically what a fashion designer
does. But she did it for love. She
loved foraging in fabric shops, window-shopping for new ideas, flipping through fashion magazines.
It only occurred to her to try
doing it for money one day when a
good friend came to work in a new
jacket. The friend loved it -- it was
elegant, it was comfortable, it was
versatile, it worked with jeans or
work clothes or even for evening.
Also, Pearl noticed, it was
a simple cut. Wouldn’t be hard to
make. Would suit many body types.
She went to New York to shop for
fabric, and started looking for a small
production house within easy reach
of her Bucks County, Pa., home.
She says nobody told her
Pearl in one of her swingy iPEARL jackets. photo: iPEARL
that, at 57, she was too old to start
a career as a fashion designer. She
wouldn’t’ve believed it anyway:
She says she’s always been out of
phase with her age cohort. “I didn’t
marry until I was 38, had my first
child when I was 43 ...”
She started iPEARL with
that first jacket, made in “a wonderful upholstery fabric” that “hangs
beautifully and wears like steel.”
She took it into an upscale local
boutique and got an order on her
first try; the jacket sold out immediately.
When the recession hit, instead of approaching larger stores,
she stayed small, doing trunk shows
at small, high-end boutiques and
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Coats
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galleries, first on the Philadelphia
Main Line, then reaching out to St.
Louis, Chicago and beyond. For a
blissful year, her coats were sold at
Takashimaya, the elegant Japanese
department store on Fifth Avenue -until the company decided to close
its New York store in 2010.
She uses luxury fabrics like
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she remembers: coats her grandparents made for her beautiful mother,
coats Grace Kelly wore over her ball
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different attitude to success than a lot of places... In the United States,
you look ... in the mansion on the hill, and you think ...one day, if
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gowns. Some are styles she grew up
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“Light For The Journey”
By Jan McLaughlin - Director of Prayer for Prisoners International
APRIL 2012
Lighthouse Journeys
Part VIII
“PINK COOKIES AND
LIGHTHOUSE LESSONS”
I lay on the beach with my
cheek pressed against the green, blue
and yellow striped towel, the sun
warm and soothing on my back. Deep in thought, I barely notice the
distant sounds of other children but
soon hear their rapid approach to my
place of solitude. Several children race
past, giggling and yelling, accidentally kicking sand over me. Jumping
up I brush off the sand and shake the
towel, watching the children disappear behind some rocks further down
the beach. “They didn’t even notice
me.” I smile at their gaiety and part
of me yearns to join them allowing
the heaviness of my heart caused by
people dear to me to evaporate on the
sand. Turning toward the Lighthouse, I gaze at the window above
me, shading my eyes from the glaring sun. My heart skips a beat as I
see you waving, motioning for me. Your love surrounds me and I am reminded of your desire to be with me
which is hard to comprehend, but,
Jesus, but I love it. I tuck my towel
under my arm and race up the path
to the Lighthouse door. My heart is
warms as I remember your beckoning me to join you – your hands outstretched like a daddy for his beloved
child. I love you so much, Jesus. Can
I ever tell you how much I love you? Are mere words express my boundless
love? Joy tears spill over my cheeks as
I climb the steps and push open the
door. There you are, arms open with
anticipation.
“Abba! Abba!” I cry, racing
into your arms. You enfold me close
as I snuggle to your shoulder. What
peace, what joy, what security I find
here, Jesus, in your gentle loving
arms.
Glasses of icy lemonade and a
plate of strawberry wafer cookies on a
plate beckon me to the table. What
a wonderful surprise. “How did you
know, Jesus?” I ask, as you sit me in
the big chair.
[Remember, Jan, I know everything about you. I know you love
pink wafer cookies. I know you love
the prisoners. I know you are willing
to listen and learn in MOST areas. However, one particular area we need
“We’re the first society in which a
symptom of poverty is obesity; every man
his own William Howard Taft.”
Mark Steyn in his book ‘After America’
to work on. It concerns your response
in the midst of enemy fire. Philippians 2:13 is clearly the answer for you
in this situation. Jan, I heard you turn
your heartbreak over to me last night,
even before you did. I heard your
prayer before communion in church
yesterday. I know you struggle with
this and I know WHY you struggle
but you will have to trust me and wait
on me to show you what to do. Then,
Jan, you must obey quickly. I will
take care of the situation. Trust me. I
have a plan about this and I am able
to work out all situations. This is just
a simple thing for me, even though for
you it seems an immovable mountain. I move MOUNTAINS, remember? I
love you. Can you trust me?]
“Lord Jesus, I trust YOU but
I don’t trust THEM!”
[Listen, my child. If you truly trust ME, you don’t need to trust
them. I am able to do in them what
needs to be done to accomplish my
will for all of you. Can you trust
me? Have you forgotten WHO your
Source is?
“No, Lord.”
[Then, trust me! About the
children on the beach, you are wondering about them, aren’t you?]
“Yes, Jesus. I have from the
moment I heard them laughing. They
are your children too, aren’t they?”
[Yes. They are too busy playing to look up here. I have lemonade and cookies for them but they
are too pre-occupied to see my outstretched hands, or to remember my
outstretched arms at Calvary. I must
rescue them now. They are caught in
a sand bog on the other side of the
rocks … a trap set by satan. If they
only look up I could spare them these
heartaches and trials. Pray for them,
Jan. They will learn.
[The children kicked sand all
over you, didn’t they?]
“Yes, Lord.”
[ Y o u
didn’t get angry,
did you?]
Pausing only slightly, then
with amazement, I exclaim, “No,
Lord, I didn’t! WOW! I really
didn’t!”
[Jan, these are your brothers
and sisters who kick “sand” on you
when you try to help them look UP. They need your prayers. When you
get sand on you, remember to pray
for the one who did it. When your
heart is clouded with anger, you can’t
pray. Love them, Jan. Pray for them. You were there not so long ago. Others prayed for you. You are all my
dear children and I love you.
[You must be alert and on
guard constantly – watching for those
who need prayer whether they are my
children or not. Be alert for your own
errors. Quickly realign your heart
with mine. Remember, I am here for
you always causing you to want to do
my will, then helping you do it. I love
you, my child, my precious child.]
“For God is at work within
you, helping you want to obey him,
and then helping you do what he
wants” (Phil 2:13 TLB).
“And pray in the Spirit on all
occasions with all kinds of prayers
and requests. With this in mind, be
alert and always keep on praying for
all the saints” (Eph 6:18 NIV).
Dear Reader, if you are having a difficult time trusting God in a
situation, I would love to pray with
you if you wish to call me. God will
walk with you in your situation.
He IS the Mountain Mover! Trust
Him.
© 2012 Jan McLaughlin, all rights
reserved.
Jan McLaughlin is Director of
Prayer For Prisoners International
and can be reached at
719-275-6971 or by e-mail,
[email protected].
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We are having a very nice
run in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The DJIA has finally closed
above the 13,000 level. It was last
at that point in 2008. Has the market
gotten too frothy?
THE SHORT ANSWER
No. The market is still fairly
valued and even under-valued.
THE LONG ANSWER
You are probably familiar
with the P/E ratio. It is a gauge of
value for stocks and stock markets
based on share price and earnings.
The lower the P/E the cheaper the
market is. The higher the pricier.
According to The Wall Street
Journal, both the DJIA and the S&P
500 are at about a twelve to thirteen
P/E ratio. This rough number is taking into account the past 12 month’s
earnings and the next 12 months’
earnings estimates.
Why is this important? We
can use the past as a simple comparison. Transamerica Financial states
that the market P/E has averaged
15.6 from 1926 to 2010.
A market like we have now
would be considered under-valued
since the P/E is below this historic
number. It looks even cheaper when
compared to the 44 P/E level we saw
in December of 1999.
BEWARE THE BEAR AROUND
THE CORNER
Some investors will be scared
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up, fearing a new downturn. Well,
there is always a new downturn for
the market coming soon. That is the
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or down and always risky. Financial writers Zvi Bodie and Rachelle
Taqqu said in a recent article, “The
truth is that stocks are risky no matter how long you hold them.” Only
a fraction of the time is the market
generating “new wealth”, or reaching new highs.
PERILS OF MARKET TIMING
The temptation in this market is to “sell at the top.” Since the
market mainly dips around in volatility, we might sell and see the market drop. This creates a false sense
of confidence that we can accurately
time the market. I have never heard
of any investor that can perfectly
time the market for long periods,
such as years or decades.
What happens when the market is in the “new wealth creating”
phase and we are in cash? Those investors lose growth or buy back in
extremely high.
IS IT TIME TO BUY?
Since we know that the market is usually not making new highs,
an investor might want to consider
buying more stock during the inevitable stumble. If not, the market
is still cheap by historic standards.
New
investments now are
still at fair prices.
C o n sider the SPDR
Dow Jones Industrial Average Fund
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This income is better than a 10-year
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“History is a vast early warning
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Where
Are They Now?
by Marshall Jay Kaplan
GEORGE ‘FOGHORN’
WINSLOW
It has been almost fifty years
since movie audiences have seen
the boywith the voice like a foghorn. Today, the former child actor
is a senior citizen and leads a
very, very private life in California.
George ‘Foghorn’ Winslow
was born as George Wenzlaff on
May 3, 1946 in Los Angeles, California. The first words that George
uttered as a baby
was a deep,
baritoned ‘dada’. With such a
unique voice, at the urging of his
uncle, George’s mother took him
for a television audition for The Art
Linkletter Show. He came on wearing a train conductor’s outfit. When
Linkletter asked his name, the fiveyear-old replied (in a very deep
voice), “It’s George, but I’d rather be
Casey Jones”. The audience broke
out in hysterics and George went on
to appear on the show twenty more
times!
Movie star Cary Grant spotted George on one of Linkletter’s
shows and signed him on for his
film ‘Room For One More’ (1952).
Now, a hit with movie audiences,
George was given a movie contract
with Twentieth Century Fox. He
went on to appear again with Cary
Grant in ‘Monkey Business’ (1952,
also starring Ginger Rogers), in
‘Mister Scoutmaster’ (1953 with
Clifton Webb), ‘The Rocket Man’
(1954 with Charles Coburn), ‘Artists and Models’ (1955 with Dean
Martin and Jerry Lewis) and ‘Rock
Pretty Baby’ (1956 with Sal Mineo). However, there is one film that
George is most famous for.
Cast in the musical-comedy,
‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ (1953),
starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane
Russell, George plays Marilyn’s
wealthy admirer, Henry Spofford
III. His line to Monroe, “You have a
certain animal magnetism” remains
a comedy classic. George’s last film
was ‘Wild Heritage’ (1955 with Will
Rogers Jr.). In total, George made
ten films. The foghorn voice gimmick had run its course.
After the movies, George
completed high school and then
spent four years in the United States
Navy where he took courses in photography.
He spent all of his earnings
from the movies and very rarely (if
ever) lets his friends and colleagues
know of his movie past.
George almost never gives
interviews and if he does, he will
only talk about Marilyn Monroe.
“The thing I remember most is working with this beautiful lady from
early morning until late at night. As
my folks were getting me dressed to
go home, she came out of her dressing room without any makeup on.
If I hadn’t recognized her voice, I
would never have believed that she
was the same person.”
As an adult, George worked
for the Sonoma Council of Aging.
He has lived a very private life in
a small home/cabin in Occidental,
California, where he enjoys life and
photography.
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Just What Is Beautiful?
by Patricia McLaughlin
Have you seen Gucci’s new
ads -- where the models are wearing
so much eye makeup they look like
creatures from another planet? It gets
your attention, as an ad should, and
maybe, if your taste is more advanced
than mine, it has a certain edgy appeal. I can’t see it, myself. One look at
these exquisitely dressed golden aliens
-- small, slick heads with minimal
hair; long, sprawling tentacle-y limbs;
ultra-pale yellow skin; unnaturally
large, staring eyes -- and I’m: “Eeeuuwwww, creepy!”
It reminds me of one of the
big looks from the Oscars a few weeks
ago: lipstick in the alarming shade of
red you tend to associate with fresh
blood or strawberry Jell-O, as shiny
as a thick, newly applied coat of highgloss paint, and just as sticky-looking.
Every time another pair of those clown
lips showed up on my TV screen, I
felt the same involuntary inward recoil you get when you see a little kid
with a drippy red Popsicle headed like
a heat-seeking missile for your clean
white jeans: Eeeeuuww! Don’t get any
on me.
It’s undeniably dramatic but,
like the Gucci space girls’ possum
eyes, weirdly gruesome. It makes your
lips look even less like actual human
lips than those bright red wax lips you
used to be able to buy at corner stores
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that sold penny candy, back when
there still was such a thing.
It reminds me of a story Phyllis Feldkamp, longtime fashion editor
of the long-gone Philadelphia Evening
and Sunday Bulletin, told me once:
She was on a bus and she smiled at
the little girl in the seat in front of
her, and the little girl burst into tears.
“She’s scared of your lipstick,” the little girl’s mother explained. It must’ve
been in the early 1990s when Bobbi
Brown’s brownish lipsticks took “the
natural look” to a new level. Phyllis, sticking with her signature bright
red, hadn’t realized until that moment
that it had become unusual enough to
frighten small children.
They say beauty is in the eye
of the beholder, so maybe it shouldn’t
surprise us that one person’s idea of
beautiful can strike somebody else as
the opposite. The history of fashion is
littered with examples: spit curls, beehive hairdos, bobby socks, turquoise
eye shadow, “Dynasty” shoulder pads,
stirrup pants.
Still, most of those examples
looked fine in their prime -- at least
for a few minutes, to some people - and only later revealed themselves
to be hideous. We’re used to that: It’s
what fashion does. Something new
looks fabulous and then, a couple of
years later, you look back and wonder, “What was I thinking -- blue
jeans with such sharply tapered ankles
they needed little zippers?” (Or any of
about a million other things.)
We’re also used to the idea
that some things don’t translate from
one culture or subculture to another
-- bound feet, tight-laced corsets, fullbody tattoos, scarification, luxuriant
underarm hair, multiple piercings,
patchwork madras blazers, etc.
But how is it that Jell-O lips
can look fine (to Angelina Jolie, apparently) and utterly grotesque (at
least to me) at the same time, right
here in the middle of the same more
or less mainstream American pop culture? What explains that?
Could it be a side effect of
colliding technologies? Maybe the actresses who wear gooey Jell-O lips and
the makeup artists who perpetrate
them don’t do that much television,
and so haven’t figured out how to allow for the differences that HDTV
makes.
Everybody knows stage makeup has to be exaggerated so that it
won’t be washed out by stage lighting,
and so the people in the last row can
read the actors’ faces. Close up, an actor in stage makeup looks like a caricature.
Is it possible that the toored, shiny-vinyl-looking lips that
look scary on my high-def TV screen
would look better -- or even beautiful
-- in Technicolor, or in a digital image
made for a fashion magazine?
Or am I grasping at straws?
After all, think how little consensus there is in this society about
other things -- foreign policy, education, health care, taxation, etc. Why
should we all expect to agree on what’s
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A Message for Steven
Spielberg
Darn you, Steven Spielberg!
You made me cry again -- and I
hate to do that in a movie. “War
Horse” had me blubbering like a
baby. Yes, it’s a wonderful film, but
I wish you had toned things down
a bit. Although three months have
gone by since seeing “War Horse”
last Christmas, I still get teary eyed
thinking about the terrible suffering of Joey, that magnificent title
animal sold to the cavalry in World
War One. Thank you, though, for
reminding us that war is hell, especially for horses.
I have to confess my worries
upon hearing of your decision to
direct a film treatment of Michael
Morpurgo’s novel -- in which Joey
narrates his own story -- even though
an award-winning play based on the
book has been quite successful. I
shouldn’t have been concerned, for
you picked a cinematographer who
knows all the right camera tricks to
show us battlefield horrors as well
as human behavior at its best and
worst. I realize Janusz Kaminski
has worked with you before – and
won two Oscars (“Saving Private
Ryan” and “Schindler’s List”) for
his efforts, but he really outdid
himself with “War Horse.” There’s
one particular scene that ends up on
my list of “best camera shots ever.”
You must know the one I’m talking about. It’s when Joey’s eye fills
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practically the entire screen with the
image of a young girl entering the
barn reflected there. Awesome! And you had to be pleased
with Lee Hall (“Billy Elliot”) and
Richard Curtis (“Love Actually”)
for giving you a screenplay filled
with emotionally-charged scenes
showing how much Albert (Jeremy
Irvine), the British lad who trained
Joey, cared for this beautiful horse,
as well as the way various soldiers
treated him as he made his dangerous way through those bloody
European battlegrounds. Cast members didn’t let
you down either, did they? Young
Irvine (TV’s “Life Bites”) earns our
empathy right away with his sensitive behavior toward Joey despite
his troubled father’s (Peter Mullan)
sometimes misguided interference.
Emily Watson (“The Water Horse”)
simply couldn’t be better as the
long-suffering wife and mother trying to keep things together during extremely hard-scrabble times.
Celine Buckens, in her movie debut
as a darling French youngster who
hides Joey from German troops,
simply captivated me. Niels Arestrup
(“A Prophet”) as her loving grandfather also delivers a standout performance here.
So congratulations, Mr.
Spielberg. However, don’t be surprised if you get a bill from me for
all the tissues I’ve had to use watching “War Horse” and thinking about
it afterwards. You can ask John
by Film Critic Betty Jo Tucker, Pueblo
Williams to pay half. As always,
his background music adds to the
emotional weight of what’s happening on screen. But you already
knew that, right? (Released by Walt
Disney Studios Motion Pictures and
rated “PG-13” for intense sequences
of war violence. Available April 3rd
on DVD.)
Also on DVD This Month.
“Contraband,” starring Mark
Wahlberg, is scheduled for DVD
release on April 24th. Although not
happy when panning movies with
one of my favorite actors, I have
to admit this film is not up to
Wahlberg’s standards. He plays a
man drawn back into the smuggling
racket in order to save his family. Yes, Wahlberg and co-star Ben
Foster deliver strong performances
here, but the film ends up with too
many plot holes and mixed messages. Chris Farraday (Wahlberg)
has been trying very hard to be a
law abiding citizen after years of
involvement with smuggling activities centered in New Orleans. His
wife (a practically unrecognizable
Kate Beckinsale) and two young
children are now the center of his
world, so he wants to stay out of
trouble. But Andy (Caleb Landry
Jones), his brother-in-law, has
angered some important people in
the smuggling racket and needs help
to get off the hook. If things aren’t
cleared up for Andy, his life could
be in danger. Chris’ wife and kids
might also be targets. After Chris
agrees to help Andy, he asks his best
friend Sebastian (Foster) to take
care of his family while he handles
a new smuggling assignment.
“Contraband” shows how
Chris and his “smuggler” pals turn
this challenge into something more
than expected. There are many action
scenes and some suspense ensues - mostly dealing with betrayal -- but
the complicated shenanigans and
farfetched nature of Chris’ plans
become hard to swallow. Also,
the ending fails to square with the
film’s motif and comes across with
a tacked-on kind of feeling. Wahlberg (“The Fighter”)
and Foster (“The Mechanic”) display their ability to change from
apparently concerned, decent guys
into men of violence in the blink of
an eye. They are extremely watchable, but both definitely deserve better films than this one. (Released by
Universal Pictures and rated “R” for
violence, pervasive language and
brief drug use.)
Read more film reviews by Betty Jo
Tucker at ReelTalkReviews.com. Copies
of her two books, CONFESSIONS
OF A MOVIE ADDICT and SUSAN
SARANDON: A TRUE MAVERICK, are
available on Amazon.com and at Barnes
& Noble in Pueblo. IT HAD TO BE US,
the award-winning romantic memoir she
and her husband co-wrote under the pen
names of Harry & Elizabeth Lawrence,
can be ordered at Amazon’s Kindle store,
where CONFESSIONS OF A MOVIE
ADDICT is also available now.

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