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• It was American author, social critic, economist and political commentator Thomas Sowell who made the following sage observation: "Much of the social history of the

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DEAR PAW'S CORNER: I take my dog to the local animal hospital for nail trimming, as my little "Freda" is just too feisty for me to do it myself. But lately, I noticed the nurses were cutting Freda's nails into the quick and making them bleed. My friend also experi-enced the same problems there with her dog, and she said that one of the nurses told her that cutting them so far back that they bled was the only way to control and keep the dog's nails from being so wild. Is this true? -- Curious in Kingston Springs

DEAR CURIOUS: It's true, but cutting into the quick (the blood vessel extending through the center of a dog's nail) can be painful for the dog and make regular nail trimming not just an uncomfortable experi-ence, but a traumatic one.

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When the trimmer cuts into the quick, the blood vessel -- providing it closes quickly and heals normally -- will retract slightly over a one- to three-week period. If the owner brings the dog back for a nail trimming within that three weeks, the trimmer can cut the nails even shorter the next time.

Neatly trimmed nails are essential to a dog's health, but you can figure out some of the problems with cut-ting into the quick each time. In addition to the pain and trauma, infection is a real possibility, even in a veterinary clinic. Sometimes though, with really long, ragged or even ingrown nails, more drastic trimming has to take place to prevent bigger problems.

How can a dog owner reduce the frequency with which cutting into the quick occurs? Regular nail

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If you're concerned about the way the animal-hos-pital personnel are handling the procedure, speak with the veterinarian. And, if you're still not satisfied, you can take your business elsewhere.

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Q: I love the Syfy show "Merlin." I haven't seen new epi-sodes on the schedule for a while, and I'm afraid it has been canceled. Please tell me it hasn't! -- Mark T. in Vermont

A: Don't worry, Mark. The magical Syfy series will indeed be back for a third season beginning Friday, Jan. 7, at 10 p.m. Season three finds the young Merlin (played by Colin Morgan) in increasingly more dangerous and dark battles in his secret quest to protect Prince Arthur (Bradley James) in the fabled kingdom of Camelot, where magic is forbidden by King Uther (Anthony Head). They rejoin Morgana (Katie McGrath) -- who has a dark destiny of her own -- with Angel Coulby as her loyal maid Gwen, and Richard Wilson as wise court physician Gaius. John Hurt returns as the voice of the Great Dragon.

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Q: When will "Southland" be back? I was so happy when TNT picked it up from NBC, and have been eagerly awaiting its return. -- George F., via e-mail

A: The cutting-edge drama will be back on Tuesday, Jan. 4, at 10 p.m. on TNT. Series star Benjamin McKenzie gave me the scoop: "It's going to be the same show you've seen before, it's just going to be more focused on the four principle characters left: Ben, Lydia, Sammy and John. It's a pretty aggressive show; this season it's really going to double-down on the aggressiveness. It's fast, hard-hitting and uncompromising.

"With my character and John, the dynamic has changed yet again. It's more of a peer-to-peer relationship than it has been in the past. Although Ben will still mess up and John will criticize him brutally for it, he's got a little more freedom to do a little more of his own work. The end of the season will mark the end of his probationary period."

• • •Q: Is Jillian Michaels really leaving "The Biggest Loser"?

I can't imagine the show without her! -- Tawny D., via e-mail

A: Well, start imagining it, because Jillian is outta there. After this season, which begins Jan. 4, her contract is up,

and she is leaving the show. Jillian explained her decision: "I want to take a year off TV and focus on becoming a mommy and doing more charity work. Shooting 'Losing It' also had a big impact on me. Living with kids, I saw firsthand what I was missing."

• • •Q: How is Vanessa Williams fitting in as the newest cast

member of "Desperate Housewives"? -- Sandi S., Lousiville, Ky.

A: Vanessa is doing great, at least according to co-star Joshua Moore, who plays Parker Scavo. When we spoke about the show's return from winter break on Jan. 2, he told me: "She's just great to work with. I think she's a really good actress and she's great in her role. She's just a very cool person to talk to and hang out with. She definitely has to flip that switch on to be mean (like her character, Renee)."

Write to Cindy at King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475; or e-mail her at [email protected]. For more news and extended in-terviews, visit www.celebrityextraonline.com and twitter.com/Celebrity_Extra.



Q: I received three books of tickets from Walt Disney with a letter thanking me for my work as a pipe fitter at Disney in 1971. Unfortunately I have lost the letter, but wonder if the tickets have any value. -- Henry, St. Cloud, Fla.

A: You might see if you can find the tickets refer-enced in “The Official Price Guide to Disney Collect-ibles” by Ted Hake (House of Collectibles). More than 25,000 items are listed with illustrations in full color. Incidentally, Walt Disney’s signature often sells for upward of $100. A Mickey Mouse composition book from the early 1930s and signed by Disney recently sold at auction for $1,200.

• • •Q: In a recent column, you answered a letter from

a man in Virginia about his baseball card collection of major-league players from 1944 through 1958. I would like to contact this man because I am interested in buy-ing his cards. -- Daniel, Brownstown, Pa.

A: Next to my desk is a shredder. After I answer a letter in my column, the original is destroyed so that if I am ever tempted to share an address, I can’t. Readers who contact me through the King Features Syndicate have my promise that their personal information will not be shared.

About 30 years ago, when I first began writing a column about collectibles, a reader contacted me about her extensive doll collection. I shared her address with

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another reader, and a short time later the dolls were stolen. Even though I had no proof that my sharing of the address triggered the burglary, the incident taught me a valuable lesson. I hope you understand why this policy is necessary.

• • •Q: I have an original newspaper, The Philadelphia

Inquirer, from March 4, 1865, reporting President Lincoln’s second inaugural address in which he used the phrase, “with malice toward none, with charity for all.” Whom can I contact to determine its value? -- Robert, Sun City, Ariz.

A: One of the better dealers specializing in vintage newspapers is Timothy Hughes, P.O. Box 3636, Willki-amsport, PA 17701; [email protected]; and www.rarenewspapers.com. Check out his website.

• • •Write to Larry Cox in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box

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December 23 - 29, 2010

--"We've got a lot of racing left, but when we're winning at places we're not supposed to, you better watch out." -- Jimmie Johnson, after winning the Food City 500 at Bristol.

--"I like Jimmie as good as anybody, but for the sake of the sport, one of the two of us (Harvick, Hamlin) needs to make some-thing happen." -- Kevin Harvick, during the Chase.

--"Two tires won the race, but when you've got two tires in dirty air, it's no good." - Dale Earnhardt Jr., after finishing eighth in the Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas.

--"The '48' (Johnson) is testing my patience. I'm hard to get mad, and I'm (ticked) off." -- Jeff Gordon, after the Aaron's 499 at Talladega.

--"If we'd have kept those guys a lap down, that would've been selfish." -- Dave Rogers, winning crew chief, on allowing a mass 'wave-around" during an early caution period in the Heath Calhoun 400 at Richmond.

--"When you play at home, that's when you want to win the most." -- Tony Stewart, from Columbus, Ind., at Indianapolis.

--"He's real aggressive. That's cool, but when he starts affecting me with his aggressiveness ... I just will not put up with it. I've been around here long enough. I just will not tolerate it." -- Jeff Burton, referring to Kyle Busch, after Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte.

--"There's just a pit that develops in your stomach and doesn't go away. It's the championship pit, and it's there." -- Jimmie Johnson.

--"Points? I chipped away, but I didn't chip away much." -- Kyle Busch, after a fourth at Martinsville.

--"In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can." -- Jimmie Johnson, referring to pit-crew swap at Texas.

--"I wonder if anyone else will ever win five of these things in a row, but next year we're going for six, so away we go." -- owner Rick Hendrick, after Johnson extended his consecutive championships.

--"I won't turn on the television, watch any racing. Remove myself from it. I know what I need to do, what my team has to do. I don't want to hear what anybody else has to say." -- Jimmie Johnson, before the final race.

--"I don't know if part of that is coincidence, or just that those guys who win championships are really good. I don't know, but it is a difficult race track. You have to do everything right." -- Matt Kenseth, noting the overlap of Indy win-ners and Cup champions.

--"Bristol is a lot like Watkins Glen. You never know what's going to happen." -- Harvick, naming one thing the two have in common.

--"We have a way of forgetting the way history really was. ... I think we tend

Best NASCAR Quotes of 2010to forget that even the great race teams go through struggles." -- Jeff Burton.

--"If I sat down and planned it, we would win every Chase race and I would win the championship. But plans don't quite work like that." -- Kyle Busch, whose Chase struggles continued.

--"Mathematically, it's possible. Realistically, I don't think so." -- Jeff Gordon, asked about the possibility of a driver winning the Chase without winning any races.

--"There's a lot of psychology that goes into racing, but all of that goes out the window once the race starts." -- Carl Edwards

--"If you get in a problem (at Martinsville), it's normally because you are a root of it." -- Tony Stewart

--"It's amazing what the Chase format does to the nerves and to the teams and the drivers." -- Kurt Busch

--"If the roles were reversed, I would be saying the same thing. As a competi-tor, you're tired of the same guy winning. I guess I understand where they're coming from and what they're saying ... I don't necessarily agree with it. I think it would be great for someone to win five straight." -- Jimmie Johnson, who did.

• • •Monte Dutton has covered motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette since 1993. He was

named writer of the year by the National Motorsports Press Association in 2008. His blog NAS-CAR This Week (http://nascar.rbma.com) features all of his reporting on racing, roots music and life on the road. E-mail Monte at [email protected].


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• On Jan. 9, 1768, Englishman Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London. Astley, a former cavalry sergeant major, found that if he galloped in a tight circle, centrifugal force allowed him

to perform seemingly impossible feats on a horse's back. He invited the public to see him wave his sword in the air while he rode with one foot on the saddle and one on the horse's head.

• On Jan. 6, 1838, Samuel Morse's telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, N.J. The telegraph eventually would revolutionize long-distance communication, reaching the height of its popularity in the 1920s and 1930s.

• On Jan. 5, 1933, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers started excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure's huge anchorages. The Golden Gate Bridge officially opened on May 27, 1937. At 3,000 feet, it was the longest bridge span in the world at the time.

• On Jan. 7, 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, formerly known as the Savoy Big Five, travels 48 miles west from Chicago to play its first game, in Hinckley, Ill. The Globetrotters won 101 out of 117 games that first season.

• On Jan. 8, 1946, Elvis Presley receives a $6.95 guitar from the Tupelo Hardware Co. store for his 11th birthday. It's said that what Elvis really wanted for his birthday that year was a rifle or a bicycle.

• On Jan. 4, 1974, President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. Marking the beginning of the end of

his presidency, Nixon would resign from office in disgrace eight months later.

• On Jan. 3, 1990, Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega, after holing up for 10 days at the Vatican embassy in Panama City, surrenders to U.S. military troops to face charges of drug trafficking. In 1992, the former dictator was convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering and sentenced to 40 years in prison.


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or CoQ10, is an antioxidant made by the body and also is available in pill form. Antioxidants counter the damaging byproducts coming from cell chemistry. I don't see any references mentioning that it lowers cholesterol.

The cholesterol booklet gives an in-depth treatment of cholesterol. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 201W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient's printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

• • •DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am an 80-year-old male. I work out

on a Cybex weight machine and also on a treadmill. I was diagnosed as having an umbilical hernia. Please discuss it. Is surgery recommended at my age? Will working out aggravate it? -- C.R.

ANSWER: All hernias are protrusions of internal organs or tissues through a defect in the wall that's supposed to hold them in place. In your case, the defect is the umbilicus -- the navel, the bellybutton. With age, the scar that closes the umbilicus (the site where the umbilical cord from the placenta attaches to the fetus) weakens, and a hernia can form.

If the hernia isn't large, isn't bothering you and doesn't put a crimp in your lifestyle, nothing has to be done.

When you work out, does the hernia bulge larger? If it does, you should limit the amount of weight you lift. If it doesn't, then you can continue as you are, so long as your doctor concurs.

• • •Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them

in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My doctor prescribed statin drugs to control my LDL cholesterol. First I took lovastatin (Mevacor) and then simv-astatin (Zocor), but I had muscle pain and weakness with them. I am reluctant to start the pravastatin (Pravachol) that he now has prescribed. Are there alternatives? How about Endur-acin? CoQ10 has been sug-gested. -- D.L.

ANSWER: Statins are the most potent cholesterol-lowering drugs, in-cluding lowering LDL cholesterol -- bad cholesterol, the kind that clings to artery walls. They've been around for 20 years, and their safety record has been good. Some people develop muscle pain. Those people can try a different statin. You did. However, you might be reacting a bit too fast in rejecting pravastatin (Pravachol). It is the statin that most infrequently is involved with muscle complaints.

I don't know any herb on the list of herbs you included (in an edited part of the letter) that compare with medicines for cholesterol control. However, there are things you can do to lower cholesterol, including reducing your saturated fat and cholesterol intake. Saturated fats are the fats found in many meats, whole-fat dairy products and many other commercially prepared foods. You have to look on the label. Omega-3 fatty acids lower cholesterol. They're found in fish. If you cannot stand fish, take the omega-3s in pill form.

Questran, Colestid, Welchol and Zetia are cholesterol-lowering drugs that are unrelated to statins.

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Thanks to the Card ACT, we gained 21 days to make a payment, 45 days notification of serious changes in terms, the little box on the statements that shows how long it will take to pay off the debt if we only pay the minimum, and more.

Now a new industry has sprung up, devising new ways to separate us from our dollars: the prepaid card, also called the “reloadable” card.

Consumers are invited to use the prepaid cards as they would a bank: deposit a pay-check, have bills automatically paid out of the balance, buy groceries. The cards can be purchased and reloaded nearly anywhere, including convenience stores and big-box stores.

Prepaid cards are becoming big business as more and more people opt out of having regular checking and savings accounts. Some lack good credit; many don’t want to incur credit-card interest; while others simply want the convenience of not carrying cash.

The prepaid cards, however, don’t come with the same protections as credit cards: Those CARD Act laws don’t cover prepaid cards, especially when it comes to fees. If you put, say, $100 on a prepaid card, you’d think you’d have that whole $100 of your own money to spend.

Not so.Prepaid cards can come with: purchase fees, activation fees, minimum

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Some of the prepaid cards even include a line of credit or overdraft protection. If you don’t keep careful track of the associated fees, you can spend more than you expect and incur debt. There’s also no credit reporting with prepaid cards, which means they can’t be used to build up a credit history.

Instead of paying fees to use your own money, open a bank account and use the debit card that comes with it.

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Write to him in care of King Fea-tures Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].


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