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Before smartphones with color screens there were cell phones with grey or green screens. Before Angry Birds there was Snake, the game where, the more you fed the snake -- really just a line of blocks -- the longer it grew. It was actually a pretty fun and challenging game, and now it's back for smartphone owners. Snake ’97 for iPhone and iPad and Android.

Are you feeling lonely? Do you need some smooth, late 1970s – early 1980s jams to get you through these increasingly frigid autumn nights? Well look no further than the freshly launched Callin’ Oates hotline.

Just pick up the phone and dial 719-26-OATES, that’s 719-266-2837 — “your emergency Hall and Oates hotline.” You’ll then be able to select one of four classic tracks from the famous Philly soul duo Hall and Oates. Your choice of their treasured “rock and soul” smash hits are as follows:

1 – One on One

2 – Rich Girl

3 – Maneater

4 – Private Eyes

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The federal government designed a program called the Aid and Attendance (A&A) Pension Benefit to do just that, but few veterans know about it.

Michael Smith and Richard Barid, co-founders of Savannah-based law firm Smith Barid, LLC, want to change that fact. Since founding their law firm in 2006, Smith and Barid have been a highly sought out resource for veterans groups and other organizations seeking information on A&A as well as other long-term care planning options available to seniors.

“Long-term care assistance can be costly and create stress among family members and loved ones,” Smith said. “We want our valued veterans to know that they have options available to them to reduce that stress and help them provide for their future.”

More than half of seniors, 51 percent, are veterans, according to the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics’ 2010 report. Veterans tend to have more health problems than the general senior population meaning that they are more likely to need long-term care.

In particular, the report stated that veterans have a higher percentage of limitations in activities of daily living, greater likelihood of having a disability, and less likelihood of rating their general health status as good or better.

The report also stated that the large increase in the oldest segment of the veteran population will continue to drive up demand for health care services, particularly long-term care.

The Aid and Attendance Pension Benefit is a program offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to veterans and their surviving spouses to pay for home care, assisted living or nursing care as well as medical supplies and medicines.

The Department of Health and Human Services estimated in 2009 that long-term care costs can range from $19 an hour for a Homemaker Service up to $219 a day for a room in a nursing home.

Through the A&A program, married couples can receive nearly $2,000 a month and widows or widowers more than $1,000 a month to help pay for these expenses, but fewer than 10 percent of U.S. seniors are taking advantage of the benefit, according to the National Care Planning Council, an agency that promotes long-term care planning nationwide.

Aid and Attendance Pension Benefits may apply to any veteran who served at least 90 consecutive days, (at least one of which was during a war period), is at least 65 years old (or totally and permanently disabled), was not dishonorably discharged and has been certified by a doctor as needing assistance with daily living activities. Widows or widowers of such veterans who neither divorced nor remarried also may apply.

In addition to these requirements veterans’ or their widows’ income and net worth must not exceed certain limits.

“As an accredited VA attorney there are things that I can do to help veterans or their widows meet these qualifications,” Barid said. “It is my job to share my expertise and help our clients qualify for the benefit while preserving some of the household assets.”

With proper planning a claimant often can make changes that would allow him or her to qualify.

“We work with the family to help them pay for medical care without entirely depleting their loved one’s assets,” Smith said. “Our goal is to stretch our client’s assets to delay the need to rely upon Medicaid for care.”

Smith and Barid offer free first-time consultations for anyone interested in learning more about the A&A benefit. They also are available to speak to civic groups/clubs, churches, synagogues, and other religious organizations, professional groups, elderly groups/clubs, over 55 groups/clubs, medical support groups, Veterans clubs, and to any group that is interested in helping the elderly on this or other topics of interest.

MAXIMUM A&A PENSION IN 2011*

_{* These amounts may change each year based on cost of living adjustments (no COLA from 2010 to 2011).}

(From People.com)

Looking like the love child of Willy Wonka and Sweeney Todd's Mrs.

Lovett, as styled by Edward Scissorhands, Johnny Depp slinks into his

latest role, as 200-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins, shown here on

the U.K. set of the film adaptation of the Gothic 1966-71 afternoon TV

soap, Dark Shadows.

"There’s something about this vampire coming back after 200 years into

this modern world, with a touch of the poetic, with maybe a tendency to

maybe wax a little poetic now and again," Depp, 48, told MTV News

earlier this year. "I have a good feeling about it. But Jonathan Frid’s

Barnabas was so special." Dark Shadows, set for release next May, will reunite Depp with his frequent collaborator, director Tim Burton, as well as his Sweeney Todd costar Helena Bonham Carter. It will also feature Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Chloe Moretz and Jackie Earle Haley –and cameo appearances by the TV version's David Selby, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Lara Parker ...and, drumroll, 86-year-old Jonathan Frid.

NASA RELEASES 9/11 VIDEO FROM SPACE _ Ten years after the September 11 attacks, most of us probably think we've looked at the tragedy from every possible angle. Naturally our perspective has most often been from below, where we all felt very small that day. So it's fascinating, and somehow appropriate, that NASA just officially released footage of the 9/11 attacks shot from space. American astronaut Frank Culbertson captured the video from 200 miles above on the International Space Station, where he was orbiting the earth with two Russian cosmonauts when the towers were hit.

1. King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after
years of war with the Hittites. His last great possession was
the Star of the Euphrates , the most valuable diamond in the
ancient world. Desperate, he went to Croesus, the pawnbroker
to ask for a loan.
Croesus said, "I'll give you 100,000 dinars for it."
"But I paid a million dinars for it," the King protested.
"Don't you know who I am? I am the king!"
Croesus replied, "When you wish to pawn a Star, makes no
difference who you are."