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3. ENTERTAINMENT: Which actress was married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra?

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IRISH INFO (from page one) top holding up his wooden staff, banishing all the snakes from Ireland. Because there were no snakes in Ireland at that time, it’s believed this was symbolic of Patrick driving out the spirit of the Antichrist and evil, pagan philosophies.

• Patrick wasn’t made a saint until the early 17th century, hundreds of years after he died in the year 461. March 17 is the anniversary of his death and is his religious feast day.

the most common Irish surnames of these folks? The last names of Murphy, Kelly, and O’Sullivan are considered the top three “most Irish.” Other common Irish surnames include Walsh, O’Brien, Byrne, Ryan, O’Connor, O’Neill, and O’Reilly.

• Irish names beginning with “Mac” mean “son of.” Those names beginning with O’ indicate “grandson of.”

• Erin is the name of the legendary Irish queen and is one of the most-popular Irish names in the Untied States. In Gaelic, it means “peace.”

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One of my favorite actors is Eric McCormack. I loved him in “Will & Grace,” and I really love his new show, “Perception.”

Can I see him in anything else while I wait for “Perception” to return? -- Giovanni W., via e-mail

A: The multifaceted actor can next be seen on the Lifetime Original Movie “Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story,” which airs Saturday, March 23 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. It’s inspired by the true story of a handsome young college student who became the prime suspect in the shocking murder of his father and disfigurement of his mother in a savage ax attack. Eric portrays Detective Joe Sullivan, the lead investigator on the case, who goes on a misEric McCormack sion to prove Chris’ guilt.

In “Perception” news, Scott Wolf, of “Party of Five” and “V” fame, has signed on to be a recurring character as an assistant U.S. attorney. He has a hidden agenda that involves his soon-to-be ex-wife, Kate, played by Rachel Leigh Cook. Look for 13 new episodes of “Perception” to begin airing this summer. ***

Josh was cast as the lead in a pilot for CBS called “Intelligence.” The action takes place at U.S. Cyber Command, and focuses on a unit that has been created around one agent (Gabriel Black, played by Josh) with a very special gift: A microchip has been implanted in his brain that allows him to access the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

Josh also co-stars in the dramatic thriller “Paranoia,” which also stars Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth and Gary Oldman. It will be released in October.

Also, in January 2014, look for Josh in the Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie “Ten,” which also stars Sam Worthington and Joe Manganiello. ***

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both men and women, claim their own Social Security benefit AND spousal benefits from their husband or wife? For example, I get a really nice retirement benefit from the government. Why can’t I get some of my wife’s Social Security? Obviously, I know the answer to that question. I just wish my mom would have seen it that way.

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other. They simply ran in different economic circles.

Long story short: Both the husbands eventually died. The banker’s widow (she was over 65 at the time) started getting a rather substantial widow’s benefit from Social Security. But my mom got a very small monthly widow’s check from my dad’s account. And that’s because she was getting her own Social Security retirement benefit, and that benefit offset her widow’s payments -- dollar for dollar.

Because of their respective economic circumstances, the banker’s widow received a significantly higher monthly Social Security benefit than the combined payments my mom was getting. And this simply irritated my mother to no end. By this time, I was working for the Social Security Administration, and if she asked me this once, she asked this a thousand times: “Why is THAT WOMAN across the alley, a woman who never worked a day in her life, getting more money than I am -- a woman who has spent 40 years working at a job and at home?”

I tried to explain to my mom that it all had to do with two of the basic concepts of Social Security. The first essentially says this: The more you pay into the system, the more you get out. And the second has to do with the reason behind spousal benefits -- those benefits were always intended to be paid to women who were “dependent” on their husband’s income.

The banker’s wife was just that: a “dependent.”

She depended on her husband’s salary while he was alive. So once he died, she was dependent on his Social Security.

My mom, on the other hand, had her own job and her own income. And because of that job, she received her own pension from the hospital where she worked and her own Social Security retirement benefit once she retired. Because my dad’s Social Security benefit was slightly higher than my mom’s retirement check, she did get a small widow’s supplement from Social Security.

But my mom never bought that argument. She would say: “Your dad worked all his life, and I should be getting his Social Security now that he’s gone.”

In other words, she wanted her own full retirement benefit and a full widow’s benefit from my dad’s account. To this day, many working women send me emails making the same points my mom did 25 years ago.

I tried to explain to my mom, and I still try to explain to those sending me emails today, that if the law allowed them to get both a retirement benefit and a dependent spousal benefit, where would we draw the line? Why can’t all working people in this country,

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Mom? Is that you? Are you still turning over in your grave because you just can’t let this go?

OK, so that wasn’t my mother with a heaven-sent albeit spite-filled message from the afterlife. But it was just another example of the thousands of irate emails I’ve received over the years from working women who are upset that they oftentimes can’t get any benefits from their husband’s Social Security record.

And then they find it doubly irritating that a woman who didn’t work outside the home gets to collect full Social Security spousal benefits from her husband or ex-husband’s account.

I’m not an anthropologist. Nor am I a psychiatrist. But I’m sure folks in those professions would be able to find all kinds of underlying causes for the resentment felt by so many working women towards their gender counterparts who, for whatever reason, spent their lifetimes as full-time mothers and wives.

My mother went through the last 25 years of her life carrying such a grudge. I’ll share her story, which I think will shed a little light on this topic.

My parents came from the wrong side of the economic tracks and spent their lives trying to inch their way into the middle class. My dad was a janitor.

But that job simply didn’t bring enough money into our household. So my mom always worked outside the home. She spent much of her adult life doing clerical work in a hospital. She took time off to have four kids. But within a year of the birth of each of those kids, she was always back to work to help pay the rent and buy groceries. There was little money left over for what most people would consider the good things in life.

But speaking of those good things, our neighbors behind us across the alley were living the American dream. (That alley was like the proverbial “tracks.”

It divided the rich side of town from the poor side.)

In their household, the husband and father was the vice president of a local bank. They also had four kids -- and his wife was a full-time stay-at-home mom.

She never had to work outside the home because her husband’s salary brought in more than enough money to keep them living in comfort. I, and my brothers and sisters, enjoyed playing with the banker’s kids. (They had really nice toys and stuff!) But our parents never mingled and never visited one an-

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toward the lower-right corner of the abdomen. Temperature rises. Vomiting is common, and sometimes diarrhea is part of the picture. A doctor, by what he or she hears from the patient, along with the examination of the abdomen, usually can make the diagnosis. In confusing circumstances, an ultrasound is most helpful.

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Sometimes brochures and cards that come in the mail look like something worthwhile, and appear genuine and legitimate. I recently received a card like that, which at first glance appeared to ANSWER: By “hand sanitizer,” do you mean have come from Social Security. It invited me to waterless hand cleaners? Most of them incorporate send back the card (postage paid) to receive a free

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My 13-year-old ethyl alcohol or isopropyl alcohol. They kill many brochure entitled “New Social Security Changes son went to camp for five days. On day three, he bacteria, but not all harmful ones. Nothing short of and Benefits.” had terrific stomach pain and started to vomit. sterilization does that.

It was only when I looked at the very botThe instructors were alarmed and took him to tom at the fine print (and yes, I had to use a magFrequent hand-washing with soap and wathe local hospital, where doctors diagnosed ap- ter for 20 seconds is an effective way of eliminating nifying glass because it was so tiny) that I learned pendicitis. We had to give phone permission many germs, including cold and flu viruses. You the sender was not affiliated with the government for him to have an operation. Ever ything went don’t have to use soap that has antibacterial agents at all: It was an advertising direct mail sales pitch! fine, and he recovered quickly. in it. The water doesn’t have to be hot; cool water is When I traced down the person named on the card,

My wife and I have a few questions. fine. Dry your hands with a paper, disposable towel, it turned out he’s not connected with Social SecuCould he have eaten something that caused ap- and turn off the faucets in a public restroom with a rity in any way; he was selling investments. pendicitis? What does not having an appendix paper towel.

I found the same card on a marketing site do to people? No one in my wife’s or my fam- *** on the Internet. Marketing companies sell the cards ily has had such an operation. We’re ignorant DEAR DR. DONOHUE: When is the bet- as a direct-mail piece, part of a lead-generation about all this. -- G.G. ter time to take medicines: a.m. or p.m.? Is it program for salespeople. Somehow they got my better to take them with water or juice? I have name and address, and hoped I’d fill out even more information on the card (date of birth, home phone ANSWER: The appendix dangles from the been told conflicting answers. --- S.R. number and email address) and mail it back to first part of the colon in the lower-right side of the abdomen. It looks like a slender worm, and has an ANSWER: If the prescribing doctor or the them. With that information, they could start callaverage length of 3 inches (8 cm). The function of pharmacist hasn’t specified a particular time, you ing me to push whatever they’re selling, or sell my the appendix isn’t clearly defined, but it might have a can take medicine when it’s most convenient for you. information to someone else.

I found a similar website, one that deals role in body immunity. Life without an appendix goes You’ll never go wrong taking medicine with water. with promotional mailers, with this banner streamon as normally as life with one. *** ing across the top: “Social Security Leads are HOT

The appendix has a hollow core, which is Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer indilined with lymphoid tissue, the same kind of tissue vidual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column when- ... mailers pulling 5 percent-plus.” That means that ADVERTISING PROOF found in lymph nodes. Bacteria from the colon can ever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form one in every 20 people who receive the mailing TUES., JULY 26 available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL Final Changes DUE: piece will respond. That’s a very high percentage of invade the hollow core and cause the lymph tissue5:00 to ofp.m..

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Have you ever gone to the driving range and hit the ball great only to see it disappear when you play the course? If that is the case, the reason could be that when you are on the driving range the ball is on a flat lie that is level to your feet.

When you play on the golf course the ball is lying at angles that could position the ball above or below your feet.

The first thing you want to do when you are getting ready to hit your shot is to assess the lie. Is the ball above or below my feet? You can see in the picture that I drew a line along the ground that represents “foot level”. The ball is approximately a couple inches above that line. With the ball being above my feet I need to make two adjustments to my setup; 1) I need to grip down an inch off the top of the club, therefore shortening the shaft. 2) I need to be taller in the legs and in my spine angle.

I will also need to make slight adjustments to the swing; Be sure to have the right foot push the hip up through the ball in the forward swing which will help from hitting the shot fat.

Images created through JCvideo.com software Also, finish the swing with the hips and shoulders level to the horizon.

This swing feels very similar to a baseball swing, Adapting to the Ball Above Your Feet more level to the horizon line rather than “down” to the ball. bestrange way and to check and great see if these adjustments are Have you ever gone to theThe driving hit the ball going to play help the is tocourse? make a practice only to see it disappear when you If that is swing and see where and howbe deep divotyou is inare reference the case, the reason could thatthe when on theto the ball. Your goal is to a clean of the grassfeet. through the area of the ball. driving range the ball is onhave a flat lie thatbrush is level to your making the isadjustments to the setup and swing until When you play on the golfKeep course the ball lying at angles getorthe right combination for that perfect brush of the that could position the ball you above below your feet.

Nowyou you’re ready ready to have The first thing you want tograss. do when are getting to the ball respond to that hit your shot is to assess swing. the lie. Is the ball above or below Thepicture biggestthat challenge golfalong is that the ball lie’s at various my feet? You can see in the I drew ain line degrees on sloped That is challenge requires that you the ground that represents “foot level”. ground.

The ball develop the that ability to With adaptthe to ball those angles to produce the approximately a couple inches above line. best possible. being above my feet I need toshot make two adjustments to my setup; 1) I need to grip down an inch off the top of the club, therefore shortening the shaft. 2) I need to be taller in the legs Rob Stanger is recognized as a 2005-08 Golf Magazine Top Teacher and in my spine angle.

West Region. He teaches at The College Golf Center. You can I will also need to make slight to the swing; Be contactadjustments him at 760-409-8628 or at www.robstanger.com for inquiries sure to have the right foot about push your the golf. hip up through the ball in the forward swing which will help from hitting the shot fat.

Images created through JCvideo.com software Also, finish the swing with the hips and shoulders level to the horizon. This swing feels very similar to a baseball swing, more level to the horizon line rather than “down” to the ball.

The best way to check and see if these adjustments are going to help is to make a practice swing and see where and how deep the divot is in reference to the ball. Your goal is to have a clean brush of the grass through the area of the ball.

Keep making the adjustments to the setup and swing until you get the right combination for that perfect brush of the grass. Now you’re ready to have the ball respond to that swing.

The biggest challenge in golf is that the ball lie’s at various degrees on sloped ground. That challenge requires that you develop the ability to adapt to those angles to produce the best shot possible.

Have you ever found yourself hitting the ball great at the driving range, only to see all that disappear on the course? It could be that the ball at the range is always level to your feet, but on the hilly course your setup is always changing.

To overcome these terrain changes, you first need to assess your lie. Is the ball above or below your feet? In the photo I’ve drawn a line to represent my “foot level”. In this case the ball is several inches above that line, which means I need to make two adjustments to my setup: 1) I need to grip down an inch off the top of the club to shorten the shaft. 2) I need to be taller in the legs with less angle in my back.

My swing will also need some adjusting. My right foot needs to push my hip up through the ball to avoid hitting it fat, and I’ll finish with my hips and shoulders level to the horizon. This swing is somewhat similar to a baseball swing, more horizontal than “down” to the ball.

Your goal is to adjust your setup according to your lie and have the clubhead make a clean Rob Stanger is recognized as a 2005-08 Golf Magazine Top Teacher West Region. He teaches at The College Golf Center. You can bush of the grass through the ball. Once you’ve contact him at 760-409-8628 or at www.robstanger.com for inquiries about your golf. learned to adapt to the slopes this way, youll be producing the best shots possible.

“Relax, your time isn’t up yet. However, you can kiss your short game goodbye.”

PHOBIAS (continued): • Some phobias relate to what’s up above, such as the sun (heliophobia), the clouds (nephophobia), the moon (selenophobia), and the stars (siderophobia). Some folks are just afraid of looking up – they are called anablephobes.

• Not all phobias seem that abnormal or uncommon. Lots of people might have a fear of death, known as necrophobia. But those with an extreme form might be terrified of being buried alive. A nosocomephobe has a fear of hospitals, a verminophobe is afraid of germs, and a hydrophobe has an irrational fear of water.

• Individuals suffering from extreme agoraphobia rarely leave their homes, due to their fear of public or open spaces and the inescapable situations that may occur there. Only home is safe.

• Some phobias can be a learned behavior that comes from listening to others describe a traumatic event. An individual in one’s life can trigger a phobia, such as peladophobia, the fear of bald people. Those with nosto-phobia, a fear of returning home, may be able to contribute their panic to a specific incident.

• People who are afraid of looking into mirrors have cataptrophobia, while those with cyberphobia have a fear of working with computers. A person with an anxiety about memories is a mnemophobe.

• Don’t confuse levophobia, the fear of objects to a person’s left, with dextrophobia, the fear of objects to the right.

• Although some of us fear the possibility of cancer, an extreme carcinophobe will convince himself he has cancer because he touched someone who has it.

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