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Stop using your debit card. The ease and convenience with which you use that thing is startling. You don’t realize it, but it allows money to slip through your hands like water. For your day-to-day spending, switch to cash. It is inconvenient and that’s the way it should be. Make it difficult for you to spend your own money. Stop spending coins. Even if the bill comes to $4.02, hand over a $5 bill and get $.98 in coins. Now, every evening empty your pockets, purse and wallet of all those coins into a container. If you think that won’t start adding up, think again. In one year my husband and I saved $1,100 in coins simply because he doesn’t like to carry them around. Take the coupon savings in cash. Next time you shop for groceries, ask the checker to give you the subtotal before deducting the value of all your coupons. Write your check for the subtotal, and then receive cash back for the difference. Go directly to your savings place and stash that cash. Now you’re really saving at the grocery store. Stash all windfalls. A windfall is simply money you were not expecting. It might be a $1 rebate check for light bulbs, $25 from your aunt for your birthday, a quarter you found in the street or tax refund. Instead of seeing this as money to spend, save it! Automatic deduction. The most painless way to save is through automatic payroll deductions. You don’t miss what you don’t see. Sure you might miss that $20 or $50 in your check next week, even the next. But in time, you’ll completely forget about it. But your savings account won’t. Your goal should be to save 10 percent of everything you receive, without fail. Seem like an impossible dream? Not at all. Just start small, start today and keep going one coin, one dollar, one percentage point at a time!

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It looks like anger. It looks like Cujo. It looks like bared teeth and frothing at the mouth. But it also looks like tension -- straight tail, ears up, wide eyes, a stiffening of the body and face, a gradual lifting of the snout in response to direct eye contact. What does aggression sound like? It sounds like growling -- anything from a low rumble to a threatening, lip-curling snarl. Barking can be a sign of aggression, too, although dogs use their bark to communicate in ways that have nothing to do with aggression. However, barking in tandem with any of the above is safe to define as aggression. The following letter from a reader demonstrates the signs and progression of aggression left unchecked: “We have a serious issue with our sweet girl, ‘Suki.’ She shows severe fear aggression with certain people. It used to be a little low growl, which progressed to lunging with some backtracking. Now it is full-on, in-your-face snarling, barking and even jumping on or at certain people if we don’t grab her in time. “Suki does very well on walks, walking right by people and dogs, often looking at them but quickly ignoring them. It’s only if they approach, stop and stare directly at her that she gets stressed out. She also frequently startles on walks and is often looking behind her even if no one is there. “It is to the point that even my brother and father don’t want us to bring her because she does this to them whenever they stand up or walk around the house. She is fine with them if they are seated and will even approach them, lick them and let them pet and play with her. But the second they stand up, she is in their face snarling and growling and not letting them go anywhere. Please help!” The most important thing I can say about dog aggression is don’t put a euphemism on it. Don’t call it anger. Don’t call it 2moodiness. EGAP RELDon’t LIF call it unpredictability. Call it what9it is, and get help. 1 KEEW - 80professional Q2 CASEY’S CORNER 01 YAM - 4 YA:MTurn to page 10

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A major misconception is that a decline in sexual function with advancing age is inevitable. The majority of couples remain sexually active throughout life, with only 15 percent of men and women experiencing sexual problems. Things may not be the same as they once were, but there is no reason for the elderly not to remain sexually active. Sexual dysfunction is often neglected. Much has been written about sexual dysfunction -- also called erectile dysfunction -- in men, but problems occur in women as well. Unfortunately, few health care providers attempt to identify or treat sexual difficulties. Both physician and patient may be embarrassed to raise the issue, which is a big mistake. In both men and women, loss of libido and an inability to become aroused are frequent features of sexual dysfuncton. Recent advertisements imply that from age 30 onward there is an inexerable decline in testosterone with advancing age in men. Marketers almost overnight have given this the notorious name of “low T.” Apart from loss of libido or sex drive, low T is blamed for depression, insomnia, increasing weakness and decreased exercise tolerance. Needless to say, there are many causes for these nonspecific symptoms. However, the only universal symptom of low testosterone is decline in libido. Testosterone does not affect arousal, and deficiency does not cause an inability to have an erection. The actual number of men with testosterone deficiency is very small. Many men with values in the lower limit of the normal range now receive replacement therapy with testosterone. Unless loss of libido is a major issue, this approach is questionable, as hormone replacement therapy is not without its problems. Women also have small amounts of the male hormone testosterone. In combination with low levels of estrogen, reductions in testosterone can affect libido in women.

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in the family home, and we worr y as they are getting rather frail. My husband and I have suggested that they consider moving to an assisted living facility, but they won’t even discuss the subject. Dad recently had some serious heart surger y. Now we worr y about getting an emergency call that he has been taken to the hospital. What is the best way for us to be prepared if something like this happens?

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Is it worth any surgeries, and current medical condition. His ● On June 20, 1782, Congress adopts the investing in a computer? doctor can add his existing diagnosis and treatment. Great Seal of the United States. The front As we age, our brains find it more difficult Having this information immediately available could of the seal depicts a bald eagle clutching to remember pesky details, like bill payments, doctor become vital. A good resource for you to check out an olive branch in its right talon and arappointments, the kids’ vacation plans, and myriad would be www.emergencycarefor you.com rows in its left. The eagle’s beak clutches a Share this documentation with relatives and other things. Journals, either handwritten or typed banner inscribed, E pluribus unum, a Latin into a computer program, help us keep our everyday neighbors should they be needed. 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