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Act will provide better access to care and earlier di --Give him a Nylabone toy to while away the agnosis. Most important are stronger public health hours until you return. Boredom can contribute to programs that reach out to the poor and nonwhites mindless barking. through education. There must be a continued and Black women are dying from breast cancer at a

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No Advantage to Waiting Beyond Age 70 Q:

I am close friends with an older woman whom I believe is making a big mistake regarding Social Security. She turned 70 about six months ago. She’s still working and says she plans to keep working as long as possible.

But she has yet to sign up for her Social Security benefits. She says she will keep getting more money the longer she delays applying for her benefits. Also, she believes that there is some limit to the amount of money she can draw off of her account. She thinks that once she gets out all the money she has put into the system, her checks will stop. I’m only in my 40s and don’t know all that much about Social Security.

Is any of this true?

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None of it is true. You should encourage your friend to apply for Social Security benefits immediately. Each month she waits, she is essentially throwing away a full Social Security check.

While it is true that someone who puts off signing up for Social Security until age 70 gets a substantial delayed retirement bonus, there is absolutely no advantage to waiting beyond age 70. In other words, there are no more bonuses added to Social Security payments after that age.

Well, let me clarify. There is a chance that her extra earnings (and corresponding Social Security tax payments) beyond age 70 will increase the amount of her monthly Social Security check.

Whether she is due the increase depends on how much money she is making and how it compares to her past earnings that were used to figure the amount of her Social Security check. But, the point is, she gets that annual adjustment to her Social Security checks while she is getting benefits. This is a completely separate procedure from the delayed retirement bonus described above.

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It’s absolutely false. As I alluded to in Having said that, there is one bit of good news for the answer to the previous question, anyone who you. As I’m sure you’ve already learned, your widworks after they start getting Social Security checks ow’s benefits are based on your husband’s age 70 is potentially due an increase in their monthly benretirement benefit, including the delayed retirement efit rate. bonus he got for waiting so long to start his Social Without getting into too much detail, I can tell you Security checks. that you would be due an increase IF your current annual income is higher than the lowest (inflation adTUES., 31has If you have a Social Security question, Tom JULY Margenau justed) year of earnings used in your original Social the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Security computation. If that is the case,Please the Social To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past colSecurity Administration will drop out that lowContact year, your umns Tidbits and see features from otherimmediately Creators Syndicate representative with writers changes or co add in the new higher year, and refigure your Social and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.

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have a dripping nose, others are not going to appreciate exercising along with you.

A general rule says if your symptoms are above the neck, it’s OK to exercise. Such symptoms would be a stuffy or runny nose, a scratchy throat and an occasional sneeze.

If you have an elevated temperature, achy muscles or a persistent cough, don’t exercise. ***

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Since I was a young child, I was told not to use public restrooms because I could catch something. What are the chances of catching a disease from them? -- F.N.

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Delay Claiming Social Security

If you take your Social Security benefits early, you’ll be reducing by a significant margin the total amount you could receive.

--The BMO Retirement Institute has pro ANSWER: Yours is a fear shared by many. duced a report, “Retirees Not Maximizing Social If public restrooms were a source of infections, they Security Retirement Benefits,” that outlines some of

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My ver y healthy, would be closed. They’re not. As far as sexually the facts: active, 6-year-old grandson was just diagnosed transmitted diseases go, I have never seen any in- --For 60 percent of seniors, Social Security MAR. as having kidney stones. His pediatrician said formation that implicates themTUES., in passing such15 infec- will provide the majority of income they’ll have durit is mostly genetic, but no one elsePlease in thereview fam- carefully. tions to others. retirement.

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I welcome other readers’ opinions on this issue.

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Charles Meigh joined his father’s pottery at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, in 1834 and operated it under his own name from 1835 to 1949. From 1850 to 1851, the name Charles Meigh and Sons and Pankurst was used. In 1851, the firm dropped the name Pankurst to become Charles Meigh and Sons. Meigh and Sons produced flow blue and mulberry transfer pattern pieces and salt glazed teapots. The pottery closed in 1901. “California” is the name of the pattern and the scene is a transfer print and not hand painted. Your mid-19th century platter would probably be worth $125 to $150.

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Tom went on to various Sports Illustrated covers, became a Rhodes Scholar and later in life he served as a congressman for a district gerrymandered out of existence in Maryland. Today, Jay is a doctor in Missouri and he is still married to Gail, the pretty Terrapin cheerleader and former homecoming queen.

Now, I promised that most of what we said was off the record, but I can’t resist giving up a few details: Jay and Gail are in the market for a new home and may become neighbors of mine. They want to cut down on space ... their kids are all grown and they’re eager to lose even more baggage. Gail points out the fact that they will have to get rid of some memorabilia.

I scoff at that notion and share a story about a sled that was discarded by elders in my family years ago. When it snowed during a holiday, the absence of the sled led to great consternation ... if only out of nostalgia.

“Don’t get rid of the basketball stuff,” I tell her. “Pass it down to your grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.”

She nodded in agreement, but had to laugh a bit. “You have to see the cover (of the media guide) ... those shorts ... and that jump shot! They don’t shoot like that anymore.”

Yeah, well ... at least he had one. In today’s game a good jump shot is as rare as mint chocolate-chip ice cream. Either way, I’ve got neither to speak for.

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Improve impact with • Some phobias can be a learned behavior that leverage comes from listening to others describe a Many times golfers will make what they feel is traumatic event. An individual in one’s life can a good backswing only to have it all fall apart at trigger a phobia, such as peladophobia, the fear the point of impact. If you experience the inconof bald people. Those with nosto-phobia, a fear sistency of making thin, then fat ball contact, you of returning home, may be able to contribute probably need more leverage in your swing.

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I often see new students struggle their way Many times golfers have made what they have felt to be a through impact, saying they feel stuck and good backswing only to have it all fall apart by the time they • People who are afraid of looking into mirrors return back to the ball atcan’t impact. get If youthrough. are experiencing The key to this problem is in some inconsistencies through impact where you are have cataptrophobia, while those with the They contacting the ball thin on onelower shot and body. than fat on the next, than you will want to provide more leverage in your forward cyberphobia have a fear of working with are failing to use the swing to support the hands / clubface to make good contact strength of their legs for with the ball consistently. computers. A person with an anxiety about When I teach, I often see new students struggle their way leverage they through impact. They tellthe me that they feel stuck and need cannot memories is a mnemophobe. get through. The sign toin thisthe problem is in the lower body. forward swing.

They are swinging the club and failing to use the strength of • Don’t confuse levophobia, the fear of objects Notice inforward the photo the lower body to provide leverage in the swing.

Notice in the picture as I go through impact, how my right how my right foot has to a person’s left, with dextrophobia, the fear foot has pushed off from the ground which sends a chain reaction up my leg into my knee. Theup knee, having support pushed giving supof objects to the right. from the foot can now provide support for the rotation of the port mytheknee, right hip. A sign of a good swingto is that right hipwhich rotates through to the target. Most higher handicappers have a now provides support for • Although some of us fear the possibility of difficult time with the hip rotation because they do not provide enough support from thethe right rotation foot and knee. of the right cancer, an extreme carcinophobe will convince Teaching with Motion Analysis Technology, as seen in the hip.

Theandsign photo with the sensors on my body imageof on a thegood screen himself he has cancer because he touched in the background, givesswing me the exact data tothe measure the is that right body movements in the swing. This exact data gives me and someone who has it. hip the student greater clarity androtates precision inthrough making the to

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