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POTATOES (from page one) He had earlier been introduced to the potato as a food crop, so he encouraged the peasants to grow the new food as well. The peasants did grow them -- but, still fearing they were poisonous to humans, fed them only to their livestock. So Frederick had his cooks invent potato recipes and circulated the cooking instructions among the people. Angered when they still refused to eat them, he resorted to a threat of punishment. He issued an edict that anyone who did not include potatoes in their diet would have their ears publicly cut off. With this incentive, potatoes quickly became a regular part of the Prussian diet. • When French pharmacist Augustine Parmentier was captured during the Seven Year War in the mid-1700s, he was thrown into prison where his Prussian captors fed him little besides potatoes. He remained in good health in spite of the limited diet. • When he was released, Parmentier returned home and encouraged all French families to start eating potatoes. He went to the King of France with a plan to grow the crop and feed the hungry. The King was not impressed, but he consented to give Parmentier a few acres of the worst possible land near Paris. Nothing would grow there -- nothing, that is, except potatoes, which thrived. Like the Prussians, the French people thought of potatoes simply as fodder for livestock, so Parmentier devised a scheme to change the tide of public opinion.

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Shame on Everyone When It Comes to Lack of Progress on Social Security Reform Many people have asked me if I have written a book about Social Security. The answer is yes and no. The “yes” part of that answer alludes to the fact that I’ve had a Social Security book ready to go for many years now. The “no” part of the answer is that it hasn’t been published yet. And therein lies a story. About ten years ago, I had signed on with a literary agent who was peddling my Social Security advice book to a variety of publishers. She finally found one that was interested in the book. The manuscript was approved by a series of editors, all of whom thought the book was marketable and had good potential. We just needed the approval of the head of the publishing house, and I would have been on my way to the best-seller lists! But that publisher turned the book deal down. She said it was an excellent guidebook and great source of information about Social Security for people of all ages. “But,” she explained, “we all know that the Social Security program will soon be reformed, and those changes will instantly put your book out of date.” Well, that was almost a decade ago. Social Security still hasn’t been reformed, and my manuscript is just gathering dust on my bookshelf. I like to tell that story when people ask me about any imminent changes to Social Security. The message is: “Don’t hold your breath.” Everyone knows (well almost everyone knows) that Social Security needs to be reformed due to the financial burdens placed on the system by baby boomers that are turning into senior boomers in record numbers. Something like 10,000 boomers file for Social Security every day! Policy planners and politicians have known about this for decades. And for years, people have been talking about Social Security reform. But no one does anything about it. There is plenty of blame to go around. Liberals and Democrats deserve their share of the blame because they usually tend to put their heads in the sand and say: “What Social Security problem?” Conservatives and Republicans deserve praise for being willing to discuss Social Security reform. But then they also deserve their share of the blame because they frequently propose outlandish and totally unworkable solutions to the problem (such as “privatizing” the program). And the public at large deserves their share of the blame because they say they want reform, but they tend to vote otherwise. As I’ve pointed out many times in this column, if I ran for Congress on a

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platform of increasing the Social Security retirement age to 68, reducing future cost-of-living increases and raising the amount of income subject to Social Security tax (three viable solutions to Social Security’s long range fiscal problems); my opponent would run attack ads claiming that “a vote for Tom Margenau is a vote against seniors and working people”), and I would lose the election in a landslide. And a recent episode illustrates the games politicians (on both sides of the aisle) play when it comes to Social Security. As I alluded to earlier, Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for frequently refusing to put Social Security on the table. And Republicans should be praised for being willing to discuss “entitlement reform.” As part of the ongoing budget negotiations between President Obama and the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives, the president bucked the pressure he felt from some members of his own party and proposed a reduction in future cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients. So you’d think that Republicans would have greeted that proposal with open arms. But what happened? Many of them immediately took to the airwaves and their Twitter accounts to blast the President for “trying to balance the budget on the backs of our poor deserving senior citizens.” And that was the same thing many liberal Democrats had said when the president proposed COLA reforms in the first place. Do you see why Social Security reform can be so maddening and frustrating? Do you see why there is plenty of blame to go around for the lack of any meaningful changes? Do you see why Democrats should be ashamed of themselves? Do you see why Republicans should be ashamed of themselves? Do you see why the people/voters should be ashamed of themselves? I guess everyone wants reform, but they want reforms that impact the other guy. They don’t want their Social Security checks reduced or their grandma’s benefits cut, but they wouldn’t mind if that other, less-deserving guy’s benefits are reduced. And they don’t want their Social Security taxes raised or their children’s taxes raised, but they wouldn’t mind if that other guy’s payroll taxes are raised. I have written a fact sheet that offers weighted solutions to Social Security’s long-range financial problems. It not only lists proposed reforms, but it tells you how effective those reforms would be. In

other words, it spells out how much of Social Security’s long-range deficit would be wiped out by each reform. I will email you an electronic copy of this free fact sheet if you send a request to thomas.margenau@comcast.net. (This is the same fact sheet I’ve offered in past columns, so people who have requested it before won’t need to get another one.)

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 On June 10, 1692, in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Bridget Bishop, the first colonist to be tried in the Salem witch trials, is hanged after being found guilty of the practice of witchcraft. In October, on order of the governor, the Salem witch trials, which resulted in the executions of 19 innocent women and men, effectively ended.

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POTATOES (from page page 3) during the three-year famine, while some one million left the country. • Potatoes are used in the production of many different kinds of foods. They are added to soups, sauces, pasta, baked goods and dairy products in order to help foods stick together, stop ice crystals from forming, and to make food creamier. • The mighty, versatile potato has many other uses in addition to food. When used to make ethyl alcohol (ethanol), one acre of potatoes can produce enough gas to fill up 25 average cars. A product made from potatoes is used by oil well drillers in order to keep their drills dry enough to keep the friction high. Potato starch was used in the early days of color photography, and vodka is made from distilled potatoes. Potato starch is now being made into “plastic” bags which decompose when buried. Potatoes are also used in manufacturing of plastics, medicines, paper, cloth, glue, and candy.

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The future of golf instruction is MAT-T The biggest obstacle in learning the right feel in the golf swing is that traditional instruction is limited to the feedback The biggest challenge in learning the golf swing and its the student gets from the various components and sensations is that traditional golf Despite repetitive drills instructor’s observations. instruction is limited to the amount of feedback the student andthepractice, the receives to experience correct feelings of astudent particular often can’t connect with swing. Golf instructors can share drills and feedback to their “feel” needed in students but manythe timesright the student doesn’t seem to latch on to the correct feelings and when or theyat do, least those feelings the swing, how to seem to disappear without any explanation. Whether that is maintain it on day-to-day from shot to shot or from day to day. Buta new technology is making it clearer for the student to capture the sensations of basis. great swings. Motion Analysis Technology is an extraordinary is new But (MAT-T) new technology technology that elevates swing analysis to an entirely new making it the possible to the caplevel and heightens the clarity of student to feel appropriate sensations of the swing. ture feel of MAT-T gathers vital swingthe information and great statistics swings. using multiple high-speed cameras. Analysis MAT-T distills Technology that information Motion to create a three-dimensional animated image of your swing (MAT-T) is an extraordinary that is viewable from any angle with detailed data for greater precision in making adjustments for a better swing. Notice in new system that elevates the picture that the sensors on my body are collecting the data to produce the image ofanalysis my swing on the swing to screen. a new level Now, how does this relate to you and your swing? For all of the to feel, you beginners outthat there, allows you can now feel student what a good golf swing feels like at a much faster pace than if you were to just review and practice these go out and beat balls on the range. For all of you that have played golf before,sensations. you now can have exact digital statistics on what you are doing well when you are making your best strategically swings, no matter how Using good or bad you may think theyplaced are. Now we take that date and help you reproduce your very body sensors and high-speed best swings with more consistency as we make gradual adjustments to help you improve your way to better swings three-dimensional cameras, and lower scores. MAT-T gathers vital swing Rob Stanger is recognized by Golf Magazine as a 2007-2008 Top information and replays it in Teachers West Region. He teaches in the Desert at The College Golf Performance Center. To view more tips or video golf instruction animated go to www.robstanger.com. You can images contact Rob atviewable 760-409-8628 from any angle. As for inquiries about your golf game. shown in the photos, the equipment senses my every movement and displays it on the screen. This new techonology can prevent the beginner from developing bad habits, and allow seasoned players to develop maximum effectiveness in their swing. Better than simply beating balls out on the range, you can now have digital statistics showing exactly what you’re doing well in your best swings, and then work on reproducing them for precision and consistency - and lower scores. The Future of Golf Instruction is MAT-T

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typewriter eraser? Or, if you’re younger, have you moved your belongings into a long-unused HAPPY FROM TIDBITS! desk, onlyHALLOWEEN to find a strange-looking gadget with fiber-like hairs bushing out of one SCARY MOVIESend? What you’ve foundbyisRyan a typewriter Toepfer eraser. Usually shaped like a pencil, tiphaving was made of an Some people just seem tothe love the living especially-abrasive to daylights scared out ofrubber, them.which Why was else used would “erase” typing error. Thebeother end featured horror and the suspense movies so popular? To a small brush made of stiff plastic strands that celebrate Halloween, Tidbits goes behind the wasof used to sweep remnants of the erasure scenes some classicthe thrillers. off the page. • When Alfred Hitchcock purchased the film • rights There’s shortage litter on theupground tofornoPsycho, heofalso bought as many day, butofthankfully, wenovel no longer discarded copies the original as heseecould find, pull-tabs. The tabs on older easy-open beverage hoping to keep the story’s ending a secret. cans pulled completely off the can. People who • The famous shower Psycho wasdodging filmed walked in bare feetscene wereofconstantly using double for Norman Bates, as Anthony these acarelessly-dropped metal hazards. Perkins was appearing in a play (Greenwillow) • in The rhythmic “beep” the scanner is the New York at the time.of The first time Perkins musical saw accompaniment the at supermarket actually that scene wastoback the studio, checkout line. But if you’ve ever wondered watching the daily “rushes,” and he said he was where the cliché of saying “ka-ching!” in rejust as scared as everyone else. lation to money comes from, that’s the sound • Take a close look electric, at Michael mask in that the old-style not Myers’ electronic, cash the 1978 camp Halloween. Does registers made. classic Cashiers of that era hadthe to face look familiar? The movie was filmed on manually punch a series of buttons to ring up such tight budget, that the department your apurchase, followed byprop a smack of the had to make do with what they had. For Myers’ “total” button with the heel of the hand. disguise, they used an old Captain Kirk (Star • “Do you want your carbons?” used to be an Trek) mask, which they spray painted white and automatic question asked by merchants after then re-shaped the eyeholes. you’d signed for a credit card payment. At that turn the page for more! time, credit card receipts were filled out by hand in triplicate, with a small piece of carbon paper inserted between each sheet. It didn’t take long for thieves to realize they could retrieve the used carbons from the trash and steal valuable credit card information. Once that scam gained popularity, waiters and cashiers regularly offered the carbons to customers, giving them the opportunity to destroy them.

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