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• In 1933, she teamed up with Fred Astaire for the first time, making a film called “Flying Down to Rio,” which turned out to be the first of ten films they would make together. Although they played supporting characters in the film, their dance chemistry was so remarkable that audiences clamored for more. A string of feature films followed, including such hits as “Top Hat” and “The Gay Divorcee.”

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the disease as was screening for colorectal cancer. In screening for colorectal and cervical cancer, the goal is to detect precancerous lesions. In the case of colorectal cancer, it is a premalignant polyps, and in the case of cervical cancer, it is changes in the characteristics of the cervical cells under the microscope that suggest a higher risk of malignant transformation. Removing colon polyps by Freddy Groves or the uterus and cervix in the case of an abnormal pap smear dramatically saves lives. By contrast, the European cancer screening community questioned the benefits of mammograms to screen for breast cancer, along with the blood test Prostate Specific Antigen, or PSA, to screen for prostate cancer. The American Legion recently released its The United States Preventative Services report on the status of Department of Veterans AfTask Force recently stated that the PSA measurefairs health care for women veterans. Members of ments should not be done in males who were not a high risk of developing prostate cancer. The ex- the System Worth Saving Task Force visited 15 VA ceptions were those who had a strong family history facilities in 12 states around the country. Its purpose and African-Americans in whom prostate cancer risk was to learn what barriers keep women veterans is very high. At the European Cancer Congress, re- from enrolling in VA health care, understand the searchers stated, “prostate cancer screening does challenges women veterans face and make recommore harm than good”. The problem is primarily mendations. false-positives that lead to millions of biopsies an- The 2013 Task Force Report on Women Vetnually in men in whom only 12 percent have cancer. erans Health Care centered on three points: And of these diagnosed with cancer, most do not require treatment. Biopsies lead to a high incidence 1) Women veterans don’t identify themselves of infection and bleeding. 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I recently heard a news report that said Social Security has several billion dollars in something called a suspense file. It has something to do with the taxes collected on fraudulent Social Security numbers. The report said this money is just sitting there, not earning interest and not being used for any constructive purpose. If this is true, it’s no wonder our government has such financial problems when there are large pools of unaccounted-for cash like this just lying around. Can you shed any light on this?

Ah, yes, the infamous “suspense file.” When I was the deputy press officer for the Social Security Administration, I don’t think a day went by when I didn’t field a call from a reporter somewhere in the country asking me about this alleged pile of cash supposedly lying around in some Social Security safe or other government vault. But there is no pile of cash. There are no unaccounted-for and mismanaged funds that, once found, would miraculously solve all of Social Security financial woes. Here’s the real story. Every single day, thousands of wage reports from employers representing millions of workers around the country trickle in to the Social Security Administration. (I guess since we’re talking numbers like thousands and millions, “trickle” is the wrong word. How about “flood?”) The reports contain the names, Social Security numbers, and earnings of anyone working at a job covered by Social Security. And it’s important to note that these files are just the wage reports needed to maintain Social Security’s earnings records for all Social Security number holders. The actual money withheld in Social Security taxes takes a completely separate path and goes directly to the Treasury Department. In almost all cases, the name and Social Security number on the employer’s earnings report sent to SSA match a name and Social Security number in the agency’s records. So the Social Security records for all those folks get updated immediately. But in a relatively small percentage of the cases (the last I heard, it’s about 5 percent), the information supplied by the employer doesn’t match the information in Social Security’s files. Many times, this is merely a problem of a transposed digit in a Social Security number on the employer’s report. Other times, it’s a simple name issue. For example, the employer’s report might show an employee named T. Robert Margenau, but SSA’s records show the name as Thomas R. Margenau. SSA’s computer software programs have “tolerances” built into them that recognize these easily explained discrepancies and post the earnings to the proper record. But if the problem cannot be simply identified and readily fixed, then we have what SSA calls an “earnings discrepancy” case. The actions necessary to assign the earnings in question to the proper Social Security number account are temporarily suspended. Thus the term “suspense file” for all the earnings reports that have not yet been assigned to

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the proper Social Security number. Many of the cases that go into the suspense file don’t remain there for very long. SSA works with the employer who submitted the report and/or with the employee in question to resolve the problem. But in some cases, the problem can never be resolved. Many times, this is because there was some fraudulent activity involving a fake Social Security number or maybe someone using a deceased person’s Social Security number. Lots of these earnings reports remain in that suspense file for years and years. And even though the percentage of such unresolved cases is very small, over decades, the numbers just keep adding up. And that is why today, there are about $300 billion in unrecorded earnings reports in the suspense file. But please bear in mind that does not mean that $300 billion in cash is just lying around because no one knows what to do with it. Once again, the money collected in taxes, including the taxes collected in these earnings discrepancy cases, went directly from the employer to the Treasury Department and was used to finance Social Security checks sent out to all of the program’s beneficiaries. The only records sitting in the infamous suspense file are paper reports of earnings still waiting to be assigned to a proper Social Security number. If you ask me, one way to help resolve this problem is to issue everyone a Social Security card that’s a full-fledged identity card -- something with a picture and maybe some form of biometric identification. But that’ll never happen because folks on both sides of the political spectrum dislike the idea. Conservatives hate it because it would be one more example of big-brother government intruding into their lives. And liberals dislike the idea because it would take away from our civil liberties. And so the suspense file will just keep growing and growing.

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Last week we recounted the story of the time New York Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner was accosted in an elevator by two hooligans in a Los Angeles hotel. Legend has Steinbrenner emerging victorious and expecting a lawsuit that never happened. Seeing as how Mr. Steinbrenner has slipped this vale of tears, I won This is a photo of a wood Corina dered if the muggers would come clean all of these Larks cigar box that I have had since 1950. The years later if asked. cigars sold for 15 cents each. The label on the Enlisting the help of my favorite insider inside has a picture of a young woman and the Kranichfeld 4:00 PM ADVERTISING PROOF source for anything New York, the talented and Porcelain words “Notice the hole in the head.” There are WED., 4/10/12 APRIL 175:00 p.m.. pretty “Yankee girl,” we began our search with a Final Manufactory Changes DUE: Tues., metal hinges and lock and the box is approxi- Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours was check: located  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  few Craigslist postings and a few calls to the hotel Prices  Hours mately 8 inches by 6 inches and Please 2 1/2 review inchescarefully. Double in Germany. where we thought the Yankee owner might have high. The Corina logos are stamped on the outContact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or been corrections. staying. The incident happened in 1981, so side of the box. It is in perfect condition. I have we knew the trail was going to be pretty cold. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 kept my embroider y thread in for years. When Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O. Box These days you’re lucky to get a hotel room I heard some cigar boxes are worth money, I 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be if you talk to someone at the front desk, so you can answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, she emptied it out and stored it awayPlease for safekeepreview carefully. Double check: letters.  Phone Number(s)  Spelling Prices the  Hours cannot answer individual To find out more about Anne  imagine challenge we had when a research ing. Can you tell me how much it is worth? McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate writassistant with a Brooklyn accent called to ask if Sunny Dunes Antique Mall Contact yourers Tidbits representative immediately with changes and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website ator corrections. 16th page, BW, 26x discount rate Sunny Dunes Antique Mall anybody from housekeeping remembered cleanCigar boxes are collectible. Their histo- www.creators.com April 15,760-320-0997 2012 - Volume 8: Issue #16 Office: Fax: 760-320-1630 ing blood and teeth out of an elevator more than a ry goes back to the 1864 Revenue Act that required 1/16 pg. BW 26x disc. COPYRIGHT CREATORS.COM quarter century ago. 21,2013 2013 Vol. 9 - No. 17 cigars to be packed in boxes. They have been made April “I don’t know,” she persisted, ignoring my from just about every medium that includes wood, orders to cajole information out of him with sweet glass, tin, aluminum and china. Many of the boxes dulcet tones. Instead she bludgeoned him with a are made with Spanish cedar. Some were elaboloud mouth full of ham. “Got any old people workrately carved and made from fine wood. During the ing there? Or sumthin’, Mistah?” Depression, boxes were made to be used later for Meanwhile my part of the investigation into jewelry. They the case of the real Steinbrenner muggers wasn’t also were going so well either, the least of those reasons beconstr ucted ing that I was in Philadelphia. The beat reporters Visit often. New Items Arrive Daily! % in the shapes at the time say they were skeptical the event ever of motor vehiAntiques • Art • Jewelry ALL occurred, but Yankee trainers said that the injuries FURNITURE cles, and log  • Furniture • Collectibles w/ this ad. Exp. 4/30/12 he received were consistent with those usually recabins. Cigar Come Browse Our ceived in a fight. In other words, he didn’t appear to Vintage Items • Exquisite Estates 6,000 sq. ft. box labels are Multi-Dealer Mall! scrape his knuckles on a stucco wall in the lobby. Quality Consignment Furniture also very colRamon Rd. Either way, consensus is that Steinbrenner ginned lectible. Sunny Dunes Antique Mall Sunny Dunes up the story a bit in order to look like a hero in an Circa Call Today: 760-325-7200 attempt to spur his Yankee team to a champion 1950 cigar Mesquite 507 E. Sunny Dunes • Palm Springs ship. boxes similar Open 7 Days: 10:30-5 Acrosss from Builders Supply/Ace Hardware I did get some leads from guys who had to yours are in Property of an uncle who knew a guy that knew the Yankee Vintage cigar boxes such as this the $10 to $40 AdVenture Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Property of: trainer’s assistant type stuff, though. are collectible. range. Proof created by: “No! Listen! I swear ‘dis is true! Swear it!

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Stroke Through to Your Finish Line to Make Putts

How often do you hit a great approach shot in their close to the hole only to gag the putt? Yes, you heard me. The heart is pounding, the nerves are bouncing like ping pong balls through your body. And your hands get stone cold and you choke! The key to making more putts, especially the short ones you know you should make. The ones that would cut your handicap in half if you could only sneak them in somehow, is to keep the hands moving through the ball to the hole. When setting up for a putt, we setup in reference to our path to the target known as the target line. Set up to the ball with your feet square or slightly open to the target line, this will allow your body to be angled slightly towards the target to create the sensation in the stroke of pushing or underhand tossing the ball along the path to the hole. The ball is positioned on the instep of the left foot. This will create a slightly upward motion in the stroke to get the ball rolling smoothly on the putting surface. As the ball is positioned on the left foot instep, have your hands slightly forward, in relation to the putter face, so that the top of the grip is level with the front of the ball. Stroke Through to Your Finish Line to Make Putts Since your goal in the putting stroke is to swing the putter straight back and through along the target line, setting up to theshot ball in sotheir your close eyes are How often do you hit a great approach to directly over the ball will help you thatheart goal. visually the hole only to gag the putt? Yes, you heardachieve me. The make the stroke. I want you to imagine a is pounding, the nerves are bouncingNow likeyou’re pingready pongto balls “finish line” approximately through your body. And your hands get stone cold and you one foot in front of your ball, on line with your target. The key to making putts is to have the hands choke! and the putter face move together in the forward stroke, at The key to making more putts, especially the short ones you the same speed, to that “finish line.” know you should make. The ones The thatreason would cut why so your many golfers miss hit these putts is that handicap in half if you could only sneak them somehow, is probably to be a spectator and see they stopinjust after impact, to keep the hands moving through the ball to the hole. where the ball is going. Do not react to making contact with ball and keep your hands and putter face moving together When setting up for a putt, we setup inthe reference to our path your to the target known as the target line. to Set up“finish to theline”. ball with

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your feet square or slightly open to the target line, this will Rob Stanger is recognized as a 2005-08 Golf Magazine Top Teacher allow your body to be angled slightlyWest towards theHetarget to at The College Golf Center. You can Region. teaches create the sensation in the stroke of contact pushing himor at underhand 760-409-8628 or at www.robstanger.com for inquiries about your golf. tossing the ball along the path to the hole. The ball is positioned on the instep of the left foot. This will create a slightly upward motion in the stroke to get the ball rolling smoothly on the putting surface. As the ball is positioned on the left foot instep, have your hands slightly forward, in relation to the putter face, so that the top of the grip is level with the front of the ball. Images created through JCvideo.com software Since your goal in the putting stroke is to swing the putter straight back and through along the target line, setting up to the ball so your eyes are directly over the ball will help you visually achieve that goal. Now you’re ready to make the stroke. I want you to imagine a “finish line” approximately one foot in front of your ball, on line with your target. The key to making putts is to have the hands and the putter face move together in the forward stroke, at the same speed, to that “finish line.” The reason why so many golfers miss hit these putts is that they stop just after impact, probably to be a spectator and see where the ball is going. Do not react to making contact with the ball and keep your hands and putter face moving together to your “finish line”.

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Now imagine a “finish line” along that target line about a foot ahead of the ball. That’s where you want both your hands and the putter face to finish in your swing. The Rob Stanger is recognized as a making 2005-08 Golf Magazine Top Teacher key to putts is to have your hands and the club West Region. He teaches at The College Golf Center. You can contact him at 760-409-8628 or at www.robstanger.com for inquiries face move together in the stroke, at the same speed, all about your golf. the way through. The reason so many golfers gag these putts is because they halt their stroke just after impact and lose the all-important effect of proper follow through with hands and putter face at the “finish line”.

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