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CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) good enough. To help matters along: -- Lay down no paper or puppy pads on the floor in any part of your house, as this will only confuse your pup. -- Confine the dog to one area of the house when you are not home. -- Allow no buffet-style eating or drinking until the dog is successfully housebroken. Should an accident occur along the way, proceed in one of two ways: -- If you catch your pup in the act, interrupt him with a verbal correction, take him outside immediately and praise him when you get there. Then go inside and clean the soiled floor with an odor neutralizer. -- If you stumble upon an accident, clean it up and forget about it. Accidents should be infrequent if you are upholding your end of the deal. Consistent repetition is the key to successful training, and housebreaking is no exception. Beating a dog, on the other hand, will get you nowhere -- except the courthouse or the clink. For detailed information on the Feed-Water-Walk housebreaking regimen and additional training techniques, check out “Good Dog, Bad Dog,” “When Good Dogs Do Bad Things” and “I Just Got a Puppy. What Do I Do?” You’ll find these books and more in your local bookstore, public library or at www.unclematty.com. Woof!

Despite a great deal of national attention, there is still much dissent and confusion about how to treat breast cancer. A new controversy involves treating advanced cancer with Avastin, a drug that prevents tumors from forming blood vessels. Impaired blood vessel formation either slows or stops tumor growth. Initial research showed that in combination with other drugs, Avastin prolonged the life of patients with breast cancer that had spread throughout the body. With greater use of the drug, new studies have shown that Avastin is of no benefit, does not prolong life, and risks outweigh any benefits. Side effects include stroke, bowel perforations and difficulties with healing. The drug also causes swelling of the brain, which leading to high blood pressure, blindness, confusion and seizures. As a Dog trainer Matthew “Uncle Matty” Margolis is co-author of 18 consequence, the Food and Drug Administration, books about dogs, a behaviorist, a popular radio and television guest, and host of the PBS series “WOOF! It’s a Dog’s Life!” Read all of Uncle following the advice of an expert panel, has begun Matty’s columns at the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators. the process of removing approval of Avastin to com, and visit him at www.unclematty.com. Send your questions to treat advanced breast cancer. dearuncle.gazette@unclematty.com or by mail to Uncle Matty at P.O. Some experts have already voiced opposiDr. David Lipschitz is the author of the books, “BreakBox 3300, Diamond Springs, CA 95619. ing the Rules of Aging” and “Dr. David’s First Health Book tion. The American Cancer Society’s deputy chief COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM of More Not Less.” To find out more about Dr. David medical officer, Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, agreed with Lipschitz and read features by other Creators Syndicate the information but stated that some women had writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web responded well to Avastin. The concern is that page at www.creators.com. More information is available subsets of breast cancer patients do benefit from at www.DrDavidHealth.com. the drug, but currently the ability to identify them is impossible. In a WebMD article, an oncologist who had served as a paid speaker and consultant for the company that markets Avastin stated, “This is a We need your old Wheelchair! very useful drug, doubling the response to treatWheels for the World is a part of the ment, and that more patients treated with the drug Joni & Friends ministry sending refurare alive at one year.” He felt that this was a sad bished wheelchairs to the poorest day for patients who would be denied the use of a of the poor in overseas countries. valuable drug. We accept donations of used wheelchairs & So much confusion and so little agreement! And wheelchair parts in any condition. The units are patients suffering from a life-threatening disease refurbished and shipped abroad to be given free to are caught in the middle. This situation applies those who need them but cannot afford to buy them. ADVERTISING PROOF to the care of virtually every major illness where We are a non-profit organization NOON dedicated to helping others in need. therapies are often controversial and there’s no WED., DEC. 15 Final Changes DUE: Tax-deductible receipts 5:00 given. p.m.. concrete consensus on the most appropriate care. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling FREE Pick-Up!  Prices  Hours But the difficulties are most obvious in cancer care Call -- where outcomes in terms of remission of tumor, TODAY! (760) recurrence of disease and deaths can be measured. The problem of treating any illness with a drug that is not approved by the FDA is that most insur• Same Beautiful Music you know and love Villa Somera c/o Soong anceDe companies andJoyce Medicare will not pay for it. • Same pleasing format 3.5 Million 1/8 pg. 4C physicians 6x However, do have the ability to use any Readers Weekly Nationwide! FREE • Familiar on-air personalities medication what referred Of Coachella Valley Dec. 19, 2010forVol. 6 -isNo. 52 to as an “off label”

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curity claim. Normally, people would exercise this getting full Social Security benefits from that point option because they had a change of heart about forward. I never was a big fan of this scheme. Even though retirement. Here is an example of how that worked. Fred it was completely legal -- and I did include it in a fact retired at age 62 and filed for reduced retirement sheet I wrote called “Five Ways To Maximize Your benefits from Social Security. But then six months Social Security Benefits” -- I always felt it was just anlater, he got bored and decided retirement was a other example of rich folks getting even richer off of mistake. So, he returned to work. Fred would have a system that was primarily set up to help lower- and two options with respect to his Social Security. Op- middle-income people. by Tom Margeneau Apparently, Congress felt the same way I did. tion one: He could simply suspend his benefits and start them up again when he decides to retire per- That’s why they’ve changed the law. By restricting manently. In this case, he would keep the benefits the withdrawal period to one year, they’ve taken the already received. And when his Social Security law back to its original intent: a mechanism to let checks are restarted, they would include an early people change their minds about their initial deciretirement reduction only for the six months he got sion to retire and file for Social Security. And the revised law works the same way as I benefits before going back to work. But using option two, Fred could withdraw his described in the earlier example involving Fred. It’s original Social Security claim, repay benefits re- just that now Fred, and everyone else, would have ceived, and then file a new claim once he retires one year to change their minds. And one final note: The fact sheet I mentioned is for good. That claim would include no reduction for still available. I now simply call it “How To Maximize early retirement -because he already paid back the I heard that Congress has eliminated Your Security Benefits.” Instead of five ways reduced retirement benefits he initially received. AdSocial Proof: the “payback option.” Can you discuss this in to do that, it illustrates four ways to get the most So that is why people were allowed to withdraw your column? of yourUnlimited Social Security investment. I must admit their original Social Security claims and pay back outSmith Black New & White, 13x rate Yes, the so-called “payback option” has esthepage, old-fashioned Deal liberal part of me benefits. And until recently, that’s the only reason that1/16 sentially been eliminated. Or to be more precise, bristles when I discuss maximizing a Social Security people used the withdrawal and payback option. Oct. 10 - Dec. 12 - (Vol. 6: #42 - #51) it’s been greatly restricted. For readers not familiar But then wealthier and more financially savvy “investment.” I still firmly believe in the social roots with additional insertion TBA. with the term, the payback option is a provision of people came on the scene; the kind of people who of “Social” Security. But I understand that it’s only Corrections by: 5topm, 10/1/10 the law that -- although originally intended for other nature fordue a person wantFriday, to get back as saw Social Security not as the foundation of a retire- human purposes (as I’ll explain in this column) -- came to be ment nest egg, but as just another investment ve- much money as possible from a program that he or TUES., NOV. 30 used as an interest-free government loan scheme by hicle. And they saw the withdrawal/payback option she was required to pay into for 40 or more years. Double  Phone  Spelling well-to-do seniors. The rule allowed aPlease personreview to filecarefully. as a way to get check: free money fromNumber(s) the government -- in  Prices  Hours for reduced Social Security benefits at age 62 and If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau effect, an interest-free loan. continue to receive those benefits until age 66. As I alluded to at the beginning of this column, has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast. At that point, he or she would withdraw that first they would file for Social Security at age 62 and sim- net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the claim, pay back all benefits received, and then file a ply invest every nickel of the benefits received until Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. new claim and receive full retirement benefits from age 66. Then they would withdraw the claim and COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM. Fluster Computer Services for all the money age 66 on. The advantage to this scheme is that the Bill write a check to the government BZ BW 26x retiree would get to pocket all interest earned on the they had gotten in the previous four years. But they 5, 2010 - No. four year’s worth of benefits received between age Dec. would pocketVol. any6and all50 interest earned and start FREE 62 and 66. 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Did you know you can now get some free services from Medicare? With the health-care reform laws, you’re now eligible to get certain types of free preventive care, starting in 2011. These include: DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My 28-year-old □ Annual vaccinations, such as flu and pneumodaughter, who has been healthy all her life, nia shots was recently diagnosed with lupus. Will she be □ Pap tests and pelvic exams every two years able to live a full life, including having children. ANSWER: It is so. A porcelain gallbladder must □ Nutrition help if you have kidney problems or Is there a cure? How about exercise and diet? be removed because of the high risk of cancer. TUES., JAN. 26 I will appreciate any information you can pro- This kind of gallbladder got its name because calcium diabetes Cholesterol blood checks every five years  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  □ Prices  Hours vide about this condition. -- R.K. Please review carefully. infiltratesDouble its wall.check: The wall is inflamed, and gallstones □ Bone density tests for osteoporosis every two are often the cause of the inflammation. Even though years ANSWER: In the 1950s, a diagnosis of lupus car- you might have no gallstones and even though you □ Mammograms once a year ried only a 50 percent chance of living for five more have no pain, you need to have the gallbladder taken □ Prostate exams and PSA test every year years. Sixty years later, the chance of living for at out, so great is the threat of cancer developing. □ Diabetes checks twice a year least 20 more years is 90 percent, and the majority of *** □ Colonoscopy and screenings at varying times Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but Bob’s Clock Repair lupus patients have a normal life span. he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers However, if you have a Medicare Advantage BZ 4Cmay 26x Pregnancy is definitely possible. 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How do we stay grounded and calm through the barrage of information we get daily from the media? We seem to get entirely different slants on the news depending on what we watch or read. It’s hard to know who or what to believe anymore. The one thing the radio, TV and newspapers have in common is that it’s all bad news! Isn’t there any good news to report anymore? It never used to be this way.

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How Grandchildren Learn

A: There seems to be a rush to judgment in to-

● On Jan. 26, 1788, the first Australian penal colony is established, and 736 convicts banished from England land in Botany Bay. During the next 60 years, approximately 50,000 criminals were transported from Great Britain.

day’s media, and things are sometimes reported as fact before the facts are even known. Sadly, our naAs grandparents, we enjoy taking care tion is being divided along political lines like never of our 7-year-old and 9-year-old grandchildren before, and much of it is driven by the politically biwhile their parents work. We stress learning ased media. My advice is to listen to both sides of good manners and being courteous and grate- the news and then draw your own conclusions based ● On Jan. 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s faful. However, one frustration is that our chil- on your own common sense. A Boy Scout helping mous poem “The Raven,” beginning “Once dren allow their kids to greet our friends by a blind lady across the street rarely gets coverage upon a midnight dreary,” is published in the than you4and I grew TUES., JAN first names. We grit our teeth when we hear our these days. It’s a different world New York Evening Mirror. up in. Things are changing fast, and not necessarily grandchild greet our friend as “Charlie.” Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours We have discussed this concern with them, for the better, so I suggest that we all hang on tight! ● On Jan. 25, 1905, at the Premier Mine but they laugh it off and continue to let the chilin Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diaDoug Mayberry makes the most of life in a Southern Calidren do so. How can we get the whole family on fornia retirement community. Contact him at deardoug@msn. mond is discovered. Weighing 1.33 pounds, board with proper manners? and christened the “Cullinan,” it is the largcom. To find out more about Doug Mayberry and read feaBattie Weight Losswriters and cartoonists, visit est diamond ever found. The Cullinan was tures byMedical other Creators Syndicate While some parents allow their children to 1/8 the pg. Creators website at www.creators.com. later cut into nine large stones and about 100 4C Syndicate 26x use first names for all ages, I would personally prefer COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM smaller ones. Jan. 9, 2011 Vol. 7 - No. 2 a courtesy greeting, such as “Uncle Charlie or Aunt Mary.” Although everyone is probably quite familiar ● On Jan. 24, 1935, the first canned beer with each other, this helps to instill respect in the goes on sale. In partnership with the Ameriyoung child for the adult family member. can Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Have you tried correcting the children when they Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of JUMP START YOUR METABOLISM... use the person’s first name when greeting an adult? Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream You might try gently explaining that it is simply not IMPROVE YOUR BODY’S Ale to Richmond, Va. It had taken two years proper for children to refer to Mr. Jones as “Charlie.” of research to develop a can that was presREACTION TO STRESS! I’ll bet once they learn first names are not to be used surized and had a special coating to prevent Dr. Ray Battie, a trusted valley physician in family they will gladly change their habits. the fizzy beer from chemically reacting with practice for over three decades & weight loss Another technique for helping grandchildren dethe tin. care for over 7 years, can show you velop proper manners is to lead by example. Chilhow to achieve permanent weight dren are virtual sponges for learning, and they are ● On Jan. 27, 1965, the Shelby GT 350, loss without permanent deprivation. always watching the behavior of adults as a model a version of a Ford Mustang sports car deRonnie Nicholas, R.N., M.S. is veloped by American auto racer and car defor themselves. We have the responsibility of being here each day to help you signer Carroll Shelby, is launched. The Shelgood examples for them to follow. stay on course! by GT 350 featured a 306 horsepower V-8 One such example of learned behavior happened ► No Contracts or Gimmicks engine and remained in production through recently when we entered a restaurant. We watched BEL AIR GREENS ► Sensible Eating Plans the end of the 1960s. a young boy, about 7 or 8, open and hold the door 6th pg. ► Metabolic/Body CompTesting for his parents and grandparents to enter. Nov. 21st, 2010 We were ► Eat Your Own Food! (Supple● On Jan. 30, 1972, in Londonderry, Northa few yards behind, but the boy continued to hold ments, snacks & meals available Dr. Ray Battie, MD for those who prefer this option). ern Ireland, 13 unarmed civil-rights demonthe door for us. We thanked him and said he was ► You do not have to be a FREE strators are shot dead by British Army paravery helpful because the door was so heavy for us. patient to purchase our Co nsu lta tio troopers in an event that becomes known as ns products. 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page, 4C, 13x rate mother. She owned it for a number of years, 1/16th COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM Jan. 2, 2011 Vol. 7 - No. 1 and I inherited it after her death in 1960. Still in mint condition, it is decorated with a palm tree in relief. Marked on the bottom are “BesTHE VALLEY’S FINEST wick -- England” and the number “1073.” I sincerely hope you can tell me something about its histor y and estimated value.

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Would you consider my old butterchurn crock an antique or junque? Marked on the front are the words: “Red Wing -- 5 -- Union Stoneware Co.” Also, there are two leaves on the front. Standing 17 inches tall, it’s in excellent condition with its original lid and handle.

Union Stoneware Co. was located in Red Wing, Minn. They not only made butter churns, but they also produced a plethora of other crocks, all extremely collectible. The two leaves are birch leaves, and “5” refers to the size of the crock, meaning it holds 5 gallons. Union Stoneware Co. is no longer in business. Recently, I saw a similar butter churn in an antiques mall selling for $185, which was a steal. As a rule, most sell in the range of $300 to $500. Your butter churn was made around the turn of the last century and is definitely not junque. * * *

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