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• Sullivan began spelling words with her finger into Keller’s hand immediately upon her arrival, starting with the word for the gift she had brought for Helen, D-O-L-L. It was a full month later before Keller realized what her teacher was doing. When Sullivan signed W-AT-E-R into Helen’s hand while holding it under water rushing from Keller with Anne Sullivan in 1888 the pump, Helen finally realized what Anne was trying to communicate.

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processed cheese (often called American cheese) to the marketplace in 1915. It consists of melted cheese with milk and butter added.

sheep or goats, although the milk of yaks, horses, buffalo, camels and even reindeer can be used. One type of Mozzarella cheese comes from the milk of a water buffalo.

• What exactly was Little Miss Muffet eating as she sat on her tuffet? During the cheese-making process, the milk is separated into solid curds and the liquid whey by adding an acid (such as vinegar) or a starter bacteria to sour the milk, followed by heating. Curds are really a raw or unprocessed cheese, such as cottage cheese.

• A very rare cheese comes from a Swedish farm that raises moose, but don’t expect to sample any morsels with your mouth unless you’re ready to pay through the nose. The lactation period of a moose lasts only a few months, so the farm is able to produce only 660 pounds of “Moose House” cheese per year, and it sells for about $32 per ounce, or $500 per pound!

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Fat and Fitness Can Coexist With Right Habits In many states, the percentage of adults classified as obese is over 30 percent of the population and rising. These people have a body mass index (BMI) above 30, which is calculated by dividing weight in pounds by the squared height in inches and multiplying the result by 703. Numerous charts are available that make it possible for anyone to determine if he or she falls within the obese category; if that person is overweight but not obese (BMI of more than 25 and less than 30); or at the ideal weight (BMI between 19 and 24). Studies estimate that 50 percent of the American population is either overweight or obese. Referred to as the No. 1 health threat facing us, obesity increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, many cancers and severe osteoarthritis that can lead to disability due to back and joint pain. Now comes some good news about obesity. A recent report published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism used a tool called the Edmonton Obesity Staging System, EOSS, that grades obesity on whether the person has significant diseases such as heart disease or cancer. The EOSS grades on a range from 0 to 4, with those having grades of 2-3 having moderated coexisting conditions and between 0 and 1 as being healthy. The study followed 6,000 obese Americans from 1987 to 2001 and compared their risk of dying to 20,000 people who were in the ideal weight range. Obese people who had grades of 2 or 3 were 1.6 times more likely to die from any cause. However, those with grades 0 and 1 with no significant health problems were no more likely to die than normal-weight people. In fact, their risk of

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heart disease deaths was, if anything, lower. These CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) people were more likely to exercise, eat right, not most behavioral problems can be eradicated or at smoke and see their physicians more regularly. In other words, if you are fit and fat you least controlled -- i.e., if Rowdy’s problem is truly limwill do just fine. Overweight people with high selfited to rawhide, no more rawhide! esteem, who feel strong and beautiful in their larger A professional trainer will also demonstrate bodies, who exercise, eat right and are regularly the concept of crate training. It may be too late for screened for underlying medical conditions do even Rowdy to ever truly love a crate, but it’s not too late better than skinny people with poor health habits. for your new puppy. A crate should be a safe haven Many of us struggle to lose weight. Diets for a dog, not a place of punishment. fail and weight loss is frequently regained with a And it is possible that your new pup -- happy, vengeance. And because weight is affected by so socialized and properly trained -- could be the model many factors, including the way our brain functions, of new and good behaviors for Rowdy. Just because eating habits, stress and genetics, this informaRowdy was there first doesn’t mean he calls the tion offers hope for many failed overweight dieters. shots -- or even wants to. You call the shots, and a Remember the importance of a healthful lifestyle. good trainer will show you how to call them so that Understand that obesity carries an increased risk your dogs not only respond to you, but also love you of many serious diseases. Annual checkups are essential up to age for it. 50 and thereafter, may be needed more frequently. Woof! Any underlying medical condition must be taken seriously and appropriately treated to avoid lifeTUES., Dog trainer Matthew “Uncle Matty” MAR. Margolis15is the threatening illnesses. co-author of 18 books about dogs, a behaviorist, a popular radio Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pr and television guest, and the host of the PBS series “WOOF! It’s a Many overweight people use the “too” excuse to avoid exercise, the single most important Dog’s Life!” Read all of Uncle Matty’s columns at www.creators. com, and visit him at www.unclematty.com. Send your questions key to a longer life expectancy. I am too hot, too to dearuncle.gazette@unclematty.com or by mail to Uncle Matty at cold, too big, too sick, too busy, too embarrassed P.O. Box 3300, Diamond Springs, CA 95619. or too breathless to exercise. There is always an exercise that is right for you. Bob’s Clock Repair COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM Now another seminal study published in BZ 4C 26x The Lancet examined the exercise habits of more Mar. 20, 2011 Vol. 7 - No. 12 than 400,000 Taiwanese men and women between 1996 and 2008. Encouragingly, as little as 15 minutes daily of moderate exercise (a brisk walk) reduced the risk of death by 14 percent when comTues., Apr. 5 pared to a group who were totally sedentary. More Howard Miller • Ridgeway • Sligh • Antique vigorous exercise only reduced the risk of death by We also Service, Repair and New a further 4 percent. The benefits of a little exercise repair Wall, Mantel, Movements from Germany applied to every age group, both sexes and in Ship’s and 32 years Cuckoo those with a history of heart disease. Clocks experience BoB’s CloCk shop This is really good news for the overeating, Carlsbad / San Diego / Desert Communities self-indulgent and sedentary American population. Servicing Coachella Valley on Fri., Sat. or Mondays The solution is not that hard. Focusing only on diet- UNIQUE COINS Call for In-Home service appointment ing is the biggest mistake we can make. No matter 1/12th pg.760-729-5121 4C (26x Disc.-orRate) 1-800-734-5121 how hard we try, once a diet fails, we become disApril 10, 2011 Vol. 7 - No. 15 heartened and return to the more comfortable role of being a couch potato. Instead, be happy and feel good about yourself. Eat right and exercise and no matter your weight, you will live happily ever after. Proof created by:

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Quick-and-Dirty Social Security As my longtime readers know, I usually answer only one or two questions in each column. That’s because most Social Security rules are so complicated, and I try to cover as many “ifs, ands or buts” as possible in my answers. That inevitably limits the number of topics I can handle in any one column. But today, I’m going to give quick-and-dirty answers to as many questions as possible.

My husband is 72. I’m turning 62. Can I take benefits as a wife on his record now and switch to my own full Social Security at age 66?

No. If you take reduced Social Security benefits on any record, that reduction carries over to any other benefits you might be due. (FYI: that rule does not apply to widows.) So at 62, you will probably just get reduced benefits on your own Social Security account. However, if you wait until age 66, then you can take benefits as a dependent wife on your husband’s record and later, at age 70, switch to full benefits on your own -- benefits that would come with an extra 32 percent delayed retirement bonus.

In a prior column, you wrote that only people who have worked and paid taxes into Social Security can get benefits. But my mother is getting Social Security widow’s benefits, and she never worked a day in her life! Please explain.

In that prior column, I should have written: You get Social Security benefits only if you have worked and paid taxes into the system, or if you are the dependent spouse or child of someone who has.

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I’m getting widow’s benefits from Social Security. I’m 71 years old. I’ve been seeing a man for a couple of years, and he wants to get married. I told him no, because I would lose my Social Security. Was this the right answer?

I have no idea if “yes” or “no” was the right answer to his marriage proposal. But I can tell you that the “no” you gave him was based on incorrect information. You will not lose your Social Security widow’s benefits if you remarry. A woman who remarries after age 60 can keep her widow’s benefits from her first husband, even though she’s married to another man.

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Shingles is the bane of older people. The booklet on this illness describes it in detail and how it is treated. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 1201W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Can. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. *** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 78-yearold woman with a torn rotator cuff and arthritis in my left shoulder. My doctor says nothing can be done short of a complete shoulder replacement. Is this true? Should I get a second opinion? -- E.W.

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When it comes to saving a life, how far would you go? Almost all of us are familiar with CPR and know that it stands for Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation. It is a method universally used to restart a DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 59-yearold female who had a severe case of chickenpox ANSWER: The rotator cuff is a “cuff” heart that has stopped functioning, and it always is as a child. It has been recommended that I get (much like shirt cuff) of four tendons that arise from a life or death situation. CPR involves lot of hard work pumping a four back muscles. Those tendons swing around the a shingles vaccination after my 60th birthday. patient’s chest, alternating with another person However, my husband never had chickenpox, shoulder joint to hold it in place. Small rotator-cuff to force air into the lungs and counting breaths. It and I have a 1-month-old granddaughter. Are tears heal on their own. Large tears require surgiis exhausting for the one administering it, but of my husband and granddaughter at risk for be- cal correction. Some tears call for shoulder joint course, it’s a worthwhile effort. Many of us have replacement, especially when the joint itself is arcoming infected when I get the vaccine? -- J.Z. taken CPR classes at one time or another and thritic. More than 23,000 Americans will have their have learned how to do it. ANSWER: The shingles vaccine Zostavax Unfortunately, far too many people won’t contains live but weakened virus. Transmission of shoulder joints replaced this year. Almost all will even try to administer CPR for one main reason: the vaccine virus from someone who just received it have gratifying results. They’ll be able to move their They are hesitant to give mouth-to-mouth resusciis theoretically possible, but actually is a rare event. shoulder without pain. The shoulder has an exceltation. Your husband’s chances of catching the vaccine vi- lent blood supply, so healing this joint is much faster Now there’s an alternative to standard than healing a knee or hip replacement. Further- rus are close to zero. Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation. It’s called Con Although your husband says he never had more, the shoulder, unlike the knee or hip, doesn’t tinuous Chest Compressions CPR, or Cardiochickenpox, 99 percent of adults bear evidence in have to support body weight, another point in its facerebral Resuscitation. Because it doesn’t involve their blood that they did have childhood chickenpox. vor. any mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, one person can ADVERTISING PROOF A second opinion is always worthwhile. If Many of these people have no recollection of being do it alone. the Changes second doctor agrees TUES., that youJULY need a26 new joint, sick. That might be because the infection was soFinal DUE: 5:00 p.m.. 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Irish Belleek has been made in County net are approximately 15 by 19 inches. The wood Fermanagh, Ireland, since 1857. The company was appears to be cherry and has the original finish. I don’t remember how much I paid for it founded by David McBurney and Robert Armstrong. Mask is the name of the pattern and many identify it and would like to know its current value. as the face of the god of wine, Bacchus. There is a Spool cabinets continue to be popular matching open sugar bowl and teapot. Belleek has with collectors. Your circa 1890 cabinet can be found ADVERTISING PROOF ADVERTISING PROOF used 14 marks. Over the years, the marks have apselling in antiques shops at $1000 and up. TUES., 26 peared in a variety of colors including black, green, TUES.,July 12/28 Final Changes DUE: 5:00 Final Changes DUE: 5:00pp blue and gold. Your mark is the 5th green mark and Please review Double check:  Phone  Spelling Prices Please review carefully. Double check: Phone Number(s) Spelling Price carefully. Address your questions to Number(s) Anne McCollam, P. O.  was used from 1955 to 1965. Seashells, seahorses, Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest dolphins, shamrocks and Celtic designs have been will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquisome of the most popular motifs. ries, she cannot answer individual letters. To find out more Your circa 1955 pitcher would probably be about Anne McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndiworth $65 to $75. Victoria’s Attic cate website at www.creators.com. 1/16th page, 4C, 13x rate COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM Jan. 2, 2011 Vol. 77 - No. 1 31 July 31, 2011 Vol. - No.

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liquid is poured into a large flat pan and refrigerated. It sets to a nice translucent- StoCaddy grey jelly with a layer of fat on top. Nozki is- Golf then “Caddy” ad (2.00” x 6.00”) - Sept. cut into bite-size cubes and served with lots of 4 - October 30, 2011 • Vol. 7:#36 - 44 horseradish to kill the taste. • Folks in Sardinia, Italy, may change the way you think about cheese. Their Casu Marzu starts with a sheep’s milk Pecorino cheese, but with one variable. Whole cheeses are left outdoors on the ground so that the Piophila casei, or “cheese fly”, can lay its eggs inside the cheese, as many as 500 eggs at a time. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae literally eat their way through the cheese. Their acidic digestive juices break down the cheese’s fats, resulting in a very soft texture. When the Casu Marzu cheese is ready for the market, there are usually thousands of little white worms still wiggling inside. It’s up to the individual diner whether to scoop out the tiny maggots before eating. • The Scottish regularly cook up a dish called haggis, which is basically all the guts taken from a single sheep. They stuff the stomach with a mixture of the liver, heart, lungs, rolled oats and a variety of spices all boiled in a pot. Some fast-food restaurants in Scotland even have this item on their menu, served deep-fat fried or as a burger on a bun. For those who don’t care to indulge in eating the concoction, there are contests for “haggis hurling,” a sport that actually has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. The current record-holder threw a 1.5-pound batch of the intestinal bundle a distance of 180 feet, 10 inches.

• Not to be confused with a popular letter-tile game, scrapple is a unique breakfast dish that uses all the leftover parts (scraps) of the pig, and scrapple lovers claim that everything is in there except the oink. Originated among the Pennsylvania Dutch, scrapple is properly prepared by boiling a pig’s head and grinding up the meat, lips, snout, eyes and brain along r Balance with corn meal, spices, and whatever internal lt time finishing their you want to toss in. The gelatinous organs m to “strike a pose” and mixture is formed into brick-sized loaves and t a poor balance. e key to making betterbefore it is sliced and fried in lard. Not chilled dy is designed on a grid surprisingly, this dish is enjoyed only by those ips, knees and ankles. ation to each otherdeveloped who a taste for it at an early age, is when the body is in before they realized what it’s made of! ■

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Many golfers have a difficult time finishing their swings in balance. It’s hard for them to “strike a pose” and hold their finish. This is often a result of poor body balance throughout their swing. The key to finding the problems causing imbalance is to study the four pairs of sockets that function in the process of the swing: the shoulders, hips, knees and ankles. Keeping these sockets in Square the Up Your Finish with properly Better Balance relationship to each other “stacked” results Many golfersin a naturally out there have a difficult time smooth finishing theirswing and a balanced swings in balance. It is tough for them to “strike a pose” and finish. hold their finish. This is often a result a poor balance. As discussed in previous articles, the key to making better Notice in the photo howonI aam swings is understanding how the body is designed grid and in eight sockets; two shoulder, hips, knees and ankles. inKeeping perfect balance as toI each hold these sockets stacked in relation othermy is what keeps the body in balance and when the body is in finish: Shoulders aligned balance it makes it easier to keep theare rotation of the swing moving through to a balanced finish. above hips, above Notice in thethe photo how I am inthe perfect hips balance as I am holding my finish; my shoulders are balanced on top of my the andon the knees above hips, knees, which are balanced top of my knees and on top of my feet. I also have both shoulders level to each other as the Notice, too, that all of well asfeet. the hips and knees. As you can see on the screen in the distance, my body is basically on a grid that shows me these socket points are level. what perfect balance feels like. Many times higher handicappers struggle into a balanced The projected image onhipsthe finish because their shoulders have rotated off their in the forward swing or they have swiveled their knees out from screen grid enables me to under their hips. As soon as the body feels this loss of asbalance it will the stop thesensations rotation and the arms and hands will sociate I feel in need to flip the club through impact resulting in a mishit. Teaching with Motion Analysis Technology, as seen in the I aphoto balanced swing with what with the sensors on my body and image on the screen in the background, me the exact data to measure my can see mygivesbody doing. angles in my swing. I can see on the monitor where perfect balance is as I hold my finish, therefore my body to When many high train handicaprepeat perfect balance on a more consistent basis. This exact dataswing, gives me and the pers student greater clarity and they allow their precision in making the necessary adjustments to create a faster more effective result. shoulders If you would likeoff to rotate to experience their Motion Analysis Technology to improve your swing, give me hips, a call. or the knees to move away from under the Rob Stanger hips. is recognized When by Golf the Magazinesenses body as a 2007-2008this Top loss of balance in Teachers West Region. He in the Desert at The College Golf Performance Center. Torotation view more tips orof videothe golf instruction the go to it often results in a natural swing www.robstanger.com. You can contact Rob at 760-409-8628 for inquiries about your golf game. mishit ball. The use of Motion Analysis Technology (MAT), as shown in the photo, uses sensors to show the exact angles of these key body points in the swing motion. This visual method is highly useful in allowing both student and instructor to quickly see where adjustments need to be made. I have found MAT to be one of my most effective teaching methods.

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PHOBIAS (continued): • Some phobias relate to what’s up above, such as the sun (heliophobia), the clouds (nephophobia), the moon (selenophobia), and the stars (siderophobia). Some folks are just afraid of looking up – they are called anablephobes. • Not all phobias seem that abnormal or uncommon. Lots of people might have a fear of death, known as necrophobia. But those with an extreme form might be terrified of being buried alive. A nosocomephobe has a fear of hospitals, a verminophobe is afraid of germs, and a hydrophobe has an irrational fear of water. • Individuals suffering from extreme agoraphobia rarely leave their homes, due to their fear of public or open spaces and the inescapable situations that may occur there. Only home is safe. • Some phobias can be a learned behavior that comes from listening to others describe a production traumatic event. An individual in one’s life can HRS: MIN: trigger a phobia, such as peladophobia, the fear stamp of bald people. Those with nosto-phobia, a fear AdVenture Media of returning home, may be able to contribute their panic to a specific incident. • People who are afraid of looking into mirrors have cataptrophobia, while those with cyberphobia have a fear of working with computers. A person with an anxiety about memories is a mnemophobe. • Don’t confuse levophobia, the fear of objects to a person’s left, with dextrophobia, the fear of objects to the right. • Although some of us fear the possibility of cancer, an extreme carcinophobe will convince himself he has cancer because he touched someone who has it.

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