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vegetables they needed to chop. The solution was to film an actual demonstration. Once they were able to show the device in action, the next logical step was to start broadcasting the demonstration as a TV commercial. • Popeil received the Ig Nobel Prize in Consumer Engineering in 1993. The awards committee described him as the “incessant inventor and perpetual pitchman of late night television” and awarded the prize in recognition of his “redefining the industrial revolution” with his numerous innovative devices. • A good example of the classic “see a problem, sell a solution” method of invention is the “Snap-It Screw.” It’s a way to replace those tiny, hard-to-handle little screws that hold eyeglasses together. • “Snap-It Screw” inventor Nancy Tedeschi recalls, “The old saying that necessity is the mother of invention is what inspired me.” And she means that literally since it was her own mother who was the inspiration for her idea.

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Ever see a Rottweiler in a stroller? A Doberman in a tutu? A mastiff in a crib? Little dogs bring out the goo-goo gaga in people -- namely, people who shave their legs. In return, these bald-legged types treat their pint-sized canines as if they gave birth to them: teensy outfits, miniscule booties, trips in the stroller swaddled in pastel blankets, tiny paws never gracing the ground. It’s all so precious. Personally, I like horse people. There is something about a horse that makes the people who care for them sit up and take notice that a horse is a horse. Of course, of course. Horse people prepare for the arrival of a new horse. They build something called a barn and fill it with stuff called hay. They divide the barn into stalls and ensure that the number of stalls is equal to or greater than the number of horses. They stock the barn with all kinds of horsey goodies: brushes, blankets, water buckets, feeders, saddles, stirrups, bridles, bits, reins. And then, after night falls, mom and dad bring the horse inside, dress him in a onesie and tuck him into bed with them. Oh, wait, that’s the dog people again. Obviously, I love dogs. All kinds of dogs. And I love people who love dogs. All kinds of people. But when people lose sight of the fact that a dog is a dog and not a small person with superfluous appendages and hypertrichosis, that’s when trouble comes knocking. Toy breeds are allowed to bark, yap, nip, jump, crawl on the baby, tear through the house and relieve themselves on the floor because they’re cute and small and, in the case of the latter, “it’s just a little.” But a little goes a long way when it comes to the smell of urine in the house. And cute can only hold its own for so long before all the unwanted behaviors take their toll. Pay your local shelter a visit, and you’ll find its residents are predominantly Chihuahuas and pit bulls, with a smattering of other breeds. Ironically, those pit bulls and Chihuahuas are largely in the clink for the same reason: Precious and cute in the beginning, but no one learned how to handle them. The pit bull grew big, the Chihuahua got yappy, the house started to stink. CASEY’S CORNER: Turn to page 10

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artery disease is already present. This means being compulsive about living a heart healthy lifestyle, including exercising, eating right, not smoking and managing stress, as well as working closely with a physician to identify and correct treatable risk factors. If heart attack risk is moderate or high, a dialogue with a primary-care physician or cardiologist to determine if a stress test should be done is appropriate. And for someone whose assessment indicates a very high risk of a heart attack within the next 10 years, a screening stress test is a realistic consideration. But there must be an understanding that the result may lead to angiograms, angioplasty or even open-heart surgery. No matter your risk, should symptoms develop -- such as shortness of breath or chest pain -- a stress test is then used as a diagnostic rather than a screening tool. Some experts may even forgo a stress test and opt for an immediate angiogram if symptoms are sufficiently compelling. For anyone who is known to have coronary artery disease but is being optimally managed with medications and has either no or stable symptoms, annual stress tests may do more harm than good. In this circumstance, any invasive procedure to open a blocked artery (by angioplasty using stents or surgery) will neither prolong life nor reduce the risk of a heart attack. Invasive procedures will relieve symptoms, but sadly, angiograms and even openheart surgery are done frequently on individuals with no symptoms at all. Nothing is scarier than dealing with a heart problem. The evidence is compelling that aggressive diagnostic and invasive procedures are highly effective when done for the appropriate indication. But numerous studies have shown that aggressive care is frequently unnecessary. In relation to heart health, the more you know and the more involved you are, the better. Dr. David Lipschitz is the author of the book “Breaking The Rules

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CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) This isn’t fair to the dogs. “No” alone doesn’t teach anything. I’ve talked to people who have said “no” in various tones and at myriad decibels for upward of a decade, to no avail. Love alone doesn’t conquer all. Loving people have seen their beloved dogs deemed vicious and ordered euthanized by law enforcement. A woman called me recently because she has three little dogs she says are impossible to housebreak. The truth is, she never tried. She lined her floors with paper, essentially teaching them to go inside. I said, “How would your dogs know you want them to go outside when you’ve encouraged them to go inside?” She said, “I’m their mother. They should know I know best.” Horse hockey. We are the humans, we are the homeowners, we are the ones who care where they go, how loud they are, what they chew on. It is our responsibility to prepare, to have a plan, to equip, to train. It’s up to us to build a barn and fill it with all the right stuff. That’s just good horse sense. Woof! Dog trainer Matthew “Uncle Matty” Margolis is co-author of 18 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 Matty’s columns at the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com, and visit him at http://www.unclematty.com. Send your questions to dearuncle.gazette@unclematty. com or by mail to Uncle Matty at P.O. Box 3300, Diamond Springs, CA 95619. COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

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America’s Evolving Attitudes Towards Government Health Care In last week’s column, I discussed how a recent hospital stay and a brush with mortality reinforced my belief that way too many people worry way too much about the little things in life -- like picking up every last crumb they can out of their slice of the Social Security pie. I mean, I totally understand why folks want to get the highest return possible on their Social Security “investment.” Obviously, they want to make the best decision they can about when to start their Social Security. (And to help folks make that decision, a free digital copy of my fact sheet, “When to take your Social Security benefits,” is available to anyone who sends me an email at thomas.margenau@comcast.net.) But what I find so puzzling is the countless emails I get from anxiety-plagued readers who treat the decision of when to start their Social Security benefits like a major life or death conundrum. It’s simply not. Most people just need to decide if they want smaller benefits for a longer period of time -- by starting their Social Security checks between ages 62 and 66 or if they want larger benefits for possibly a shorter period of time -- by waiting until as late as 70 before turning on the Social Security spigot. There is really no magic formula. Because no one knows how long he or she will live, no one really knows if they are making the correct decision about starting their government benefits. So why worry about it? As I point out often in this column, my wife and I took our benefits at age 62. If we live into our late 80s or early 90s, it will turn out to have been a dumb choice. But I simply don’t care. We’re having too much fun enjoying life to worry about it. Anyway, that was last week’s message. This week, I have another story to tell that grew out of my recent hospital stay. Back in about 1975, a couple years after I was hired by the Social Security Administration to work in one of their local field offices back in the farm country of central Illinois, I was assigned to clean out an office storeroom. As part of that effort, I came across a stash of yellowing public information materials: things like old pamphlets and brochures dating back to the early days of the program. There were also some dusty 16mm movie reels that contained public information films intended to be used as educational materials to supplement speeches or other presentations that SSA public affairs employees would make to various community groups and organizations. Luckily, I also found an old movie projector in this storeroom. I was pleased with that because I really wanted to watch some of the old PR films, mostly because of a fascination I had developed early in my career with the history of Social Security. But I must admit I also figured I might get a bit of a chuckle out of the old-fashioned film techniques and maybe the hackneyed messages the movies would contain. I wasn’t disappointed in either case when I watched a film called “Welcome to Medicare Forproduced more teasersby logSSA on to to intro-- 1966.” It was a movie www.TriviaGuy.com duce the American people to the then brand-new Medicare program. It told the story of an aging farm couple from Iowa. The husband, probably in his late 60s, had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. After learning that her husband would

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be OK, but would require extensive hospitalization want all the inexpensive government health care that quickly used up what little health insurance they they can get, as long as they don’t have to help out had, there was a scene in which his wife was talking the other guy. We sure are a wacky -- some might say hypoto the doctors. She said something like this: “I want you to make sure Elmer gets the best care possible. critical -- people when it comes to government-sponAnd don’t worry, I’m going to go home and sell the sored health care in this country! farm so that we will be able to pay all of these hospiADVERTISING PROOF If you have a Social Security question, Tom Martal expenses.” MON., 8/20/12 has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@ Finalgenau Changes DUE: 5:00 And then we got to the Medicare pitch. One comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to of the doctors tells her: “Oh you won’t have to review con- carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pric Please read past columns and see features from other Creators Syncern yourself with that, Mildred, for you see, the gov- dicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or correc ernment has a brand new program called Medicare, website at www.creators.com. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 and it’s going to pay most of Elmer’s bills. Why, you’ll just have to pay a small deductible out of your own COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM pocket, and that’s all. So you’ll be able to keep the farm, and once we get Elmer up and around again, he can go back to raising those fine hogs of his.” MilCLIP AND SAVE dred had the last line in the movie: “Thank God for the government and this wonderful new Medicare program!” Fade to black. And it just so happened that the very evening following my storeroom cleaning stint and viewing the old Medicare movie, I was watching TV at home with my wife. A commercial came on promoting a Medicare supplement plan. It featured several obviously well-to-do men playing golf. As a guy was getting ready to putt, one of his colleagues asked about his recent gall bladder surgery. “Oh, I’m doing just great,” he said, “but I tell you, I’m kind of ticked off because that darn government Medicare program stiffed me with part of the bill. Why, I had to pay $100 out of my own pocket!” And that led to a pitch from one of the other golfers for the Medicare supplement plan that would have picked up those extra expenses not paid by Medicare. I know both the old movie and the TV commercial I watched were fiction. But I think their mesProperty of sages did reflect the tenor of the times. And here is AdVenture Media, Inc. what struck me. I was amazed by how people’s expectations of their government had changed so draFREE matically in just 10 years. In 1965, we had a woman of Coachella Valley The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read who was willing to sell the farm in order to pay her 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 husband’s hospital bill. And 10 years later, we had a All Rights Reserved rich guy on a golf course griping because the government was forcing him to cough up a measly hundred bucks out of his own pocket to pay for his hospital DECISIONS, HearingDECISIONS, Aid salespersons are stay! DECISIONS!!!!!!!!! And contrast that corny pro-government NOT required to have a college Should I buy the Medicare movie message with today’s ever-so-cyneducation in cheapest? the State of California. ical anti-government, anti-”Obamacare” mood that Should I buy the smallest? ►At Help U Hear we ONLY envelops this country. It seems to me that many folks Should I buy the newest employ Audiologists with a

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Tell them how much pleasure you are receiving by simply seeing them happy. Thank them for sharing and guiding you to the level you now share with your own families. Remind them of ● On Sept. 9, 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new Since our retirement, my husband all that they did for you and of all the love and time nation to be the “United States” of America. has become addicted to television. He gets up, that has already been expressed through the generations. Not every family has had that opportunity or It replaced the term “United Colonies,” which sits at the breakfast table and turns on the TV. TUES., JUNE 5 had been in general use. Two or three times a day I ask him to turn it off will experience that. Please review carefully. Double Phone their Number(s) Spelling Tell check: them to spend money.It’s theirs Prices  Hours and do something else. He just ignores me. I and they earned it. Encourage them to enjoy their ● On Sept. 3, 1783, the American Revoluleave the house as often as I can because I just Contact your Tidbits representative immediately withlucky changes or corrections. independence and let them know how you are tion officially comes to an end when reprecannot stand it. He doesn’t exercise and is losOfﬁ ce: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Email: valleybits@msn.com to have them for parents. Share with them how much sentatives of the United States, Great Britain, ing his muscles. I do love him and want him to you are enjoying how happy and enthusiastic they Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris. be with me for as long as he can. How can I get are and that that makes you equally as happy. And The signing signified America’s status as a him to change this awful habit? make sure you tell them often that you love them! free nation, as Britain formally recognized Studies by experts confirm your expethe independence of its 13 former American rience. It has been shown that the average senior colonies. Doug Mayberry makes the most of life in a Southern CaliJim Santy / dba Cambridge Coins fornia retirement community. Contact him at deardoug@msn.com. To watches TV up to eight or nine hours every day. find more13x aboutdisc. Doug Mayberry and read features by other CreBZoutBW Why? TV can be considered a form of com- ators ● On Sept. 7, 1936, Charles Harden HolSyndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate June 10, 2012 Vol. 8 No. 24 panionship, a way to escape guilt, a relief from lone- website at www.creators.com. ley is born in Lubbock, Texas. Writing and performing under the name Buddy Holly, he liness, an opportunity to forget problems, gratifica- COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM bsanty@aol.com would have an influence on rock ‘n’ roll that tion, excitement and a variety of other needs. Some would far outlast his tragically shortened camen watch sports as a way to relive the athletic expereer. He left behind a legacy that includes riences of their youth. I WANT TO BUY YOUR “That’ll Be The Day,” “Peggy Sue,” “Not Fade TV is easily available and requires no effort Away,” It’s So Easy,” “Everyday,” “Oh Boy!” except to point and click the remote. Cozying up to and “Maybe Baby.” the “idiot box” is also a way to avoid personal interaction, and also a way to isolate oneself socially. On the (1 carat minimum) ● On Sept. 6, 1943, a new high-speed train plus side it tends to keep you updated and current on TOP PRICES traveling between New York City and Washthe news. PAID! ington, D.C., derails, killing 79 people and se The lack of exercise will eventually become a Jim - Sun City Resident riously injuring 100 more. The Congressional major health issue. Various excuses are given for not Limited traveled at an unprecedented speed exercising, including overall poor health, pain, the of 65 mph. fear of falling, no desire to change, excessive use of

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But I, too, became curious same shade, for my mother and is now in my possession, Syndicate and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Sunny writers Dunes Antique Mall toothpaste. about Watson’s game and, yes, his his golf bags since she has passed away. Hutschenreuther in website at www.creators.com 16th page, BW, 26x discount rate My point is this: England -- sorry, Great style, too. While bot Selb, Germany made the set. It is also marked COPYRIGHT 2012 2012 CREATORS.COM June 10, - Volume 8: Issue #24 Britain and (more to the point) the great city of For the techies out there, Watson are philanth “Favorit,” which I take to be the pattern name. London -- showed why they’re our favorite crush. uses a PING G20 driver with a cusThe silver overlay is stamped “Spahn 1000.” I they have s Try as we might, for all of our preening and Amerimay have misread the word “Spahn” because it tom pink True Temper Grafalloy Bimon — th can braggadocio, England always socks us right in is ver y faint. 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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 traumatic event. An individual in one’s life can trigger a phobia, such as peladophobia, the fear of bald people. Those with nosto-phobia, a fear 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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