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• While you might assume that a harsh and hostilesounding area such as this would be one that people would choose to avoid, just the opposite is true. The warm and soothing therapeutic effects of the Dead Sea’s concentrated saline water and mud packs has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. • Biblically, The Dead Sea was a sanctuary and place of refuge for King David. It was one of the world’s first health resorts and was used repeatedly by Herod the Great and Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. Presently, more than 1.2 million foreign tourists visited the Dead Sea in 2009 on the Israeli side alone. • Due to its high salinity, water in the Dead Sea is extremely buoyant. A person can float effortlessly on his or her back without expending any energy treading water.

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• Considered one of the world’s most unusual places, the Dead Sea is also called the Salt Sea. Located in the Middle East, it is bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. The Hebrew name for the Dead Sea is Yām HamMā́we, w h i c h tr a nsla te d means “the Sea of Death.”

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Use of PSA Blood Test Questioned by Task Force Conflicting opinions on cancer screening have caused a great deal of confusion for health care providers and the general public. This particularly applies to breast and prostate cancer screenings. Most recently, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a definitive recommendation against using the PSA blood test to screen for prostate cancer in healthy men of any age. Even in those who are at a high risk for developing prostate cancer, including blacks and men with a strong family history of the disease, the value of the test is questioned. Their recommendation is primarily based on two facts: First, the task force maintains that the PSA does not reduce deaths from prostate cancer. Second, screening leads to needless biopsies (as many as one million annually) and unnecessary surgeries and radiation that frequently result in incontinence, erectile dysfunction and other urinary and bowel problems. Many patients receive hormonal therapy to decrease testosterone levels. This often causes fatigue, weakness, osteoporosis and a poor quality of life. Many urologists and cancer experts strongly oppose the notion of completely abandoning the use of the PSA. They maintain that early detection does indeed save lives, and worry that failure to detect prostate cancer early will lead to a far greater number of patients who develop widespread disease throughout their body. Symptoms include severe bone pain and fractures, neurological issues due to spread of the tumor to the brain and many other problems. Widely disseminated prostate cancer causes a great deal of suffering. Their point of view is strengthened by the fact that the task force recommendation was based on an American study that was seriously flawed with inaccurate conclusions. Recently, an important research article was published in the New England Journal of Medicine that attempted to weigh the potential benefits of a PSA screening against the impaired quality of life as a consequence of further testing and treating prostate tumors. In this study, the PSA test was measured every four years in 1,000 men between the ages of 55 and 69. Their analysis predicted that the PSA test would result in an increased number of prostate cancers diagnosed, from 112 to 157 cases. But the number of deaths from prostate cancer would decrease from 31 to 22 cases, and the number requiring end-of-life palliative care would decrease from 40 to 26. In this study, screening healthy men led to a 37 percent reduction in mortality from prostate cancer. Their research also demonstrated the downside of screening, including a marked increase in the number of biopsies. And of the 104 cancers identified, a total of 45, or 43 percent, were over-diagnosed. In other words, prostate cancer was diagnosed and treated despite compelling evidence that showed the tumor would never have

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CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) My dog is aggressive. They can’t admit it and they won’t deal with it. But if a person were really concerned about the welfare of their pet, they would recognize problem behavior for what it is. If your dog is a biter, odds are good that ignoring the problem will only make things worse for everyone in the long run -- including the dog. We live in truly interesting times. A friend sent me a snapshot taken over the weekend. The photograph was of an elderly nanny pushing a stroller along a sidewalk in Beverly Hills. Inside the stroller: a dog. I can only wonder what became of the child. Woof!

Dog trainer Matthew “Uncle Matty” Margolis is coauthor 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 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 2009 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

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I always hate being the purveyor of bad news, but I don’t think you have any chance of winning your case. The general rule of thumb is that when it comes to filing for any kind of Social Security benefits, the ball is in your court. In other words, it wasn’t the government’s job to tell you to file for wife’s benefits on your husband’s account when you turned 66. It was your job to know that you should have been eligible for such payments and to file for them yourself. Think of it this way. Thousands of people retire and become eligible for Social Security benefits every day. And all of those folks take the initiative and either call SSA’s 800 number to make an appointment to file for retirement benefits -- or they go to SSA’s website to file their claim online. The government doesn’t contact them to say, “Now that you’re a senior citizen, make sure you file for Social Security.” When a woman’s husband dies, she is expected to contact the Social Security office to inquire about filing for widow’s benefits. (However, see the answer to the next question for an exception.) When people become disabled, a government representative isn’t sent to their home to hold their hands and guide them to a Social Security office to file for disability benefits. Again, they do it on their own initiative. So why should things be different for you? You certainly knew that your husband was getting Social Security benefits -- and the law assumes that Forhave more been teaserseligible log on tofor wife’s you know that you could www.TriviaGuy.com benefits on his record. Or at least it assumes that you

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would be curious enough and contact the Social Security office to find out if you are possibly due benefits. Had you done that, and had a Social Security representative told you that you were not eligible, then you would have grounds for an appeal based on getting misinformation from the government. But there is no misinformation in your case. As I said, the ball was in your court, and frankly, I think you dropped it. But I don’t want to discourage you from carrying this through. If you really think you’ve been wronged, you should proceed with your appeal. It’s just that I wouldn’t lie awake nights awaiting a judgment in your favor with lots of retroactive spousal benefits. Oh, and you asked about hiring a lawyer. You can do so if you want, but I really believe you would be wasting whatever fee he or she charges for what I think is a hopeless case. Besides, I think about 99 percent of the lawyers I’ve ever encountered who work on Social Security cases specialize in disability claims. To be honest, that’s where the money is! * * *

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er was getting her own Social Security benefit. In that kind of situation, your father’s Social Security record may not have contained any information about your mother. Or even if it did, your mom may have had some choices to make regarding taking widow’s benefits or continuing to receive her own retirement payments. In that kind of case, the ball goes back to the claimant. It is her job to contact Social Security to inquire about widow’s benefits.

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IDIOMS (from page page 3) laws, they could receive stiff fines and punishment if caught cheating by shorting customer purchases. As a general rule, bakers would usually add one more of the item to orders of a dozen or more, just to be sure. Thus, thirteen pieces became the “baker’s dozen.” • British sailors on Royal Navy war ships during the 1700s might have appreciated a generous baker’s dozen or even some humble pie. Their ships did not have the best living conditions, and usually a sailor’s breakfast and lunch was only bread and a beverage. The third meal of the day included meat and was served on a square plate Hence the term “square meal” was coined to label the most substantial and nourishing meal of the day. • A popular topping for pizza, “Canadian bacon,” actually has hog geography and butcher’s lingo behind its name. It really has nothing to do with Canada, other than Canada’s northern location relative to the United States. Traditional bacon is cut from the underbelly or south side of the pig. Canadian bacon is cut from the loin area, the upper part of the pig. Since it is from the “north,” it’s Canadian... eh? • When wood stoves were used for cooking, cooks used the front burners for intense heat and for stoking the fire to avoid a reach across the hot stove top. When it was time to slow down or simmer the food, it was put on the “back burner.” The term now is used generically for putting something on hold, such as a task you need to do but keep putting it off until later. A “back-handed compliment” is a polite comment that also manages to insult you at the same time. “You’re really smart for a girl,” is an example. Back-handed is synonymous with left-handed. For example, in tennis a backhand stroke is a strike by a right-handed player from the left side of the body. The left side of the body has always been deemed sinister. In fact, the Latin word for left is sinister. Hence, back-handed means round-about, indirect, or devious. (No offense intended to you “south paws”!) ■

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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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