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Mooch, a 10-year-old brindle mixed breed, has spent the past eight years living large on the Sierra View golf course in Roseville, Calif. She trees squirrels, rolls in the sand traps, chases geese, naps in the grass and avails herself of goodies from the clubhouse kitchen and the on-course snack shack, where sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always welcome.

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Walking at a Good Clip Proves to be Healthful In 2011, the first wave of baby boomers will receive their Medicare cards and the impact on the health care system will be enormous.

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Researchers examined the effect of gait speed on survival in 34,485 community-dwelling people over the age of 65. These people were followed for periods ranging from six to 21 years, and the average gait speed was approximately one meter per second. Data clearly showed that gait speed was a very powerful predictor of death.

Men age 75 with the lowest gait speeds were only 19 percent likely to be alive 10 years later, compared to 87 percent of men with the fastest gait speeds. For women of the same age, survival 10 years later was 35 percent forBEL those the lowest AIRwith GREENS gait speed, compared to 91 percent 6th pg. of those with Nov. 21st, 2010 the highest gait speeds.

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There is evidence that walking at as brisk a pace as It’s not a guarantee, but it’s certainly worth purpossible for an average of 30 minutes a day prosuing if Mooch, by popular demand, is back to stay. motes health, reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes, and definitely improves gait speed. Just as Woof! important is daily stretching, activities that promote TUES., JAN 4 better balance, and exercising with weights to

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he was single and not already married to someone else -- they could consider you legally married for Social Security purposes and pay you divorced widow’s benefits.

By the way, there is a chance some of his other wives -- or I suppose I should say “victims” -- may also qualify for Social Security benefits on his record. But even if they do, you each would receive full benefits (i.e., you don’t offset one another). * * *

A: You shouldn’t lose too much sleep over this.

Your Social Security retirement benefit certainly won’t be as high as it could have been had you kept working right up to the time you reach 62 -- the earliest Social Security eligibility age. But it’s not going to be dramatically less because of your early retirement. Your Social Security benefit is based on your average earnings over your highest 35 years of work. For most people, their “high 35” are the last 35 years of earnings.

That means your Social Security benefit will be In a recent column, you said that once based on your average wage probably during the you had 10 years of work, there was no point years 1976 through 2011. Had you kept working unto working anymore for Social Security purtil age 62, your benefit would have been based on poses. But I thought Social Security benefits your average wage from 1980 through 2015. were based on the highest 35 years of work and That former time period (1976-2011) probably reearnings. So wouldn’t it make sense for a persults in a lower average wage than the latter (1980son to work and pay Social Security taxes for at 2015), which would translate into a lower Social Seleast 35 years? curity benefit.

How much lower? It depends entirely on your past It certainly would make sense for a person to TUES., been NOV. for the30 years in work at least 35 years. In fact, during their working income or what it would have lifetime, most people spend at least 40 or more years question. But my hunch is you’ll end up with a Social Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pri at jobs where they are probably paying into Social Security check that’s maybe $100 less than it could have been had you kept working until age 62.

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I only recently learned that I was married to a bigamist! I thought I just had a regular ex-husband. But now I’m not sure I ever had a husband at all! We were “married” for 15 years before getting a divorce several years ago.

He recently died. And after that happened, I learned that he was married to two other women at the same time that he was married to me!

Or to clarify that, he married the first woman and then left her, but he never divorced her.

Then he married the second woman and left her, but he never divorced her, then married me.

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calcium particles activate the vestibular system abnormally, and profound dizziness strikes. When you woke up and sat up, you became dizzy. You changed positions. Calcium particles likely activated your vestibular system.

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The future of golf instruction is MAT-T The biggest obstacle in learning the right feel in the golf swing is that traditional instruction is limited to the feedback The biggest challenge in learning the golf swing and its the student gets from the various components and sensations is that traditional golf Despite repetitive instructor’s observations. drills instruction is limited to the amount of feedback the student receives to experience andthepractice, correct feelings the of astudent particular often can’t connect with swing. Golf instructors can share drills and feedback to their “feel” needed in students but manythe timesright the student doesn’t seem to latch on to the correct feelings and when or theyat do, least those feelings the swing, how to seem to disappear without any explanation. Whether that is from shot to shot or maintain it on from day to day. day-to-day Buta new technology is making it clearer for the student to capture the sensations of basis. great swings.

Motion Analysis Technology is an extraordinary is new But (MAT-T) new technology DOLLARS & SENSE (From page 14) technology that elevates swing analysis to an entirely new making level and heightens it the possible the clarity of to the capstudent to feel appropriate sensations of the swing. ture feel of MAT-T gathers vital swingthe information and great statistics swings. using isting loan, thereby shortening the life of that loan. multiple high-speed cameras. Analysis MAT-T distills Technology that information Motion to create a three-dimensional animated image of your swing ● If you habitually run up debt at Christmas,that is viewable from (MAT-T) is an extraordinary any angle with detailed data for greater precision in making adjustments for a better swing. Notice in once that debt is paid off, put the extra money the inpicture a that thenew system that elevates sensors on my body are collecting the data to produce the image ofanalysis my swing on the screen. swing to a new level Christmas savings account at the bank. By theNow, end how does this relate to you and your swing? For all of you the outthat there, allows you can now to feel, feel student what a good golf of this year you’ll have enough to pay cash forswing allbeginners feels like at a much faster pace than if you were to just review and practice these go out and beat balls on the range.

For all of you that have your purchases. played golf before,sensations. you now can have exact digital statistics on what you are doing well when you are making your best Whatever you do, don’t take on new payments swings, no matter how Using strategically good or bad you may think theyplaced are. on the assumption that you’ll continue to haveNow that we take that date and help you reproduce your very body sensors high-speed best swings with more consistency as weand make gradual increased amount in your pocket over the longadjustments to help you improve your way to better swings three-dimens ional cameras, and lower scores. haul.

MAT-T gathers vital swing Rob Stanger is recognized by Golf Magazine as a 2007-2008 Top information and replays it in Teachers West Region.

He teaches in the Desert at The College Golf Performance Center. To view more tips or video golf instruction animated NOTE: If you usually file early and itemize your go to www.robstanger.com. You can images contact Rob atviewable 760-409-8628 from any angle. As for inquiries golf game. shown in the photos, the equipment senses my deductions, the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t about your every movement and displays it on the screen. want your tax return yet. It’s not ready. The reason This new techonology can prevent the beginner is that computers haven’t been programmed to from developing bad habits, and allow seasoned accommodate a few new changes in laws. Aim for players to develop maximum effectiveness in their the second half of February. If you use computer swing. Better than simply beating balls out on the software, be sure to get the latest updates. range, you can now have digital statistics showing exactly what you’re doing well in your best swings, David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally and then work on reproducing them for precision answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his and consistency - and lower scores.

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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 Proof created by: of returning home, may be able to contribute Proof created Property of by: their panic to a specific incident.

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• Don’t confuse levophobia, the fear of objects to a person’s left, with dextrophobia, the fear of objects to the right.

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After developing several rolls of film he shot to capture the magnificent sights in the Park, his love of photography was born. By age 20, his Yosemite prints had been published. In the span of his career he published stunning photos of every National Park in the United States. ■

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