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2A Daily News – Saturday, July 6, 2013 Community people&events Celebrate Retirement Estimator's 5th year By Jennifer Cooper Social Security Manager in Redding Hard to believe, but it's been five years since Social Security's Retirement Estimator debuted. Within months of first becoming available, the online Estimator was praised as one of the best services on the Internet, and it has consistently retained its excellent rating every year. Results from the American Customer Satisfaction Index show Social Security's online Retirement Estimator is consistently one of the highest-rated services on the web — even higher than the websites of many other public or private sector agencies and companies, including Netflix and Amazon. Every year millions of people use the Retirement Estimator. You can too at www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator. Prefer to do your business in Spanish? You can find it at www.segurosocial.gov/calculador, too. The Retirement Estimator is a convenient, secure, and quick financial planning tool that lets workers calculate how much they might expect to receive in Social Security benefits when they retire. The attractive feature of this calculator is that it uses your earnings information on file at Social Security without displaying your personal information. So you get an instant, personalized estimate of your future retirement benefits. And, it's so easy to use. The Estimator even gives you the opportunity to run different scenarios and "what if" situations. For example, you can change the date you expect to retire or change expected future earnings to create and compare different retirement options. This can help you as you plan ahead. To use the Retirement Estimator, you must have enough Social Security credits to qualify for benefits and you cannot currently be receiving benefits. Visit Social Security's Retirement Estimator at www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator. Then, once you've sketched out your retirement plans, you'll know where to go when the time comes to apply for benefits: online at www.socialsecurity.gov. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Setting it straight A story in Friday's edition about a clerk at a Corning store who was assaulted contained errors. The clerk was approached by two men and hit three times in the back of the head by one of the men before fending off the man, who fled the area. The Daily News regrets the error. –––––––– It is the policy of the Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you feel a factual error has been made in a news story, call the news department at 527-2153. 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Where did that phrase come from? In the mid-1400s the Tower of London hosted a torture treatment known as the rack. Rack was derived from a German word, "recken," which meant to stretch or draw out. The punishment did just that. This cruel and unusual torture treatment was banned in England less man 200 years after its inception. The image of one racking or stretching his brain has remains a common figure of speech within the English language ever since. Now that I know the origin of this phrase I will likely always think of torture when I "rack my brain" to find a lost item. This new found interest in the meaning of often-used phrases might just keep me on "tenterhooks." The Latin word "tendere," means to stretch, which is precisely what was done on tenterhooks. Cloth, once it was woven, used to be stretched or tenterhooked on hooks passed through the sel- Arranging the apple within the vages. The literal meaning became the pie, and arranging the pies on the shelves once they were figurative image of one cooked, were both neat being stretched to the and orderly procedures, point of discomfort. which gave us our "apple All these commonly order" meaning today. used sayings are stretchProbably what has ing my imagination. I happened to me is that "make no bones about it;" this spell of hot weather this has caught my interhas taken its "toll" on est. "Make no bones about me and I have "gone off it" was used in days of the deep end" trying to old, when cooking was "spin a yarn." It may be done over the open fire, it will wasn't uncommon to find Carolyn that my namewill be become "mud," I a variety of items all judged to have a "screw cooking in one pot. loose," be a "day late Scraps of meat tossed and a dollar short." into the mix made the Suddenly this adventure with presence of bones pretty much inevitable. It took a degree of cau- well-repeated old phrases is giving tion to make sure you didn't run me the "heebie jeebies." It appears that I have taken readers on a across a bone in your stew. Those who simply appreciated "wild goose chase" this week. I will have to concede that I having a meal made no big deal of the occasional bone. They were have managed to mangle this said to have made "no bones about week's column and I am now "up a creek without a paddle." I it." Actually there are those who promise to try to do better next might say that writing all this triv- week. ia is a way for me to avoid taking Carolyn Barber has been writing the time to put the clutter around me into "apple pie order." In the her column in the Daily News since early pioneer days, wives of the 1992. It appears on Saturdays. She frontiersmen did their baking at can be contacted by e-mail at hurcar@yahoo.com. the first of the week. Barber Battle Creek group to meet The Battle Creek Working Group will meet July 16 at the Department of Water Resources in Red Bluff. Cajun James will be a speaker on water quality at the meeting. Vi c e - c h a i r w o m a n Teresa Connor reserved Dear Annie: My have avoided talking friend ''Don'' has spent a about it. Now, I'm not few days with me at the sure I want him to come family beach house the with me ever again. It's past three summers in a awkward. Any suggesrow. The second year, he tions? — Annoyed Dear Annoyed: You hinted about going again and was very pleased need to be more honest when I asked him back. and direct with Don, But then he started refer- although you don't have to be impolite. ring to ''his Simply say, ''It's room'' at the been great having beach house and you with me the making regular past three sumcomments about mers, but it's time ''next year'' in a for someone else way that assumed to enjoy the place. it was his regular I'm taking vacation spot. 'Harold' this year. I thought he was being a little Annie's Maybe I can have you join me again presumptuous, sometime in the but didn't address it. Last week, I by Kathy Mitchell future.'' If he and Marcy Sugar becomes angry or told Don that I upset, you don't wanted someone else to accompany me to need to reply in kind. the summerhouse this Simply repeat that you are time. But he still acts as if sorry you can't have him he should be invited, too. join you. ''Sometime in I'm a little irritated and the future'' could be very Mailbox Get Moving Tehama Need low cost options for fun activities this summer? ➞ find ideas TODAY! 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Vacation guest assumes he's a regular (530) 527-2151 (530) 527-5774 Publisher & Advertising Director: Greg Stevens gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Editor: Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com Sports Editor: Andre Byik sports@redbluffdailynews.com Rack your brain 90 years ago... Hooper is Injured When His Express Horse Runs Away A runaway horse, something that rarely occurs any more, created a stir on Walnut street late yesterday afternoon when it dashed east fro the depot with an express wagon and A. H. Hooper, the driver, aboard. The animal had been frightened by the passing of a train. The wagon struck an automobile owned by George Jones in front of his pool hall and hurled the aged express man to the pavement, cutting and bruising his face and head. — July 6, 1923 distant indeed. Dear Annie: I have been married to ''Molly'' for 11 years. We have three wonderful children. Both of us have professional careers and make a good living. We are fortunate to have a nice lifestyle. The problem: Our sex life is on life support. Molly says she is tired and has been to the doctor at least twice for her exhaustion. But she has the energy to go running five miles a day, just not enough energy for sex. I question her faithfulness and am not sure how long I can stay in this relationship if things don't improve. We are currently in counseling, but there has been no change. I have spoken with Molly numerous times about our lack of intimacy, to no avail. I need your help. — Searching for Answers Dear Searching: If you're asking whether Molly is running five miles to another man, we cannot answer that. It's certainly possible. But it is equally possible that, with three children under the age of 11, she is tired of being ''mom'' and ''wife'' and wants to have something she does solely for herself. Women and their sex drives can be complicated. Has she asked her doctor about hormonal imbalances? Is her running interfering physiologically? Do you help her out with an equal effort in child care and housework? Do you make plans to take her out for a romantic evening now and then, without expectation of sex? Does she know that you appreciate her for more than what she adds to the bedroom or the bank account? If you do these things and it doesn't help, please ask your counselor to specifically address the lack of intimacy. Molly needs to explain herself. Dear Annie: ''A Ring on It'' asked who to invite to his commitment ceremony and was especially concerned about his father, who is unaware that he is gay. I had a gay commitment ceremony with my partner in 1995. My partner was out to everyone, so it was easy for him. I had compartmentalized my life as to who knew and didn't know. I decided to invite family members, work associates and friends to celebrate my coming out, as well my commitment to another person. I expected all sorts of negative responses, but received total support. A girl in my office had that ''no wonder I wouldn't date her'' moment. My boss got over his initial misgivings. Everyone sang, danced and toasted our event. My life has been made easier by admitting who I am. — P Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailboxcomcast.n et, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. If you're tired of potholes and dusty roads HOW ABOUT CHIP SEAL! The Affordable Alternative to Asphalt For Private and Community Roads Hourly rates also available on: • Grader • Truck & Transfer • Loaders • Dump Trucks • Grading Tractor • Water Trucks • Backhoe • Oil Truck Family owned & operated since 1975 Lic. #911130 275-2195