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This week Tidbits celebrates the working men and women of the world with an article everyone can appreciate. So take a break from the job for a bit, kick back and relax as we share some interesting work related Tidbits.• It can always be worse, right? The next time you think you’re job’s rough, imagine being the cage cleaner at the zoo or an odor tester. Not too sure about just what that last one is? An odor tester is someone who makes sure that deodorant actually works. We’ll try not to think about the actual in-trial testing!• What’s in a name really? Would you ever be a sweat box attendant? It’s not what it sounds like. Sweat Box Attendants wait on guests in the sweat boxes of spas. Although it’s probably a sweat breaking job, the tips are probably great - and if you don’t mind attending to businessmen in tow-els, it could make a great summer or part-time job!• Do you know any Herpetologists? Or did you grow up wanting to study frogs, but didn’t know what to call it? Well, here’s your answer: herpe-tology is the study of amphibians. It is a branch of zoology, which is the study of animals. Anoth-er branch of zoology is Myrmecology, the study of those little six-legged picnic fi ends. Yes, you guessed it - ants.• Surnames were fi rst used in Europe around the 10th or 11th centuries. There are several origins of surnames, but generally they were derived in one of four ways. A name could come from a father, could refer to the place one lived, be a nickname or, as relevant to this article, pertain to a person’s occupation. Such examples are Cooper, a barrel maker, Taylor, Cook, Carpenter, Miller, Smith and Cryer (the town crier.)• Have you ever met a Tonsorial Artist? Does he draw tonsils? Is it some weird form of art, some-where between Dadaism and Cubism? Do they draw the mythical Tonsor beasts from the Isle of Tonsoria? Nope, this is just a fancy old name for a barber. Tonsor is Latin for barber.• One of the fi rst labor days occurred in 1882 on September 5th. Peter J. MacGuire, a union secre-tary, organized a parade of 10,000 workers in New York City. It was President Grover Cleveland who signed the bill that made the fi rst Monday in Sep-tember Labor Day.

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• Some famous folks have had the entertainment bug in their genes, acting and singing from a young age. However, like the rest of us, some celebrities fi rst jobs were a little more run of the mill. Actor and comedian Jim Carrey was a security guard for some time before becoming the laughable big screen star we know today. Actor Warren Beatty was once a rat-catcher and Steve Buscemi once proudly served the New York City Fire Department.• Many celebrities were military men - Sean Con-nery was a Navy man back in Scotland - and even once a milkman. Walt Disney drove an ambulance for the Red Cross during World War I. Diabetes spokesman Wilford Brimley was a body guard for Howard Hughes and also a military man - he served in the Marines. The Bucket List and Batmanstar Morgan Freeman was a mechanic for the U.S. Air Force.• Stop motion animators produce amazing work, but it’s certainly time consuming. One famous stop motion fi lm, The Nightmare Before Christmas, took over two years to fi lm due to the nature of the craft. The fi lm’s co-writer and producer, Tim Burton, was an animator before moving on to his directorial fame and the fi lm is based on a poem he wrote while animating for Disney in the 1980s. While he’s been said to have disliked the work, just look where it lead! Disney released the fi lm via Touchstone Pictures in 1993.• Ironic, but true, LOST actress Evangeline Lilly was once a fl ight attendant.• Just what is a wrinkle chaser? Nope, it’s not cos-metic and it has nothing to do with fabric wrinkle removing product. A wrinkle chaser is the person responsible for removing wrinkles from the fabrics of shoes before they leave the factory. Nothing like having a new pair of wrinkle free kicks - and we have wrinkle chasers to thank for that!• Did you know that there are over 7.2 million teachers in the United States? There are also

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155.1 million people in the American workforce,. However, only 9% of those workers have been with their current employer twenty years or more.• More Celebrity Jobs: Did you know Mick Jag-ger was once a porter at a mental health facility? Fellow Brits and rock legends Ozzy Osbourne worked in a slaughterhouse and Rod Stewart was a grave digger.• Before he graced the silver screen, Marlon Bran-do dug ditches. Funny man Robin Williams was once lauded for his silence - he once worked as a mime. Danny DeVito would have given you a run for your money on the Tonsorial Artist Tidbit- De-Vito was a formally trained hair stylist.• What do you get when you search for the “Best Job in the World?” The top hits on Google tell us that one man is being paid over $100,000 to live rent free on an island in Australia and blog about all of his experiences there for six months. But, it’s not just any island, and certainly not a desert-ed island. The job comes with fantastic accom-modations! The job is part of Queenland’s project to boost tourism. Applications were taken until February of this year and the lucky winner, who was chosen out of 34,000 candidates, was Ben Southall from the United Kingdom. Ben basically just explores Queensland and writes about all his experiences and the great things the area has to

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Lonely Guinea Pig Needs New PlaymateDEAR PAW’S CORNER: I recently lost one of my guinea pigs, “Rosie.” Ever since then, my other guin-ea pig, “Tulip,” has seemed to take it very hard. She stays in her igloo and doesn’t get up a lot. I’d like to get a new guinea pig so she won’t be lonely. Is this a good idea? If I get a young guinea pig, would Tulip act motherly toward it or attack it? -- Elise, via e-mail

DEAR ELISE: First, I’m so sorry to hear about Rosie. Guinea pigs tend to do best living in pairs, so I agree with you that Tulip is probably experiencing some de-pression right now at the loss of her companion.Introducing a new guinea pig may be all right in Tulip’s case. Female cavies accept new companions more readily than males, which generally have to be intro-

duced when they’re both young. I can’t say whether introducing a very young female cavy companion will work better than introducing an adult cavy to Tulip -- but adult cavies tend to be very individualistic. Go with your instincts, and observe both guinea pigs closely as they interact. Happy cavies generally make cluck-ing or “wheek” sounds, or purr. Teeth clacking, postur-ing or yawning can indicate aggressiveness.In any case, make sure Tulip continues to get the nutrients she needs while she adjusts to the loss of Rosie. She must eat daily, so if she hasn’t eaten in 24 hours, contact her veterinarian for guidance -- she may need to be brought in so the vet can introduce nutrients quickly. Send your tips, questions and comments to Paw’s Corner, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or e-mail them to pawscorner@hotmail.com.

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offer. Ben started “work” on July 1, 2009. You can learn more about Ben and Queensland at his blog www.islandreefblog.com.• Millions of people have a commute of over ninety minutes each day, but if you think that is bad, try this: one California man drove 377 miles (606.7 ki-lometers) round trip to his San Jose job with the company Cisco - that’s 1,550 miles (2,494 km) each week! He’s made the drive every day since taking the job in 1989. In 2006, he won $10,000 as the winner of Midas Inc.’s “America’s Longest Commute.”• Here are a few last celebrity jobs to tickle your taste buds. Queen Latifah and Jennifer Hudson are both former Burger King Employees. Actor Ja-son Lee preferred Taco Bell for his work endeav-ors. Lucille Ball sold ice cream.• Both Eddie Vedder and Michael Douglas were gas station attendants.• There are dirty, painstaking, messy, well-paying and odd-named jobs everywhere you look. This Labor Day, remember the guy who cleans the ma-chine that packages your oatmeal or the odor tes-ter who made sure your deodorant stands up to the test.

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The New GI BillThe newest version of the veterans’ education pro-gram, called the Post-9/11 GI Bill, is now up and run-ning. The package of ben-efi ts is better than ever. If

you’ve thought about going back to school or getting training, this could be the time.To qualify, a veteran must have at least 90 days of service on or after Sept. 11, 2001, and an honorable discharge. Those with service-connected disabilities only need 30 days of service. The percentage of ben-efi ts you receive depends on the time you served after that date. Three years gets you the maximum benefi t.The new program covers:• Tuition and school fees paid directly to the school (the amount is capped at the level of maximum in-state tuition).• Up to $1,000 for books.• A housing allowance with the amount dependent on the cost of living where you live.Not all training is covered under the new program. For example, fl ight training and entrepreneurship training are not covered unless they’re being given at one of the authorized Institutions of Higher Learning.Your fi rst stop should be the Department of Veterans Affairs site: http://www.gibill.va.gov. There you’ll fi nd links to a list of the in-state maximum tuition and fees by states, the housing allowance by ZIP code, as well as a page of benefi t comparisons between the new Post-9/11 program and the old Montgomery pro-gram, which is still operating.Your most diffi cult decision might be which program to go with -- Post-9/11 or Montgomery. With the latter, you’d receive a set monthly payment that has nothing to do with your actual expenses. Take pencil and pa-per to the numbers and see which works best for you.Once you decide, it’s never too early to apply and get the paperwork started. You can apply online or have the forms sent to you by calling 1-888-GI BILL-1 (1-888-442-4551).

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Spinal Cement Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be

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fractured vertebrae in the spine caused by osteopo-rosis: They injected medical-grade “cement” into the area, which stabilized the fracture site and relieved pain.It was a good idea. “Percutaneous vertebroplasty” was done on thousands of patients over the years, but only now has there been a study to see if the treatment is effective. Unfortunately, it turns out that the procedure doesn’t work quite as well as planned. Patients were tested at the one-week, one-month, three-month and six-month marks after the proce-dure. To get good results, a double-blind study was used. Some patients were given a “fake treatment” and only thought they had had the cement injected.Patients were able to get up within a few hours and experience less or even no pain, but the results showed that those who did and did not have the pro-cedure had the same outcome. Those receiving the treatment didn’t get better results than those who didn’t have the treatment, in terms of pain and ability to function. The conclusion was that there’s no real benefi t to the treatment -- but there are risks.The risks are fairly serious, especially since the pro-cedure doesn’t appear to work any better than other treatments. The “cement” can leak, which means it likely can migrate elsewhere in the body. There is risk of infection. And worse, there’s a possible risk of more fractures because the cement stabilized the fracture in the position it was already in.Now being tested is a “balloon” that is injected be-tween the vertebrae, which will allow the space be-tween vertebrae to be put back in its original position before the “cement” is injected. This will hopefully take care of the risk of additional fractures at the same site.Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally an-swer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Write to her in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to columnreply@gmail.com.

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“It’s embarrassing because they’re just playing with the rest of the fi eld. They just get out there and ride around, and when it’s time to go, they go.”“Hornaday’s driving style fi ts the Truck Series perfectly because he’s a hard-charging, tough competitor,” said driver Terry Cook, “and every lap he runs, he races like it’s the last lap.”The most modest assessment of Hornaday’s ability and career came from, well, Hornaday himself.“It’s been a great ride for me,” he said.Hornaday’s reputation -- tough, but fair -- fi ts the Truck Series’ image.“If you rough a guy up, he’ll get you back,” he said. “All these things take place. The driver makes the decision on how badly he wants to win it. If you cross the line, there will be payback. That’s just part of it.”***Monte Dutton has covered motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette since 1993. He was named writer of the year by the National Motors-ports Press Association in 2008. His blog NASCAR This Week (http://nascar.rbma.com) features all of his reporting on racing, roots music and life on the road. E-mail Monte at nascar_thisweek@yahoo.com.

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