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TIDBITS® ADMIRES BACTERIA

by Janet Spencer Come along with Tidbits as we marvel over bacteria!

THE AGE OF BACTERIA • The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. If you condense that time span down into a single calendar year, the first signs of life emerged in March. Until the beginning of October, all life consisted of singlecell microbes. Plants appeared on the planet in November. Flowers and mammals arrived early in December. Dinosaurs ruled until December 26th. And humans appeared 30 minutes before the stroke of midnight on December 31st.

• In this greatly condensed time scheme, microbes ruled the planet from March through October.

During that time, they changed the planet. They enriched the soil; broke down pollutants; converted elements into substances that could be used by plant and animal life; invented photosynthesis; and changed the atmosphere by releasing oxygen. Bacteria living in the soil pull nitrogen out of the atmosphere and release it as ammonia, which nourishes plants.

Bacteria turn decaying matter back into soil.

• The photosynthesis of the bacteria in all the world’s oceans produces half of the oxygen in the air we breathe, while locking up about half of the carbon dioxide in the air. turn the page for more!

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Savvy Senior Is Pet Insurance a Good Idea for Seniors on a Budget?

Dear Savvy Senior, I own two dogs and a cat that I would do almost anything for, but expensive veterinary bills put a strain on my budget.

Is pet insurance a good idea?

Older Pet Owner Dear Pet Owner, If you’re the kind of pet owner who would do anything for their furry family, including spending thousands of dollars on medical care, pet insurance definitely is an option to consider. Here’s what you should know.

Rising Vet Costs The cost of owning a pet has gone up in recent years. New technologies now make it possible for pets to undergo sophisticated medical treatments for many life-threatening diseases, just like humans. But these treatments don’t come cheap. That’s why pet insurance has gotten more popular in recent years. More than 2 million pets are currently insured in the U.S. and Canada, according to the North American Pet Health Insurance Association.

How Pet Plans Works Pet insurance is actually very similar to human health insurance. Pet policies typically come with premiums, deductibles, co-payments and caps that limit how much will be paid out annually.

But unlike people coverage, you usually have to pay the vet bills in full and wait for reimbursement from the insurer. Pet policies vary greatly from basic plans that cover only accidents and illness, to comprehensive policies that provide complete nose-to-tail protection including annual checkups and vaccinations, spaying/neutering and death benefits.

You should also be aware that pet policies typically don’t cover pre-existing conditions, and premiums are generally lower when your pet is young and healthy.

Costs for pet insurance will also vary by insurer and policy, but premiums typically depend on factors like the cost of veterinary care where you live and the age and breed of the pet. The average annual premium for basic accident and illness coverage was $516 per pet in 2017, while the average claim paid was $278, according to the pet health insurance association.

Shopping Tips Major pet policy providers include the ASPCA, Embrace, Healthy Paws, Nationwide, PetFirst, Petplan and Trupanion. To help you shop and compare coverage and costs from pet insurers, go to PetInsuranceReview.com. If you’re still working, one way to pay lower premiums, and possibly get broader coverage, is to buy pet insurance through your employer, if available. Eleven percent of employers in the U.S. offer pet health insurance benefits, according to the Society for Human Resource Management, and these plans are usually discounted.

Alternative Option Many animal advocates think most pet owners are better off forgoing pet insurance and instead putting the money you would have spent on premiums into a dedicated savings account to pay for vet care as needed. Depending on the policy,

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pet insurance can cost $1,500 to $6,000 over the life of an average pet, and most pet owners will never spend that much for treatment.

Ways to Save If you can’t afford pet insurance or choose not to buy it, there are other ways you can save. For example, many local animal shelters offer free or low-cost spaying and neutering programs and vaccinations, and some shelters work with local vets who are willing to provide care at reduced prices for low-income and senior pet owners.

There are also a number of organizations that provide financial assistance to pet owners in need. To locate these programs, visit HumaneSociety.org/PetFinancialAid. To save on pet medications, get a prescription from your vet (ask for generic is possible) so you can shop for the best price. Medicine purchased at the vet’s office is usually more expensive than you can get from a regular pharmacy or online.

Most pharmacies fill prescriptions for pets inexpensively, and many pharmacies offer pet discount savings programs too.

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Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book.

If you’re lucky enough to have a garden, right about now you have more tomatoes than you know what to do with. Even if you do your “gardening” in the produce section of your grocery store -- tomatoes are at their very best right now. So don’t waste any time. Enjoy those tomatoes in a tasty dish like this today!

1 1/2 cups purchased dried bread cubes 2 1/2 cups peeled and sliced fresh tomatoes 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 1/2 cups shredded reduced-fat Cheddar cheese 2 eggs, slightly beaten, or equivalent in egg substitute Sugar substitute to equal 1 tablespoon, suitable for baking 1/2 teaspoon lemon pepper 2 tablespoons purchased bacon bits 2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes 1. Heat oven to 350 F. Spray a deep-dish 9-inch pie plate with butter-flavored cooking spray.

Cover bottom of pie plate with 1 cup bread cubes. Layer 1 1/2 cups tomatoes, 1/4 cup onion and 3/4 cup Cheddar cheese over top. Repeat layers.

2. In a small bowl, combine eggs, sugar substitute, lemon pepper, bacon bits and parsley flakes. Mix well to combine. Spoon mixture evenly over cheese layer. Evenly sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup bread cubes over top. Lightly spray bread cubes with butter-flavored cooking spray.

3. Bake 45 to 50 minutes. Place pie plate on a wire rack and let set for 5 minutes. Cut into 6 servings. * Each serving equals: 184 calories, 8g fat, 13g protein, 15g carb., 499 mg sodium, 2g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 1 1/2 Meat, 1 Vegetable, 1/2 Starch. (c) 2019 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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THE AGE OF BACTERIA • There is no place on Earth where microbes do not exist: they can be found in boiling hot springs, Antarctic ice, the top of Mount Everest, the bottom of the Marianas Trench, and even in the clouds.

• When a lens cap from a camera being used on the Moon fell, it was left there for two years, until the next lunar landing when it was retrieved. Scientists found bacteria living on the lens cap even in spite of having spent two years in a hostile airless environment.

• Bacteria live in thermal vents that are so hot that probes measuring the temperature melt.

Bacteria live in oil that is buried 2,000 feet below the surface of the Earth. One species lives in tanks holding nuclear waste. Other types live 7 miles below the surface of the sea.

• Russian scientists once revived bacteria that had been frozen in the Siberian permafrost for 3 million years. A scientist in Pennsylvania successfully resuscitated bacteria that had been trapped in salt deposits 2,000 feet underneath New Mexico for 250,000 years.

• Scoop up a handful of dirt from the forest floor and you’ll be holding perhaps as many as 10 billion bacteria in your hand, many of which are species unknown to science.

• When Norwegian scientists collected a single gram of dirt from underneath a beech tree near their lab, they found it contained nearly 5,000 different species of bacteria.

Then they collected a gram of soil from a few miles away near the ocean and identified 5,000 different species.

• Scientists estimate that there are perhaps as many as 400 million species of bacteria.

• The average human being of typical hygiene standards has about 100,000 bacteria living on every square inch of skin. Every human walks around emitting a cloud of bacteria to the tune of around 37 million aerosolized bacteria per hour.

• Mothers pass on entire microbial colonies to babies when they are born. The breast milk of mammals contains certain sugars that the infant cannot digest, but the colony of intestinal bacteria can. The milk is not just nourishing the child; it’s also nourishing the child’s microbiome.

• Babies born by C-section are more likely to experience allergies, asthma, celiac disease, and obesity later in life, possibly due to the fact that they did not receive the full complement of microbes that are delivered to the infant during the normal birth process. Bottlefeeding instead of breast feeding poses similar problems. Babies who are breast-fed get fewer infections than those who are not.

• As soon as it was understood that diseases like the plague and cholera were caused by bacteria, people leapt to the conclusion that all bacteria were bad. turn the page for more!

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THE AGE OF BACTERIA It took a while for researchers to discover how important some types of bacteria are.

• By isolating mice in sterile environments and killing all microbes in their bodies with antibiotics, a pathologist named René Dubos showed that the germ-free mice grew more slowly, had digestive problems, developed faulty immune systems, were more susceptible to stress, got more infections, and died younger than control mice who were subjected to the normal amounts of bacteria. René Dubos was the first person to predict that eventually bacteria would become resistant to antibiotics, long before antibiotics were used widely. He was also the person who coined the phrase “Think globally; act locally.”

• When a team of researchers transferred bacteria from the intestines of a child with autism into the gut of an otherwise normal mouse, the mouse started exhibiting the same symptoms of the child, developing repetitive motions and social aversion.

• A Swedish team had two groups of mice: one group was naturally timid and anxious, and the other group was bolder. When they infused gut bacteria from one group to the other and vice versa, the timid mice became bolder, and the bolder mice became timid.

• Another team isolated the strain commonly used to turn milk into yogurt. When they fed this strain to mice, the mice grew less anxious and acted more boldly.

• When the Bifidobacterium strain was infused into people suffering from Inflammatory Bowel Disease and depression, the depression lifted significantly.

• One study showed that the more older siblings a child had, the less likely it was to get hay fever. The theory is that the more contagions a person is exposed to in childhood, the more practice the immune system gets in dealing with them, and the less likely the immune system is to being triggered by contact with ordinary contaminants.

• The rise in many allergies and inflammatory diseases was accompanied by the growth of modern civilization’s tendency to drink chlorinated water, eat sanitized food, live in concrete cities instead of farms, have smaller families, and have little contact with animals.

• Households with no pets are microbial deserts compared to households with at least one cat, and in particular, at least one dog. Continued contact with these microbes develops the human microbial zoo. When dust from homes inhabited by dogs was fed to mice, the mice developed better resistance to allergens.

• Even though the microbial balance has a huge impact on health, there is no concrete evidence that eating probiotic-laden foods such as yogurt, or taking probiotic capsules, has any effect on the human microbial balance, or has any effect on health.

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Remarkable People VAN LEEUWENHOEK

• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Dutch Republic, in 1632. Throughout the 1650s, he ran a draper’s shop where he sold fabric.

He wanted to see the individual threads of the cloth better, and because of that, he started making his own magnifying lenses.

• In 1660 he secured a government job which gave him more time for pursuing his interest in grinding glass lenses. He discovered that if you make magnifying lenses that are slightly curved, and stack them together, what you have is a microscope.

He used his microscopes to examine the world around him, finding that there were “tiny animals” living in sea water, in lake water, in rain water, in well water, and even in his own spit.

•The more he observed miniscule worlds, the more creatures he discovered that were invisible to the naked eye. He called them “animalcules” and began taking detailed notes and creating drawings of what he was seeing.

•At the time it was widely believed that flies arose spontaneously from the mud, and that weevils arose spontaneously from stores of wheat.

He proved that flies laid eggs in muddy manure, and weevils laid eggs in wheat. He discovered and described red blood cells. In 1674 he was the first human to ever see protozoa. He studied sperm and yeast as well.

• When he examined the eye of a louse, he found it full of spiralshaped animalcules that swam in circles, and these were the first bacteria that had ever been seen by man. turn to page 7 for the conclusion!

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Burn Pits and Other Airborne Hazards Were you deployed in Desert Storm and Desert Shield to a location where there were airborne environmental contaminants, such as burn pit smoke, sand, dust and particles, and oil-well fire smoke? Do you suffer from any breathing problems that haven’t been diagnosed? Have you signed up for the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry?

That registry is to help the Department of Veterans Affairs (and you) be aware of health conditions that might be related to those burn pits and other airborne hazards.

If so, and if you sign up on the registry, you will get a free medical workup. So far, nearly 180,000 veterans have enrolled.

Even if you have no physical symptoms, sign up anyway. If you’re already signed up with VA health care, ask your primary-care provider to schedule an evaluation or call the environmental health coordinator at the closest VA facility.

If you enroll in the registry and it says you’re not eligible, work to have it corrected, as some records might be missing or inaccurate. Request an eligibility review.

If you have symptoms that medical providers haven’t been able to diagnose, As a first step, go online to the VA.gov push for your in-person, multiple-day website and search for Airborne Hazards and specialty exam at the War Related Illness Open Burn Pit Registry. You’ll see the list and Injury Study Center in New Jersey. The of countries, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, VA recently opened the Airborne Hazards where service personnel were deployed. If and Burn Pits Center of Excellence there to you served on or after Aug. 2, 1990 in any do research into these health issues. of the listed countries, or in Afghanistan or (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc. Djibouti on or after Sept. 11, 2001, you may be eligible.

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I’ve never been much of a “people person.” Sure, I can fake it in a conversation long enough to fulfill my purpose, but I’ve never really enjoyed interacting with others. I find it to be tedious, monotonous, and downright boring most of the time. There have been a few people that have been entertaining enough to make me question if I’ve been going about my life the wrong way. Alice Nichols, from my Biology 101 class in my freshman year of college. Rob Sanders, the first boss I had out of college. Steve Pickett, my childhood best friend. For a while, they were all exciting to talk to. That excitement faded quickly, though. The only one to ever keep my interest for a long period of time was my wife, Doreen. She was the love of my life.

She made me laugh, she made me cry, and, most importantly, she made me think. She helped me get through the loss of my parents, my brother, and she was there for me when the outbreak happened. From the time I was four years old, I have had a passion for animals, especially dogs.

One of my first memories from my childhood was cuddling up with our huge, 13-year old German Shepherd and taking a nap on our living room floor. That love of animals stuck with me into my adult life. Before everything happened, I was a veterinarian. I spent a lot of time and even more money studying to get my degree so that I could open my own practice. That’s how I met Doreen. She ran a dog shelter on the outskirts of town and brought one of her dogs in with parvo. It was a close call, but we saved the dog and grew close during that time. Little Annie actually became our first dog that we owned together. Doreen was my rock, through the ups and downs, the recession, the times I couldn’t save a sick dog and I would just come home and cry. She’s the only reason I kept my place open after everything that happened. It all started one Thursday morning. It was a regular morning, I was examining an injured cat. It was nothing serious, just a sprained hip from jumping too high. I was just wrapping up with the patient when my receptionist burst into the examining room. He knew he wasn’t supposed to interrupt me when I had a patient, but apparently there was a massive flood of people coming in with their vomiting dogs.Nobody knows what caused it or how it started, but it all happened very quickly. Some super-advanced strain of a canine flu swept across the world. Perfectly healthy dogs would suddenly fall ill, and within a few days, they would be gone. It wasn’t extremely unpleasant for the dogs. They just seemed to get very weak, have some vomiting, and then they would pass in their sleep. It was completely untreatable. Nothing worked.Within 17 days of the outbreak, every dog on earth was dead. From the smallest chihuahua to the largest mastiff. It wasn’t just domesticated dogs, either. Foxes, wolves, coyotes, every single canine in the world, gone, just like that.I didn’t handle it very well. As a veterinarian that treated dogs every single day, it wasn’t easy to watch as so many were lost under my care. I almost closed down my practice, but Doreen reminded me that there were plenty of other pets out there that needed my help. It all started fifty years ago. Fifty years ago, today. Every year, the anniversary is hard on me. It’s been even harder the past eight years, now that I don’t have Doreen to get me through it. I got a cat a few years ago. Roderick. He’s a beautiful animal, he’s easy to take care of, and he’s the only living thing I talk to on most days.

He’s just not a dog. Don’t get me wrong, I love the little guy. I just miss having a dog around the house.

Hiss! “Shhh, Rod. It’s nothing, just a bird.” Hiss!

Woof! Woof! Owwooooo!

I jolt up in bed, still half-asleep. What is that?

That almost sounded like a... No, it can’t be.

Arf! Arfarfarf! Owwwooooo!

There it is again. Am I going crazy or did that sound like a... like a dog?

To be continued...

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1. Is the book of Ephesians in the Old or New Testament or neither?

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Stephen, Joel, Asa, Malachi 3. What village was known as “The City of David”? Nimrod, Antioch, Bethlehem, Babylon 4. How many men did Nebuchadnezzar see walking in the fiery furnace? 2, 4, 20, 40 5. From the Bible, who could be called “Mr. Patience”? Naaman, Jairus, Philippi, Job 6. Who owned a coat that had many colors? Hosea, Joseph, Edom, Abraham (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

1. GEOGRAPHY: Which U.S. state has the most miles of rivers?

2. LITERATURE: Who was the author of “The Hundred and One Dalmatians”?

3. ANATOMY: What is the common term for the axilla?

4. LANGUAGE: What is the international radio code word for the letter “P”?

5. MUSIC: How many symphonies did Beethoven compose?

6. SPORTS: How many players are on a cricket team?

7. COMICS: Which comic strip features characters named Jeremy, Hector and Sara?

8. TELEVISION: What is the color of Mr. Spock’s blood on the “Star Trek” series?

9. MEASUREMENTS: What is a ligne and what does it measure?

10. FOOD & DRINK: What is the name of a tea named after a 1830s British prime minister? mean? (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

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When he examined plaque gathered from between his own teeth, he announced, “All the people living in our United Netherlands are not as many as the living animals that I carry in my own mouth this very day.” When he added vinegar to the tooth scrapings, he noted that all of the little animalcules abruptly died, having discovered the first antiseptic.

• A friend of his encouraged him to get in touch with the Royal Society in London. In 1673 the society published a letter from van Leeuwenhoek that included his microscopic observations on mold, bees, and lice. This was fine, because everyone was familiar with mold, bees, and lice.

•But in 1676, his credibility came into question when he sent them observations of microscopic singlecelled organisms, whose existence had previously been entirely unknown. The Royal Society, being skeptical, sent a contingent of experts to visit van Leeuwenhoek in order to determine whether or not he was sane, and if these “animalcules” really existed. All the experts returned to England vouching for the authenticity of van Leeuwenhoek and his work.

• Van Leeuwenhoek had a virtual monopoly on microscopic study and discovery. His contemporary, Robert Hooke, an early microscope pioneer, was able to make lenses that magnified to about 50 times, but van Leeuwenhoek made microscopes that could magnify up to 275 times. It’s thought that he even made microscopes that could magnify to 500 times. But he feared that if he revealed his methods, his name would be forgotten and his place in history would be lost.

So he allowed people to believe that creating the microscopes was difficult and time consuming, in spite of the fact that he made over 500 of them in his lifetime. When visitors came, he showed them inferior models in order to keep his secrets safe.

• When he died at the age of 90 in 1723, he took his secrets to the grave with him. Though he willed his collection of microscopes to the Royal Society, they disappeared after his death and were never seen again. Today, only nine still survive.

It was another 150 years before

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