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the additional space for air, and more room for roots? Researchers set out to discover why beech forests thrive when the trees are crowded together, but weaken when they are spread apart. • What they found surprised them: Trees share and depend on one another. Twined together, the roots pass nutrients from one tree to another using a complex network of fungus that interconnect all the neighborhood trees by tapping into the hairlike fibers of the smallest roots. When one tree is short of water, a nearby tree with extra water to spare will pass some over through the fungus highway. When that tree is short of nutrients, it receives a helpful supply in return from the trees surrounding it. Meanwhile, the fungus keeps part of the nutrients for itself, and constantly expands to connect as many tree roots in the network as possible. A single pound of forest soil may contain miles of fungus strands. • One researcher injected a radioactive dye into a birch tree and then tracked it as it moved into the network of fungus in the soil and then into a nearby Douglas fir. • One type of fungus is able to release a toxin which kills tiny insects in the vicinity. When these insects decay, they give off nitrogen which the fungus absorbs and shares. TREE DEFENSE SYSTEMS

that attract beneficial predators, which soon arrive and feast upon the marauding invaders. • In tropical areas, leaf-cutting ants can strip a tree of its leaves in a single night. They take the leaves back to the nest where they chew them into pulp and use them as compost to grow fungus, which they eat. To protect itself from being defoliated, the acacia tree secretes droplets of sweet sap near the base of its leaves. A different type of ant loves to eat the sap, and they set up colonies in the large, hollow thorns of the tree. Any time the leaf-cutting ants come around, they are driven away by the sap-eating ants.

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1. The book of Jeremiah is in the a) Old Testament b) New Testament c) Neither 2. In a vision that convinced Peter to share the gospel, in what were the creatures let down to earth? a) Great sheet b) Cloud c) Golden chariot d) Golden basket 3. Who was instructed to eat bread while he lay for 390 days on his side? a) Job b) Ezekiel c) Methuselah d) Uriah 4. From Matthew 5, what did Jesus tell his disciples they were the salt of? a) His Glory b) Their descendants c) The earth d) Mankind 5. Who survived the bite of a viper, as described in Acts 28? a) Paul b) Timothy c) Peter d) Stephen 6. From Genesis 35,who died in giving birth to Benjamin? a) Sarah b) Leah c) Rebekah d) Rachel (Answers on page 16) ForBible comments or more Bible Trivia go to "Test Your Knowledge," with 1,206 multiple-choice questions www.TriviaGuy.com by Wilson Casey, is available at bookstores and online. © 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

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SSA Representatives Challenge Me Frequently, I hear from readers who take one of my columns into their local Social Security office to help make their case during benefit inquiries. More often than not, the Social Security representative they are talking to is skeptical, sometimes even hostile, about my involvement in the situation. I can sort of understand that. They usually have no idea who I am or my connection to the Social Security Administration. As far as they know, I’m just some yahoo who writes a newspaper column. They don’t know that I spent 32 years working for SSA in a series of increasingly responsible jobs, or that I have been writing this column covering Social Security issues for almost 22 years. Today’s questions illustrate this phenomenon.

My wife and I went to our local Social Security office to sign her up. She is 66 years old and filed a restricted claim on my record. I am 72. I started my benefits when I was 70, so I am getting the 32 percent “delayed retirement credit” added into my monthly benefits. My wife asked if her future widow’s benefits would include those extra credits. The caseworker said “No.” She said the widow’s rate is based on my full retirement age rate, not my age 70 benefit. We had brought along one of your recent columns in which you said that widow’s benefits do include the delayed retirement bonus and showed it to her. And she said: “I am the office expert on widow’s benefits. Who are you going to believe? Some clown who writes a newspaper column? Or the office expert on widow’s benefits.” We went home feeling chastised. Besides your column, do you have something in black and white we can take back to the office and show this “expert” to prove you are right?

I usually don’t like to get involved in cases like this. In other words, I don’t like to have to dig out SSA regulations to prove that I am right to some ill-informed SSA representative. This self-appointed “office expert on widow’s benefits” should be able to do this research herself. But it was the “clown” comment that raised my hackles and sent me searching for proof. The research tool that spells out all of SSA’s rules and regulations is called the “Program Operations Manual System,” or POMS. It is a very extensive document. Before it was digitized, it filled about 20 three-inch binders. But now it’s online. If you ever want to get thoroughly bored, you can check it out. Go to www.socialsecurity.gov and click the menu button. Way at the bottom of the menu page, under “Research Planning and Policy,” you will see a link called “Program Rules.” Click on it. In the page that pops up, click on “Employee Operating Instructions” and then open up the “Programs Operations Manual System” link. And then ... well ... good luck! Reading a scholarly tome on rocket science is only slightly more difficult than trying to negotiate POMS. Anyway, tell this “expert” to check out

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POMS RS 00615.706. That section is titled “Computation of the Widow(er)’s Benefit with DRCs.” It goes on to explain how a worker’s delayed retirement credits are added into a widow’s (or widower’s) Social Security benefits.

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of my life. Therefore, I paid into the civil service retirement system, not Social Security. But I did some odd jobs over the years where I did pay into Social Security. Now that I am 66 and retired, I get a ver y small Social Security check (it’s about $150). As you know, that benefit is reduced by the Windfall Elimination Provision. I just took on a consulting job that will pay me a six-figure salar y for the next several years. Social Security taxes will be deducted from my paychecks. I was hoping this extra income I have, and these extra taxes I am paying, will lessen the impact of my WEP reduction. As you know, in a prior email, you told me my WEP reduction will be lessened. I took that email into my Social Secu rity office. The rep I showed it to said you are wrong. He told me, “WEP reductions are car ved in stone at the time you file for benefits and can never be changed.” Who is right?

I’m right, and the representative you talked to is wrong. But this time, I’m not going to dig through the mind-numbing POMS system to find the proof. I can just relay my own experience. But before I do, I must help my readers un derstand what we are talking about. I have spent many past columns explaining WEP in detail, but here it is in a nutshell: The Social Security benefit formula is skewed to help low-income people

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get a better deal out of their retirement benefits. Those workers who spend the bulk of their careers in jobs not covered by Social Security but who have worked enough on the side to qualify for a Social Security benefit get the bonus intended for lowincome workers (because they have a gap-filled Social Security record). The WEP reduction adjusts their Social Security benefit to eliminate that windfall. Thus the name: “Windfall Elimination Provision.” Anyway, here is my story. Many readers may find this hard to believe, but even though I spent 32 years working for the Social Security Administration, I didn’t pay a nickel of Social Security taxes all those years. As an older federal employee, I was covered by the civil service retirement system. (FYI: All federal employees hired since 1984 pay into Social Security. I was hired in 1973.) But I did work at jobs that were covered by Social Security before I started working for the government. This earned me a very meager Social Security retirement benefit that got the maximum WEP reduction. But since I retired, I’ve been writing this column and doing some consulting gigs for which I pay Social Security self-employment taxes. And every year, my Social Security benefit gets bumped up a few dollars because my WEP reduction is recalculated to give me credit for these extra earnings. So I know from personal experience that, despite what the Social Security rep told you, your WEP reduction will not be “carved in stone.” * * * If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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has a high mortality rate. The particular bacteria in a person with this diagnosis are very dangerous, and there are cases of person-to-person transmission of the bacteria, leading to additional cases, so personal protective equipment is essential for caregivers and family. Effective treatment starts with recognition of the diagnosis. That can be hard; initial signs, such as redness, swelling and fever, can be nonspecific. Skin lesions, like blisters or bruising, can be misleading. However, a very high fever and more pain than expected are big clues to the diagnosis. Treatment is primarily surgical. Antibiotics alone are ineffective. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: A recent column on sinusitis argued against routine antibiotics. Your advice, while sound, does not apply to all of us. I am an MDS patient with compromised immunity. When I get sick, it takes three times as long to recover. I feel the rules may apply to “normal” people, but not all of us. What would you recommend for someone like me? -- B.F.

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At a Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility, a psychologist by the name of “Z” managed to find a way to increase income by overstat DEAR DR. ROACH: What do you know ing productivity by 43 percent. about flesh-eating bacteria? After going to a This was done via double coding. Say the hospital to get a mole checked, I developed appointment with a patient should be classified as an itchy rash that won’t go away. I am wor123. The psychologist would code it as 123 and adried. -- H.W. ditionally as 456 ... indicating that Z has performed much more work than was actually done. Z aver ANSWER: Let me reassure you that this aged 15 hours of actual patient service in a 40-hour isn’t flesh-eating bacteria. Itchy rash around a workweek, yet managed to accrue payments for mole can be due to eczema, or it might be a fun243 hours of overtime. gal infection or one of several other benign skin Appointments were written into Z’s perconditions. A dermatologist can help figure out sonal planner, not entered into the computer where ANSWER: My answers certainly do not which. But, since you asked ... they could be noticed. They were entered in the apply to all situations, and immunocompromised The term “flesh-eating bacteria” is miscomputer only after the appointments. individuals are an excellent example. In the case leading since it’s a disease, not a particular Z was caught and claimed that the double of sinus infections, it depends on the person’s bacteria species. The term refers to a condition coding was per the instruction received in initial exact type of immune problem. Immunocomprocalled “necrotizing fasciitis” (“necrotizing” means VA training, yet Z didn’t attend seven of the eight mised individuals certainly are more likely to be that the infection kills cells, and “fasciitis” refertraining sessions on coding. Further, Z's method prescribed antibiotics, and are more likely to be ences the connective tissue in the body that the was in none of the training materials and the other subject to diagnostic testing when things don’t infection proceeds along). psychologists were not given those instructions. go as expected. Some kinds of immune system However terrifying, it is fortunately a rare The punishment? Make Z go to coding disease predispose people to unusual infections, condition. There are only about 1-3 cases per class. No administrative steps were taken, no firing, which require specific treatments. 100,000 people. It may occur in people who are no apparent penalty payback of the overpayments. Taking care of anyone requires judgment otherwise healthy and who happen to get an inThe chief of psychology was dragged into and experience, and physicians who have known jury that penetrates the skin. 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I have owned the item seen in this photo for some time and really don’t know what it is used for or if it has any value. The female figurine is porcelain and attached to the whisk broom. Her hair is blond, and she has rosy cheeks, a pink ribbon around her neck and a white top. I don’t know what kinds of bristles were used to make the broom, but they seem to be ver y sturdy and are all intact. The yellow ribbon on the bodice of the figurine is stained but other wise in good condition. There are no manufacturer’s marks on it. I think it may have been used to clean crumbs Porcelain half-doll whisk brooms from the dining were popular in the 1920s. table. Perhaps you can help me figure it all out. Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

You have a whisk broom doll that was made in the 1920s. It was used to whisk table crumbs off a tablecloth into a container. A porcelain half doll was attached to a whisk broom. Ribbon or lace was used to cover the area where the two pieces joined. They were usually about 7 to 8 inches tall. Many half dolls were made in either Germany or Japan. Half dolls were also used in pincushions, tea cozies and powder boxes. Your porcelain half-doll whisk broom would probably be worth $25 to $50. *** This mark is on a set of porcelain dishes I inherited. It is a ser vice for 12 and includes three ser ving platters, two ser ving bowls with lids, a gravy boat, a cream pitcher and a sugar bowl. Each piece is white por-

Royal Bayreuth Porcelain Factory was founded over 200 years ago.

Royal Bayreuth porcelain was founded by Wilhelm Greiner and Johann Schmidt in 1794 in Tettau, Bavaria, Germany. Over the years, the company experienced wars, financial problems, several owners and a devastating fire that destroyed molds and records. The factory has been nestled in the Thuringian Hills near the Tettau village for over 200 years. It continues to produce exceptionally fine porcelain, similar to Meissen. In addition to dinnerware, it made coffee and tea sets, novelties and figural lines. Vintage porcelain dinnerware isn’t in demand on today’s market. If you are planning to keep your set in the family, the insurance value would probably be in the range from $1,000 to $2,000. * * *

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