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that dramatic moment famously appeared in newspapers around the world. • Switzer ran the rest of the race fearing she would be arrested at the finish line, yet, she pressed on. She later said, “I knew if I quit, nobody would ever believe that women had the capability to run that 26-plus miles. Then the fear and humiliation I had turned to anger.”

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syndrome -- affects many people. Its symptoms involve the following thought process: little dog, by Matilda Charles little urine, little poop, little trouble. And so the © King Features Synd., Inc. decision is made to paper train the little guy. After three and a half years of narrow escapes and smelly messes, this couple still argued, “But it’s such a small amount!” What you can do: Housebreaking is thought to be the harder If you use Google or Gmail, go into your road to climb. But if that’s true at all, it’s only in the settings and block everything you can. If you short term. Here are a couple of tips to get you off A recent study concluded that seniors don’t know how, get help. on the right foot: over age 65 pass along fake and bogus internet -- Start young. Older dogs can be news items seven times more often than young Convince your senior center to hold housebroken, but it’s much easier to instill good adults (18-29) and twice as often as those in the classes on Internet safety. Ask them to bring in a habits than to break bad ones. 45-65 age group. tech who knows how to simplify the basic steps -- Begin training in the spring or summer. so everyone can understand. Use Mozilla Firefox Cold, harsh weather makes it harder for humans Researchers theorized that seniors don’t to stay the course with the training program. And as your Internet browser and install the uBlock have enough digital media literacy, or basic housebreaking means taking your dog outside to ad blocker. “street smarts,” to figure out what’s really true eliminate several times a day. and what isn’t. It appears that seniors too often Once you understand the housebreaking The big question: assume what they are seeing are actual facts process and what it involves, it’s really just a matter While we should definitely be aware that and unwittingly pass the information along to oth- the internet is rife with unsubstantiated news of consistency on your part. Feed, water, walk. ers, most of which are other seniors, believing it MON., JAN. 7 Feed, water, walk. That consistency coupled with MON., AUG. stories and other false reports, are there13really to be true. Researchers also wondered if age-re- that many of us seniors passing this fake news an age-appropriate diet for your dog is the key to  P Please review carefully. check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s) Spelling  PricesDouble  Hours lated memory problems may be what is keeping successful housebreaking. along to others? Isn’t it the much larger number Contact your Tidbits representative immediately changes or corr For detailed information on with housebreaking us from recognizing what are exaggerated factsyour of Contact Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. younger generations that are the ones who your dog, check out “When Good Dogs or even straight-up lies when we see them. Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Do Bad Fax: 760 email: Fax: basically livecheck: on their phones and computers? PleaseOffice: review 760-320-0997 carefully. Double valleybits@msn.com Phone Number(s)  Spelling 760-320-1630 Prices  Hours Things” in your local library, or visit unclematty. According to a 2018 Pew study, we use social com. Contact with changes or corrections. Specifically, this study was done duringyour Tidbits media representative at half the rateimmediately of the youngest age group. Woof! TUES., APRIL 24Office: 760-320-0997 the last election by researchers at Princeton and email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 * * * NYUDouble and was conducted FacebooktoSpelling moni-  Prices arefully. check:  Phoneon Number(s)  Hours My personal opinion, which has nothingRichard Computer Services Repair Bigley Dog trainer Matthew “Uncle&Matty” Margolis is tor what links people passed along. They say it to do with this study, is this: Get off Facebook.1/16 pgco-author of 18 books about dogs, a behaviorist, a popuBW 26x Disc. our Tidbits representative immediately changes was done with user consent, but with whether that’sor corrections. lar radio and television guest, and host of the PBS series January 13, 2019 Vo. 15 - No. 3 * * * Jacobs true or not,email: we need to take a step back andFax: re- 760-320-1630 0-320-0997 valleybits@msn.com El Paseo Exchange c/o Michael “WOOF! It’s a Dog’s Life!” Visit him at www.unclematty. Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally examine what our internet habits are. com. BZanswer BW 13x reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@ Here is why: August 19, 2018 Vol. 14 - No. 34

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One Year Left to Jump Through the Restricted Claim Loophole Anyone turning 66 this year who has a spouse already collecting Social Security or who is potentially eligible for benefits should consider jumping through the loophole that slams shut in 2020. Or to be more precise, the loophole that closes for anyone turning 66 in January 2020 or later. What’s the loophole? It’s the rule that allows 66-year-old retirees to collect spousal benefits on a husband’s or wife’s Social Security record while letting their own benefit continue to grow until age 70, at which point they get a 32 percent bonus added to their monthly retirement checks. Some may wonder: Why is this considered a loophole and why is it closing? Normal Social Security rules do not allow a retiree to get spousal benefits if his or her own rate is higher. After all, benefits to a spouse are classified as dependent benefits. In other words, you generally don’t get such benefits unless you were financially dependent on your spouse. Obviously, someone who worked and earned his or her own retirement benefit that is higher than any spousal rate that might be due should not be considered “dependent” on the other spouse. But a fluke in the language written into some amendments to a Social Security law that passed in the 1990s opened up that loophole and allowed millions of generally well-to-do retirees to “game the system” and collect dependent spousal benefits between age 66 and 70 before switching to 132 percent of their own. A couple years ago, Congress finally recognized their mistake. But instead of sealing up the loophole immediately, they established the January 2020 closing date. So again, if you are 66 before then, you might want to consider filing a restricted claim. Filing a what? -- you may ask. Well, that calls for some more explanation. Social Security rules have always included a “deemed application” policy. In other words, when you file for one kind of Social Security benefit, you are deemed to be filing for any and all other benefits you might be due. So that is why you normally cannot file for spousal benefits without filing for your own retirement benefits at the same time. But what that 1990s loophole in the law did was to allow someone who was 66 or older to ignore that deemed filing rule. It allowed retirees to “restrict the scope of their Social Security application to spousal benefits only.” In other words, you could file for spousal benefits now and delay taking your own benefits until later. I’ve been calling that procedure the “file and restrict” method. But again, that law is changing for people turning 66 beginning in January 2020. Today’s questions come from people turning 66 before then who are lucky enough to use the loophole.

I will turn 66 on Jan. 1, 2020. My wife is 64 and started taking her Social Security at age 62. Based on ever ything I’ve read, I guess I’m out of luck and can’t file for husband’s benefits on her record while delay-

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would be throwing away many tens of thousands of dollars in Social Security benefits if you wait until April 2021. You should run the numbers, consider the tax implications, and then decide what to do.

You are one lucky dude! You actually made the deadline by a day. And here is why. I’ve I just turned 69. I was planning to discussed in this column before the strange little delay taking my Social Security until age 70. quirk in the law that says you legally attain your age on the day before your actual birthday. That But I just did the math, and I think I will be normally means nothing. For example, I will be ahead to start my benefits now. Do you think 70 on June 22 of this year. But I legally turn 70 on that’s a good idea? By the way, my wife is 66 June 21. That’s no big deal to me and to most other and still working and she is also thinking of waiting until 70 to file for her Social Security. people. But it’s a huge deal, from a Social Security I’m not a financial advisor. So I really perspective, if you were born on the 1st day of the can’t tell you what to do. But I can give you some month. You technically turn your age in the prior month, so you usually can get one extra Social Se- Social Security food for thought. If your math says that starting your benefits now is attractive, why curity check for that month. And in your case, it’s even a much bigger not consider filing now and taking the maximum deal because you legally reach age 66 on Dec. 31, six months of retroactive benefits. That big back you’d get could be even morePROOF attractive. 2019. So that means the file and restrict loophole paycheck ADVERTISING But whichever way you go, then your wife could is still open to you. So in December of this year, MON., DEC. 18 Final Changes DUE: 5: you can file for husband’s benefits on your wife’s do the “file and restrict” thing and take spousal Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  record and at 70, switch to 132 percent of your own benefits on your record now while letting her own ADVERTISING PROOF growrepresentative until age 70. immediately Contactbenefits your Tidbits with changes or c retirement. * * * Final Changes DUE: Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com 5:00 Fax: p 7 If you have a Social Security question, Tom will and time full I am still working Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.marbe 66 in October of this year. My wife is 60 genau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom MarContact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or correcti years old. She plans to retire when she is 62 genau and to read past columns and see features from 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320 That will and start her Social Security then. Office: other CreatorsSvcs. Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit LDR Construction the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. be in April 2021. If I understand the file and 1/16 pg. 4C 26x disc. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM restrict rules correctly, that is too late for me Dec. 24, 2017 Vol. 13 - No. 52 is it because strategy to use that maximizing after the Januar y 2020 deadline. Am I right?

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against several forms of cancer, especially of the colon. However, I don’t yet recommend it just to protect against cancer, but I will continue to pay careful attention to ongoing studies on aspirin and will revisit this topic when more research becomes available. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: In a recent test, my blood vitamin D level was good, at 43, but my calcitriol level was low at 16. I do have hyperglycemia, but how do I increase my calcitriol level? I take no medications. -- J.I.

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The Benefits of Aspirin DEAR DR. ROACH: I recently read an article on the pros and cons of a daily aspirin for protection against both heart disease and colon cancer. This is not a new topic, I realize, and I know that the benefits of daily aspirin apply only to certain segments of the population.

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In a recent press release the Department ANSWER: If you don’t have kidney or of Veterans Affairs announced that Little Rock, Arparathyroid hormone problems, then calcitriol kansas, had joined the list of three states and 65 isn’t the right blood test to determine your bone towns that had conquered veteran homelessness. health relative to vitamin D. Calcitriol is an activated form of vitamin D, and it best reflects cal The list of those locations goes back to cium intake. I suspect low calcium intake when 2015, and the page announces, “The following jurisI see a high calcitriol. Since calcitriol removes dictions have announced an end to Veteran homecalcium from the bones, it may worsen osteopolessness as of Dec. 19, 2018.” The actual facts raise rosis. ADVERTISING PROOF questions, however. Final Changes DUE: Fri., 8/24/18 5:00 p.m.. Please check: had Phoneyour Number(s)  Spellingand  Prices  Hours review carefully. If youDouble haven’t kidneys para Take New Orleans. The mayor issued a Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. thyroid hormone level (which also affects calcium statement in 2015 saying it was the first city in the Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 movement in the kidney and bones) checked renation to end veteran homelessness. OK. How are cently, then do so. If those are OK, then be sure they doing now? At the end of 2018, the VA health to get enough calcium, especially from dietary center there held a Stand Down for homeless vetClassic Garage Doors sources like leafy green vegetables. erans. The director said that the VA has made sig • Business Card, Spot Color, 26x discount rate * * * nificant progress, but there was more work to do. • Oct. 9, 2018 - March 10, 2019 Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer indiThey still have homeless veterans. Volume 14: #37 -them Vol.in15: vidual letters,• but will incorporate the #11 column when-

Here’s my question: If a person doesn’t experience any stomach or bleeding issues, does a much higher dose of aspirin daily also convey the same possibly protective effects? I don’t believe that more is better, but I already take an average of nine 325 mg generic aspirin tablets daily for leg pain. I’m in that 50-59 age group, and there is heart disease on both sides of my family, so I’m hoping this dose confers some cardiac benefit.

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potter y pitcher that I have. It stands 8 inches tall and is decorated with a matte-orange peel glaze. No one in our family knows anything about its histor y. We just know we have had it for years. Anything you can tell us about our pitcher will be appreciated.

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This is a picture of a potter y teapot that we have had for decades. It stands 6 inches tall, is over 7 inches from handle to spout and is in excellent condition. Marked on the bottom are the words “Peggally -- Beswick -- England -- 1116.” We have been in the process of auctioning off our heirlooms and would like to have an idea of the value of our teapot.

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1. Beetroot 2. Canned peaches 3. Horseradish, mustard, and green dye 4. Orange juice 5. No - parmesan uses rennet, an enzyme from either goats, lambs or calves' stomachs. BIBLE TRIVIA Answers

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1. California prospectors in the Gold Rush of 1849 2. WWII when metal cans were scarce, dry & powdered soups gained national popularity..

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