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● It was iconic pop artist Andy Warhol who made the following observation: “Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up, and they’re always tax deductible.” ● At one time in Alabama, it was illegal to wear a false mustache to church. ● The English word “toast” to describe a piece of browned bread comes from the Latin word “tostare,” which means “roasted.” The word “toast” to mean kind words spoken while sharing wine also comes from the same root, though in a roundabout way. In the Middle Ages, wine was not always of the highest quality. As a gesture of goodwill and hospitality to guests, a piece of toast was sometimes added to improve the flavor. Eventually (as vintages improved, one might assume), the browned bread was forgotten and only the words remained. ● You might be surprised to learn that the man who was the lead designer for the original GI Joe action figure also designed the inaugural medal for the John F. Kennedy-Lyndon Johnson administration. ● If you’re an arachnophobe, it you probably don’t want to know that a tarantula can live for up to two years without eating a thing. ● Have you ever noticed the small bumps that seem to cover your tongue? Many people think that these are taste buds. In fact, there are more than 200 taste buds on each of those bumps. ● Those who study such things say that the 15 most commonly used words in the English language are, in descending order: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, them, what, the, a and an. *** Thought for the Day: “The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.” -- Vince Lombardi (c) 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

• But it was not to last. In the early 1960s, as increasing numbers of travelers began driving faster cars and avoiding slow country roads for the speed and convenience of freeways, BurmaShave could no longer keep up. Decreasing sales and the increasing cost of keeping the signs posted and maintained for a diminishing audience spelled the end of an era.

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more than that, primarily because they work well past age 66. Another measuring stick, called the national wage index, is used to set increases to other provisions of the law that impact Social Security beneficiaries and taxpayers. Specifically, this includes increases in the amount of wages or self-employment income subject to Social Security tax; the amount of income needed to earn a “quarter of coverage;” and the Social Secuby Tom Margenau rity earnings penalty limits. The Social Security taxable earnings base will go up from $110,100 this year to $113,700 in 2013. In other words, anyone who earns more than $113,700 next year will no longer have Social Security payroll taxes deducted from their paychecks once they hit that threshold. This has always been a very controversial provision of the law. (Donald Trump pays the same amount of Social Security tax as his plumber.) I will bet a year’s worth of my pension checks that any It has been my custom for most of the past 15 Social Security reform package will include a big inyears to write a year-end column that summarizes the crease in that wage base. I don’t think it will be elimiSocial Security changes and updates scheduled to nated. But it will increase rather sharply. take place the following year. Most people need 40 Social Security work credits Almost all Social Security beneficiaries are famil- (sometimes called “quarters of coverage”) to be eliiar with the most popular and publicized upcoming gible for monthly benefit checks from the system. In change: the increase in monthly benefit checks for 2012, people who were working earned one credit for 2013 due to the automated cost-of-living adjustment, each $1,130 in Social Security taxable income. But no or COLA. In fact, Social Security recipients have one earns more than four credits per year. In other probably already received a notice from the Social words, once you made $4,520, your Social Security Security Administration telling them of the expected record has been credited with the maximum four increase. credits or quarters of coverage. Next year, the one All Social Security checks are going up 1.7 percent credit limit goes up to $1,160, meaning you will have in 2013. The COLA is based on something called the to earn $4,640 in 2013 before you get the maximum Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and four credits assigned to your Social Security account. Clerical Workers. This is the official measuring stick People under age 66 who get Social Security retireSSA has used to determine COLAs for the past 40 ment or survivor’s benefits but who are still working, years. If you want to learn more about this measure, are subject to limits in the amount of money they can check out the website of the folks who maintain it: the earn and still receive all their Social Security checks. Bureau of Labor Statistics. You’ll find them at www. That limit was $14,640 this year and will be $15,120 in bls.gov. 2013. For every two dollars a person earns over those I always dread mentioning COLAs in this column limits, one dollar is withheld from their monthly benbecause every single time I do, I am flooded with efits. emails from readers complaining that the increase There is a higher earnings threshold in the year is not enough. (Curiously, not once in 15 years has a person turns 66 that applies from the beginning of anyone ever written to me to say that their COLA in- the year until the month the person turns 66. (The crease was too high!) income penalty goes away once a person reaches that Yet here’s the rub: many economists and so- “full retirement age.”) That threshold goes up from cial planners believe Social Security COLAs are too $38,880 in 2012 to $40,080 next year. generous! (I’ve explainedWed. why NOON in past9/12 columns, but A couple other Social Security provisions are also don’t have the space to get into that argument today.) impacted by inflationary increases. For example, ew carefully. check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling Prices  Hours That’sDouble why most discussions of long range reforms  people getting disability benefits who try to work can for Social Security include proposals to reduce cost of generally continue getting those benefits as long as ct your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. living increases. 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I’ll share with you what my biggest New Year’s resolution is going to be. I resolve to become less serious this year. To this end, I’m going to: --Turn off the television completely at least one day a week. The news is rarely good, and the ANSWER: It could be what’s called sleep commercials are increasingly about drugs for seri DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I need help with terror. It’s more often seen in childhood, but occa- ous diseases. If I need to know what the weather acid reflux. I have battled it for seven years, sionally adults have it. You describe it perfectly. The will be like tomorrow or the next day, the Weather and until recently I have used Prilosec, but it person suddenly wakens and screams in what ap- Channel will let me know without also filling my has stopped working for me. I tried AcipHex pears to be panic. Then she or he returns to sleep. head with all the more serious news of the day. and Protonix but didn’t feel well when taking Most have no memory of the event the following day, --Read humorous authors. To name a few, don’t recall a frightening dream. If this doesn’t Rita M. Brown, Fanny Flagg and Garrison Keillor them. Now I’m on Prevacid. Is it OK to take in- and ADVERTISING PROOF or prevent you come to mind. The librarian will be able to suggest definitely? I wonder about Nexium. My doctor interfere with her normal functioning, TUES., JULY 26 Final Changes DUE: p.m.. from getting the rest you need, she doesn’t need5:00 to others, told me to take any acid reducer that works. I’m sure. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours pursue it. --Revisit the books of my childhood and What do you consider the best long-term *** Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. see if I still love them. “The Boxcar Children,” a few medicine? -- F.H. Dr. Donohue that he is unable to answer indiOffice: 760-320-0997 Fax:regrets 760-320-1630 Email: valleybits@msn.com Nancy Drew mysteries and “Huckleberry Finn” are vidual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column when ANSWER: Acid reflux, heartburn and ever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form on my list. --Subscribe online to a joke a day. They’ll GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) are differ- of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL come by email, and they’re promised to be suitable 32853-6475. ent names for the same thing -- the upward splashing for everyone. I’ll even take a few elephant jokes. Stephen K. Su, D.P.M. of stomach acid and digestive juices into the esopha(c) 2012 North America Synd., Inc. (Remember those?) gus, the long tube that brings food from the throat 1/16 pg. BW 13x disc. Rights Reserved --Order pizza (or something similar) delivto the stomach. The esophagus can’t handle those All 7/31/11 ered to my house once a month. No, it’s not on my corrosive juices, and the result is burning pain. diet, but that’s the point. On that day I won’t cook or Can you identify any food or drink that do dishes after dinner. brings on your symptoms? If you can, eliminate it. --Revive my stamp collection. ADVERTISING PROOF No, I won’t Potential troublemakers are fatty foods, fried foods, 10/22/12 Final Changes DUE: Mon, spend a lot of money on it, but there5:00 arep.m.. a few spearmint, peppermint, chocolate, tomatoes, citrus Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours stamps that could fill in some blanks on the pages. fruit and caffeine. You prevent nighttime heartburn Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 It’ll be relaxing to flip through the pages, attend the by putting 6-inch blocks under the bedposts at the monthly stamp and coin show, and talk to people head of your bed. In that position, gravity keeps LESSTHAN THAN AN AN HOUR LESS HOUR Newer Newlaser lasertreatment treatment who are in love with stamps. TO TRANSFORM TRANSFORM YOUR TO YOUR stomach acid in the stomach. Body weight reduction that that controls toenailfungus fungus kills toenail Who knows ... I might get to like this lessalmost always lessens symptoms. safely and painlessly safely and painlessly! serious lifestyle. Want to join me? Start making I like your doctor’s approach. Use the cheap™ Footlaser Genesis Plus™ ™ Footlaser™ system controlsthat the Our proven proven and andpainless painlessCutera PinPointe system kills the fungus your list! funguscauses that causes the disease. will grow out looking normal! the disease. YourYour nailsnails will grow out looking normal! est medicine that keeps you free of pain. Antacids

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