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SUPERMAN: (from page one) and stapled science fiction “fanzine.” • Not satisfied with that super character, the young men decided to give him a makeover by devising a much more respectible hero figure. They gave him an alien background, superhuman strength with the ability to fly, and a secret double identity. •

They gave their new character the name “Superman” and began drawing comic strip stories about his adventures that they hoped might some day become a national newspaper comics feature. They sent samples of their work to all of the newspaper syndicates, but were rejected by every single one.

• Discouraged into believing their Superman idea would never sell, the pair landed a job in the comics field in 1935 writing and illustrating detective and adventure stories for a New York publisher, National Allied Publications. • In 1938, when editor Vin Sullivan of National Comics in New York was undecided about what type of graphic to use on the cover of a new startup magazine they called Action Comics, someone pulled the dusty Superman proposal out of a drawer. The proposal showed a picture of a handsome muscular man with a cape lifting a car over his head with his bare hands, which the publisher thought was ridiculous. But after more thought he realized

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* It was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, beloved creator of Sherlock Holmes, who made the following sage observation: “I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.” * In France, writing a bad check is not just bad form -- it’s illegal. Violators of the “cheque sans provision” law are subject to criminal fines and can be banned from writing checks for up to five years. * You might be shocked if you came across the term “lust-house” in, say, a newspaper. You shouldn’t be, though -- it doesn’t mean what you think it means. The term comes to us (unsurprisingly) from German, where the word might refer to either a country house or a tavern with a beer garden. * There was a time when the game of checkers was commonly -- and condescendingly -- called “chess for ladies.”

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Don’t grind anything that’s tough and fibrous, like corn husks, celery stalks, onion skins and artichokes. They can block the drain and tangle and jam the garbage disposal motor. Don’t turn off the motor or the cold water until grinding is finished. When grinding is complete, turn off the garbage disposal first. Let a strong flow of cold water run for at least 15 seconds so it can flush out any remaining particles. Then turn off water. Don’t put large amounts of any kind of food down the garbage disposal all at once. If you must, feed food into the garbage disposal a little at a time with the cold water running. This will help the food scraps flow freely through the drainpipes and plumbing. Don’t put coffee grounds down the garbage disposal, even though they won’t harm the garbage disposal and can actually help eliminate odors. The problem is coffee grounds can accumulate in drains and pipes and cause clogs, so it’s best to avoid it. Don’t ever -- that means never -- put anything in the disposal that is not biodegradable food. Your disposal is not a trash can. Don’t grind glass, plastic, metal, paper or cigarette butts. KEEP IT CLEAN: A couple of times a month, clean stubborn odors from your garbage disposal by pouring 3 to 4 tablespoons of Borax (like 20 Mule Team Borax that you’ll find in the supermarket laundry aisle) down the drain and let it sit for an hour. Without running the disposal, turn on the hot water to flush it away. Borax is a natural sink cleaner and sanitizer that effectively works on odor-causing mold and mildew that accumulate in garbage disposals. * * * Mary invites questions, comments and tips

DO THESE THINGS: Run your garbage disposal regularly. Fre* Avian veterinarians agree: One of the quent use prevents rust and corrosion, makes main health problems faced by pet parrots is obesity. Evidently, Polly wants more than sure that all parts stay moving and prevents at mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or c/o Everyday Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices just a cracker. small obstructions from accumulating. Cheapskate, 12340 Seal Beach Blvd., Suite B-416, Seal Always run a strong flow of cold water your Tidbits Beach,representative CA 90740. This immediately column will answer questions or of correctio Contact with changes *ADVERTISING It’s interesting to speculate whether before you turn it on. Cold water will cause any general interest, but letters cannot be answered individuPROOF Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320American singer, songwriter and record ally. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving. Mon., 5/22/17 5:00 p.m.. grease or oils that may get into the unit to soFinal Changes DUE: producer Kid Rock would have met with as lidify, so they can be chopped up before reaching com, a personal finance member website and the author Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours much success had he kept the name he was of “Debt-Proof Living,” released in 2014. To find out more Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. the trap. about Mary and read her past columns, please visit the given at birth, Bob Ritchie. Shade Builders Grind certain hard materials, such as Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com. *** small chicken bones and fish bones (never beef 1/8th pg. • 4c • 13x discount rate Thought for the Day: “Wear your learnor pork because they’re too large), egg shells Oct. 2 - Dec. 25, 2016 • Vol. 12: #41 - #53 COPYRIGHT 2017 CREATORS.COM John III [Jessup Autopocket, Plaza] ing, likeCoughlin your watch, in a private and very small fruit pits. Yes! These particles cre1/12th page, and do not•pull it out and Full strikeColor it merely to ate a scouring action inside the grind chamber show you have one. If you are asked13: what • May 28 - August 20, 2017 • Volume #22 - 34 that cleans the garbage disposal walls. o’clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it Cut large items into smaller pieces. Put hourly and unasked, like the watchman.” them into the garbage disposal a few at a time -- Lord Chesterfield with the cold water running instead of trying to shove a large amount in all at once. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Explaining the Windfall Elimination Provision A few weeks ago I wrote a column about something called the “government pension offset.” It is a law that essentially says this: If you get a pension from a job that was not covered by Social Security, that pension will be treated just like a Social Security retirement pension, and it will be used to offset any benefits you might be due on a spouse’s Social Security record. There is a companion law called the “windfall elimination provision,” more commonly known by its acronym, WEP, which usually reduces any Social Security retirement benefits earned at side jobs by folks who spent the bulk of their life working at a job that was not covered by Social Security. Most folks impacted by WEP despise the law, until they understand why it exists. To explain the reason for the law, I’ve got to start out telling you a true story. It’s the story of my neighbor Frank and his maid, Maria. They are both 66 years old. Frank is a retired mid-level manager with our local utility company. He gets a high Social Security benefit -- about $2,400. Maria is divorced and has worked all of her life at low-paying jobs. She continues to work to supplement her meager $1,150 per month Social Security check. Even though Maria gets a much smaller Social Security benefit than Frank, she might find some comfort knowing that she is getting a better deal out of the program than he is. Or to put that another way, Maria’s Social Security check represents a higher percentage of her lifetime earnings than Frank’s monthly benefit. And that has always been one of the basic tenets of the Social Security program: to raise the standard of living of lower-income workers in retirement. That is accomplished via a benefit formula structured to give poor people a better deal than their wealthier counterparts. They don’t get higher benefits. After all, Frank’s monthly Social Security check is much higher than Maria’s. But when comparing the rates of return they get based on their past incomes and the taxes they paid into the system, Maria comes out ahead. I don’t have the space to get into the nitty gritty of the Social Security benefit computation formula in this column today. (I’ve done it in many past columns.) But in a nutshell, I can tell you that Maria’s $1,150 benefit represents about 90 percent of her average lifetime monthly wage. Whereas Frank’s $2,400 Social Security check is probably about 40 percent of his average monthly pre-retirement income. So poor people get a rate of return that can be up to 90 percent. Average-income people get a return rate in the 40 percent range. People with very high incomes might get around a 30 percent rate of return. And knowing that, I can now move on to a further clarification of the windfall elimination provision. To do so, I will use myself as an example. I spent the bulk of my life working for the federal government. People hired by the government after 1982 pay into Social Security just like most other people. But folks such as myself, who were hired before then, were covered by the civil service retirement system, not Social Security. And now that

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I am retired, I get a monthly civil-service pension. But I spent some time at jobs where I did pay into Social Security -- a few years before I got hired by the feds and some more years after I retired. And that includes the compensation I get for writing this column, for which I pay Social Security selfemployment taxes. I currently have about 15 years of Social Security covered employment. And that’s enough to get me a small Social Security check. (Ten years of Social Security work is the minimum.) My Social Security check isn’t breaking the government’s bank; it’s only about $175 per month. And that includes a WEP reduction, which I will explain. Had my benefit been figured using the regular Social Security formula, I would have received the same 90 percent rate of return that my neighbor’s maid is getting. Why? Because I look like a poor person to the Social Security Administration’s computers. I’ve got only 15 years of covered earnings. The Social Security benefit formula uses a 35-year base. In other words, there are 20 years of “zero” earnings on my Social Security record. That makes me look as poor as Maria, and that’s why I’d normally get the same 90 percent return rate. But let’s be honest: I’m not poor. I had a decent-paying government job most of my life that isn’t reflected in my Social Security earnings history. So I shouldn’t get the same rate of return that the system set up for lower income people. Instead, my earnings pattern is much more like my neighbor Frank’s. I should get the same rate of return (about 40 percent) as Frank gets, and for that matter, as all other average-income Americans get. And that’s what the windfall elimination provision does. When that WEP formula is applied to my Social Security computation, it gives me the roughly 40 percent return rate rather than the 90 percent rate intended for the very poorest of our citizens. It’s a law that makes perfect sense. Yet it has many teachers, police officers and other public employees who spent most of their working lives

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in jobs not covered by Social Security -- but who, like me, paid into Social Security in side jobs -- up in arms. They think they have been singled out for Social Security benefit reductions that just aren’t fair. But almost all of these folks are not lifetime low-income workers like my neighbor’s maid, Maria. She deserves the 90 percent return rate that she is getting. But if you are someone who spent your lifetime as a teacher or a police officer, or a federal government employee like me, you are simply not in the same boat as Maria. And you shouldn’t get a poor person’s Social Security return rate. You should get a rate similar to all average-income Americans -- about 40 percent. And that’s what the windfall elimination provision is all about. One final note on this topic: There are some people who divided their careers between Social Security-covered jobs and non-Social Security-covered jobs. And the WEP law recognizes that. The more years of Social Security earnings you have, the less the WEP reduction. To learn more about that, you need to read a fact sheet produced by SSA titled “Windfall Elimination Provision.” If you are reading this column online, here is a link to it: https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/ EN-05-10045.pdf. Otherwise, you can find it at http://www.socialsecurity.gov. At the bottom of the home page, click the “Publications” link. You will find the fact sheet in the “Retirement” section under “Topics.” * * * 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. COPYRIGHT 2017 CREATORS.COM

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