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Point oyster, they are all the same species, but named after the locations where they have been harvested.

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ity (i.e. cardiovascular). -- J.P. ANSWER: This is a confusing subject, because the theory (that lowering cholesterol protects your heart) and the evidence (that it actually works) don’t exactly align. High cholesterol certainly is associated with a higher likelihood of heart blockages, which can lead to heart attack and death. However, not all treatments that lower cholesterol reduce risk of heart attack.

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Coming to a billboard near you: ChooseVA. The Department of Veterans Affairs has just started a campaign to persuade veterans to make use of all the services and benefits it provides. It’s also aimed at attracting employees. DEAR DR. ROACH: Do you prescribe The VA is using as the backbone of its vitamins or treatments to enhance the immessage the results of a new RAND study that found mune system? -- C.N. the VA provides “some of the highest quality care ANSWER: I do not. In my opinion, a and benefits available anywhere.” The campaign healthy diet makes a deficiency of a vitamin or will start on social and digital media before going mineral severe enough to weaken the immune over to traditional media like newspapers and system unlikely. Stress reduction (through many broadcast. Here’s what the messages will include: On the other hand, ezetimibe (Zetia) retechniques) and good sleep are more important * VA benefits include home loans, women’s duces cholesterol, but like most nonstatin drugs than supplements. health, PTSD help, rehab and mental-health to treat high cholesterol, it has not been proven services. People think that a daily vitamin and to reduce heart disease risk. It tends to have * Working for the VA will help give back to mineral supplement is like an insurance policy few side effects and probably is not harmful. But those who have served. against a good diet. However, many studies have you are correct that it is expensive, and like all * They’ll use best industry practices to shown that taking vitamins does not, in general, medications, it can possibly cause harm. Beattract exceptional employees (including veterans). lead to improvements in prevention of disease, ing conservative about medication, I very rarely According to the RAND study, the VA is including heart disease, cancer or infections. So prescribe it. Studies are ongoing, and I will readsimilar to or better than civilian care, but there’s I would be much more likely to recommend a dress this topic when there is more evidence. a wide variation across the country in individual better diet (especially in the fresh fruits and veg* * * facilities. Some of the variation might be because etables) than I would a supplement. Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer some facilities have older or sicker patients. Some individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to facilities don’t provide the same level of care as Many adults have not gotten all the vacToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order others. The VA needs improvement to be sure all cines that are recommended, and these are a health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good veterans at all facilities receive high-quality care. Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. huge benefit to your immune system for those The VA doesn’t rank well for readmissions or for specific bacteria and viruses. (c) 2018 North America Synd., Inc. pain management. *** To read the whole RAND study, go to www. rand.org and search for VA health system. DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 81-year-old If you want to take a closer look at the male in generally good health. I am maybe ChoseVA program, go online to www.choose. 10 pounds overweight. I have had no heart va.gov. You’ll find links to all the benefits, including attacks or cardiac symptoms. I walk on the health care and employment opportunities. If you treadmill for exercise. want to see the status of your benefits application Please review carefully. 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Also, find out if you are eligible for “Extra Help” which helps Medicare Part D beneficiaries Supplies and medications: with their medication expenses. Visit SSA.gov/ Medicare Part B covers 80 percent of prescriptionhelp or call Social Security (800the cost of glucose monitors, test strips (100 772-1213) to learn more. per month if you use insulin, or 33 per month if *** you don’t), lancets, external insulin pumps and Send your senior questions to: Savvy insulin (if you use a pump), after you’ve met your Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC deductible. diabetes.

-- by Jim Miller

How Medicare Covers Diabetes DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: Can you tell me how well Medicare covers diabetes? I am 66 and was recently told by my doctor that I have pre-diabetes. If this condition progresses to full-fledged diabetes what coverage can I expect to get from Medicare? --Recently Retired

If, however, you inject insulin with a syringe, Medicare’s Part D prescription drug benefit will help pay your insulin costs and the supplies needed to inject it – if you have a plan. Part D plans also cover most other diabetic medications too. You’ll need to check your plan for coverage details.

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We have three more months to go. “Is my husband insane? Am I being selfish and overprotective of our dog? Is either of us right? Or is there no right or wrong here?”

Nutrition therapy: Medicare will pick up the entire tab for medical nutrition therapy, which teaches you how to adjust your diet so you can better manage your condition. You’ll need a doctor’s referral to get this service.

Let’s be clear: There is most definitely a right and wrong here. Wrong: “Making her go” despite the fact Dear Recently,: Medicare actually prothat she is gravely ill and in pain. While it’s nice that vides a wide range of coverage to help benefithe wife is considerate of the possibility of injury to ciaries who have diabetes, as well as those who Foot care: one of the seniors at the care facility, it’d be nicer are at risk of getting it. But they don’t cover ev Since foot problems are common still if she would insist on equal consideration of the erything. Here’s a breakdown of what Medicare among diabetics, Medicare covers 80 percent of dog’s care and comfort in her final weeks. covers when it comes to diabetes services and foot exams every six months for diabetics with The husband’s argument is akin to forcing supplies along with some other tips that can help diabetes-related nerve damage. They will also a terminally ill patient with a chronic pain disease to you save on your personal expenses. help pay for therapeutic shoes or inserts as long complete a 10K simply because they had signed up. as your podiatrist prescribes them. Screenings: “Insane” isn’t quite the word. “UnconIf you have pre-diabetes or some other health Eye exams: scionable” works, though. Or even “inhumane” or conditions that put you at risk of getting diabetes Because diabetes increases the risks of “ridiculously out of touch with the real issue.” – such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol getting glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, 80 The right thing to do would be to give this and triglycerides, are overweight, or have a fampercent of dilated medical eye exams are covwonderful dog the respect she has earned and ily history of diabetes – Medicare Part B (medical ered each year, but eye refractions for glasses allow her a comfortable and peaceful retirement -insurance) will pay 100 percent of the cost of up are not. both from the job and from her painful world. Any to two diabetes screenings every year. one of us would want the same for ourselves. And For more information, see “Medicare’s Doctor’s services: I’d bet every one of those seniors she’s brought so Coverage of Diabetes Supplies & Services” onPlease review carefully. 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the mark that is on the back of it. I purchased it many years ago from a resale shop. Could you please tell me if my ashtray has any value? Hyalyn Pottery Pottery was located in Hickory, North Carolina.

by Anne McCollam

Authenticity Is in the Details Q:

Enclosed is a picture of Roseville vase that I have. Marked on the bottom is the name “Roseville.” It is about 7 inches tall and in perfect condition. The flowers are in relief, and the ver y dark background has a textured finish. A friend who is a collector told me the pattern is “Jonquil.” Does my vase have any value?

Roseville Pottery was founded in 1890 in Roseville, Ohio. It moved to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1898. The “Jonquil” pottery line was introduced in 1931.The collection can be distinguished by the textured, mottled body in muddy brown that shades to green. The line consisted of vases, candlesticks, bowl, jardinieres, baskets, plantRoseville Pottery was founded ers and console in 1890. sets with glazed interiors. Jonquil pottery pieces were not marked but did have silver foil labels. Having said that, because your vase is marked, it is likely fake. There are several clues that a Roseville Pottery piece is questionable: a straight letter “s” in the Roseville mark rather than a slanted one, the absence of the letters “U.S.A.” with the mark, and sloppy quality in the mold, finish and design. Authentic hand-decorated Roseville pottery can be recognized by a richly colored glaze with subtle shading and clearly defined details. Roseville Pottery closed in 1957. Many reproductions were made, especially in the 1990s. A fake Jonquil vase has no collector value. *** I have a round, black porcelain ashtray. It is 8 inches in diameter and has cork on the bottom. I have enclosed a copy of

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Hyalyn Pottery Company was founded by H. Leslie Moody and his wife, Frances Moody, in Hickory, North Carolina, in 1947. Their vision was to produce high-quality and unusual porcelain at affordable prices. H. Leslie Moody’s strength was developing innovative glazes. New designs were attributed to Frances Moody’s artistic creativity. The name “Hyalyn” was inspired by the word “hyaline,” which means “translucent.” The pottery used native white North Carolina clay, as well as clay imported from Georgia and Michigan. It produced kitchenware, ashtrays, tableware and figurines. After H. Leslie Moody passed, Frances Moody sold the pottery to Hamilton Cosco in the 1970s. It was closed in 1997. Your midcentury modern ashtray would probably be worth $25 to $50. * * *

Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, she cannot answer individual letters. To find out more about Anne McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2018 CREATORS.COM

* On Aug. 10, 1793, after more than two centuries as a royal palace, the Louvre is opened as a public museum in Paris by the French revolutionary government. Today the Louvre’s collection is one of the richest in the world, with artwork and artifacts representative of 11,000 years of human civilization and culture. * On Aug. 6, 1862, the C.S.S. Arkansas, the most feared Confederate ironclad on the Mississippi River, is blown up by her crew after suffering mechanical problems during a battle with the U.S.S. Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The ship was 165 feet long and 35 feet wide. * On Aug. 9, 1936, at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, black American track star Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal of the Games in the 4x100-meter relay. His team’s world record of 39.8 seconds stood for 20 years. * On Aug. 7, 1947, Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101day journey from Peru to an archipelago near Tahiti. Heyerdahl wanted to prove his theory that prehistoric South Americans could have colonized Polynesia by drifting on ocean currents. * On Aug. 12, 1953, less than one year after the United States tested its first hydrogen bomb, the Soviet Union detonates a 400-kiloton device in Kazakhstan. The explosive power was 30 times that of the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. * On Aug. 8, 1968, at the Republican National Convention in Miami, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew are chosen as the presidential and vice-presidential nominees for the upcoming election. In 1974 on this day, Nixon would announce his resignation as president. * On Aug. 11, 1973, “American Graffiti,” a nostalgic coming-of-age tale set in the car-centric culture of suburban California, is released in theaters across the U.S. The movie went on to become a sleeper hit. (c) 2018 Hearst Communications, Inc.

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Mono (from page page 3) China monorail transports 500,000 riders per day over 164 miles of track that wind through this sprawling and densely populated city. Operating since November 2004, the Chongqing monorail system is the largest and busiest in the world. • According to folklore, Monongy, a man-fish, lives in the Monongahela River, a 130-milelong river that flows from south to north from Fairmont, West Virginia, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Monogahela, which translates from the Native American word meaning “falling banks” or “where banks cave in and erode,” joins the Allegheny River to form the Ohio River at Pittsburgh. “Falling banks” refers to the instability of the river’s banks. • There have been numerous sightings of the Monongy dating back as far as the French and Indian War (1754 – 1763), as well as a craze from the 1930s to the 1950s, when witnesses reported weekly sightings. In 2003, a fisherman captured pictures of the sea creature, which were posted online for a time, but mysteriously taken down. Certain cryptozoologists visit the Monongahela every year searching for the bizarre beast. To add to the mystery, in 1956, a B-25 World War II bomber crashed into the River, floated for a short time, then disappeared into the waters. Two of the six crewman were killed and the plane was never recovered. 

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Three Right Hands

STAN SMITH’S TENNIS CLASS

Ben Hogan had written in his Five Fundamentals book that he wished he had three right hands in his downswing, yet I see many amateurs fighting the right hand’s use in their own games. What did Hogan mean when he wanted to use his right hand so forcefully? The secret lies in the way the right hand moves from the top of the swing down into impact. The right wrist should load into a flexed position by the top of the swing. When the forward swing starts, the right wrist may even go into a more flexed position as the right elbow goes into the side of the body. The most challenging part is striking the ball with the right wrist still slightly bent. This implies the grip end is leading the clubhead into impact. When the right hand stays loaded like that, power is reserved and spent at the maximum time, thus Hogan wished he could apply the right hand’s influence three times over. He likened it’s action to throwing side arm like an infielder. Still great advice 60 years later!

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