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states, and the flag of the United Nations. • Spanish missionaries introduced the tree to North America, and planted trees at the Mission San Diego de Alcala in 1769. While groves were cultivated at other California missions, by the mid-1800s, there were only two olive groves to be found.

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• The ancient Greeks and Romans slathered olive oil on their bodies and in their hair as part of their grooming and health rituals. Greek physician Hippocrates called olive oil “the great therapeutic.” Greek women created the first eye shadow by blending olive oil with charcoal dust. Kings were anointed with olive oil and champions of Olympic Games were crowned with coronets of olive branches and leaves. Olive oil was burned in the cauldron of the ancient Olympic Games’ “eternal flame,” a tradition that was revived at the 2004 Athens Fri., Sept. 11, 2020 Games.

• Spain leads the world today in cultivation of olives, with Italy in second place, and Greece in third. Spain’s Andalucian region produces about 75% of the world’s olives, and consequently, olive oil. Olives consist of about 20% oil, and 90% of the olives grown are used in oil’s production. One tree can produce 4.25 quarts of oil annually for centuries. The world consumes over 660,000 gallons every day. About 7.5 quarts of olives are required to produce one quart of oil.

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* Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they swim near each other. * A day on Mars lasts 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds. You’d assume therefore that there are fewer days in a Martian year than an Earth year, right? Nope -- because Mars orbits the sun more slowly than Earth, a Martian year actually comprises 687 days.

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DON’T TAKE IT PERSONALLY Losing a job can cause shame, humili* A Mickey is the smallest detectable ation and embarrassment. You may feel demovement of a mouse cursor on a screen. pressed and lose your confidence. Yes, it’s a The term was coined by computer scienvery stressful time, but don’t take it personally. Thousands and thousands of people have lost tists, who use it when programming mice their jobs in this pandemic. Don’t hibernate; be and other input devices. good to yourself. If you need it, seek emotional counseling. Let your friends and family be there * And while we’re on the subject of for you. “small,” the tiniest item ever photographed Remember time heals. This, too, will is the shadow of an atom, captured via pass. a super-high-resolution microscope by a team at Australia’s Griffith University in COLLECT YOUR BENEFITS 2012. You may have unemployment benefits, a lump-sum payout from your ex-employer, a * Out of the millions of creatures that severance package and options regarding health inhabit planet Earth, humans are one of insurance. Find out exactly what you qualify for just three species capable of laughter, the and the limitations and rules regarding each benefit. other two being chimpanzees ... and rats! The U.S. Department of Labor website (https://www.usa.gov/jobs-and-unemploy* “The Galop Infernal,” composed for an ment) has a handy list of all unemployment opera as a soundtrack to a man descendoffices in each state. Some states now allow you ing into hell, is better known to most of us to apply online or over the phone. Generally, it as “The Can-Can” song. takes two to three weeks from the time you file your claim to receive your first benefit check. * Proof that some things never change: the world’s oldest known joke is a SumeNEGOTIATE rian fart joke. Don’t be too quick to pack your things and leave. Ask for help with finding a new job. * The most expensive pizza in the world Can you set up shop in a spare office for the next will set you back a cool $12,000. Why? few weeks while you job-hunt? This gives you the use of phones, computers and other equipWell, it takes 72 hours to make, can only ment. Be sure to ask for a letter of recommendabe produced in your home by three Italian tion, too. chefs, and is topped with three types of Friday, 12/13/19 caviar, bufala mozzarella, lobster from HOARD CASH w carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices THE  Hours Norway and Cilento, and pink Australian You may be tempted to pay off debt with sea salt! t your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. your severance check or savings. Don’t do it. *** 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 Thought for the Day: “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” -- Jack Canfield

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While you’re unemployed, pay only the minimum payments required. If you’ve been prepaying your mortgage principal, pull back to only what’s required. This might be a good time to pare down and sell stuff to raise cash. SLAM THE BRAKES ON SPENDING If it’s not essential, forget it. Tell your family how and why things will be changing for a while, and outline ways everyone can participate in this time of transition. Make do. Look for every possible way you can avoid spending money. FIGURE OUT HEALTH INSURANCE Once you leave your job for any reason, you basically have five choices: -- Continue on your current group plan, and pay the premiums yourself. -- Enroll in your spouse’s plan. -- Buy individual insurance. -- Use a state-sponsored plan. -- Go without (the worst of all worlds). Many people take advantage of their employer’s COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) plan, in which you have 60 days from termination to decide whether or not to accept the benefit. If you accept it within those 60 days, you cannot be denied health insurance. If the COBRA plan is too expensive, at least consider catastrophic-only coverage, which you can research on the internet. This will only cover the big, expensive stuff, but the premium is fairly low. Every state also has a low-cost health insurance plan for children. If you have kids under 18, find out if you’re eligible. Insure Kids Now has a toll-free national number, 877-KIDS-NOW, which connects you with the program in your state. 3 TIPS TO MAKE YOU INDISPENSABLE AT YOUR JOB: No. 1: Improve Your Value Even if you believe it’s not particularly noticed or appreciated, find ways to do more than what’s expected and make yourself more available to your employer. No. 2: Project Positivity People who bring negativity to work and then use it to stir the rumor mill are more likely to wind up on the to-go list. Start thinking like your employer, and then become the employee they want to keep! No. 3: Be a Team Player Commit yourself to be cooperative, flexible and willing to go the extra mile. If you are a joy to be around because you encourage others and make them feel good about who they are, your employer will recognize you as a positive asset to the company -- and your job security goes up. * * * Mary invites you to visit her at EverydayCheapskate.com, where this column is archived complete with links and resources for all recommended products and services. Mary invites questions and comments at https://www.everydaycheapskate.com/ contact/, “Ask Mary.” Tips can be submitted at tips. everydaycheapskate.com/. This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of EverydayCheapskate.com, a frugal living blog, and the author of the book “Debt-Proof Living.” COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM

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• The metric system was invented in France in 1799. A meter was defined as one ten-millionth of the length of an imaginary line from the North Pole to the Equator as it passes through Paris (39.37 inches). Of course you're likely familiar with these elementary facts already, but we'll mention them anyway: It has also been defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red light from the isotope Krypton 86, as measured in a vacuum. Today one meter is more accurately measured as the distance travelled by light in a vacuum during 1/299,792,548 of a second.

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creates tension among neighbors. The unchecked dominance of a family dog can lead to aggression by Matilda Charles toward family members, the effects of which range © King Features Synd., Inc. from annoying to dangerous. And housebreaking problems -- one of the easiest behavioral problems to The Service Club began writing letters, solve -- most often land a dog in the shelter. and they in turn roped in Art Club members I was at the airport last year waiting to board to produce individual drawings and paintings my flight. Sitting in the boarding area across from A few months ago, I got the idea to for each nursing home resident to hang on me was a woman who was traveling with her Cavasend greeting cards to some residents of a their wall. The school Chorale group stepped lier King Charles spaniel. The dog was elegant, local nursing home who were locked down and up and are planning an outdoor concert in smart, energetic, agile and small in stature -- just not allowed to have visitors. It started small: the front lawn of each facility as sooon as the as the AKC describes. He was also extremely well a box of greeting cards and the first names of weather warms up. (At the time I'm writing this behaved, which is no accident of DNA. His good some of the residents, courtesy of the facility they practice their music on Zoom calls). And behavior has nothing to do with his breed or size. It director. The idea has, to put it mildly, expandtwo students have initiated a project which inhas everything to do with his owner -- who trained ed quite a bit. ADVERTISING volves collecting craft suppliesPROOF for the nursing her dog and never lost sight of the fact that he is, Mon., 3/15/21 home to use with the residents. indeed, a dog. Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. First there was the call from the facility Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours * * * director wanting to know if I could enlarge my What do you think -- does this sound Dog trainer Matthew “Uncle Matty” Margolis is Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. list because the residents were talking among the co-author of 18 books about dogs, a behaviorist, a populike something you can start in your own area? email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 themselves about who got cards and whoOffice: 760-320-0997 lar radio and television guest, and the host of the PBS series You can start small. All it takes is a box of “WOOF! It’s a Dog’s Life!” Read all of Uncle Matty’s columns didn’t. The ones who didn't felt left out. greeting cards, a few ideas, and some kindat www.creators.com, and visit him at www.unclematty.com. hearted helpers eager to spread some cheer. COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM “Certainly,” I said, "of course." I got * * * a longer list of names from him and bought Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally some more cards. answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her

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The Good Old Days of Social Security I’ve been writing a book for years now. It’s not going to be a bestseller, and it only has to do with Social Security in a peripheral way. It’s a history of my life, my wife’s life and our lives together (about 47 years so far). I’m writing this collection of stories for my children and grandchildren and for their children and grandchildren. Some of them, no doubt, will find it boring. But I’m sure that a few of my descendants somewhere down the road will be fascinated by it. My wife and I have been amateur genealogists for years now. We can trace our families’ histories back for many centuries. And we can tell you from experience that any kind of written family history is an absolute treasure trove. Both my wife and I had uncles who wrote journals, and we’ve learned so much by reading what they wrote down many decades ago. And the stories in those journals can be so fascinating. For example, you would be absolutely mesmerized by my Uncle Gene’s recollections of his struggles as a Marine on Iwo Jima during World War II. (He was there when they raised the flag on Mount Suribachi. He just didn’t get in the iconic picture that became one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century.) As a retired civil servant (and now a frumpy grandpa), I don’t have any earth-shaking stories like that to share. After all, I spent a good chunk of my life helping people fill out boring old government forms to file for Social Security benefits. Nobody ever took a picture of me doing that and tried to turn it into a statue or a postage stamp! But I did have interesting experiences and a little bit of fun along the way. And I thought I’d share a couple Social Security-related stories with you today. I spent a good bit of my early Social Security Administration career as what the agency called a “field representative.” While the major SSA workforce sat at desks all day and took claims from people who came into a local Social Security office, field reps went out to remote locations and set up shop for a day, usually in a senior center or some other public building in these far-flung towns. In the late 1970s, I was the field representative in the Everett, Washington, Social Security office. And our service area was interesting and varied. It ran from islands in the Puget Sound to little hamlets in the Cascade Mountains. Once a week, I would get on a ferry just outside of Everett and take a trip over to Whidbey Island. There I would go to the senior center in Langley and open up my little mini Social Security office. Inevitably, when I’d get to the senior center, there would already be 20 or 30 people waiting for me. Besides a healthy dose of senior citizens, many of my visitors were young parents (usually mothers) with little kids in tow. You may wonder what they were doing at a Social Security gathering. Well, they were there to get new Social Security numbers for youngsters, or replacement cards for themselves or older children. I purposely point this out because I frequently get emails from older readers who complain that they went to a Social Security office and found the waiting room full of younger people. And they usually say something like this to me: “No wonder Social Security has problems. You’re handing out benefits to young people and even kids!” So if you go to a Social Security office and see lots of

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younger people, please understand that probably I had ever been in. It was a three-story older Victo90% of them are there for Social Security numbers rian home surrounded by acres of open land. It was and cards. It’s the largest workload in any Social the only private home I’d ever seen with its own elevator! Security office. All these memories bring a smile to my Back to my senior center on Whidbey Is- land. I would spend the day helping young people face. I think of my time as a field representative as get Social Security cards and helping old people file the “good old days” of Social Security. The service for Social Security benefits. After spending five or we provided was phenomenal! Not only did we go six hours there, I would head back to the ferry with around to every little burg and hamlet and provide my briefcase stuffed with filled-out applications and one-on-one service to the local citizenry, but we also went to people’s homes to take care of their forms. Then, the next day, I would drive up to a Social Security business. That just doesn’t happen little Cascade Mountain hamlet called Skykomish, anymore. And I understand why it is a thing of the Washington, and start the process all over again. A couple of days later, I’d be off to another island past. It was a wonderful way to provide service to (Camano Island). It was a pretty good life. I mean, our customers. But that was 40 years ago. Today, if you’ve got to be a boring old government em- with the internet and cellphones and other modern ployee, you might as well be one who gets to drive tools, it makes no economic sense to be running andJULY house6to house. around and see fascinating places as part of the job. around from hamlet to hamlet MON., A few years later, I found myself as the field But it’s also too bad. We’ve lost a way of doing SoPlease review carefully. Double check:  Phone  Spelling  Pr business that I Number(s) think was something representative in the Social Security office in Boise, cial Security special.representative immediately with changes or corr Idaho. Boise’s service area was huge -- aContact big chunk your Tidbits * * * of south and central Idaho. There I found myself Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760taking overnight trips to distant locales. For ex- If you have a Social Security question, Tom Marample, I would leave Boise on a Tuesday morning, genau has a book with all the answers. It’s called “Social drive north 100 miles or so and set up shop for the Security: Simple and Smart.” You can find the book at rest of the morning in Cascade, Idaho. After taking creators.com/books. Or look for it on Amazon or other book outlets. To find out more about Tom Margenau care of the local townsfolk there, I would continue Richard & Repair andBigley to readComputer past columnsServices and see features from other driving north another 100 miles or so to the resort 1/16 pgCreators BW 26x Disc. writers and cartoonists, visit the CreSyndicate town of McCall, Idaho, with a majestic mountain at www.creators.com. July 12,ators 2020Syndicate Vol. 16website - No. 29 setting right on an alpine lake. I’d check into a hotel COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM for the night. Then, on Wednesday morning, I would set ADVERTISING PROOF up my mini Social Security office, but not in a se- Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. nior center. Instead, it was in a meeting roomPlease of areview carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hou deluxe lakeside resort. Gosh, if you have to take Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes  Windows and Mac or corrections. Social Security number applications and retirement Office: 760-320-0997 email:valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 Desktop and Laptop Service claims, you might as well do so in a lakeside re System installs & Upgrades  Printer & Router Setup sort with windows looking out over snow-covered  System Optimization NOW mountains! RATED #1  Resolve Browser Issues IN THE Sometimes, field representatives evencarefully. Double Please review check: Microsoft Phone Number(s)  Spelling  P Office Training COACHELLA VALLEY! made “house calls.” One time, I was sent to a home  iPhone & iPad Assistance Contact representative immediately with changes or co outside of Emmett, Idaho. I was there to take ayour Tidbits I’ve retired after more than 30 years corporate software experience. Now I’m ready to use 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 76 retirement claim from a guy who was Office: temporarmy professional expertise to help nice folks like ily housebound in a wheelchair following a skiing you solve your computer problems. Call me! -- Richard Bigley accident. He was a retired senior pilot for United Hawk’s Landing c/o Cindy Melland Airlines. And he lived in one of the biggest homes Richard Bigley

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ANSWER: Most people do NOT need to do anything about ear wax, and many traditional home remedies are unsafe. The old advice to never put anything smaller than your elbow in by Freddie Groves your ear is a good one for most people. Candling is unsafe and ineffective. Anything sharp is very M.D. dangerous. For someone with recurrent ear wax, especially with a hearing aid, one approach is to use a cotton ball dipped in mineral oil and place If you’ve been waiting for copies of military in the external ear canal for 10-20 minutes once records so you can apply for benefits from the Dea week. This can be followed by a gentle rinse DEAR DR. ROACH: Your recent article with warm water using a rubber bulb syringe. partment of Veterans Affairs, you’ve likely been on statins/strokes piqued my interest since The cotton ball treatment can be used to prevent waiting for a long time. Unfortunately, your wait you mentioned that statins might cause hemsymptoms as well as to treat mild cases. might continue, depending on the reason for your orrhagic strokes. My husband had a hemor Another option is the use of an ear wax request. rhagic stroke in 2014, cause unknown. The removing agent, such as carbamide peroxide. Due to COVID, the National Personnel ReAd Proof: stroke caused aphasia and seizures. He was These can be irritating and should not be used cords Center is closed, with a 10% staffing level and prescribed Crestor 10mg and then increased John Cuddihy - Flags “A” Flying routinely -- only for symptoms. a backlog of half a million records requests. Most it to 20mg. His calcium score is very high. If you get relief a few days of Bizdon’t Card, BW, after 26x rate of the 60 million older records are on paper, so they He also had an ischemic stroke in Feb- home treatment, you’ll need to have your clinimust be accessed and touched by humans. 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how much your benefits will be reduced by taking early payments or increased by delaying them. In the meantime, here’s the rundown of when most people start receiving retirement benefits (according to 2019 SSA statistics), and how signing up at each age impacts your payout.

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The Most and Least Popular Ages to Claim Social Security DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: Can you tell me how much your claiming age affects your Social Security benefits? I would also like to know what the most popular ages are that people start taking their retirement benefits. -- Nearing Retirement

Age 62: This is the earliest you can sign up for Social Security and the most popular age. Around 34 percent of women and 31 percent of men signed up for Social Security at 62. But if you sign up at this age, you’ll get 25 percent smaller Social Security payments if your FRA is 66, and 30 percent lower payments if your FRA is 67.

payments starting at age 67. Baby boomers born before 1955 will get an 8 percent increase if they wait to claim their benefits at 67. Less than 4 percent of men and 3 percent of women start their benefits at this age. Age 68: Only about 2 percent of workers start claiming their retirement benefits at 68. Those with an FRA of 66 will get 16 percent more if they claim Social Security payments at age 68, while those with an FRA of 67 will get 8 percent increase. Age 69: Less than 2 percent of workers start claiming their retirement benefits at this age. Those with an FRA of 66 will get a 24 percent boost in their benefit by waiting to 69. While those with an FRA of 67 will increase their benefits by 16 percent.

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THE OLIVE TREE

• The wood of the olive tree is prized by woodworkers worldwide. It’s a very hard, dense, and durable wood, and contains interesting vivid grain patterns. It is an excellent wood for carving, and its high density makes it extremely resistant to moisture. Because the tree is highly valued for its fruit, is relatively small in size and grows slowly, olive wood is not abundantly available, making its products expensive. It’s used in fine furniture, carved bowls, cutting boards, and other decorative items. ⁫

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