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• The biggest consumers of artificial fragrances are industries that deal with detergents and soaps. Often, things labeled as “scent-free” have a synthetic musk-based odor added to cancel the natural smell of the product.

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odor because more particles escape. • Weightless astronauts lose much of their ability to taste and smell in space because the spread of smelly particles is surprisingly dependent upon gravity. • During the pandemic, loss of smell was one of the leading indicators of Covid-19. It’s not yet understood why Covid patients who did NOT lose their sense of smell were more likely to be hospitalized and require a ventilator. • The sense of smell ‘turns off’ during sleep, so when you “wake up and smell the coffee,” it’s not the scent of coffee that woke you up. • Volunteers were given a selection of identical t-shirts to smell. Mothers were efficient at picking out the t-shirt worn by their child, and spouses were adept at choosing the t-shirt worn by their partners. Most people could correctly guess whether a male or female had worn the shirt. • A poll found that freshly baked bread ranks #1 on the list of favorite odors, narrowly beating out roses, vanilla, lavender, and lemon. • Women have keener noses than men. Pregnant women have especially sensitive noses. • The sense of smell peaks at age 18 or 19 and then gradually declines for the rest of our lives, along with taste. • An early indicator of the onset of Alzheimer’s is the loss of the ability to smell. • A particular fragrance can instantly trigger a vivid memory from our past. For example, the smell of your grandmotherʼs attic experienced during your childhood immediately takes you back. 

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Dog Breeds (from page one) under her skirt after she was executed. • The Great Pyrenees was bred by Basque shepherds who inhabited the Pyrenees Mountains of southern France and northern Spain. The Pyrenees Mountains were named for Pyrene, a mythical Greek princess who was raped by Hercules, gave birth to a serpent, was killed by wild animals, and buried under the mountain range that now bears her name.

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Peking (now called Beijing) and is one of the oldest breeds. It’s also one of the breeds most closely related to the wolf, along with the Akita, Malamute, Basenji, and Shar-Pei.

• The Shar-Pei is known for its abundance of loose skin and deep wrinkles. The breed originated in Canton, China. The name means “sand skin” and refers to the texture of its short, rough, wrinkled coat. A Shar-Pei’s tongue is a blue-black color, making it the only other dog besides the Chow Chow that does not have a pink tongue. • The Yorkshire Terrier is a small dog breed developed during the 19th century in Yorkshire, England, specifically to catch rats in clothing mills. During World War II, a Yorkie named Smoky saved the lives of soldiers by dragging a communications cable through an eight-inchwide, 60-foot-long drainage culvert. • The Chihuahua was named for the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The word means “dry sandy place.” The Chihuahua is the smallest of all purebred dogs. A Chihuahua named Milly at 3.8 inches tall is the world’s smallest dog. At the age of two years old, she weighed one pound. In a comparison of brain to body size ratio, the Chihuahua has the largest sized brain. The Taco Bell dog’s name was Gidget and she was in many commercials (not all for Taco Bell). She died in 2009 at the age of 15. • The Bloodhound takes its name from the fact

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that it was bred to follow the trails of wounded animals. It has a keener sense of smell than any other breed and can actually detect a scent from only one or two skin cells. • “Ticking,” a sturdy white material, is used to cover and protect mattresses and pillows. The Bluetick Coonhound has a white coat underneath a network of black spots, and the overall effect makes the dog look like it’s covered by blue ticking. If a dog has a white coat with brown spots, it’s called red ticking. The Bluetick Coonhound was bred as a hunting dog in the Southeastern U.S. and was only recognized as an established independent breed in 1946.

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where the Pomeranian was bred. They were bred from the large sled dogs of the north, making them another breed closely related to wolves.

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• Because the crystals are prismatic in structure with long striated columns, some can even change color when turned at different angles.

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• Tourmaline is formed when mineral-laden water vapor, heated by hydrothermal activity, filters into cavities in surrounding rock where it cools into crystals. Later, other vapors carrying The goal of any treatment plan is different minerals may enter the same crevice, to help the patient recover to pre-accident resulting in layers ofPlease diverse review colors. carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours status. However, practices get busy, they may • There are tourmalines that encase water in fall into stagnation and fail to check-in with Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. the patient, they may assume the patient is their centers, and quartz Contact crystals your that encase getting better and not ask, or God forbid, they tourmaline. Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630

• Tourmaline crystals vary in size from microscopic to over a foot in length. The largest prisms can top out at over 220 pounds • For nearly 500 years, Brazil was the world’s leading source of tourmaline, though they were thought to be sapphires and emeralds at first. It was not recognized as a distinct mineral until 1793. Today it’s mined all over the planet, but the only two places in the U.S. where they are found is California and Maine. • Tourmaline was found in the U.S. for the first time in Paris, Maine in 1821. Since then, many

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Keep in mind that you are the boss when it comes to your auto accident case. You have the right to hire or fire any professional involved, including the doctor and/or the attorney. Obviously, that should be a last resort, but if you suspect you are not getting the proper care or representation, nothing says you must carry on. The ideal plan of action would be to first tell the doctor your concerns. If that fails, then tell the attorney. Both professionals should be accessible to you. If you have difficulty communicating with either, then consider replacing them. While this may create work for you, it will be worth your while. Auto accidents can cause headaches – literally and figuratively – but it’s your health on the line. You would be wise to find the right team to handle your case, so you can get back to living your life to the fullest. Call my office if you need help with this type of situation.

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Filing Your Taxes on a Cellphone A recent newspaper story told of two senior women who were coaxed into an experiment e-filing their taxes either on their cellphone or tablet. E-filing apparently is becoming more and more popular, as more than 129 million people e-filed for the past tax year, and 85 million of those received faster direct deposit refunds because of it. Would I do this, e-file on a handheld electronic device? No, I would not. In all honesty, I did e-file once years ago, sending my information directly to the Internal Revenue Service with the tap of my computer send button. It was the only time in all these years of filing that something went wrong, and the IRS didn’t receive all the numbers. Some months later I received mail from them saying I owed additional taxes. Once I ran the numbers again and called them on the phone, it was clear that one entry never made it across the wires. After I sent the paper version of the tax return, all was well, but it caused grief and took time to sort out. Now I only send paper versions done on a computer where I’m more certain of the security software, hardwired to the outlet on CLIP AND SAVE

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my kitchen wall. The specific reasons I won’t use a handheld electronic device to file my taxes are these: 1) Handheld devices usually don’t have adequate security software installed on them, and if installed, it’s not familiar to the user. 2) If the device is hooked up via a home WiFi, the router connection might not be encrypted. If you don’t know the difference between WEP and WPA/WPA2, ask someone for help with your router to make sure you’re not on WEP, which can actually be cracked by someone just walking by outside. We seniors are targets in so many instances already. Be smart, and beware giving identity thieves another way to access your personal information and steal you blind. * * *

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An experiment by Robin Maria Valeri on laughter in relation to humans and the animals in their lives concluded that people who live with dogs laugh more than both people who live with cats and people who live with neither. In encouraging further exploration of the connection between dogs and laughter, Valeri writes, “Dogs are also reported to laugh and to use laughter to elicit play behavior in other dogs. Do humans recognize the laughter of their dogs? And, if yes, do they respond to their dog’s laughter with their own laughter?” If she’s asking me, the answer is a solid you bet. And I think Jane Brody would agree. Blogging for The New York Times, Brody detailed the loneliness that weighed on her four years into widowhood and her subsequent decision to “acquire a four-legged companion, rather than a Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them two-legged one.” into her column whenever possible. Send email to colum“I am now making it work with Max II, little nreply2@gmail.com. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling mischief that he is, and I am besotted,” she writes. “But perhaps the most interesting (and unpremeditated) benefit has been thewith scoreschanges of people o Contact your Tidbits representative immediately I’ve met on the street, both with and without dogs, Office: 760-320-0997 email: who stopvalleybits@msn.com to admire him and talk to me. Max hasFax definitely increased my interpersonal contacts and enhanced my social life.” To varying degrees, dogs require time and energy Double and money aren’tNumber(s) for everyone. For  Please review carefully. check:and  Phone  Spelling those who have the inclination and the resourcContact your representative withWhile changes es,Tidbits though, the benefits are invaluable. the or co c/o Melanie Thomas Property of immediately Office: 760-320-0997 valleybits@msn.com Fax: 76 companionship of a dog is not a panacea, the comAdVentureemail: Media, Inc. BZ BW 26x panionship of the right dog might be the next best October 8,thing. 2023 Vol. 19 - No. 41 Woof!

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What We Expect From Government I have been writing this column since 1997. So this will be my 27th year of helping people better understand all the intricacies of the various Social Security programs. But I was recently reminded I’ve been doing that a long longer. While cleaning out my desk, I discovered a folder of newspaper columns I wrote way back in the 1980s while working at the Social Security office in Boise, Idaho. I had forgotten about the fact that during most of the four years I worked in that office, I wrote a weekly Social Security column for the local Boise newspaper. In reviewing those columns, I learned that most of them covered the same topics I’m still writing about today. (As I’ve explained many times in this column, despite the fact that conventional wisdom has it that government rules are changing all the time, the Social Security rules and regulations we have now are essentially the same ones I was writing about in the 1980s.) But I found one column that touched on a subject I really haven’t covered too often. I think the points I made in that column I wrote in 1984 still apply today. So here is that old column:

Back in about 1975, a couple years after I was hired by the Social Security Administration to work in one of their local field offices in a small town in the farm country of central Illinois, I was assigned to clean out an office storeroom. As part of that effort, I came across a stash of yellowing public information materials: things like old pamphlets and brochures dating back to the early days of the program. There were also some dusty 16mm movie reels that contained public information films intended to be used as educational materials to supplement speeches or other presentations that SSA public affairs employees would make to various community groups and organizations. Luckily, I also found an old movie projector in this storeroom. I was pleased with that because I really wanted to watch some of the old PR films, mostly because of a fascination I had developed early in my career with the history of Social Security. But I must admit I also figured I might get a bit of a chuckle out of the old fashioned film techniques and maybe the hackneyed messages the movies would contain. I wasn’t disappointed in either case when I watched a film called “Welcome to Medicare -- 1966.” It was a movie produced by the SSA to introduce the American people to the then brand new Medicare program. It told the story of an aging farm couple from Iowa. The husband, probably in his late 60s, had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. After learning that her husband would be OK, but would require extensive hospitalization that quickly used up what little health insurance and savings they had, there was a scene in which his wife was talking to the doctors. She said something like this: “I want you to make sure Elmer gets the best care possible. And don’t worry, I’m going to go home and sell the farm so that we will be able to pay all of these hospital expenses.” And then we got to the Medicare pitch. One of the doctors tells her: “Oh you won’t have to concern yourself with that Mildred, for you see the government has a brand new program called

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Medicare and it’s going to pay most of Elmer’s bills. You’ll just have to pay a small deductible out of your own pocket and that’s all. So you’ll be able to keep the farm and once we get Elmer up and around again, he can go back to raising those fine hogs of his.” Mildred had the last line in the movie: “Thank God for the government and this wonderful new Medicare program!” Fade to black. And it just so happened that the very evening following my storeroom cleaning stint and viewing the old Medicare movie, I was watching TV at home with my wife. A commercial came on promoting a Medicare supplement plan. It featured several obviously well-to-do men playing golf. As a guy was getting ready to putt, one of his colleagues asked about his recent gall bladder surgery. “Oh, I’m doing just great,” he said, “but I tell you, I’m kind of ticked off because that darn government Medicare program stiffed me with part of the bill. Why I had to pay $100 out of my own pocket!” And that led to a pitch from one of the other golfers for the Medicare supplement plan that would have picked up those extra expenses not paid by Medicare. I know both the old movie and the TV commercial I watched were fiction. But I think their messages did reflect the tenor of the times. And here is what struck me. I was amazed how people’s expectations of their government had changed so dramatically in just ten years. In 1965, we had an old woman who was willing to sell the farm in order to pay her husband’s hospital bill. And ten years later, we had a rich guy on a golf course griping because the government was forcing him to cough up a measly hundred bucks out of his own pocket to pay for his hospital stay! So that was the column I wrote 40 years ago. What struck me then was how our expectations of government assistance had changed so much in so short a time. And as I think about the kinds of

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In addition, many seniors also take multiple medications or combinations of medications that can make them drowsy or lightheaded, which can impair judgment or affect reflexes or alertness necessary for safe driving. So, an annual physical or wellness examination and medication review is also a smart way to verify your mom’s driving safety. Take a refresher course: AARP and the American Automobile Association (AAA) both have older driver improvement courses that can help your mom brush up her driving skills and understand how to adjust for slower reflexes, weaker vision and other agerelated physical changes that can affect driving. Taking a class may also earn her a discount on her auto insurance.

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search “driving practitioner directory.” When it gets to the point that your mom’s driving isn’t safe anymore and she needs to quit, you may need to help her create a list of names and phone numbers of family, friends and local transportation services that she can call on for a ride. To find out what transportation services are available in your mom’s area contact the Eldercare Locator (800-6771116), which will direct you to her area agency on aging for assistance. * * *

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Wildflower Stories for Flower Children Q: I collect children’s books and pur-

chased this book so long ago that I don’t remember where I bought it or what I paid for it. The title is “Wild Flower Stories -- Book 1” and was written by Josie O. Gauthier. It was published by Cupples & Leon Company in New York City. The copyright date is 1918. The chapters are “Arbutus,” “Quaker Ladies,” “Violet,” “Jack-in-the-Pulpit,” “Daisy” and “Buttercup,” and each chapter explains the folklore of each wildflower. There are 30 pages. The illustrations are by the author, and there are 6 color plates. The book is a first edition, a hardcover and measures approximately 5 inches by 7 inches. Inscribed on the inside are the “Wild Flower Stories” was written words: “Flower by Josie O. Gauthier. Stories For The Little Flower Girl.” It is in excellent condition. I hope you can tell me its current value. A: Josie O. Gauthier, author and illustrator, wrote your book. She wrote a series of four books about flowers for children in 1918. Cupples & Leon Company published children’s books and first-year books for new mothers to record their babies’ growth and events. The color plates reflect the Arts and Crafts movement in style and design. The original 1918 price was 75 cents. Your book would probably fetch $40 to $75 in an antiques shop. * * * Q: This mark is on the bottom of a cookie jar that I bought last summer at a yard sale. The mark also includes the num-

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ber “317.” The cookie jar was inspired by the nurser y rhyme, “Hey Diddle, Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle.” The container is a yellow moon with a blue base and has a cow on top that ser ves as the handle for the lid. It also has a dish and spoon running away, and a cat that is playing a fiddle. It is in mint condition. I paid $10 for it. Is my cookie jar antique or “junque,” and did I pay too much for it? Q: Your cookie jar is not old enough to be an antique; however, neither is it “junque.” Robinson Robinson Ransbottom Ransbottom Pottery made made cookie jars in the your cookie jar. It’s been in 1940s to the 1960s. business since 1901 in Roseville, Ohio. It made around 25 different cookie jars from the 1940s to the 1960s. A few years ago, cookie jars were all the rage, and prices skyrocketed. Today their values are more realistic. Your circa 1950s “Cow Jumped Over the Moon” cookie jar would probably be worth $150 to $300. *** Q: I have an old stoneware jug. Round and 8 inches in diameter, it has a wooden handle and its original stopper. “The Adaptable Hot Water Bottle and Bed Warmer” is the phrase marked on the front. What can you tell me about my jug?

A: Bed warmers have been used for hundreds of years. Even with the advent of central heating, they have remained popular. Your bed warmer was made by the Old Fulham Pottery, which was founded in the late 1600s in England. A word of caution: never use very hot water without first gradually warming up the jug. Your bed warmer was made around 1900 and would probably sell for $150 to $200 in an antiques shop. * * *

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* On Feb. 5, 1922, DeWitt and Lila Wallace self-published and marketed the first Reader’s Digest magazine, designed to provide abridged articles on a wide variety of subjects for easy reading. It eventually gained a circulation of more than 10 million copies in the U.S. and is still believed to be the best-selling consumer magazine in the country. * On Feb. 6, 1911, Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois. Reagan spent 30 years as an entertainer in radio, film and television before winning the California governor’s seat in 1966. Elected as America’s 40th president in 1980, he survived an assassination attempt and became the most popular president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. * On Feb. 7, 1301, King Edward I of England gave his son Edward (later King Edward II) the title of Prince of Wales. Edward I had conquered Wales and ordered the execution of David III, the last native Prince of Wales, in 1283. To this day the title “Prince of Wales” is reserved exclusively for the heir apparent to the British throne. * On Feb. 8, 1983, a 5-year-old thoroughbred stallion named Shergar was stolen from a stud farm owned by the Aga Khan in County Kildare, Ireland. Worth a stunning $13.5 million and commanding stud fees of approximately $100,000, the animal was never seen again. No ransom was paid and the case was never solved. * On Feb. 9, 2008, Turkey’s parliament approved two constitutional amendments easing the ban on women wearing Islamic headscarves in universities. While the government claimed the ban would result in many girls being denied an education, the secular establishment saw it as a step in allowing a more prominent Islamic influence on the state. * On Feb. 10, 1942, Glenn Miller became the first artist to win a gold record award, for his single “Chattanooga Choo Choo.” The tune was featured in the 1941 movie “Sun Valley Serenade” and inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996. * On Feb. 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from a South African prison after serving 27 years of a life sentence on charges of attempting to overthrow the apartheid government. Four years later, he was elected president in the country’s first all-race elections. (c) 2024 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Dog Breeds from page 3 been around since the 14th century. Today there are 25 different types of Spaniels. One English breed was developed specifically for tracking woodcocks. These dogs are now known as Cocker Spaniels. Springer Spaniels were named for their ability to flush or “spring” game birds. King Charles Spaniels became popular due to their association with King Charles II of England, who ruled in the 1600s and had a fondness for the breed. • The story goes that the Chinese word “tsa” means “mix” and is pronounced “chow” as in “chow mein” with “mein” meaning “noodles.” The word “chow” also came to mean a meal, being a mix of food dishes. When dock workers were unloading ships laden with all sorts of Chinese goods, they referred to the cargo as “chow chow” meaning a mixed up mish-mash of items. When they unloaded a breed of Chinese dogs, the dogs also were called Chow Chows. Other people claim that “chow chow” is Chinese for “puffy lion dog.” Chows are famous for having black tongues, but a Chow’s tongue is pink at birth. • Cecil Rhodes was a British politician and businessman who bought up diamond mines in southern Africa, founded the DeBeers Diamond Company, worked to develop economic progress in Africa, and subsequently had a country named after him: Rhodesia. The country has since been split up and renamed, becoming Zambia and Zimbabwe. • So what does this have to do with dogs? People working in Africa needed to protect their livestock from lions. They cross-bred European dogs with the dogs the local tribes used that were remarkable for the Mohawk-style ridge of backwards-facing hair that lined their spine. The Rhodesian Ridgeback, a type of hound with a protective nature, can keep a lion at bay. 

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