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Cancer is the No. 1 killer of dogs. Cars are a close second.

You will likely recall the news story a few years ago of the Deegan Expressway dogs. One, the mama dog, had been hit by a car. The other, her son, was fiercely guarding his injured mother from all manner of vehicles, big-rigs, police officers and animal control units. It was quite a scene.

But the lingering question after all the drama died down: How did two dogs -- not strays -- end up loose on the Deegan Expressway?

I recently spoke with a woman who said her dog is trained but nevertheless manages to run out in the street when it gets the chance.

How does he get out, I asked.

She explained, “I open the door slowly, then put my foot out to block the dog.”

And what does the dog do, I prodded.

“He jumps over my foot.”

What a fun game for the dog! Until, that is, he ends up like mama dog out on the Deegan Expressway.

Just the other day I found out that an acquaintance of mine had adopted a shelter dog and brought him home, at which point the dog quickly got loose and ran off. He found him on side of the highway two days later. He had been hit by a car.

Unless you live on a ranch in Wyoming, a loose dog is a dog in danger -- in danger of being stolen, getting into a dogfight, being hit by a car or causing an accident. Drivers will instinctively swerve to avoid hitting a dog in the road and end up colliding with another car or skidding up onto a sidewalk and hitting a human.

It happens all the time.

Crafty canines sneak out the front door, leap out of car doors and windows, escape from the garage or through a gate in the yard -- and run straight into the street.

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Q: I keep hearing all this talk about how the COVID-19 virus is going to reduce future Social Security benefits. But I can’t figure out why. Can you explain it to me?

A: I’ll give it a shot. But before I do, let me make a couple of important points. First, if the virus affects anyone’s Social Security, it probably will be just a small cohort of people -- essentially, anyone turning 60 this year. No one else. And second, it really isn’t clear yet if even that small group of people will be affected. So, now let me explain.

It all has to do with the Social Security benefit formula. When the Social Security Administration figures your retirement benefit, they look at your entire earnings history, pull out the highest 35 years, add them up and then divide by 420 (the number of months in 35 years) to come up with your average monthly wage. Then they use a formula that gets to the “social” part of Social Security to figure your retirement benefit.

That formula is slightly different depending on the year you were born. Here is a quick example. If you were born in 1954, they take the first $856 of your average monthly wage and multiply it by 90%. Then they take the next $4,301 of your average monthly wage and multiply it by 32%. And finally, they take whatever is left over of your average monthly wage and multiply it by 15%.

Can you see the “social” angle I alluded to above? The lower your average monthly wage, the higher your Social Security benefit “rate of return” will be. If you are poor, you don’t get more money.

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But you get a better deal out of the system than still aren’t sure if the average national wage actually will go down this year. Still, that hasn’t stopped peoyour higher-paid counterparts.

OK, I can hear some of you saying, “Thanks ple from speculating about the impact of the virus

a lot for the ‘Social’ Security lesson, but how does on Social Security. And that speculation has led to the virus play into all of this?” Well, let me get into all kinds of scary stories being spread, sometimes in the mainstream media but even more so on the that.

I left out one very important part of the ben- internet -- especially in the wacky far corners of the

efit formula. I said that the SSA adds up your high- World Wide Web. For example, I’ve seen gloom est 35 years of earnings. But what I didn’t mention and doom reports that Social Security “will be deciis that each year of those earnings are indexed for mated by the virus!” And there already have been inflation. And just like the benefit computation for- bills introduced in Congress to “right this wrong.”

I am suggesting that everyone stop and mula changes for each year of birth, so, too, do the take a breath. Let’s see what happens. Let’s see if indexing factors.

For example, let’s go back to that guy who the average national wage does go down in 2020.

was born in 1954. And let’s say that 1985 was one And if it does, let’s see how much it goes down and of his highest 35 years of earnings -- and that he how much of an effect it will have on the Social Semade $35,000 that year. Before they add that into curity indexing factors. Remember, if it does hapthe computation of his average monthly wage, they pen, it only impacts people born in 1960. The rest multiply it by an indexing factor of 2.76. So, instead of you can relax. The virus has nothing to do with of $35,000, they use an inflation-adjusted amount of your Social Security checks.

And as the tagline goes in those cheesy late$96,600. And there is a different indexing factor for each year of his earnings. For example, for folks night TV commercials, “But wait, there’s more!” born in 1954, the indexing factor for their 1995 After I wrote all of the above, I did a bit of extra reearnings is 1.89. And for 2005 earnings, it’s 1.26. search and learned that the average national wage Again, there are slightly different factors for each did go down once before -- in 2009, following the 2008 economic collapse that plagued this country year of earnings.

So, where do those indexing factors come and much of the rest of the world. So that means

from? For reasons way too complicated to explain anyone who turned 60 in 2009 had smaller indexing in the limited space of this column, all I can tell factors than people who turned 60 in prior and fuyou for now is that they are based on the year ture years, and those people ended up with a slightyou turn 60. In a nutshell, they take the average ly smaller Social Security benefit than they might national wage for the whole country from the year otherwise have been due.

WAIT A MINUTE! I was born in 1949. That you turned 60 and use that as a base to figure the indexing factors for each year of earnings that are means I turned 60 in 2009. How come no one got on my bandwagon back then? Why should the 2020 in your Social Security account.

And over the years, as the average national COVID-19 crowd get all the attention and not me?

wage for the country has gone steadily up, the in- I demand equality! I demand justice! I demand resdexing factors have also crept up for each year of titution! Oh, well, I’d settle for a free banana split from Dairy Queen! birth. Let’s say Joe was the guy born in 1954. And, ADVERTISING PROOF * *6/9/20 * to repeat, he made $35,000 in 1985, but with the Tues., Final ChangesIfDUE: 5:00 p.m.. you have a Social Security question, Tom 2.76 indexing factor, they actually used $96,600 in Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours Margenau has the answer.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: It seems that eating a healthy diet with an emphasis on nuts and seeds, fruits, vegetables and grains is the best choice for anyone. It’s been welldocumented that omega-6 is inflammatory, whereas foods containing omega-3 are not.

It seems to me that we should be consuming foods that have more omega-3 in them.

The only problem is that, from my research, all nuts and seeds awith the exception of chia and flaxseeds have a much higher ratio of the omega-6 to the omega-3.

This appears to be the case with most foods, no matter which food group they are in. How can any of the healthy foods be beneficial when so much more of the “bad fats” are being ingested? -- Anon.

evidence, a 2014 review of all controlled trials published, showed that omega-6 fats are NOT inflammatory and that they DECREASE risk of heart disease compared with meat-based saturated fats.

We should be consuming both omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fats, mostly from plant sources. The data support that nuts and seeds are foods we should be eating more of, but we also should be eating good sources of omega-3, including fatty fish, the chia and flaxseeds you mentioned, as well as walnuts and canola oil. Most people have to work harder to get omega-3 oils but get plenty of omega-6. ***

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have recently started transitioning to a plant-based diet for preventative health reasons. While discussing the benefits of nuts and seeds with a dietitian, they had a disclaimer that flax seed can interfere with medications and to eat them two hours before or one hour after taking medications. I would not sit down and eat a handful of flax seeds, but now I am afraid to use them in the meals I prepare at all. Can you help me make a good decision in using them? -- J.E.

ANSWER: For people eating reasonable amounts (like a handful or two) of flax seeds as part of a meal, it is unlikely that they would interfere with medications enough to cause any ANSWER: Dietary fats are categorized significant problem, for most medications. into four groups: monounsaturated, polyunsatu There are two situations that might merit rated, saturated and trans-saturated. It is accepted that monounsaturated fats have a healthy concern: In powerful anti-clotting agents, such as Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s) flax  Spelling  Prices  Hours clopidogrel, seeds might prompt increased effect, reducing heart disease risk, while transactivity. Secondly, flax seeds may lower blood saturated fatsContact are clearly your harmful.

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Scam Pharmacist Sentenced

Most of us are locked down due to the coronavirus, but apparently the wheels of justice keep on turning.

A few months ago I wrote about a Houston pharmacist, his wife and their pal who scammed the government out of $21 million in fake pharmacy orders. The guy and his wife were caught redhanded and have now been sentenced.

Their scam was to whip up medicinal creams and gels that they would mail to injured state and federal employees, then send the bill to the government after their pal created fake prescriptions.

The Feds got them for a laundry list of charges, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks, 11 counts of health care fraud and three counts of wire fraud dating back to 2009. Many government departments were involved, including the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The pharmacist, age 75, won’t see daylight again for 10 years, and he has to pay back $12 million in cash and forfeiture. The wife, however, is somehow getting off light. She’s 68 and has to pay back pay $950,000 in restitution and forfeiture, but will serve a mere 30 days in home confinement.

How does that work, one wonders. Due to the pandemic, nobody is going out. Thirty days at home doesn’t seem like much punishment since we’re all doing that anyway. She pleaded guilty to one charge. Does that play into it, that she admitted her role? And did he get ten years because he argued against the charges and tried to pass off the medications he was sending out as marketing materials. Then again, maybe her portion of the “forfeiture” had to do with giving up that (very) upscale house in Houston.

Their accomplice is still on the lam. Anoop Kumar Chaturvedi, age 48, is a legal permanent resident from India. The government wants to find him. If you know where he is, call the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Post Office at 1-888877-7644. * * *

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DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: The coronavirus pandemic has cost me my part-time retirement job and has shrunk my measly IRA account. Are there any financial assistance programs for retirees you can refer me to? -- Needy Retiree

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Prescription drugs:

There are hundreds of programs offered through pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and charitable organizations that help lower or eliminate prescription drug costs, including the federal Low-Income Subsidy known as “Extra Help” that pays premiums, deductibles and prescription copayments for Medicare Part D beneficiaries.

Utility assistance:

There’s the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), as well as local utility companies and charitable organizations that provide assistance in lowering home heating and cooling costs.

Supplemental Security Income (SSI):

Administered by the Social Security Administration, SSI provides monthly payments to very low-income seniors, age 65 and older, as well as to those who are blind and disabled. In 2020, SSI pays up to $783 per month for a single person and up to $1,175 for couples.

In addition to these programs, there are numerous other benefits they can help you locate such as HUD housing, home weatherization assistance, tax relief, veteran’s benefits, senior transportation, respite care, free legal assistance, job training and employment and debt counseling. ***

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior. org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book.

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to Stefania, and the couple moved to America, where he became a dentist. Her sister Helena remained in Poland and became a physician.

• Do you remember who Jayne and Joan Boyd were? These twin sisters were known as the Wrigley’s Doublemint gum Twins from 1959 until 1963. They first sang the “Double your pleasure, double your fun” jingle in Wrigley’s TV and radio ads at age 21.

• Thousands of U.S. troops were entertained during World War II by the Andrews Sisters, Laverne, Maxene, and Patti. Their distinctive Dixieland swing style of music included such popular hits of the day as “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.” • They got their start in 1930 when the youngest Andrews sister was 12 and the oldest was 19 by winning a local talent contest at Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theater. The oldest sister, LaVerne, played the piano accompaniment at the Orpheum for silent film showings, trading her musical services for free dancing lessons for herself and her sisters.

• A recording agent attending the talent contest was impressed by the sisters' natural harmony and arranged for an audition. Their career as a beloved singing trio was soon launched with numerous personal appearances, radio shows and hit records. The three “Wartime Sweethearts” had more than 1,800 recorded songs to their credit as well as numerous wartime USO appearances for overseas troops as well as cameo appearances in 16 motion pictures. 

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