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--Remove the lid on the back of the toilet and set it on the floor.

--Reach into the tank (that water is clean) and close the open flapper.

--Bend down and reach behind the toilet near the floor and turn off the water supply by turning the handle clockwise.

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DISH SOAP AND HOT WATER If you don’t have a plunger, or using it didn’t clear the problem, move on to this option: --Pour about half a cup of liquid dish soap such as Blue Dawn into the toilet to help lubricate the clog and get it moving.

--While that sits and works to soften the clog (give it a few minutes), heat up a big pan of water on the stove. You want it hot but not boiling.

--Carefully pour the hot water into the toilet to chase the dish soap. Wait a couple of minutes longer, then flush.

If you want to perform this trick without leaving the bathroom, give shampoo or hand soap a try, followed by hot tap water. It can’t hurt, but chances are good that it will work, and no one will be the wiser.

BAKING SODA AND VINEGAR If you don’t have a plunger handy, this option is likely to do the trick, provided the water level in the bowl has mostly subsided, and the water supply shut-off valve is still turned off.

Head to the pantry and grab baking soda and vinegar. This can be tricky because baking soda and vinegar when combined create a powerful fizzing action that can do more than just produce an impressive amount of bubbles; it can also release even the most stubborn of drain clogs. You don’t want to go overboard, but you want to clear this clog, so follow these instructions exactly.

--Pour 1 cup of baking soda into the toilet. Wait a couple of minutes.

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“She has showed her teeth a few times, and we’re not sure how to handle it. I read that it isn’t always good to approach or discipline her when she is showing her teeth and growling because it could initiate an attack. I know that she is scared and confused. Within one week she stayed in four different houses, with all new people. We’ve had her for a week, and we’d love to keep her. We have no children, but we have nieces and nephews around often. We need to break her of these aggressive behaviors or we will not be able to run the risk of her hurting a child.

“She is a good dog -- excellent when playing fetch, gives up the ball or toy every time. However, she gets aggressive with some of her toys when indoors. We gave her a pig’s ear last night and she got extremely aggressive. Every time we moved, she growled and showed her teeth -- even when we were nowhere near her. She came out of it, but again she was nervous for the rest of the night.”

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I suppose it’s normal for husbands to give some extra thought to getting something for their wives around Valentine’s Day. And if my emails are any indication, these guys aren’t just thinking of getting them some flowers or candy. They are thinking about giving them spousal benefits from Social Security.

(And before I go on, let me be politically correct. I was just trying to be cute with those opening lines. I totally understand that a husband doesn’t “give” spousal benefits to his wife. The law says she is due those benefits, and the guy really has no say-so in the matter. Still, all the questions in today’s column come from husbands who are asking questions about benefits for their wives).

Q: I am 65 and retired and I’m thinking about taking my Social Security now. My wife is 67 and she gets her own Social Security benefit, but it’s much smaller than mine. If I take reduced benefits now, will that reduce what my wife is due in spousal benefits?

A: It won’t reduce what she is due in benefits while you’re alive. But that reduction you take for early retirement will carry over to any widow’s benefits she would be due if you die first. Or to put that another way, your wife’s spousal rate is based on your full retirement age benefit. But her widow’s rate is based on your reduced retirement benefit.

You didn’t give me any benefit amounts, so I will make up some numbers to give you an example of what I mean.

Let’s say your full retirement age benefit is $3,000 per month and your age 65 benefit is $2,700.

And we’ll say that your wife is currently getting $1,000 in her own retirement benefit.

So, if you take benefits now, you’ll start getting $2,700 per month. And as I said, your wife’s spousal rate is based on your FRA benefit. So, she is due 50% of $3,000, or $1,500. So, she will keep getting her $1,000 retirement benefit and she will get an extra $500 off of your record to take her total benefits up to that $1,500 level.

But if you die before she does, her widow’s rate will be based on your reduced benefit amount.

For example, if you died next year, her widow’s benefit would be $2,700 per month. So, she’d keep getting her $1,000 retirement benefit, her $500 spousal benefit would stop, but she’d start getting $1,700 in widow’s benefits to take her up to that $2,700 rate.

Q: My wife and I are both 62. I am still working. My wife isn’t. I plan to wait until my full retirement age (66 and 10 months) to start my Social Security when I will be due $3,400 per month. My wife’s FRA benefit would be $1,500 and she is due $1,100 if she takes her benefits at 62. That’s what she wants to do. But I am telling her to wait until her full retirement age when she can get half

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max into Social Security all my life. My wife has worked outside the home for only a short time and isn’t due anything on her own Social Security record. I’m not in the best of health.

I’m tr ying to figure out what to do about Social Security. My goal is to make sure my wife gets the highest widow’s benefit possible. So, what should I do?

A: As I always tell people, I’m not a financial planner. So, I can’t tell you what to do. But I can give you the Social Security numbers and let you guys decide. Let’s go over both options I’ll call “husband’s plan” and “wife’s plan.”

Husband’s Plan: Neither of you would get any Social Security benefits for about the next 5 A: Well, if your goal is just to make sure years. And then at age 66 and 10 months, you’d your wife gets the highest widow’s benefits, then start getting $3,400 per month and she’d start getting $1,500 per month of her own benefits and an you’d want to wait until 70 to file because you will extra $200 in spousal benefits to take her up to the get about 130% of your full retirement rate. And $1,700 level spousal rate she is due (half of your your wife would get the same when you die.

And just so you know, if you should die $3,400 benefit).

Wife’s Plan: your wife would start getting before reaching age 70, your wife’s widow’s rate $1,100 per month now. She’d get that for the next would be based on what you would have been due 4 years and 10 months. That’s 58 months at $1,100 at the time of death. For example, if you die at age per month or $63,800. Then when you both reach 69, your wife would get about 120% of your full rate.

But here is something you might want to full retirement age and you file for your Social Security, here is how they will figure what she will be think about. If you filed for benefits now, you’d due in spousal benefits on your record. They will probably get about $3,345. (You said you’ve paid take her full retirement rate, or $1,500 and subtract the maximum amount into Social Security all your that from one half of your full retirement rate, or life and that is the current maximum full retirement $1,700 ($3,400 divided by 2 equals $1,700). The dif- age benefit.) And at age 62, your wife would be ference, or $200, will be added to her reduced re- due about 30% of that, or about $1,000 per month. tirement benefit. So, your wife would start getting So combined, you’d be due $4,345. Between now $1,300 per month when you reach full retirement and age 70, you would get about 42 Social Security checks. That’s a total of $182,490 you’d be throwing age.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I was recently Don’t miss the VA Mobile Apps link. That’s worked up for an autoimmune disease that American Veterans (AMVETS) Post 66 provides free where you can get your Video Connect app for now seems to be osteoarthritis. I was placed transportation by van Monday thru Friday to the VA iOS, web or Android. Note that AT&T, SafeLink on 10 mg of prednisone for 14 days with Hospital in Loma Linda for Coachella Valley veterans.

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I am sending you a photo of an antique feather wreath that was a gift to me from my aunt in 1947. It is in the original mahogany wood, shadow box and the overall measurements are approximately 28 inches by 26 inches. Each feather was hand cut and varies in color from beige to white. Silk ribbon, rather than the floral tape that is used today, was used to bind the feather grouping. The olive green velvet background is not the original. It was replaced in 1954 due to extensive damage to the original.

I would like to sell my wreath, since my children do not want it. Any suggestions that you have will be appreciated.

A: Federal Glass Co. made your red glassware. They were located in Columbus, Ohio, from 1900 to 1980. During the Great Depression, glassware and dinnerware were given away by theatres and merchants as premiums. They were incentives to draw people back to theatres and stores.

Red Depression glassware usually sells for $15 to $30 for each piece. *** Q: I own a 1938 cobalt blue glass pitcher that stands over 4 inches tall. On the side of the pitcher is a picture of Shirley Temple. She is wearing a striped blouse under a jacket. Her name is written across her blouse.

It is in mint condition.

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They, too, were premiums and were given away with cereal. Hazel Atlas Glass Co. made your set from 1934 to 1942.

Your pitcher would probably be worth $140 to $170.

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Feather wreaths were created by Victorian ladies to decorate their homes.

A: Creating feather wreaths, as well as hair wreaths, was a popular craft in the Victorian era, from around 1860 to the 1880s. Ladies would gather feathers and arrange them in round or oval wreaths and showcase them in elegant shadowboxes. Although some were decorative, some were mourning wreaths made to commemorate the death of a family member.

Similar wreaths have been seen selling on eBay in the range of $500 to $700. *** Q: This mark is on a set of red glassware that belonged to my mother. There are 6 tumblers and 6 dessert plates. They are decorated with etched flowers and leaves. My mother told me she collected the set in the 1940s. She said movie theatres gave a piece

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• Mustard and wasabi aren’t spicy until they are crushed. When the plant’s cells are damaged, two otherwise harmless components mix and produce the compound responsible for the familiar pungent taste.

• Earth has more than 60,000 known tree species.

Trees are the longest-living organisms on the planet.

• Because of the Amazon rain forest, Brazil has the greatest biodiversity of any country on earth with more than 55,000 known species of plants, many of which are not found anywhere else.

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The golf swing can become bogged down into angles, forces, planes, degrees, and a myriad of other technical elements. Unfortunately, most golfers can’t relate to the engineering language of golf instruction that is becoming popular of late. Junior golfers and golf “athletes” work better off of images that they have used in the past, or can easily imitate.

The right arm in the golf swing most simulates the throwing action seen in many sports. The arm floats away from the body into a folded position at the top of the windup, with the wrist flexed in preparation to throw. No athlete has the arm glued to the body, nor the wrist curled (like making a muscle).

By practicing the common throwing position with a ball or golf club (one handed), you’ll soon achieve the natural, powerful position that many top golfers achieve. Jack Nicklaus was criticized in his prime of having a “flying elbow” yet he just didn’t try to glue his elbow to his body. Rather than thinking about angles or degrees, simply float your right arm into its best throwing position at the top JasonJenkins Jenkinswas wasaa16-year 16-yearmember memberof of the the Jim Jim McLean Jason McLean Golf Golf School was one School teaching teaching staff staff. and He was one of of GOLF GOLF Magazine’s Magazine’s Top Top 100 100 Teacher Nominees 1999-2010 1999-2010.and He has was been named one of theofGolf Teacher Nominees named one the Digest Top Teachers in California in 2011.

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