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October 23, 2015 Vol. 119 No. 43 VOL. 119 - NO. 43 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, OCTOBER 23, 2015 $.35 A COPY Candidates for MUNICIPAL ELECTION Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015 Absentee Ballot Application and Voting Deadline: Monday, November 2nd, 2015 at 12 Noon ~ Councilor At-Large ~ ~ Councilor ~ Michael F. Flaherty Ayanna S. Pressley Annissa Essaibi-George Frank Baker Donnie Palmer Andrea Joy Campbell Charles Calvin Yancey District 3 District 3 District 4 District 4 Michelle Wu Stephen J. Murphy Timothy P. McCarthy Jean-Claude Sanon Tito Jackson Charles L. Clemons, Jr. District 5 District 5 District 7 District 7 News Briefs by Sal Giarratani Quote to Note “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Christopher Columbus Breakdown of Law & Order? Methinks the Republican Establishment on Capitol Salvatore LaMattina Bill Linehan Matt O’Malley Josh Zakim Mark S Ciommo Hill must be watching too many Law & Order repeats District 1 District 2 District 6 District 8 District 9 on cable TV, as I read the reaction of a Republican congressman seemingly attacking the House Freedom Caucus, a.k.a. Tea Party Republicans for pushing U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy out of the Speaker’s race. This Law Does Not Provide for a Social Security congressman called it all a “breakdown of law and order.” Apparently, those running the show don’t like Cost-of-Living Adjustment for 2016 getting one-upped. They must think in GOP Divine Right, huh? With consumer prices down 2015. Therefore, under existing 70 percent of Social Security Loco for Trump? over the past year, monthly law, there can be no COLA in beneficiaries from paying a Social Security and Supplemen- 2016. higher Part B premium, in It appears that to the bewilderment of the progres- tal Security Income (SSI) Other adjustments that would order to avoid reducing their net sive left, Donald Trump has started picking up benefits for nearly 65 million normally take effect based on Social Security benefit. Those support in the legal immigrant communities across the Americans will not automati- changes in the national average not protected include higher country, just as he promised he would back when he cally increase in 2016. wage index also will not take income beneficiaries subject to first announced his candidacy. Apparently, legal immi- The Social Security Act pro- effect in January 2016. Since an income-adjusted Part B pre- grants see the threat to the livelihoods. vides for an automatic increase there is no COLA, the statute mium and beneficiaries newly So, it is Viva Donald Trump and maybe not so viva in Social Security and SSI ben- also prohibits a change in the entitled to Part B in 2016. In for Jebetto in English or Spanish. efits if there is an increase in maximum amount of earnings addition, beneficiaries who have Hit Piece on Trump from NY Slimes inflation as measured by the subject to the Social Security their Medicare Part B premiums The NY Times recently did a hit piece on Donald Consumer Price Index for Urban tax, as well as the retirement paid by state medical assistance Trump, looking into his business career and into his Wage Earners and Clerical earnings test exempt amounts. programs will see no change personal life. I wonder when the NY Times will do its hit Workers (CPI-W). The period of These amounts will remain in their Social Security benefit. piece on Hillary Rotten Clinton. consideration includes the third unchanged in 2016. The state will be required to pay A Bipartisan Bill All Should Support quarter of the last year and a The Department of Health and any Medicare Part B premium Recently, I read an op-ed piece in the NY Times by cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) Human Services has not yet increase. U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-PA, and a piece of legislation was made to the third quarter announced Medicare premium Information about Medicare he has been pushing on Capitol Hill called the Helping of the current year. As determined changes for 2016. Should there changes for 2016, when avail- Families in Mental Health Crisis Act. I thought this by the Bureau of Labor Statis- be an increase in the Medicare able, will be found at www. (Continued on Page 14) tics, there was no increase in the Part B premium, the law con- medicare.gov. CPI-W from the third quarter of tains a “hold harmless” provi- For additional information, go 2014 to the third quarter of sion that protects approximately to www.socialsecurity.gov/cola. THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE HAS MOVED TO 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, OCTOBER 23, 2015 Simple TIMES . by Girard A. Plante Recently, I strolled inside my early in the nineteenth century, neighborhood grocery a block to take a portion of lime juice in from my home. It’s a cozy cor- their brandy and rum.” Potatoes THE TEMPLE OF VESTA ner spot in a village setting that also cured scurvy, but had to be brings in local folks, laborers of cooked daily. (The Best Little Virgin House in Old Rome) all manner, and college stu- Scurvy even consumed people Last week we dis- There were at least dents. The issues of the day are on land after years recogniz- cussed the origin of the five successive temples discussed and debated there. ing that bacteria plays a direct sacrificial fire, the that were built in Rome The discussion already in full role in onset of the hideous candle-lit vigil, and the to honor the goddess throttle was immigration. And illness. Again, the scoop from eternal flame. This week Vesta. They all adhered scurvy. encyclopedia.com: “At the end of we continue with a re- to the same style of ar- Years have passed since I last the nineteenth century, it minder that the sacred chitecture. It was always heard the word uttered in jun- became a practice in some cit- fire, the source of all life a small circular edifice ior high. Listening to three pa- ies to sterilize cows’ milk. and power in ancient with a domed roof that trons argue whether scurvy Children’s deaths from summer Rome, was kept alive in was supported on col- would be brought into America diarrhea were reduced greatly as a structure known as the umns. This design was by migrants from a few nations a result of this practice.” Scurvy Temple of Vesta. It was thought to typify the at war in our chaotic world, I struck anyway as the sterilizing constantly tended on by round earth and the held back instead of jumping in. process killed Vitamin C. New a group of virgin priest- vaulted sky. The interior Most patrons add her or his two remedies retain Vitamin C and esses that were called contained a low circu- cents. Because I thought it save potatoes from rot. Vestals (Latin, Virgines lar altar, upon which impossible that scurvy exists There you have it. A brief over- Vestales). They resided burned the perpetual anywhere in the 21st century, I view of the damage to the body near the temple in the fire. The maintenance of knew research would satisfy my and ultimate death caused by Forum Romanum. The this fire was the chief interest in knowing. scurvy and the cure-all foods whole concept goes back duty of six vestals. So I kept that thought until I that saved lives. into antiquity when the Numa’s temple stood returned home to conduct a sort Does scurvy exist today? You Vestals represented the for about three centu- of “refresher course” on the his- can find that answer in a few daughters of the primi- ries until the Gauls tory, cause and effect on its un- taps of your iPhone or Android tive tribal chief, and they burned Rome in 390 fortunate victims, and the year or laptop or tablet or desktop kept alive the State-fire B.C. It was soon rebuilt its name was born. I do know computer. in their father’s hut. The Remains of the Temple of Vesta. and the second edifice that scurvy is historically asso- My research quickly came public worship of this stood for about 50 ciated with sailors away at sea from Google at my desktop. goddess was maintained in the all temples in Rome. Tradition years. The third temple to Vesta centuries ago. Yet I never knew I thought back to how many Temple of Vesta during later tells us that the first temple to stood until the great fire under what exactly caused the disease, hours were exacted at my years, but her private worship Vesta was built by Numa Nero, and the fourth lasted for nor what scurvy did to the body junior high school’s library, was preserved in every domes- Pompilius, the successor to about 100 years. The remains once contracted. neighborhood branch library, or tic hearth. After she was recog- Romulus, and the first of the which now mark the conse- Thus, I set out on my own the glossy full-volume set of nized as a personal deity, it Sabine kings of Rome. He intro- crated site belong to the last re- voyage in this era of powerful World Book Encyclopedia at then became necessary to have duced the worship of this god- building by Septimius Severus search engines that spit out a home in researching scurvy.
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