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Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Publishing at a time when female writers were almost non-existant, her works brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime. • Born at Steventon Rectory in Hampshire,

England, December 16, 1775, Jane was the seventh child of a clergyman and his wife, George and Cassandra Austen.

• Raised in a very close-knit family, Jane and her siblings were educated primarily at home by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. She later attended a boarding school to broaden her scope of learning.

• All of the siblings benefited from their father’s extensive library and the ideal intellectual atmosphere of learning that was created for them. Austen’s closest friend was her only sister, Cassandra, three years her senior.

• The first writings Jane Austen produced were comic stories, poems and plays written for herself and for her family’s amusement. These early works have been compiled and bound into three notebooks, now referred to as the Juvenilia. She wrote her first novella when she was 19, entitled Lady Susan. It was written in epistolary form, which means a compiled series of letters. It was not published until her writings had become widely popular, long after her death.

• Austen lived a quiet and mostly sequestered life with her family, but was occasionaly provided a glimpse of cosmopolitan life through her

brothers, who arranged visits with them to London and its theaters, art exhibits, and social events. Although much was to be found there in the form of culture and entertainment, Austen never felt a desire to dwell in that environment. She was never comfortable being away from her sister and the security of the family home for extended periods of time.

• Two of her brothers were in the Royal Navy and involved in the Napoleonic Wars. One brother became a clergyman like his father and another served in the militia and then worked in banking. Her brother Edward was adopted by a wealthy cousin and ultimately inherited an estate of considerable size.

• Jane and her sister would occasionally travel to visit Edward’s estate, Godmersham, in Kent, which enabled them to experience a taste of the privileged life of the wealthy. Reflections of this opulent lifestyle can be found throughout her later writings.

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1. Who released the 1960 song “Wild One”? What about the 1964 song by the same name?

2. Name the singer-songwriter who released “Take These Chains from My Heart” in 1953. Which R&B art-ist released the same song exactly 10 years later?

3. What was the song “Rasputin” about?

4. Name the group that released “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” in 1970.

5. Identify the song with the follow-ing lyric: “I recall the yellow cotton dress, Foaming like a wave on the ground beneath your knees.”

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3. Released in 1978 by Boney M, the song was a Euro disco hit about Rasputin, the adviser of Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

4. Creedence Clearwater Revival.5. “MacArthur Park,” released by

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for measuring a river’s rise and fall. It consisted of a water chamber and a pillar with vertical marks to measure the depth of the river’s water, which allowed observers to predict the likely occurance of a flood.

• One of the oldest structures in Cairo, Egypt is a unique historical Nilometer on Roda (Rawda) Island, which dates back to 715 AD and can still function today. Many Nilometers were used in ancient times along the Nile and several others have also been preserved, but the ornately designed Roda Island structure is one of the most picturesque.

• The use of Nilometers phased out after the first major irrigation projects were undertaken. The projects included dams and canals to provide effective distribution of the water for crop irrigation and human consumption.

• Other unique methods of transporting water to where it was needed were also used. One device used by early Egyptians was a shaduf. This simple mechanism was comprised of a bucket-like container made of clay or animal skins that was suspended by rope from the end of a long pole that pivoted in its center on a “Y” shaped post. The back end of the pole was weighted by stones, which served as a counterbalance once the bucket was full of water. The container was dipped into the river, raised, and then swung around to be tipped and poured, either into a carrying container or into a channel that directed it to wherever water was needed.

• Egyptians also used a waterwheel, a large spoked wheel with a series of clay pots or buckets, called Noria, attached to the outer rim. As the river’s current turned the wheel, the noria filled and were carried around to the opposite side where they were mechanically tipped to spill into an aqueduct that channeled the water to its intended destination. These

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• While the ancient Egyptians developed Noria waterwheels, they were not the only ingenious people to create unmanned devices used for the same purpose. There is historical evidence showing that the Chinese also had successfully used similar methods to capture and utilize water in this way.

• Windmills and canals played a great role in the development and progress of early civilizations. The building of canals and river dams were major contributions to effective irrigation, and these methods are still used today.

• In the 1800s there were 19.76 million acres (7,996,588 ha) worldwide that were under irrigation. Today that total area has risen to an estimated 600 million acres (242,811,385 ha).

• There are also regions that “overwater” in order to grow crops that need excessive amounts of hydration. The two crops that require the most water are cotton and rice -- two of the most essential crops for many lesser developed countries. In southern China, over 70% of agricultural land is irrigated solely for rice.

• In the arid western U.S., where dry weather is persistent, water rights and water regulations are important issues for landowners and anyone involved in growing crops. For example, strict rules are in place to keep landowners upstream from restricting water flow that could prevent downstream landowners from getting their fair share of the precious commodity.

• The earliest records showing the use of water regulations and flow control date back to King Hammurabi of Babylon in 1792 BC. The regulations established back then are still in use today. They are: 1) distribution of water proportional to acres (or hectares) farmed; 2) the farmer’s responsibilities in maintaining canals that cut through his property; and 3) the administrative responsibility of the canal for all users in its path.

• When the westward movement was underway in the U.S. the number of farmers, ranchers and town dwellers headed west increased rapidly. Along with this growth the need for irrigation of fields, farms, lawns and gardens also increased. Many patents related to sprinklers for residential watering were issued starting in the late 1800s.

• Most sprinkling and irrigation is used for agriculture and accounts for 70% of the total water used. In fact, 40% of the entire world’s food supply comes from irrigated land.

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● Those who study such things say it takes three apples to make one glass of apple ci-der.

● You might be surprised to learn that John Denver -- best known for singing “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” an ode to West Virginia -- was not actually from the Moun-tain State. He didn’t write the song, either. Interestingly, the two people who did write the song, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, had never been there at the time that they wrote it. They were on their way to Maryland when Danoff started writing a tune about the love-ly countryside they were driving through. West Virginia was put in because Danoff had been sent several postcards from the state and was impressed.

● Politics has always been a dirty busi-ness, with candidates through the years saying whatever was necessary to get elected. Take the 1950 senatorial campaign in Florida, for example. In the Democratic primary, incumbent Claude Pepper was be-ing challenged by George Smathers, a sit-ting congressman. Taking unfair advantage of the lack of education in some parts of the state, Smathers sent campaign materials to rural areas accusing Pepper of, among other things, having a brother who was a “practicing Homosapien” and a sister who was a “thespian.” The charge against Pep-per himself was that he had “matriculated” with young women. In a victory for sleazy politics, Smathers did, in fact, win the pri-mary.

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her popular books were written there. Today Chawton Cottage is the Jane Austen Museum, honoring her achievements and British roots.

• When Austen’s novels were first published she was not identified as the author. The publisher did not want it known that they were written by a female. After her death in July, 1817, two of her novels, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, were published together by her brother, Henry, in December of the same year. He included a “Biographical Notice,” where he identified Jane as the author of the two novels as well as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Mansfield Park.

• Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew’s A Memoir of Jane Austen caught public attention and a following of her writings gradually began to emerge.

• By the 1940s she had become widely accepted as a great English writer. Her popularity grew during the second half of the 20th century and a new appreciation of Austen’s writings launched a “Janeite” fan culture.

• Considering the great following of Jane Austen’s books, the number that were published, only six, is quite low. All of Austen’s books have been made into movies, with Pride and Prejudice by far the most popular. The famous tale has been re-made as a feature film five different times.

• The Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) has over 4,500 member affiliates in 70 regional groups in Canada and the United States. Its numerous members apparently agree with Jane’s quote from her book, Emma, “It is such a happiness when good people get together – and they always do.”

• Austen wrote about idyllic lifestyles, romance, finance, dilemmas in marriage, and wove satire throughout her stories quite frequently. She herself received only one proposal of marriage, which she first accepted, then changed her

mind the following day. She remained single all of her life.

• Austen died in Winchester, England, of an undetermined illness when she was only 41. Most of her personal life was kept private, and any biographical information is scarce. Only a few personal and family letters remain, and her sister Cassandra, to whom most of the letters were written, burned “the greater part” of the ones she kept and carefully censored the ones she didn’t destroy

• Jane Austen is buried at the cemetery at Winchester Cathedral. The memorial gravestone, written by her brother James, marks her resting place. Although the epitaph mentions the “extraordinary endowments of her mind,” it does not explictly mention her achievements as a writer. □

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CAN OPENER REBIRTH. I was ready to throw out my can opener, but decided to get my knife sharpener and work on the can opener’s cut-ting wheel. It worked like a charm. It was like having a new can opener. -- Marilyn, Wisconsin

SUNDAY, SANS ADS. I don’t start read-ing the Sunday paper until I’ve gone through it and thrown out all the ads. I don’t even look at the ads -- I just toss them. This keeps me from seeing a need I didn’t have before I got the paper. I’m no longer tempted to shop, and it has really helped curb my spending. -- Beck, EC Blog

STOP THE PASTA BOIL-OVER. To stop my pot of pasta from boiling over, I spray the insides of the pot with nonstick spray before I fill it with water. This breaks the water’s surface tension and pre-vents it from boiling up and over. -- ThriftySoul, EC Blog

DETERGENT’S LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA. I mix my generic laundry detergent with a little bit of expensive name-brand detergent. This makes my laundry detergent last longer, it cleans my clothes really well, and they smell so nice, too. -- Kay, EC Blog

PEPPERMINT REMEDY. I began having tension headaches and went in for a massage. The masseuse suggested that when I sense a head-ache coming on, to massage my neck and shoul-ders with a drop or two of peppermint oil. This has really helped. It feels great, brings a little warmth to my shoulders and neck, and most of the time gets rid of the headache. -- Georgia, Minnesota

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Agent Orange: Gagetown I’m very disappointed, and I can only imagine how Sen. Susan Collins feels. Last year, the senator from Maine asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to investigate the use of Agent Orange and other chemicals at training base Gag-etown in New Brunswick, Canada. Over the years, many American service personnel, specifically National Guard and Reserv-ists, did training at that location. Collins asked for an investigation to determine whether veterans were exposed to toxic herbicide and defoliant chemicals between 1956 and 1986. While the U.S. apparently sprayed only between 1966 and 1967, the Canadians had been spraying for decades, likely from 1956 to 2004. The Department of Health and Human Ser-vices sent Collins a letter in July 2012 saying that the CDC and ASTDR had concerns about Gagetown and would be sending away for documents from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Consumer Produce Safety Commission and the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health as part of “a thor-ough investigation” of the Agent Orange situation. The report from the CDC came back re-cently. What it actually did -- and this is what disturbs Senator Collins -- is review the 2007 Canadian report. It didn’t do its own research, and it apparently didn’t talk to medical personnel who are treating the veter-ans who have illnesses that could well be tied to the time they spent at Gagetown. The CDC’s determination: Americans who trained there “suffered no health risks from expo-sure to Agent Orange and other chemicals.” The ATSDR requested full documentation from the Canadian Forces Health Services Group, and seems to believe it got “complete reports.” I wonder if it’s checked the copies of original docu-ments at www.agentorangecanada.com.

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SEALED WITH A CLIP. I have used clothes-pins for years to close food bags and containers. I’ve also added a couple of other items that now have a dominant role in my kitchen. Rubber bands and 2-inch binder clips, purchased at the local office supply store, are durable, and between the two can handle any size package. I have wire shelving in my pantry, so I attach the binder clips to the front lip of a shelf until needed. A generous bag of rubber bands takes little space in a drawer. -- Janet, email

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Evidence Still Elusive for Fountain of Youth One day we may slow aging so much that life expectancy could increase dramatically. Will we ever find the fountain of youth, prevent aging and prolong life? Technology and scientific breakthroughs in recent years have made this elusive goal more understandable and feasible. Knowledge of the aging process and of mechanisms leading to the common diseases that occur in late life is increasing rapidly. Some scien-tists believe that someday there will be a discovery offering the promise of prolonging the quality and quantity of our lives. Recently a study published in the journal Science showed that resveratrol, an antioxidant in red wine that prolongs life in worms, flies and mice, stimulates the production of a protein called sur-tuin. This protein prevents disease by speeding up energy production in cells. The research showed that resveratrol stimulates a unique gene that leads to the increased production of surtuin. Dr. David Sinclair, the senior author of the study, stated that this research might result in the development of drugs that can prolong life and prevent disease by increasing the manufacture of surtuin. Resveratrol is only one of many com-pounds that prolongs life in animals. A hormone precursor called DHEA prolongs life in mice by stimulating the formation of hormones that prevent aging. These include growth hormones produced in the pituitary, estrogen and progesterone in females and testosterone in males. Antioxidants (of which resveratrol is one) such as Vitamin E and C prevent aging in some animal species as have numerous compounds found in blueberries.

Of all the approaches to prolonging life, the most successful has been calorie restriction. In the nematode, flies, mice, rats and even monkeys, restricting calorie intake by 30 percent prolongs average and maximum life expectancy by as much as 30 percent. These animals remain healthy, do not suffer from many age-related illnesses and die ultimately from causes simply related to “old age” (in other words, an autopsy fails to find any signifi-cant disease). Scientists have identified a number of so-called “longevity genes.” Increase the production of these genes and these strains of species have substantially longer life expectancies. This ap-proach offers the potential of manipulating female eggs or sperm in a way that guarantees longer and more disease-free life. Of course, each of these breakthroughs in prolonging life has, so far, been confirmed only in animals whose lives are remarkably different from man. They are very inbred, are identical to each other, live in sterile, highly controlled environments at a constant temperature, always eat the same food -- every aspect of their existence is rigidly controlled. Not so for man. We live in the “wild,” as it were. Our genetic profiles vary significantly, mak-ing each of us, from a research point of view, far different from each other. How we age depends on a complex interaction between the individual and his environment over time, but the best predictor of longevity is having long-lived parents. In other words, our genetic composition can predict our life expectancy and susceptibility to disease. But this is substantially modified by our diet, the stressors in our lives and our ability to cope, smoking or exposure to environmental pollut-ants, our socioeconomic status, the level of public health programs and sanitation and many other inputs. While we cannot choose our parents, we all have the capacity to live healthier lives. Eat right, exercise and learn how to cope with stress and a longer and better life will be assured. But these benefits are small compared to the dramatic pro-longation of life seen in calorically restricted mice. While some studies have shown that restricting food intake and exercise leads to positive changes in a series of blood tests that are associated with a longer and healthier life, no strategy in man cur-rently offers the prediction of living to 120 years or more. The more we learn about the aging process and the better we understand the mechanisms leading to the common diseases afflicting us, the more the promise of a fountain of youth becomes a practical reality. We may well find a magic pill that offers the hope of greater longevity and -- who knows -- even immortality. Life teaches us that nothing is ever impossible.

Dr. David Lipschitz is the author of the book “Breaking the Rules of Aging.” To find out more about Dr. David Lipschitz and read features by other Creators Syn-dicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. More information is avail-able at: www.drdavidhealth.com COPYRIGHT 2013 CREATORS.COM

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Same-Sex Marriage and Social Security -- Again As I am writing this, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases involving the controversial topic of same sex marriage. This is an issue I have dis-cussed before in this column, obviously with respect to how it might impact Social Security. I decided to resurrect that column and reprint it here because the subject is so timely. So here is a question and answer I printed in that original column. And I will follow it up with some feedback I got from my readers after the col-umn ran the first time.

Q: I am a 61-year-old gay man who is about to retire. I have a 60-year-old partner. We have been together now for 38 years. I have worked all my life. My partner has spent most of his life as a stay-at-home husband and fa-ther. (Yes, we raised a son and daughter, both of whom are now very successful.) I really en-joy your column and have learned a lot from it. But I have never seen a column in which you have discussed Social Security issues that im-pact gays and lesbians, especially with respect to benefits for spouses. What can you tell us about this?

A: Frankly, there isn’t much to tell you that doesn’t apply to everyone else. In almost all re-spects, Social Security is the same for straight people and for gay people. You said you worked all your life. So you will qualify for reduced Social Security retire-ment benefits when you turn 62. Or you can choose to wait until 66 to get your full rate. Or you can even wait until age 70 to retire, at which point you would get your full benefit plus a 32 percent delayed retire-ment bonus. But there is a huge difference for gays and lesbians when it comes to spousal benefits. There aren’t any! I am used to telling people that Social Secu-rity follows state law when it comes to marital rela-tionships. In other words, if your state says you are legally married, then Social Security will consider you legally married. Of course, all states recognize routine marriages between a man and woman. But this rule becomes an especially important issue for people involved in “common law” relationships. There are only a few states that recognize common law marriages, so there are only a few states where people in such relationships will qualify for spousal benefits from Social Security. As most people know, there are also only a few states that recognize same sex marriages as being legal. So normally I would be able to tell you that if you were married in one of those states, your partner would qualify for Social Security spousal benefits on your record. As I’m sure you know, there is a federal law that trumps state laws on these matters, the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. Among other things, that law essentially says that when it comes to any kind of spousal benefit from a federal program (and So-cial Security is the biggest of all federal programs),

those benefits can only be paid if the marriage is be-tween a man and a woman. That law was passed by Congress in 1996. President Clinton signed the bill into law and has pretty much regretted that move ever since. I know I am putting my liberal stripes on dis-play here. My conservative readers will take offense at what I am saying and will send emails blasting me for my views. But I just have a hard time under-standing why the law allows a divorced spouse in a heterosexual relationship who was married for only 10 years to claim full benefits from the ex-spouse’s Social Security record -- and possibly be due benefits from another account if there was a second failed marriage that lasted 10 years. Yet the partner of the person who wrote this letter, someone who has been together as part of a couple for almost 40 years, someone who has raised two kids, can’t claim a nick-el of his partner’s Social Security benefits. As you might guess, after that column initial-ly ran I got many responses. And frankly, the replies really surprised me. Out of perhaps 200 emails that I received, only four of them took issue with what I wrote. Three of those four responses quoted Bible verses and essentially told me that my support of gay and lesbian marriage was as damnable as the “trans-gressions” committed by same-sex couples them-selves. But as I said, the majority of responses I received were quite tame. Even many folks who la-beled themselves as conservative wrote to say they thought that if a state considered a person validly married, then the federal government should respect that state’s laws and offer benefits, including Social Security spousal benefits, to the couples involved in such legal unions. I think the mood of the country is changing on this issue. In 1997, I had written another column

about same sex marriage and Social Security. And I was almost laughed off the newspaper pages. Only one or two readers wrote to say they agreed with me. But 15 years later, many more have agreed. We will soon find out if the Supreme Court is on top of the mood swing in this country. If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at [email protected]. To find out more about Tom Mar-genau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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ANSWER: Most doctors for most of the re-cent past have told their patients to go easy on salt. Official medical advisory committees composed of the most knowledgeable scientists -- The American Heart Association is one example -- have and still do recommend that our intake of salt (sodium) should be limited to 1,500 mg a day. In some instances, an intake of 2,300 mg is permitted. This is far lower than our present salt use. Most of our dietary salt comes from pro-cessed foods like pizza, meats such as corned beef (500 mg of sodium in two ounces), hot dogs (more than 500 mg of sodium in one hot dog), commer-cial soups, frozen dinners, breakfast cereals, some breads and baked goods. People have to become readers of the nutrition labels put on all foods. Reducing the intake of sodium lowers blood pressure and reduces the chances for a heart attack and stroke. I have to add that a few voices have been raised recently to champion diets with no limitations on the amount of salt. These researchers say that low-salt diets are not healthy. I am sticking with the authorities who recommend salt reduction until the majority of nutritional experts change their minds. I don’t think that’s going to happen. You included a little item on potassium. Potassium, unlike sodium, lowers blood pressure. We’re told to get 4,700 mg of it a day. It’s found in baked potatoes with skins, sweet potatoes, bananas, orange juice, milk, kidney beans, cantaloupe, avo-cado and prunes. Salt substitutes are usually potas-sium. They can be used by most people if they’re not taking blood pressure drugs like ACE inhibitors and ARBs, angiotensin-receptor blockers. The booklet on sodium and potassium dis-cusses these two minerals and their uses. To order a copy, write: Dr. Donohue -- No. 202W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. ***

Start Planning Now for Warmer Weather It was a bad winter in many parts of the country. Flooding, blizzards, wind storms -- we’ve had it all. But spring and summer are coming! We need to start planning now to take advantage of all the warmer weather we’ll get. Are you a gardener? Whether you plant flowers in pots outside your door, or have a full garden in the yard, or grow vegetables in the com-munity garden, now is the time to start planning. Check your local area for gardening classes, even if your efforts are going to be on the small scale. If you have a plot in a community garden, it often will have classes to let you know the condition of the soil this year and what additives you’ll need to apply. Those classes are where you’ll find willing volunteers to help with weeding as the season goes on, if you can’t do it all yourself. If you’re going to want to join a walking group, investigate now. In some areas, senior centers host walking tours around town or through hiking trails. For daily exercise, talk with neigh-bors and friends to see what you can put together. Check your gear: Are your walking shoes good for another year? Do you have a hat and sunglasses? Once you get a group together, brainstorm for additional activities you can do. Once-a-week croquet in the park? Bowling? Berry picking? Paint-ing birdhouses for the land trust? Baking pies for the food bank? If you live in a college town, all those stu-dents will go home for the summer and leave many of their volunteer tasks undone. Where can you pitch in? Enjoy your planning!

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: In a prior col-umn you advocated drinking a daily amount of water that would satisfy one’s thirst, not a set amount of water as some people believe. I agree with you. However, when I travel to Colorado, I am urged to drink glass after glass of water to allay the effects of altitude. Do you think this is valid advice? -- D.K.

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A: Absolutely YES. Many older seniors have learned how easy it is to learn some basics and have found a whole new world available to them. The secret is to change your attitude to: "Yes, we CAN learn!" You will be surprised to find how helpful, supportive and patient those who use their comput-ers are. Many newcomers take free classes at their library and senior centers and get help from encour-aging friends and neighbors. You will quickly experience how easy it is to become much more involved with your fam-ily through instant communication. Computers of-fer the ability to reconnect with people, make new friends with whom you have similar interests, and access website information that answers just about any question you can ask. A computer gives you the ability to become a smarter shopper and save money, it quickly teaches you many new things, allows you to share photos, lets you discuss your opinions and learn what oth-ers think, offers health and wealth advice, assists in making vacation plans, makes you laugh and some-times even does your grocery shopping! There is a whole new world out there waiting for you to join in. Your only regret will be that you did not join the club sooner! * * * Q: Our plan is that my husband and I take retirement on Dec. 31, 2015. We want to donate our snow shovel and skis to Goodwill! How should we begin our search?

A: Begin by listing your priorities. Your new life offers many options as retirement offers many options and choices. Schedule an appointment with your doctor to get your current health status and future outlook. Wealth plays a major role after retirement. Do not underestimate inflation because we appear to be headed toward higher prices for food, health care, federal and state taxes, continuing rent and associa-tion fee increases and possibly needing to help finan-

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● On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fa-tally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Con-federate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House in Vir-ginia.

● On April 8, 1916, at the Boulevard Race in Corona, Calif., an early racing car careens into a crowd of spectators, killing the driver and two others. The fatal accident helped encourage organizers to begin hold-ing races on specially built tracks instead of regular streets.

● On April 13, 1939, the heavy cruiser USS Astoria arrives in Japan under the command of Capt. Richmond Turner in an attempt to photograph the Japanese battle-ships Yamato and Musash in a pre-war re-connaissance. The Astoria was sunk during Operation Watchtower in the Solomon Is-lands in August 1942.

● On April 12, 1945, U.S. President Frank-lin Delano Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hem-orrhage in his home at Warm Springs, Ga. The only man to be elected to four terms as president of the United States, Roosevelt is remembered for his New Deal social poli-cies and his leadership during wartime.

● On April 10, 1953, the horror film “The House of Wax,” starring Vincent Price, opens at New York’s Paramount Theater. It was the first feature from a major motion-picture stu-dio to be shot using the three-dimensional, or stereoscopic, film process, and one of the first horror films to be shot in color.

● On April 9, 1962, President John F. Ken-nedy throws out the ceremonial first pitch in Washington D.C.’s new stadium. He contin-ued a long-standing tradition that began in 1910 when President William H. Taft threw out Major League Baseball’s first opening-day pitch in Washington D.C.’s old Griffith Stadium.

● On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13, the third lunar landing mission, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. After an oxygen tank exploded on the evening of April 13, however, the new mission objec-tive became to get the Apollo 13 crew home alive.



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Dinnerware Is a Bohemian Rhapsody Q: This is a photo of a service for six set of porcelain. It was given to my grandmoth-er by her sister around 1929 and then passed along to me. The set includes serving platters, bowls, egg cups, a cream pitcher and a sug-ar bowl. Each dish is decorated with stylized large pink flowers and small blue ones and green leaves. The edges and handles are embel-lished with gold. Most pieces are marked with a lion inside a heart and the words “Bohemia -- Czecho-Slovakia.” A few of the small dishes are marked simply “Germany” and the cream pitcher includes the word “Donatello.” I very much appreciate your time look-ing at my set and greatly anticipate your pos-sible response.

A: Your dinnerware was made by Bohemia Ceramic Works. They produced porcelain in Bohe-mia from 1921 to 1945. Actually, the mark represents a lion inside a scrolled letter “B.” They used the mark you provided from 1941 to 1945. The country, Czecho-Slovakia, existed from 1918 to 1945. From 1939 to 1945 it was part of Nazi Germany. In 1993, it became two separate countries, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. “Donatello” is the name of the pattern. Because a few of the pieces are marked “Germany” your set may not be as old as 1929. The value of your set would probably be $500 to $800.

Q: When my mother-in-law passed away several years ago, she left me several sets of china. One is a set of small plates. This mark is on the back of each piece. Each is decorat-ed with a different scene of a castle and trees overlooking a lake. The pattern is red against a

white background. Just in case my daughter would some-day be interested in this set, I would like to know their history, age and value.

A: Johnson Brothers made your set of plates in Staffordshire, England. Alfred, Henry, and Frederick Johnson founded their earthenware and ironstone factory in 1883. In 1968 the company be-came part of the Wedgwood Group. “Castle on the Lake” is the name of your pattern. Although the pat-tern was made in red, it was also available in blue, brown and multi-colors. Your plates would probably be worth $20 to $30 each.

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ENDANGERED SIGHTS & SOUNDS (cont’d):• How long has it been since you’ve used a

typewriter eraser? Or, if you’re younger, have you moved your belongings into a long-unused desk, only to find a strange-looking gadget with fiber-like hairs bushing out of one end? What you’ve found is a typewriter eraser. Usually shaped like a pencil, the tip was made of an especially-abrasive rubber, which was used to “erase” the typing error. The other end featured a small brush made of stiff plastic strands that was used to sweep the remnants of the erasure off the page.

• There’s no shortage of litter on the ground to-day, but thankfully, we no longer see discarded pull-tabs. The tabs on older easy-open beverage cans pulled completely off the can. People who walked in bare feet were constantly dodging these carelessly-dropped metal hazards.

• The rhythmic “beep” of the scanner is the musical accompaniment to the supermarket checkout line. But if you’ve ever wondered where the cliché of saying “ka-ching!” in re-lation to money comes from, that’s the sound that the old-style electric, not electronic, cash registers made. Cashiers of that era had to manually punch a series of buttons to ring up your purchase, followed by a smack of the “total” button with the heel of the hand.

• “Do you want your carbons?” used to be an automatic question asked by merchants after you’d signed for a credit card payment. At that time, credit card receipts were filled out by hand in triplicate, with a small piece of carbon paper inserted between each sheet. It didn’t take long for thieves to realize they could retrieve the used carbons from the trash and steal valuable credit card information. Once that scam gained popularity, waiters and cashiers regularly of-fered the carbons to customers, giving them the opportunity to destroy them.

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Front PageHow many have paid good money fora ticket to a horror film, only to cover their eyes and “see” very little of it?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM TIDBITS!

SCARY MOVIESby Ryan Toepfer

Some people just seem to love having the living daylights scared out of them. Why else would horror and suspense movies be so popular? To celebrate Halloween, Tidbits goes behind the scenes of some classic thrillers.• When Alfred Hitchcock purchased the film

rights for Psycho, he also bought up as many copies of the original novel as he could find, hoping to keep the story’s ending a secret.

• The famous shower scene of Psycho was filmed using a double for Norman Bates, as Anthony Perkins was appearing in a play (Greenwillow)in New York at the time. The first time Perkins actually saw that scene was back at the studio, watching the daily “rushes,” and he said he was just as scared as everyone else.

• Take a close look at Michael Myers’ mask in the 1978 camp classic Halloween. Does the face look familiar? The movie was filmed on such a tight budget, that the prop department had to make do with what they had. For Myers’ disguise, they used an old Captain Kirk (StarTrek) mask, which they spray painted white and then re-shaped the eyeholes.

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2. GAMES: What was the name of the victim in the board game “Clue”?

3. BUSINESS: Which fast-food res-taurant chain once had a motto “Hot Eats, Cool Treats”?

4. LITERATURE: Who wrote the novel “Cousin Bette”?

5. MATH: What is another name for integers?

6. LANGUAGE: What does the latin phrase “ecce homo” mean?

7. MOVIES: Ingrid Bergman won her first Oscar for her role in which movie?

8. MYTHOLOGY: In Greek myth, what kind of creature was the Echid-na?

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10. HISTORY: Who introduced the “Reign of Terror” during the French Revolution?

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3. Wisconsin running back Montee Ball tied an NCAA record in 2011 for most touchdowns in a season (39). Who else holds the mark?

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2. Name the singer-songwriter who released “Take These Chains from My Heart” in 1953. Which R&B art-ist released the same song exactly 10 years later?

3. What was the song “Rasputin” about?

4. Name the group that released “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” in 1970.

5. Identify the song with the follow-ing lyric: “I recall the yellow cotton dress, Foaming like a wave on the ground beneath your knees.”

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3. Released in 1978 by Boney M, the song was a Euro disco hit about Rasputin, the adviser of Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

4. Creedence Clearwater Revival.5. “MacArthur Park,” released by

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