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This year, the Summer Solstice will fall on Friday, June 21, and will be the Northern Hemisphere’s longest day of the year and the Southern Hemisphere’s shortest day. It’s when the sun reaches its highest position in the sky, and the Earth’s North Pole tilts directly toward the sun.

After this day, the length of days decreases as the season progresses toward the next solstice. Follow along as Tidbits sets its sights on that event and other happenings that have occurred during this Solstice week over the years.

• On the June solstice, in the Northern Hemisphere, the solstice is used as the start of the summer season. The tilt of the Earth’s axis is most aligned with the sun, providing us with the most daylight of any day of the year. South of the Antarctic Circle, there is no direct sunlight whatsoever, known as Polar Night.

• Every year, thousands gather at Stonehenge, the stone circle in Wiltshire, England, to watch the sun rise above the circle’s Heel Stone.

Stonehenge’s age is estimated at 4,500 years, and the Neolithic stone circle is well-known for its alignment with the movement of the sun. The sunrise of the summer solstice and the sunset of the winter solstice align with Stonehenge.

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Strawberry Lovers Pie --It’s May! And that means strawberry pie time! We’ve waited a year for the most magnificent fruit of all to be in season again. And what better way to celebrate than with this scrumptious pie!

4 cups sliced fresh strawberries 1 (6-ounce) graham cracker pie crust 1 (4-serving) package sugar-free vanilla cook-and-serve pudding mix 1 (4-serving) package sugar-free strawberry gelatin 1 1/2 cups water 1 cup reduced-calorie whipped topping 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 to 4 drops red food coloring 1. Evenly arrange strawberries in pie crust. In a large saucepan, combine dry pudding mix, dry gelatin and water. Cook over medium heat until mixture thickens and starts to boil, stirring often. Spoon hot sauce evenly over strawberries.

Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Cut into 8 servings.

2. In a small bowl, combine whipped topping, vanilla extract and red food coloring. Top each piece with a full tablespoon of topping mixture. Serves 8.

Each serving equals: 157 calories, 5g fat, 2g protein, 26g carb., 225mg sodium, 2g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 1 Starch, 1 Fat, 1/2 Fruit. (c) 2019 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

June is tornado season in Kansas, and on June 22, 1958, a baseball game between the Kansas City Athletics and the Boston Red Sox was delayed by 29 minutes due to a twister. On the same day in 1969, another tornado hit Kansas, ironically, on the date of Judy Garland’s death. Maybe the weather was remembering Judy starring as Dorothy, the young girl in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, whose house was swept away to the Land of Oz by a tornado.

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Dear Savvy Senior, What can you tell me about the different enrollment periods for Medicare? I’m planning to work past age 65 and understand Medicare offers Initial, Special and General periods in which I can enroll. How does this work?

Medicare Illiterate Dear Medicare, The rules for signing up for Medicare can be quite confusing, especially if you plan to work past age 65. But it’s critical to understand the ins and outs of enrolling because the consequences of missing a deadline can be costly and last a lifetime. Here’s what you should know about Medicare’s three different enrollment periods.

Initial Enrollment Period At age 65, the Initial Enrollment Period is the first opportunity that most people are eligible to enroll in Medicare.

If you’re already claiming Social Security benefits at least 4 months before age 65, you are automatically enrolled in Medicare, with coverage starting the first day of month you turn 65. If you’re not receiving Social Security benefits, it’s up to you to enroll in Medicare either online at SSA.gov/Medicare, over the phone at 800-772-1213 or through your local Social Security office.

You can enroll any time during the Initial Enrollment Period, which is a seven-month period that includes the three months before, the month of, and the three months after your 65th birthday.

It’s best to enroll three months before your birth month to ensure your coverage starts when you turn 65.

If, however, you plan to keep working and have health coverage from your employer, or from a spouse’s employer, you may want to delay Medicare Part B, which covers outpatient services, and Part D, which covers prescription drugs. But first check with the human resources department to see how your employer insurance works with Medicare.

Typically, if your employer has fewer than 20 employees, Medicare will be your primary insurer and you should enroll. But if you work for a company that has 20 or more employees, your employer’s group health plan will be your primary insurer as long as you remain an active employee. If this is the case, you don’t need to enroll in Part B or Part D when you turn 65 if you’re satisfied with the coverage you are getting through your job. But in most cases, unless you’re contributing to a Health Savings Account, you should at least sign-up for Medicare Part A, which is free and covers hospital services.

Special Enrollment Period If you delay Part B and Part D past age 65, you can sign up for Medicare during the Special Enrollment Period. Once you (or your spouse) stop working and you no longer have group health coverage, you have eight months to enroll in Part B. But if you miss that deadline, you’ll pay a late-enrollment penalty for the rest of your life. The penalty increases your premiums by 10 percent for each 12-month period that you don’t have coverage.

The window for Part D is shorter. You must sign up for Part D within two months of losing drug coverage. If you go 63 days or more without drug coverage, you’ll pay a lifetime late-enrollment penalty that equals 1 percent of the monthly base premium (about $33 in 2019) times the number of months you don’t have Part D of other creditable coverage.

General Enrollment Period If you miss either of these first two enrollment periods, you’ll have to wait until the General Enrollment Period, which is January 1 through March 31 of each year, but your Part B and Part D coverage will not begin until July 1. And you’ll be subject to late-enrollment penalties.

There is, however, no penalty for late enrollment for Part A. You can sign up anytime with coverage beginning the first day of the following month.

SUMMER SOLSTICE CONTONUED • This week was significant in amusement park history. On June 16, 1884, America’s first roller coaster opened on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. The Switchback Railway, as it was called was a 600-foot (183m) wood structure that traveled at about 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/ hr). At the cost of a nickel per ride, the coaster generated $600 a day, and had paid for itself in just three weeks. Although the coaster was torn down, Coney Island’s famous Cyclone roller coaster sits on the same site. The Cyclone, which opened in 1927, reaches speeds of 60 mph (96.5 km/hr), and has an 85-foot (26m) drop. It’s one of America’s oldest coasters still in operation. On June 21, 1893, the Ferris wheel made its debut at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition. Measuring 250 feet (76.2 m) in diameter and requiring 100,000 parts, with 36 cars each carrying 60 people, the wheel was the brainstorm of a 33-year-old Pittsburgh engineer named George Ferris, Jr. For the 19 weeks of the fair’s operation, more than 1.4 million people rode the Ferris Wheel, paying 50 cents for the 20-minute ride. Unfortunately, the wheel created several legal issues for George Ferris, who was bankrupt just three years after the fair closed.

He then contracted typhoid fever and died at age 37. The Ferris wheel became an integral part of the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, but two years later, it was dynamited and sold for scrap.

• June 16, 1903 was a big day in the business world. It’s the day that Henry Ford and his 12 stockholders gathered in Detroit to sign the paperwork to incorporate the Ford Motor Company. It had been seven years since Ford had built his first gasoline-powered vehicle in the workshop behind his house.

• One month after the Ford Motor Company was established, the first Ford vehicle was assembled at a Detroit plant. Elsewhere in the business world, on the same day in New Bern, North Carolina, Caleb Bradham was registering the official trademark for his invention, PepsiCola. Originally known as “Brad’s Drink” and served at Bradham’s downtown drug store, it was a mixture of sugar, water, caramel, lemon oil, and nutmeg. He renamed it Pepsi-Cola, taking the term from the word dyspepsia, meaning indigestion. Bradham claimed it was a healthy drink, and used the slogan, “Exhilarating, Invigorating, Aids Digestion” • All eyes were on the television screen on June 17, 1994, as a white Ford Bronco raced down a California freeway, chased by Los Angeles policemen. They were chasing former football great O.J. Simpson, who had been charged that morning with the murder of his wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson was scheduled to surrender at 11:00 AM, but instead fled in the Bronco to the Santa Ana freeway, where he engaged police in an hour-and-a-half pursuit before surrendering in the driveway of his Brentwood home. He was arraigned on June 20, 1994, and “The Trial of the Century” began, ending in Simpson’s acquittal in 1995. turn the page for more!

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• On June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally Ride stepped aboard the space shuttle Challenger, the first American woman in space, as well as the youngest American astronaut at age 32. The physicist and engineer had answered an ad in the Stanford University student newspaper, announcing the search for applicants for the U.S. space program. At age 27, she was chosen by NASA to join the program.

After leaving NASA in 1987, Ride returned to Stanford, this time to work at the Center for International Security and Arms Control. She later became a physics professor at the University of California.

• Sally Ride wasn’t the first woman in space. That honor belongs to Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who rocketed into space aboard Vostok 6, almost 20 years to the day before Ride, on June 16, 1963.

Prior to her career in space travel, Tereshkova was a textile factory worker and amateur skydiver.

• The French ship Isere cruised into New York Harbor on June 17, 1885, bearing the 350 individual pieces of the Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France.

Once reassembled, the 450,000-lb.

(204,116 kg) statue was taller than any NYC structure at the time. It was officially dedicated in October of 1886 • The College of Philadelphia (today’s University of Pennsylvania) granted America’s first medical diploma on June 21, 1768. Dr. John Archer graduated from the Department of Medicine, but strangely enough, began practicing law the following year rather than pursuing a medical career. He was instrumental in organizing troops for the Revolutionary War, became a major in the Continental Army, and was elected to the U.S. Congress three times from the state of Maryland.

• June 21, 1939 was a sad day in baseball history when the New York Yankees announced the retirement of their first baseman Lou Gehrig.

Gehrig’s performance on the field had been declining for several weeks that Spring, and after undergoing six days of intensive testing at the Mayo Clinic, Gehrig was informed he had an incurable disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that would lead to paralysis, and eventually death. Gehrig played his final game on April 30, the 2,130th consecutive game of his career. He died at age 37 on June 2, 1941, the anniversary of the beginning of his consecutive game streak.

JAWS June 20 marks the anniversary of the release of the movie Jaws, which debuted in 1975 on 464 screens across the continent. Follow along as Tidbits reviews the history of this blockbuster about a giant man-eating shark.

• The movie’s fictional Amity Island was actually filmed on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, beginning in May, 1974. Several of the local folks were hired as extras on the movie and were paid $64 to run across the beach screaming.

• Three full-size sharks, each costing about $250,000, were created for the movie. turn the page for more!

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JAWS CONTINUED The pneumatically-powered mechanical great whites were nicknamed Bruce after director Steven Spielberg’s lawyer Bruce Ramer.

• Jaws was the first major film to be shot on the ocean, which created all kinds of trouble, causing the film to drastically exceed its budget and miss its scheduled completion by 104 days. The film’s budget was set at $4 million, but the final bottom line ballooned to $9 million.

Problems with the mechanical sharks contributed to a huge increase in the special effects budget. The very first day the model shark was put in the water, it sank to the bottom of the ocean. Malfunctions continued with the pneumatic hoses filling up with salt water, and corrosion of the props’ skin.

• Spielberg, just 28 years old, wanted moviegoers to feel as if they were treading water, and so filmed about 25% of the movie at water level. This presented the problem of unwanted watercraft drifting into view, as well as making actors seasick much of the time.

• Although the movie opened in just 464 screens, after opening with a $7 million weekend, it was expanded within to 700 theaters by July 25, and an additional 250 by August 15. Production costs were recovered within just two weeks after opening. After grossing $450 million worldwide, Jaws gained the status of “highest-grossing film of all time,” but only held on to the honor for two years until Star Wars was released in 1977.

• The film frightened viewers to the point of generating fear of going into the ocean. A dramatic reduction in beach attendance was ascribed to the movie, and reported shark sightings surged. For all the terror the shark created, the beast actually had just four total minutes of screen time. turn to page 7 for the conclusion

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Don’t Always Blame the Guys at the Top -At a Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility, a psychologist by the name of “Z” managed to find a way to increase income by overstating productivity by 43 percent.

This was done via double coding. Say the appointment with a patient should be classified as 123. The psychologist would code it as 123 and additionally as 456 ... meaning Z would appear to have done more work. Z averaged 15 hours of actual work in a 40-hour workweek yet managed to accrue payments for 243 hours of overtime.

Appointments were done on Z’s personal planner, not the computer where they could be noticed. They were entered in the computer only after the appointments.

Z was caught and claimed that the double coding was per the instruction received in initial VA training, yet Z didn’t attend seven of the eight training sessions on coding.

Further, it was in none of the training materials and the other psychologists were not given that instruction.

The punishment? Make Z go to coding class. No administrative steps were taken, no firing, no apparent reimbursement of the overpayments.

The chief of psychology was dragged into it for failing to supervise the coding and the hours Z actually worked. The chief of health information management was pulled into the mess for failing to oversee coding reviews, which would have caught the errors, claiming she didn’t know of the requirement.

It gets better. The chief of medical administration and the assistant chief didn’t know those review duties existed.

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1. Since 1970, five college baseball teams have won back-to-back College World Series. Name three of them.

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She had already wasted valuable minutes.

Kira walked over to the door, reached out, and grabbed the handle. She twisted slowly and quietly, in case someone was waiting in Miss Enderlie’s office. She felt the door release and she slowly pushed it open. There was no one waiting for her in the next room, so she stopped worrying about stealth. She closed the door behind her and looked around the office. There was a desk with stacks of papers scattered around it, along with pens, approval and rejection stamps, and various mugs with leftover coffee in them. Two chairs sat in front of the desk, a large chair for Miss Enderlie sat behind it, and off to the right side of the room was a long couch. Directly in front of Kira, across the office, was the door leading into the lobby of Enderlie Apartments. But there was another door as well. A wooden door with no windows and a small, discreet handle was placed beside the couch on the right side of the room. You might miss it on a first look, as the wood paneling of the room blended almost seamlessly with the door itself. Kira had a feeling in her stomach that this door was important in some way. She walked over, twisted the handle, and gave a strong push.

The door didn’t move an inch. It was locked.

Kira knew she was running out of time, but she wanted to know what was behind that door. She walked over to the desk and started going through the drawers as quickly as she could. She looked through every drawer twice, underneath every paper, and behind every obstacle that could hide a key. She checked the bottom of the desk to see if a key was taped there. She looked for secret compartments.

She didn’t find a thing. She sat back in Miss Enderlie’s chair and was enveloped in the warmth of a fur-lined coat. Kira was about to give up and wait for another opportunity to escape. She stood up and twisted the chair.

She heard a slight jingling coming from the pocket of the coat hanging from the back of the chair. She shoved her hands in the pockets and pulled out a ring with three keys attached to it. Kira picked a key at random and tried the inconspicuous door again. No luck. She pulled it out and tried the next key. This time, when she turned it, she heard a familiar click as the door unlocked. She turned the handle, stepped into the room, and closed the door behind her.

Inside, she stood facing a bedroom, not too different from the room she had been confined to for the past two weeks. There was more decoration and it looked more lived-in, but it was still very similar. She saw a pile of Miss Enderlie’s clothes in the corner, more empty mugs lying around, and some old newspapers cluttering the small table. Kira walked around the room, looking for something that could give her a better idea of who exactly Miss Enderlie was. She made three or four laps around the room, but nothing caught her eye.

Kira turned to walk out of the room when she saw something very familiar lying just inside the door. It was a bag. Sticking out of the top of the bag was a hooded sweatshirt. When she saw it, Kira could almost feel the fabric against her skin. She imagined herself curling up on the couch with her family to watch a movie.

Kira opened the bag and found a small device.

It had a large, black screen that covered the entire front of it, and only three buttons on the sides. Kira pressed the lone button on the right side and the screen lit up. It showed a picture of Kira standing on a beach with a younger boy, an older man, and an older woman. Her memories all came flooding back at once. This was her family. This was the family she had been slowly forgetting. Kira stood up, finally sure of what was real. She was going to find a way out of this place.

To be continued…

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Considering the country’s longstanding adherence to tradition, it is perhaps unsurprising that the national motto is “We want to remain what we are.” * Those who study such things claim that the hair on people of European descent tends to whorl in a counterclockwise fashion, while on most Japanese people it whorls in the opposite direction. * Statistics show that for every 71,000 skydiving jumps made, there is only one fatality. That might not seem surprising until you put it in context: You have a one in 20,000 chance of dying from a regular fall right here on solid ground.

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1. Is the book of Jeremiah in the Old or New Testament or neither?

2. In a vision that convinced Peter to share the gospel, in what were the creatures let down to earth? Great sheet, Cloud, Well, Wind 3. Who was instructed to eat bread while he lay for 390 days on his side? Moses, Ezekiel, Methuselah, Samson 4. From Matthew 5, what did Jesus tell His disciples they were the salt of? His glory, Mankind, The earth, Conversation 5. Who survived the bite of a viper as described in Acts 28? Paul, Matthew, John the Baptist, Stephen

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JAWS CONTINUED • The ominous theme song, signaling the shark’s approach, was a simple alternating pattern of two notes, “E” and “F”, and was performed by tuba player Tommy Johnson. The American Film Institute has ranked composer John Williams’ soundtrack as #6 on their list of the 25 Greatest Film Scores. The Institute ranks Jaws as #48 on its list of the Top 100 Movies.

• Nominated for four Academy Awards, Jaws took home three of them. Although nominated for Best Picture, it was edged out by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

• Three Jaws sequels followed the original blockbuster, but none came even close to its success. In fact, the total gross generated by all three sequels combined amounted to just half of the original movie’s millions.

• When released for home viewers, Jaws was the first LaserDisc marketed in North America.

6. From Genesis 35, who died in giving birth to Benjamin? Anna, Leah, Martha, Rachel (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

1. ADVERTISEMENTS: Which company’s ads feature a character called Elsie the Cow? 2. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital of America Samoa?

3. MUSIC: Which 1960s song features the lyrics, “Sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble”?

4. INVENTIONS: In what year did American Express introduce an international credit card network?

5. MOVIES: Which island is the setting for the film “The Teahouse of the August Moon”?

6. HUMAN BODY: What does a Brannock device measure?

7. CHEMISTRY: What is the first element on the Periodic Table?

8. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: How many red and white stripes are on an American flag?

9. LITERATURE: What was Shakespeare’s wife’s name?

10. LANGUAGE: What does the German term “blitzkrieg” mean in English? (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

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1. Borden Dairy Company 2. Pago Pago 3. “Michelle,” by the Beatles 4. 1958 5. Okinawa 6. A person’s shoe size 7. Hydrogen

Sports Quiz Answers

1. Southern Cal, Stanford, LSU, Oregon State and South Carolina.

2. True.

3. Quarterback Jameis Winston, in 2015.

4. Derek Fisher, with 259 playoff games.

8. 13, for the number of colonies that declared independence from Great Britain

5. Dallas’ Jamie Benn, in 2013.

9. Anne Hathaway

7. Phil Mickelson, Johnny Miller, Tom Watson and Tiger Woods.

10. Lightning war or rapid attack

6. Ireen Wust of the Netherlands, with 11 medals (2006-18).

Bible Trivia Answers 1) Old; 2) Great sheet; 3) Ezekiel; 4) The earth; 5) Paul; 6) Rachel