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GUITARS (continued): • Ancient stringed instruments used tortoise shells or hollowed-out gourds, with a bent stick for a neck, and strings of animal gut or silk. • In the early days, a guitar was defined as having “a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides.” • The word “guitar” is derived from the Spanish word, guitarra, which is a very large six-string acoustic bass played in mariachi bands. Other ancient terms from various languages include gitarre, qitara, cithara, kithara, and sihtar. • The neck of the guitar is comprised of the headstock (at the end of the neck), the fretboard (the fingerboard), the frets, which are metal strips embedded on the fretboard, the nut (a small strip of hard material at the junction of the headstock and neck), the tuners, and the truss rod, a metal rod along the inside of the neck. • Frets are located along the neck at exact points that divide the scale into half-step intervals. Which fret the string is pressed against determines the note’s pitch. • Decorative materials are usually set into the exterior of the guitar, such as dots on the fretboard to mark the positions or around the sound hole of acoustic guitars. These are known as inlays and are frequently made of mother of pearl. Inlays around the sound hole are called rosettes and serve as a type of reinforcement to the opening. • Acoustic guitars might be classical or flamenco versions. The classical guitar has a wide, flat neck to enable musicians to execute scales and arpeggios more efficiently. Strings are usually made of nylon. For all your catering needs: • From picnics to weddings

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GUITARS (continued): • A standard guitar usually has six strings, typically tuned from a low E to a high E, with A, D, G, and B in between. The 12-string guitar, used in folk music, blues, and rock and roll, has six courses of two strings each, usually made of steel. The bass guitar has four strings, turned to E-A-D-G, an octave below the lowest four strings of the sixstring. • Les Paul came up with the idea of an electric guitar in the late 1930s. He wired a phonograph needle to his acoustic guitar and connected it to a radio speaker to amplify the sound. Unhappy with the hollow-body guitar, he designed a solid-body one from a cast-off railroad tie, an instrument with less feedback and a richer sound because of the wood’s mass. He nicknamed it “The Log,” and in 1940, the Epiphone guitar factory helped him produce a more attractive version with curved sides and an Epiphone fretboard. The Gibson Les Paul was first sold in 1952, and they have gone on to manufacture 100 different variations of Les Paul models. • In 1946, a southern California inventor named Leo Fender founded a new guitar company (although he was a saxophonist, not a guitarist!). In 1951, the company introduced a new solid-body guitar that would become known as the Telecaster. (It was first called the Broadcaster, but this was a conflict with a drum kit with the same name.) They also unveiled a brand new instrument, the electric bass, allowing those who played the upright bass to play a more compact instrument, rather than the cumbersome upright. The Stratocaster came along in 1954, created from ash wood. In 1956, the wood was changed to alder, which continues to be used today. In 1957, Buddy Holly and the Crickets made their television debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” That was also the television

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Online at www.lovemytidbits.com GUITARS (continued): • Famous Fender guitar players include Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Jimmy Page, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and John Mayer. Artists who have chosen Gibson have included Chet Atkins, Chuck Berry, Bob Marley, Sheryl Crow, Peter Frampton, and Joe Walsh. • The Fender factor manufactures about 90,000 strings a day, equaling about 20,000 miles (32,187 km) in length, enough to circle the world. • In 2004, Eric Clapton sold his favorite guitar, a Stratocaster nicknamed Blackie at Christie’s Auction House in New York to raise funds for an alcohol and drug treatment center he had founded in 1997, the Crossroads Centre Antigua. The instrument fetched $959,500. • In 1998, a devastating tornado struck Nashville, Tennessee, felling a giant 275-year-old poplar tree that stood on the grounds of the plantation of 7th U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, The Hermitage. The Gibson Company built 188 guitars out of the old tree, inlaid with the name “Old Hickory” (Jackson’s nickname) and pictures of the president and his home. The first Old Hickory was donated to the Smithsonian Institute, and proceeds from the sale of the remainder were donated to support restoration of The Hermitage. • Some electric guitars have a lever attached to the bridge or tailpiece to enable the musician to quickly vary the tension and length of the strings to produce a vibrato or pitch bend effect. This accessory is referred to as a tremolo bar, or more commonly, a whammy bar. • The C.F. Martin guitar company was established in 1833 and to this day, remains in the hands of the Martin family, with the great-greatgreat-grandson of the founder as its current CEO.

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Tidbits® of Gallia, Jackson, Vinton, Meigs & Mason Counties JELLY BEANS With National Jelly Bean Day scheduled for April 22, Tidbits wants you to be in the know on this favorite confection. • Did you know that jelly beans were the first candy to be sold by weight rather than by the piece? In 1905, the first recorded ad for the little beans was published in the Chicago Daily News, with a price of nine cents per pound. However, a Boston candy maker named William Schrafft was making them long before that, encouraging people to send his product to Union soldiers in the Civil War. It wasn’t until the 1930s that they became associated with the celebration of Easter. • About 16 billion jelly beans are manufactured in the U.S. every year just for Easter. Laid end to end, that’s enough to go around the world more than three times. • The process of making jelly beans is called “panning,” a method that creates the firmer outer shell while preserving a gummy interior. It takes between one and three weeks to make a jelly bean. In 1869, 24-year-old German immigrant Gustav Goelitz and his brothers established a candy business in Belleville, Illinois, featuring caramels and candy flowers for cake decorating. His sons relocated the business to Ohio in 1898, and specialized in candy corn and buttercreams. The company remained family-owned for decades. In the 1940s, the Goelitz plant introduced mint wafers, followed by tangerine slices, spice drops, and jelly beans. • In 1965, a new item was introduced by the Goelitz family, a mini-jelly bean, infused with mint flavor in the center. Then-California governor Ronald Reagan was attempting to give up smoking a pipe and munched on the little beans whenever he craved tobacco. •

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Tidbits® of Gallia, Jackson, Vinton, Meigs & Mason Counties 1. Who held the Chicago White Sox rookie record for most home runs in a season before Jose Abreu broke it with 36 in 2014? 2. In 2015, Joey Votto tied a Cincinnati Reds record for hitting three home runs in a game three times during his career. Who else did it? 3. DeMarco Murray set a Dallas Cowboys singleseason rushing record in 2014 with 1,845 yards. Who had held the mark? 4. Since 1985, six men’s basketball teams have failed to reach the NCAA Tournament a year after winning the title. Name four of them. 5. In the 2015-16 NHL season, the Chicago Blackhawks set a team mark for most consecutive victories (12). In what season did they win 11 in a row? 6. When was the last time before 2015 that the U.S. men’s soccer team failed to reach the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup? 7. WBC middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez has lost only one of his 48 pro fights. Who beat him? (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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M & S CONSTRUCTION ‘Nova Over Nova Lox Route 70 in Burlington County, New Jersey (“Old Marlton Pike” according to your car’s GPS) features a particularly grueling, pockmarked stretch of road right through the heart of a wellto-do Philadelphia bedroom community called Cherry Hill. Framed on either side by bright orange construction cones, it is kept illuminated 24/7 by flashing lights from parked state troopers’ patrol cars. The troopers look on in approval as an army of construction workers transform the center median from a bucolic, cherry blossom and grasscovered median into a Martianesque hellscape of paint-gouging gravel. The weather has been nice all winter, and on this day -- game day -- as drivers gather up the courage to engage in the Beyond Thunderdomelike experience that merging onto the interstate has become, all windows are down and the radios are on. It doesn’t matter where you are on the radio dial because every station is playing the same tune: They’re talking about the Villanova Wildcats. At Cherry Hill Pizza, a full regiment of delivery drivers stand in wait. The orders are coming in and they expect a run at about 9 p.m., 20 minutes before the tipoff against North Carolina. A few weeks earlier, one of the drivers had an epiphany: “You guys ... Villanova is, like, the only good team in Philadelphia right now.” Soon after, it seemed like the take-out customers went from wearing Penn State garb to Wildcat tees. Bumper stickers with the blue emblazoned “V” seemed to multiply. Although Temple, St. Joe’s and Drexel made their tournament runs, the town is mired in a rather bleak rut of late. The Philadelphia Experiment that was the Chip Kelly regime has left the Eagles in complete disarray. The Flyers can’t win a shootout and are in danger of being eliminated from the playoffs. The Phillies are expected to finish below .500, and the 76ers are a train wreck. Through it all, Villanova stood apart. Counted out virtually all season until they finally punched through and held the No. 1 ranking for a time, ‘Nova reminded everyone of why they love the multi-tiered sports scene of the town. Philadelphia basketball is an institution, and no institution has garnered more love over the years than Villanova. In 1985, Villanova played the “perfect game” in beating Georgetown for the title; this year Villanova had the second-best shooting performance in Final Four history, second only to that ‘85 squad, and their average margin of victory in the tournament was surpassed only by the 1996 Kentucky team. Still, people weren’t sure that Jay Wright, in his 15th season as head coach, had what it would take to beat North Carolina. None of the people at The Kibbitz Room over on Springdale could imagine that the next morning, over nova lox and bagels, they would be passing newspapers and recounting what was surely the best basketball game they had ever witnessed. “Kris Jenkins” and “Archie Diacono” (Ryan Arcidiacono, the tournament’s outstanding player) schmeared right in with “Curry” and “Laettner” in conversation. Yet, there they were, local rush-hour traffic be damned. ‘Nova over nova, highlights over pizza, and Jenkins over North Carolina. Suddenly, everything was sunny in the Philadelphia suburbs. Villanova delivered.

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Chocolate-Hazelnut Macaroons These cookies are delicious on their own, but a good thing gets even better when you sandwich two together with a gooey layer of kosher-for-Passover chocolate spread. Try Hashachar Special Cocoa Spread, available at ShopRite (or use Nutella post-Passover)!

Grow Ivy Topiary from Cuttings Even if you don’t have a backyard, you can share in the joy of spring gardening. Let’s start with what you already might have growing indoors: Is there an ivy plant that’s been sending off new, bright-green shoots in the past few weeks? If so, give it a trim and pot a new plant or two using the cuttings. This whimsical topiary-style ivy plant will be at home on a deck or porch or in a child’s bedroom. We have a beauty at our house that lives happily on an upper windowsill in a sunny room. With new, healthy growth trailing in all directions, I clipped off several 10-inch vines, removed the leaves beneath the bottom nodes, and placed the new cuttings in a large, clear mason jar of warm water. Before long, we could see roots growing. Why not pot and wind the ivy into a mini topiary or two, and give them away? Friendship plants, I thought. And a fun gardening project for kids. Here’s how: --Fill a 3-1/2-inch flowerpot with drainage hole with good potting soil. Water. --Cut a 22-inch length of strong, bendable wire (or clip off a 22-inch length from a wire coat hanger). Bend it into a 5-inch-tall heart or circular shape. Twist the loose ends together tightly and poke the twisted portion vertically into the damp soil. The form should be upright and stable. --Dig a hole in the soil to the right side of the form, remove one of the 10-inch well-rooted cuttings and plant it in the hole. Fill with soil. Repeat on the left side. Tamp down soil. Carefully wrap the ivy around the wire form. --Water regularly to keep the soil moist. As new growth appears, tuck it in and around the form for a full topiary that will look lovely for months to come. Alternate topiary idea: Purchase a potted indoor ivy plant, or use one growing in your home. Carefully poke the straightened end of a wire shape directly into the soil as close as possible to the center of the plant, being careful not to injure it. (The size of the shape should be in proportion to the flowerpot.) Wrap the trailing vines evenly around the form, tying where needed with wire or string. Within a day or two in a sunny window, the vines will conform to the frame. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday.com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” (c) 2016 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.

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* For smoothie prep, we buy a large tub of plain yogurt. Then we portion it out in ice-cube trays to freeze. Once frozen, pop the yogurt cubes out and bag them with smoothie ingredients -- fruits, veggies, etc. You have only to dump the bag in the blender and add a little bit of water, and you’re drinking breakfast! -- D. in New Hampshire * To get great slices of avocado, cut in half around the pit. Then slice or dice your avocado in the skin. Push gently on the middle of the avocado half to turn the skin inside out and free the slices. * Remove burned-on food from your pans with baking soda. Soak in hot water, and add a healthy scoop of baking soda to the soak water. Then scrub to remove. Add

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Starting in May 2016, there are some changes to Social Security that will eliminate strategies seniors have used to maximize benefits. Unlike what some doom-mongers have said, Social Security isn’t going away, our benefits aren’t being cut ... there’s nothing radical going on here. Tucked into the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 was language that covers three strategies many of us have used in collecting Social Security: 1) File and suspend -- In this strategy, the full retirement-age spouse (age 66 for those born between 1943 and 1954) filed for benefits and then immediately suspended them. The other spouse then claimed spousal benefits while the initial benefits accrued for years at an 8 percent annual increase. No more. Now if one spouse files, he or she must take those benefits or the other spouse can’t claim spousal benefits. 2) Restricted application -- In this strategy, the retirement-age spouse filed for spousal benefits, but didn’t collect his or her own benefits, letting the personal benefits sit for years and accrue. Per the new rules, you can claim one or the other, spousal or personal benefits, but not both. You get the larger of the two, with no changing back and forth, and no deferring benefits until age 70. 3) Suspended benefits -- In this strategy, the recipient filed and then immediately suspended payments. If these benefits were suddenly needed down the road, he or she could collect them in a lump sum, but not at the higher monthly rate that the extra time would have afforded. Per the new rules, there will be no lumpsum payment. Monthly payment will be made at a higher rate. If your future retirement plans included any of the above strategies, consult with your financial adviser about alternative options. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Sometimes it takes more than a prescription and behavioral therapy to control the symptoms of PTSD. The answer to the struggles with stress and depression faced by too many veterans may be as simple as a guitar lesson. Guitars For Veterans was started in 2006 by a guitar teacher and one of his students. Co-founder Dan Van Buskirk was a Vietnam Marine with PTSD, and Patrick Nettesheim had taught guitar for 30 years. It was a perfect match, and for Van Buskirk, a way to find peace. After taking some instruments to a Department of Veterans Affairs rehab unit to hand around, and seeing the positive reaction, the pair started going back to give lessons. Guitars for Vets was born and has grown to include 60 chapters in 30 states. G4V has given more than 20,000 lessons to veterans and over 2,000 new guitars. Veterans who want to take part in the guitar-lessons program need to be referred by their local VA. They’ll be loaned a guitar and given free weekly lessons. Once the 10-lesson program is over, the veteran will receive his or her own new acoustic guitar and accessories. Monthly group meetings follow. G4V’s growth has been phenomenal, but they haven’t done it alone. If you can teach guitar (and can pass a VA background check), consider volunteering or even starting a new chapter in your area. Or you can donate to this very worthy cause. Consider this: $200 will send a veteran through the whole program. To learn more, check the website at www.guitars4vets. org. If you (or a veteran you know) are in need of the kind of healing that pills don’t provide, look into joining. For more information, scroll down the website for a list of local chapters. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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* On April 27, 1773, the British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a monopoly on the American tea trade. * On April 30, 1927, the first women’s federal prison opens in Alderson, West Virginia, to house all women serving federal sentences of more than a year. Most were imprisoned for drug and alcohol charges imposed during Prohibition. * On May 1, 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City’s Empire State Building, pressing a button from the White House to turn on the building’s lights. Hoover’s gesture was symbolic; while he remained in Washington, D.C., someone else flicked the switches in New York. * On April 26, 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin in McLean, Virginia. Children in the U.S., Canada and Finland took part in the doubleblind trials, whereby neither the patient nor attending doctor knew if the inoculation was the vaccine or a placebo. * On April 28, 1967, boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the U.S. Army and is immediately stripped of his heavyweight title. Ali, a Muslim, cited religious reasons for his decision to forgo military service.

Answers 1. Ron Kittle, who hit 35 home runs in 1983. 2. Johnny Bench. 3. Emmitt Smith ran for 1,773 yards in 1995. 4. Louisville (won in 1986; missed in ‘87), Kansas (‘88; ‘89), Florida (2007; ‘08), North Carolina (‘09; ‘10), Kentucky (‘12; ‘13), UConn (‘14; ‘15). 5. It was the 2012-13 season. 6. It was 2003. 7. Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Answers 1. “Major League” 2. Norway and Sweden 3. MMXVI 4. Ossicles 5. Ferrari 6. Jefferson Davis 7. 1 pound 8. Echo 9. Piccolo 10. Josh Billings

* On April 25, 1989, James Richardson walks out of a Florida prison 21 years after being wrongfully convicted of killing his seven children. Special prosecutor Janet Reno agreed to the release after evidence showed that the conviction resulted from misconduct by the prosecutor. ANSWERS: 1) Neither 2) Sea of Galilee 3) Dogs 4) Fish 5) Sycamore 6) Raven

* On April 29, 1992, a jury in Los Angeles acquits four police officers who had been charged with using excessive force in arresting black motorist Rodney King. The verdict enraged the black community, prompting three days of widespread rioting, arson and looting. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.