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Online at www.lovemytidbits.com IAN FLEMING’S FIRST PLOT • Ian Fleming worked for the Secret Service during World War II. After the war, he began writing books about a spy named James Bond. His very first book, called “Casino Royale,” was based on a story he heard about while he worked for the Secret Service, in which Russian spies hired two assassins to kill the German ambassador. They were given two camera cases: one was blue and the other was red. The Russians said the red one contained a bomb and the blue one contained a smokescreen. The assassins were told to detonate the bomb in the red case and then deploy the smokescreen in the blue case to make their escape. • The assassins did not trust the Russians and decided to reverse the instructions, assuming that the blue camera case actually held the bomb, and the red case held the smokescreen. • As it turned out, both cases contained a bomb. The Russians wanted the first bomb to kill the ambassador, while the second bomb destroyed the evidence. As it turned out, the assassins were killed while the ambassador they were sent to murder escaped with only minor injuries. • Regardless of whether or not the story was true, it made a great plot and launched Ian Fleming’s career, as well as James Bond’s. THE MYSTERIOUS RADIO • Two spies in France needed to disguise their radio transmitter so it could never be located by the Germans. They got a large wine cask and divided it in half, with wine in the bottom, and the transmitting equipment— and the radio man— in the top. While one man pushed the cask on a cart, dispensing wine to customers, the radio man would be transmitting information. When German tracking trucks appeared, the radio man would be signaled to stop transmitting. The Germans were mystified.
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• Agatha Christie began writing her first detective story, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” when she was 25 years old in 1916 on a dare from her sister who bet that she couldn’t write a mystery the reader couldn’t solve. She did. • It took her three weeks to write the book and four years to find a publisher. It was rejected by six publishers before being brought out in 1920. It sold 2,000 copies and earned her 25 pounds. From then on, she turned out at least one book per year. • Out of her 66 detective novels, she uses poison as the means of murder in 41 of them. • She introduced two timeless detectives. Hercule Poirot, an egotistical, pompous, natty, compulsively neat dandy, and Miss Marple, who was a nosy, gossipy, sharp-eyed elderly spinster who dithered her way through the mess. • Agatha Christie avoided the public eye. She once confessed, “The reason I began to write more than 60 years ago was in order to avoid having to talk to people.” • Agatha Christie was once the center of a great mystery herself. In 1926 her husband asked her for a divorce so he could marry his golf partner, Nancy Neele, with whom he’d been having an affair. He asked that she make the divorce a private matter and keep his lover’s name out of the papers. Already in a state of despondency because of her mother’s recent death, Christie went into an emotional tailspin. Her car and her overnight bag were found abandoned by the side of a road mere miles from the place where her husband and his lover were spending the weekend. Inside the car were her expired driver’s license and her fur coat. There was no sign of Agatha. (continued next page)
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Online at www.lovemytidbits.com AGATHA CHRISTIE (cont’d) • In the search for Agatha Christie, ponds were dragged. The countryside was combed. Air searches were launched. Agatha Christie’s disappearance headlined every news report, especially after word got out about her husband and his paramour, Nancy Neele. Eleven days later, a hotel employee recognized a photo in the paper as a guest who had registered under the name “Teresa Neele.” Needless to say, the divorce was not a private matter and the lover’s name was not kept out of the papers. However, sales of Christie’s book soared. • In 1930 she met a nice young archaeologist named Max Mallowan and married him. They remained married until she died. • Shortly before her own death, she wrote a mystery called “Curtain” in which Hercule Poirot himself dies. It shot directly to the top of the bestseller list, and Peirots obituary appeared in the “New York Times.” After her death in 1976, her publisher announced there were two more Agatha Christie books yet unpublished. One details the death of her other creation, Miss Marple. The other was her own auto-biography. • At the time of her death in 1976, she had written 147 short stories, 15 plays, and 90 novels which have sold over 2 billion copies in over 40 languages and still sell millions of copies a year. She’s the most widely translated author in history. Her publisher claims that only the Bible and Shakespeare have sold more copies. Her play “The Mousetrap” opened in 1952 and is still running, making it the longest-running play ever staged. Her play “Murder on the Orient Express” was turned into one of the most successful movies ever made in Britain. She has been dubbed “the patron saint of insomniacs.”
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Make March Mad Again Six wins during a three-week span in March (and a little bit of April) wins you a college basketball championship. Sounds easy, right? Isn’t the NCAA Tournament the great equalizer? You pick 68 teams out of the 1,281 institutions in the NCAA, put them into brackets, sit back and watch. After all, isn’t this what people are clamoring for on the football side of things? A tournament? But as we all know, college is supposed to educate you and prepare you for life. Unwittingly, the NCAA Tournament succeeds in that respect because when you really drill down and analyze what’s going on, you find out a few things. Things like: Duke will probably win it all. As long as Mike Krzyzewski is the coach, this will always be the team I pencil in to my bracket’s final blank space. Also, those teams that are so psyched up to get into the “play-in” game? They have zero shot of ever winning the tournament. For one thing, no No. 1 seed has ever lost to a No. 16 seed, and that might actually be a statistic you take to your grave. While it is, of course, conceivably possible that a team like Mythical State one day sinks the shot to beat Duke or UNC, it’s very unlikely. It gets better (or worse): No team ranked lower than the eighth seed has ever won the tournament and, again, don’t hold your breath to see things change there, either. While it’s conceivable that a 10th seed can make a six-game run, it’s improbable. It’s also conceivable that monkeys can fly out of your posterior, but I wouldn’t wait for that, either. So go ahead and fill out your brackets. I always do two of them. One always has Maryland (my alma mater) winning it all, but my real money is always on Duke. Funny how Duke was given a No. 2 seed this year, too ... No. 1 seeds have won 60 percent of the time, but Duke since 1980 has won five NCAA Championships, 12 Final Fours, 12 Atlantic Coast Conference regular season titles and 13 ACC Tournament championships. Go ahead and pick Oregon or Michigan or any other team. You will lose. Gonzaga, Villanova, Kansas, North Carolina, Duke or Kentucky will win it all this year. No play-in game can change that ... no quirky back-door offense can take it to the bank. Trust me on this. Don’t get mad at the NCAA for March Madness. The madness you create is your own, and it’s a proven fact ... Cinderellas only exist in the movies. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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GUNS FOR SALE • GLOCK 23, Gen. 2, 40 Cal., 2 Magazines w/Case $425.00 REMINGTON 870 WINGMASTER, 12 Gauge, 2 Barrels, Case, Ex. Cond. $600.00 THOMPSON CENTER ENCORE MUZZLE LOADER 50 Cal., Sling & Case $225.00 740-379-9134
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1. Heat oven to 400 F. Line jelly-roll pan with foil; lightly coat with nonstick cooking spray. In medium bowl, stir together oats and milk until combined. 2. Coat bottom of 12-inch skillet with nonstick cooking spray; heat on medium. Add onion and pinch salt; cook 2 to 4 minutes or until onion softens, stirring occasionally. Add red pepper and garlic; cook 4 to 6 minutes or until pepper softens, stirring often. Transfer to medium bowl; refrigerate to cool. 3. Meanwhile, in small bowl, whisk together soy sauce and 1/4 cup ketchup. 4. In large bowl, with hands, combine beef, turkey, carrots, oat mixture, cooled vegetable mixture, mustard, 2 tablespoons ketchup, pinch salt and 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper until mixed. 5. Form mixture into 8-inch by 4-inch loaf on prepared pan. Brush top and sides with soy ketchup. Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until meat thermometer inserted in center registers 165 F. Serves 8. For thousands of triple-tested recipes, visit our website at www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipes/. (c) 2017 Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved
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While in a very narrow set of circumstances a reverse mortgage can be a benefit in retirement, this path is not for everyone. The way a reverse mortgage works is that a company gives you money based on the equity in your home, your age and the value of the home. The money doesn’t have to be paid back until you sell the house, move away or die. Your financial situation will be reviewed to make sure you can pay insurance, property taxes and maintenance on the house on your monthly income. If your loan is approved, you can expect a monthly sum. However, there are sad tales everywhere from people who didn’t understand all the potential pitfalls of reverse mortgages. The loan can be called for any number of reasons: failure to pay property taxes or insurance premiums, not maintaining the property and more. Beware if only one of you is age 62 or older, and if that spouse is not listed on the deed. If only one of you signs for the loan, the other could be forced to move out of the home after the death of the signer, with the home being sold or foreclosed. Since 2014 the “non-borrowing spouse” has more protections, but there are time limits to establishing the right to stay in the home. As a protection, you’ll be required to attend counseling to make sure you know about reverse mortgages. Don’t stop there, however. Get expert advice before you begin. To process the loan, only use a Certified Reverse Mortgage Professional. Go online to the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association website (www. reversemortgage.org) and read how a reverse mortgage works, especially the Your Roadmap step-by-step information and the Reverse Mortgage Self-Evaluation. Best bet: If you have any alternative to increasing your retirement income, use that option instead of a reverse mortgage. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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12-Oz. Cans Or 8-Pack 12-Oz. Bottles Pepsi roducts, Lemon And Izze Fusion
4.97 Simply Orange Juices 52-Oz. FairLife Milk Or 59-Oz., Selected
24-Pack Morning Fresh Farms Drinking Water 1/2-Liter Bottles
1.99 2 5 /$
We proudly accept Visa, Discover Card, Mastercard, Debit Cards, and EBT Cards.
Maxwell House Wake Up Roast Coffee 30.65-Oz. Can
1.99 General Mills Cheerios
12.2-Oz. Cinnamon Toast Crunch, 13-Oz. Reese’s Peanut Butter Puffs, 12-Oz. Fruity Or Regular
1.99
Oreo Cookies
10.1 To 15.5-Oz., Selected
Deli Fried Chicken 4 - 6 PM Weekdays
5.88
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Drug Thieves at the VA The Government Accountability Office has found serious problems with the way the Department of Veterans Affairs handles controlled substances and guards against having those drugs stolen by VA employees. Out of four facilities the GAO was asked to review, one had missed its required monthly inspection of patient-care areas and the pharmacy 43 percent of the time. Three facilities failed follow three of the nine requirements for handling controlled substances, including verifying that shipments were complete and doing a physical inventory two or three times per week. One facility only completed one of the nine steps, that of verifying that a substance was dispensed. Two of them could not even verify that controlled substances actually made it from the pharmacy to patient-care areas. If there’s one dangerous hole in the system, this is it. Consider what happens when an addict pharmacy worker either takes or changes the drugs he or she is to deliver to a hospital ward or surgical unit. There was a case where an employee had been confiscating fentanyl (an anesthetic) destined for surgery patients and was using it for himself -- while refilling the vials with saline solution. He apparently was on staff at numerous hospitals in the area, doing the same thing. Not only that, but he was infected with hepatitis C, which he passed on to at least one patient. Another junkie, an emergency-room nurse, gave herself injections of painkillers and then noted on the records that that they had been given to patients. The GAO report concluded in part that the VA’s “ability to detect diversion and protect its veterans from harm -- such as depriving them of needed pain medications -- is limited.” I cringe to think about the patients who didn’t get their pain medication or anesthetic -especially the one about to have surgery. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
TRAVEL TIME TOURS PRESENTS LACOMEDIA DINNER THEATRE MAY 25, 2017 A ONE DAY TRIP
Includes Luncheon/Performance Of Sister Act, a Musical Comedy About Catholic Nuns Forming a Choir to Raise Money for Their Church.
Answers: 1. George Bell, in 1987. 2. Clemens was plus 170, Johnson plus 137 and Maddux plus 128. 3. Ray Graves (1960), Steve Spurrier (‘91, ‘94, ‘95, ‘96), Will Muschamp (2012) and Jim McElwain (2015). 4. Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton (34 in 1957), Anthony Mason (34 in 2001) and Sam Cassell (34 in 2004). 5. Twenty-three. 6. Men’s rugby sevens, where Fiji won the gold medal. 7. Arnold Palmer, with 44.
Answers 1. Whipped egg white and sugar 2. Tom, Dick and Harry 3. 24 4. “Oliver Twist” 5. Federated States of Micronesia 6. Four 7. 88 8. 969 in the Hebrew Bible 9. Zero 10. A crash
ANSWERS: 1) New 2) Mark 3) Carmel 4) Jesus 5) Jerusalem 6) Reuben
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