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• The Canadian Space Agency assigned him to a position at NASA in Houston, where he served as Chief of Robotics, followed by a position as Chief of International Space Station Operations. He also served as the voice of Mission Control for 25 different space shuttle missions.

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● It was celebrated Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky who made the following sage observation: “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.” ● If you try to foretell the future by looking at fingernail clippings, you’re practicing onychomancy. ● The name of the islands of Hawaii is thought to come from a word in an early Polynesian language meaning “place of the gods.” ● You might be surprised to learn that before novelist Salman Rushdie wrote “The Satanic Verses” and had a fatwa issued against him by the Supreme Leader of Iran, he worked in advertising, coming up with slogans for candy companies. ● If you’re like the average woman, you will kiss 15 men, go on four disastrous dates, be stood up once and suffer heartbreak twice before you meet the man you want to settle down with. ● In 2009, Japanese scientists revealed that the human body emits a very slight, yet perceptible, glow. After using a special camera to study a sample of men in their 20s, they found that intensity of the glow varies, with the lowest point at around 10 a.m. and the brightest at 4 a.m. ● Horses can tell each other apart just by the sound of their whinnies. ● It is traditional in Scotland to “blacken the bride.” In this process, a soon-to-wed woman is abducted by friends, covered in honey, eggs, sauce and feathers, then taken around town on a pub crawl. ● In ancient Rome, slaves with red hair commanded a higher price from buyers. *** Thought for the Day: “What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.” -- Boris Pasternak

Don’t Toss Food Before It’s Time We throw away a lot of food -- both at the retail level and at home -- for a lot of reasons. On the retail level, food can be discarded because of damage (dented cans), overstocking, unpurchased holiday foods, spillage and blemished foods. At home, we throw away food for even more reasons, including spillage, lack of knowledge about preparation and portion sizes, the aging of fruits and vegetables, uneaten holiday foods and confusion over “use by” versus “best before” versus “sell by” dates on packaging. (Unfortunately there are no federal regulations regarding the date information except on infant formula. Some states require date information, but it’s not uniform.) The Department of Agriculture has completed a major study on food loss, and it has come to some startling conclusions about how much food we throw away in one year. On the consumer level: fresh fruit, 9.5 billion pounds; fresh vegetables, 12.8 billion pounds; poultry, 3.9 billion pounds; eggs, 2.1 billion pounds; fish, 1.5 billion pounds; milk, 10.5 billion pounds. Per individual, that means: fresh fruit, 40 pounds; fresh vegetables, 59 pounds; poultry, 13 pounds; eggs, 7 pounds; fish, 5 pounds; milk, 34 pounds. When it comes to the calorie value of food that’s thrown away, two studies differ in their conclusions. One study says it’s the equivalent of 789 calories per day. The other puts it at 1,400 calories per day. It’s likely that much food is thrown away simply because of the confusion over the dates. The Department of Agriculture explains: ● Sell-by date -- How long the store can display the product for sale. ● Best if used by (or before) -- Use before this day for best flavor or quality. ● Use by date -- The last date recommended to use the product while at the peak of quality. Cans: Canned foods are safe as long as they aren’t exposed temperatures below freezing or above 90 degrees F, and don’t have dents, rust or especially bulges. (Another opinion: Go by the dates on the can.) Eggs: Store in the coldest part of the refrigerator, not the door. Use within three to five weeks of purchase. They’re safe to use after the “sell-by” date. For more information, look for Food Product Dating on the Department of Agriculture website: www.fsis.usda.gov.

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Chris Hadfield (from page 2) on Christmas Eve via YouTube and Twitter. The guitar he played in the song had previously been brought to the space station by another astronaut. He recorded more songs, using satellite links to perform with Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies and the Chieftains for Music Mondays. Just before returning to Earth, he recorded a version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” which led some people to speculate on the legal issues surrounding recording a copyrighted song while in orbit, as no one is sure exactly how far from the Earth’s surface a copyright actually extends. • After returning to earth, Hadfield announced his retirement, having spent 25 years in service to the Canadian Space Agency. He was eager to move back to Canada after spending nearly 30 years living in the U.S., stating that he was making good on a promise he made to his high school sweetheart wife that they would eventually move back home. 

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At one point this winter, 49 states had snow on the ground. That made it extra tough on homeless veterans trying to keep warm. The Department of Veterans Affairs has been working hard to meet its goal of eliminating veteran homelessness by fiscal year 2015 and getting veterans into permanent and stable housing, but the need is still great. Stand Downs for homeless veterans have already started all over the country. If you’ve never organized or participated in a Stand Down, let this be the year you step forward. There are many ways to help. Stand Downs span a variety of types of services. There are three- and four-day events with shelter, resource fairs lasting one or two days, health fairs and job fairs. Services offered can range from referrals for employment, substance-abuse treatment and health care to food, shelter, legal help, dental services and clothing. Veterans also can get benefits and Social Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving. Security help and counseling. com and author of 24 books, including her 2013 release, To participate individually, go online to the “The Smart Woman’s Guide to Planning for Retirement.” National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (nchv.org) You can email her at mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2099, Cypress, CA and look under Service Providers. 90630. To find out more about Mary Hunt and read her past To host a Stand Down with your veterans sercolumns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at vice group, go to the same website and read the Guide www.creators.com. and Overview. Be sure your event is listed there as COPYRIGHT 2014 CREATORS.COM well as on the VA site at www.va.gov/homeless. Depending on the statistics you read, the number of homeless veterans is either going up or down -- or the veterans are moving to other locations, altering the count. In any event, there are still too ADVERTISING PROOF many veterans on the street. You4 canPM help by particiMon., 2/17/14 Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. pating in a Stand Down. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours If you’re a veteran seeking services from a Our Student Clinic is Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes corrections. Stand Down event,orcall 202-461-1857 to find out when open to the public. $ 760-320-0997 Office: Fax: 760-320-1630 one will be held in your area. ALWAYS: 25 per hour or $ 40 per 1.5 hours

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Politicians Punt Again on Social Security Reform As I write this, the president and Congress are once again playing games with Social Security. In the ongoing negotiations over the federal budget, Social Security is being used as a political football, with each side blaming the other for lack of progress in getting near the end zone of any kind of meaningful reform of the retirement program. Before I come back to what they are arguing about, let’s establish (for about the 1,000th time in this column) some basic facts. One: Social Security needs reform. As baby boomers are retiring at the rate of about 10,000 per day, we are approaching a point when there simply won’t be enough money flowing into the system to cover all future promised benefits. Two: There are essentially two ways you can “fix” Social Security. You can pump more money into the system by slightly raising revenues through a variety of means. Or you can cut back on the amount of money flowing out of the system by slightly reducing benefits through a variety of means. Three: Social Security reform is NOT a draconian issue. There are some very viable and relatively modest proposals for change on which most reasonable people should be able to agree. Four: Because we live in a democracy where governance is based on compromise, any eventual solution must inevitably include a combination of revenue increases and benefit cuts. And it’s that latter point where our current political system is breaking down. Neither side is willing to budge. Hard-core Republicans insist that they will not entertain a budget proposal that includes any kind of tax increases, including Social Security tax increases. And hard-core Democrats insist that they will not consider budget proposals that include any kind of cuts in Social Security benefits. In the latest round of Social Security football, bipartisan negotiators had ironed out a deal that included two reforms: one from each side of the ledger. On the tax increase side, the reform called for increasing the Social Security wage base, meaning that wealthier people would pay higher Social Security taxes. I have read and heard different numbers, but the one I’d seen most often raised the amount of money subject to Social Security tax from the current $117,000 to $200,000. On the benefit reduction side of the ledger, the reform proposal called for a change to the way Social Security’s annual cost-of-living increases would be calculated. The idea, called the chained consumer price index, is too complicated to explain in this short space. But it would have resulted in future cost-of-living adjustments being reduced by about 1 percent. These reforms alone would not have entirely solved Social Security’s financial problems. But they would have made a significant dent in the program’s long range deficit. The Republicans punted first. Their leadership, under intense pressure from the Tea Party wing, took any kind of Social Security tax increase off the table. And frankly, that left President Obama, with pressure from the left wing of his party, with little choice but to drop cost-of-living benefit reductions from his budget proposal. So there we are. Back to square one, the

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● On March 20, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” is published. The book was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.” ● On March 22, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Beer and Wine Revenue Act. The law levied a federal tax on all alcoholic beverages to raise revenue for the federal government and gave individual states the option to impose further regulations.

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permit them to produce Amberina glass. It has also been made by Fenton, Blenko and Boyd Art Crystal. Newer pieces don’t have the rich color and gradual shading. Your circa 1890 Amberina pitcher can be found selling in antiques shops and eBay in the range of $25 to $50. * * *

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Enclosed is a photo of a small Amberina glass pitcher. It stands 6 inches tall and is in perfect condition. It shades from deep yellow at the base to red at the top. I recently paid $18 for it at an antiques shop in Maine. The dealer said it was made in 1890. Anything you can tell me about my pitcher will be appreciated.

I have enclosed a drawing of the mark that is seen on the back of a plate that was my mother’s. She always used it as the “Birthday Plate.” If it was your birthday, you dinner was ser ved on it. The plate is white and decorated with brown flowers and leaves that look like ink drawings. I would appreciate anything you can tell me about my plate.

Colonial Pottery was made in Staffordshire, England.

Colonial Pottery was made by F. Winkle and Co., which was located in Stoke, Staffordshire, England, from 1890 to 1931. “Grace” is the name of the pattern, and it is a transfer print. Your plate was made sometime between 1890 and 1925. It would probably be worth $25 to $35.

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I have a framed photo of Shirley Temple holding a dog when she was a little girl. She looks gorgeous with all her curls! I would like to know what it is worth because I’d like to sell it.

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