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year, while the Arctic’s annual precipitation is about 500 mm (20 inches). • The Sahara’s temperatures are more indicative of what we might think of as a desert. The average year-round temperature is about 86°F, with the hottest periods often exceeding 122°. The hottest temperature ever recorded there reached a roasting 136.4°F in Aziziya, Libya on September 13, 1922. ISLANDS GALORE

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1. called Bolshaya Gora, which translates “big mountain.” For a short time in the 1880s, it was known as Densmore’s Mountain, after an Alaskan prospector who was the first European to reach its base.

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and then remove yourself from them. Turn off the television. Skip past the magazine ads and Pinterest. Isolate yourself from mindless shopping. Toss mail-order catalogs in the trash unopened. Put distance between you and temptation. Avoid places where you are most likely to slip back into your old ways of spending beyond your means. Self-Talk Confronting yourself is a great way to build your strength against the strong current of temptation to spend beyond your ability to pay. Ask yourself these questions, and then expect honest answers: Do I need this? Don’t I have something already that will do just as well? Am I sure this is a good value? Do I have the cash to pay for it? Could I delay this purchase for a few weeks? Am I willing to sit on my decision for 24 hours before acting?

Living below your means in this highpressure, credit-based, gotta-have-it-all-rightnow culture is not exactly easy. * I bet you didn’t know there’s a word spe It takes skill and determination to go cifically used to refer to the space between against the tide and buck a system that encouryour eyebrows. Yep: It’s called the “ophryages spending all we have now plus what we on.” hope we’ll get in the future. It takes the strength of character to * Fans of old Westerns have doubtless Never feel you must apologize for choosprotest the message that you can have it all now seen depictions of Native Americans scalping the high road when it comes to managing well and pay for it later. ing their enemies. Most probably don’t rethe money that flows into your life. If you’re em Here’s the secret to living below your alize, though, that the brutal practice didn’t barrassed to say, “I can’t afford it,” say instead, “I means: originate with the Indians. When the Dutch just don’t choose to spend my money that way.” Buy what you need. Want what you have. and English settlers were trying to clear out the natives, they were paid a bounty for That’s it -- eight words that could change your life Living below your means creates a margin each scalp they brought back. The Native forever; eight words that point the way to conbetween you and the financial edge. Americans adopted the practice only after tentment. Living below your means is the way to the Europeans’ arrival on the continent. So how can we practice contentment, build wealth, reduce stress and increase options. embrace those eight words and live well in a cul Living below your means increases peace * If you’re a runner -- and a compulsive ture where everywhere we turn, we’re tempted to of mind. counter -- you might already be aware of the live beyond our income? fact that the average person’s feet hit the Living below your means is an honorable ground approximately 800 times per mile way to conduct your life. TUES., APRIL 24 Insulate when running. * * * Choosing to be grateful for what you have Please review carefully. Double Phone Number(s) Spelling  Pri Marycheck: invites  questions, comments  and tips is the way to build a layer of insulation around * Paleontologists claim that Neanderthals at mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or c/o Everyday MON., 5 you Contact representative immediately with changes your life that will protect you from focusing on your Tidbits used toothpicks. How can NOV. they tell, Cheapskate, 12340 Seal Beach Blvd., Suite B-416, or corre youdon’t have. might well check: ask? It  seems toothpick  use Seal Beach, email: CA 90740. This column will answer quesOffice: 760-320-0997 valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-3 w carefully. Double Phonethat Number(s) Spelling what Prices Hours tions of general interest, but letters cannot be anleaves distinctive grooves on teeth. Reading the fine print and taking the swered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of www. your Tidbits representative *** immediately with changes or corrections. time to analyze the real cost is a good way to DebtProofLiving.com, a personal finance member Thoughtemail: for thevalleybits@msn.com Day: “We should not be Fax: 760-320-1630 increase that protective insulation. 760-320-0997 website and the author of “Debt-Proof Living,” resimply fighting evil in the name of good, but Taking the time to add up the real cost leased in 2014. To find out more about Mary and read struggling against the certainties of people of that new car you have your eye on can make Handi-Bars her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate who claim always to know where good and pg 4C at26x disc. your older, albeit paid for, vehicle suddenly look 1/12 webpage www.creators.com. evil are to be found.” -- Tzvetan Todorov April 29, 2018 Vol. 14 - No. 18 a lot better. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM

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Medicare premium increases have nothing to do system. In 2018, people who were working earned with the CPI. Instead, they must be set at a level one credit for each $1,320 in Social Security taxable that covers 25 percent of the cost of running the income. But no one earns more than four credits per year. In other words, once you made $5,280, program. YOUR Another measuring stick, the national wage your Social Security record has been credited with index, is used to set increases to other provisions the maximum four credits or quarters of coverage. of the law that affect Social Security beneficiaries Next year, the one credit limit goes up to $1,360, and taxpayers. Specifically, this includes increases meaning you will have to earn $5,440 in 2019 beby Tom Margenau in the amount of wages or self-employment income fore you get the maximum four credits assigned to subject to Social Security tax, the amount of in- your Social Security account. People under age 66 who get Social Secucome needed to earn a quarter of coverage, and rity retirement or survivor’s benefits but who are the Social Security earnings penalty limits. The Social Security taxable earnings base still working are subject to limits in the amount will go up from $128,400 this year to $132,900 in of money they can earn and still receive all their 2019. In other words, people who earn more than Social Security checks. That limit was $17,040 this Se- year and will be $17,640 in 2019. 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This mark is on the bottom of a porcelain vase that I have. It is decorated with pastel flowers and green leaves, all in relief against a cream background. My vase stands about 8 inches tall, has gold trim and is in perfect condition. It was a gift from a great-aunt and has been sitting in my china cabinet for years. I don’t know anything about its histor y. If you could provide some information about its vintage, maker and value, I would be grateful. Amphora Porcelain Works was located in Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia.

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an image of a spinning wheel in relief on the top drawer. The set includes the dresser; a full bed with a headboard, footboard and side rails; and a chest with four drawers. The image on the footboard is of a woman at a spinning wheel. The set has been in my family for at least 75 years and is in excellent condition. I could not Hard rock maple bedroom furniture find a manwith motifs in relief were made in ufacturer’s the 1950s. mark. I would like to know whether it is an antique or it is simply old and also any other information you could provide.

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furniture was made around 1950. Several furniture factories made pieces decorated with a variety of motifs in relief. A few of the most popular designs included spinning wheels, stagecoaches, covered wagons, nautical themes and Davy Crockett. At first glance, your furniture appeared to be made by Virginia House. But because Virginia House always marked its furniture with a trademark, it is unlikely that Virginia House made your set. Several other factories produced similar lines of bedroom sets, including Ethan Allen, Tell City and Huntley-Hill-Stockton. Your set would probably be worth $600 to $1,200. If you could identify the maker, it could be worth more. ***

The mark you enclosed was used around 1910 by Amphora Porcelain Works. The pottery was founded by Hans and Carl Reissner, Rudolf Kessel and Edward Stellmacher in TurnTeplitz, Bohemia, in 1892. They produced handdecorated porcelain and earthenware that appealed to both Europe and the United States. Your vase was made in the late 1800s or the early 1900s and would be worth $250 to $325. * * * Address your questions to Anne McCollam,

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Geography (from page 3) naming it after a U.S. presidential candidate, William McKinley, who became president the following year. It wasn’t until 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the bill to establish Mt. McKinley National Park, that the peak became formally recognized under that name, remaining so for nearly 100 years. But efforts to reverse that decision began in earnest in 1975 by the Athabascan people of Alaska, and in August of 2015, the permanent name of Denali was officially declared. • Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii, rises 13,802 ft above sea level, making it the highest point in the state of Hawaii. However, most of the mountain is beneath the surface, and when measured from its oceanic base Mauna Kea becomes the tallest mountain in the world. It measures over 33,000 feet to the top, surpassing Mount Everest by some 4,000 feet.

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typewriter eraser? Or, if you’re younger, have you moved your belongings into a long-unused HAPPY FROM TIDBITS! desk, onlyHALLOWEEN to find a strange-looking gadget with fiber-like hairs bushing out of one end? What TABLE OF SCARY MOVIES you’ve foundbyisRyan a typewriter Toepfer eraser. Usually CONTENTS • Crater Lake isn’t the deepest lake in North shaped likejust a pencil, tiphaving was made of an Some people seem tothe love the living America. That distinction belongs to Canada’s Scary Movies especially-abrasive to daylights scared out ofrubber, them.which Why was else used would Great Slave Lake, with a depth of 2,014 feet, pages 1-4 “erase” typing error. Thebeother end featured situated in the Northwest Territories. Yet neither horror and the suspense movies so popular? To Join the Club a small brush made of stiff plastic strands that of these can compare with the world’s deepest, celebrate Halloween, Tidbits goes behind the pages 5-6 wasof used to sweep remnants of the erasure Russia’s Baikal Lake, which measures over one scenes some classicthe thrillers. Endangered mile in depth at 5,387 feet. ⁫ off the page. • When Alfred Hitchcock purchased the film Sights and Sounds • rights There’s shortage litter on theupground tofornoPsycho, heofalso bought as many pages 7-8 day, butofthankfully, wenovel no longer discarded copies the original as heseecould find, pull-tabs. The tabs on older easy-open beverage hoping to keep the story’s ending a secret. cans pulled completely off the can. People who • The famous shower Psycho wasdodging filmed walked in bare feetscene wereofconstantly by Jason Jenkins using double for Norman Bates, as Anthony these acarelessly-dropped metal hazards. Perkins was appearing in a play (Greenwillow) • in The rhythmic “beep” scanner is the New York at the time.of Thethefirst time Perkins musical saw accompaniment the at supermarket Not all greenside chips are equal. There are actually that scene wastoback the studio, different lies, distances to the pins, and terrains checkout line. But if you’ve ever wondered watching the daily “rushes,” and he said he was between you and the hole. Not only are all chips where the cliché of saying “ka-ching!” in rejust as scared as everyone else. not equal, but one club should not always be used lation to money comes from, that’s the sound for them all. • Take a close look electric, at Michael mask in that the old-style not Myers’ electronic, cash One basic of the greenside chip should be a the 1978 camp Halloween. Does registers made.classic Cashiers of that era hadthe to consistent technique face look familiar? The movie was filmed on which includes setmanually punch a series of buttons to ring up up, swing length, and such tight budget, that the department your apurchase, followed byprop a smack of the impact conditions. had to make do with what they had. For Myers’ “total” button with the heel of the hand. After that, you have disguise, they used an old Captain Kirk (Star the freedom to alter the • “Do you want your carbons?” used to be an Trek) mask, which they spray painted white and club you’re using, its automatic question asked by merchants after alignment, and where then re-shaped the eyeholes. you’d signed for a credit card payment. At that you hit it on the face. turn the page for more! time, credit card receipts were filled out by hand Assuming for now ADVERTISING that the face is square and you’rePROOF striving for cenin triplicate, with a small piece of carbon paper contact, practice FinalterChanges DUE: mastering three clubs around 5:00 p.m.. inserted between each sheet. It didn’t take long Please review carefully. Double check:  Phonefor Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours the green. Use the 8-iron long distance chips for thieves to realize they could retrieve the where yourepresentative can allow the ball to land quickly or and Contact your Tidbits immediately with changes corrections. used carbons from the trash and steal valuable roll out over760-320-0997 the length of the green. Adjust to the Office: Fax: 760-320-1630 pitching wedge when the pin is more centralized credit card information. Once that scam gained on the green and you don’t need as much roll on popularity, waiters and cashiers regularly ofthe ball. fered the carbons to customers, giving them Finally, switch to the opportunity to destroy them. the sand or lob wedge

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