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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.
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)! 1 cup hazelnuts, toasted 1 cup sugar 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate 1/8 teaspoon salt 2 large egg whites 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1. Heat oven to 350 F. Line large cookie sheet with kitchen parchment or foil. 2. In food processor with knife blade attached, blend toasted hazelnuts with sugar, cocoa, chocolate and salt until finely ground. Add egg whites and vanilla, and process until blended. 3. Remove blade from processor. Drop batter by rounded teaspoons, 2 inches apart, on cookie sheet. If necessary, with moistened fingertip, push batter from teaspoon. Bake cookies 10 minutes or until tops feel firm when lightly pressed. Cool cookies completely on cookie sheet on wire rack. (If you want to reuse cookie sheet right away, let cookies cool slightly, about 5 minutes, then slide parchment or foil, with cookies attached, onto wire rack and let cookies cool completely.) 4. When cool, carefully peel cookies off parchment or foil. Store cookies in tightly covered container up to 2 weeks. For thousands of triple-tested recipes, visit our website at www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipes/. Guitars for Vets with PTSD
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.
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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 debut of the Stratocaster as Holly belted out “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue.”
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1. MOVIES: What 1989 movie stars a character called “Wild Thing”? 2. GEOGRAPHY: Which two countries occupy the Scandinavian Peninsula? 3. MATH: How do you write the year 2016 in Roman numerals? 4. ANATOMY: What are the small bones of the middle ear called collectively? 5. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which company makes the Testarossa sports car? 6. HISTORY: Who was president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War? 7. MEASUREMENTS: What is the U.S. equivalent of .45 kilograms? 8. LANGUAGE: In the NATO phonetic alphabet, what is the word for the letter “E”? 9. MUSIC: What is the smallest member of the flute family? 10. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: What 19th-century humorist once said, “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself”?
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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.
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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 govern- * On April 28, 1967, boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the U.S. Army ment and, thus, granting it a monopoly on the and is immediately stripped of his heavyweight American tea trade. title. Ali, a Muslim, cited religious reasons for his decision to forgo military service. * 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 * On April 25, 1989, James Richardson walks out a year. Most were imprisoned for drug and alco- of a Florida prison 21 years after being wrongfully convicted of killing his seven children. Special hol charges imposed during Prohibition. prosecutor Janet Reno agreed to the release after * On May 1, 1931, President Herbert Hoover of- evidence showed that the conviction resulted ficially dedicates New York City’s Empire State from misconduct by the prosecutor. Building, pressing a button from the White House to turn on the building’s lights. Hoover’s gesture * On April 29, 1992, a jury in Los Angeles acwas symbolic; while he remained in Washington, quits four police officers who had been charged D.C., someone else flicked the switches in New with using excessive force in arresting black motorist Rodney King. The verdict enraged the York. black community, prompting three days of wide* On April 26, 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field spread rioting, arson and looting.
Social Security Strategies Change 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 lump-sum 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.
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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Let’s observe Save the Elephant Day on April 16 by focusing on the facts about this pachyderm. • There are two species of elephants, African and Asian. The African elephants are the larger, and can reach a height of 13 feet (4 meters) head to toe and weight up to 14,000 lbs. (6,350 kg). The smaller Asian variety grow to a height of 9.8 feet (3 m), weighing up to 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kg). • The African elephants, the largest of all land
mammals, have two subspecies, the savannah and the forest, with the savannah breed dwelling in the grasslands south of the Sahara Desert and the forest elephants inhabiting the rainforests of western Africa. Asian elephants are found in India, Sri Lanka, China, and Southeast Asia.
• You can tell the difference between the two species by looking at the ears, since the African’s are much larger. Its skin is also much more wrinkled than its Asian counterpart. The African elephant’s trunk has two “fingers” at the end of the trunk, enabling it to pick things up, while the Asian breed has just one “finger.” • The elephant’s trunk contains eight major muscles on each side, and another 150,000 portions of muscles throughout this unusual appendage. Although there are no bones in the trunk, it’s strong enough to push down trees, yet nimble enough to pick up a piece of grass. The elephant uses the trunk to drink, with water sucked partway up the trunk. The animal then tilts its head back, emptying the trunk into its mouth.
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of the group. While the females all stick together, adult males enjoy wandering on their own. The gestation period is 22 months and a litter will consist of just one calf, with more than one a very rare occurrence. The baby calf weighs nearly 250 lbs. (113 kg) at birth and will gain 2 to 3 lbs. (0.9 to 1.4 kg) every day for its first year. It won’t be weaned until it is almost three years old.
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The elephant population is on the decline. At the turn of the 20th century, a few million African elephants occupied their habitat, and about 100,000 of the Asian variety. The African population has plummeted to between 450,000 and 700,000, and there are an estimated 35,000 – 40,000 wild Asian elephants remaining. Their lifespan can be up to 70 years.
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JELLY BEANS (continued): • In 1976, the Goelitz beans, now called Jelly Belly, were offered in eight gourmet flavors – root beer, green apple, licorice, cream soda, lemon, tangerine, very cherry, and grape. By the 1980s, 40 flavors were available, including now-President Reagan’s favorite, blueberry, created expressly for him. More than 7,000 lbs. (3,175 kg) of red, white, and blue Jelly Belly beans were served at Reagan’s inaugural ball in 1981, and the President was reported to order 60 cases of the beans every month. He also gave jars of the beans to visiting dignitaries as a welcome gift. • Visit the Ronald Reagan Presidential library in Simi
Valley, California, and you can view a portrait of the former chief executive made from 10,000 Jelly Belly beans.
• Jelly Belly owns the distinction of being the
first jelly beans in space when they were part of the treats packed on the 1983 Challenger Space Shuttle.
• Jelly Belly has had some unusual flavors over the
years, including the first “savory” flavor, buttered popcorn, which then debuted in 1989. In 2000, the “Harry Potter” flavors were introduced – dirt, bacon, spinach, earwax, and vomit. Their “Boozled” line was presented with yummy flavors of dog food, baby wipes, and pencil shavings.
• The term “jelly bean” isn’t always about candy. In
the 1920s, it referred to a young man who dressed stylishly for the ladies, but had nothing much else to offer.
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“You can tell a lot about a fella’s character by whether he picks out all of one color or just grabs a handful.” -- Ronald Reagan