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TIDBITS® CELEBRATES UNUSUAL NOVEMBER HOLIDAYS by Kathy Wolfe When we think of November holidays, Thanksgiving most frequently comes to mind. But there are several other unusual observances you may not know about. Tidbits brings you up to date on a few others worth noting. • Folks around the world band together every 11th month to celebrate “No-Shave November,” when they toss their razors aside for 30 days. Do you know the reason behind this observance? It began in Australia in 2003 as “Movember,” a campaign to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancers. In the last 12 years, the movement has grown to 21 countries. Participants are urged to show off their mustaches, goatees, or what have you, and then to donate what they would have spent on hair grooming to their country’s cancer society for research. In the U.S., prostate cancer accounts for about 5% of all cancer deaths. Leaders of the foundation hope that men will be asked why they have a beard, which can promote conversations about men’s health. • Most of us are probably unaware there is a National Button Society, let alone National Button Day! The society was formed in 1938 for all who enjoyed preserving, studying, collecting, and crafting with buttons, and November 16 was designated National Button Day. The organization boasts 3,000 members on four continents. (Continued on Next Page)
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HEALTH PAGE TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH By Keith Roach, M.D.
Could Back Brace Cause Swollen Feet? --DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 83 years old. I was lifting a heavy end table back in November, and I heard a crack. I knew I was in trouble, as that had happened on the golf course many years ago. I went to the hospital and was there for six days. They took an X-ray, which showed moderate facet arthropathy, mild degenerative disc disease and a mild compression fracture at T12. I was prescribed a back brace, and have been wearing it for three months. However, both feet have begun tingling in the toes, and my foot is numb all the time. I have had periodic ankle swelling, but now the swelling is up to the knees in both legs. Does the back brace have something to do with it? -- L.B. ANSWER: Facet arthropathy is a term used by radiologists to describe arthritis in the back. Degenerative disc disease is very common, if not universal, in 83-year-olds. Both can cause back pain. However, the “crack” you heard and the finding of a compression fracture are more troubling. A compression fracture of a vertebra is like what happens to a cardboard box if you put too much weight on top of it. The combination of a compression fracture, tingling and numbness is concerning. It’s time to go back and get reexamined. Compression fractures can lead to nerve compression. Kidney, liver and heart problems can all cause swelling of the feet, but I think the most likely cause may be that you aren’t elevating your feet as much as before because of the back brace. The booklet on back problems gives an outline of the causes of and treatments for the more-common back maladies. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Roach -- No. 303W, 628 Virginia Drive Orlando, FL 32803. Enclose a check or money order for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: Can you explain the condition known as “stone shoulder”? I am a man, 67 years old, and I believe I have it. I spent 45 years as a TV news photographer, handling heavy cameras, tripods, etc. -- B.J. ANSWER: “Stone shoulder” is a new one for me. Maybe you mean frozen shoulder, a condition also called “adhesive capsulitis.” It’s not a strictly accurate term, since the loss of movement the name implies is gradual. It starts with shoulder pain, often worse at night, lasting for months. Stiffness develops, and then the loss of shoulder movement can be severe. A careful physical exam by a regular doctor, a rheumatologist or sports medicine doctor, or an orthopedic surgeon can make the diagnosis. Often, the doctor will inject a steroid and anesthetic into the shoulder: The pain relief and improved movement within a minute make the diagnosis. I refer patients to physical therapy for a gradually increasing exercise regimen. Sometimes, additional injections are necessary. In your case, I would worry about a rotator cuff tear or inflammation, which you also might have acquired while doing your job. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@ med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2015 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved
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NOVEMBER HOLIDAYS (continued): • November 10 has been designated Sesame Street Day in honor of the premiere of this popular educational program on that day in 1969. Now the most widely-viewed children’s program in the world, it has aired in upwards of 120 countries, with more than 74 million American viewers. About 8 million Americans tune in every week. Sesame Street was the brainstorm of Joan Cooney, a public TV documentary producer, with the goal of entertaining preschoolers while educating them, particularly underprivileged children. She hired puppeteer Jim Henson to create characters such as Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, and Oscar the Grouch. Tests conducted after one year on the air showed that the more kids watched the program, the more they knew, an average of a 19% increase in general knowledge. • Every year, the third Thursday of November is designated The Great American Smokeout, when all Americans are urged to stop smoking. The challenge is only for 24 hours (this year it’s November 19), but it is the hope of the American Cancer Society that the decision will last forever. The event had its beginnings in 1970, when a Randolph, Massachusetts man named Arthur Mullaney asked people to give up cigarettes for one day and donate the money saved to the local high school’s scholarship A similar campaign Natural & Organic Groceries & Supplements fund. was held in Minnesota a few 14 years later, and in 1976, the Sheridan American Cancer Society Good Health Emporium Leather had its first official SmokeOutfitters • out in San Francisco. The Society reminds citizens that tobacco causes more than Werco Ave. 5 million deaths every year, and that the life expectancy • for a smoker is 10 years less Firestone Complete than that of a non-smoker. Auto Care (continued next page)
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NOVEMBER HOLIDAYS (continued): • International Tongue Twister Day falls on November 8th this year. The official definition of a tongue twister is “a phrase containing a combination of alliteration and rhyme strategically designed to be stumbled over.” Some of the more familiar ones include “rubber baby buggy bumpers” and “She sells sea shells by the seashore.” Most of us know that “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” but were you aware that Peter Piper was a real person? Pierre Poivre, a onearmed French pirate and horticulturist who lived in the mid-1700s, was known for stealing spice nuts, known as peppers, from Dutch trade ships and planting them in his garden. The Guinness Book of World Records states that the English language’s most difficult tongue twister is, “The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.” • November 8th is also X-Ray Day, commemorating the day in 1895 when German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen accidentally discovered the X-ray in his laboratory. While experimenting with passing high-voltage current through a glass gas tube, Roentgen observed that the beam turned a screen 9 feet (2.7 m) away a strange greenish fluorescent color, even though the tube was covered in heavy black cardboard. Realizing that objects could be penetrated by the rays, he made an X-ray of his wife’s hand that clearly showed its bones. Roentgen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901 for his discovery. • November 19 is also Rocky & Bullwinkle Day, to commemorate the original premiere day of Rocky & His Friends (later known as The Bullwinkle Show) on that day in 1959. The animated series, which featured Bullwinkle the moose and his flying squirrel friend Rocket J. Squirrel (Rocky for short), aired from 1959 to 1964. • Bullwinkle received his name from the name of a Berkeley, California car dealership called Bullwinkel Motors. The duo lived in the fictional Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, which was loosely based on the real city of International Falls, Minnesota. They battled the Russian-esque spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. • Happy Area Code Day! In the early 1950s, the Bell Telephone System used human operators to direct long-distance calls to their destinations. However, a change was on the on the way when the North American Numbering Plan was devised, a plan that assigned area codes across the continent. New Jersey received the first area code, 201, followed by the District of Columbia, which was assigned 202. The first customer-dialed telephone call using area codes was made on November 10, 1951, from Englewood, New Jersey, to Alameda, California. • You probably didn’t know that November 15 is National Bundt Pan Day, a day set aside to honor this ringshaped, fluted cake pan. Inspired by the European fruit cake known as Gugelhupf, the pan was invented by David Dalquist, founder of the Nordic Ware Company, in 1950. He first called it a “bund” pan, from the German word for “gathering,” but added a “t” at the end for trademark protection. There wasn’t much enthusiasm about the tube pan until the 1960s, when Texas housewife Ella Helfrich concocted a recipe for the Tunnel of Fudge cake using her Bundt pan, and was awarded second place in the annual Pillsbury Bake-off Contest, taking home a $5,000 prize. Since then, more than 60 million Bundt pans have been sold.
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PAW’S CORNER By Sam Mazzotta Do Charity Events Really Help Pets? --DEAR PAW’S CORNER: A local pet charity is going to hold a Halloween-themed pet walk, where participants bring their dogs in costume to parade along a local street. My question is, do these kinds of charity events really help pets in need? They just seem like chichi see-and-be-seen social gatherings without any real purpose. -- Dan in Long Beach, California
PLAN YOUR EPITAPH One of the more unusual November observances takes place on November 2. Plan Your Own Epitaph Day is the day set aside for you to determine what your tombstone should say about your life. Take a look at how some folks chose to be remembered. • The word “epitaph” has its origins in the Greek and Latin meaning “a funeral oration” or “over tomb.” Some epitaphs testify of the deceased’s character, whether good or bad, while others are designed to make the reader smile or contemplate his own mortality. • Merv Griffin, host of a popular talk show for 23 years, passed away in 2007 at age 82. His humorous tombstone contradicted the phrase he had uttered thousands of the times over the years, with the epitaph reading, “I will NOT be right back after this message.” • Often referred to as “the man with 1,000 voices,” Mel Blanc, the voice behind our favorite cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat, and Yosemite Sam, chose a line popularized by another of his characters, Porky Pig, as his final sign-off. The engraving on his tombstone appropriately reads, “That’s all folks.” • Some epitaphs speak of the reason behind the entombed’s death, such as “First a cough carried me off. Then a coffin they carried me off in,” or “She always said her feet were killing her, but nobody believed her,” and the classic, “I told you I was sick.” • Some folks allowed their next-of-kin to pen their epitaph, and may not have liked the results. Consider what one husband had engraved on his wife’s tombstone: “To follow you I’m not content. How do I know which way you went?” Another husband declared, “Here lies my wife. I bid her goodbye. She rests in peace and now so do I.” (continued on last page)
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DEAR DAN: Charity events can do a tremendous amount of good for pets in need. Besides donations of food, blankets and other items, most shelters and nonprofits need cold hard cash in order to function. These events can raise quite a bit of money. Many pet owners join in walks like these just for fun, and I think that’s fine. They’re proud of their pet and want to show it off, and it’s a great chance to socialize (as long as the dogs can handle large crowds). However, if you’re also concerned about how your donation will be used, it doesn’t hurt to do some research first. What exactly does the charity support? (Some fund pet rescues or local shelters; others advocate for seniors and their pets, and so on.) How much of its funding goes directly to the cause being supported? You can find the answer through watchdog groups like Charity Navigator (www.charitynavigator.org/), Guidestar (www.guidestar.org/Home.aspx) or the Wise Giving Alliance (www.give.org/). You also can check an approved nonprofit’s 990 tax forms from the IRS to see how efficiently donations are used. If you’re still skeptical, save those funds and donate them directly to your local shelter, where you can ask someone how that money is used, and it generally travels the shortest path toward helping animals in need. Send your questions or tips to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
ELISHA OTIS The name of Otis conjures up a vision of elevators for most folks, but there was much more to this inventor than just that apparatus. Here are the facts on American industrialist and inventor Elisha Otis. • As a young married man in Vermont, Elisha Otis designed and built his own gristmill, grinding grains into flour. When it failed to earn a profit, he converted the operation into a sawmill. Unfortunately, the sawmill was a bust as well, and Otis started building wagons and carriages. Tragically, his young wife passed away, leaving him with an infant and an eight-year-old. • At 34, Otis had remarried and moved to Albany, New York, where he worked as a doll maker. He tired quickly of the job, and took a position making bedsteads for four-poster beds. While working for that company in Albany, Otis set to work inventing a machine that could turn bedsteads four times faster than doing it manually. Production skyrocketed to 50 units per day. Otis was paid a $500 bonus, enabling him to start up his own business. In the meantime, he was also devising plans for a safety brake for trains and an automatic bread baking oven. • Tasked with converting a former sawmill into a bedstead factory of his own, Otis was discouraged with the amount of garbage and rubble he had to clean up. Much of it had to be moved to the upper floors of the factory. Otis and his sons went to work devising a safety elevator for the project. His invention wasn’t the elevator, but rather a safety device that prevented the elevator from falling if the hoisting cable were to fail. The machine featured toothed wooden guide rails that fit into opposite sides of the elevator shaft. He then fitted a spring to the top of the elevator with the hoisting cables running through it. • Otis’ elevator was guided by the cables, but if they broke, the spring mechanism was thrown outward into the notches, keeping the cab from falling. When it appeared to be successful, he and his sons founded the Union Elevator Works, and he sold his first safety elevator in 1853. • It wasn’t until the 1854 New York World’s Fair that Otis’ contraption gained notoriety. In a daring demonstration at the Crystal Palace exhibition building, Otis stood on a platform high in the air, and ordered the rope cut. The platform fell just a few inches before Otis’ safety device stopped its descent. Orders for his elevator began pouring in, with the numbers doubling every year. Otis perfected a three-way steam valve engine, which could switch the elevator between up and down as well as stop the cab rapidly. In 1857, the first safety elevator for passenger service was installed in a New York City department store. • Otis’ other patents included railroad car trucks and brakes, an oscillating steam engine, a steam plow, and a baking oven. His success was cut short when he contracted diphtheria in 1861 and perished from the disease at age 49 in 1861. Sadly, he didn’t live to see one of his safety elevators installed in Paris’ Eiffel Tower for the 1889 World’s Fair. The Otis Elevator Company gained further notoriety when their elevators were installed in the Chrysler Building in 1930, at the time the world’s tallest building, and the Empire State Building in 1931, which grabbed the title from Chrysler.
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PLAN YOUR EPITAPH (continued): • The mother of outlaw Jesse James chose the epitaph for her 34-year-old son’s grave, “Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here.” She was referring to an unarmed Jesse being shot in the back of the head by a member of James’ own gang. The name she considered unworthy was Bob Ford. • Tombstone, Arizona’s Boot Hill Cemetery contains the remains of another outlaw, whose clever inscription reads, “Here lies Lester Moore, shot 4 times with a .44, No Les No More.” Another Boot Hill grave has the epitaph, “Here lies George Johnson, hanged by mistake 1882. He was right, we was wrong, but we strung him up and now he’s gone.” • How about a play on words on a surname or occupation? A British lawyer named John Strange chose his inscription to read, “Here lies an honest lawyer, and that is Strange.” A dentist opted for “Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity! John Brown is filling his last cavity!” Johnny Yeast, a Ruidoso, New Mexico, gentleman’s gravestone is etched, “Here Lies Johnny Yeast. Pardon me for not rising.” • One young lady took advantage of an opportunity to advertise: “Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes who died January 3, 1803. His comely young widow, age 23, has many qualifications of a good wife, and yearns to be comforted.” • A tombstone in Scotland reminds us all of the inevitable: “Consider, friend, as you pass by: As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, you too shall be. Prepare, therefore, to follow me.”