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There are lots of ways to make beautiful music on instruments other than the familiar ones. This week, Tidbits looks at some of the world’s more unusual instruments along with a few wellknown ones. • Atlantic City, New Jersey, is home to the world’s largest pipe organ, with seven manuals, or keyboards, and 33,112 pipes. Credited as the largest musical instrument ever constructed, it was built between 1929 and 1932 by Long Island, New York’s Midmer-Losh Organ Company at a cost of $350,000, and weighs about 150 tons. It’s in the midst of a 10-year, $16 million restoration project. If you want to take a tour of the organ at that city’s Boardwalk Hall, you will need to notch out 4 ½ hours. • Another interesting organ is located deep in the Luray Caverns of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Its inventor Leland Sprinkle was a scientist and mathematician at the Pentagon who discovered that the cave’s stalactites produced deep resonating notes when struck. Over the course of three years in the early 1950s, Sprinkle tuned stalactites across 3 ½ acres to specific pitches using sandpaper. Rubber-tipped mallets were then wired to keys on the Great Stalacpipe Organ’s keyboard, so that they would strike the stalactites whenever the corresponding key was played. turn the page for more!

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INSTRUMENTS (continued): • The Fluegelhorn has its origins in the early 18th century, when it was a large semicircular hunting horn, essentially a bugle without valves, played by the “Fluegelmeister.” The modern instrument looks much like a trumpet, but with a much wider bell. It has a richer, mellower, darker sound than the trumpet, about halfway between the tones of a trumpet and a French horn. • Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument called the hydrocrystalophone, which in simpler terms is known as the glass armonica. His armonica consisted of a series of glass bowls of graduated size floating in a tray of water. The varying sizes produced different musical tones based on the size of the bowl. • A thin flat wooden frame with up to 50 strings stretched across its body is known as a zither. Five of the strings are used to play the melody with the remainder used for the harmony. The performer can pluck the strings with either his fingers or a special tool called a plectrum. The zither is common in Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, and southern Germany. An early form of the zither was found in the tomb of Chinese royalty dating back to 433 B.C. •

The indigenous Australians of northern Australia developed the didgeridoo about 1,500 years ago, and it’s still in use today. The wooden cylinder measures anywhere from 3 to 10 ft. (1 to 3 m) in length. The longer the didgeridoo, the lower the pitch. Aboriginal craftsmen look for hollow live eucalyptus trees, usually ones that have been invaded by termites that have attacked only the heart of the tree. The tree is cleaned out and the bark removed, then shaped into an instrument, with a rim of beeswax added to the mouthpiece end. A British medical study indicates that playing the didgeridoo helps reduce snoring and sleep apnea by strengthening muscles in the upper airway.

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INSTRUMENTS (continued): • Oompah! Where would marching bands be without the sousaphone? Although many folks call it a tuba, this large 40-lb. (18.1 kg) brass instrument that wraps around the player (who supports most of the weight with his or her shoulder) is more accurately called a sousaphone after its designer. John Philip Sousa, conductor of the United States Marine Band in the 1890s, and composer of “Stars and Stripes Forever,” was looking for an improvement to the era’s helicon, a narrower version of the sousaphone. Sousa came up with a design that was submitted to Philadelphia’s J.W. Pepper Company, a design with the bell pointed upward. By the 1920s, the design had been changed to the bell pointing outward for better sound projection. In more recent years, the instruments have been manufactured from fiberglass to lighten the load. • The hurdy-gurdy has been around since about the 12th century when it was known as the organistrum or symphonia. It’s a threestringed instrument with a wheel or circular bow that is turned by a crank. The strings are attached to keys and when the wheel rubs against the strings, it produces a sound similar to that of a violin. The large organistrum has a guitar-shaped body and long neck where the keys are set. The name hurdy-gurdy is often confused with the barrel organ or street piano played by street musicians. That instrument consists of barrels onto which perforated paper rolls are attached. Only a turning of the crank is required to play the barrel organ, with no musical skills required. It’s the instrument seen in illustrations of an organ grinder and his performing monkey.

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• On July 7, 1865, Mary Surratt is executed for her role as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Surratt’s boardinghouse, a few blocks from Ford’s Theatre, where Lincoln was murdered, served as the place where a group of Confederate supporters conspired to assassinate the president. • On July 8, 1898, notorious con man “Soapy” Smith is murdered in Skagway, Alaska. Smith earned his nickname “Soapy” selling bars of soap wrapped in blue tissue paper. He promised crowds that a few lucky purchasers would find a $100 bill wrapped inside the $5 bars of soap. • On July 13, 1951, rivers across eastern Kansas crest well above flood stage, and 500,000 people are left homeless. Two million acres of farmlands were lost. In addition, the flooding caused fires and explosions in refinery oil tanks on the banks of the Kansas River. • On July 11, 1960, novelty song “Alley Oop” tops the Billboard pop chart. Alley Oop was the name of a timetraveling caveman in a comic strip of the same name created in 1932 by cartoonist V.T. Hamlin. • On July 12, 1984, Walter Mondale, Democratic presidential candidate, announces that he has chosen Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, the first woman nominated by a major party for the vice presidency. • On July 10, 1992, the Alaska court of appeals overturns the conviction of Joseph Hazelwood, the former captain of the oil tanker Exxon Valdez. Hazelwood, who was found guilty of negligence for his role in the massive oil spill in Prince William Sound in 1989, successfully argued that he was entitled to immunity from prosecution because he had reported the oil spill to authorities 20 minutes after the ship ran aground. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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For Advertising Call (740) 446-4543 LORNE GREENE (continued): • During his Bonanza years, Greene also served as the co-host of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC from 1963 to 1972, beside Betty White. He also released several albums of country western and folk songs, achieving a #1 single on the music charts with his recording of “Ringo,” a spoken-word ballad about the Old West outlaw Johnny Ringo.

• In 1978, Lorne Green took on the role of Captain Adama in the popular sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica and its follow-up Galactica 1980. Following its cancellation, Greene turned back to nature, hosting a Canadian television documentary series Lorne Greene’s New Wilderness. • In 1987, a made-for-TV movie with a Bonanza reunion was planned, and Greene signed on to reprise his role of Ben Cartwright. Unfortunately, he passed away before the filming began from pneumonia that developed following ulcer surgery. The movie was still produced, with Greene’s daughter playing the role of the love interest of Little Joe Cartwright’s son. • Green left behind a tribute to his Canadian roots by his founding of Toronto’s Academy of Radio Arts, originally called the Lorne Greene School of Broadcasting.

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• A small evergreen tree ranging in height from 15 to 26 feet (4 to 8 m) is the source of cacao beans. The Theobroma cacao, native to Central and South America, produces seeds directly on its trunk rather than on branches. Each seed pod is about the size of a pineapple and holds between 30 and 50 seeds that have a very bitter taste until they undergo a sevenday fermentation process, which develops the flavor. In the ancient Mayan civilization, cacao beans were so valuable, they were used as currency. They were commonly counterfeited, with fakes fashioned out of painted clay. • Christopher Columbus brought cacao beans back from what is now Honduras, presenting them to the Spanish king and queen who had financed his journeys. The beans’ value was overlooked for years until fellow explorer Hernando Cortez also brought back a stash of the precious cargo. •

Milton Hershey was already a candy manufacturer specializing in caramels when, in 1894, he decided to start producing sweet chocolate as a coating for the caramels. Soon Hershey was producing milk chocolate in 114 different bars and other shapes. He chose a location in south-central Pennsylvania for his operation, which has grown into the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America.

• Hershey’s kisses came along in 1907, and today the company produces over 80 million kisses every single day. About one billion pounds of chocolate products are produced annually by Hershey’s.

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For Advertising Call (740) 446-4543 CHOCOLATE (continued): • The U.S. chocolate industry uses about 3.5 million pounds of whole milk every day to produce milk chocolate. They also use 40% of the world’s almonds and 20% of the world’s peanuts. About 400 cacao beans are needed to make one pound (450 g) of chocolate. • Research indicates that dark chocolate has many health benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease by one-third. Its antioxidants seem to reduce blood pressure, widen arteries, and promote healthy blood flow. Some experts claim that it boosts memory, attention span, and problem-solving skills. Dark chocolate’s flavonoids, a type of plant chemical, have anti-inflammatory properties and cell-protecting effects. It doesn’t take much to reap the benefits – a 1.4 oz. (40 g) serving contains 536 mg of flavonoids, with research indicating that just 80 mg can produce a drop in blood pressure. But it’s only dark chocolate that has been shown to be beneficial, while milk chocolate, white chocolate, and other varieties are not. • Per capita, folks in Switzerland eat the most chocolate, about 22 lbs. (10 kg) per person per year. Australians consume 20 lbs. (9 kg) each annually, and the Irish eat 19 lbs. (8.6 kg) per person. Even though the United States produces the most chocolate worldwide, the average American consumes just 12 lbs. (5.4 kg) a year. Some eat more than others – those who feel depressed seem to eat about 55% more than those who aren’t depressed. • According to the Guinness Book of World Records, folks in Derbyshire, United Kingdom are responsible for producing the world’s largest chocolate bar in October, 2011. It measured more than 13 ft. square (4 m), was nearly 2 feet thick (0.35 m), and weighed more than 12,770 lbs. (5,792 kg).

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Q: I grew up in West Texas before the era of air conditioning. We had electric fans scattered throughout our house to help us survive the summer heat. I still have three of them, all from the 1930s and ‘40s. Are they considered collectible? -- Sue Beth, Spring Branch, Texas A: If your vintage fans have brass blades, you have the most collectible. Serious enthusiasts seek out older fans with such features as Art Deco designs and exposed coils, and even rarer ones with light bulbs mounted on the unit. If the paint is in reasonably good shape and the fan is in working condition, the value may surprise you. For example, fans spotted recently include a Westinghouse Vane Oscillator, $650; an Emerson three-speed Trojan, $400; a GE “Whiz,” $55; and an Emerson “Junior,” $75. The American Fan Collector Association is one of the better groups and publishes a nifty newsletter, “The Fan Collector.” The website can be accessed at www.fancollectors.org. Membership is $45 per year and may be submitted to Dick Boswell, 2245 Harrison Ave., Lincoln, NE 68502; and membership@fancollectors.org. Do not contact Boswell concerning questions about the age or value of fans. That is not his purpose.

Q: I have about a dozen issues of the Saturday Evening Post from the 1960s. They are in excellent condition, but no covers of historical interest. Is there a market for such publications? -- Bill, Louisiana, Mo. A: Most issues of the Saturday Evening Post from this period sell in the $10 to $20 range, depending on both content and condition. The issues covering the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963 are popular with collectors, but rarely sell for more than about $25. Q: While cleaning out my mom’s desk, I found about a dozen sheets of Christmas seals from the 1950s. I plan to sell them at a garage sale and wonder how I should price them. -- Donna, Mitchell, S.D. A: Occasionally sheets of Christmas seals pop up at shops and antiques malls. Even though they are collectible, prices have remained fairly stagnant. Most of the examples I have seen from the 1950s generally sell for about a dollar a sheet. Write to Larry Cox in care of KFWS, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to questionsforcox@aol.com. Due to the large volume of mail he receives, Mr. Cox cannot personally answer all reader questions, nor do appraisals. Do not send any materials requiring return mail. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Getting Quicker Appointments Since the appointment scheduling/delayed care debacle hit the news, “steps” are being taken to fix the problems. If you need care, there are a few options. Accelerating Care Initiative -- Clinics will expand to include night and weekend hours, with providers getting overtime. If you’re a new patient waiting on an appointment that’s more than 30 days out (and if they can fit you in), the Department of Veterans Affairs will make three attempts to contact you to see if you want to go in earlier. If yes, the process will start to get you into not-VA medical care. Facilities will take a look at canceled appointments on a daily basis and not let them sit unused (it’s astonishing that they have to be told) and make calls to find veterans to take the appointments. If you call the VA for an appointment, get the name of the person you talk to, and make a note of the date and time. Non-VA Care -- This program was designed to get you treatment when there’s a lack of a needed specialist in your local VA hospital, the travel distance is great or there are “long wait times.” That’s a quote from the VA site, and that little phrase is key. If you’re given an appointment that’s not soon enough, ask for a referral to civilian medical care. You might have to fight for it. See www.nonvacare. va.gov. Access Received Closer to Home -- Also called ARCH, this pilot program matches eligible rural veterans with health care in their area. Five spots were originally opened: northern Maine; Farmville, Va.; Pratt, Kan.; Flagstaff, Ariz.; and Billings, Mon. Now with the scrutiny about the scheduling snafus, it’s possible more sites will be opened. Call your Care Coordinator to ask about care closer to home. You also can send email to AskProjectArch@ va.gov. Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.com. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

DIRECTIONS: Off I-77 take KENNA, WV (exit 124) then take Rt. 34 South 1 mile to Rt. 21 and turn North and go 2.2 miles to Pleasant Valley Rd., go 10.7 miles to sale. At SCOTT DEPOT (Exit 40 off I-64) take Rt. 35 to Rt. 34 N. into Winfield, follow Rt. 34 N. for 9 miles to Bowles Ridge Rt., follow blacktop Rd. and go 6.6 miles to Jim Ridge Rd. turn right, .01 mile to sale site.

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Show parade wagon, never used, set of leather harness, set Biothane harness, glossy, with stainless hardware, like new, set of single harness (these harness fit large draft horses) and some tack, large assortment of horse collars in good condition, (2) horse drawn sleds, New Idea manure spreader, set of horse stocks, (3) single plows, (2) one row cultivators, buck board, box wagon, disc, Int. # 3 mowing machine.

MISCELLANEOUS/ANTIQUES Troy Bilt 2600 PSI power washer, Troy Bilt tiller, 03l Stihl chain saw, shop bench with grinder & vise, space heater, chains & binders, R.R. jack, house & floor jacks, alum. tool box for pickup, lg. set of cattle dehorners, hand tools, decorative horse & buggies cut out, appliance dolly. ANTIQUES: (2) anvils, shoe hasp, platform scales, dock cart, ox yoke, stillyard scales, sausage grinder, and hand corn planter This is a small listing of miscellaneous with one crammed building full still to go though with dishes, antiques & other items.

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1. Name the last majorleague team before the 2013 Tampa Bay Rays to compile at least seven complete games in one month by its pitchers. 2. In 2013, Baltimore’s Chris Davis became the third player in majorleague history to have at least 40 doubles and 50 homers in a season. Name the other two. 3. How many quarterbacks were picked before San Francisco’s Colin Kaepernick in the 2011 NFL Draft? 4. When was the last time before 2013 that the University of Michigan men’s basketball team reached the Final Four? 5. In 2013, Jaromir Jagr set the record for most career game-winning goals (122). Who had held the mark before him? 6. Of the 56 winners (through 2014) of the Daytona 500, how many started on the pole? 7. What is the highest total of matches Serena Williams has won in a single tennis season? (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

If you’re ready to sell your home, you have lots of competition. Staging can go a long way toward making your home stand out, resulting in a faster sale at the price you want. Before you put your home on the market, ask your real-estate agent for suggestions. Your agent can advise you about local trends and preferences -- and your competition. Incorporate as many of the agent’s suggestions as you can. Give serious consideration to hiring a professional stager, despite the cost. According to a study by the Real Estate Staging Association, homes that were staged before being put up for sale spent 87 percent less time on the market. Unstaged homes stayed on the market an average 166 days. After staging, those homes received offers within an average 32 days. Homes that were staged before being marketed received their first offer within 26 days. Quicker sales were true across all price ranges. Even if you can’t hire a professional stager, there are still quite a few things you can do yourself. Here are some suggestions from HGTV.com: • Declutter. Professional stagers will often remove as much as half of the furniture in a home to make it look bigger. Pay special attention to crammed closets. • If you have a junk room, give it a role as a specific space, such as a reading nook or yoga area. • Add lighting. You want 100 watts for each 50 square feet, using a variety of types of lighting. • Paint adjacent rooms, such as dining and living rooms, the same neutral color to add more visual space. Other staging websites suggest: • Take down anything personal on the walls, such as family photos and religious items. • Don’t make potential purchasers wonder how much it will cost to change all your personalized wall colors or carpet. • Make the outside inviting. Mow, edge, sweep, rake and add mulch to make it more likely a potential purchaser will want to see inside. • To find a professional stager, start with www.realestatestagingassociation.com. To do your own staging, search online for ideas at HGTV’s Front Door (www.frontdoor.com) and HGTV (hgtv.com), as well as Bankrate.com and Realtor.com. Visit new model homes to see how they’re done. Your payoff for staging your home? A faster sale means not making those extra mortgage payments while your house languishes unsold.

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Not All Back Pain Improves With Rest DEAR DR. ROACH: I have had lower-back problems almost all my life. Many doctors and therapists have examined it, with almost no success. Recently my attacks have been fewer and milder, even if the bed is not quite right. I can live with it, but a new wrinkle has emerged: If I don’t get out of bed as soon as the alarm sounds, I’ll have back pain and little mobility all day and partial incapacity. I am 74 years old, 6 feet, 4 inches tall and weigh 230 pounds. Do you have any idea what causes this, and if there is any cure? -- J.S.B. ANSWER: There are dozens of causes of back pain, and it can be impossible, even with the most advanced diagnostic tests, to make a precise diagnosis of the underlying cause. In your case, it sounds like you have had one problem for a long time and now something is causing a different kind of back problem. Back pain that gets worse with bed rest and better with exercise is not likely to be a herniated disc or spinal stenosis -- two serious causes of back pain. I am guessing that there is a component of osteoarthritis in your back now, which would be quite common in a 74-year-old man. Osteoarthritis does tend to get worse with rest and better with exercise. I am impressed by how acutely it gets worse, and it’s entirely possible that there may be some muscular spasm associated with your back pain. Even though you are quite tall, 230 pounds is a lot for your spine to support. You have a BMI of 28, which is in the “overweight” range. Losing even five

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Seven Tricks to “Have a Good One” Part 2 Last week I gave the fi rst three of seven quick noticed how easy it is to criticize and complain? tricks to “have a good one”. Here are the fi nal I cannot think of anything easier to do than to four. criticize. Ben Franklin said, “Any fool can criticize, Smile even when you are alone. People who condemn and complain and most fools do.” are “having a good one” smile. So if you want A large group I was with ate at a restaurant to join them, start smiling. I learned this many that was jammed full before we arrived. It had years ago when I started selling advertising been that way all day so the wait staﬀ was tired which required me to walk into a business and and I’m certain the kitchen staﬀ were too. We ask to talk to the owner. It didn’t take me long had to wait much longer for our food than is to discover that a friendly smile opened more normal, but we decided not to complain but doors than a dour, “May I speak to the owner or compliment – especially our waitress, who was the manager.” not responsible in any way for the delay. We Your day will go better if you smile even all had a better time and our food even tasted while you’re alone. A housewife can smile while better. she irons, a business executive can smile while Act with great kindness. Helping someone working on a project, a student can smile while else may be the very best way to “have a good writing a paper, a retired person can smile one.” When you lend a hand to someone in while gardening in the back yard. Everyone can need you know you’ve done something right. smile. Someone said, “Keep smiling and one No one has ever done something good and day life will get tired of upsetting you.” felt bad. You might have felt uncomfortable Compliment instead of criticize. Have you or inconvenienced, but you seldom feel bad

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when you do something good. Look today for an opportunity for you to do a random act of kindness; when you do, two people will “have a good one.” Work with purpose. The average person will spend 100,000 hours of their lives at work. Not all of those hours will be spent doing fun and exciting stuﬀ . I guess that is why they call it work. If you have a sense of vocation, that your work helps others, provides a useful service, is more than an income, you will be able to get through the humdrum parts of your job with ease. Work with a sense of meaning and purpose in life, our work becomes easier, no matter how hard it is. To read all “Seven Quick Tricks to Have a Good” visit RonRossToday.com.