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We honor the memory of Harry Houdini, who died on October 31, 1926 at the age of 52. He claimed that his abdominal muscles were so strong that he could bear any blow to the stomach without flinching. A college student decided to test this theory out without giving Houdini time to steel his muscles before the blows landed. Houdini may have already been suffering from an inflamed appendix; the unexpected blows might have worsened the condition, leading to his death. Come along with Tidbits as we remember Harry Houdini.

HARRY LANDS A CONTRACT• When Houdini first went to London, he had no

bookings. He approached a stage manager about getting a job, but the manager was skeptical. Houdini was told, “I’ll hire you— but only if you can get out of handcuffs at Scotland Yard!” Houdini rounded up some reporters, then challenged police at Scotland Yard to cuff him. Wrapping his arms around a pillar, the police superintendent snapped on the cuffs, then turned to leave, saying, “We’ll be back in an hour to release you.” As he headed for the door, Houdini called out, “You better take your cuffs with you!” He had undone the handcuffs in less time than it took the cops to walk across the room. Reporters made sure Houdini got a lot

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 80-year-old woman who always had excellent health until about four years ago, when I was diagnosed as hav-ing bronchiectasis. Since then, I have

had to use an albuterol solution, plus an Airway Vest, in periodic daily treatments in order to continue breathing.

A few weeks ago, my doctor prescribed 10 mg of predni-sone daily in addition, and the results have been amazing. Instead of five to six inhaler treatments each 24 hours, I need only two or three, and (the best result) I can sleep through the night! Previously, I woke every three to four hours nightly for a treatment with the inhaler and vest, and I often slept poorly afterward.

My prednisone dosage has been reduced to 5 mg daily, and although I know it is a (possibly dangerous) corticosteroid, I

dread the prospect of going back to the days of arranging my life around the use of the albuterol inhalers, as well as feeling so much less able to enjoy what life I have left. What would be the result of continuing a minimal dosage of prednisone (5 mg or less per day)? What alternatives do I have? -- C.B.

ANSWER: This is a good question, not just for bronchiecta-sis (a scarring condition of the airways, so they can’t clear mucus properly), but for the many, many diseases treated with prednisone. Long-term use of high-dose prednisone (and similar steroids, such as cortisone and methylprednisolone, or Medrol) can cause diabetes in susceptible individuals, and it raises blood pressure, weakens bones, increases hunger and causes weight gain in most, causes thinning and other skin problems and, in high doses, causes confusion or psychosis. It is indeed a dangerous drug.

However, as bad as it is, it sometimes is so effective at improving the disease it’s treating that the benefit is worth the risk of all these side effects. There are some conditions where the prednisone has to be permanent, although we

are finding more and more alternatives to reduce or replace the prednisone.

The body makes its own steroid, cortisone, at the daily equivalent of roughly 5 mg of prednisone. At that dose or less, the risks of prednisone are much less than at the high dose of 40 mg, 60 mg or greater used for inflammatory and autoim-mune diseases. If you have to stay on this dose, it sounds like the benefit outweighs the risk.

One alternative you haven’t mentioned is steroid inhalers. For asthma and sometimes for bronchiectasis, steroid inhalers, which use far more potent steroids than prednisone, can have as good a benefit. They are poorly absorbed, and as such have little or no systemic side effects, like raising blood sugar and blood pressure. If you are doing well on a 5 mg dose of prednisone, you would likely do well on a steroid inhaler.

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 [email protected]. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive Orlando, FL 32803.

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Q: I am so excited that “The Walking Dead” is back on AMC. I love the story, of course, but the special-effects makeup is awesome! Can you tell me who designed or

created the zombie makeup? -- David D., via emailA: Greg Nicotero is the talented man behind those awesome

effects. He got his professional start back in 1985, when he worked on “Day of the Dead,” and now has scores and scores of film special-effects makeup credit to his name. On “The Walking Dead,” he serves as co-executive producer, director and special makeup effects supervisor. He recently was in Or-lando, Florida, for Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights 25 (which runs through Nov. 1) with director John Landis and “TWD” co-star Chandler Riggs, where the two directors dis-cussed their respective haunted houses: “The Walking Dead” house and “An American Werewolf in London” house.

One of the many things Greg loves about working on “TWD” is that most of the makeup effects are practical and not CGI. He said: “On ‘The Walking Dead,’ the most exciting thing for me is that it opens practical makeup effects for a younger generation. Growing up, I was really inspired by practical ef-fects ... And it’s not easy. It’s a tremendous compliment that

the work that I love, that I grew up wanting to do, is being celebrated more and more.”

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that ABC Family had picked up a series based on “The Mortal Instruments” books. Is this still happening? I haven’t heard any updates in a while. -- Pamela T., Wheeling, West Virginia

A: ABC Family announced at New York Comic-Con in early October that its highly anticipated series “Shadowhunters” will pre-

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of free publicity out of the escapade, and he ended up with a six month run in London.

A TRICK UP HIS SLEEVE• Houdini often hid tools needed to escape by

swallowing them. He learned this while working for a circus, when an acrobat showed him how to swallow objects, then bring them up again by working the throat muscles.

• Another trick of his was to have several men from the audience come up on stage, first to examine him to make sure he had no tools hidden, and second, to examine whatever he was about to be locked up in: a safe or a coffin or a packing crate. He would then solemnly shake hands with all the men before being locked up. But the last man he would shake hands with was a shill who had been planted in the audience. During the handshake, a pick or a key would be passed from hand to hand.

• He sometimes hid a slim pick in the thick skin of the sole of his foot.

• He once escaped from a large milk can filled with

water. The milk can was held together with two real rivets and a long line of fake rivets to make it easier to escape.

• Another stage method he used was to make sure his assistants on stage seemed as awkward and clumsy as possible— dropping things, stumbling, and making many minor mistakes. This averted suspicion from them while also managing to misdirect attention.

• His wife Bess frequently participated in the show. For mind-reading tricks, Bess and Harry worked out a secret stage code where one could tip off the other using words that stood for numerals: pray = 1; answer = 2; say = 3; now = 4; tell = 5; please = 6; speak = 7; quickly = 8; look = 9 and be quick = 10. If Houdini needed to divine the number off a dollar bill that Bess was looking at, Bess would merely say, “Tell me, look into your heart. Say, can you

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• When you make a chicken in the crockpot, use this trick to have it come out moist and deli-

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answer me, pray? Quickly, quickly! Now! Speak to us! Speak quickly!” Houdini the mind reader would correctly reply: 59321884778.

PUBLICITY MASTER• In Germany, Houdini wanted to stage a stunt by

jumping, roped and chained, off a boat into the river. The police refused permission— but he did it anyway. As he pulled himself out of the river and walked up the riverbank, he was arrested. The only thing the cops could charge him with was walking on the grass. The story made the papers all over the country.

• In 1899, the head of the Chicago police challenged Houdini to escape from his special handcuffs. Houdini agreed, then struggled for over an hour as the audience jeered. The cuffs had to be cut off— and only after the theater had emptied did the cop admit that he had tampered with the cuffs, dropping in a lead slug so that it would be jammed. When the trick was revealed, the local newspaper ran the story and Houdini raked in free publicity.

• Houdini became famous for escaping from straightjackets while hanging upside-down from his feet over public streets. Maximum publicity was ensured because he sought out the newspapers in each town and offered to do the stunt while hanging from their roof. He made the front page in every town he played.

• Singer Sarah Bernhardt was honored at a reception. There, she was presented with a bronze bust of herself. However, no one had paid the bill for the bust. When the $350 bill was sent to her, she promptly returned the bust to the maker. Houdini stepped in and paid the bill. Within a few days his gesture had been covered in no less than 3,756 newspapers. A reporter estimated that if Houdini had bought that much newspaper space outright, it would have cost $56,340.

• On his first trip to Europe, Houdini hired seven bald men to sit in a row on the pavement next to a popular cafe. At regular intervals, the seven men would simultaneously remove their hats and nod their heads forward. Each man had one letter written on his bald head, and together they spelled “Houdini.”

FAMOUS STUNTS• In 1906 Houdini was locked in the death row cell

that once housed Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield. Not only did he escape from the cell, but he then unlocked all the other prisoners on death row, shuffled them around, and then locked them up again all in the wrong cells. The escapade took him 27 minutes. He then advised the police on how they could make their jail escape-proof.

• Often Houdini would escape quickly from his entrapment, then sit quietly out of sight of the audience, calmly playing cards or reading the paper while waiting for the tension to grow: “Is he dead yet?” “He’s never going to get out alive!” Then, when the audience murmurings and the accompanying orchestral music had grown to


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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: This year, the American Humane Association chose Harley, a scrappy, one-eyed Chihuahua, as the 2015 Hero Dog. Its decision calls attention to the stark realities of puppy mills, one of which Harley was rescued from.

Harley had significant health issues when he was rescued, and he lost an eye when his cage was power-washed with him in it. Despite this, he retained a strong spirit and has become a beacon for other puppy mill dogs. The “Harley to the Rescue” campaign inspired by him (http://milldogrescue.org/harley-to-the-rescue/) has saved close to 600 puppy mill dogs.

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DEAR GINNY: I sure can! Harley’s story also can be found at the AHA Hero Dog page: http://www.herodogawards.org/hda2015vote-harley. He was chosen from a finalist field of eight exemplary dogs, including service and military dogs, and other rescued pets that have become an inspiration to pet advocates.

Unlike responsible breeders, puppy mills have destructive breeding practices, and care can be brutal: for example, they’ll attempt to produce as many litters of popular dog breeds as pos-sible, exhausting and often physically abusing breeding dogs, selling the best and mistreating the rest. Mill dogs often are kept in tiny, dirty cages, with little to no medical care.

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• On Nov. 4, 1928, Arnold Rothstein, New York’s most notorious gambler, is shot and killed during a poker game in Manhattan. When policed asked the bleeding Rothstein who had shot him, he reportedly put his finger to his lips, keeping the gangsters’ code of silence.

• On Nov. 7, 1943, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is born in Canada. A bout with polio as a child had left Mitchell unable to form guitar chords with her left hand, so she experimented with non-standard tunings that would

become part of her signature sound.• On Nov. 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launches the first

animal into space -- a dog name Laika -- aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft. Laika survived for several days, kept alive by a sophisticated life-support system. She died after the bat-teries ran down.

• On Nov. 2, 1960, a landmark obscenity case over “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” by D.H. Lawrence, ends in the acquit-tal of Penguin Books. The publisher had been sued for obscenity in publishing an unexpurgated version of Law-rence’s 1928 novel.


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November 3 - 8pm Clinton American LegionNovember 4 - 4-7pm Clin-ton Women's Civic Club's 1st Ever Holiday Expo, Memorial Building, questions contact Donnette or Chelsea at 320-325-5401.

October 27 - 3:30pm Ceramics, CGB Elementary Art RoomOctober 27 - 6pm ECFC, CGB Elementary 3 Year Old Preschool RoomOctober 27 - 5:30pm Personnel Committee MeetingNovember 3 - 3:30pm Ceramics, CGB Elementary Art RoomNovember 3 - 6pm ECFC, CGB Elementary 3 Year Old Preschool Room

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Deuel School DistrictOctober 26 - Oral Interp in BrookingsOctober 27 - 1st Round FB Play-offsOctober 28-31 - National FFA Convention in Lousiville, KentuckyOctober 29 5:15pm VB @ DeSmetOctober 30-31 - All State Chorus in Rqpid CityOctober 30 - 8am-4pm Parent/Teacher ConferencesOctober 31 - Oral Interp in WatertownNovember 2 - Football Play-offsNovember 3 - 7pm Region VB

On October 28th at 5:00pm, FCA will be having their annual Halloween Hayride to collect items for our local food pantry. They will be going door to door and seeing if anyone has any donations. Any student in grades 7-12 is welcome to come on the hayride. Dress warm!

Thank-you Senator Jason Frerichs who read to the preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade & a few of the children from Wee Wolves Daycare.

Congrats to Alex Halfaday, Jessica Zempel, Saraya Bronson, and Lee Schwagel for being selected for All State Chorus!

Book FairOctober 23-November 3 in the library daily from 8-4 & 8-9 on October 29 in McKenna Hall

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October 31 - Community Halloween Party - 5:30-7pm at the Estelline Legion HallNotice: Estelline American Legion is collecting Christmas gifts for the VA gift shop in Sioux Falls. Gifts are needed be-fore Oct. 30 so they can be delivered to the VA. If you have any questions please contact Marj Warborg at 873-2563

October 26 - Volleyball @ Hendricks – 6pmOctober 30-31 - All State Chorus in Rapid City

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October 27 - 1st Round FB Playoffs TBDOctober 27-November 1 - FFA National Convention October 29 - Cross Country Awards Night 6:30 October 30-31 - All State Chorus in Rapid CityOctober 30 - NHS Halloween Clue Night 7:00October 31 - Oral Interp at Watertown

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a fever pitch, he would drench himself in water to make himself look sweaty before stepping triumphantly out in front of the curtain to accept raucous cheers.

• Another pile of free publicity resulted when a magician named The Great Cirnoc interrupted one of Houdini’s performances with loud protests that he, the Great Cirnoc, was the true handcuff king. Houdini invited him on stage to prove himself by escaping from some special cuffs. The Great Cirnoc first insisted that Houdini demonstrate that it was possible to do (which he did, in the privacy of his cabinet, using a secret key). The Great Cirnoc then struggled to release himself from the same cuffs but found it impossible to do so. He was hooted off stage and the papers were full of the story the next day.

• One of his most popular feats was the Great Disappearing Elephant act. During the war, a lady asked him why he didn’t revive the stunt. He answered that President Hoover had ruled that elephants, as well as other resources, needed to

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• Monday, October 26th- VB with F/H at Florence, 7th and 8th at 5:00 pm, JV at 6:15, varsity to follow. 5thand 6th BB with Henry at Summit, starting at 4:0 pm. • Tuesday, October 27th- 5th and 6th BB with WSS at Waverly, starting at 4:00 pm. “Back to Basics” Fitness Night 7:00 to 7:45 pm. SAEG meeting at Tim and Andrea’s house at 7:00 pm. • Thursday, October 29th- 5th and 6th BB at Waubay at 7:00 pm (listed as playing in Summit on the schedule). • Friday, October 30th- No staff day. Blood drive at the fire hall. Hal-loween Spook-tacular at the hall starting at 6:00 pm. • Saturday, October 31st- HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! All-state Choir Concert in Rapid City. • Sunday, November 1-9:15 am Sunday school, 9:30 am coffee time, 10:30 am Worship- Children's church at Hope Lutheran. All are welcome!

October 28 - 8:30am TOPSOctober 28 - 6:30pm Al-AnonOctober 28 - 6:30pm CPR Heartsaver, CGB HS Media CenterNovember 2 - 5pm AARP 4 Hour Refresher CourseNovember 2 - 7:30pm Graceville Firemen's MeetingNovember 2 - 7:30pm Public Info on Special ElectionNovember 3 - 7am-8pm Special ElectionNovember 3 - 8pm Sno Rider

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• You might be sur-prised to learn that peo-ple have been using car-

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American author of the Tarzan novels, among many other adventure and science-fiction works. You may find it hard to picture him as a journalist flying on bombing runs in the Pacific theater -- especially at the age of 66. Burroughs was the oldest war correspon-dent of World War II.

• If you’re planning to get into the business of deal-ing in building materials in Tennessee, you might want to note that in that state it is illegal to sell a hol-low log.

• Collective nouns are fascinating. For instance, if you see a group of bullfinches, you can call it a bel-lowing; a group of flies is a business, a cloud or a swarm. You have a pitying of turtledoves and a hov-er of trout. A group of tigers can be an ambush or a streak; while a group of snails can be called a rout, a

walk or an escargatoire. • Those who study such things say that, on a per-

capita basis, Canadians eat more doughnuts and more Kraft Mac and Cheese than citizens of any other country.

• Before he became famous as an author of horror, suspense and sci-fi, Stephen King worked as a high-school janitor.


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• Attaullah Durrani left his native Afghanistan in the 1920s and came to America to study chemistry. He wanted to work in the petroleum industry but couldn’t find any openings.

• One night he attended a dinner party and met a man who was in the canning industry. He suggested that Durrani study rice instead. Cooking it was time consuming; what America needed was an easy way to cook rice. Perhaps Durrani could invent a way to put rice in cans.

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him a laboratory. Years of experimentation showed that canning rice didn’t work. What did work was pre-cooking it, drying it, and packaging it in a box. It was easy to ship, the shelf life was long, and it would cook within minutes.

• In 1941 Durrani went to New York City and dropped in on an executive of General Foods. He whipped out an electric hot plate, a sauce pan, a package of his rice, and a bowl. By the time he finished his speech, the rice was cooked, and the executive was impressed. Durrani received a handsome fee, and General Foods began working with instant rice.

• The Army was interested in the product because soldiers needed quick food in the field. The product hit the market in 1949 and is found in most American cupboards today. Appropriately enough, it’s now called Minute Rice.

• The only grain that beats rice for world-wide production is corn. However, corn is grown for

many uses other than human food, so rice is actually the top crop for feeding humans.

• China and India are the world’s top producers of rice.

• In 1890 Charlie DeDomenico left Italy to come to America. He moved to San Francisco, where he started a chain of fresh produce stores. He sent to Italy for his bride, Maria.

• Her family, who ran a successful pasta factory, closed their business and followed her to California. In 1912 Maria convinced Charlie to start a pasta factory which her family would run. They set up shop in the Mission District of San Francisco and sold bulk pasta to restaurants and grocery stores. They called it the Golden Grain Pasta Company, and their four sons helped run it.

• In the 1950s Charlie’s son Tom and his new bride Lois had dinner with their landlady, who was Armenian and served an Armenian dish that combined rice pilaf with vermicelli. It was very tasty, and Tom and his brother Vince wondered if

they could add it as a sideline to the family’s pasta business, so they began experimenting.

• They added dehydrated chicken soup to the rice, packaged it individually instead of in bulk, and gave it a catchy new name which incorporated both of the main ingredients. Introduced in 1958, it sold well not only because of its taste, but also due to its easy preparation method, consisting of ‘sauté and simmer.’

• A trip to Italy in 1964 inspired a similar pre-packaged instant Alfredo noodle mix. Quaker Oats bought the company in 1986, but it still celebrates the San Francisco origins of the product. What’s the rice mix called? Rice-a-Roni, combining rice with macaroni. The noodle product is called Pasta-Roni.

• The average American eats about 25 lbs (11 kg) of rice per year. Rice has no sodium, no cholesterol, and no gluten. It contains over 15 vitamins and minerals. Although there are over 40,000 strains of rice, only a few varieties are grown commercially.

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