Updates July 2003
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July 31 2003
Interesting News
This could save your life!!
This is very good information I was not aware of
- pass it on. This isn't a joke!
If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you
can bet that we'll save at least one life. Let's
say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course),
after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and
frustrated.Suddenly, you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that
starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about
five miles from the hospital nearest your home; unfortunately you don't know if
you'll be able to make it that far.What can you do? You've been trained in CPR
but the guy that taught the course neglected to tell you how to perform it on
yourself. Since many people are alone
when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order. Without
help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel
faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.However, these
victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A
deep breath should be taken before each cough. The cough must be deep and
prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. And a cough must
be repeated about every 2 seconds without let
up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart
and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps
it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a
hospital. Tell as many other people as
possible about this, it could save their
lives! From Health Cares, Rochester
General Hospital via Chapter 240s
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July 22 2003
FACTS FROM THE 1500s
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water
temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.
Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and
still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell so
brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the
custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house
had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then
the women and finally the children-last of all, the babies. By then
the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the
saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It
was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs, cats and other
small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery
and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying
"It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to stop things from
falling into the house. That posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and
other droppings could really mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big
posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy
beds came into existence. The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something
other than dirt. Hence the saying "dirt poor."
The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so
they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the
winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it
would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway.
Hence the saying a "thresh hold."
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung
over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate
mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner,
leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next
day. Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.
Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in
the pot nine days old."
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When
visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a
sign of wealth that a man "could bring home the bacon. "They would cut
off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the
fat."
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused
some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This
happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes
were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf,
the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper
crust."
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes
knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take
them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the
kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather
around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the
custom of holding a "wake."
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to
bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a
"bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out
of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they
realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a
string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the
ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all
night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell;thus, someone
could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead
ringer." And that's the truth...
Now , whoever said that History was boring ! ! ! ! ! Educate
someone...Share these facts with a friend...
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Team Martin
Racing A web site for Annapolis Valley Kart racer Chris Martin. For 2003
Chris has moved up to the very competitive junior class. Go to the site for the
AMKA schedule and updates on Chris's races. The team will also be attending the
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