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TURN UP THE HEAT!by Patricia L. Cook

“Cold” is the word for the weather in most locations of North America during January. Let’s turn up the heat in this issue of Tidbits using water, gas, logs, electricity and more.• •Sincethebeginningoftime,therehas

been a need to heat homes, buildings and more. The earliest type of indoor heating wasanopenfire.Fireplacesandwoodstoves of many varieties were used world-wide.Stillusedinmanymodernandbeau-tifulhomes,fireplacesandstovesindevel-opedcountriesnowcanbequiteefficientand home fashion statements as well. In contrast, in many third-world countries, an openfireburninginthemiddleofaroomis used to provide heat, leading to smoke, ash and other problems inside.

• •Scientistsandinventorsallovertheworld have experimented with how to heat the indoors for many years. Different types of systems were developed with differing degrees of success.

• •Startingbefore100AD,inthenorthernRoman Empire, a type of central heating known as hypocaust was used to con-duct air heated by wood furnaces through emptyspacesunderfloorsandoutofpipes in walls. Hypocaust literally means “firebeneath.”Thesystemsweremainlyused for private homes and public baths.

• •TheRoyalMonasteryofOurLadyoftheWheel,foundedin1202ontheEbroRiverinSpain,containsanexcellentexampleofa type of central heating. The Cistercian monks used river diversions combined withindoorwood-firedfurnacestoheatthe

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A Mother’s Dictionary•Bottle Feeding: An opportunity forDaddytogetupat2am,too.•Drooling: How teething babies wash their chins. •Dumbwaiter:Onewhoasksifthe kids would care to order des-sert. •Family Planning: The art of spacing children far enough apart to keep you on the edge of finan-cial disaster. •Feedback: The inevitable result when the baby doesn’t appreciate the strained carrots. •Hearsay: What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word. •Impregnable: A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid. •Look Out!: What it’s too late for your child to do by the time you say it. •Prenatal: When your life was still somewhat your own. •Show Off: A child who is more talented than yours. •Sterilize: What you do to your first baby’s pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby’s pacifier by blowing on it. •Temper Tantrums: What you should keep to a minimum so as not to upset the children. •Top Bunk: Where a child wear-ingSupermanpajamasshouldnever be. •Verbal: Able to whine in words. •Whodunit: None of the kids that live in your house. •Whoops!!!: An exclamation that translates into, “Get a rag, quick!!”

used electric fans to distribute heat and cameonthesceneinabout1935,intro-duced by the Lennox Company.

• •HVACsystems(heating,ventilatingandair-conditioning) have been around for quiteawhile.Asfarbackas1901,AlfredWolff designed a large system for heating, cooling and humidity control at the New YorkStockExchange.Theterm“air-condi-tioning”wasnotuseduntilStuartCramer,a textile engineer from North Carolina, coinedthetermin1906.

• •Ouroptionsforheatingtodayaremany.We can have electric forced-air heat; ceil-ingorfloorcableheating;naturalgas,oilorpropaneheating;fireplaceswithblow-erstopushouttheheat;fireplaceinserts;woodstoves;heatpumps;andmore.Mosthouseholds heat with natural gas, with electricity coming in second, and smaller numbers using fuel oil and propane.

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large building. • •Fast-forwardabitinhistory,andBenja-minFranklin,afamousAmericanofmanytalents,inventedtheFranklinStoveinthe1740s.Hisstovesheateddoublethespaceusinglesswoodthanfireplacesand were equipped to take in fresh air and minimize smoke. Another inventor, David Rittenhouse,improvedFranklin’sde-sign with an L-shaped exhaust pipe. The stoves became popular all over America and Europe.

• •TheFranklinstoveandotherwoodstoveshelpedheathomesmoreefficientlysince the stoves generated heat all around their iron bodies. They typically used one quarter as much wood for twice as much heat. They did present a safety challenge though; touching the stoves had disas-trouseffects.Today,manyefficientwoodstoves are being sold with modern safety features.

• •Alsodevelopedinthe1700swasthefirsthydrologicalsystem;asthewordimplies, it used water. The system was installedinPetertheGreat’sSummerPalaceinSt.Petersburg,Russia.Itwasthe real forerunner of central heating, and soontheFrench,SwissandBritishfol-lowed with their own water-based systems intheearly1800s.

• •Aninterestingearlysteam-heatingsystemwasdevelopedbyAngierMarchPerkinsinEnglandin1830.Thefirstofhissystems to be installed was in the home of Governor of the Bank of England, John Horley Palmer. The reason Palmer wanted thesystem?SohecouldgrowgrapesinEngland’s cold climate!

• •WhenaRussianbusinessmanofPol-ishdescent,FranzSanGalli,inventedthetraditionalcast-ironradiatorinabout1855,water-based heat really became popular. Thisinventioncontributedsignificantlytoour modern heating systems.

• •Theradiatorsystemreliedonaboilerlocated in the basement to heat water, and pipes carried the hot water to the remain-derofthebuilding.Manyolderhomesstilluse these types of heating systems.

• •Withthediscoveryofelectricityandthestudy of how to harness and use it, inven-tors started using their imaginations and brainpower to invent many appliances to improvelivingconditions.Oneoftheseim-portant inventions was the electric heater, invented by Alexander Graham Bell.

• •Earlyelectricheatersconsistedofsmallmetal boxes holding electric light bulbs. The boxes produced a comforting glow, and as the heat transferred from the bulb to the metal, they got warmer and warmed the surrounding air.

• •Theseearlyheatersworked,but,ofcourse, many inventors have improved on theheatersforgenerations.In1905,engi-neerAlbertMarshdiscoveredametalalloycalled chromel that proved to be a great material for making heating elements inside heaters. He became known as the father of the electrical heating industry.

• •Throughtheyears,spaceheaters,asthe small machines were called, made their way into homes. They worked great to heat the “space” where the family gathered.Fireplacesandwoodstovesaswell as furnaces with systems that pushed warm air from the basement were still em-ployed as well. In colder climates, many wood furnaces were gradually replaced with coal, then fuel oil, natural gas and propane.

• •TheIndustrialRevolutionofthe18thand19thcenturiessawmanyscientists,engi-neers and others inventing new machines forallkindsofneeds.Forcedairsystemswithductsbuiltthroughceilingsandfloors

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Week of January 23rd Inner Ear Often Cause of DizzinessDEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am 82 and in pretty good health except for a recent problem. During the day everything is fine, but when I lie down to go to sleep, the room starts to spin. It lasts about 10 seconds. Then if I turn my head to look at the clock, the dizziness returns. In the morning when I wake and turn my head again, the room spins.Do I have an inner-ear infection? How can this problem be fixed? -- J.C.

ANSWER: Although I can’t give you 100 percent assurance, I can say on solid ground that you have benign positional vertigo, BPH. Vertigo is dizziness. BPH is not an inner-ear infection. It comes on just as you have written, with a change in the position of the head -- lying down, turning to the side or looking up to a cupboard shelf. The attacks are brief but disrupting.Crystals normally found in one part of the inner ear have migrated to another part. Moving the head activates the displaced crystals, and they send a message to the brain that brings on dizzi-ness. The inner ear is not only for hearing; it’s also for balance.You can bring the crystals back to their original site through a series of movements called the Epley repositioning maneuvers. Sit on the side of a bed and bend your head to the shoulder on the side that triggers dizziness. Let’s make it the right side, so you can follow the instructions. If it’s the left, just change the direction. With the head turned to the right, lie down so your head projects off the other side of the bed. When dizziness stops, turn the head to the left side, with the left ear facing down. Next, roll over on your left side so the head faces down for 10 to 15 seconds. Fi-nally, return to the sitting position with your head bent slightly down in front. You might have to repeat the procedure more than twice. If this is too confusing, have your family doctor or an ENT doctor put you through the motions.The booklet on vertigo explains the common causes of it and their treatment. To obtain a copy, write: Dr. Donohue -- No. 801W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. ***DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Why doesn’t the heart ever get cancer? I’ve never seen this question asked or talked about on TV. Blood feeds tumors, so it makes sense that the heart would be a tar-get. -- C.V.

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A boy had reached four without giving up the habit of suck-ing his thumb, though his mother had tried everything from brib-ery, to reasoning to painting it with lemon juicetodiscouragethehabit.Finallyshetriedthreats, warning her son that, “If you don’t stop sucking your thumb, your stomach is going to blow up like a balloon.” Later that day, walking in the park, mother and son saw a pregnant woman sitting on a bench. The four year old considered her gravely for a minute, then spoke to her say-ing,“Oooooh...Iknowwhat you’ve been doing.”


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You’ve no doubt heard that “time is money.” While this expression may be applicable in many areas of life, it’s es-pecially relevant for investors — because the more time you spend not investing, the less money you are likely to have when you really need it, such as during your retirement.

That’s why it’s essential that you don’t wait to start saving for your days as a retiree.

Many people think it won’t make much dif-ference if they delay investing for a few years. As you know, time flies, and before you know it, “a few years” turns into a decade — and a decade’s postponement in saving for retirement can make an enormous difference in your life.

How big a difference? Suppose you plan to retire at age 65. If at age 25, you began putting $200 a month into a tax-deferred vehicle, such as a traditional Individual Retirement Account (IRA), and your investments inside that IRA hypothetically earned on average 7% a year, you would accumulate about $512,000 after 40 years. However, if you had waited until you were age 30 to start saving for retirement, with all else being equal, you’d end up with only about $355,000 when you reached 65 — $157,000 less — due to that five-year delay. And if you waited 10 years, until you were 35, you’d end up with about $243,000 — far less than half of what you would have accumulated had you started saving at 25. (Keep in mind that you will eventually have to pay taxes on these accumulations, and the actual figures don’t reflect fees, commissions or expenses.)

Clearly, the cost of delay can be considerable — which is why you should consider taking these steps:

Develop a strategy with your financial advi-sor. It’s easier to stick to a strategy if you know where you’re going. Your financial advisor can help you determine how much you need to save to reach the type of retirement you’ve envi-sioned.If you haven’t started saving, begin now. If you wait until you feel more financially comfortable before you invest for retirement, you may never begin. Even if you can put away only a small amount, such as $50 per month, you’ll have made a start.To make it easier on yourself, set up your ac-counts to automatically move a set amount each month into your IRA. As the above examples show, the best way to build substantial savings is to start early, but even if you’re in your 30s or 40s, you can catch up — although you’ll need to save more to potentially get to the same level. Increase your investments when your income rises. Every time you get a salary increase, boost your contributions to your IRA and your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored retirement

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