How many of you would believe that a Copying Machine would need
a hard drive similar to what you have in your computers???
I always assumed that when you placed a document into a Copying Machine, the scan
would be transferred directly to the copy paper.
Not so and this has awesome ramifications as described in the attached video of
a CBS investigation.
Check it out at the below web address. It will blow your mind and you need to tell
everyone you know about this.
Makes you wonder what the people at Kinko or the US Postal Service do with their
coin operated machines that some of you may use for your important documents!!!
Better to be careful than sorry!
Check it out here.
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 odour. 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 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.. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could 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 floor to help keep their footing.
As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until when you opened the door, it
would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance
way. Hence the saying a thresh hold. (Getting quite an education, aren't
you?)
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 left over's in
the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day.
Sometimes 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 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 go t the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper
crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes
knock the imbibers 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 wakeup. 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 realised they had been burying people alive. So 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 History was boring!
Good info about Hotel Key cards
Always take a small magnet on your holiday, they come in handy at
the end of it. I Thought you all needed to know this!
This is pretty good info. Never even thought about key cards containing anything
other than an access code for the room!
Ever wonder what is on your magnetic key card?
Answer:
A. Customer's name
B. Customer's partial home address
C. Hotel room number
D. Check-in date and out dates
E. Customer's credit card number and expiration date!
When you turn them in to the front desk your personal information is there for any
employee to access by simply scanning the card in the hotel scanner.. An employee
can take a hand full of cards home and using a scanning device, access the information
onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your expense.
Simply put, hotels do not erase the information on these cards until an employee
reissues the card to the next hotel guest. At that time, the new guest's information
is electronically 'overwritten' on the card and the previous guest's information
is erased in the overwriting process.
But until the card is rewritten for the next guest, it usually is kept in a drawer
at the front desk with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!
If you have a small magnet, pass it across the magnetic strip several times.
Then try it in the door, it will not work. It erases everything on the card.
Do it!
The bottom line is: Keep the cards, take them home with you, or destroy them.
NEVER leave them behind in the room or room wastebasket, and NEVER turn them into
the front desk when you check out of a room. They will not charge you for
the card (it's illegal) and you'll be sure you are not leaving a lot of valuable
personal information on it that could be easily lifted off with any simple scanning
device card reader.
For the same reason, if you arrive at the airport and discover you still have the
card key in your pocket, do not toss it in an airport trash basket. Take it
home and destroy it by cutting it up, especially through the electronic information
strip!
But first, run a magnet over it a few times!
Information courtesy of: Metropolitan Police Service.
DANGEROUS IMPORTED FOODS.
The whole world is scared of China making 'black hearted goods'. Can you differentiate
which one is made in the USA , Philippines , Taiwan or China? For your Information
... the first 3 digits of the barcode is the country code wherein the product was
made.
Sample: all barcodes that start with 690.691.692 until 695 are all MADE IN CHINA.
4 71 is Made in Taiwan.
This is our human right to know, but the government and related
department never educate the public, therefore we have to RESCUE ourselves.
Nowadays, Chinese businessmen know that consumers do not prefer products 'made in
china', so they don't show from which country it is made.
However, you may now refer to the barcode, remember if the first 3 digits is 690 to 695, then it is Made in China.
00 ~ 13 USA & CANADA
30 ~ 37 FRANCE
40 ~ 44 GERMANY
49 ~ JAPAN
50 ~ UK
57 ~ Denmark
64 ~ Finland
76 ~ Switzerland and Lienchtenstein
628 ~ Saudi-Arabian
629 ~ United Arab Emirates
740 ~ 745 - Central America
All 480 Codes are Made in the Philippines.
DO NOT BUY FOOD PROCESSED IN CHINA , HONG KONG , VIETNAM AND THAILAND !!! there
are no food inspection regulations!!!
On the Ellen show, Sheryl Crow said that this is what caused her
breast cancer.
It has been identified as the most common cause of the high levels of dioxin in
breast cancer tissue.
Sheryl Crow's oncologist told her: women should not drink bottled water that has
been left in a car.
The heat reacts with the chemicals in the plastic of the bottle which releases
dioxin into the water. Dioxin is a toxin increasingly found in breast
cancer tissue. So please be careful and do not drink bottled water that
has been left in a car.
Pass this on to all the women in your life. This
information is the kind we need to know that just might save us! Use a stainless
steel canteen or a glass bottle instead of plastic!
LET EVERYONE WHO HAS A WIFE / GIRLFRIEND / DAUGHTER KNOW PLEASE!
This information is also being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre.
No plastic containers in microwave.
No water bottles in freezer.
No plastic wrap in microwave.
A dioxin chemical causes cancer, especially breast cancer.. Dioxins are highly
poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles
with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently,
Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital, was on a TV
program to explain this health hazard.
He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we
should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers...
This especially applies to foods that contain fat.
He said that the combination of fat, high heat and plastic releases dioxin into
the body.
Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic
containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin
So, such things as T V dinners, instant soups, etc., should be removed from the
container and heated in something else.
Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer
to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc.
He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away
from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the
reasons.....
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran wrap, is just as dangerous
when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is
nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic
wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life!
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