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by Janet Spencer As our thoughts start turning to spring, come along with Tidbits as we explore a place where there is no spring, no autumn, no winter— only perpetual summer: the jungle rainforest.

JUNGLE FACTS • Why is the jungle so diverse? 30 million years ago, the area that is now the Amazon jungle entered a long dry period. The tropical rain forests growing there at the time were wiped out, and only isolated pockets of jungle surrounded by vast grasslands remained. Each pocket of jungle followed its own evolutionary course over thousands of years.

• When the climate once again became warm and wet following the last ice age 10,000 years ago, the different types of jungle grew together again, with each forest contributing many different species of plant and animal.

• As a result, the South American forests are the most diverse in the world. Whereas many temperate forests are composed largely of just a few species of tree, in the Amazon you may have to travel a mile or more to find two trees of the same species.

• In any North American forest it is rare to find more than 15 species of tree in the entire ecosytem. In the Amazon, a five-acre plot may contain between 100 and 250 different species.

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HEALTH PAGE TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

By Keith Roach, M.D.

High Blood Pressure Can Lead to Stroke --DEAR DR. ROACH: Can high blood pressure cause blood clots, blindness and strokes? Or is this caused by taking the wrong combination of blood pressure medicines? -- Anon.

ANSWER: High blood pressure over months or years causes damage to the lining of blood vessels. This can indeed predispose a person to a stroke. Reducing blood pressure gradually reduces risk of stroke.

Blood clots also can cause strokes, but these usually are not linked to blood pressure, high or low, and instead are linked to conditions that affect the blood itself or that affect the rhythm of the heart. Some medicines, such as estrogen, make blood clots more likely.

In people with very high blood pressure, lowering it too much, too quickly can cause strokes. The blood pressure needs to be reduced gradually, which usually can be done as an outpatient. There are still a few times when people with extremely high blood pressure are admitted to the hospital, where blood pressure can be brought down very slowly in a controlled environment.

High blood pressure is one of the most common ailments for the general population. The booklet on it describes what it does and how it’s treated. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Roach -- No. 104W, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. 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. ROACH: In March 2013, I fell and landed on my left side. Since then, I have had quite a lot of pain.

I had an MRI that showed I have a tear of the gluteus medius muscle. I was advised to have a surgical repair done as an outpatient. My family doctor wants me to wait and talk to another surgeon. My pain is aggravated by pressure and weight-bearing activities. What is your suggestion? I’m 77 and in pretty good health, and I walk my dogs several times per day. -- M.C. ANSWER: Gluteus medius tears are an increasingly recognized cause of hip pain. The gluteus medius muscle helps hold the hip in place during walking. They often are treated conservatively, with injection and physical therapy. They can be mistaken for trochanteric bursitis, but persistence of pain despite treatment should make the physician consider alternate diagnoses, and an MRI usually makes the diagnosis.

In your case, you have been suffering for two years, and I agree that it’s time to consider surgical repair. However, I also have to agree with your family doctor that a second opinion may be wise. There are several new surgical techniques, and you want an experienced surgeon operating on you. Talking to a second surgeon at the very least can make you more confident that the surgery is necessary.

Postoperative recovery may require six weeks of crutches or other assistive device, and another six weeks in a hip brace, although the exact recovery depends on you and the type of surgery performed. *** 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 ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2016 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

RAINFOREST (continued) • In the northern deciduous forests of the temperate climates, every tree drops its leaves at the same time, triggered by the change of seasons. Thus, each year the forest floor receives a huge boon of nutritious new dead material all at one time. This stuff gradually turns into rich soil.

• But in the tropical rainforest, no change of season occurs so no massive leaf drop ever happens.

Tropical trees drop their leaves gradually over the entire year. The unending heat and moisture of the climate spur the growth of bacteria, insects, and fungi, which consume the material and cause it to decompose quickly, converting it into nutrient building blocks.

• The process of decomposition which takes between one and seven years in North American forests (depending on climate) takes only six weeks in the Amazon. Nutrients are immediately used again by the many growing plants. The deep rich soil that accumulates in temperate forests never has a chance to collect in the Amazon. The forest floor in the Amazon is like a huge living stomach.

UNENDING RAIN • In temperate forests, it usually rains only sporadically, but in the Amazon, it rains daily.

Millions of years of daily rainfall combined with constant heat leached the nutrients from the soil, leaving it high in aluminum and iron oxides which are responsible for the soil’s characteristic red color.

The soil is highly acidic and unable to support much plant life. Without the constant fall of 14 dead material from above, the Sheridan dirt is worthless.

Good Health Emporium Leather Outfitters • So the ecosystem of the • rainforest is up-side-down in comparison to other forests: the nutrients are stored not in Werco Ave. the soil, but in the living canopy. When the forest is cut and • burned, the only nutrients left Firestone Complete are in the ashes.

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RAINFOREST (cont’d) • After the trees are cut down in a tropical rainforest, nutrients in the soil disappear after only a few harvests of crops, and the soil is soon lost entirely to erosion, never to be replaced. Once the forest is cleared, it is extraordinarily difficult to reverse the damage.

THE DESTRUCTION • A forested landscape acts as a living reservoir by trapping rainfall and releasing it slowly. In the dense jungle, the canopy is so heavy that the water from a driving rainstorm may take 10 minutes to reach the ground. Rain is caught by leaves and trapped in hollows where it evaporates gradually. It’s sucked up by roots and it soaks into soil that acts like a sponge.

Rain feeds underground springs.

• But when the land is cleared, rainfall is no longer absorbed. There are no leaves and branches to protect the ground from the pounding rain. Water runs off immediately, taking the soil with it. Exposed to the sun, the ground becomes an unproductive hard-packed cement. The small amounts of nutrients in the soil are quickly leached away.

• A 2.5 acre tract of healthy growing rainforest will lose an average of three pounds (1.3 kg) of soil through erosion annually. Cut the forest, however, and the same area can lose up to 34 tons of dirt in a year.

• Half of the rain that falls comes from water evaporating from the forest below. With no forest, the land dries quickly and offers no moisture to be turned into more rain. When the forest is gone, the rain is gone too.

Drought, erosion, and flooding result.

• It’s been estimated that the Amazon produces half of all the oxygen generated by land plants on Earth.

Without the climate-moderating effects of the forest, temperatures would rise. Rainfall would plummet. Loss of the Amazon could cause a change in the global environment.

• Covering about 2.1 million square miles of land, the Amazon rainforest is about two-thirds the size of the U.S. The Amazon covers approximately 40% of the South American continent. If the Amazon were a country, it would rank 9th in size • Around 60% of the Amazon is in Brazil; 13% in Peru; 10% in Columbia; and six other countries split the rest.

• The Amazon comprises a little more than half of the world’s rainforest, and a third of the world’s forests overall.

• The Amazon harbors the densest variety of life on the planet, hosting over 40,000 plant species including 16,000 kinds of trees alone, as well as 1,300 types of bird, 3,000 kinds of fish, about 430 mammal species, and an incredible 2.5 million kinds of insects.

• Researchers estimate that they have discovered and cataloged only one-sixth of the species that live in the Amazon.

• A plot of rainforest 100 acres in size may contain as many frog species as can be found in all of North America.

• More species of fish live in the Amazon River than in the entire Atlantic Ocean.

• Over 100 types of plants can be found growing in the branches of a single mature tropical tree, along with 1,700 kinds of bugs. Fifty different types of ants may inhabit a single square yard of jungle floor.

• The Amazon River is the world’s largest river by volume. It originally ran westward into the Pacific Ocean, but as the Andes Mountains rose, it shifted course and now runs eastward, draining into the Atlantic Ocean.

• The Amazon River is 4,000 miles long (6,400 km) and only the Nile River is longer. It has over 1,100 tributaries.

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Quik Sak This week Tidbits had the opportunity to interview Rex Martin the owner of Quik Sak - the only locally owned and operated gas station in Sheridan. Stop by Quik Sak today and save money when you pay with cash or check!

Tidbits: When did you start this business?

Rex: We bought the business in April of 1994 T: How did you arrive at running this business?

What path brought you here?

R: It came on the market back in 1994. It was built in 1981.

T: How is your business different from your competitors?

R: Quik Sak is the only locally owned gas station other than Flashin’s (big corporations from other states).

T: Who has influenced you the most in business?

R: My dad and my wife have influenced me the most.

T: If you could start over would you do anything different?

R: No. T: Are there any major obstacles that you overcame to get where you are today?

R: Hanging in through the ups and downs.

T: What do you like doing the most in your career/company?

R: It is a good living. Answer only to customers. We enjoy our customers and have met and made many friends through the years.

T: What are your interests/hobbies outside of work?

R: Children - 2 daughters and 1 son. Traveling and seeing friends T: Do you have anything else you would like to tell the public about your business (Upcoming sales, changes, etc.)?

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PET OF THE WEEK!

Isabella is our cat of the week at Second Chance Sheridan Cat Rescue! Isabella is beautiful long haired calico. Isabella has a lot of love to give and would love a family of her own! For more information about Isabella or any other adoptable cat, please call 307-461-9555 or visit http://sheridancatrescue.org

PAW’S CORNER

By Sam Mazzotta

INVENTING THE DISHWASHER • Josephine Cochrane was a wealthy woman who lived in Illinois. She gave a lot of dinner parties and was very proud of her china. She collected rare and expensive dishes. However, her servants weren’t particularly careful with the priceless dishes when they washed them after each party. Pieces were broken; pieces were cracked; pieces were chipped. Josephine took to washing the dishes herself by hand while wondering why there wasn’t there a machine that would wash the dishes for her.

• She decided to invent one, setting up a workshop in her woodshed. Dishes fit into a rack; the rack fit into a wheel; the wheel fit inside a tub; the wheel turned while hot soapy water squirted up from the bottom of the tub. Shortly after she perfected the design, her husband died. She was left with little money and a lot of debt. She needed to turn her idea into a way to make a living.

• She patented her design in 1886 and her wealthy friends immediately starting ordering the Cochrane Dishwasher for their own luxurious kitchens. A Chicago machine firm began to manufacture them while Josephine managed the company and marketed the product. She later said that designing the dishwasher was far easier than marketing it.

• The home model did not sell well. Few homes had electricity. Water heaters were rare. Most municiple water systems offered only hard water which did not make soap suds. The price tag of $150 would be equivalent to about $4,500 today.

• Housewives often felt that soaking their hardworking hands by washing the dishes in hot soapy water was a relaxing way to end the day.

Cochrane changed her sales pitch to point out that water in dishwashing machines was far hotter than human hands could stand and therefore resulted in germ-free dishes. (continued on last page).

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Caring for a Handicapped Pet --DEAR PAW’S CORNER: We have two dogs that we adopted from shelters: “Kylie,” a beautiful greyhound who is missing one front leg, and “Zu-zu,” a toy poodle, who is about age 16 and is almost completely blind.

I’m writing to let readers know that caring for pets with physical challenges can be expensive and challenging. They need to know what they’re in for before adopting a challenged dog.

We wouldn’t trade our two “kids” for the world. Kylie is quiet and very determined even though walking can be tough for her. Zu-zu is yappy and can get anxious when she’s home alone, but is loyal and loving.

Both have additional physical issues that require more trips to the vet, extra medicines, even special equipment. Their care can run over a thousand dollars a year, easily. We have pet insurance that covers their basic care and some of their medication, which helps quite a bit.

Please let your readers know to be aware of the challenge they take on when they adopt dogs with illnesses or handicaps. -- Karen H., Conway, New Hampshire DEAR KAREN: You told them, and I thank you! Caring for challenged dogs can be incredibly rewarding, but also difficult. They can have both physical and emotional issues, particularly if they’ve experienced past trauma, neglect or abuse.

Before adopting a pet, ask plenty of questions of both shelter supervisors about a pet’s known past, its behaviors and what its treatment may cost. Talk to a vet ahead of time about the care and commitment that may be required. When you’re prepared to care for a challenged pet, you’ll be able to create a supportive home for them.

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ANTS • In terms of sheer numbers of individuals, ants are among the dominant species on earth.

• Ants, which evolved from wasps, are perhaps the most highly developed social insects. There are about 400 different species of ant in the U.S. alone, and about 15,000 species worldwide.

• To find food, a typical harvester ant will go straight out from the nest for up to 50 feet (15 m), and then start wandering. When it finds food, instead of following the round-about trail back to the nest, it will head for home in a beeline, thus refuting speculation that all ants follow a scent trail home. If the soil in front of an ant is scraped away or covered, the ant will continue its direct course. However, if the ant is placed inside an enclosure from which it is unable to see surrounding landmarks, it will lose its way until the enclosure is removed. Furthermore, if the ant is picked up and transferred to a new location, it will re-orient itself without hesitation, unless it is put down outside the area in which the ants of that colony forage, in which case it will wander about, lost.

• Ants may use large landmarks to find their way home, as well as the position of the sun. If an ant is entrapped in a box in the dark for an hour, when it is released it will strike out again in a direction different from the original direction by an angle equal to the number of degrees the sun has moved during the hour.

• Some species of ants do leave a scent trail to mark the way back to the food. When a forager makes a discovery, it becomes excited and secretes an odorous substance from the abdomen as it returns to the nest. Other ants follow the trail to find the food.

• One researcher was able to prove conclusively that ants will follow a scent trail to food. The scientist placed food near an anthill and covered the distance between with sheets of paper. After the first ant discovered the food and rushed back to the nest, he replaced the original paper with fresh sheets. When the ants swarmed out to get the food, they were unable to find it.

• Another naturalist devised a test that proved that ants can measure, estimate, and communicate. He chopped a grasshopper into three parts: a small section, a medium section, and a large section. He then gave each section to a different ant scout from the same nest. All of the pieces were too big for a single ant to carry. Each ant measured its section with its antennae and then returned to the nest. Would each ant call out the same size crew? Would too many show up to do the work, or too few? The naturalist was surprised to see that 28 ants returned to fetch the small piece; 44 went for the medium piece; and 89 for the large piece. The second crew was twice as big as the first, just as the medium piece was twice as big as the small; and the large crew was twice as big as the medium crew to move a piece that was twice as big.

• When ants find a puddle of fruit juices or a dollop of jelly, they will chew a leaf into a spongy mass and then place it in the middle of the food. When they return later, the leaf has absorbed the juices and the ants carry it home.

• Queen ants can live for 20 years. Female worker ants can live as long as ten years. Male ants, however, live only a few weeks. They die immediately after mating.

• One typical Maryland woodland was estimated to contain 1.3 million ants per acre.

• Ant blood is colorless.

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THE DISHWASHER (cont’d) • The strongest market for the dishwasher lay not in private homes, but in industries.

Hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, and hospitals saw the advantage of being able to wash, scald, rinse, and dry up to 20 dozen dishes of all shapes and sizes in two minutes.

• She got her big break when she not only exhibited her dishwasher at the Columbian Expo in 1892 in Chicago, but also sold her dishwashers to many of the restaurants and other establishments with vast kitchens catering to the large crowds coming to see the Expo. Against heavy competition from around the world, her dishwasher received the first prize for “the best mechanical construction for durability and adaptation to a particular line of work.” One of the concessionaires using her product sent her this glowing tribute: “Your machine washed without delay soiled dishes left by eight relays of a thousand soldiers each, completing each lot within 30 minutes.”

• Cochrane continued to improve the product, producing models with revolving washing systems, a centrifugal pump, and a hose for draining into the sink. She ignored the clergy who claimed the dishwasher was immoral because it denied women the labor to which God had called them. She ignored the outcry of the servants who claimed it would put them out of business. The company kept growing, pushed by Josephine Cochrane’s energy and ambition until her death at age 74 in 1913.

• Late in her life she said, “If I knew all I know today [I] never would have had the courage to start.”

• The company was sold and eventually evolved into the Kitchenaid division of the Whirlpool Corporation. Still, dishwashers did not become commonplace in ordinary homes until the 1950s.

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