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4 | Voice of the Village Troubleshooting your phone connection Bob Harrisen Noise and static are the plague of landline telephones. You don’t always have to wait for the phone company to try to fix it, especially if the problem is not with them; you might be able fix it yourself or call an independent telecom cabling professional and save time and money. There are a number of possible causes for noise or static on the line. Here are a few tips to help in understanding and managing the simpler problems. The standard telephone works on two wires enclosed in and separated by insulation. Those two wires are part of a path called a circuit or loop that carries current from the phone company to your phone and back again. The insulation keeps the current on the wire path. When that insulation is damaged or missing anywhere along the path, or the wire is broken, the flow of current can be partially or completely misdirected (shorted) across to the other wire or onto another electrical path. This causes some or all of the current to fall short of the intended destination. The shorting of the current causes heat at the short location and might cause various kinds of noise, such as the scratchy or crackling sound heard on the telephone. To handle this problem you need to find and eliminate the short. A good place to start is to look is the telephone itself. Sometimes a phone is dropped or mishandled and the wires, connections or parts inside the phone will come loose, causing a short and noise. If just moving the phone or handset causes a crackling sound, that’s a big tip-off. However, it might be that just holding the receiver and breathing is enough to start the trouble. Find another Avet’s phone that is known to be working well and connect it to the same line. If the good phone works, you know the old phone should be repaired or replaced. If the problem still exists you can look further. The telephone line cord that connects the phone with a wall jack can be another point of failure. Line cords get stepped on and crushed by furniture, resulting in a breakdown of the insulation. Shorting inside the line cord creates heat in the wires and will cause the cord insulation to swell up and become bumpy, usually in multiple spots. Visually inspect the cord or slide it through your finger and thumb. If it looks or feels lumpy, cracked or soggy, or if the connectors are loose or corroded, replace the line cord and the noise might disappear. If that does not solve the problem, unplug the line cord from the wall jack and visually inspect the socket. If it is dirty, corroded, painted, damaged or filled with an old rubbery gel, get the jack replaced. Water or moisture on the line, either inside or outside the building, often causes a hissing sound with an interspersed crackle. Some sources of moisture include rain, the sprinkler system, morning dew and condensation. The sudden appearance of this sound during or following rain is a strong indication that water is the problem. When water contacts exposed or compromised wires it conducts current and might create a short, producing a hissing background sound similar to the sound of steam and a crackling sound like electrical arcing that is heard on the phone. The hiss and crackle sound is often A Division of Avet’s Auto Body & Sales, Inc. Call us for all your Nissan needs! One Stop Shop NO BANK IN-HOUSE FINANCING Buy it Here Finance it Here Bad Credit? No Problem All Trade-ins Welcome FREE INSPECTION • FREE ESTIMATE 818.353.1696 Mechanical Repair Parts Paint & Body Sales 7432 Foothill Blvd. Tujunga, CA 91042 www.NISSANSPECIALIST.com We've been serving the Foothill communities for nearly 30 years. Checking the phone line for noise at the interface box Larger Network Interface Box Small 2 line interface box Continued on page 21 News from 1910: a time of sweeping change Marlene Hitt Did you ever think we would live to see 1910? It seems that 1899 was just a day ago! And here we are 50 years old with time to go. The news this year so far has been promising. I’ll read a bit to you. The school board is about to annex the Monte Vista school to the Tujunga district. We’ll have to let the kids have the horse to get to school, but with only three or four children to teach it doesn’t make sense for two schools and two teachers. And it says here that even though we were taxed $200 four years ago, which is plenty, we now will need to pay more because they need to dig a well on the school grounds and repair the building. Now they want to build a road all the way through ranchos Tujunga, Providencia and San Raphael to run to Palmdale. What do we need that for? This is interesting. The Big, Little and Pacoima washes discharged 559 acre feet of storm waters in April. What we need are a few check dams in those canyons and a good-sized reservoir for our own needs. This is good news. There are more than 383 miles of trails, 105 miles of wagon roads and 60 miles of telephone lines in the reserve here. A body could walk for days. Now that this place is so developed, we can expect a few more people, but not those crazy settlers up the hill. How do they expect to grow anything up on those rocks? I’ll stay down here by the river where the good land lays and the water is fresh and running all year round. And we don’t need any more people. Got enough already.
Voice of the Village Retrieving our health What we can learn from cat’s teeth Judith Cutler In the early 20th century there lived two brilliant nutritional researchers whose efforts could have changed the course of healthcare in this country had their findings been broadly promoted and acted upon, rather than being swept under the rug by the newly forming pharmaceutical industry. The first of these pioneers was Dr. Weston Price, a dentist in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1930s. He observed that the healthier a patient was, the healthier his or her teeth, jaw and gums were. He asked himself what it was in our diet that was causing so many unhealthy people to wind up in his dental chair. He believed that nutrition was the foundation of good health, so what could people be eating to create this situation? He asked the crucial question “could it be processed foods?” Investigating this idea, he left his dental practice and traveled around the world looking for people who were untouched by processed foods. He sought out isolated, primitive cultures from tribes in Africa to Eskimos in Alaska and from Polynesian islanders to inhabitants high in the Swiss Alps; 14 different cultures in all. The further away from civilization that he traveled, the fewer cavities he found. These people possessed straight teeth, minimal decay and strong, healthy bodies that were resistant to disease. Although the diets of these various cultures varied greatly, the common denominator was that all of these diets Features provided at least four times the amount of water-soluble vitamins and minerals (especially calcium) and 10 times the amount of fat-soluble vitamins as the diets of the so-called “civilized” cultures. In these cultures couples expecting babies were both on special nutritional programs. The mother’s health was methodically maintained to ensure the creation of healthy babies. All of these cultures provided special foods for pregnant and lactating mothers and special diets for growing children. Sadly, Price observed that abandoning these practices for just one generation brought about a host of health problems previously unknown: narrowed faces, crowded teeth, diminished immunity and degenerative diseases. Price’s findings prompted him to advocate a nutrient-dense, whole food, organic diet since it’s the health of the whole body that determines the health of the teeth, not what toothpaste you use! The second nutritional pioneer was Dr. Francis Pottenger Jr., a medical doctor familiar with Price’s findings. In 1940 Pottenger established the Pottenger Hospital in Monrovia, California, which existed until 1960. He was famous for what became known as “The Pottenger Cat studies,” conducted from 1932 to 1942. These studies were designed to determine the difference between eating raw whole foods versus cooked and processed foods over a long period. The studies involved almost 900 cats over a 10-year period. The cats that ate raw, whole and unprocessed food were disease free and healthy generation after generation. The cats eating cooked and processed problems. foods developed major 1) By the end of the first generation, the cats were developing degenerative becoming lazy. diseases and 2) The second-generation cats developed degenerative diseases by midlife and started losing coordination abilities. 3) The third generation cats developed degenerative diseases early in life and their life span was much shorter. Some were born blind and weak and couldn’t produce offspring. There was an increase in parasites, skin conditions and allergies by 85 percent. The cats were born with these deficiencies and the kittens did not survive beyond six 4) months. Also, these cats suffered from adverse personality changes, such as males becoming docile and the females being aggressive. These cats suffered from the same degenerative diseases as found in humans and they died out totally by the fourth generation. Pottenger observed the same degenerative diseases in cats fed nutrient deficient diets that Price found in the human tribes that had abandoned their traditional natural diets. | 5 The findings reached by both of these studies substantiates that eating nutritionally bankrupt foods can alter genetic traits and these alterations can be passed on to future generations. Although it isn’t true that you are what you eat, it is certainly true that what you eat significantly affects the viability of your body and the bodies that you produce. (Judith Cutler has been a nutritionist in the L.A. area for 20 years and is a natural products developer. She is the founder of BioTech Solutions. Biotheta@yahoo.com (818) 353-7454).
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