Pumpkin Teaching Tip

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   4. If possible, use real pumpkin meat for one of your recipes and canned pumpkin for another. Which is easier to use? Compare look, taste, and texture of final result. Which do you prefer? Why?    5. Read about pumpkins. What did you learn that surprised you? Compare them to other vegetables.    6. If possible, visit a pumpkin patch or watch a video, perhaps sent by Pen Pals or family members up north.

  I hope you have found these tips useful. Have fun and remember that Reading is FUNdamental!!

Freda J. Glatt retired from teaching after a 34-year career in early childhood and elementary education. Her focus, now, is to reach out and help others reinforce reading comprehension and develop a love for reading. Visit her site at http://www.sandralreading.com. Reading is FUNdamental!

The Retail Cardiac Chain of Survival; or, How to Survive a Heart Attack at the Mall

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Check for signs of Circulation.

If there is no coughing when you give breaths and they're pale, limp and lifeless, they are probably in cardiac arrest. This means their heart is no longer beating well enough to stay alive. Without CPR until AED arrives, this person will not survive. The optimum chance he has for survival is if you, person standing next to him, know what to do.

Use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) if Available

An AED is an electrical device which helps to "re-boot" a person's heart when it is out of rhythm. Every minute an AED is delayed decreases a person's chance of survival by 10%. You may have noticed push to make these easy to use, life saving devices widely available, from FDA's recent approval of first in-home AED without a prescription, to local television commercials seeking to make AEDs as common as pay phones.

When American Heart Association studied giving immediate CPR alone vs. both CPR & AED before paramedics arrive, those receiving electrical shocks from an AED were twice as likely to survive. Even more dramatically, when casinos in Las Vegas acquired AEDs, survival from cardiac arrest went from 10% to 54%!

AEDs in Malls!?

While most do not, only largest malls now have AEDs, but not always. Talk to management to ask if and where they're located. Show that you care for humanity. Learn how to save a life and put it on your resume! It will make you a more attentive sales person with excellent management potential.

Sources:

California Good Samaritan Law: http://www.swc.cc.ca.us/~kjacobs/goodsam.htm

The Cardiac Arrest Survival Act (CASA): http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/8954/67328

Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Study Results: http://depts.washington.edu/padctc/results.htm

Understanding Legal Issues by Richard Lazar, EMS, Esq. http://www.early-defib.org/03_06_02.html

Copyright by Don Ross, CEO of OptiWell, the Optimum in Wellness Training, who began in retail management in the 1980s. Call (619) 204-3838 or visit OptiWell-inc.com for First Aid & CPR/AED certification in San Diego County.