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Use Snow to Clean Oriental Rug?Q: I know it’s a bit late in the season for this one, but when I read your column on cleaning oriental rugs, I had to write. I think you missed it on this one. Soaking and shampooing those area rugs is diffi cult and time-consuming. Water and chemicals rot the webbing. Instead of all that work, try cleaning rugs with snow. That’s right, snow!After a fresh snowfall, vacuum both sides of the rug indoors as you indicated. Then, take the rug outside and lay on a clean patch of snow. Throw snow on top of the rug and sweep off with a broom or brush. Repeat until the snow comes off clean, then fl ip the rug and do the other side. The dirt will pour off using this method.If you live in an area without snow or it’s past snow season, use crushed ice on a deck or clean garage fl oor instead.The rug will not get soaked through, and it looks and smells clean. No chemicals, no taking days to dry. Tell your readers to try it! - Ruth, via e-mail

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thousands of Baby Ruth bars, each individually equipped with mini-parachutes, over the city of Pittsburgh.• It would take ninety-fi ve Hershey’s kisses to make one pound.• The word candy comes from the Arabic word qan-di, derived from the Persian qand, meaning sugar.• Outside of America, the English term for candy is sweets, sweeties or lollies.• Almond Joy and Mounds bars were created by Peter Paul Halajan, a candy retailed in New Haven, CT. Although Peter Paul Candy Manufacturing Com-pany is now part of the Hershey Company in the U.S., the Peter Paul logo can still be seen on the Almond Joy and Mounds candy bar wrappers.• Hershey’s Kisses, introduced in 1907, were origi-nally wrapped by hand. It wasn’t until the introduc-tion of a wrapping machine that the kisses got their distinctive paper ribbon.• Harry Burnett Reese started working as a dairy-man at Hershey Farms in 1917. He founded the H.B. Reese Company in the basement of his house and it merged with the Hershey Company in 1963. You might have tried some of his candy. He created Re-ese’s Peanut Butter Cups.• Over 8 billion candy hearts are produced in the U.S. each year.• 5th Avenue bars were created by William Luden, founder of Luden’s Cough Drops. The candy bar is

named for the street in Reading, PA where Luden’s Cough Drops were fi rst created.• 90 million chocolate Easter bunnies are made for Easter each year in the U.S.• U.S. chocolate manufacturers use 3.5 million lbs (1,587,573 kg) of whole milk every day.• The Baby Ruth candy bar was originially intro-duced by the Curtiss Candy Company as Kandy Kake. In 1921 it was renamed and refashioned into Baby Ruth and supposedly named for former Presi-dent Cleveland’s daughter Ruth, though it arrived twenty-four years after Cleveland’s last term and seventeen years after Ruth’s death. Many skeptics believe the more plausible story that it was named for Babe Ruth, who was at the height of his career, and to avoid royalties, the name Baby Ruth was used.• The melting point of cocoa butter is just below 98.6º, which is why chocolate melts in your mouth.• The word chocolates comes from the Aztecs of Mexico and is derived from the native Nahuatl word xocolatl or chocolatl, meaning “food made from caoco seeds”.• Chocolate has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Central America and Mexico, with its earliest documented use around 1100 B.C.• Medical research shows that dark chocolate can help lower high blood pressure.• Joseph Fry molded the world’s fi rst chocolate bar in Bristol, England in 1847.

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Dear Dave,I’m 22, and trying to follow your plan to take care of my money. I’m working my way through school. The other day I paid cash for nice little used car. The rest of my fam-ily made fun of me, saying I should have bought a new car. They also think I take out student loans for school. They all have car payments, credit card debt, and things like that. How do you deal with criticism like this, especially from your own family?

LakeishaDear Lakeisha,Criticism is a tough thing to handle at any age, especially when it’s coming from your own family. I’m sure your fam-ily loves you, but I think you have to recognize the fact that when it comes to handling money, they are a dysfunc-tional bunch. This doesn’t make them bad people, and you should still respect and love them, but hooray for you for breaking the mold and showing them there’s a better way!“Those convinced against their will are of the same opin-ion still.” That’s one of my favorite sayings, and it is so true! You, on the other hand, know what you want to ac-complish, and you already know what you’re doing is smart. So, I’d suggest taking the bobble-head approach. Just sit there and nod your head when they start telling you how you should handle your fi nances. You don’t even have to really listen. Then, when they run out of air, go on with your life, follow your excellent plan, and work to-ward your goals. Remember, this isn’t about you, so don’t take it personally. It’s about them, and how little they really know.I can already tell you’re going to be a success, kiddo.

You’ve got a tremendous amount of backbone to go against the current in your family. Just don’t be disre-spectful, and don’t try to talk them into following you. In their minds, you’re just 22-years-old, and you don’t know a thing! Later, if they decide they want to follow you, it will be because they see the stuff you’re doing works! It may not happen for a few years, and it may not happen at all, but if you stay on this path, they’re going to come to you for money one of these days. You can be polite, just say no, and tell them that you’re not going to support their dysfunction. You’ll gain their respect over time. And once they reach that point, they just might be willing to listen to you!

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• Nestlé, more commonly pronounced ness-lee, was originally pronounced like the English verb nestle.• One piece of chocolate has the same amount of caffeine as one cup of decaf coffee.• Ancient Egyptians were enjoying candy 3500 years ago!• October 30th is National Candy Corn Day.• Did you know there are approximately forty-two Skittles per bag?• Over 35 million lbs (15,875,733 kg) of candy corn are produced in the U.S. each year.• Ice cubes can help remove gum from clothing.• National Candy Cane Day is December 26th.• Candy Canes were originally solid white.• Legend says that in 1670, it was a choirmaster in Cologne Catherdral, Germany who fi rst gave candy sticks bent in the shape of shepherd’s crooks to his students.• The world’s largest candy cane was created by Paul Ghinelli of Williamston, MI. It measured 58 feet 2.25 inches (17.73 m) tall.• Original lollipop machines produced 40 lollipops per minute. Modern machines can produce 5,900 lollipops per minute.• 76% of people surveyed say they eat the ears off a chocolate bunny fi rst.• How many licks does it take to get to the cen-ter of a Tootsie Pop? Several licking machines and hand studies have shown it takes an average of 350 licks.• Gummi bears was originally referred to as “danc-ing bears.”• The world’s largest jar of jelly beans weight 6,050 lbs (2,744 kg) and was unveiled in October of 1999.• Americans spend over $125 million on marshmal-lows each year.• Ancient Egyptians enjoyed an early form of marshmallows as early as 2000 B.C.• An average candy cane only has 55 calories.• The world’s largest lollipop weighed 4,031 lbs (1,828 kg), was 18.9 in (48 cm) thick and 15 ft (4.5 m) tall, stick included. It was cherry fl avored.

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Up-to-date advice is to let thirst be a rough guide for how much liquid you drink. If people are en-gaged in prolonged exercise, it is good to include some salt in the program. Half a teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of baking soda (sodium bi-carbonate) in a quart of water can keep body so-dium levels from dropping. For you and your sons, it would be advisable to salt your food and to eat some salty snacks -- another way to ensure body sodium doesn’t bottom out.Hyponatremia is uncommon. Dehydration is com-mon. For most, drinking water as a replacement fl uid in hot weather is fi ne. It’s not going to lead to a dangerous drop in body sodium. Only those who lose lots of sweat for long periods of time run the risk of hyponatremia by drinking pure water.This is advice that doesn’t apply only to athletes or backpackers. It applies to all those who are out working in hot weather and sweating up a storm.***DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have hypertension, and I go to the beach often. Can salt in salt water get through the skin as medical patches get through the skin? My doctors have increased my dose of medicine and have added additional medicines without much improvement in my blood pressure.Could the salt water I swim in be keeping my blood

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