AFVOA Newletters of Year 2004

Page 39 of 153 breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. 59. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. 60. Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives! (Source http//urbanlegends about com/library/blcpr.htm) {the above has been suggested by AVM V Krishnaswamy, VSM} Safety Precautions for Cell Phone Users 61. In the last issue we had carried a caution for Cell Phone users. It is understood from Brig V Thyagarajan, that such messages are a hoax. It has been in circulation for over 5 years now. Please go to the website listed below to get the correct picture. http://www.snopes.com/auto/hazards/gasvapor.asp 62. Even the information on Fire at gas stations due to static electricity is only partly true Pleas visit the website below. http://www.snopes.com/auto/hzards/static.asp 63. In order that people do not panic you may like to visit the website www.snopes.com and verify for yourself such messages before sending them. Farewells 64. An extract of a note that Wg Cdr Ravi Mani wrote on the eve of his departure to Belgaum is given below for the benefit of Members: “Sirs, 1. Thank you for the kindness and thoughtfulness shown by you. 2. However, this is not the foremost reason for which I will remember ali of you, as well as others like Gen Ram Naidu, Col Rl and a few others. At this point in time, all I will say is that, in the interaction with the EXSOA and then with the AFVOA, in the past, if is I who have gained the more, and not the AFVOA, and I am the better for it. 3. As in the IAF, so in the AFVOA, it is not as if I did nothing at all, only, and I repeat, I am clear that I have benefited more handsomely. 4. I will obviously seek to continue, at both the individual & personal level, as well as at the organisational one, with a relationship that I have so profited from. With sincere thanks & regards. Ravi Mani PS: Maybe, someday, when distance will lend more objectivity, I will spell out how I have gained all these years. Address of Wg Cdr Ravi Mani is: S-2,“PARNALI”, No 312(P), Roy Road,