The combined efforts of the Kennel Club and ADT Security Services led to the first Pet Fire Safety Day being held in the late 2000s. The idea behind the event is to make pet owners aware of the hazards their beloved cat, dog, or other animal could pose in the home with regard to fire. Many fires are caused by pets, especially when they are left alone in a property and the intention is that by highlighting the dangers to owners it can help in preventing them.
Pet owners should take advantage of the day to discuss who in a home is responsible for helping a pet escape in the event of a blaze and carry out some practice escape drills. They can also use Kennel Club advice to pet proof their home against fires and install a pet alert notice in a window for use by emergency services.
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Idiom of the Day
golden duck— In cricket, a batter's score of zero after being dismissed on the very first ball he or she faces. |
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 | In Greco-Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux were twin gods who helped shipwrecked sailors and received sacrifices for favorable winds. Worshipped as the Dioscuri (from the Greek Dioskouroi, or "sons of Zeus"), their cult was a popular one in 484 BCE, when, according to legend, the twins fought on the side of the Romans in the Battle of Lake Regillus and brought word of their victory to Rome. A temple was built for them in the Forum, and it was here that the annual festival in their honor was celebrated on July 15. | ||
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1876 - George Washington Bradley of St. Louis pitched the first no-hitter in baseball in a 2-0 win over Hartford.
1885 - In New York, the Niagara Reservation State Park opened.
1965 - The spacecraft Mariner IV sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Mars.
1968 - ABC-TV premiered "One Life to Live".
2006 - The social networking service Twitter was launched.
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The Wiesen Viaduct is a single-track railway viaduct (concrete blocks with dimension stone coverage) which spans the Landwasser southwest of the hamlet of Wiesen, Switzerland. Designed by Henning Friedrich, then the chief engineer of the Rhaetian Railway, it was built between 1906 and 1909 by the contractor G. Marasi (Westermann & Cie, Zürich) under the supervision of P. Salaz and Hans Studer (RhB). The Rhaetian Railway still owns and uses the viaduct today for regular service with 29 passenger trains per day. An important element of the Davos–Filisur railway, the viaduct is 88.9 metres (292 ft) high, 210 metres (690 ft) long, and has a main span of 55 metres (180 ft). In 1926, the viaduct was the inspiration for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's painting Brücke bei Wiesen.
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Crossing the Lines
Pedestrians make their way across an intersection in Tokyo. Given the crowded intersections the city is known for, this crossing looks like a breeze.
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Posy and Spring pattern by Karen Juliano
Top is worked bottom up, shorts are worked from waist down.
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Top in Vertical Wavy Knit Pattern
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Sizes: 8/10
Materials:
Yarn: 200 g (100% Mercerized Cotton, 330 m/100 g); 1 circular knitting needle size 3 mm.
Rib Pattern: K1, P1 Rib.
Garter st (gst): k every row.
Vertical Wavy Knit Stitch in rnds:
Work according to chart.
Chart shows odd-numbered rnds.
On even-numbered rnds, work all sts and yos K.
Work rnds 1-40 throughout.
Instructions:
The body is worked in the round from the bottom up.
With circular needle, cast on 165 sts.
Join for working in rnds.
Then work in Rib Pat for 10 rnds. On last rnd, inc 15 sts evenly spaced = 180 sts.
Cont in Wavy Knit Pat as foll: work 30-st rep 6 times.
Bind off 9 sts in each side for armholes = 81 sts remain on back/front piece.
Cont to work back and forth in rows in gst.
Shape Back Neck:
After 30 rows from begin of gst, bind off center 29 sts and finish both sides separately.
For rounding at inside edge, on every 2nd row bind off 2 sts twice, ending with a WS row.
Place rem 22 shoulder sts on holder.
Shape Front Neck:
After 8 rows from begin of gst, bind off center 10 sts and finish both sides separately.
For rounding at inside edge on every 2nd row, bind off 3 sts once and 1 st 10 times.
When front matches back, all sts have been used up.
Finishing:
Join shoulders from the WS using 3-needle bind-off method.
Work 1 rnds sc around armholes and neck edges.
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OLD FRIENDS.........
Observations On Growing Older
~Your Kids are becoming you...and you don't like them...but your grandchildren are Perfect!
~Going Out is good.. Coming Home is better! ~When People say "You Look Great"... They Add "For Your Age!" ~When You needed the discount, you paid full Price. Now You get discounts on Everything.. Movies, Hotels, flights, but you're too tired to use them. ~You Forget names .... But it's OK because other people forgot they Even knew you!!! ~The 15 pounds you wanted to lose is now 25 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 25 pounds. ~You realize you're never going to be really good at anything .... Especially Golf. ~Your spouse is counting on you to remember things you don't remember. ~The things you used to care to do, you no longer care to do, but you really do care that you don't care to do them anymore. ~Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair with the TV blaring than he does in bed. It's Called his "pre-sleep". ~Remember when your mother said, "Wear clean underwear in case you 'GET' in an Accident"? Now you bring clean underwear in case you 'HAVE' an Accident! ~You used to say, "I hope my kids 'GET' married... Now, "I hope they 'STAY' married...this time!" ~You miss the days when everything worked with just an "ON" and "OFF" Switch.. ~When GOOGLE, ipod, iPad, email, modem .... Were unheard of, and a mouse was something that made you climb on a table. ~You tend to use more 4 letter words ... "what?"..."when?"... ??? ~Now that you can afford expensive jewelry, it's not safe to wear it anywhere. ~Your husband has a night out with the guys, but he's home by 9:00 P.M. Next week it will be 8:30 P.M. ~You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've already read it. ~You notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?!!! ~What used to be freckles are now liver spots. ~Everybody Whispers.
~Now that your husband has retired ... You'd give anything if he'd find a job!
~You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet ... 2 of which you will never wear. ~ No matter where you are in the world, it's 10 feet too far to the nearest toilet. ~~~But Old is good in some things: Old songs, Old movies.......best of all, OLD FRIENDS!! |
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I've made this crochet leaf tunic special for plus size ladies. But you can make it in any size - from XXS to XXXL. Just make more rows of leaf pattern to make
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Pin-Cushion Jar Topper pattern by Jessie Rayot
Here’s the perfect way to store buttons or sewing supplies with a handy pincushion on top. Crochet this jar topper to give with sewing needs or make it for yourself...
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Want a great way to eat your veggies? Stuff 'em! Stuffed peppers are so versatile and are simple to make, especially when you use your slow cooker. This
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Banana Boats
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This treat was a new one to me at Camp Wooten just recently. It was so yummy, I had to share!
I know you can make these over the campfire or even on the grill, but we baked these in an oven set at 350 degrees F.
These are so simple to make! The kids will enjoy helping out too.
First, slice the top & bottom off of your bananas.
The ingredients we used at camp were:
bananas
mini marshmallows
mini chocolate chips
Reese's Peanut Butter sauce
BUT, I have no idea where to get that heavenly peanut butter sauce. Like, it was a big ol' tub of magic awesomeness. So, I opted for the Reese's peanut butter chips instead.
Then, slice it lengthwise, through most of the banana, but not slicing through the peel on the other side.
At camp we placed our bananas inside paper food trays, but at home I just crumpled up some foil to hold the banana in place.
Line your banana boats on a cookie sheet.
Line your banana boats on a cookie sheet.
Next, cram them full of mini marshmallows & mini chocolate chips. (And the peanut butter chips.) We even purposefully let some fall all around the sides too.
Lastly, drizzle with peanut butter. (If you have it. If not, no biggie.)
Bake until the toppings get all ooey gooey & the skin of the banana is black. It took about 15 minutes. But just keep peeking at it until you notice it's done.
The banana gets all soft & delicious. Just use a spoon to scoop-&-eat!
There are tons of toppings you could add or substitute: drizzle with caramel, sprinkle with butterscotch or white chocolate chips, toss on some nuts. You get the idea.
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CHILDREN'S CORNER ... game
Balloon ping pong is a fun activity
your kids can safely play indoors.
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Toothpicks Alternate Uses
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1. Stop boiled water from overflowing – Scared of leaving a pot on the stove? Stick a toothpick between the pot and the lid. This will allow the steam to escape, preventing the pressure that causes water to overflow.
2. Find the ends of sticky tape with ease – If you hate struggling with a roll of tape just to find the end, stick a toothpick to the edge before putting the roll away to make it easy to find it next time.
3. Efficiently fry sausages – By running a toothpick through every pair of sausages, you can make sure that they fry evenly on all sides.
4. Keep young seedlings straight – Just like you’d use a piece of wood as a splint for a young tree, you can stick a few toothpicks around a young seedling to make sure it grows straight up.
5. Paint hard-to-reach corners – When painting, if you encounter corners, grooves, or crevices that the brush doesn’t reach, you can dip a toothpick in the paint and use it on those areas.
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Twenty Interesting Things About … Titanic
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1. Construction on Titanic began on March 31, 1909 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2. Construction was completed in May 1911.
3. The designers of Titanic never, despite opinion to the contrary, claimed Titanic was “unsinkable.” They did claim that because of its construction, the ship was “virtually unsinkable” but the word “virtually” was left out in much of the reporting. What a difference…a word makes…
4. Every single item on board Titanic was purchased new or custom made—even the china, iron railings, and furnishings.
5. 300 men worked in shifts around the clock to shovel coal into boilers. This ensured the engines ran at top speed.
6. Out of a crew of 900, only eighteen were women. This was said to be rooted in a longstanding superstition that women brought bad luck to ships. Seventeen of the stewardesses made it on lifeboats and survived the disaster.
7. Colonel John Jacob Astor IV was the wealthiest passenger on board, with an estimated wealth of $87 million.
8. A first-class stateroom on Titanic—which included a sitting room, two bedrooms, two dressing rooms, a private deck, and a private bathroom—cost $4,200 for the trip. (Someone calculate what that would be in 2011 dollars.)
9. Over half of Titanic’s passengers were traveling in third class, also called “steerage.” Most were emigrating to America. The cost of a third class ticket was said to be $36.25.
10. The iceberg was spotted at 11:40 pm on April 14, 1912 and struck the ship’s starboard side.
11. Titanic had fifteen bulkheads (a series of vertical partitions in the bottom of the ship), each of which had watertight doors. Only twelve of the doors (a little over a third of the doors) could be closed automatically from the bridge, however; the others had to be closed by hand. When the ship collided with the iceberg, some of the manually-operated doors were left open. In addition, the bulkheads were only ten feet above the waterline, so when the ship began to sink, water poured over the top of the bulkheads into the next, etc. This rendered the watertight bulkheads ineffective.
12. The closest ship to respond to Titanic’s distress call wasCarpathia, which was 58 miles (four hours) away.
13. Titanic finally sank at 2:20 am. Carpathia began rescuing survivors from lifeboats at 4:10 am. She rescued the last of the passengers at 8:30, then left for New York at 8:50.
14. Many passengers and crew were confused about how the lifeboats should work, and many thought the boats should first be lowered into the water before people boarded. This is one reason many lifeboats were launched with less than full capacity. The first lifeboat launched with 28 people, despite its capacity for 65.
15. If all the lifeboats were filled to capacity, 1,178 people would have survived instead of 706.
16. The ship has a maximum allowed capacity of 3,547, but lifeboat space for only 1,178 people. Of the 2,223 on board the ship when it sank, 1,517 died. The majority of deaths were caused by hypothermia.
17. There was a ship (the SS Californian) that was much closer toTitanic than Carpathia. Both the US and British inquiries into the disaster found that the SS Californian and her captain failed to come to the rescue of Titanic’s passengers. A 1992 report found thatCalifornian had actually been farther away than originally thought.
18. The wreckage of Titanic was undiscovered until September 1, 1985, when it was discovered by a joint French-American expedition.
19. It is said that Captain Smith downplayed iceberg warnings early in the evening and declined to reduce the speed of the ship. The US findings blamed Captain Smith’s “indifference to danger” and “overconfidence and neglect” for the disaster. The British inquiry found “that the loss of the said ship was due to collision with an iceberg, brought about by the excessive speed at which the ship was being navigated” but failed to find Captain Smith negligent.
20. In 1898, before Titanic had ever been designed, a retired merchant marine wrote Futility or The Wreck of the Titan. The book was about a ship that hit an iceberg and sank as it was attempting to cross the Atlantic faster than any ship had and is said to contain chilling similarities to the real-live disaster that happened fourteen years later.
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