Thrusday 16 June 2016
National Dump The Pump Day
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More than 140 public transit systems a organizations will celebrate the 11th annu National Dump the Pump Day on June 16.
Sponsored by the American Publ Transportation Association (APTA), this nation public awareness day encourages people “Dump the Pump” by parking their car and ridi a bus or train instead.
The tag line is: Dump t Pump. Ride Transit. “Public transportation is vitally important for communities of all sizes and their residents, said Valarie J. McCall, APTA Chair and board member of the Greater Cleveland Region Transit Authority.
“Organizations participating National Dump the Pump Day are encouragi people to try public transit instead of driving June 16. Some public transit systems a offering free rides or contests for riders as way to persuade individuals to change th travel behavior.”
APTA first started National Dump the Pump Day in June 2006 when gas prices reached $3 per gallon and the public demand for publc transportation was growing in response to the high gas prices. According to the June 9, 2015 Transit Savings Report, on the average, individual in a two-person household can save nearly $9,500 a year when he or she downsizes by one car and takes public transit instead.
“National Dump the Pump Day participants highlight the many benefits that publc transportation provides to individuals and the communities,” said Richard A. White, APT Acting President and CEO. “Besides individuals financial savings, public transportation is catalyst for economic growth. It also contribut to a better environment and the reduction of o nation’s energy consumption.”
From urban to suburban to rural communitie public transportation is a cornerstone of o nation’s economy and local economies. Eve dollar invested in public transportation return four dollars in economic benefits to the community.
Additionally, public transportation an essential factor in creating an economical competitive community that attract new companies, offering new job opportunities residents. Public transportation also offers important environmental and energy benefits for communities and for the country.
Every year U.S. public transportation use saves 37 milli metric tons of carbon emissions and 4.2 billion gallons of gasoline.
And
National Fudge Day
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The origins of Fudge Day are unknown, but it cannot be denied that celebrating this delicious, sweet treat is a great way to spend the day.
Fudge is soft, smooth confectionary made by heating and mixing milk, butter and sugar. A variety of other ingredients can then be added to create assorted flavours of fudge. Some of the most popular flavours include chocolate and peanut butter.
The earliest documented mention of fudge can be found in a letter composed by Emelyn Hartridge, who was studying at Vassar College, located in Poughkeepsie, New York.
The letter detailed that fudge had been made and sold in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1886. Other fudge recipes in the USA can be traced back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Mackinac Island fudge ice cream (vanilla ice cream blended with small chunks of fudge) is still sold on Mackinac Island in Michigan, and surrounding areas, where shops have been selling fudge to summer vacationers since the late nineteenth century.
Modern fudge recipes remain largely unaltered.
On Fudge Day, why not try making your own fudge? You can use this basic recipe to have your own delicious treat to enjoy right in your own kitchen! Melt three cups (700g) of chocolate chips along with fourteen ounces (400g) of sweetened condensed milk and ¼ cup (30g) of butter or margarine in a large bowl in the microwave. Cook on medium heat for approximately four minutes, or until the chocolate chips have all melted, stirring a couple of times during cooking. Add in any extra ingredients (nuts, fruit, biscuits, marshmallows, etc.) required and stir well. Pour fudge mixture into a greased 8″x8″ glass dish and refrigerate until set. Simple, quick and tasty!
Fudge Day is the perfect excuse to try some crazy new flavours of fudge. You could sample maple and pecan, or chomp down some rocky road fudge. If you want to go really wild, mix up some particularly unusual flavours, like carrot and orange, liquorice fudge, or – for grown-ups only – tequila and lime.
You could even hold competitions with work colleagues, friends or family to see who can come up with the most bizarre (but still edible!) variety of fudge.
Happy fudge tasting!
Thursday, June 16, 2016
The 168 day of the year 198 days left to go
ON THIS DATE...
1858: -- Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois .
1883: -- The New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies free to the ballpark-- the first Ladies Day.
1884: -- The first roller coaster in the U.S. became operational at Coney Island in New York.
1902: -- "The Wizard of Oz" (play) opened at the Grand Opera House in Chicago.
1903: -- The Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
1922: -- Henry Berliner completed the first helicopter flight. The event took place at College Park, Maryland.
1944: -- At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.
1952: -- "My Little Margie" debuted on CBS Television. The show starred Gale Storm and Charles Farrell.
1963: -- Valentine Tareshkova became the first woman in space when she blasted off in Russia's Vostok Six spacecraft. She spent three days orbiting Earth.
1970: -- Chicago Bears football player Brian Piccolo died with his best friend Gale Sayers at his side. Piccolo's story was recounted in the film "Brian's Song."
1972: -- the New York Jazz Museum opened. It's the only museum devoted exclusively to jazz music.
1978: -- "Grease" opened in theaters (Trailer).
1981: -- "The Chicago Tribune" purchased the Chicago Cubs from the P-K Wrigley Chewing Gum Company. The sale ended the longest, continuous ownership of a team which stayed in its original city.
1998: -- A 40-year-old Florida woman, identified only as Elizabeth, gave birth to a baby boy live on the Internet. It was the first-ever live birth on the Internet. An estimated two-million people watched the event.
2001: -- The Leaning Tower of Pisa opened for the first time since 1990 as work to keep it from falling over was completed; it now leans only 4.1 m (13.5 ft) off perpendicular, 44 cm (17 in) less than its previous lean.
2005: -- Hollywood actor Tom Cruise proposed to girlfriend, actress Katie Holmes at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
2011: -- New York Congressman Anthony Weiner announced his resignation from the House of Representatives amid a sexting scandal involving lewd pictures and messages to various women.
2013: -- Miss Connecticut, Erin Brady, was crowned Miss USA 2013 in Las Vegas.
National Dump The Pump Day
More than 140 public transit systems a organizations will celebrate the 11th annu National Dump the Pump Day on June 16.
Sponsored by the American Publ Transportation Association (APTA), this nation public awareness day encourages people “Dump the Pump” by parking their car and ridi a bus or train instead.
The tag line is: Dump t Pump. Ride Transit. “Public transportation is vitally important for communities of all sizes and their residents, said Valarie J. McCall, APTA Chair and board member of the Greater Cleveland Region Transit Authority.
“Organizations participating National Dump the Pump Day are encouragi people to try public transit instead of driving June 16. Some public transit systems a offering free rides or contests for riders as way to persuade individuals to change th travel behavior.”
APTA first started National Dump the Pump Day in June 2006 when gas prices reached $3 per gallon and the public demand for publc transportation was growing in response to the high gas prices. According to the June 9, 2015 Transit Savings Report, on the average, individual in a two-person household can save nearly $9,500 a year when he or she downsizes by one car and takes public transit instead.
“National Dump the Pump Day participants highlight the many benefits that publc transportation provides to individuals and the communities,” said Richard A. White, APT Acting President and CEO. “Besides individuals financial savings, public transportation is catalyst for economic growth. It also contribut to a better environment and the reduction of o nation’s energy consumption.”
From urban to suburban to rural communitie public transportation is a cornerstone of o nation’s economy and local economies. Eve dollar invested in public transportation return four dollars in economic benefits to the community.
Additionally, public transportation an essential factor in creating an economical competitive community that attract new companies, offering new job opportunities residents. Public transportation also offers important environmental and energy benefits for communities and for the country.
Every year U.S. public transportation use saves 37 milli metric tons of carbon emissions and 4.2 billion gallons of gasoline.
And
National Fudge Day
The origins of Fudge Day are unknown, but it cannot be denied that celebrating this delicious, sweet treat is a great way to spend the day.
Fudge is soft, smooth confectionary made by heating and mixing milk, butter and sugar. A variety of other ingredients can then be added to create assorted flavours of fudge. Some of the most popular flavours include chocolate and peanut butter.
The earliest documented mention of fudge can be found in a letter composed by Emelyn Hartridge, who was studying at Vassar College, located in Poughkeepsie, New York.
The letter detailed that fudge had been made and sold in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1886. Other fudge recipes in the USA can be traced back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Mackinac Island fudge ice cream (vanilla ice cream blended with small chunks of fudge) is still sold on Mackinac Island in Michigan, and surrounding areas, where shops have been selling fudge to summer vacationers since the late nineteenth century.
Modern fudge recipes remain largely unaltered.
On Fudge Day, why not try making your own fudge? You can use this basic recipe to have your own delicious treat to enjoy right in your own kitchen! Melt three cups (700g) of chocolate chips along with fourteen ounces (400g) of sweetened condensed milk and ¼ cup (30g) of butter or margarine in a large bowl in the microwave. Cook on medium heat for approximately four minutes, or until the chocolate chips have all melted, stirring a couple of times during cooking. Add in any extra ingredients (nuts, fruit, biscuits, marshmallows, etc.) required and stir well. Pour fudge mixture into a greased 8″x8″ glass dish and refrigerate until set. Simple, quick and tasty!
Fudge Day is the perfect excuse to try some crazy new flavours of fudge. You could sample maple and pecan, or chomp down some rocky road fudge. If you want to go really wild, mix up some particularly unusual flavours, like carrot and orange, liquorice fudge, or – for grown-ups only – tequila and lime.
You could even hold competitions with work colleagues, friends or family to see who can come up with the most bizarre (but still edible!) variety of fudge.
Happy fudge tasting!
Thursday, June 16, 2016
The 168 day of the year 198 days left to go
ON THIS DATE...
1858: -- Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois .
1883: -- The New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies free to the ballpark-- the first Ladies Day.
1884: -- The first roller coaster in the U.S. became operational at Coney Island in New York.
1902: -- "The Wizard of Oz" (play) opened at the Grand Opera House in Chicago.
1903: -- The Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
1922: -- Henry Berliner completed the first helicopter flight. The event took place at College Park, Maryland.
1944: -- At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.
1952: -- "My Little Margie" debuted on CBS Television. The show starred Gale Storm and Charles Farrell.
1963: -- Valentine Tareshkova became the first woman in space when she blasted off in Russia's Vostok Six spacecraft. She spent three days orbiting Earth.
1970: -- Chicago Bears football player Brian Piccolo died with his best friend Gale Sayers at his side. Piccolo's story was recounted in the film "Brian's Song."
1972: -- the New York Jazz Museum opened. It's the only museum devoted exclusively to jazz music.
1978: -- "Grease" opened in theaters (Trailer).
1981: -- "The Chicago Tribune" purchased the Chicago Cubs from the P-K Wrigley Chewing Gum Company. The sale ended the longest, continuous ownership of a team which stayed in its original city.
1998: -- A 40-year-old Florida woman, identified only as Elizabeth, gave birth to a baby boy live on the Internet. It was the first-ever live birth on the Internet. An estimated two-million people watched the event.
2001: -- The Leaning Tower of Pisa opened for the first time since 1990 as work to keep it from falling over was completed; it now leans only 4.1 m (13.5 ft) off perpendicular, 44 cm (17 in) less than its previous lean.
2005: -- Hollywood actor Tom Cruise proposed to girlfriend, actress Katie Holmes at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
2011: -- New York Congressman Anthony Weiner announced his resignation from the House of Representatives amid a sexting scandal involving lewd pictures and messages to various women.
2013: -- Miss Connecticut, Erin Brady, was crowned Miss USA 2013 in Las Vegas.
Semper Fidelis
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