Jump to content
GoDuBois.com

mr.d

Members
  • Posts

    18,634
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    88

Everything posted by mr.d

  1. The Walker Gardens in Bigler area will be open to public viewing in May. Located off Rt.322 between Clearfield and Philipsburg - turn at Bigler light. Expected dates are Mother's Day,May 11 and Sunday, May 18. ------ Contact - 814- 857-7665 or russ Krise 814-857-7257 or Linda at-814-765-9771 according to notice in the Courier-Express.
  2. until
    The dates for 2014 Hazen Flea Market are; OCTOBER 4 & 5. Located - Hazen,Pa.off I-80 Exit 81 6 miles north on Rt.28. Pa.Sales Tax License required. Working on new website--- www.hazenflea.com Please, No Dogs.
  3. Easter lilies toxic for cats, FDA warns istockphoto FDA, APRIL 16,2014------Easter lilies are popular in homes at this time of year, but they can be deadly for cats, a veterinarian warns. The same is true for Tiger, Asiatic, Day and Japanese Show lilies, said Dr. Melanie McLean, a veterinarian at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Easter lily istockphotoThe entire lily plant -- leaf, pollen and flower -- is poisonous for cats. Eating just a couple of leaves or licking a few pollen grains off their fur can quickly cause kidney failure. A cat that's eaten part of a lily will vomit soon afterwards, but this may gradually lessen after two to four hours. Within 12 to 24 hours, the cat may start to urinate frequently. Urination may then stop if kidney failure occurs. If untreated, a cat will die within four to seven days after eating a lily, McLean said. Early treatment is critical and you should get your cat to a veterinarian immediately if you suspect that the cat has eaten a lily. The veterinarian may induce vomiting if the cat just ate the lily, and the cat will be given intravenous fluids to maintain kidney function and prevent dehydration, according to an FDA news release. Other types of lilies, such as Calla and Peace lilies, don't cause kidney failure in cats but can irritate their mouth and esophagus, McLean said. Lilies of the Valley can cause heart rhythm problems. In all cases, call your veterinarian. If you have cats, it's best not to have lilies in your home, McLean advised. If you do have lilies, make sure they're in a location your cat can't reach. Lilies don't pose a serious threat to dogs. They may suffer some gut problems if they eat a lily, but their lives won't be in danger, according to McLean. More information The Humane Society of the United States has more about plants that are poisonous to pets. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/easter-lilies-toxic-for-cats-fda-warns/
  4. I put post on Feb.21(Pa.Game Commission---Bird's eye View) On Feb.26-Wednesday evening around 11:15 PM a raccoon tried to steal eggs from nest. The eagle used its 7 foot wing spand and talons on the raccoon. Needless to say the raccoon left empty handed.
  5. Pa. Bigfoot Investigatios With Bob Bucko. At Blair County Convention Center in Altoona.(He will be at RV Show) on March 1- times -3:00 PM-4:00 PM and 7:30 PM-8:30 PM.
  6. Turkey & Biscuit Dinner - Feb.22(Saturday) at Warsaw Fire Hall - Rt.28- Hazen. Time 4 PM -?(Soldout). Adults-$8; Children-12 and under-$4; Preschool - Free. Takeouts are available-328-2528. Benefits Warsaw Twp.Vol. Fire Co.
  7. Yeti sighting reported in Maine Online poster claims seeing white bigfoot in Litchfield LITCHFIELD, Maine, FEBRUARY 1,2014-----
  8. Here is site -http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/01/06/bigfoot-hunter-claims-to-have-killed-beast-has-proof/?intcmp=features I was unable to post article because it contained to many images.
  9. A Turkey & Biscuit Dinner will be held Jan.25 at Warsaw Fire Hall. Time - 4 PM to ? (sold out). Adults - $8; Children -12 & under - $4; Preschoolers - Free. Take outs available- (328-2528). Location- Rt. 28-Warsaw Fire Hall -Hazen. Benefits the Warsaw Twp. Vol.Fire Co.
  10. Loch Ness Monster Allegedly Spotted Off Australia's Magnetic Island Geobeats A strange object that some believe may be the Loch Ness Monster was recently sighted off the coast of Magnetic Island, Australia. AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 30,2013---------The eyes of the world turned to Magnetic Island, Australia because of reports of a strange object in the seas that some suggest is the Loch Ness Monster -- or a relative. Beachgoers first sighted what looked like "a distinctive long, curved neck bobbing up and down off the coast" on October 25, International Business Times reported. Some of the eyewitnesses immediately noticed a resemblance to Scotland's most famous cryptid, Nessie. Others believe the object is not necessarily the mythical monster and more likely the half-sunken hull of a boat. A man named David
  11. 10 common houseplants that help 'clean' your home Cozy corner at home in the morning lights FOX NEWS, OCTOBER 11,2013-----Believe it or not, there are 10 common houseplants that can actually help "clean" your home! Studies show many common, indoor plants serve as natural
  12. Beef & Noodle Dinner - October 26 - 4 PM to ?(sold out). Adults- $8; Children -12 and under-$4; Preschool - Free. Takeouts available(328-2528). Location- Warsaw Fire Hall - RT.28 - Hazen. Benefits the Warsaw Twp.Vol.Fire Co.
  13. TomTato lives! Frankensteinian plant grows both tomatoes and potatoes Morgan-Thompson You say to-MAY-to, they say tom-TAY-to. NBC NEWS SCIENCE, SEPTEMBER 26,2013-----Britons are booking orders for a double-crop wonderplant called the TomTato, that puts out cherry tomatoes on the vine, while growing whole white potatoes underground. "It's the perfect marriage," Michael Perry, new product manager at Thompson-Morgan, who is taking TomTato orders for next April, told NBC News. "Why wouldn't someone want to buy one?" Tomato lovers can chop up the fruit for a season's worth of salads, and then harvest the potatoes at the end of the year, Perry promised. It sounds crazy, but the science is legit. Tomato and potatoes are members of the same plant family, which makes them ideal candidates for being grafted together. That's how the company creates their new line, and a technique fruit growers and horticulturists have been using for centuries
  14. until
    Last Hazen Flea Market for this year- OCT.5 & 6 . Pa.Sales Tax License Required. Dealers welcome. Please no dogs ! Benefits the Warsaw Twp.Vol. Fire Co. See website for more information--- www.hazenfleamarket.com
  15. Creature with interlocking gears on legs discovered The intermeshing gears on the hind legs of a planthopper insect are shown in this scanning electron micrograph image. / Image courtesy of Malcolm Burrows LIVESCIENCE.com, SEPTEMBER 13,2013-------Gears are ubiquitous in the man-made world, found in items ranging from wristwatches to car engines, but it seems that nature invented them first. A species of plant-hopping insect, Issus coleoptratus, is the first living creature known to possess functional gears, a new study finds. The two interlocking gears on the insect's hind legs help synchronize the legs when the animal jumps. "To the best of my knowledge, it's the first demonstration of functioning gears in any animal," said study researcher Malcolm Burrows, an emeritus professor of neurobiology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Burrows and a colleague captured the gears' motion using high-speed video. As the young bug prepares to leap, it meshes the gear teeth of one leg with those of the other, like cocking a gun. Then, the insect releases its legs in one smooth, explosive motion. [See Video of the Insect Gears in Action] Hopping in sync Each leg sports a curved strip of 10 to 12 gear teeth that attach to the trochantera on the insect's legs. These structures were described in 1957, but no one had demonstrated that the gears were functional, Burrows told LiveScience. Insects' hind legs can be arranged in two ways. The legs of grasshoppers and fleas move in separate planes at the sides of their body, whereas those of champion jumping insects, such as planthoppers, move beneath their body along the same plane. Thus, planthoppers' legs need to be tightly coupled. "If there were to be a slight timing difference between the legs, then the body would start to spin," Burrows said. The gears synchronize the movement of the hind legs to within about 30 microseconds of each other -- much faster than the nervous system could achieve, according to the study findings, detailed in the Sept. 13 issue of the journal Science. [The 7 Most Amazing Bug Ninja Skills] Sometimes, Burrows observed that the gears slipped past one another, but when they finally engaged, the two legs became synced. Burrows did an experiment with a dead planthopper: When he pulled one of its legs, both of them extended rapidly. Thus, the mechanics of the skeletal system alone can synchronize the legs, he said. Gears are for kids The cogs are only found in immature planthoppers, or nymphs, and are lost during the final molt. Adult planthoppers use friction between their legs to achieve the same effect as the gears. Adults may ditch their gears partly because gear teeth can break, jeopardizing the insect's survival, Burrows said. Nymphs shed their exoskeleton five or six times before reaching adult size, and could correct the damage, whereas adults are stuck with one body. Adults also have larger, more rigid bodies, so friction could be a more effective way to sync up their legs. "It's very exciting to see one after another component of human mechanical engineering being discovered in the living world, too," said Alexander Riedel, curator of the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe in Germany, who was not involved in the research. Riedel suggested another reason the adult insects lack gears could be that unlike nymphs, adults have wings, which could help direct their flight. There are a few other animals that possess structures resembling gears. The cogwheel turtle, as its name suggests, has a gear on its shell, which is purely decorative. Some reptiles have cogwheel heart valves that increase the resistance to blood flow. And some insects have gearlike knobs that are used to produce chirping sounds. But none of these structures functions as a gear, per se. Burrows originally came across gear-legged insects in a colleague's garden in Germany. He searched in vain for them at home in England. "Then, I asked my 5-year-old grandson if he could find them, and he found some in the garden," Burrows said. Follow Tanya Lewis on Twitter and Google+. Follow us @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on LiveScience. See video; http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57602821/creature-with-interlocking-gears-on-legs-discovered/
  16. Area 51 Exists, Declassified CIA Documents State LAS VEGAS, AUGUST 17,2013(AP) ------- UFO buffs and believers in alien encounters are celebrating the CIA's clearest acknowledgement yet of the existence of Area 51, the top-secret Cold War test site that has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories for decades. The recently declassified documents have set the tinfoil-hat crowd abuzz, though there's no mention in the papers of UFO crashes, black-eyed extraterrestrials or staged moon landings. Audrey Hewins, an Oxford, Maine, woman who runs a support group for people like her who believe they have been contacted by extraterrestrials, said she suspects the CIA is moving closer to disclosing there are space aliens on Earth. "I'm thinking that they're probably testing the waters now to see how mad people get about the big lie and cover-up," she said. For a long time, U.S. government officials hesitated to acknowledge even the existence of Area 51. The CIA history released Thursday not only refers to Area 51 by name and describes some of the aviation activities that took place there, but locates the Air Force base on a map, along the dry Groom Lake bed. It also talks about some cool planes, though none of them are saucer-shaped. George Washington University's National Security Archive used a public records request to obtain the CIA history of one of Area 51's most secret Cold War projects, the U-2 spy plane program. National Security Archive senior fellow Jeffrey Richelson first reviewed the history in 2002, but all mentions of the country's most mysterious military base had been redacted. So he requested the history again in 2005, hoping for more information. Sure enough, he received a version a few weeks ago with the mentions of Area 51 restored. The report is unlikely to stop the conspiracy theorists. The 407-page document still contains many redactions, and who's to say those missing sections don't involve little green men? It's not the first time the government has acknowledged the existence of the super-secret, 8,000-square-mile installation. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush referred to the "location near Groom Lake" in insisting on continued secrecy, and other government references date to the 1960s. But Richelson, as well as those who are convinced "the truth is out there," are taking the document as a sign of loosening secrecy about the government's activities in the Nevada desert. The site is known as Area 51 among UFO aficionados because that was the base's designation on old Nevada test site maps. The CIA history reveals that officials renamed it "Paradise Ranch" to try to lure skilled workers, who can still be seen over Las Vegas flying to and from the site on unmarked planes. Beginning with the U-2 in the 1950s, the base has been the testing ground for a host of top-secret aircraft, including the SR-71 Blackbird, F-117A stealth fighter and B-2 stealth bomber. Some believe the base's Strangelovian hangars also contain alien vehicles, evidence from the "Roswell incident"
  17. USDA Celebrates National Farmers Market Week, August 4-10 WASHINGTON, D.C. , AUG.6,2013
  18. until
    Emergency Appeal for All Blood Types. The American Red Cross will be holding a Blood Drive on Friday - July 12 to be held at Warsaw Twp.Fire Co.from 1 PM to 7 PM. Location - Warsaw Twp. Vol. Fire Co. - 6847 Rt.28 N - Hazen,Pa. 1-800- RED CROSS.
  19. The Buzz on Carpenter Bees ---How to build a trap that will put an end to their destructive doings. An easy-to-build trap will help control a growing carpenter bee population. An unwelcome buzz is in the air. Spotted hovering along deck rails or under house eaves, an all too familiar pest has returned. Often mistaken for bumble bees, carpenter bees can be distinguished by its smooth and shiny-black abdomen. Although the males have no stingers, they aggressively patrol the area around their nests as the females busily prepare their favorite nesting spots. It
  20. until
    Hazen Flea Market - June 1 & 2. Pa.Sales Tax License required. Dealers welcome. No Dogs, please. Information on website- www.hazenfleamarket.com NOTE- Rt.28 construction, bridge/culvert being replaced starting May 20. Construction will be just before Flea Market on Brockway side. One lane traffic controlled by traffic light
  21. 10 awesome MacGyver tricks that speak for themselves via LifeHacker Some life hacks require a complete how-to guide just to understand. Others are so genius in their simplicity that they speak for themselves. Here are 10 of our favorite self-explanatory MacGyver tricks. 10. Make perfect pancakes with a squeeze bottleLifeHacker It doesn't have to be a ketchup bottle, any kind of squeeze bottle will work
  22. Man Finds Bigfoot Imprints in the Mountains | NR A man living in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania claims he has proof big foot exists. See video; http://www.windstream.net/tv/3/player/vendor/Tribune%20Broadcasting/player/fiveminute/asset/gnrc_19423606
  23. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Approves 12 New State Historical Markers HARRISBURG, APRIL 3,2013----
  24. Campfire Brownies In An Orange By Camping with Gus At least 1 orange per camper (a few extras would be good for
×
×
  • Create New...