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By Sam Mazzotta Can Cat and Parrots Survive Car Trip? DEAR PAWS CORNER: I have a cat and two budgies, and I am moving several states away. I plan to drive and bring all three with me. I’m worried that “Tiger” will stress out the budgies, though. Can I keep the peace between these pets? -- A Reader, via email DEAR READER: One way, maybe the best way, to travel with pets of different species is to keep them out of sight of one another, and under control. Tiger should be placed in a carrier with a favorite blanket and toys to keep him occupied. The birds should stay in their cage (or if necessary, a smaller travel cage). The change of location and the car’s motion could be stressors as well, so minimize their exposure by covering the cage while you’re driving. And do not leave your pets alone in the car, even for a few minutes, and even if the weather seems cool. I know I’ve repeated this advice all summer, but I see incidents several times per week on the news,
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He preferred rotaries to stop signals as the best way FATHER OF TRAFFIC SAFETY to keep traffic flowing. This concept strongly influ• William Phelps Eno was nine years old in 1867 when enced the building of Piccadilly Circus in London and he went to New York City with his mother. When the the rotary around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. He performance at the New York Opera House let out, was awarded the cross of the Legion of Honor by the their horse and carriage got involved in the subsequent French government after World War I because his traftraffic jam which required two hours to untangle, even fic system allowed the French to speed 60,000 troops though only a dozen carriages were involved. Eno to Verdun to halt the German advance toward Paris never forgot the experience, and devoted the rest of and turn the tide of the war. his life to improving traffic control. • This became increasingly important as horses were • Eno lived long enough to see his ideas implemented throughout the country. He also made many trips to replaced by cars on the streets of the nation. In 1903 Europe and Asia to help them with their traffic conEno published “Rules of Driving” which became a trol problems. William Eno died in 1945 at the age of primer for drivers. He invented such rules of the road 86.Throughout his life, William Eno, known today as as slow traffic keep right and passing allowed on the “the father of traffic safety,” hated to drive. His chaufleft only. He invented one-way streets, safety islands, feur drove him everywhere. rotary traffic, pedestrian crosswalks, the stop sign, the taxi stand, and traffic cops. -FACT• Still, Eno felt that stoplights would never work and • 15% of drivers get 76% of all traffic tickets. traffic cops would always be needed at intersections. (cont’d next page)
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Dealing with a difficult person can be the kind of challenge you Aries Lambs love. Or it could be an energy-draining exercise in futility. Be certain your goals are worth your efforts. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) The Divine Bovine might be seeing red at having your crisis-resolution efforts overlooked. But others know the truth, and they can be expected to step forward when the time comes. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You should be well on your way to finally making that important decision. Having the support of loved ones will help when crunch time comes. Keep a positive attitude. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Feeling uneasy about a move might not mean you’re having a case of Cancerian wavering. It could be your inner sense is warning you to reassess your situation before taking action. LEO (July 23 to August 22) Your pride could get in the way of admitting you might have erred. Best to ‘fess up now before a small mistake turns into a big misunderstanding. Make the weekend a special family time. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Trying to please someone with a less-than-glowing opinion of something you value could be a waste of time. If you like it, stay with it. The week’s end brings an answer to an old mystery. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) There might be time to make a change. But be honest with yourself: Is it what you really want, or one you feel pressured into making? Your answer should determine your next move.
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Protecting Against Sun Damage While In A Car (NAPS)—The average American spends more than 101 minutes a day in a car. Unfortunately, what many drivers and passengers fail to realize is that when they are in a car, not all the danger they face is on the road. Both drivers and passengers are often exposed to harmful ultraviolet A (UVA) rays, particularly from the side windows of the cars in which they ride.
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STOP SIGNS • Although William Eno invented the stop sign, it was the Mississippi Valley Association of State Highway Departments who came up with the sign’s iconic shape. In 1923, they developed a system of street-sign shapes still used today. Their idea was that the more sides a sign has, the higher the danger level it invokes. They reasoned that the circle, which has an infinite number of sides, screamed danger, so it was used for railroad crossings. The octagon, with its eight sides, was used for stop signs, the diamond shape was for warning signs, and the rectangle and square shapes were used for informational signs. • It took a bit longer to determine the stop sign’s color. It wasn’t until 1935 that traffic engineers created the first uniform standards for the nation’s road signage. They recommended stop signs be yellow with black letters. The 1954 revision, however, called for the stop sign to be red with white letters. Before then, they could not produce a reflective material in red that would last without fading. It just was not durable. It wasn’t until a suitable product was invented in the 1950s that stop signs became red. NO STOPING ALLOWED • In 1944, the newspaper in Durham, S.C. reported that a local man had been taken to traffic court for parking his car in front of a sign that said, “No Stoping.” The man pleaded not guilty. The sign should have said, “No Stopping” (with two P’s). He argued that “stoping” meant to extract ore, and he certainly had not been extracting ore. He moved that the case be dismissed. The judge agreed, and the spelling on the sign presumably was corrected. -FACT• A quarter of all car accidents are rear-end collisions. (cont’d next page)
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Niacin’s Dark Side We can add one more item to the list of things we thought were good for us ... and now know probably aren’t: niacin, aka vitamin B-3. Many of us with troublesome cholesterol levels have been on statins to reduce the risk of stroke or heart attack. Niacin has been added to our list of go-to drugs for many years because when combined with statins, it is known to reduce bad (LDL) cholesterol and raise the level of the good (HDL) cholesterol. So far, so good. However, new research reported in The New England Journal of Medicine has determined that: 1) statins alone do a good job of preventing strokes and heart attacks, and 2) just because niacin has helped folks achieve better LDL and HDL numbers doesn’t mean that it helps to prevent strokes and heart attacks. Turns out it doesn’t. Even worse, niacin can have its own set of side effects. Some are merely annoying (flushing, which can be offset by pairing niacin with laropiprant), while others are serious (gastrointestinal problems, bleeding, rashes and ulcers). Those in the study who took niacin were 32 percent more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes. One-third of participants dropped out because of problems caused by the niacin. An earlier clinical study was actually stopped when researchers found there was no difference between the niacin and a placebo, and discovered the same side effects. If you’ve been prescribed niacin to go along with your statins for heart-attack or stroke prevention, talk to your doctor about whether you should continue to use it. At the same time, don’t try this on your own! Get medical advice before either starting or stopping therapeutic doses of niacin. Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.com. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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1. Name the major-league team with the longest playoff drought entering the 2014 season. 2. Which of these Astro teammates led the National League in runs scored more times: Jeff By Chris Richcreek Bagwell or Craig Biggio? 3. Who was the last Brigham Young football player before Ezekiel Ansah in 2013 to be selected in the first round of the NFL Draft? 4. Between the 1950-51 and 1989-90 NBA seasons, only one regular-season scoring champ was also on a championship-winning team. Name him. 5. The Los Angeles Kings set a regular-season team record in 2013-14 for most shutouts. How many? 6. Name the last non-Austrian skier to win the women’s super-G gold medal in the Winter Olympics. 7. Who was the last player to win golf’s Masters tournament in his first appearance there? (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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HENRY SETH TAYLOR • Henry Seth Taylor was a natural tinkerer and a watchmaker by profession. Born in Stanstead, Quebec, in 1833, he loved to experiment with machines. He invented the first sofa-bed and an early version of a phonograph. He is best known, however, for building Canada’s first steam-powered car. • Self-propelled steam-powered horseless carriages had been around for years by the time Taylor unveiled his own model, but Taylor’s had the distinction of being the first car built in Canada. • He designed the steam buggy and created much of it himself, machining cylinders, drive shafts, and axles. The boiler was at the rear of the carriage and was connected to a front water tank by two rubber hoses. A hand throttle controlled the speed both forward and reverse, and a tiller controlled the steering. Because the local roads were badly rutted and there seemed little chance of Taylor’s losing control, he never installed brakes, an oversight he would later regret.
• In September of 1867, the Stanstead Journal reported on the newly completed “steam buggy,” which was to be unveiled at the upcoming Stanstead Fair. “This mechanical curiosity is the neatest thing of the kind yet invented, the whole carriage, engine and boiler only weighing 500 lbs. It is intended to run without noise or smoke, and will probably show some fast time.” • The day that Taylor drove his new buggy onto a field at the Stanstead Fair, a hose burst, releasing steam and bringing the vehicle to a halt. Taylor had to push it off the field amid ridicule from onlookers. Despite the humiliation, Taylor made the necessary repairs and continued to drive his steam buggy around town. (cont’d next page)
What IS this mysterious illness that’s killing veterans? Story 1: In Kentucky, an Army veteran died in 2013 at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital. According to his mother’s Facebook page, the death certificate said, “The ultimate etiology of his illness that led to his passing is still unknown.” It seems like doctors would have given this obviously ill veteran special care. As usual, the devil is in the details. On her Facebook page, the mother talks of medical staff forcing her bedridden son to “sign a contract” agreeing to do whatever staff said ... under threat of withholding progressive treatment. She talks of being told he was only “taking up space.” She tells of care meetings being canceled, nurses ignoring emergency alarms, and open, hand-size wounds on his back. He weighed 72 pounds when he died. He left a wife and two young sons. Story 2: In Alabama, a veteran is desperate not to starve to death. After three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he knew he had PTSD and went to the VA with symptoms that include extreme nausea and vomiting. He eventually lost his job and his
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August 4 - August 10, 2014 HENRY SETH TAYLOR, cont’d • On a subsequent drive through the village, however, Taylor and his car were involved in what might be described as the first automobile accident in Canadian history. While descending a steep hill, the car began to pick up speed, careening out of control. Without any brakes and with a fully stoked, scalding-hot boiler at his back, he had no choice but to jump out of the vehicle, which overturned at the bottom of the hill. The car was a wreck, and its frustrated builder gave up on it, turning his attention instead to building a steam-powered yacht. • After salvaging its boiler for his new yacht, Taylor scrapped the car in the back of his barn, where it languished until long after his death in 1887. It was nearly a century before it was re-discovered and taken to the United States. Restored by an antique car buff (this time with brakes added), it was returned to Canada, where it is now the property of the Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. Finally receiving the recognition it deserved, “Taylor’s Folly” was depicted on a stamp in 1993. • In 1904 Canada’s automotive industry began with the establishment of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. By 1913 there were some 50,000 motor vehicles in Canada; between 1918 and 1923, Canada became the world’s second largest vehicle producer and a major exporter of automobiles and auto parts. • Today, Canada is the eighth largest auto producer in the world and the third largest exporter, after Japan and the U.S. More than 80% of Canadian-made cars are exported. The automotive industry is the largest manufacturing sector in Canada. Canada has one of the world’s highest ratios of automobiles to inhabitants, with more than 33 million people and more than 18 million registered automobiles, of which more than 75% are private cars.
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• Most people think Henry Ford was the first person to construct automobiles using an assembly line. But they’re wrong – the idea was actually invented by a man whose first name was Ransom. • Ransom was born in Ohio in 1864. His father was a blacksmith who owned a machine shop, so Ransom grew up tinkering. He developed an internal combustion engine and founded his own car company in Lansing, Michigan in 1897. The company, and the car he produced, were named after him. The engine was successful but the car was not, so he moved the factory to Detroit and started over. • This time the car sold better, until his factory burned down and he had to start over again. In 1901 he got the idea for an assembly line, which increased his output from 425 cars in 1901 to 2,500 in 1902 and 6,500 in 1905. It was the first car to be produced in quantity. • For the next several years his company produced more cars than any other American company. General Motors bought the company in 1908 and produced Ransom’s cars until they were discontinued in 2004. • In 1912, Henry Ford took Ransom’s idea for an assembly line and added a conveyor belt, which allowed him to increase production while also dropping the price. Though Ford is generally thought of as being the father of the auto industry, the title truly belongs to Ransom. What was his last name, given to a car and a company?
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by Samantha Weaver • It was ancient Greek philosopher Plato who made the following sage observation: “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” • How would you like to brush your teeth with salt, chalk or ground brick? The first tooth powders that were used with toothbrushes were made of just such materials. • When you think of hibernating bears, you typically imagine some cozy cave in the woods, right? Well, the next time you’re out for a winter hike, you’d better pay close attention to exactly where you’re going; some bears spend the cold season curled up on the ground in large nests made of branches. • Greyhounds have better vision than any other breed of dog. • Every May, horse lovers flock to Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, to see the world’s finest thoroughbreds race in the Kentucky Derby. While there, spectators will collectively consume more than 1,800 gallons of mint juleps. • If you’re a cat lover, you might not be surprised to learn that a group of felines can be referred to as a glaring, a pounce, a clutter or a clowder. Feral cats en masses are known as a destruction of cats. • People who sustain brain injuries can suffer from a variety of maladies. One of the stranger ones is anosognosia. The victim suffers from some sort of disability, such as losing the ability to move a limb, but that’s not unusual; what makes anosognosia so fascinating is that the person suffering from the limitation seems completely unable to believe that any limitation exists, despite voluminous evidence to the contrary. *** Thought for the Day: “The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.” -- Salvador Dali• (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• Fred and August Duesenberg were brothers who left Germany and moved to Iowa, where they established an automobile company in 1913. They named the company after themselves, and began to build sports cars. • The Duesenberg SJ roadster had a 320 horsepower engine; it could do 130 miles per hour, and could go from zero to 60 m.p.h. in eight seconds. A Duesenberg won the Indianapolis 500 in 1924, 1925, and 1927, and a Duesenberg also won the Grand Prix in 1921. It was said that, “The only car that could pass a Duesenberg was another Duesenberg.” • Not only were the cars fast and sporty, but they offered many special features and innovative design improvements. They became the luxury vehicle of choice among nobility and movie stars. Clark Gable and Gary Cooper each drove one, as did the Duke of Winsdor and the King of Spain. The cars cost up to $25,000 in a day and age when the average physician earned about $3,000 per year. The Duesenberg brothers claimed they built the best cars in the world, and the car’s performance record, combined with its extraordinary opulence, backed them up. • The Duesenberg brothers were better car makers than they were businessmen, though, and the company faltered and failed during the Great Depression. However, their name lives on because the common abbreviation for the vehicles they built has come into our language as a slang word meaning something excellent, powerful, or extraordinary. What’s the word? Answer below.
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