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7/3/08 Fourth of July fun Web sites for kids:
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7/2/08 The Fourth of July is Friday and with Festivals.com you can find events, parades and more happening around the nation. Just enter "Fourth of July" in the keyword search to find a party near you. Visit The National Council on Fireworks Safety and get the facts about firework safety, state laws on fireworks and tips on handling fireworks. NOVA Online Fireworks! has online virtual fireworks along with the anatomy of a firework so you know why they pop, along with a fireworks game and more. Visit Wikipedia's Fireworks for a history of festive explosions along with major pyrotechnic events. Kids.gov features lots of sites for U.S. History information. The site includes links to America's Story, Archives of American Art and more. 7/1/08 Americans receive 105 billion piece of junk mail annually. That means razing more than 100 million trees a year. You can do your part to stop the mass amount of junk mail by signing the petition on Do Not Mail. Don't throw those Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs, (CFL) and Fluorescent tube bulbs into the trash they contain mercury and fluorescents which are deadly to the environment. Visit Light Bulb Recycling for your disposal kits. At My Bone Yard you can recycle electronic devices including cell phones, laptops, and flat panel monitors. This company permanently deletes all your personal information handles the devices in a ecologically friendly manner. And they offer free shipping. You'd like to get rid of old CDs, DVDs, and the plastic cases they come in but you know they don't decompose,ever. Visit CD Recycling Center You pay for the shipping but they accept your CDs, DVDs, and all the packaging. It's simple to "do good without doing much" by visiting Throw Place. This site list "throw" items to give to charities, interest people and will contact you about the pick up of these items. Find out more by visiting the site.
6/30/08 Today is Please Take My Children to Work Day visit MommaSaid.net for ways to celebrate this holidays for moms. At the official Guitar Hero site you can check out information on the game, Guitar Hero community, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, and the All New Guitar Hero Experience World Tour. At U Rock Hard you can post personal music videos of Guitar Heroes, Air Guitarist, and Karaoke. http://www.urockhard.com/ The Fourth of July is Friday and you can brush up on our nation's history. At USHistory.org you'll get the facts about Independence day, the Liberty Bell, the Revolutionary War and much more at Kids.gov features lots of sites for U.S. History information. The site includes links to America's Story, Archives of American Art and more. 6/27/08 How Stuff Works - How Carbon Offsets Work is an introduction to the concept of paying someone to "offset" your own carbon emission. Wikipedia - Carbon Offset also explains the process of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At Voluntary Carbon Offsets you can "neutralize" your travel emissions by purchasing "carbon offsets." Meaning you can still fly but in exchange you pay someone to reduce their emission in your place. Do you part by to reduce carbon emission find out how at CarbonFund. "Reduce what you can, offset what you can't." If you've ever been curious about how much carbon dioxide we emit in a day just go to Carbon Counter. This organization is fighting to keep our climate the same and calculates how much carbon dioxide is emitted. 6/26/08 The Smithsonian National Zoological Park features several Web cam exhibits to view animals without leaving your computer. Along with information and even animal "ring tones" for your phone. The San Diego Zoo lets you view Live Web Cams of polar bears, apes, elephants and panda bears. The Toledo Zoo Web Cams are live 24 hours a day and feature The Hippo Underwater Web Cams, The Seal Underwater Web Cam, The Polar Bear Web Cam and The Baby Elephant Web Cam. The Indianapolis Zoo features the Rhino Cam, Walrus Cam, Elephant Cam, Sea Lion Cam, and the Penguin Cam. Just click on "Web Cams." At the Monterey Bay Aquarium site you can view several Web Cams of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Besides viewing Web Cams the site features information on the native sea life. 6/25/08 The Air Guitar World Championships take place in Oulu, Finland on August 20 through 22. "The purpose of the Air Guitar World Championships is to promote world peace." Find out more by visiting the AGWC site. Check out the winner of this year's U.S. Air Guitar Championships. The site features this year's winner, videos, the Hall of Fame, tour information and more. Check out the World Rock Paper Scissors Society for events, rules, strategy guide, tournament news and more. Wikipedia Rock-Paper-Scissors features information about this game along the winners of the World Rock Paper Scissors Society International World Championships and more. America's Official Rock Paper Scissors League is called the USARPS and the site features rules, tournament information, news, and more. 6/24/08 Today is Fairy Day in the "Magical month of June," it's a day to "celebrate all things fairy." Get information about this day along with ways to celebrate fairies by visiting the Fairy Day site from the fairy supports at Fairy Visions. To find out your own "fairy name" visit the Fairy Name Generator then type in your first and last name. The site will give you your fairy name and information about your fairy type. The site also features fairy facts and more. For a brief history of fairies along with popular names for fairies visit Wikipedia - Fairy. Fairies World features information, an art gallery, articles, famous fairies, fairy poems and more. No Fairy Day celebration would be complete without a visit to the Disney Fairies site. The site features information on Disney Fairies, games and activities, how to create a fairy and more. 6/23/08 June is International Tea Month find out about the health benefits of this drink. The site also includes brewing tips and how to read tea leaves. http://www.teausa.com/ This is Lightning Safety Awareness Week visit the National Weather Service site for tips on staying safe during storms. NOAA's National Weather Service makes to make sure you and your family and pets are ready for sever weather season. The site features information on thunderstorm, lightning, and tornado safety. Save some money online with Every Single Coupon. This site features coupons to online stores. Thousands of coupons and posted with more added daily. Check out ways to "say so long" to toxic cleaners by having your own Green Cleaning Party. Just visit Women and Environment for details and the site is in both English and Spanish.
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Friday the 13th check the following sites for more information:
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Saturday is World Wide Knit In Public Day, find out where and when to gather to knit by visiting Saturday is World Juggling Day when 340 jugglers in 32 countries will take part in more than 85 juggling events. Find out more at the site. Saturday is Flag Day the following sites feature information about the holiday and the flag:
6/12/08 Saturday is Flag Day the following sites feature information about the holiday and the flag:
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Father's Day is this Sunday check out the following sites:
6/11/08 This is National Safety Month and the National Safety Council has lots of ways to "educate and influence people to prevent accidental injury and death." The Negligent Driving campaign "is designed to educate the public about the many threats to traffic safety, and what they can do to become safer drivers." Check out the statistics which say "distracted driving has eclipsed drunk driving as the number one safety concern of the driving public." For all the latest news on food safety visit Food Safety, your "gateway to government food safety information." The site features news and safety alerts, consumer advice, and a wealth of addition information. At Safety.com you'll find information on food safety, product safety, travel safety, how teens, children, and seniors can stay safe and much more. "The official kid's portal for the U.S. Government" features safety information for kids. The site includes information on Internet safety, bike safety, how to prevent disease and more. Get the facts about public health issues, emergency preparedness, environmental health, traveler's health, workplace safety, vaccines an immunizations free from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. You can prevent accidental injuries in the home according to the Home Safety Council. Just visit their site My Safe Home it features a virtual tour of rooms found in the average home pointing out potential safety hazards and way to avoid them. NOAA's National Weather Service makes to make sure you and your family and pets are ready for sever weather season. The site features information on thunderstorm, lightning, and tornado safety.
6/10/08 This is Adopt-A-Shelter Cat Month and you can visit the ASPCA site to find out about cats, how to adopt, cat car, and even "solutions to your kitty's least endearing habits." If you think you've got a really agile cat find out by entering him in an International Cat Agility Tournament. This is a new category for cat competition in which cats negotiate an obstacle course designed to display their speed, coordination, intelligence and training. Cats have a passion for being around books and Library Cats Map is a growing collection of photos and contacts of cats who frequent libraries around the world. Just click a region to find literary kitties. Catster lets you view pictures of cats, find cats, read cat diaries, and adopt a pet. This site is "where every cat has a web page." Dogster is for the lovers of dogs. You can post your dog's photo, view other dogs, news and adopt a pet. This site is "where every dog has a web page."
6/09/08 WEB SITES by Lisa Chase Holiday Insights Flag Day features the history of the holiday and the American flag, how to handle and display the flag, along with games, trivia, clip art and more. You need a summer time job and you'd like it to be somewhere interesting then get to Cool Works. It features over "75,000 Jobs in Great Places" including national parks, camps, amusements parks, resorts and more. Father's Day is the 15th and The Holiday Spot: Father's Day Celebration features a brief history of the holiday, free e-greetings, poems, gift ideas, recipes, and a place to post your messages to dad for the whole world to read. Learn a new way to tie your necktie at TieKnot. It's got step-by-step instructions and graphics on tying everything form a Half-Windsor to a Four-in-hand knot. With instructions in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese and Japanese. Outsmart bureaucracy: If you can't bothered to check your speedometer, at least check your calendar. "At the end of the month, if cops haven't reached their quotas, their bosses to know why," says Brock Yates, creator of the race that inspired The Cannonball Run. Also, counties that need speeding-ticket money stake out their borders, and accident-prone stretches contain high quantities of pork, so research new routes before you go. Web sites like http://www.beartraps.com list trouble spots. 6/06/08 Call tech support: Gadgets won't always work, but a few radar detectors are reliable: The Valentine One ($399 at http://valentine1.com ) and Escort ($230-$330 at http://www.escortradar.com) are the most sensitive. While radar detectors are legal everywhere except Virginia and D.C. radar jammers are illegal,nationwide -- felony illegal. Many police departments now use lasers because they can pick a single car out of a group. Thwart the fuzz with a still-legal-everywhere laser jammer like the Blinder M40 X-Treme. Today is D-Day, to find out how this historical event effected our world and to honor those who gave their time and lives for freedom visit The National D-Day Memorial Foundation. On this day in 1933 the first drive-in theater opened in New Jersey. There are several operational drive-in theaters still open in America. Find one near you at Drive-In Theater. Saturday is National Trails Day a time to enjoy the pleasures of hiking. Visit the American Hiking Society site to find out about events and hiking trails in your area. Saturday kicks off International Clothesline Week and the folks at Wellness-Mania.com want remind you of the joys of naturally air dried fresh smelling clothes. For one week hang you clothes to dry and save on your energy cost. For women who've had it with looking for the "perfect guy" there's an answer it's a virtual boyfriend from SERGIO v3.2. No joke you can now created the "perfect guy," for a price. To spend time with at your computer. Find out more by visiting the site.
6/08/08 June is Dairy Month find ways to celebrate by visiting the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association's consumer site Bring Us To Your Table. At Games Kids Play you'll find the rules to play everything from playground games to jump rope rhymes to car games and even how to "pick who's it." Lots of fun simple indoor and outdoor games from around the world. Check out an inexpensive sport the whole family can play by visiting the Professional Disc Golf Association. This site features the rules of the game, along with professional information, tour dates and more. If you'd like to teach your dog how to catch a Frisbee, just visit Dog, Disc and Wind. Pick up a new pastime at Hobby University where "we fight boredom one student at a time." It features information on all kinds of hobbies for both adults and kids.
6/07/08 This is National Accordion Awareness Month find out more about this musical instrument, events and more visit Lady of Spain Let's Polka is "an accordion blog" and features "all things accordion," including ways to celebrate National Accordion Awareness Month. Check out Those Darn Accordions the "official Website of America's favorite rock 'n' roll accordion band." The site features information about the band, tour dates, photos, news and a blog. And no accordion celebration would be complete without visiting the official Web site of the man who's on the cutting edge of the Accordions Weird Al Yankovic. Accordion World features a peek inside < Accordions of World>in Superior, Wisconsin, accordion store, and more.
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