Month: October 2009

HAPPY HALLOWEEN – Recommended

Only four more days until Halloween, so get your costumes ready if you haven’t already. We love vintage graphics for their “back-to-the-past” time machine glimpse of how it was. Here are some for your pleasure to trigger memory of movies, scary stories, iconic baddies, and then some. With the current craze of Vampire stories and…




GREEN HALLOWEEN – Great Tips

HALLOWEEN (also spelled Hallowe’en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. Also known as All Saints’ Day, it is considered a secular (non-religious) celebration, but some people feel the holiday has pagan religious overtones because of its roots. Halloween is also called All Hallows or Hallowmas in celebration of saints associated with Christianity. It’s become a…




EMERGENCY CARE – Important First Aid

Todays TIPS are for Emergency Care and First Aid, often ignored but imperative to know. From blackouts to big storms, the items you need to get through a worst-case scenario may already be in your home — just not stored in one place. So make sure all of the items we cover are in one…




WATER – Home and Travel

According to Reuters – Canadian circus billionaire Guy Laliberte (dubbed the first clown in space) arrived in a Russian space craft at the International Space Station yesterday, for a 10-day trip on the space shuttel that cost him over $35 million. Laliberte is a former fire-breather and founder of the Montreal based Cirque du Soleil….