Category: Our Best Advice

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….




GREEN AUTOMOBILES – What’s New

Established in 2009, I Drive Green is an organization founded by French Driver Nelson Philippe and environmental specialist Jean-Paul Libert; created as a means of using motor sports to educate enthusiasts about new environmental initiatives, practices, and technologies. “Drive Green Because You Can” is a very unique initiative intended to bring global attention to green driving…




WATER FILTRATION

Myths of mermaids is one of our earliest about planetary mysteries of oceanic life. As artist Martin Waugh puts it: “Throughout history, water has calmed the soul, soothed the spirit and healed the wounded. Martin’s free-flowing photography evokes images from rolling, rhythmic oceans to drops of water falling upon a lake, taking one on a…




ECO BABY – HAPPY BABY

Tracy at our office is expecting her first child. We are all so excited!! She’s got me thinking babies and I found some great things. TIPS you can use, items to buy, and to inspire a unique nursery to be eco friendly. More then ever we need to be conscientious about what we put into…




COOKING

Chef Julia Child confided to her diary: “I am sadly an ordinary person . . . with talents I do not use.” Yet she lived a life that revealed her courage to go into the unknown, with dormant talents we refer to as “late bloomer”. Legend Julia Child, was someone who late in life began…




WORK and PLAY

WHEN YOU NEED A BREAK Many of our ISA Staffing Clients are VIP celebrities. We know what it takes to care for their needs and a high powered lifestyle. This is an energizing glimpse into playfulness we all need more of. How Will Wright does it. To learn more about Will Wright, who brought so…




SCIENCE TEEN VIDEO – Synaptic Cleft

GREAT NEW SCIENCE VIDEO Learning via RAP, winner of best individual science video award was given to this one created by a group of students. The students take a topic of interest (in this case addiction to nicotine and how that happens in the body and its ramifications), launching it into a rap song, with…




ORGANIC FLOWERS

Many people don’t know that approximately 80% of the flowers sold in the U.S. are imported from South America. Not only is that a huge chunk out of our domestic economy we do not reap any benefits from, they use twenty-five different pesticides that have already been outlawed in America due to their carcinogenic components….




FOURTH OF JULY

INDEPENDENCE DAY The Fourth of July is Independence Day. As a federal holiday schools, banks, post offices, and government offices are closed in homage to the hard fought Independence from Colonialism (watch out for those “Isms”). The Fourth Of July is our most important national holiday because it celebrates the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration…