The Good Witch: Potter charmed by Bell, Book and Candle shop owner
January 19, 2008
The Good Witch, a Hallmark movie starring Chris Potter and Catherine Bell, is a movie about a small town and a mysterious newcomer who takes up residence in a house believed to be haunted. Potter, who plays Police Chief Jake Russell becomes enchanted with Bell, who plays Cassandra Cassie Nightingale. Nightingale opens the Bell, Book and Candle shop.
Is Nightingale a witch as some of the townspeople believe? The Good Witch premieres on the Hallmark Channel January 19th, and will show again on January 25th and January 31st.
Oreo Cookies: Share your Oreo story
January 14, 2008
Over the last one hundred years, two of the most memorable cookies of childhood were introduced by the same company. In 1902, the National Biscuit Company created Barnum’s animal circus cookies and ten years later in 1912, the Oreo cookie. Today, both the animal cookies and the cookie made with two chocolate cookies and creme filling are still favorite cookies. Oreo cookies has the distinction of being the best selling cookie of the 20th century.
There are many ways to eat and Oreo, and almost everyone has developed a personal style for eating Oreos. Nabisco believes every person has an Oreo story, and invite Oreo cookie lovers to visit the company website to submit a video answering the following questions:
Invention Nation: Grassroots green inventors
December 3, 2007
On the premiere episode of Discovery’s Science Channel Invention Nation, show hosts Chris, Nobu and Micah converted a bus fueled by diesel to pure vegetable oil. Viewers learned how to make biodiesel as well as being introduced to hybrid vehicle technologies.
Invention Nation is a continuing series chronicling the three inventors adventures and discoveries as they travel the country in search of grassroots green inventors and earth friendly inventions.
Future episodes of Invention Nation will highlight a human-powered car, how to make a solar panel from used CDs, build a bike from bamboo, solar ovens, floating wetland made from recycled bottles, how to turn food waste into methane gas, how to utilize straw as natural home insulation, and building a homemade windmill. As they drive across country, the three gone green will show their enterprising nature as they fuel their bus with the used cooking grease from roadside diners.
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Martha Stewart: The Ultimate Thanksgiving Planner
November 18, 2007
While your family’s Thanksgiving Day gathering and dinner might be a wee bit more casual than Martha Stewart, the Martha Stewart’s Thanksgiving Day holiday area of her website features some great Thanksgiving Day food recipes, Thanksgiving Day crafts and Thanksgiving Day decorations as part of Martha Stewart’s Thanksgiving Essentials.
A woman known for detail, the Ultimate Thanksgiving Planner is a printable planner offered by Martha Stewart with advice on how to plan Thanksgiving dinner days before Thanksgiving Day, as well as a Thanksgiving dinner menu with recipes for spice cured turkey, spice butter, apple chestnut stuffing, chopped beet salad with feta and pecans, cranberry sauce with dried cherries, mashed potatoes and celery root, honey roasted squash, homemade ginger beer, and pear cranberry upside down cake with old fashioned vanilla ice cream.
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Thanksgiving: Healthy Thanksgiving dinner recipes
November 18, 2007
Be food adventurous this Thanksgiving with healthy Thanksgiving recipes!
The Mayo Clinic has published a collection of Thanksgiving Day recipes that replace the traditional Thanksgiving dinner feast without sacrificing taste. According to the Mayo Clinic’s Tools for healthier living, the following recipes have less calories, fat and sodium than the turkey smothered in gravy, candied yams, buttered corn and pumpkin pie we are all accustomed to serving on the biggest food holiday of the year.
From appetizers to dessert, following are links to healthy Thanksgiving Day dinner recipes:
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Flying Spaghetti Monster: Noodling with religion and the Flying Spaghetti Monster Christmas tree ornament
November 16, 2007
The followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, known as Pastafarians, will be pleased to know that the Flying Spaghetti Monster as a religion will be included in this year’s American Academy of Religion fostering excellence in the study of religion annual meeting under the auspicious title Evolutionary Controversy and a Side of Pasta: The Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Subversive Function of Religious Parody, with Holy Pasta and Authentic Sauce: The Flying Spaghetti Monster’s Messy Implications for Theorizing Religion, and Noodling around with Religion: Carnival Play, Monstrous Humor, and the Noodly Master.
The concept of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as a religion is a loosely ethereal one, as it sprang complete from the imagination of Oregon State physics graduate named Bobby Henderson in response to a Kansas School Board debate on the merit of including intelligent design as part of the public school science class curriculum.
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Wii: Finding the Wii in time for Christmas
November 15, 2007
Oh here we go again.
Last Christmas season, the Nintendo Wii was on the top of every video gamer’s Christmas wish list. As a mother, it was the first time I felt a certain sense of justification in paying $250 dollars for a gaming system largely because playing Wii requires physical movement. I was not alone and the shopping frenzy for Wii was on.
After visiting every local store that advertised a Wii and finding the shelves empty, I turned to shopping online. I quickly discovered that the only readily available Wii consoles were being sold on eBay at three to four times the suggested retail price. I was determined not to lose my head or wallet over the Wii and I was equally determined to find one to buy. For days, it became a quest to find a merchant with a Wii in stock.
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American Gangster: Denzel Washington
November 8, 2007
“What’s wrong with America? It’s gotten so big you just can’t find your way.”
American Gangster is a story about the business of profit, getting ahead, race and family.
Based on the true life story of Frank Lucas, American Gangster starring Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actor and director Denzel Washington and Academy Award winning actor Russell Crowe was a box office hit during its first weekend in November premiere showing across the country and is being heralded as a possible Academy Award contender.
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Toys Made in America: Parents and Grandparents shop for safe toys
November 8, 2007
Parents and grandparents are in a state of recall fatigue and looking for safe toys not likely to make a recall list this holiday shopping season. Any trust consumers held that toy manufacturers and the global market priorities somehow matched their own when it came to the safety of children is all but gone. As a result, Made in America toys are experiencing a surge in popularity this Christmas shopping season.
The Daily Green has published a 250+ Lead-Free Toys Made in USA and 500+ Not-Made-in-China Toys list that offer parents and grandparents an alternative to quantity over quality. In addition, The Daily Green suggests four tips for buying toys Made in America, which include:
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Oprah YouTube Channel: Tyson the skateboarding bulldog
November 5, 2007
First there was the Oprah Winfrey tv show. Then the Oprah Winfrey O! magazine. Now Oprah Winfrey fans have another way to enjoy their favorite talk show host. Oprah Winfrey has launched her own online video YouTube channel.
Exclusive videos from backstage at the Oprah show will be available through her YouTube channel. However, note to bloggers and other web publishers — the embedding feature has been disabled. Availability of Oprah videos is restricted to visits to the Oprah YouTube channel.
On November 6, the Oprah YouTube channel will be featured on the Oprah tv show which will include an interview with YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, as well as some who have become popular through YouTube videos. P. Diddy used YouTube to search for a personal assistant and will be a featured guest of Oprah. My favorite guest will be Tyson the skateboarding bulldog.
This YouTube video of Tyson the skateboarding bulldog is not courtesy of Oprah’s YouTube channel. It was found on YouTube and is featured on Tyson the skateboarding bulldog website.
In visiting the Oprah YouTube channel, a behind-the-scene video of Tyson’s visit to the Oprah show can be viewed. Tyson skateboards through the studio and green room.