| Dreaming of a safe Christmas
The holiday season brings cheer and warmth, but a few sources of holiday warmth, if unattended, can be deadly. Cooking, decorations, candles and Christmas trees are the leading causes of house fires during the holidays.
"This Christmas and New Year’s season is a joyful time for family and friends in Watauga County, filled with generosity, warmth, family and tradition," Sheriff Len Hagaman said. "But let’s make it a safe time as well."
One third of American homes have a live or cut Christmas tree. A real Christmas trees adds tradition and a pine scent to the home, but must be properly maintained for both beauty and safety.
The potential for fire lies in a dry tree. A good tree begins with selection. The Christmas tree should have been kept in water at all times.
Dino Might! Carnegie Museum's new exhibit has more dinosaurs, more action
Carnegie Natural History Museum takes its stab at the impossible this week: bringing back to life bones that are many million years old. "In essence what's happening here is a moment in time, a life and death struggle 150 million years ago," Dr. Matt Lamanna, the museum's chief dinosaur researcher, said in the hall's main room. "Where this Allosaurus is trying to get some lunch -- and all the other dinosaurs are trying to avoid becoming lunch." .
Today in history
-- Today is Wednesday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2007. There are 40 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 21, 1927, picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado were fired on by state police; six miners were killed. On this date: In 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1922, Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. In 1934, the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes," starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, opened in New York. In 1942, the Alaska Highway was formally opened. In 1964, the upper level of New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which connected Brooklyn and Staten Island, was opened.
‘Jennifer Aniston’
“HOLLYWOOD beauty had resigned herself to never having a life partner, but all that changed when Brad Pitt came onto the scene." And Jolie got someone else's. In this exclusive OK! interview Jolie tell us about her “amazing life". “It's … .
Is Stratford Ontario's perfect little city?
(This story was published in the Toronto Star's Saturday edition on Oct. 27 on the front page of the New in Homes section and is reprinted here with the writer's permission.) Michele Boniface has had a lifelong thing for Stratford. She loves it so much that five years ago she pulled up stakes in her hometown, Edmonton, and made the move east. "I came here as a child and I brought my students here," says Boniface, a former teacher who has also worked in film and television. Now serving as a co-ordinator for a local performing arts festival, she can't get over the level of friendliness in her adopted city. "It blows me away," she says. "It has actually made me a warmer, friendlier person." As a visitor, Boniface was attracted by Stratford's beauty and its lively downtown - a place with an uncommon number of thriving shops and restaurants for a city so small.
Skincare in Winter: Dry, Cracked Skin Care Solutions
Skincare-News.com offers protection from the elements this winter with fashionable gloves, hats, scarves and -- skincare. Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) November 15, 2007 -- With winter weather on its way in, cooling temperatures and dry air are sure to become a skincare concern for most all skin types, causing all sorts of reactions from dry scalp to chapped lips. Don't wait for the inevitable cracked skin and dry lips. Skincare-News.com's latest article, "Dry Skin is Never In," gives tips on how to shield the skin from the drying effects of bitter cold air with fashion and -- skincare. http://www.skincare-news.com/articles.php?ArtID=464 The delicate skin of the hands almost instantly suffers at the onset of winter weather. Gloves are a fun, fast and affordable method of protecting the hands from all sorts of dry skin mayhem this year, and are available in almost every color, shape, size, texture, pattern and fabric these days, with specific types designed for specific activities.
'Pajama Party' Gathers Area Comedians For Funny Business On St. Pete Beach
Rhonda Shear is still getting laughs in late-night. The comic, undergarment maven and former host of USA network's "Up All Night" is bringing her "Pajama Party" to the first Tampa Bay Comedy Festival, which runs today through Saturday at various locations in St. Pete Beach. Shear, who relocated from Hollywood to St. Petersburg about five years ago, owns a swanky lingerie boutique on Beach Drive there. She also sells her custom-designed outfits on HSN. For eight years and 400 shows, from 1991-98, Shear hosted the late-night showings of B-movies on USA. She developed a large cult following of insomniacs who appreciated her double-entendres, tongue-in-cheek humor and self-deprecating gags. She keeps one foot in show business with a sexy, all-female comedy revue.
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