As part of a week celebrating families, MOSI is granting free admission from 2p.m.-6p.m on November 1,2009. This is a time for families to spend time together and it is all free. The free admission does not include the IMAX theater or the Mind Bender Mansion.
The Brandon Public Library will be having a free calligraphy class this Saturday morning. The class is a 10:30 on October 31, 2009.
If you do not like a baby Einstein DVD that you purchased in the last four years you may be eligible to sent it in for a refund, exchange it for something else, or get a discount on another Baby Einstein product.
Baby Einstein says that they stand strongly behind their product and to prove that they are offering customers an opportunity to get a full refund on the purchase price of their Baby Einstein DVD.
To participate, you must have purchased a Baby Einstein DVD between June 5, 2004 and September 4, 2009.
If you are not satisfied with the Baby Einstein DVD you purchased during the period mentioned above, for a limited time beginning on September 4, 2009 and ending on March 4, 2010, you may exchange it for one of the following:
•One (1) Baby Einstein Book of your choice
•One (1) Baby Einstein music CD of your choice
– Or –
•One (1) coupon for 25% off the purchase of one Little Einsteins™ product. Redeemable with promotion code only at DisneyStore.com.
or you may return it, and we will refund the current retail value of the DVD ($15.99).
The Only baby Einstein video I have is a VHS I purchased back in 2001. I actually am satisfied with it because all my kids like the music and visuals. I never thought it would make them smarter, but I am guilty of letting them watch too much television. It is recommended that children under the age of 2 not get any television watching time at all. I cannot say that I have obeyed that rule.
Visit Baby Einstein website to get more information the refund
Hillsborough county residents create art that is made from recyclable material and you can enter it into the 2nd annual Hillsborough County Recycled Yard Art Contest. The art will be on display at the Hillsborough County Fair.
Entries must be delivered to the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds, State Road 60 and Sydney Washer Road in Dover, east of Valrico, on Saturday, October 31, Sunday, November 1, 2009, or Monday, November 2, 2009 –before the start of the Fair –between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
As part of your trick-treating you may want to check out Taco Bell. On October 31, 2009 Taco Bell restaurants will be giving away free Black Jack Tacos. It is one taco per customer. The promotion is from 6p.m. to midnight. The Black Jack Taco is valued at 89 cents and is a black crunchy taco with beef, lettuce, pepper jack sauce, cheddar cheese, pepper jack cheese, and mozzarella cheese.
Boston Market is giving away two free kids meals with the purchase of an adult meal that is $6 or more. When you order a family meal you can receive 4 free kids meal. The kids need to be present at the time of purchase for you to receive the free kids’ meals. The promotion ends on October 31, 2009.
Applebee’s is letting veterans and active duty military personnel eat for free on Veteran’s Day, November 11,2009. You have to choose from select menu items and your drinks and the tip is not included in the free offer. To receive the free meal you must show proof of military service.
More Information from Applebee’s web site
We knew that the Buccaneers were headed into a tough game as team with no regular season wins against a Super Bowl champion team that had just plummeted a winless team last week. The week before the New England defeated the Tennessee Titans 59-0. It really did not look too good for the Buccaneers as they were literally set to be seen internationally.
Although the defeat to the New England Patriots was not as bad as the Tennessee Titans experienced last week, the Patriots did take the Buccaneers to school and show them who was the student and who was the teacher. Even though it was not a complete shutout, the Buccaneers lost the game 35-7.
One thing to remember is that Tampa Bay Buccaneers are building themselves backup and need some time to mature and develop, however these growing pains and losses are a little too hard to bare.
The Buccaneers has a bye week and they can use that time to regroup and assess what is really causing them crumble.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are off to their worst start in 24 years. Lucky for the Carolina Panthers, who switched to the running game just in time to pull out a 28-21 win over the struggling Bucs.
Panthers QB Jake Delhomme passed for a meager 65 yards (9 for 17) with a touchdown and two potentially costly interceptions before running backs DeAngelo Williams (150 yards on 30 carries) and Jonathan Stewart took over. Williams scored twice including the game winning drive with 29 seconds remaining.
Tampa Bay has scored an anemic 89 points all year long and things look to get worse when they travel this week to London to play the New England Patriots, who just last week took out their aggression on another win less team, the Tennessee Titans, with a 59 – 0 drubbing. They are currently enduring a 10 game losing streak, which is their longest since they lost an NFL record 26 games in a row way back in 1977.
Carolina at one point had a commanding 21 – 7 lead, but they proceeded to make the game interesting via poor special teams play, giving up a 97 yard kickoff return and a 26 yard interception return in the second half that allowed the Panthers to crawl back.
The Panthers also had to do without the services of safety Dante Wesley after his late ejection in the first half for needlessly barreling into punt returner Clifton Smith after he had signaled for a fair catch. Wesley has since been suspended one game by the NFL. Smith did not return to the game as he suffered a concussion from the play.
With both teams battling it out at the bottom of the NFC south, at least Carolina has a 2 game win streak going on, although squeaking by the 2 – 4 Washington Redskins and the winless Bucs isn’t cause for much optimism, especially with the Atlanta Falcons and excellent New Orleans Saints looking down on both teams.
The two teams will meet again in early December, at which point both their grim fates may have already been decided.
USF researchers are conducting a study of dual-earner couples’ daily work, family, and health experiences. Participants can earn up to $70 in Publix gift cards and their spouses/partners can earn up to $30 in gift cards! Must be employed full time and married or living with a partner who is also employed. Check out our website for more study information www.wfhstudy.info
The city of Tampa’s water department is conducting an online survey and participants are eligible to win $100. There will be 2 people selected randomly to win the $100 each for completing the survey.
The City of Tampa Water Department requests your help in an important research project designed to advance understanding of issues affecting public acceptance of water reuse and desalination.
The research is sponsored by the WateReuse Foundation, an educational, nonprofit public benefit corporation that conducts applied research on behalf of the water and wastewater community to help advance the science of water reuse, recycling, reclamation and desalination. The research project is titled WRF 07-03
Talking About Water: Vocabulary and Images that Support Informed Decisions About Water Recycling and Desalination.The language we use and the images and concepts that are associated with our language may be a barrier to communication. The results of this study will help to raise awareness in the water industry of how and why perceptions/misperceptions are generated. Your input can help the water industry address appropriate ways to communicate.
Hurry, because only two (2) people, randomly selected, out of the first 400 (four hundred) Tampa Water Department Customers to participate in the survey will be eligible for the $100 (one-hundred dollars). Time is limited so please click on this link http://www.panel.decisionresearch.org/Water_Survey.html and help us now with this critical research.
Thank you for your help and interest in how to promote a better understanding of water and we thank you in advance for your time and effort. If you have any questions about this research project, please e-mail Sandra.Anderson@TampaGov.net.
The survey did begin last week and I am not sure how many spaces are left of the 400 spots mentioned.
It is amazing the policies that insurance companies have in place. A baby was denied insurance coverage because his weight is in 95th growth percentile. The insurance company said the little baby was too overweight to receive health insurance. The father was able to bring the plight he and his family were experiencing to the attention of the media. After some scrutiny, the health insurance company decided to remove their “overweight” baby policy.
Anyone who has been around babies knows that they come in different sizes and just because they start off plump doesn’t mean they will not lose the weight. There are skinny babies that become obese adults and plump babies that become skinny adults. It is good that the insurance company finally saw the light and stopped denying health insurance to babies that have weights that are in the higher percentile.
Source: Denver Post
The flu usually goes away over time, whether it is the seasonal flu or the H1N1 virus. However, there are sometime when the flu can become worse and parents are urged to look for the signs.
According to a CDC:
Even children who have always been healthy before or had the flu before can get a severe case of flu. Call or take your child to a doctor right away if your child of any age has:
- Fast breathing or trouble breathing
- Bluish or gray skin color
- Not drinking enough fluids
- Severe or persistent vomiting
- Not waking up or not interacting
- Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held
- Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
- Has other conditions (like heart or lung disease, diabetes, or asthma) and develops flu symptoms, including a fever and/or cough.warning signs.
Most people with 2009 H1N1 have had mild illness and have not needed medical care and the same is true of seasonal flu. However, the flu can be serious, especially for young children (risk is highest in children younger than 2 years) and children of any age who have certain chronic medical conditions. These conditions include asthma or other lung problems, diabetes, weakened immune systems, kidney disease, heart problems and neurological and neuromuscular disorders. Children with these conditions can have more severe illness from any flu, including from the 2009 H1N1 flu virus.
If you have any questions, contact your child pediatrician. For information on H1N1 virus you can visit the CDC web site.
Matt Jones is working out with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this week. Jones was drafted as a first round draft pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2005. He spent the first 4 years of his career with the Jaguars as a wide receiver. In college Jones was a quarterback for Arkansas University and a basketball player. He is now a free agent that is being looked at by several teams.
Again, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers leave a game defeated and down. It really has become an old song of defeat that the Buccaneers have been singing. It really feels like someone has stolen my ice cream cone and is eating it in my face. The games are just so hard to watch. Although the games have become a little hard to watch for Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans, the die-hard fans are not going anywhere. We know that it will take time as the Buccaneers rebuild, but how much time is hard to know. It is obvious that the team needs to rebuild and they will. Now they stand at 0-5, after being defeated by the Philadelphia Eagles with a final score of 33-14.
The Patel Conservatory in Tampa is giving you an opportunity to try out some classes for free this week. It started this past Saturday and will continue until October 10, 2009. You can give the classes a test to see if it is something that you would be interested in doing.
Class selection includes jazz voice, guitar,
hip-hop dance for youth and adults,
Dress Up and Dance with the youth ballet program,
Tots and Tunes for toddlers and parents,
acting for the stage and much, much more.
Another game and another loss for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On Sunday the Buccaneers were defeated 13-16 by the Washington Redskins. It was the 4th straight defeat for the Bucs. All season the Buccaneers have gone without one regular season win.
We can chalk the losses up to some growing pains. Things have changed a lot since last season. There’s a new offensive coordinator and head coach. We have a new batch of quarterbacks. Maybe the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are like a new pair of gloves that just need to be stretched out a bit before they fit just right. As the Buccaneers adjust and stretch things will start fit right into place and they will start to shine. I can’t say everything will happen this season, but by next season it should all work out okay.
Forbes recently put out its top 10 list for the worst places for jobs. The Tampa –St .Petersburg-Clearwater area was #9 on the list. Much of the reason is due to mortgage crisis that this area and many areas Florida area experiencing. Also on the list was the West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, Florida area. That area was #6 on the list.
Meanwhile, cities with formerly robust economies–like Reno, Nev., Las Vegas, Orlando, Fla., Tampa, Fla., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., West Palm Beach, Fla., Jacksonville, Fla., and Phoenix–are more likely to rebound. These areas topped our list for much of the 2000s; their success was driven first by surging population and job growth and later by escalating housing prices.
But the collapse of the housing bubble and a drop in large-scale migration from other regions has weakened, often dramatically, these perennial successes. “We could rely on 1,000 people a week moving into the area,” notes one longtime official in central Florida. “These people needed services, houses and bought stuff. Now the growth is a 10th of that.”
As the market stabilizes we should see an increase in jobs. Once our housing market has improved we can expect to see more economic stability. Banks seem to be learning a little from their past mistakes. I have seen some instances where banks are putting stipulations on the foreclosed homes that they are selling. Some are requiring that the home not be purchased by an investor, and that it be owner occupied. In the Tampa Tribune, it mentioned that the areas in Tampa Bay that suffered the greatest loss in home equity were the ones with the most investor bought homes during the housing boom.
Source: Forbes
The Tampa Bay community and former students have reached out to help future GED test takers take their GED exam. Even in this time s of economic woes, there are still many who have sacrificed to give what they can. Community members have been donated money to cover the cost of taking the GED tests. Although many places do offer free GED test preparation classes, there is a fee to take the tests.
It really is great to see members of the community chip in to help one another. It is hard to find a job, but not having a high school diploma makes it even more difficult. These donations are really helping people support themselves and their families. When someone passes the GED they receive a Florida High School diploma and it is accepted by most colleges and employers.
The original story was on TampaBay.com
Kids have an opportunity to enter a coloring contest at participating Hillsborough County Public libraries. The contest is sponsored by the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. The winner of the contest will receive 4 tickets to Walking With Dinosaurs. The coloring contest is open to children in kindergarten through fifth grade.
Drawings for the coloring contest will be held on October 7, 2009.