Happy May Everyone!
 

        Eric Manherz

10 Cleaning Myths and What to Do Instead

(Consumer Reports)
Myth: Newspaper works the best for cleaning glass.  
Wet newspaper tears easily, and the ink can transfer to window trim, leaving more to clean.

Myth: Vinegar cleans everything.  
“It can cut through dirt and can kill bacteria, but only if you use it at full or nearly full strength”. The acids in vinegar can damage natural stone and wood surfaces.

Myth: Handwashing dishes is better than using a dishwasher.
Fact:  ...read more...

Reflexology Anatomy Defined

(Douglas Coburn)
Reflexology Anatomy is a new modality that embraces ancient practices and adopts new scientific discoveries of the last 30 years.  RA is a result of 15 years of analysis, research, practice and testing.
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Free Tickets: The Advance Screening Of POMS

(entertainmentOne)  We are excited to be able to provide free tickets-for-two to the advance screening of this great movie to the first 20 people to respond. 

POMS is an uplifting comedy about Martha (played by Diane Keaton) a woman who moves into a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad with her fellow residents, Sheryl (Jacki Weaver), Olive (Pam Grier) and Alice (Rhea Perlman), proving that it's never too late to follow your dreams. See the trailer.
 
The film is an absolute delight and will be warning the hearts of Canadians everywhere when it comes out on May 10th. We wanted to give your community the chance to see it before anyone else at a free advance screening on Wednesday, May 8 at Cineplex Ottawa.  ...click here for the tickets...

A Carousel In The Yard

(Katie Daubs, Toronto Star)
Nancy Phillips had seen an ad in the newspaper for a merry-go-round for sale — “Any reasonable offer accepted.” She had driven there and met a “tough old carny,” who led her to a junkyard, where 32 broken animals were piled on flatbed trucks. Nancy wanted to rescue them, fix them up — maybe decorate the house with them.

As horses and pigs jammed up the corridors of the family home, Nancy's husband issued the eviction notice: the animals had to go outside. The family had long discussed whether they’d install a swimming pool in the backyard. They decided to build a carousel instead.

For the better part of 45 years, the creative types who attended the fabulous soirees at the Phillips home made a post-meal pilgrimage. “They’d all profess that they really didn’t want to do the carousel, and they were too old … but then the child in everyone had to get out on the carousel”.   ...read more...

The Land Of Immortals

(Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN)
You have probably heard that Japan consistently has among the highest life expectancy in the world and that the island of Okinawa has the greatest concentration of centenarians (people who live to at least 100).  Nearly two-thirds of the residents of Okinawa are still functioning independently at age 97.  How and what Japan's oldest population eats. ...read more...