TEENS AND 20-SOMETHINGS LOVE BAKING: A new study released today reveals that teenagers and those in their early twenties are six times more likely to bake something from scratch every day compared with any other age group. Sixteen to 24-year-olds who have grown up watching cooking shows on TV have been responding to the programs. The poll of more than 1,000 people found that older generations bake less regularly with nearly one fifth baking no more than once a month and only 1 percent of the over 55’s baking every day. However, six out of 10 people agreed that if they make the effort to create something from scratch at home, it tastes much better than bought food. (Daily Mail)

Barbie’s had a number of different looks over the years, but her latest reincarnation is drawing the ire of some parents.

Tokidoki Barbie, marketed as a collector’s item for $50, sports tattoos on her neck and a pink bob. She also comes with a black skull-and-bones tee shirt, leopard leggings and sky-high sparkly silver shoes, and is the result of Barbie’s collaboration with Simone Legno of the Japanese-inspired lifestyle brand Tokidoki, the Huffington Post reported.

Notice Babs hasn’t inked Ken’s name anywhere??…hmmmm lol

Read more: http://www.wesh.com/news/29549022/detail…

Women’s apparent need to gossip is apparently natural. According to a new book, ladies have a basic evolutionary need to voice concerns about others to their peers. John L. Locke wrote in Duels and Duets that the desire stems from a deeper need to protect the community they live in. He explained, “One study of gossip showed that gossipers were concerned about women who are bad housekeepers, and women who are bad mothers, and women who are promiscuous. Those things are all threats to each woman in a community; therefore they have every good reason to want to talk about those things.”

My Aunt BeBe always said: “If you don’t have anything nice to say…
Come sit next to me!” LOL

Halloween Is Here!
Looking for a great costume for you or your kids? Throwing a party and looking for decorating tips? Baking up some creepy—but delicious!—seasonal treats? MSN can help with all your holiday needs!

Read more here:
 http://event.msn.com/halloween/

On Tuesday (October 11), the story broke that several publications overseas were printing certain dates that Madonna would be on tour. Yesterday (October 12), a document was released by DrownedMadonna.com, that appeared to be a preliminary itinerary for Madonna’s tour next year. Though the document does not entirely coincide with the rumored dates that were reported on Tuesday — it could still give an idea of where Madonna plans on stopping on her tour.

CHECK IT OUT

Madonna’s reported tour dates! http://tinyurl.com/6hkjqo7

Oct. 12

Shands Arts In Medicine Pink Pumpkin Painting Party, Founders Gallery, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Part of Paint the Town Pink, UF&Shands Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

UF&Shands/American Cancer Society Breast Walk kick-off and registration, Founders Gallery, 10 to 10:30 a.m. Part of Paint the Town Pink, UF&Shands Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Oct. 15

Pink Pumpkin Painting Party, Cancer & Genetics Research Complex lawn, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Part of Paint the Town Pink, UF&Shands Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Oct. 22

American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk, 9 a.m. downtown Gainesville at the corner of SE 2nd Place and SE 1st Street. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m.

Oct. 1 through Oct. 31

Standing Up to Breast Cancer display around the Duck Pond at North Florida Regional Medical Center. Flamingos on display to be sold with proceeds for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. For more information, call 333-4970.

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Octo. 16

The Salon at ULTA Beauty’s first, all day Salon Cut-a-Thon, with 100 percent of proceeds donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Store: 4414 SW College Road, 237-0163.

Now that October has arrived and Halloween is just a few weeks away, it’s time to start thinking about what costume to wear this year. The International Business Times put together a list of what it believes the top 10 Halloween costumes will be this year, guided by input from leading industry sources:

1. Zombie — IBT cited an industry leader saying zombies are the new vampires, in part because of the hit AMC cable TV show The Walking Dead.
2. Captain America — Star of a summer blockbuster movie this year.
3. Don Draper — From AMC’s hit show Mad Men
4. Charlie Sheen — No explanation needed after Sheen’s crazy meltdown of a year.
5. Frankie Stein — From Mattel’s Monster High franchise.
6. Thor — The star of another summer blockbuster movie this year.
7. Arnold Schwarzenegger — The former California governor left office and fell into a scandal involving him fathering a now 13-year-old boy with the family’s maid.
8. Anthony Weiner — Weiner’s very bad year involved him stepping down from office after tweeting sexual photos and messages to women who weren’t his wife — and having a sex scandal while carrying that unfortunate last name.
9. Ron Paul — The perennial GOP presidential candidate has helped make his libertarian ideas that once were viewed as loopy gain popularity.
10. Amy Winehouse — Winehouse is gone, but homage can be paid on Halloween, including with a wig based on her fabulous beehive hairdo.

Standing Up to Breast Cancer:
Hundreds of Pink Flamingos and Pink Innertubes
Return to Make Another Giant Statement about Breast Cancer

During October 2011’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, North Florida Regional Medical Center (NFRMC)will honor the courage of many women who have been diagnosed and treated for breast cancer by placing a giant show of pink around the Duck Pond at the front of the hospital’s campus.

More than 500 pink plastic flamingos will be placed on the banks of the pond to represent the number of women who have been diagnosed and treated for breast cancer over the past two years at North Florida Regional Medical Center. Breast cancer survivors, physicians, nurses and other staff of NFRMC are invited to place the flamingos in the spots they will stand during the month of October. Floating in the center of the pond will be a giant pink ribbon, the symbol for breast cancer, created from 100 pink inner tubes bound together and placed to float in the pond’s center. Members of the Gainesville-area media are invited to be there as the display is created late in the day on September 30 so that it is in place when Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins the next day, Saturday October 1.

When: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Friday, September 30, 2011
Where: In front of the Duck Pond at North Florida Regional Medical Center, 6500 Newberry Road, Gainesville, Florida, 32605

The display will look something like this:

Paint the Town Pink!

Tuesday, Oct. 4 Breast Symposium
 http://www.ktk985.com/ Cancer Hospital Auxiliary Conference Room, 6 to 8:30 p.m.
 http://www.ktk985.com/
Tuesday, Oct. 11 Healthy Advantage Breast Symposium
The Villages, 9 to 11 a.m. 
 http://www.ktk985.com/

Weds., Oct. 12 Shands Arts In Medicine Pink Pumpkin Painting Party, Founders Gallery, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

UF&Shands/ACS Breast Walk Kick-off and Registration
Founders Gallery, 10 to 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 15 Pink Pumpkin Painting Party
CGRC lawn
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 22 ACS Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk
Downtown, 9 a.m.

MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM ACCEPTING ENTRIES FOR ‘CREATE’ TEEN EVENT

MARION COUNTY, Fla. (Sept. 23, 2011) – Teen talent will descend again upon Marion County libraries this November, and the Marion County Public Library System wants to dare you to CREATE.

The Public Library System is inviting local youth ages 13 – 18 to participate in its annual teen talent showcase. CREATE, which stands for Colossal, Reading, Entertaining, Artsy Teen Event, will display the accomplishments of Marion County teens in music, art, filmmaking and other creative forms for the third consecutive year on Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Marion County Public Library System Headquarters – Ocala branch (2720 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala).

Teens will have an opportunity to showcase their skills in the categories of fine arts, writing, filmmaking, performing arts and “edible” book. Event organizers will award cash prizes to winning selections in each category as follows: $200 (first place), $150 (second place) and $100 (third place).

Entry forms and guidelines are available at all Public Library System branches and online at http://library.marioncountyfl.org. Entries are due Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, and may be dropped off at any library branch.

CREATE, the Public Library System’s signature annual event for teens, is hosted in partnership with The Friends of the Ocala Public Library, City of Ocala and Appleton Museum. For more information and sponsorship opportunities, call the Marion County Public Library System at 352-671-8551.