Want a great dish to serve at the big game? How about an amazing and easy Reuben Bread Bowl?!

Purchase a large round baked bread from your local store, bakery or sandwich shop. Slice the top off to make a bowl shape. Carefully scoop out the bread to make a crusty bread bowl. Slice the bread you scooped out in to cubes or rectangles. You can leave these as is or toast them in the oven for easier dipping.

Now spray an oven-proof dish with non-stick cooking spray. Add chopped pastrami or turkey, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese. Bake at 350 until the cheese has melted. Transfer the heated food in to the bread bowl and serve with your cut bread slices. If you like, place a bowl of brown mustard or Thousand Island Dressing on the side.

This is a quick and delicious dish to serve at your next party. It will make the crowd go wild!

If you have children, chances are you have found play-doh or silly putty ground in to your rug or carpet. This gooey, squishy stuff is very hard to get out of the rug! We have tried using WD-40 with a bit of success, as well as a stain remover liquid. But the best thing we have found to get out play-doh and silly putty is plain old rubbing alcohol.

Simply saturate part of a rag with rubbing alcohol and rub the silly putty or play-doh with it until it is removed. You may have to do this several times with different parts of the rag. This works especially well with silly putty – the alcohol simply melts it away! Of course, if this is an expensive rug, either spot test it or have it professionally cleaned.

Do you and your co-workers need a break from the daily stress of the job? Do your employees seem to have less energy and even less motivation? Then start your own office war!

Our department just finished our first Q-Tip (cotton swab) war, and our morale is now through the roof! Choose the day of your war and get your supplies together. Every participating employee will be provided a sandwich bag filled with q-tips, small stickers and a straw. They will also need their own list of participating “targets.” Usually, the top manager is worth 40 points, mid-managers 20, and peers are 10.

Q-tips are placed in the straw and blown out at the moving target. The q-tips must be shot below the neck area and q-tips are to be blown with air only – no spit please!

Now begins the war. Every target must walk through the halls at least once every hour. You can only hit each target once. When you hit a target, that person will tell you to place a sticker next to his or her name. As a player, your goal is to shoot everyone on your list to accumulate the most points.

Sound silly? Yes it is, but it is loads of fun. Imagine people in business dress lurking through halls and laying in wait around corners. Then, when a target walks by, the q-tips go flying! To end your war, stage a battle between two teams and try to take over a particular office space.

This exercise is sure to make even the most business like employee giggle like a little kid. And you will be surprised to see one or two of them make double barrel straws with matching viewfinders. So let’s go to war and de-stress at work!

If you have children over 8 years old, chances are they have asked for a "My Space." And you have probably also heard all kinds of stories about how unsafe My Space is. Adult predators lurking, searching for young children to prey upon. Can this happen? Absolutely! But with continued supervision, you child's My Space can actually be fun, and a help to you as well!

But what is My Space? It enables both kids and adults to have their own "home page," and lets their friends attach to it and make comments back and forth. You can add pictures, videos and music as well as tailor the background to show your personality. If allowed to roam My Space alone, a child can get in to deep trouble and will be privy to pictures and writing that children should not see. But if a child's My Space is managed by an adult, it can be a fun way for kids to talk online.

To keep your child's My Space safe, help him or her set it up. You will be asked a series of questions, including whether the space should be private or not. Opt for private, and check every setting that asks if posts and friends must be approved before publishing. Once these settings are in place, no one in the general public can view your child's space or anything about him or her. However, if a friend knows your child's name, the friend can search for it. Once the friend finds your child's name, a page comes up explaining your child's space is private, and would they like to request permission to view it. This person needs to either know your child's personal email address or correct last name.

The next time your child logs in, he will see a message from his friend, requesting permission to become a "friend." If your child approves the email, he will get a new "friend" on his My Space. Now both of them can send messages back and forth, which will be posted on eachother's My Space.

Even though your child's space is private, be sure he or she knows not to list your city, school name or any other personal information on the page. I have my child listed as 99 years old, living in a completely different state than our own. I know that only friends can view his space, but you just can't be too careful.

Now let me tell you why I like this system. My son and I have an agreement. I know his login and his password. If he ever changes the password, he is off of My Space for good. I can view his space (and do!) at any time to read his messages from his friends. Then I go to his friends' spaces and look at all the posts they have as well. The benefit of this as a mother? Now I can see which of my son's school friends are innappropriate or disrespectful! They don't know I'm looking and write whatever they choose. Fortunately, 90% of the friends David talks to are good kids who are just having fun talking. Of course, there is always a bad apple in the bunch, but now I know which ones those are.

Word has it that some children make a space that only their parents can see, and then make another one in private with inappropriate images and messages on them. My answer to that? Do what I do - keep the child's computer in the middle of the living room where everyone can see what is on the screen. Keep track of how long your child spends on it, and make it a point to look behind your child every chance you get. If your child comes home before you do and you don't trust him or her, take the keyboard with you - or even better - the dsl modem!

And the best part? I made my OWN My Space. I've got a cool pink tie dye background, videos, pictures... and the whole page opens to the song "Melt With You!" But you can't see it - sorry - I made it private!

Are you looking for a good science project that is both fun and easy? We won third place with this interesting science experiment. In this project, you turn salt water in to fresh water within a day, teaching vaporization, evaporation and condensation. The accompanying poster can depict shipwrecked sailors in need of fresh water, making the project both educational and entertaining as well.

Pour two cups of water in to a large bowl. Add three teaspoons of table salt to the water and stir. Now, place a tea cup in the middle of the bowl of water. Make sure the water level in the bowl is below the top of the tea cup. Place plastic wrap over the bowl and secure it with a large rubber band for a nice tight seal. Place a rock or similar weight on top of the plastic, directly over the tea cup. The will enable the condensation to drip down in to the tea cup. Take a picture of your experiment before the condensation begins!

Now, carefully place your bowl in direct sunlight. Do not let the salt water to spill in to the tea cup! If it is too cold outside for evaporation to occur, bring your bowl in and place it on a heater, clothes dryer or other warm and safe source. Check your bowl the next day and take a picture of it for your presentation. If there is a lot of condensation on the plastic, gently tap the weight on top of the plastic, causing the condensation to flow downwards and in to the tea cup.

Carefully remove the plastic wrap and get ready for the taste test! First, taste the water in the large bowl. Salty! With a different spoon, taste the water in the tea cup. Amazingly, the water is fresh - not a single trace of salt!

This experiement demonstrates a few things. When you add salt (solute) to water (solvent) they become a solution. The solar (or other) heat causes the water to evaporate in to a gas. Since the salt is heavier than the water, the salt remains in the bottom of the bowl. The evaporated water then cools, turning back into its original form, resulting in condensation on top of the plastic. This fresh water then runs down the plastic and drips in to the tea cup.