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Experts often tout back exercise as the best way to manage pain. But many people don't know where to start. How can you get your back strong without hurting it in the process?
First, get your doctor's okay to exercise. Also, seeing a licensed physical therapist may get you started exercising in a way that is safe and effective for your back. After that, the key is to approach gently, work at your level of strength and flexibility and choose moves that are known to have beneficial effects on back health.
Here is a beginner's back exercise routine often given to back pain patients.
1. Arm Overhead Upper Back Stretch and Core Strengthener
This simple movement is more than a stretch. Concentrate on keeping your rib cage stationary as you raise your arms, and you'll work your upper core muscles.
Lie down on your back. Bend your knees and put your feet flat on the floor. Your arms should be down by your side. Gently reach your fingertips away from your head and slide your shoulders down your back. Try to keep the front of your shoulders wide as you reach.
Lift your arms slowly until they are all the way over (or as far as you can go). As you move your arms, keep the ribs in the same position as they were when you started. This is what will strengthen your core. Bring your arms back down slowly.
2. Pelvic Tilts
Often the first exercise taught to back pain patients in physical therapy, pelvic tilts get your spine moving.
Lie on the floor with your knees bent and feet flat. Initiate the pelvic tilt movement as you exhale. Tilt the bottom of your pelvis toward your head. This part of the action will likely result in a slight rounding of your low back. Next, inhale and tilt the bottom of your pelvis away from your head. This part of the movement most likely will result in a slight back arch.
NOTE: This is not about forcing your back into position. Check your tension as you do the pelvic tilts. Putting too much effort into the action may negate the exercise's benefits.
3. Ab Crunches and Ab Curls
The abdominal crunch is just about the most basic stomach exercise you can do.
Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor. Your arms should be straight down by your side. Tuck your chin in toward your neck. Slowly lift your head and shoulders up off the floor. Hold the position - but not your breath - for a slow count of 5.
Slowly reverse what you just did. First, gently bring your upper back down, next your shoulders and finally your head. Keep your stomach pulled in as you lower.
You can cross your arms in front of your body, put your hands behind your head (elbows bent), and/or lift your head and shoulders off the floor for more challenge.
4. Oblique Abdominal Crunch
This beginner exercise involves an ab crunch combined with a rotational movement of the shoulder.
Lie on your back. Bend your knees and place your feet flat on the floor. Your arms should be down by your side. Tuck your chin in toward your chest slightly. Inhale, then exhale and curl your head, neck and left shoulder off the floor. Aim your left shoulder toward your right hip bone as you lift. Stay up there for a count of 5. Keep breathing!
Come back down slowly as you exhale. Bring your shoulder back first, then your neck and finally your head.
The obliques enable you to twist and tilt your spine, and they help stabilize the core.
5. Glute Bridge
If you are interested in strengthening your back, a key lower back exercise to include in your routine is the abdominal bridge. Here's how to perform this important core strengthener.
Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor. Your arms should be straight down by your side. They'll stay that way throughout the exercise. Press your feet into the floor and lift your posterior up. At first, taking your hips high is not as important as doing the exercise with good technique. Stay up for one inhale. Then exhale and lower your body back to the ground.
Repeat several times. Each time, try to go a little higher and stay up a little longer. (Remember to keep breathing!
6. Leg Extension
Core strengthening exercise programs almost always include some type of leg extension work. Leg extension exercises work your abdominals, especially the transverse abdominal, which helps stabilize your back.
Lie on your back. Bend your knees and place your feet flat on the floor. Your arms should be down by your sides at first.
Leaving one foot on the floor, flex the other leg toward your body. Slowly place the bent leg back down on the floor. Repeat with the other leg.
Progress this exercise by lifting the other leg up before you finish placing the bent leg back on the floor. As you get stronger, you can put your hands behind your head with your elbows bent. For even more challenge, lift your head and shoulders off the floor.
7. Quadriped Back Stretch
The quadriped back stretch is done in a hands and knees position. Position yourself on "all fours" with your knees directly under your hips and your wrists directly under your shoulders. Gently alternate between arching your back and rounding it. Coordinate your breathing: When you inhale, arch your spine, and when you exhale, round it.
The quadruped back stretch targets your abdominal and back muscles.
8. Bird Dog Exercise
In the bird dog exercise, form is paramount. To keep your form, pay attention to your trunk movements. The actions of leg and/or arm lifting may "tempt" your core to waiver. Don't let it. Keeping good form is what strengthens the core muscles.
Get onto your hands and knees. Inhale and, lift your right arm. Remember, keep your trunk where it is. Exhale, slowly set your arm back down. Repeat with the left arm.
Next, try lifting your right leg as you inhale. Again, keep your trunk steady. Legs are heavier than arms, so this may be more challenging, particularly at the moment your leg first touches the floor. Repeat with the other leg.
The most advanced version of the bird dog is to lift opposite arm and leg at the same time.
9. Prone Press Up For Back Extension
Exercises that take place in the prone position and challenge back muscles may not be for you if you have spinal arthritis or facet joint problems. If you are unsure as to whether exercising in the prone position is right for you, consult your doctor before trying this.
Lie prone and place your forehead on the floor with forearms on the floor beside you.
Exhale and push your trunk up by pressing onto your forearms. Come to rest on your forearms with elbows bent. If you're strong enough, try pressing all the way up. Hold the position for between 5 to 30 seconds. Slowly lower yourself down to the start position.
Repeat this back extension sequence 3-5 times.
10. Back Twist
Lie on your back. Bend your knees and place your feet flat on the floor, and your arms extended out to the side. Allow your knees to drop gently to your right.
Stay in this position and just breathe. You'll likely feel the stretch. Enjoy! Turn your head in the other direction and look at your hand. To return to the start position, bring either your head back first, or your hips and legs first. Try to use your pelvis to leverage the weight of your legs, rather than the other way around. This gives you extra strengthening work in your oblique abdominal muscles.
Repeat the back twist 3 to 5 times to start. Over time, you can build up the number of reps you do.


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The Covington Public Library will present a ragtime music program Thursday at St. Joseph's Parish Hall. A pre-concert wine-and-cheese tasting will kick off the event at 7 p.m.
"Fall in Love with the Music of the Ragtime Era" will feature pianist Deborrah Wyndham in concert.
Tickets are $7, and may be pre-purchased at the library. Seating is limited.
Special guest Sue Holmes will be honored during the event for 16 years of service to the Covington-Veedersburg Public Library board of trustees.

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Kent State University at Tuscarawas will host the state-wide college financial aid event "College Goal Sunday" (CGS) on Feb. 9, 2014 at 2 p.m. The free event, presented by the Ohio Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (OASFAA) and endorsed by the Ohio Board of Regents, assists students and parents with completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The FAFSA is the federal application that is required to receive federal financial aid including the Federal Pell Grant and student loans as well as the need-based state grants.
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I have often been called a "Cassandra" by my critics. They don't mean the term as a compliment. In the popular mind, the mythical prophetess was a predictor of doom and gloom, meaning that by hurling that term at me, my critics are accusing me of unwarranted alarmism.
But Cassandra's pessimism was only part of the story: Cassandra predicted catastrophe. But her curse was that she was right—but nobody believed her. So yes, I plead guilty to being a Cassandra!
Case in point: Each year the Center for Bioethics and Culture asks me to issue predictions for the next year's developments in bioethics. What I foresaw hurt my eyes and my heart, but a prophet must be honest.
My primary prediction involved the ultimate success of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. The landmark law faced two mortal threats to its existence as last year began. First, the United States Supreme Court would rule on its constitutionality. Second, if the Senate turned Republican and President Obama lost his bid for reelection, the new government would almost surely repeal the ACA, or at the very least, substantially replace most of its offensive provisions.
But "Wesleyandra" saw through the mists of time and foresaw that the quest was futile. I noted that the conflict was actually between "law"—e.g., "the government does not have the constitutional authority to force Americans to buy anything"—and policy—unless all are required to buy insurance, people "will wait until they are sick before purchasing insurance, which would collapse the system." When rule of law conflicts with what the ruling class considers proper policy, the rule of law tends to lose. Here's what I wrote about the then pending Supreme Court ruling:
The Supreme Court has vastly expanded the power of the federal government since the 1930s. In so doing, the justices have often based their decisions as much on policy as on law—and then fashioned legal justifications to back up their decisions (which, in turn, become springboards for further federal expansion). Some call this phenomenon "judicial legislation," but we won't get into that here. Moreover, the justices generally come from what is sometimes called the "ruling class,"—people who graduated Yale, Harvard, Princeton, etc.--people who have faith in "experts" and technocratic solutions to societal problems. The rulings of the Court on controversial social and political issues often reflect the views of this subset of Americans more than that of the general population (not that the opinions of either should be relevant). While polls generally show a majority of Americans opposing Obamacare, the ruling class tends to support it.
I then predicted: "With the above in mind, I believe the majority of the Supreme Court will rule that Obamacare's purposes are laudable, that universal coverage is equitable and necessary for the country's future, and that since the mandate is a necessary element of making the new law work, it is constitutional. That may sound like bootstrapping, but there it is."
And so it came to pass. Justice John Roberts wrote an utterly incoherent ruling upholding the law. Why do I say "incoherent?"
Having predicted that the Supreme Court would find a way to disregard the unconstitutionality of Obamacare—although even I couldn't have predicted that the same law would be both a tax and not a tax—I next predicted that the election would "not have sufficient electoral success to repeal the law legislatively in 2013:" An understatement, wouldn't you agree?
But here's the worst part: I saw the Supreme Court ruling as breaking the back of the Obamacare resistance:
With the Supreme Court legally validating Obamacare, the law will become a huge political issue in the 2012 election. But even though majorities of people oppose the law currently, this will not redound to President Obama's substantial detriment. To the contrary, people like a winner. Besides, many people today believe that what is "legal" is also "right." Thus, the Supreme Court's ruling will improve the law's popularity, or at the very least, make people resigned to an Obamacare future.
And that has happened too. Indeed, after the election, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R- OH) conceded that Obamacare "is the law of the land." As far as I can see, organized political opposition to the law has pretty much degenerated into discontented muttering.
Lest I be accused of unremitting pessimism, I did have one thing wrong, well not wrong, exactly, but as close as I usually get. Massachusetts voters were asked to legalize physician-assisted suicide on the November ballot. Here's what I predicted:
Massachusetts Voters Will Vote Yes to Legalize Assisted Suicide. (Some of my anti assisted suicide colleagues will be angry at me for this prediction, stating we must always keep a positive face. I argue that the MA initiative can be beaten, but it will require opponents to pull out every stop. Let this prediction alarm us into a maximum effort.)
Note in my defense that I said the initiative was beatable if "opponents pulled out every stop." And that's exactly what happened, resulting in a crucial defeat for assisted suicide, 51-49%. Here's why the proposal failed:
Some may be asking, "Why should I care what happens in bioethics?" As I have written widely—including here at tothesource—the field has generally abandoned the sanctity/equality of human life ethic that proclaims the equal inherent moral worth of all human beings. Indeed, believers in what I call bioethics ideology, reject the very notion that there is anything "special" per se about being a human being.
If I am right about that—and I am—it is important to see the bioethical agendas coming our way before they actually arrive so steps can be taken to thwart them. So, I will continue to play the part of Cassandra in the ultimate hope that I will one day be believed, resulting in concerted political and cultural action to prove me wrong.


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Although not the magnitude of the , there was some minor tree and property damage after squall line of thunderstorms swept through early Tuesday morning.
Wind gusts of up to 58mph were reported in Brems, IN. The Chicago Weather Center blog reported that the storm traveled 1,000 miles in 19 hours.
Oak Lawn Village Manager Larry Deetjen said there were some trees down and power outages in the village.
"Some portable generators were delivered to medical needs households and ComEd was alerted," Deetjen said by email.
Readers posted photos of Tuesday' storm damage on the Oak Lawn Patch Facebook page.
The sign at 104th Street and Cicero Avenue was knocked down by the wind. Downed trees near 108th Street and Kenneth Avenue were also reported.
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Triple-digit temperatures are expected to return on Wednesday. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for Oak Lawn and the Chicago region, with 101-degree temperatures in the forecast.
Deetjen said the village's cooling centers would be open on Wednesday.
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Bush is not a conservative. He's a Christianist in social policy; and a left-liberal on entitlements.
As Christian Democrats we to want help build a society where people are willing and able to care for each other and where the weaker ones are looked after. Our aim is that initiative and enterprise in our society are rewarded. We hold up the family as the basic unit of our country but we do not forget those who live alone.[...]We regard our social security, health care, education and experience as common capital on which we cannot compromise. Everyone, regardless of wealth, must have adequate and high-quality basic services available without long queues. We must ensure that local authorities have the essential prerequisites to maintain central basic services.
Why did he sign the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act? He clearly stated that he thought the law was unconstitutional, but he signed it anyway. Now our right to political free speech is clearly under assault.Why has non-defense related government spending risen so fast during his Administration? Why did he set all-time records for government spending increases during the first three years of his presidency? Why did he team up with Ted Kennedy to double spending on the Department of Education, a Department Republicans had pledged to eliminate six years before he was elected. The spending hasn't helped. The quality of education has steadily decreased during the past six years.Why hasn't he spoken out forcefully against the Kelo v. New London decision from the Supreme Court and the wholesale assault on the concept of private property rights that is ongoing in this country today? How could it possibly be that he hasn't found one single bill worthy of a presidential veto during the past five years? Is this an indication that over the past five years the Congress of the United States hasn't passed one single solitary piece of legislation that George Bush considered to be contrary to the principles of our Constitution, or excessive in any way?How in the wide, wide world of sports did he get talked into this obscene prescription drug program for wizened citizens?What's the deal with tax reform? The president appoints a fancy panel to study our tax system, proposals for reform, and come up with a plan for a complete overhaul. What does the panel come up with? A virtual repeat of the 1986 tax reform act.
Perhaps a return to minority status followed by a confrontation with Democratic plans to expand government even further will revive the notion of limited government.
Otherwise, if the Republican Party retains the majority for much longer with the political incentives that inevitably follow permanent campaigns, I suspect the political frame will have shifted permanently to the Left.
You mean this hasn't happened already? When Republicans can only win elections by acting like Democrats, I'd say the frame was "permanently" shifted quite some time ago.
Of course, all thats makes the ASSUMPTION that the small government conservatives are the majority or plurality
I get tired of the IMPLIED belief that QandO and it's readers are the majority.
Lastly, you ASSUME that if the Republicans lose in '06, that they will come a'running back to your position(s).
So rather than pull for defeat how about pulling for a victory and then changing the Party's orientation?
Rather than complain, you need to convert...
What if tax cuts don't get overcome by future profligate spending?
"At what point do libertarians say that government programs are O.K. because they dont cost the taxpayer hardly anything?"
No. I think that a minority Republican Party will shift to "opposition", rather than enabling. Opposition, after all, being the job of the opposing party. I think that would give we limitedgov types more leverage within the Party, but I have no delusion that we'll "take over" the party to the exclusion of the social cons.
Winning parties have little incentive to change. Losing parties — like the Democrats after McGovern's loss, for example — do.
And divided government is NOT good. It means very little happens... in your world that means something, but as someone here said of the Rothbardians, "They were so busy being anti-state they forgot they were supposed to be pro-liberty." you're so busy trying to stop government action that you forget that your programs require POSITIVE action by government... a divided and grid-locked government doesn't enact libertarian reforms, it just taxes at the current rate and spends at the curent rate.
But for the moment you don't believe in that portion of their platform(s) do you? And you'll note that the war on individualism DOES COME FROM THE LEFT, who practices "Identity Politics?"
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Leathem, Kevin Wolhuter (2008) Locating the border : the development of the framing device in Western art. Masters thesis, Rhodes University.
A frame can be understood to act as something both complementary and even intrinsic to the work it houses. But the frame also acts as more than just a physical object. It serves as a guiding principle, perhaps even a controlling device, in the sense that it provides a context for the work as well as informing the way in which a work is read. Acting with the image it surrounds, it links the artwork to the surrounding space as well as the viewer. In this study, I explore these various functions and effects by providing an overview of framing devices that have been used by artists in the West as well as referring to guiding principles that some museums in South Africa have used when making choices about the ways in which they frame works in their collections. This examination provides a context for my paintings. Based on photographs of the walls of various small galleries in the Eastern Cape, my works take as their subject the notion of the 'frame' as both a physical object and the marker of a historically contextualized viewpoint.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta on Thursday warned Americans to avoid nonessential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone because of the deadly Ebola outbreak ravaging the West African nations. But American embassies in those countries will remain open for now.
"We do not have any plans at this time to reduce embassy staff at any of these areas. We will continue to monitor the situation," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Thursday during a daily press briefing.
The Peace Corps on Wednesday removed more than 300 volunteers from the countries as the outbreak spread.
Harf also said the U.S. was working on providing assistance to help bring infected Americans back home. Two stricken Americans were listed as being in "stable but grave" condition in Liberia as of Thursday. Leone's top doctor who treated Ebola patients died earlier from the disease.
The CDC is sending 50 disease control experts in the next 30 days to work on infection control, reporting and...Read more
A key roadway near the western entrance to Yosemite National Park that was closed because of the El Portal fire has reopened to traffic.
With the reopening of Big Oak Flat Road between Crane Flat and El Portal Road on Wednesday, all roads inside the park are accessible.
However, park officials warn that road closures "may change at any time" and advise visitors to check on current conditions by calling (209) 372-0200.
Crane Flat, Bridalveil Creek and Yosemite Creek campgrounds remained closed because of the fire, which as of late Wednesday was just 34% contained. The blaze, which is also burning in the Stanislaus National Forest, began Saturday and covers about 3,900 acres, according to a park statement.
Smoke is a problem throughout the park. "Park visitors are urged to use caution while driving in the park due to decreased visibility," the statement says. Officials canceled an apple-picking event in Yosemite Valley that had been set for Wednesday.
Yosemite logged more than 3,000...Read more
SeaPort Airlines, a small Oregon-based airline that serves routes in nine states, will begin service between Burbank Bob Hope Airport (BUR) and San Diego International Airport (SAN) starting in October. The trip takes 65 minutes on Cessna planes that each hold just nine passengers.
"There's a lot of interest between those two cities," airline Executive Vice President Timothy Sieber said Wednesday. He says travelers may use the flights to go to ballgames or an entertainment event.
SeaPort is the only airline linking the two cities with nonstop service. Their Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft fly low — around 9,000 feet, so you can shoot cool videos with your phone — in and out of the commuter terminal at San Diego's airport.
The airline will operate weekday flights from Burbank at 7:30 a.m., 11:35 a.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Return flights from San Diego will operate weekdays at 6:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. The airline also offers limited service on weekends.
SeaPort already...Read more
Health inspectors in Hawaii are taking new steps to ensure visitors don't get sick from the food they eat.
The state's Department of Health has begun posting new color-coded placards to let customers know of potential risks before they ever look at a menu.
The first placards will be found on Oahu, where inspectors monitor 6,000 businesses that serve food. The program will eventually extend to all 10,000 food establishments statewide.
A green card is reserved for eateries at which inspectors uncover no more than one serious violation of health standards. Businesses with two or more violations must post a yellow card. When an inspector finds enough violations to force immediate closure, a red card will be posted.
It's not just restaurants that will have to display the placards. The law, enacted earlier this year, also applies to convenience stores, food trucks, markets and even push carts.
"The new food-safety rules let consumers know which food establishments have violations and may...Read more
The Las Vegas Strip welcomed its first bitcoin ATM on Wednesday, but that doesn't mean visitors will necessarily find it easy to use the virtual currency.
The new ATM launched inside the Viva Vegas souvenir shop near Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue, across the street from CityCenter.
Chris McAlary of Coin Cloud, the company that operates the Robocoin machine, said its most practical purpose will be to fund the vacations of visitors from countries such as China, which has strict currency controls.
"It's very difficult for the average Chinese person to transfer money out of China," he told me. "You can store your money on the cloud and then withdraw it on demand from our machine."
Promoters of bitcoin often boast of its ability to replace cash. Users who deposit money into an online account can pay for purchases by scanning their smartphones at participating businesses.
There's a hitch, though: Few places in Las Vegas accept bitcoin.
"I'm not aware of any on the Strip," McAlary...Read more
The Utah Symphony next month will bring its music to the state's Mighty 5 national parks: Capitol Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, Bryce Canyon and Zion.
As a prelude to the symphony's 75th anniversary celebration next year, the full orchestra will perform in the parks the nights of Aug. 12, 14, 15 and 16; the concert on Aug. 14 will take place at Red Cliffs Lodge in Moab, near Arches and Canyonlands.
Programs will begin at 8 p.m. and include music from Dvorak's "From the New World" Symphony No. 9; the orchestral suite from Bizet's "Carmen"; and several pieces by George Gershwin.
Utah native Celena Shafer, a soprano who sings with the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera, also will perform.
Besides the full-orchestra concerts, starting Aug. 11, there will be evening chamber music programs, performed by the Utah Symphony's brass and string ensembles and by Aspen Winds.
Educational activities--such as demonstrations of bird songs and lessons on reproducing them--also will be offered at the various...Read more
What better time for a prayer for peace. The 2014 Trails and Vistas World Concert next month on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe brings together musical and performance artists in a show dedicated to peace and harmony.
"This is about connecting to people and connecting to the land," says Nancy Tieken Lopez, founder of the nonprofit Trails and Vistas. The organization hosts musical events where guests walk on trails in the woods and are entertained along the way. This year's World Concert on Sept. 6 leaves the trails for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival outdoor stage at Sand Harbor State Park south of Incline Village.
It kicks off with a duet by violinist Scarlet Rivera and flutist Ann Licater. Rivera will be performing on what's called the "violin of peace" made by global activist Patrick McCollum. The instrument was created from almost 100 different pieces of wood, including some from a tribe in Africa that had resolved a conflict with another tribe, a statement about the concert says...Read more
Manhattan is known for its pricey hotels, but in August a small Long Island town claimed the title as most expensive New York hotel destination.
Travel booking site NewYorkHotels.org released a survey Tuesday that confirms what New York City locals already know: hotels in Montauk and the Hamptons can get pretty pricey in summer. The website compared the cost of the cheapest room at hotels and inns rated three stars or better throughout the state.
It came up with 20 destinations and room costs between Aug. 1 and 31.
Visitors to Montauk, near the eastern tip of Long Island, should be prepared to spend $342 a night. Neighboring East Hampton comes in second at an average of $332 a night.
The rest of the 10 most expensive New York digs during August are in:
3. Saratoga Springs, $312
4. Southampton, $295
5. Greenport, $264
6. Cooperstown, $184, where the Baseball Hall of Fame turned 75 this year
7. Niagara Falls, $163
8. New York City, $153
9. Geneva, $143
10. Ithaca, $142
And the cheapest places...Read more
You can get acquainted with various sea creatures without ever traveling to Hawaii or the Caribbean—or even getting wet, for that matter. In fact, it's happening in desert Las Vegas.
The Animal Encounters program at Mandalay Bay's Shark Reef Aquarium lets guests feed sea turtles, stingrays and even sharks during three different experiences.
Participants in the "Sea Turtle Feed" get the opportunity to meet OD, a 320-pound creature that has been living in Las Vegas since his relocation last summer from the Turtle Hospital in the Florida Keys.
After a behind-the-scenes tour, guests make a visit to the Shark Reef kitchen to stock up on vittles. Realizing it's feeding time, OD and the other sea turtles eagerly float to the top of Shipwreck Exhibit, where lunch is served.
The experience takes place at 12:45 p.m. Sundays-Fridays. Tickets cost $70 a person and participants must be at least 13 years old.
Guests who would rather schmooze with stingrays arrive at 9:15 a.m. daily for a VIP tour...Read more
Feel free to snub the hotel lobby staff. Hilton Worldwide hotels announced a plan that by year's end will allow guests to use mobile devices to check in, choose the room they want and check out — all without any human contact.
This won't all happen at once, but the Virginia-based company that operates more than 4,000 properties in 80 countries aims to roll out the technology to make the process seamless.
"We analyzed data and feedback from more than 40 million HHonors [loyalty club] members, as well as guest surveys, social media posts and review sites, and it's clear that guests want greater choice and control," Geraldine Calpin, senior vice president and global head of digital said in a statement this week.
Here's how it works: From 6 a.m. on the day before your reservation, you'll be able to browse floor plans or a list of available rooms to choose the one you want. Photos will accompany listings too. Once you make a selection, you can check in, make special requests or upgrades and...Read more
Year in and year out, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood is the best haunted theme park event in Southern California and quite possibly the country.
For that reason, I hold Universal Studios to a higher standard when the movie theme park unveils its new lineup of haunted mazes and scare zones each season.
Known for its always fresh and ever-changing collection of movie studio-quality mazes, I find it curious that Horror Nights has decided to bring back The Walking Dead as the marquee maze for the third straight year.
Even though the park plans to update the maze with new scares from the latest season of the Emmy-winning AMC television show, I can't help feeling I've seen this all before.
We'll have to wait until Sept. 19 when the month-long Horror Nights event debuts to see just how different this year's zombie apocalypse is from last year's walker infestation.
There's no doubt the hit show has pulled in record-setting crowds over the past couple of seasons, turning...Read more
About 20 minutes into the 1984 movie "Purple Rain" we find The Kid, played by Prince, standing in front of Apollonia (played by Apollonia Kotero), a budding singer, near the embankment of a lake. After Apollonia asks Prince for career help, he says that she first has to pass the initiation.
"What initiation?" she asks.
"For starters, you have to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka."
Apollonia looks to her right, considering the challenge. A few seconds later, she's disrobing. Just as she plunges into the water, Prince says, "Hey, wait a minute! That's n—"
But it was too late. When she emerges from her "purification," climbing out of the lake, Prince, a sly grin on his face, says, "That ain't Lake Minnetonka."
I arrived in Minneapolis on a seasonably cold Wednesday to take the proverbial plunge into Prince's world. Specifically, I was putting myself on a self-guided "Purple Rain" tour of the city that Prince helped put on the music map.
There was no better time to...Read more


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A local 12-year-old girl received graphic and disgusting text messages from someone she may not even know-- and she doesn't even have a cell phone.
A popular app on her iPod allowed the messages to get through, but there are things parents can do to prevent it from happening to their kids.
First and foremost, experts say, you have to keep up with the technology, and know what your kids are using.
The mom who contacted FOX 29 Thursday thought she had it under control. She took precautions, but she didn't realize how risky some apps could be until she read the text messages someone sent her daughter.
One said, "I want to f*** you right now." Another read, "Did you get in the shower? I'm watching you."
The messages sent a chill through her mother, whose identity we're protecting. The mother said after she read the texts, she was "terrified that my daughter's not safe."
Whoever sent them used an app called "Pinger" to text the messages from someone else's cell phone number. Pinger is just one of many such app's.
Rob D'Ovidio, a professor of criminal justice who specializes in high tech at Drexel University, searched the web and found them easily.
"I got a handful of them, some called 'Fake Me Out,' others called 'Funny Looker.'" Many of the app's are free. "With these anonymous services you have the ability to cover your true identity," D'Ovidio explained.
The mother of the sixth grader who received the disturbing texts thought she had been protecting her daughter: she wouldn't let her have a cell phone. But she did buy her an iPod. She didn't realize the app's could be just as risky.
"You can get an iPod Touch and really mimic the functionality of a smart phone with that, from everything from making phone calls to sending text messages to sending multi-media messages," D'Ovidio said.
So what's a parent supposed to do? Professor D'Ovidio has strict rules for his young kids.
"They can't download an app without our permission. I actually have to go in and do it." And D'Ovidio keeps close track of the friends his daughter is allowed to text. "When she comes to us and says, I want to send a message to one of my other friends, we will only add that individual's name if we know who that person is."
Trying to control content on your child's device after the fact may be too late. The texter who wrote the girl made that clear when her mother tried to block future texts. "She said, you think you're slick? Well, you keep blocking, I'm gonna keep changing my number." Those app's allow the sender to keep using different phone numbers and identities, so blocking just one number won't work.
If you do download an app for your child, you want to check the privacy guidelines to ensure that the app maker is storing the information it's collecting. That will enable you can trace the source of a problem, if one arises.
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Just when I think I've seen all the different makeovers and revamps out there, someone else knocks my socks off. Julie from Less Than perfect Life of Bliss took an old dated coffee table, covered sections in metal, revamped with paint and came up with this beautiful and unique transformation.
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Comscore has posted their latest mobile market share and usage findings for the United States. Here are some highlights and some of our calculations based on their report. The report is based on numbers for the last quarter of 2009 from Oct 2009 to January 2010.
- 234 million people over the age of 13 have a mobile phone in America
- 42.7 million of these are smartphone users (18% of mobile subscribers)
- 4.5% of mobile phone subscribers in the US have an iPhone (10.7 million people). Growth flat at 1.2% / year.
- RIM's Blackberry still holds 47% of the total US smartphone market share (18.4 million people). Still growing at 7% / year
- Microsoft lost 4% smartphone marketshare in the quarter, Palm lost 2.1%
- Google Android is growing quickly at 4.3% for the quarter, 17.2% annualized
A couple of interesting things here. First, the iconic Apple iPhone appears to have lost it's projectile growth pattern, in the US anyway (and according to the report). What will they do to boost growth? A few years ago they were the only game in town with the best smartphone by far. Now, there are dozens of "iPhone killers".
Next, interesting that RIM is still holding on. Americans love their Blackberries. While popular in the USA, RIM is not so popular in most of the rest of the world where unlocked phones, SIM card / carrier portability and open data are more the norm. With their closed data model, running all email, data and messaging exclusively through their servers, the only benefit is for companies who need locked down data and phones. This along with the very high "blackberry data plans" is not favorable for consumers.
The newcomer, Google Android. Android gains 4.3% marketshare in the quarter, 17.2% annualized. While they only have 3 million mobile users in the USA, we think they are poised for even more growth than this annualized projection. There are loads and loads of new Android handsets (and tablets and other devices) about to hit the market through the rest of 2010. They have decent (i.e. good enough) to good apps and store, the UI and user experience is good, hardware is generally good and there will be a lot of choices and price points for consumers. Android is getting harder to ignore. Google has the potential here to take over huge portions of the current smartphone market.
The big opportunity here is not in the current 18% that already have a smartphone. The big story is those that don't have a smartphone yet. In less than 5 years we think that a large portion of the regular mobile phone users shift to being smartphone users. With mobile technology improvements, user experience getting better and prices getting cheaper, there will be a huge shift with tens of millions of new smartphone users in the USA alone.
Here is the smartphone stats from Comscore
Comscore is also reporting mobile content usage patterns. Nothing surprising here, there are more smartphones, better phones and more mobiles connected to the Internet. This means more phone usage. Most all categories of usage show growth, notably social networking usage leading the pack. Here is the chart on mobile smartphone usage from Comscore.


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By The Nature Conservancy
In 2008 and 2009, more than 90 percent of Iowa's state legislators overwhelmingly approved legislation that would establish a constitutionally protected Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund. The Nature Conservancy is chairing Iowa's Water and Land Legacy, a coalition comprised of more than 80 diverse organizations working to pass this amendment.
Securing this funding for natural resources will provide benefits across Iowa, like clean water, soil conservation, increased tourism and enhanced outdoor recreation opportunities. In order to secure constitutional protection, legislation was required to pass the House and Senate in two consecutive legislatures.
The proposed constitutional amendment will now appear on the ballot to be voted by the citizens of Iowa in the November 2010 general election. If voters approve the proposal, funding for the trust fund would begin the next time the Iowa Legislature approves a sales tax increase
In 2006, the Governor of Iowa established a Sustainable Natural Resources Funding Advisory Committee to review and research funding needs and mechanisms. This committee concluded that an additional $150 million per year, strategically used at state and local levels, would meet current needs. The committee recommended a 3/8 of 1 percent increase in the state sales tax.
The following would receive proposed funding:
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Protection and enhancement of Iowa's natural resources and outdoor recreation opportunities benefits current and future generations of Iowans by: increasing tourism and other economic benefits, attracting and retaining residents, businesses and workforce, improving water quality and protecting farm land.
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Today marks the beginning of Holy Week. While there are sure to be plenty of activities at local churches throughout the community, the East Greenwich Historic Preservation Society is hoting a more secular activity sure to delight kids of all backgrounds.
The Preservation Society's 9th annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held on Saturday, April 7, beginning at 10 am at the Thomas Casey Greene home at 40 Old Forge Road, Potowomut.
Children up to age 7 are invited to hunt for candy-filled eggs on the grounds of this historic home, the birthplace of Revolutionary War hero Nathaniel Greene.
There will be two divisions for the hunt, for younger and older children. The Easter Bunny is expected to appear for photo opportunities and the Preservation Society will provide collection bags and refreshments. The event is free, but donations are welcome. For more information, call 885-0315 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The following information was supplied by the St. Charles Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
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- At N. Main Street on Feb. 13, a subject threw a chair at two ceiling fans, destroying the fans and light fixtures. The chair was also destroyed from being thrown.
Driving While Intoxicated
- A driver was arrested for a DWI on Feb. 13 at N. Kingshighway.
- Police responded to an attempted stealing from an auto in the 2700 blk. of Treadway on Feb. 13.
- Six $1 bills were taken from a motor vehicle on Feb. 12 at Sun Lake Drive.
- An offender attempted a fraudulent return of property inside the Walmart store on Feb. 13.
- A subject entered the store at Veterans Memorial Parkway on Jan. 19. The subject went directly to electronics and selected several items. Subject then took the items to the return counter and attempted to return them without a receipt. The return was denied and the subject left the store with the items.
- At Country Club Road two cans of Monster Energy Drink were stolen.
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- A student was arrested after causing a disturbance in the lunch room screaming and yelling at another student and refusing direction from SRO and Principal. The incident occurred at N. Kingshighway Street on Feb. 13.
- At Boones Lick Road on Feb. 13 an X-Box and a laptop computer, valued at $350, were stolen.
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A Salem man was charged with assaulting a police officer following a disturbance at a Manchester hotel on Sunday.
Around 2 a.m. Sunday, Manchester Police responded to the Holiday Inn Express at 1298 South Porter St. for a reported disturbance. Upon arrival, they met with the clerk at the front desk, who told police that a number of hotel guests had complained that a group of people who had rented a second floor room were causing a disturbance and keeping everyone awake.
Police made contact with four people in the room and told them they had to leave. Krista Pare, 27, of Derry and Justin Lavoie, 29, of Londonderry refused to quiet down and leave the hotel as requested and were subsequently arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
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CHAMPAIGN – The Internal Revenue Service office in Champaign will be open March 21 to help people with tax questions.
The office at 310 W. Church St., C, will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day – a Saturday – as will the IRS offices in Decatur and Springfield.
CHAMPAIGN – To accommodate folks living longer, the United States must "get people to save more, work longer and retire less," a noted expert on retirement income said.
Fewer than a third of people have figured out how much they need to save for retirement, said Olivia Mitchell, director of the Pension Research Council at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.
Post-its dot Lisa Hettinger's desk, a neon rainbow covering about 2 inches of 2009 travel itineraries.
While Hettinger loves to travel, the trips aren't for her. She's an owner at L & L Travel Agency in Champaign, and instead of having January downtime, she's found a stream of customers calling and e-mailing about travel plans.
CHAMPAIGN – Rebates are rampant, and now that credit markets are freeing up a bit, it may be easier to finance that new car or truck.
Area auto dealers say they've never seen rebates on some vehicles as large as they are now, and if buyers have a good credit score and history, they shouldn't have a problem getting financing.
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MONTICELLO – Bill Abbott has been selling cars for more than 40 years and says he's "never seen a time like this in our business."
But Abbott is quick to point out the auto industry isn't alone in its suffering.
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c. developed a medical condition that is expensive to treat.
In other words, your finances have become somewhat strained. You've fallen behind in your mortgage payments, or you anticipate having a tough time making those payments.
What do you do? Consider a renegotiated or modified mortgage.
Layoffs. Home foreclosures. The stock market tanking.
It seems it's all bad news, all the time, when it comes to the economy.
Time to get your finances in order.
More people are seeking help with doing so now, says Kathy Sweedler, an educator in consumer and family economics at the University of Illinois Extension.
CHAMPAIGN – If you're having financial problems, sometimes the best way to sort them out is to work with someone one-on-one.
That's the philosophy behind "Master Money Mentors," a program Champaign County Extension plans to put in place this year.
CHAMPAIGN – Debby Auble recalls feeling uneasy last May about the stock market and the economy in general.
A successful real estate broker who is president of Ward & Associates, 8 Main St., C, Auble said her unease led to an unusual decision. She pulled all of her investment money, which she said is "in six figures," out of stocks last May and put the money into safe money-market accounts and even a savings account that was paying 2.8 percent interest.
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A Chinook delivers troops to the Isle of Wight as part of a flood relief operation. Picture courtesy of David Butler.
THE military has been drafted in to assist with relief efforts on the Isle of Wight after it was pounded by severe weather.
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by Graham Harrison
18th February 2014, at 13:08:08
I think they are called military because it was a variety of forces used: Army and air force: hence military, and my son who has just returned from Afghanistan does not sit on his backside all day doing nothing, he works from 9-5 five days a week, and if he is not working he is training, and how many of the "critics" on here went out and lent a hand? exactly..put up or shut up
by nick gale
17th February 2014, at 20:46:31
I don't understand why a rifles reserve unit was flown to the island by Chinooks at great expense with four land rovers when the island has a maritime reserve unit 266 port SQN with access to trucks, heavy plant and experience in this field that could of put more man power on the ground and made more of a difference and was not called up and still has not been called up.
by carl palmer
17th February 2014, at 12:18:38
If all these sandwich fillings didn't object to a bridge or tunnel then they would have just driven over here. No need for Chinooks then would we!!!!
by Keven Ball
17th February 2014, at 11:32:11
Yes I agree with that.
by Den Young
16th February 2014, at 21:13:29
no keep it up Lee
16th February 2014, at 16:14:50
sorry Lee I don't agree, the weather was terrible here and what does somebody decide to do? lend one our most important items to another area, bet you wouldn't have thought the same if your house was flooded.
by alan naylor
16th February 2014, at 15:10:00
Cameron has decided to end this conflict once and for all . Armed forces have secured the Post office Airport and Whitelink Ferry the people on the island are finally liberated
by Russell Palin
16th February 2014, at 12:08:19
The weather is so nice today, if it were human it would have "behavioral issues" The rapid inspection of the Island by people who should have been doing the inspections all along, the military are the best storm damage engineers in the country, they go all over the world doing this.They are good at fixing things in storm damaged countries far and wide.The great thing is it will be more work than talk for once, younger certificated and regulated generation take note.....
16th February 2014, at 10:53:59
lee and if we had our pump here it would have been even better.
16th February 2014, at 09:11:42
I rang Island Roads with an enquiry last week about a road closure at St Johns Road Newport, they promised to get back, well you know the next line, im still waiting. any excuses from Island Roads please?.
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|Eastwood girls, Otsego boys win NBC cross country championships (10-12-13)
|Written by Kevin Gordon Sentinel Assistant Sports Editor
|Saturday, 12 October 2013 14:55
The Eagles — with individual champion Hannah Sponaugle and their four other scorers finishing in the top nine — easily won with 20 points.
Otsego was second with 63, edging third-place Elmwood by six points. MEET RESULTS
The boys championship was won by Otsego with 42 points, five better than runnerup Eastwood.
Otsego's Brandon Avers was the individual winner in 16:28.
In the girls race, Sponaugle dominated, winning in 18:39.
The freshman finished 17 seconds ahead of Woodmore sophomore Courtney Burner, and 30 seconds ahead of two-time defending NBC champion and senior teammate Maddie Jackson.
Three other Eagles finished in the top nine — junior Meagan Kaminski was sixth in 21:12, freshman Ashley Madaras was eighth in 21:30 and Lexi Clark was ninth in 21:42.
"We ran very well," said Eagle coach Stephanie Schneider-Sims, who is in her first season. "This is what we've been working for all season. To have your top five finish in the top nine, you can't ask for anything more than that.
"Three-peating has been our talk all year and it's a dedication to all of their hard work. They put that into their minds last spring and they knew all of the hard work they had to do over the summer, and they all did it."
Sponaugle's NBC title was her second after she won the junior high meet last fall.
"I didn't expect this kind of season at all," Sponaugle added. "I ran a lot over the summer and I've been pushing myself to stay up with the other runners. It's really nice running with (Jackson) and the other girls because it pushes all of us to improve and get faster."
Avers was impressive, too, winning in 16:28 to beat Lake senior Tyler Rickman by 19 seconds. Eastwood junior Tim Hoodlebrink was third in 17:04.
Otsego had two other runners in the top 10 — sophomore Caleb Baus was fourth in 17:10 and senior Seth Harnishfeger was seventh in 17:20.
The Knights also won the NBC meet last season, but Elmwood won the conference championship.
Last season's NBC championship was determined by points earned in the conference meet and two regular-season jamborees. The jamborees were held again this season, but weren't used to determine the NBC champion.
"I'm very proud of this group," said Otsego coach Ryan Hafner, who is in his second season. "They've set some lofty goals for the team and themselves and this is one of them. I couldn't be more pleased with the way they ran today. They packed together and ran a great race."
Avers — the overwhelming favorite — was the individual champion for the second straight season.
"I came in knowing I'd have to push myself because I knew there was a good possibility it would be me against the clock," Avers said. "Today was the win the race or I was going to be pretty upset, I wanted win again I'm happy with my race."
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The Republican National Convention could bring as much as $173 million to the Tampa Bay area economy.
That figure was comes from a report by Tampa real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle, which added that a more conservative number is $153.6 million.
"Any way you look at it, the convention is going to be a shot in the arm for Tampa Bay's economy and tourism base," Jones Lang LaSalle research analyst Stephen Siena to the Tampa Bay Times.
The estimate is based on adding together the direct spending by the RNC's Tampa Bay Host Committee and its $55 million budget, plus visitors who will collectively spend more than $85.6 million, and the security spending by the city of Tampa, which received a $50 million federal grant.
Host Committee president Ken Jones regularly says he expects $175 million or more in direct convention spending, according to the report. That will come from four sources: he host committee, the city's security grant, the $18 million that the convention itself gets from the Federal Election Commission, and $40 million to $50 million in visitor spending on hotels, meals, transportation, gifts and other purchases.
"Our numbers were based on a logical calculus and a very thoughtful deliberation about the amount of money that we believe will be spent in connection with this event," he said. "We didn't throw a dart at a board."
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John, I have my reservations about these numbers. They may not have been tabulated by throwing darts at a board, but they certainly have the whiff of some highly-manufactured evidence.
Jones Lang Lasalle seems to me to have no special insight into the type of spending being undertaken nor the manner in which these funds are being spent. I would certainly have at least double-checked with the RNC before parrotting JLL's claims.
The Tampa Bay Host Committee has to use its $55 million to put on the entire event. That involves spending on a wide variety of things, a good many of which are with dollars that do not go into the local economy. Remember too that it's still soliciting donations from wealthy donors to come up with the $55 million. It isn't there yet.
As for the dollars that Convention visitors are bringing, there's a good chance that the bulk of that will be spent locally, on lodging, food, and other consumables.
But $85 million being spent by the visitors? There are 2300 delegates, coming for a 4-day conference. Even assuming that all of them bring their spouses, and that some of them even bring family, that's definitely less than 5,000 people overall.
And this real estate agency estimates that _each_ of the 5,000 will spend over $4,000 every day of the conference? That's ludicrous.
I know two different delegates, one from New Jersey, the other from Iowa, so I just asked them their plans.
One is spending $400 in roundtrip airfare, $400 for lodging at the Rodeway Inn about 25 minutes away from the arena, and another $200 to rent a car. Add in another $250 for food and incidentals, and she'll have spent $1,250 for the whole four-day affair.
The other is traveling with her husband, and they're staying with her mother who lives in St. Pete. So they're spending about $1,000 for round-trip airfare for the both of them, but they don't have to spend anything on lodging or food. So as a couple, they'll have spent a thousand dollars over the entire four days.
I completely disbelieve the numbers thrown out by Jones Lang Lasalle.
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