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Summer Workers and Volunteers Needed at SB Zoo The Santa ...
? Santa Barbara Job Fair is Sunday, February?10
? Volunteer & Docent Information Meetings on February 2 &?9
? California Condor Nest Monitor Trainings on Feb. 18 & April?22
? FrogWatch Trainings are February 21 &?28
Zoo Job Fair ? Sunday, February 10, 3 p.m. to 5?p.m.
?Wild? summer employment for adults and teens is available at the Santa Barbara Zoo, including the award-winning Guest Experience Specialist (GES) program, as well as Special Events Hosts, Zoo Camp Counselors, Education Program Instructors, Train Conductors, and performers for the Zoo?s shows. Job seekers should attend the Zoo?s free Job Fair, held Sunday, February 10 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Zoo, 500 Ni?os Drive, Santa Barbara, just off Cabrillo Boulevard at East?Beach.
Intended to be a ?first job? for youth, GES positions are available to those as young as 14 who rotate between jobs in three areas: guest services, the restaurants and retail stores. In addition to their job duties, participants are also introduced to work ethics and basic skills, such as how to provide excellent customer service, write a resume or be in a job?interview.
Information about volunteer opportunities will also be at the Job Fair, including Zoo Camp Counselor in Training for ages 13 to 17. Several close-up Animal Encounters will also take?place.
No reservations or appointments are necessary. Parking is free for participants, who should check-in at the front gate. For more information and to download a application, visit www.sbzoo.org/about-us/employment-opportunities or contact Corinne Santini at 962-5339 ext. 108 or csantini@sbzoo.org.
Volunteer & Docent Information Meetings ? Either February 2 or 9, 10?a.m.
The Santa Barbara Zoo is looking for individuals aged 16 and up to become Zoo Docents. These volunteers help Zoo visitors connect with the animals at hands-on Discovery Stations, interpret behavior, lead tours, and even handle and display small mammals, snakes and amphibians. They also assist with children?s programs, special events, observational research and conservation activities. Docents also enjoy various social events, continuing education classes, and membership benefits. The time commitment is two hours per week for at least six months. For teens, Community Service credit is available. No previous experience for Docents is required though a love of animals and good communication skills are a?plus.
Individuals interested in becoming Zoo Docents should attend a free one-hour information meeting on either Saturday, February 2 or Saturday, February 9 at 10 a.m. at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Online applications and more information are available at www.sbzoo.org.
There is a subsequent interview, orientation and in-depth eight-week training. A one-time fee of $100 covers training, educational and reference materials, Docent vest, and nametag. For more information, contact Jessica Kam, Volunteer Coordinator at (805) 962-5339 ext. 153 or jkam@sbzoo.org.
California Condor Nest Monitoring Volunteer Training ? Both February 18 and April 22, 6:30?p.m.
The California Condor nest monitoring program has increased nest success from a five year average of 6.5% to a six year average of 64.5%. Since the program began in 2007 there have been fledging by 18 wild condor chicks! Volunteer nest monitors are needed from March through November to monitor parental care, egg and chick development, and, if they?re lucky ? the first flight of the newest member of the wild condor flock. The program is coordinated jointly by the Santa Barbara Zoo and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?(USFWS).
Volunteers work independently to drive to the field site, hike to a pre-determined observation point, watch condor nests from a distance, and record their observations using standardized protocol. Successful volunteers are able to devote a full day to condor observations to including travel to and from the remote backcountry sites and a minimum of two hours observing condors from a select location. Volunteers must observe at least twice a month. Some locations require strenuous hiking, while others are more?accessible.
Volunteers should have their own hiking equipment, a high-clearance vehicle capable of driving on rocky roads, a good sense of adventure, and a strong desire to assist in the recovery of the California?condor.
Mandatory trainings are Monday, February 18 (egg stage observing) and Monday, April 22 (chick stage observing) from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Ventura USFWS office and advance registration is required. Alternate dates may be available. For more information or to register for the trainings, email Ria Boner at?rboner@sbzoo.org.
FrogWatch Volunteer Training ? Both February 21 and 28, 6?p.m.
FrogWatch USA is a citizen science initiative to encourage nature lovers of all ages to get more involved with their local amphibians. Volunteers learn how to identify local frog and toad calls of Santa Barbara County and how to record data into an online database. From there, participants can monitor amphibian calls in the evening at any location ? from their own backyards, to urban streams, to favorite camp sites. This is an opportunity to get involved in amphibian conservation, science, and monitoring ? all while learning all about local?amphibians.
To become a FrogWatch citizen scientist, individuals must attend two trainings at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Reservations are required for the trainings held Thursday, February 21 and Thursday, February 28 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Santa Barbara Zoo. For more information or to register for the trainings, email Ria Boner at rboner@sbzoo.org. More information is available at www.sbzoo.org/conservation/frogwatch-usa.
About the Santa Barbara?Zoo
Known as one of the world?s most beautiful zoos, the Santa Barbara Zoo is located on 30 acres of botanic gardens and is home to nearly 500 individual animals in open, naturalistic habitats. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA), representing the highest level of animal care, and participates in AZA endangered species programs for Asian elephant, California condor, Channel Island fox, and Western lowland gorilla, among others. A private 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, the Santa Barbara Zoo depends on community support, not tax dollars, for operations and improvements. Visit www.sbzoo.org.
The Zoo is open daily from 10 a.m. ? 5 p.m.; general admission is $14 for adults, $10 for children?2-12
and seniors 65+, and children under 2 are free. Parking is?$6.
Santa Barbara?Zoo
The Santa Barbara Zoo will be holding its annual job fair during the month of?February.
Source: http://www.independent.com/news/2013/jan/24/summer-workers-and-volunteers-needed-sb-zoo/
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Got the Flu? Rest First, Exercise Later, Experts Say - Health News ...
January 22, 2013
TUESDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) ? Although regular exercise has been linked to a strong immune system, people with flu symptoms, such as fever, extreme tiredness, muscle aches and swollen lymph glands, should avoid physical exertion while sick and for two weeks after they recover, according to the American Council on Exercise.
With the United States battling widespread flu activity, the council issued guidelines for athletes and others who exercise regularly. Above all else, flu sufferers should get plenty of rest, the group said in a news release.
Endurance athletes, including marathon runners and triathletes, need to be extra careful, the council added. For 72 hours after a 90-minute, high-intensity endurance workout, these athletes may be vulnerable to illness. Intense workout routines temporarily elevate levels of the hormones cortisol and adrenaline, which lowers immunity, the experts explained.
For people with symptoms of the common cold, such as runny nose, headache and mild cough, moderate exercise such as walking is considered safe. The group noted, however, that it?s a good idea for people with a cold to listen to their body and reduce the intensity of their workout until their symptoms are gone.
Anyone with a cold should avoid working out at a gym or in a group environment to reduce the risk of spreading their illness to others, the council said.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides more information on seasonal flu.
Source: http://news.health.com/2013/01/22/got-the-flu-rest-first-exercise-later-experts-say/
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Greenland ice cores reveal warm climate of the past
Jan. 23, 2013 ? In the period between 130,000 and 115,000 years ago, Earth's climate was warmer than today. But how much warmer was it and what did the warming do to global sea levels? -- as we face global warming in the future, the answer to these questions is becoming very important. New research from the NEEM ice core drilling project in Greenland shows that the period was warmer than previously thought. The international research project is led by researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and the very important results are published in the scientific journal, Nature.
In the last millions years Earth's climate has alternated between ice ages lasting about 100,000 years and interglacial periods of 10,000 to 15,000 years. The new results from the NEEM ice core drilling project in northwest Greenland, led by the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen show that the climate in Greenland was around 8 degrees C warmer than today during the last interglacial period, the Eemian period, 130,000 to 115,000 thousand years ago.
"Even though the warm Eemian period was a period when the oceans were four to eight meters higher than today, the ice sheet in northwest Greenland was only a few hundred meters lower than the current level, which indicates that the contribution from the Greenland ice sheet was less than half the total sea-level rise during that period," says Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and leader of the NEEM-project.
Past reveals knowledge about the climate
The North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project or NEEM, led by the Niels Bohr Institute, is an international project with participants from 14 countries. After four years of deep drilling, the team has drilled ice cores through the more than 2.5 kilometer thick ice sheet. The ice is a stack of layer upon layer of annual snow fall which never melts away, and as the layers gradually sink, the snow is compresses into ice. This gives thousands of annual ice layers that, like tree rings, can tell us about variations in past climate from year to year.
The ice cores are examined in laboratories with a series of analyses that reveal past climate. The content of the heavy oxygen isotope O18 in the ice cores tells us about the temperature in clouds when the snow fell, and thus of the climate of the past. The air bubbles in the ice are also examined. The air bubbles are samples of the ancient atmosphere encased in the ice and they provide knowledge about the air composition of the atmosphere during past climates.
Past global warming
The researchers have obtained the first complete ice core record from the entire previous interglacial period, the Eemian, and with the detailed studies have been able to recreate the annual temperatures -- almost 130,000 years back in time.
"It is a great achievement for science to collect and combine so many measurements on the ice core and reconstruct past climate history. The new findings show higher temperatures in northern Greenland during the Eemian than current climate models have estimated," says Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute.
Intense melting on the surface
During the warm Eemian period, there was intense surface melting that can be seen in the ice core as layers of refrozen meltwater. Meltwater from the surface had penetrated down into the underlying snow, where it once again froze into ice. Such surface melting has occurred very rarely in the last 5,000 years, but the team observed such a melting during the summer of 2012 when they were in Greenland.
"We were completely shocked by the warm surface temperatures at the NEEM camp in July 2012," says Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen. "It was even raining and just like in the Eemian, the meltwater formed refrozen layers of ice under the surface. Although it was an extreme event the current warming over Greenland makes surface melting more likely and the warming that is predicted to occur over the next 50-100 years will potentially have Eemian-like climatic conditions," she believes.
Good news and bad news
During the warm Eemian period there was increased melting at the edge of the ice sheet and the dynamic flow of the entire ice mass caused the ice sheet to lose mass and it was reduced in height. The ice mass was shrinking at a very high rate of 6 cm per year. But despite the warm temperatures, the ice sheet did not disappear and the research team estimates that the volume of the ice sheet was not reduced by more than 25 percent during the warmest 6,000 years of the Eemian.
"The good news from this study is that the Greenland ice sheet is not as sensitive to temperature increases and to ice melting and running out to sea in warm climate periods like the Eemian,as we thought," explains Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and adds that the bad news is that if Greenland's ice did not disappear during the Eemian then Antarctica must be responsible for a significant portion of the 4-8 meter rise in sea levels that we know occurred during the Eemian.
This new knowledge about past warm climates may help to clarify what is in store for us now that we are facing a global warming.
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Apes Get iPads at National Zoo
Orangutans at the Smithsonian's National Zoo are now using iPad apps to keep occupied.
"It's about changing up the day-to-day lives of our animals," Becky Malinsky, a keeper at the zoo, said in a statement. "We already vary their food, toys and social interactions every day, but the iPad offers another way to engage their sight, touch and hearing."
So far, the apes are using 10 different apps, including cognitive games, drawing programs and ones that feature virtual musical instruments. According to their keepers, some of the orangutans are already showing their preferences ? 36-year-old Bonnie likes to hit the drums, 16-year-old Kyle likes to play the piano, and 25-year-old Iris likes watching animated fish swim in a virtual koi pond on the screen.
The iPads were made available through Apps for Apes, an initiative from the conservation organization Orangutan Outreach, which has already provided tablet devices for the intelligent primates in 12 other zoos, including zoos in Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, Utah and Milwaukee. [10 iPad Alternatives]
"Primarily, we want the Apps for Apes program to help people understand why we need to protect wild orangutans from extinction," Richard Zimmerman, founding director of Orangutan Outreach, said in a statement. "We do that when we show zoo visitors how similar humans and apes are, be it through observation, talking with wildlife experts or seeing the apes use the same technology we use every day."
Orangutans are among humans' closest living relatives, and there are only a few tens of thousands of them currently left in the wild. They are found in the Sumatran rain forests, where they are critically endangered, and the Borneo rain forests, where they are endangered.
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BPA substitute could spell trouble
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Experiments show bisphenol S also disrupts hormone activity
A few years ago, manufacturers of water bottles, food containers, and baby products had a big problem. A key ingredient of the plastics they used to make their merchandise, an organic compound called bisphenol A, had been linked by scientists to diabetes, asthma and cancer and altered prostate and neurological development. The FDA and state legislatures were considering action to restrict BPA's use, and the public was pressuring retailers to remove BPA-containing items from their shelves.
The industry responded by creating "BPA-free" products, which were made from plastic containing a compound called bisphenol S. In addition to having similar names, BPA and BPS share a similar structure and versatility: BPS is now known to be used in everything from currency to thermal receipt paper, and widespread human exposure to BPS was confirmed in a 2012 analysis of urine samples taken in the U.S., Japan, China and five other Asian countries.
According to a study by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers, though, BPS also resembles BPA in a more problematic way. Like BPA, the study found, BPS disrupts cellular responses to the hormone estrogen, changing patterns of cell growth and death and hormone release. Also like BPA, it does so at extremely low levels of exposure.
"Our studies show that BPS is active at femtomolar to picomolar concentrations just like endogenous hormones that's in the range of parts per trillion to quadrillion," said UTMB professor Cheryl Watson, senior author of a paper on the study now online in the advance publications section of Environmental Health Perspectives. "Those are levels likely to be produced by BPS leaching from containers into their contents."
Watson and graduate student Ren Vias conducted cell-culture experiments to examine the effects of BPS on a form of signaling that involves estrogen receptors the "receivers" of a biochemical message acting in the cell's outer membrane instead of the cell nucleus. Where nuclear signaling involves interaction with DNA to produce proteins and requires hours to days, membrane signaling (also called "non-genomic" signaling) acts through much quicker mechanisms, generating a response in seconds or minutes.
Watson and Vias focused on key biochemical pathways that are normally stimulated when estrogen activates membrane receptors. One, involving a protein known as ERK, is linked to cell growth; another, labeled JNK, is tied to cell death. In addition, they examined the ability of BPS to activate proteins called caspases (also linked to cell death) and promote the release of prolactin, a hormone that stimulates lactation and influences many other functions.
"These pathways form a complicated web of signals, and we're going to need to study them more closely to fully understand how they work," Watson said. "On its own, though, this study shows us that very low levels of BPS can disrupt natural estrogen hormone actions in ways similar to what we see with BPA. That's a real cause for concern."
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University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Experiments show bisphenol S also disrupts hormone activity
A few years ago, manufacturers of water bottles, food containers, and baby products had a big problem. A key ingredient of the plastics they used to make their merchandise, an organic compound called bisphenol A, had been linked by scientists to diabetes, asthma and cancer and altered prostate and neurological development. The FDA and state legislatures were considering action to restrict BPA's use, and the public was pressuring retailers to remove BPA-containing items from their shelves.
The industry responded by creating "BPA-free" products, which were made from plastic containing a compound called bisphenol S. In addition to having similar names, BPA and BPS share a similar structure and versatility: BPS is now known to be used in everything from currency to thermal receipt paper, and widespread human exposure to BPS was confirmed in a 2012 analysis of urine samples taken in the U.S., Japan, China and five other Asian countries.
According to a study by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers, though, BPS also resembles BPA in a more problematic way. Like BPA, the study found, BPS disrupts cellular responses to the hormone estrogen, changing patterns of cell growth and death and hormone release. Also like BPA, it does so at extremely low levels of exposure.
"Our studies show that BPS is active at femtomolar to picomolar concentrations just like endogenous hormones that's in the range of parts per trillion to quadrillion," said UTMB professor Cheryl Watson, senior author of a paper on the study now online in the advance publications section of Environmental Health Perspectives. "Those are levels likely to be produced by BPS leaching from containers into their contents."
Watson and graduate student Ren Vias conducted cell-culture experiments to examine the effects of BPS on a form of signaling that involves estrogen receptors the "receivers" of a biochemical message acting in the cell's outer membrane instead of the cell nucleus. Where nuclear signaling involves interaction with DNA to produce proteins and requires hours to days, membrane signaling (also called "non-genomic" signaling) acts through much quicker mechanisms, generating a response in seconds or minutes.
Watson and Vias focused on key biochemical pathways that are normally stimulated when estrogen activates membrane receptors. One, involving a protein known as ERK, is linked to cell growth; another, labeled JNK, is tied to cell death. In addition, they examined the ability of BPS to activate proteins called caspases (also linked to cell death) and promote the release of prolactin, a hormone that stimulates lactation and influences many other functions.
"These pathways form a complicated web of signals, and we're going to need to study them more closely to fully understand how they work," Watson said. "On its own, though, this study shows us that very low levels of BPS can disrupt natural estrogen hormone actions in ways similar to what we see with BPA. That's a real cause for concern."
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By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood at Sundance on Monday
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Uber Partners With Grouper So Blind Date Goers Can Ride In Style
On-demand car service Uber is teaming up with online social club?Grouper, the companies announced this weekend. With a new program and promotional event called #UberGrouper, users can sign up for an exclusive deal in their city allowing them to use Uber as their luxury tranportation of choice on their Grouper meetups. To kick off the launch, Uber is giving away round-trip Uber rides, free drinks and more in eleven cities across the U.S. and Canada:??New York,Chicago,?Boston,?Los Angeles,?Philly,?Seattle,?Atlanta,?Dallas,?Washington DC,?San Francisco?and?Toronto.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ALGrkHfEns8/
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Chastain films take top 2 spots at box office
NEW YORK (AP) ? Jessica Chastain easily outmuscled Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mark Wahlberg over the weekend, topping the box office with both her supernatural horror film "Mama" and the Oscar-nominated Osama bin Laden hunt thriller "Zero Dark Thirty."
"Mama" opened well above expectations with a box-office topping $28.1 million for Universal Pictures, according to studio estimates Sunday. Chastain also held the second spot with "Zero Dark Thirty," for which she's nominated by the Academy Awards for best actress. In its second week of wide release, "Zero Dark Thirty" took in $17.6 million.
The films' strong performances had the remarkable effect of making Chastain an unlikely box-office queen out of a chameleon-like actress that even fans of "Mama" might have trouble picking out of a lineup. Chastain, whose credits range from Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" to "The Help" (for which she was also Oscar nominated), even accomplished the rare feat by besting a couple of more traditional box-office stalwarts.
Schwarzenegger's post-governorship comeback got off to a terrible start. His action flick "The Last Stand" opened with just $6.3 million for Lionsgate, one of the worst debuts for the brawny 65-year-old star. The film came in 10th.
Though Schwarzenegger co-starred in "The Expendables 2," which opened with $28.6 million in August, "The Last Stand" is his first proper starring vehicle since exiting the California governor's seat in January 2011.
The Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe-led New York crime film "Broken City" didn't fare much better. The Fox release premiered with $9.1 million.
Instead, audiences flocked to the PG-13-rated "Mama," which bore the imprimatur of the well-respected fantasy-spinner Guillermo Del Toro, a producer.
"Never underestimate the drawing power of a PG-13 horror film," said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.
Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal Pictures, acknowledged the apparently limitless appetite for such a film, if done right: "That's why we did it," she said.
"It's a fun film without a lot of extraordinary violence," said Rocco, who added she would have been "thrilled" with a debut in the mid- to high-teens. "Young people like scary stuff."
With Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Hollywood will get a virtual four-day weekend at the box office. Universal is predicting "Mama" to finish with $33.2 million by the end of Monday.
Though horror films generally are a hit with male audiences, "Mama" appealed strongly to females, who made up 61 percent of its moviegoers. That was key on a weekend filled with male-driven movies, including "Broken City," ''The Last Stand," Warner Bros.' "Gangster Squad" and the Weinstein Co.'s "Django Unchained."
"It's an incredibly competitive marketplace for testosterone-driven films," said Dergarabedian.
The Weinstein Co.'s "Silver Linings Playbook," nominated for eight Academy Awards including best picture, expanded to its largest number of theaters in its 10th week of release. Playing in 2,523 theaters, a jump of 1,713 theaters, the David O. Russell film took in $11.4 million on the weekend ? the same in which its star Jennifer Lawrence hosted "Saturday Night Live" ? for a cumulative of $55.3 million.
Also nominated for best picture, Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," in its fourth week became the director's biggest box-office hit. It surpassed his previous film, "Inglourious Basterds," by adding $8.2 million for a domestic total of $138.4 million.
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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "Mama," $28.1 million.
2. "Zero Dark Thirty," $17.6 million.
3. "Silver Linings Playbook," $11.4 million.
4. "Gangster Squad," $9.1 million.
5. "Broken City," $9 million.
6. "A Haunted House," $8.3 million.
7. "Django Unchained," $8.2 million.
8. "Les Miserables," $7.8 million.
9. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," $6.4 million.
10. "The Last Stand," $6.3 million.
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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chastain-films-top-2-spots-box-office-191549414--finance.html
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botoinai: What Beginners Should Know About Scuba Diving - Sports ...
Scuba diving Atlanta can be a wonderful experience for anyone. This will give them a chance to look at the natural habitat of fishes and other underwater creatures. Coral formations and other vistas underwater can also be seen through this activity. For people who like adventures or explorations, then this is good for them.
Although this can be fun, it also has its risks. If someone performs this activity without the right training, he might experience different problems with the gears and his health while he is underwater. This counteracts with his body?s instincts to survive and swim in water because he will try to sink for this to be done. For it to be done properly, then, he will need to learn more about this whole thing.
Scuba actually stands for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. This describes the oxygen tank and regulators that are used by the divers so they can breathe in the water. Although recreational scuba diving does not have any centralized regulatory agencies, many countries require these certifications for people to do the activity.
If one is interested in learning this and getting certified, then he should find an instructor to train him. He should do some research to find out where he can have the best training. He should be sure that he attends a course given by an instructor who is not only a skilled diver but also a reputable instructor in this field.
You must learn how to control your breathing when you dive. You must know how you should inhale or exhale through your apparatus. It is also essential to be relaxed during this time so you can sink with a particular rhythm and then rise slowly so your breathing patterns would not have any problem.
The use of the right gear is also important for these people. They should know what equipment they need for this and in which establishments they will be able to get these. They need to research regarding this matter since it is important for them to find the gears with the best quality that have reasonable prices for them to use when they dive.
When they already go to the sea, it is very important for them to keep in mind that they should never dive alone. This is one of the most important rules in the activity. This can mean between life and death so they should check their gears properly and never stray far away from their partners when they dive.
Students are always reminded by instructors to follow rules. These are necessary to ensure the safety of the divers. By following these, one can be sure that he is safe and he would not be hurt. Through these rules, the fun and adventure can be experienced without putting his self in unnecessary danger.
By following these tips, surely, they can have a good time in . This will let the people have a good look at what lay underneath the waters. This will be an experience that they are not likely to forget so they have to enjoy everything and take in the beauty and wonders that only nature can make.
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Blast, drones kill 16 al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen
SANAA (Reuters) - More than 10 suspected al Qaeda operatives were killed by an explosion in a house in south Yemen where they were making bombs, and at least six others died in two strikes from U.S. drones, tribal and official sources said on Sunday.
A bomb ripped through a house in the province of al-Bayda on Saturday night, the state news agency Saba and a local official said.
Strikes by suspected U.S. drone aircraft killed three people on Saturday and another three on Sunday in two parts of central Maarib province, tribal and government sources said.
The Yemeni Defence Ministry said in an SMS text message that a number of militants were killed in two air strikes but gave no further details.
The United States never comments on strikes by its pilotless aircraft, which it has used to hunt militants in Yemen for years. The Yemeni government allows U.S. strikes but usually does not comment on the U.S. role in specific incidents.
Yemen's government has been fighting a powerful branch of al Qaeda that grew in power and influence amid chaos in the impoverished state two years ago during a popular uprising against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is considered by Western governments to be one of the most active and dangerous wings of the global network founded by Osama bin Laden and has attempted a number of attacks against U.S. targets.
The house destroyed in al Bayda had been used for making bombs, an official from the area told Reuters on Sunday.
"We heard a massive explosion that terrified people and when we went to the house it was destroyed and everyone there was dead," the official said.
In Maarib, a pilotless plane carried out two strikes against a car on Saturday, a witness said.
"One of the strikes missed the target and the other hit the car and left the bodies of the three people in it completely charred," the witness told Reuters by telephone from the area.
He said unidentified people evacuated the bodies while tribesmen blocked the main road linking the capital of Maarib province with Sanaa on Saturday after the strikes.
The strike on Sunday took place in the Al Shabwan region of the province, the tribal and government sources said.
Earlier this month, dozens of armed tribesmen took to the streets in southern Yemen to protest drones they said killed innocent civilians and fed anger against the United States.
President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi spoke openly in favor of the strikes during a trip to the United States in September.
Praised by the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa as being more effective against al Qaeda than his predecessor, Hadi was quoted as saying in September that he personally approved every attack.
AQAP offshoot, Ansar al-Sharia (Partisan of Islamic Law), seized a number of towns in the south in 2011. Yemeni government forces retook the areas in a U.S.-backed offensive in June.
(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Mahmoud Habboush; Editing by Sami Aboudi, Alison Williams and Jason Webb)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/al-qaeda-linked-militants-killed-drone-strike-yemen-090613286.html
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 20, 2013 ? /PRNewswire-iReach/ ? There are a number of different ideas for the types of business 2013 will bring. Many people speculate that there will be an increase in online businesses as well as people who are searching for ways to get out of their old jobs and become their own bosses. These two ideas go hand in hand for most people.
Starting an online business holds a lot of appeal for many people for a number of reasons. The foremost reason is possibly the conveniences of running a business from home. When a business is based online, the products or services can be marketed to a global audience, and the business owner can do all this from the comfort of their own home. They won?t need to drive to the office everyday; their office could literally be located right there in their bedroom.
Another reason that internet options are being sought out is because the low start up cost associated with starting a business online. Usually the initial investment is very minimal, and no where near as much as what could be expected when starting a conventional business. This benefit alone may prompt people to choose this option over others, as it may be the only type of business that a person is able to operate on the budget they have available to them.
The types of online businesses that can be started are endless. However there are a few good leads for those who want to start an online business in 2013. The first popular option is affiliate marketing. In this business model, the business focuses as the advertising arm of various businesses that offer products or services. Affiliate marketers can pick and choose which companies they will work with and what products they will promote.
What is so attractive about this business model is that the affiliate marketer does not need to worry about keeping an inventory or fulfilling customer requests or settling complaints. They simply need to market the products and they get a commission for every sale made as a result of their efforts. The rest is taken care of by the parent affiliate company.
This business is also very popular because it can results in the person earning a residual income. The way the internet works, it is possible to set up an advertising campaign, then once that campaign is in full swing and is drawing in leads and resulting in sales, the marketer can basically sit back and let the internet do the rest. This means that a person may still get commissions on work that was done months or even years ago.
In order to do this, a person would have to have a clear knowledge of how the online market place works, and have the skills needed to create and implement an effective online marketing campaign. People with marketing experience may have a head start when it comes to this, but there are many online programs that can teach even beginners how to use this business model to their advantage.
One of the best free online programs that people can make use of to this end is Internet Income University. This program teaches the basics, as well as more advanced techniques, and sign up for the program is completely free.
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