Hurricane Sandy & Smartphone Battery Tips

As cell phone operators prepare for Hurricane Sandy, Edmunds.com’s Director of Mobile Web Products Mike Woods offers these three ways your smartphone may be affected and tips to save your battery life for when you need it most:   Networks are up, but may degrade. Widespread power outages will not post a threat to cell [...]

5 Nutrition Tips for Marathon Moms

Check out these great tips for Marathon moms!! Nothing beats the impact of hydration on performance. Before the race, let thirst be your guide to the finish line and use a sports drink to replace fluids during the race. If you are racing just to participate and finish, then drink when you are thirsty throughout [...]

Bullied to death: Amanda Todd

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I am deeply saddened by this post. After a week of teaching about bullying to my High school health class, I hear about this tradgey. Amanda Todd was a high school student plagued with bullying after a stupid decision gone bad. She flashed a anonymous  person via webcam at the age of 12 and she [...]

Your Superpowers: Dream It, Achieve It

New book helps teenagers transform their lives   Junior high and high school is tough few years for just about everyone.  It can be difficult going to school, trying to fit in, and trying to make sense of all the changes in life.  Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a roadmap that helped teens [...]

Seaworld happenings this summer

If you have passes for Seaworld check out Mantis the newest exhibit in Seaworld and pet the stingrays! We go all the time and getting down to the beach is the best way to beat the heat…even though we have been pretty cool this summer so far, it’s coming!Silver passes have free parking too so be sure you have one in the “family”.   FIREWORKS:  During the  Summer Nights at SeaWorld, guests may enjoy the park’s fireworks display, “Into the {Read More}

Marvel’s Ironman 3 in the makes now!!

MARVEL STUDIOS BEGINS PRODUCTION ON THIRD INSTALLMENT OF THE BLOCKBUSTER FRANCHISE “IRON MAN”   Marvel’s “Iron Man 3” Commences Principal Photography In Preparation for May 3, 2013 Film Release BURBANK, Calif. (June 4, 2012) – Following in the footsteps of the record-breaking Marvel Studios’ release “Marvel’s The Avengers,” production on the highly anticipated film “Iron Man 3,” directed by Shane Black, has commenced production in Wilmington, North Carolina. The production schedule will also include locations in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, Miami, {Read More}

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Giveaway

  Did you see Journey to the Center of the Earth? Well, if you liked that , Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is even better. With The Rock, you can’t go wrong and now that Josh Hutcherson has his call to fame as Peeta in Hunger Games we know who he is…though he has been around a while. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island -  Own it on Blu-ray Combo Pack or Digital Download 6/5! Synopsis: The follow-up to the 2008 {Read More}

Dude You’re Gonna Be a Dad!: How to Get (Both of You) Through the Next 9 Month

About the time my wife and I learned we were pregnant with our third child, I realized that my pregnancy threat level—or how panicked I felt internally about having additional children—was only canary yellow instead of Creamsicle® orange. (Or was it the other way around? I was never quite sure which threat level was more, well, threatening.) I wasn’t overwhelmed by that mixture of panic, joy, and bile, and I even skipped my ritualistic calculation of how many years this {Read More}

Demand for Donated Mothers’ Milk Way up as Donations Drop

Milk Banks face unprecedented crisis Pauline Sakamoto will forever remember the anxiety she felt last Christmas when, for the first time in her Milk Bank’s 37 year history, she turned away mothers seeking human donor milk for their infants. Demand for mothers’ milk continues to rise nation-wide as supplies remain inadequate.  At the Mothers’ Milk Bank, based in San Jose and serving hospitals in much of the Western US, mothers’ pleas for milk are, in some cases, going unmet. In {Read More}

Infant Car Seats: What you need to know!

What is going on today people? We live in a society so crazy about safety but there are too many people that have their kids in ill fitting car seats. I mean it!! When you have a 2 year old child in a infant car seat there is something wrong!! Here are some guidelines from HealthyChildren.org! So what is wrong you ask? I went to the zoo today and I was appalled by the amount of (okay, a few people {Read More}