Step-by-Step Through a Website Makeover
BY MATT VILLANO If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. For years, this summed up how decision-makers at Round Pond Estate winery and olive mill in Rutherford, Calif., felt about their website. Yes, the gang…
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Playing at No Cost, Right Into the Hands of Mobile Game Makers
By BRIAN X. CHEN Still paying 99 cents to download a smartphone game? That’s far too much. More developers are now giving their games away — and then charging for extra features. The strategy is…
Tricks to Cutting Travel Costs
By MICHELLE HIGGINS BARGAIN hunters will need to be craftier when booking a trip if they want to get the best prices this year. It’s no secret that airfares are up and added fees for…
How to Fight Back When Your Flight Is Canceled
By MICHELLE HIGGINS AS thousands of passengers who were caught up in the latest bout of snowstorms along the East Coast can attest, when weather disrupts the system, travelers are basically on their own. Just…
Kids Together Development Center Honored By Florida Educators
Seminole Voice | November 9, 2011 Florida Educators of Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Individuals presented its Honors of the Association Award to Kids Together Development Center in Oviedo….
21 Most anticipated movies of 2012
by Ryan Pinto 1.The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, the terrorist leader Bane arrives in Gotham City, pushing it and its police force to their limits, forcing…
Jason Russell Video: ‘Kony 2012’ Director’s Naked Meltdown Caught On Camera
By IBTIMES STAFF REPORTER Jason Russell, founder of Invisible Children and director of the “Kony 2012” viral video, was arrested Friday in San Diego for reportedly masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and public drunkenness, reported…
Choosing The Right Child Care Center in Oviedo Florida
Choosing Child Care in Oviedo Florida More and more, research tells us that our children’s healthy development depends on safe and positive experiences during the first few years of life. If you are a parent…
Oviedo Mayor Visits Kids Together
By Marisa Ramiccio | March 15, 2012 Oviedo Mayor Dominic Persampiere paid a visit to the children at Kids Together Child Development Center, a program that provides children with activities that promote learning and self-esteem….
Movie review: ’21 Jump Street’
By Betsy Sharkey The only thing “21 Jump Street” takes even remotely seriously is high school. Everything else is punch line material — including the Johnny Depp TV series that was its inspiration and the…
Is Silence Going Extinct?
By KIM TINGLEY Setting off in the predawn gloaming of central Alaska, we were the sounds of swishing snow pants, crunching boots and cold puffs of breath. As sunrise gradually lightened the late November sky,…
Workouts May Not Be the Best Time for a Snack
By GINA KOLATA A few weeks ago, a friend showed up for a run with a CamelBak — one of those humplike backpacks with a tube that allows you to sip liquid — and a…
How Tanning Changes the Brain
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR People who frequently use tanning beds experience changes in brain activity during their tanning sessions that mimic the patterns of drug addiction, new research shows. Scientists have suspected for some time that…
Stairs at Home Remain a Childhood Hazard
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR When Chris Garbrandt’s 6-month-old son, Will, started crawling last October, she realized the stairs in her split-level home in Nashport, Ohio, were an obvious hazard. But as she was getting ready to…
Lenses to Ease the Strain From Staring at Screens
By MICKEY MEECE If I moved my computer monitor close enough to see the screen clearly, it was nearly in my lap. If I left the monitor where it should be, I had to lean…
Getting Doctors to Think About Costs
By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. My first formal lesson on health care costs occurred one afternoon on the wards when I was a medical student. The senior doctor in charge, a silver-haired specialist known for…
In New Office Designs, Room to Roam and to Think
By LAWRENCE W. CHEEK MARTHA CHOE’S ideal working space is not her private office, nice though it is, but rather a long, narrow table in the vast atrium of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…
Where Pimps Peddle Their Goods
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16…
The Way We Read Now
By DWIGHT GARNER THE case against electronic books has been made, and elegantly, by many people, including Nicholson Baker in The New Yorker a few years ago. Mr. Baker called Amazon’s Kindle, in a memorable…
The Everyday, Anytime Egg-Combination Generator
By MARK BITTMAN I write this after having eaten six and a half eggs in the last 24 hours. Breakfast yesterday: Salad with two fried eggs. Lunch: Many things, including an egg-enriched corn bread (that’s…
As Cars Are Kept Longer, 200,000 Is New 100,000
By DEXTER FORD HOW far can a modern car really go? Given the increasing age of vehicles on American roads, we may be on the verge of finding out. As a stubborn recession made drivers…
When Office Technology Overwhelms, Get Organized
By DAVID ALLEN HOW do you think most workers would respond if you asked them, “Do you feel more productive now than you did several years ago?” I doubt that the answer would be a…
My Life’s Sentences
By JHUMPA LAHIRI In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They were not necessarily the same sentences the professors pointed out, which would turn…
Why Bilinguals Are Smarter
By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even…
Spring Break Gets Tamer as World Watches Online
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ KEY WEST, Fla. — Ah, Spring Break, with its copious debauchery, its spontaneous bouts of breast-baring, Jager bombing and après-binge vomit. In this era of “Jersey Shore” antics and “Girls Gone Wild,”…
Where’s My IRS Refund? – Internal Revenue Service
IRS Internal Revenue Service Answers: If you e-file, you can generally expect your refund within 10 – 21 days. The projected refund date “Where’s My Refund?” provides may change as your tax return moves through…
The Internal Revenue Service – An Overview of the I.R.S.
The Internal Revenue Service – An Overview of the I.R.S. The Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) is the agency that collects tax revenue for the United States federal government. Here’s an overview of how the agency…
REDLINE SPORTS Trampoline Park South Florida – “Aeroball scores as new game”
Aeroball comes to REDLINE SPORTS Trampoline Park in South Florida – Grand Opening Winter 2012 Website: REDLINE SPORTS Trampoline Park ________________________________ Aeroball Trampoline scores as new game – Competitors get intense workout, using trampoline, ball…
Apple held in many stock funds
By John Waggoner If you’re thinking of making Apple a core holding, your fund manager may have beaten you to it. Morningstar says 788 U.S. stock mutual funds had Apple as one of their top…
HBO cancels ‘Luck’ after third horse dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The horse racing series Luck was canceled by HBO after a third thoroughbred died during production of the series starring Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, the channel said Wednesday. The drama…
Adopted Kids’ Drug Abuse Risk Affected by Biological Family
By Amanda Gardner MONDAY, March 5, 2012 (Health.com) — Adopted children are twice as likely to abuse drugs if their biological parents did too, suggesting that genetics do indeed play a role in the development…
USDA: Schools can decide if ‘pink slime’ is used in lunches
By Elizabeth Weise “Pink slime” will be off the menu this fall for schools in the National School Lunch Program that don’t want byproducts containing what’s known officially as “lean finely textured beef,” the U.S….
That call you received might not be on your Caller ID.
By Byron Acohido Cyberthieves are stepping up phone-calling scams that pilfer the accounts of consumers who bank online. And many such calls are linked to Caller ID spoofing, which causes the recipient’s phone to display…
At SXSW, startups make the scene
By Charlie Szold AUSTIN, Texas – In the 1840s, speculators panned in rivers to find elusive gold bits that could make them rich overnight. In the 21st century, hardworking entrepreneurs toil over code and user…
Meatball Minestrone Bake
By Dinah Surh Staten Island, New York Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest 45, 2012 It’s Italian night! Progresso® minestrone soup and Pillsbury® crescents give a jump start to an easy dinner bake. INGREDIENTS: 3/4 teaspoon McCormick® Oregano…
Is Google Plus’s Problem One of Design?
By NICK BILTON People love Google Plus. Wait, they hate Google Plus. No, that’s not right, either. Lots of people are using Google Plus. No, it’s a ghost town. Rather than bicker constantly about who…
A Groupon Alternative Aims to Offer Small Businesses a Better Deal
By DAVID H. FREEDMAN Constant Contact has been one of the big success stories when it comes to online companies that specialize in serving small businesses. Some half a million of them count on the…
For Apple, Pressure Builds Over App Store Fraud
By EVELYN M. RUSLI and BRIAN X. CHEN In a little over an hour, Ryan Matthew Pierson racked up $437.71 in iTunes charges for virtual currency that he could use to buy guns, nightclubs and…
Foxwoods Is Fighting for Its Life
By MICHAEL SOKOLOVE Nearly everything about the Foxwoods Resort Casino is improbable, beginning with its scale. It is the largest casino in the Western Hemisphere — a gigantic, labyrinthine wonderland set down in a cedar…
With Video, Obama Looks to Expand Campaign’s Reach Through Social Media
By JEREMY W. PETERS When presidential candidates have a message they want voters to hear far and wide, they have typically turned to that old campaign standby: the television ad. But as President Obama and…
New iPad: A Polishing of the Old
By DAVID POGUE On Friday, the new iPad goes on sale. Be sure to ask for it by name: the iPad. Because if you ask for the iPad 3, the Apple representatives will look at…
REDLINE SPORTS Indoor Trampoline Park Florida
GeoClickz News – Redline Sports Indoor Trampoline Park in South Florida Redline Sports Indoor Trampoline Park in Fort Lauderdale Florida Redline Sports Indoor Trampoline Park in Fort Lauderdale Florida is a state of the art…
Finding Community, Even in a Chain Store
By JANE GROSS IT is two minutes before 9 at night. The Staples store I use, for tasks I once did in an office, closes at 9. After I press my face to the glass…
Lingerie and Enlightenment
By JACALYN E.S. BENNETT ON my father’s side of the family were several generations of respected New York lawyers and judges. My maternal grandmother married the deacon of the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church in Prospect…
New Interest in Hacking as Threat to Security
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON — During the five-month period between October and February, there were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that control critical infrastructure, factories and databases, according to…
Basketball Free-Throw Records Fall With the Flick of His Wrist
By JOHN BRANCH CENTRALIA, Kan. — With the start of the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament, the country is once again contemplating the art of the free throw — mainly, why so many of the uncontested…
D’Antoni Resigns as Knicks’ Coach
By HOWARD BECK Mike D’Antoni has resigned as head coach of the Knicks, a result of a season-long struggle to find common ground with Carmelo Anthony, the franchise star. D’Antoni made the decision official in…
Things Adult Medicine Could Learn From Pediatrics
By PERRI KLASS, M.D. Twenty-eight years ago, I wrote about drawing blood for the first time, about the pain of the patient and the self-doubt of the medical student. In my first clinical experience, I…
New Worries About Sleeping Pills
By RONI CARYN RABIN Talk about sleepless nights. Patients taking prescription sleep aids on a regular basis were nearly five times as likely as non-users to die over a period of two and a half…
Do Statins Make It Tough to Exercise?
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS or years, physicians and scientists have been aware that statins, the most widely prescribed drugs in the world, can cause muscle aches and fatigue in some patients. What many people don’t know…