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Functional Fitness For Seniors - Way To be healthy

Keeping your body fit is important throughout your whole life, but if you find it difficult to do the activities you once did, then use these modified exercises to keep your body limber and strong.? Remember, if any of these exercises cause pain, please stop them immediately.

Wall Push Up:?

If the strain of a normal push-up is too much for you, try modifying it by using a wall.? Place your palms flat on a wall with either palm directly in front of either shoulder.? Stand far enough away so that your arms are completely straight while your palms are flat.? Then keep your body completely straight and lower yourself towards the wall until your elbow makes a 90 degree angle; push yourself back up to standing.? If this is too easy for you, perform the same movement but replace the wall with a sturdy chair.

Seated Dead Lift:?

Bending over can become more difficult with age, but using exercises to strengthen your back is important to keep your body in top shape.? If the stress of bending forward is too difficult for you, here is a modification for a dead lift.? This exercise will require a sturdy chair and some type of weight if you?d like, such as a can of food.? Seated tall in your chair with your feet flat on the ground and the weight in your hand, bend over as far as you can; ideally you?d like to be able to touch your toes, but only go as far as is comfortable.? Then, keep your back straight and think about using its muscles to pull yourself back up to sitting.? This exercise will strengthen your low back and help rid any unwanted pain.

Seated Side Bends:?

While you?re still sitting in that chair, go ahead and hold your weights or cans in your hands at your sides.? Now, just bend to your right and try and touch your weight to the floor, or just go as far as is comfortable.? Straighten back up and bend to the other side.? When you?re performing this motion, focus on using the muscles in the opposite side to pull your body back upright.? Lastly, try to keep your back from rounding or slouching so that you are working on all of your core as well as making sure those side muscles do most of the work.

Step Ups:?

Your power comes from your hips, but if keeping your balance while performing a squat is questionable try this exercise instead.? Use a step, stool, or chair that?s at a comfortable height for you to step up onto.? Stand in front of your step and bring your right leg up to stand on top of it.? Once both feet are together on the step, step back down and repeat with the opposite leg.? You might notice that you breathe a bit harder with this exercise than with the others; it?s a good form of cardio and strengthens your legs and hips at the same time.

If you haven?t quite reached the point to where you need to modify your exercises but are looking for a different way to get your strength training in, check out this site for reviews on home gym equipment that might suit your needs.Randi Upshaw is a Certified Athletic Trainer who loves health and fitness; she enjoys sharing her knowledge through her writing. ?Like what she writes? ?Check out?http://www.homegymreview.net/.

Source: http://way-to-be-healthy.blogspot.com/2013/04/functional-fitness-for-seniors.html

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Rubio claims pivot point on immigration overhaul

FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. They have settled on a political framework, but now, the lawmakers writing a bipartisan immigration overhaul need to resolve the nitty-gritty _ and, perhaps, keep their parties? political flanks mollified. But even as the final stages of talks begin, before some lawmakers began appearing on Sunday shows to discuss a breakthrough, Rubio warned he was not ready to lend his name ? and political clout ? to such a deal without hashing out the details. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 27, 2013 file photo, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., makes a point as he is joined by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Sen. Michael Bennett, D-Colo., during a news conference after their tour of the Mexico border with the United States in Nogales, Ariz. A group of influential U.S. senators shaping and negotiating details of an immigration reform package have vowed to make the legislation public when Congress reconvenes in April. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

White House press secretary Jay Carney gestures as he answers questions during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, April, 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Whatever immigration deal might be claimed by labor and business, or by Democrats and Republicans, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is serving notice it has to go through him.

The tea party favorite made it clear over the weekend he has a make-or-break role for the most sweeping immigration changes in decades. It's a high-risk strategy that also puts his presidential ambitions on the line.

Four Republican senators are involved with Democrats in crafting a bipartisan bill to secure the nation's borders, improve legal immigration and offer eventual citizenship to millions now in the U.S. illegally. But only Rubio has the conservative bona fides plus life-story credibility to help steer the bill through the Senate with strong support from the GOP, and give it a chance in the House, where conservative Republicans hold more sway.

More than anyone else, Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, could have the clout to hold off rebellion from conservative talk show hosts and a Republican base whose opposition helped kill immigration changes last time around, in 2007. And perhaps only Rubio could sink the entire effort just by walking away.

If the first-term senator decides against the bill, "that just takes all the oxygen out of the room," said Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union. "It may pass the Senate with Democrats' support ... but that's not the kind of support you want out of the Senate if you expect passage out of the House."

With that unique status, Rubio is walking a fine line. He's helping negotiate the politically combustible legislation, which the bipartisan group is expected to unveil next week, while also taking care to maintain the conservative support that makes him so important to the process in the first place.

For Rubio, more so than the other Republicans involved ? Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina ? there's danger in a full-throated embrace of comprehensive immigration legislation. For some conservatives, it will always be toxic: It's a priority for Democrats and President Barack Obama that some foes see as granting amnesty to millions of law-breakers.

But Rubio also could see the biggest political payoff. Helping shepherd a comprehensive immigration bill to passage could win support from Hispanic voters that could be critical if he runs for president in 2016. GOP nominee Mitt Romney's dismal showing among Hispanic and Asian voters last November helped seal his loss, and McCain and many other Republicans warn that the GOP risks permanent minority status if it doesn't resolve the immigration issue.

"If he's the guy who helps navigate a reform package over the finish line in a way that brings conservatives along and makes Latinos happy, then his viability as a GOP candidate in 2016 goes way up," said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a group that advocates a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

All of this helps explain Rubio's caution as the debate moves forward, an approach that was on display this past weekend.

As Graham and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., were appearing on Sunday talk shows to all but declare an immigration deal completed ? after a hard-won agreement between business and labor on a new low-skilled worker program ? Rubio was putting out a different message: Not so fast.

"Reports that the bipartisan group of eight senators have agreed on a legislative proposal are premature," Rubio said in a statement that caused some consternation among immigration advocates. Even once there is a bill, he said, it will "only be a starting point," the precursor to what he suggested should be lengthy committee hearings and debate, not to mention full consideration by the American public.

Schumer hurried to dispute the notion of a disagreement between Rubio and himself, calling their difference "semantics" and praising Rubio as an "active and strong participant" in the negotiations.

"He is protecting some of the things that he thinks are very important in the bill," Schumer said on NBC's "Meet the Press." ''But I don't think that'll stand in the way in any way of any final agreement."

Obama spokesman Jay Carney said Monday the White House was encouraged by the positive comments over the weekend, but he was far from claiming victory. He said, "The process continues and is not finished." He wouldn't comment on Rubio's cautionary remarks.

Rubio's own comments were only the most recent example of his putting some distance between himself and other immigration overhaul supporters, including Obama and other members of the Gang of Eight.

When a draft of Obama's immigration legislation leaked in February, Rubio declared it "dead on arrival." On Saturday, he released a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., cautioning against a "rush to legislate" on immigration and asking for full hearings on the bipartisan group's bill once it is released

There's debate about whether Rubio is simply protecting his political flanks, or trying to prepare an exit ramp if he finds one necessary. Aides insist Rubio does want to support a bill and that everything he's doing is aimed at making the legislation politically viable by ensuring support from conservatives.

Schumer and others involved are acutely aware of the importance of Rubio's sign-off. That realization has helped the Florida senator win concessions on border security, legal immigration and other issues during months of closed-door negotiations. "He's gotten his way a good percentage of the time. He's persuaded people to his point of view a good part of the time," Schumer said.

Rubio became part of the bipartisan negotiating group after already having gone public with his own immigration proposals, which emphasize border security first before any pathway to citizenship can begin. And he would make that pathway a challenging one, requiring payment of back taxes and other concessions. Describing his own proposals to a series of conservative media hosts, he won generally positive responses.

Repeatedly, he's made clear that any proposal that does not meet his criteria will not get his support. And he's careful even in how he discusses the proposals under consideration. He shuns the phrase "path to citizenship," which he terms "an inaccurate phrase" because no immigrant can get on a path straight to citizenship ? they have to get a permanent residence green card first.

Unlike several other Republicans with presidential aspirations, Rubio has avoided getting tripped up on the issue and having to clarify his stance, as happened recently to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

So far, his aides say, Rubio has maintained his support from conservative backers in internal polls and his fundraising remains strong. He made a strong showing at a straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month, coming in a close second to Paul.

If the final bill is consistent with his principles, says spokesman Alex Conant, "Sen. Rubio and many other conservatives will support it. If the final bill doesn't meet those principles, Sen. Rubio won't be able to support it and conservatives will appreciate his principled stand."

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Follow Erica Werner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericawerner

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Tourists kidnapped, 1 sexually assaulted in Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? A foreign man and woman studying Portuguese in Brazil were held for hours while the woman was sexually assaulted aboard a public transport van they boarded over the weekend in Rio de Janeiro's showcase Copacabana beach neighborhood, police said in a statement.

Two men aged 20 and 22 were taken into custody and a third was being sought in connection with the attack, which saw the pair held for around six hours starting shortly after midnight on Saturday, police said.

The victims' nationalities were not immediately released, but local media reports have said the woman is American.

The incident raises new questions about security in Rio, which has cracked down on once-endemic drug violence in preparation for hosting next year's football World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic games. The city will also be playing host to World Youth Day, a Roman Catholic pilgrimage expected to draw some 2 million people in late July.

The attack also drew comparisons with the fatal December beating and gang rape of a young woman on a New Delhi bus. Six men beset a 23-year-old university student and male friend after they boarded a private bus, touching off a wave of protests across India demanding stronger protection for women.

In the Brazil attack, the police statement said the suspects forced other passengers to get out of the van and then sexually assaulted the female tourist inside the vehicle, which was one of a fleet of vans that serve bus routes and seat about a dozen people.

During the alleged assault, the tourists were driven to the poor suburban neighborhood of Sao Goncalo, where the two suspects were apprehended, the statement said.

Reports said the two foreigners had been studying Portuguese in Rio for about a month and that both left Brazil following the attack.

The police statement said that one victim's cellphone was found in the suspects' possession. The suspects had also used a debit card belonging to one of the victims at two gas stations, it said.

The Globo television network broadcast surveillance camera images of two men filling up the white van and showed police images of a metal bar the suspects are thought to have used to beat and intimidate the victims.

The victims positively identified the two suspects, and a Brazilian woman has said she was assaulted by the men on March 23, the statement said.

In an interview with Globo television, commanding officer Alexandre Braga, who heads the Rio police unit specializing in crimes against tourists, said the suspects had gone on a sex crime spree.

"The characteristics of both crimes, both the Brazilian case and the one with the foreigners, lead us to believe that they (the suspects) wanted to have a 'party of evil,' in quotes," Braga said. "The principal motive appears to have been the satisfaction of their lust."

He added that the robbery and other crimes appear to have been "secondary."

Multiple calls to police seeking further details on Monday were not immediately returned.

In Brazil, more than 5,300 cases of sexual assault were reported between January and June 2012, according to the country's Health Ministry.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tourists-kidnapped-1-sexually-assaulted-rio-175544509.html

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Wyoming Hero Died for Tragic Reasons | SheridanMedia.com

The name Lester Hunt is not that prominent in Wyoming these days.

Oh, it can be found on a building at the Wyoming Life Resource Center in Lander.? Our local airport is named Hunt Field, although most folks think it was named after the world-renowned One Shot Antelope Hunt.

But Lester Hunt was a great citizen of our state.? At times, he was even heroic.

Thanks to Cheyenne?s Rodger McDaniel, Hunt?s story and his legacy will now be shared with a new generation of Wyoming folks. McDaniel has written a fantastic new book called Dying for Joe McCarthy?s Sins, the Suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt.? The book tells Hunt?s amazing story.

On Sunday, April 7, at 1 p.m. at the Hunt family?s old St. Mark?s Episcopal Church in Cheyenne, McDaniel has organized a mock trial to help tell Hunt?s story and introduce his book.?

Famous Wyoming people portraying characters include former Gov. Dave Freudenthal as prosecuting attorney.? The judge is retired Supreme Court Justice Michael Golden.? State Public Defender Diane Lozano is defense counsel. A jury of local residents will issue a verdict.

It should also be mentioned that Rodger asked me to portray the famous muckraking newspaper columnist Drew Pearson who was a friend of Hunt?s and is a witness.? The script is entertaining, and the event is a must-see for political types and anyone else who has an interest in learning first hand some critical Wyoming history.

We are also going to do some kind of book recognition event in Lander later, and some of our local folks are hoping this whole trial thing could be reproduced again.? Maybe we should see how the first one comes off?? McDaniel has promised all of us much latitude when it comes to ad-libbing.? I can hardly wait to get cross-examined by Gov. Dave.?

Back to the book.

This is the definitive history of Hunt, who was a Lander dentist.? He gained early fame as a baseball player.? Born in Illinois, he was recruited by two Wyoming towns that fielded professional baseball teams.? The Lander manager won and Hunt found himself a new hometown.

Later, he served in the legislature and was elected to two terms as Secretary of State.? He was the creator of the ubiquitous Wyoming bucking horse logo that first appeared on the license plates he was charged with designing.

Hunt was elected governor twice and headed up our state during World War II.? Then he was elected to the U. S. Senate.?

The Senate was frustrating to him.? As a governor, he was used to getting things done.? All the back room deals in Washington, D. C., often strained his patience to the maximum.

He called himself ?a political middle of the roader with liberal leanings.?? He was always proud to call himself a New Deal Democrat and he did not object to being called an ?Eisenhower Democrat,? which revealed his basic Wyoming conservatism.

McDaniel writes: ?Even as a freshman from a small, rural state, Hunt was more fully involved in issues of national interest than one might expect.? In the few years he served, Lester Hunt was in the eye of several of the most difficult storms of the day.? He was a major contributor to the early 1950s debates over Civil Rights, health care reform, organized crime, foreign policy, Communism and what to do about Joe McCarthy.

But then it ended.

He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Senate office on June 9, 1954.?? He had literally been hounded to death by the efforts of the famous commie-hunter Sen. McCarthy and his pals.?

With the nation dealing with gay rights issues today, McDaniel?s book comes out at an ideal time.

A key component of that pressure on Hunt was McCarthy?s efforts to expose Hunt?s son who was gay.? McCarthy and his team believed that gay people could not be in the military or work in important government service, because communists could blackmail them so easily.?

Hunt was the second U. S. Senator who killed himself while enduring the stress of McCarthy?s, blackmail, attacks and accusations.? The other was Sen. Robert La Follette Jr.

The Senate had 48 Democrats and 47 Republicans at the time of Hunt?s death.? It was believed if Hunt could be driven from office, the Wyoming governor, a Republican, would appoint a Republican successor.??????????? The book is a very good read and offers a terrific history of our state during the post World War II years.? It is to McDaniel?s credit and Wyoming?s that it has been written and published and is now available.

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Check out Bill Sniffin?s columns and blogs at www.billsniffin.com.? He is a longtime Wyoming journalist from Lander who has written four books. His most recent book is ?Wyoming?s 7 Greatest Natural Wonders? which is available at www.wyomingwonders.com.

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Source: http://www.sheridanmedia.com/news/wyoming-hero-died-tragic-reasons63376

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NKorea's parliament meets amid nuclear tension

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party officials adopted a statement declaring building nuclear weapons and the economy the nation's top priorities.

The meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly follows near-daily threats from Pyongyang, including vows of nuclear strikes on South Korea and the U.S.

Pyongyang has reacted with anger over routine U.S.-South Korean military drills and a new round of U.N. and U.S. sanctions that followed its Feb. 12 underground nuclear test, the country's third. Analysts see a full-scale North Korean attack as unlikely and say the threats are more likely efforts to provoke softer policies toward Pyongyang from a new government in Seoul, to win diplomatic talks with Washington and to solidify the young North Korean leader's military credentials at home.

On Sunday, Kim and top party officials adopted a declaration calling nuclear weapons the "the nation's life" and an important component of its defense, an asset that wouldn't be traded even for "billions of dollars." Pyongyang cites the U.S. military presence in South Korea as a main reason behind its drive to build missiles and atomic weapons. The U.S. has stationed tens of thousands of troops in South Korea since the Korean War ended in a truce in 1953.

North Korea also has threatened in recent days to shut down a jointly run factory complex in the North ? the last remaining symbol of inter-Korean rapprochement. But officials in Seoul say hundreds of workers traveled as usual across the heavily armed border to the North Korean factory Monday as they have throughout the rising tensions.

"I have no idea about what it will be like when I go to the North Korean side. It seems OK to be here, but we will be living there in a tense situation for a week," Kim Won-soo, a South Korean manager working in Kaesong, said before his departure Monday from Paju, South Korea.

While analysts call North Korea's threats largely brinkmanship, there is some fear that a localized skirmish might escalate. Seoul has vowed to respond harshly should North Korea provoke its military. Naval skirmishes in disputed Yellow Sea waters off the Korean coast have led to bloody battles several times over the years. Attacks blamed on Pyongyang in 2010 killed 50 South Koreans.

South Korea's new president, Park Geun-hye, is pursuing a policy that seeks to re-engage North Korea with dialogue and aid after five years of standoff. But she told her military Monday to set aside political considerations and respond strongly should North Korea attack.

Meanwhile, deputies to North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly gathered in Pyongyang. The SPA schedule Monday was unclear.

Under late leader Kim Jong Il, North Korea had typically held a parliamentary meeting once a year. But Kim Jong Un held an unusual second session last September in a sign that he is trying to run the country differently from his father, who died in late 2011.

Parliament sessions, which usually are held to approve personnel changes and budget and fiscal plans, are scrutinized by the outside world for signs of key changes in policy and leadership.

At a session last April, Kim was made first chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission, the body's top post.

On Sunday, Kim presided over a separate plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party, which set a "new strategic line" calling for building both a stronger economy and nuclear arsenal.

North Korea's nuclear weapons are a "treasure of a reunified country" not to be traded for "billions of dollars," according to a statement issued by state media after the meeting. North Korea's "nuclear armed forces represent the nation's life, which can never be abandoned as long as the imperialists and nuclear threats exist on earth."

Sunday marked the first time for Kim to preside over the committee meeting, a top decision-making body tasked with organizing and guiding the party's major projects. The last plenary session was held in 2010, according to Seoul's Unification Ministry, and before that in 1993.

The plenary statement also called for strengthening the moribund economy, which Kim has put an emphasis on in his public statements since taking power. The U.N. says two-thirds of the country's 24 million people face regular food shortages.

The North also named former Prime Minister Pak Pong Ju as a member of the party central committee's powerful Political Bureau, a sign that he could again play a key role in the North's economic policymaking process. Pak reportedly was sacked as premier in 2007 after proposing a wage system seen as too similar to U.S.-style capitalism.

Pak is reform-minded and his promotion sets him up for further advancement and "for him to take the lead in the North's economic policies," said Cheong Seong-jang at South Korea's Sejong Institute.

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Follow Foster Klug at www.twitter.com/APKlug.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nkoreas-parliament-meets-amid-nuclear-tension-045319187.html

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Jake Owen: Why We Switched the Order of Olive Pearl

"We were going to name her Pearl Olive Owen," he explains. "But then her initials would have been 'POO' so we went ahead and switched that around."

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Tunable app shows musicians what pitch-perfect means as they play (video)

Musicians who've had some degree of practice will know the lack of sophistication involved in getting an instrument in tune and on time: a light-up tuning box and a swinging metronome may be their only real resources. Affinity Blue knows that mobile apps allow better, and recently unveiled Tunable as a one-stop shop for more exacting performers. The Android and iOS release provides a live graph that shows where the sweet spot is for pitch, and how closely the music has followed along for the past few seconds -- a boon for brass players, vocalists and others who need to sustain a note for more than a moment. There's also a simple tone generator and a customizable metronome that's easily seen from a distance. While it's $1 to try Tunable, that might be a pittance for anyone who'd rather spend time mastering a riff than rehashing the basics.

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