The importance of horoscope

Even considering the fact that there are many other important factors that determine our luck and success, the truth is that I love to read my own horoscope every now and then so that I can know which the best days of the month are for me!

As a matter of fact, apart from the general horoscope information, I also read my diet horoscope regularly because I really love to be the first woman to be prepared for the summer and show an amazing physical form.

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The best water parks in the USA

So, do you love water parks and traveling all around the US? If you do, then you definitely need to read the msnbc.com article below and discover which are the best parks for you to visit during the summer. Moreover, it is also possible for you to read an interesting story that will give you important advice:

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By Janice Kleinschmidt

Travel from your room to shopping, dining, and entertainment without setting foot on terra firma. No you’re not on a cruise, and this isn’t Venice. You’re at Schlitterbahn Vacation Village Water park in Kansas City, Kan.

Don’t pack your bags just yet. The water park, open in June, lets you traverse the park via a waterway that Schlitterbahn calls “transportainment:” Guests float in tubes from one attraction to the next through interconnected sides, chutes, and rivers.

Operating two of the top 20 most-visited water parks in the world (top 15 in the United States), Schlitterbahn has estimated the cost of its Kansas project at $750 million. “The idea is to bring the best of all three Schlitterbahns in Texas into this location,” says Marketing Director Chris Ozimek. The park opens with 16 attractions, including Storm Blaster, a coaster ride in which jets of water push riders uphill, setting them up for a steep downhill plunge, and Torrent River which, at 1,800 feet, is the longest tidal wave river in water parks worldwide.

According to Themed Entertainment Association, the 15 most-visited water parks in the country in 2008 attracted 12.5 million people. Although it only opened in March, Aquatica in Orlando, Fla., made the list at No. 4 with 950,000 visitors. In keeping with its status as a sister park of (and right across the street from) SeaWorld, Aquatica offers more than rides. In addition to exhibits and an underwater aquarium, trainers roam the park with animal ambassadors for interaction with guests. Rafters can float in a lagoon filled with exotic fish, and thrill-seekers can race through an enclosed tube into an underwater world that is home to a pod of dolphins.

Aleatha Ezra, director of park membership development for the World Water park Association, notes an increase in mixed-use projects combining water parks and adventure sports. “Surf simulators,” she says, “is a hot trend.” Many venues combine water parks with skiing, snowmobiling, and rock climbing. Plans for Schlitterbahn’s Vacation Village include an indoor skydiving simulation and a 221,000-square-foot sports store with shooting galleries, sport simulators, and a 65-foot Ferris wheel, as well as a 16,000-gallon aquarium.

Five of the 10 most well-attended water parks in the United States reside in Florida (the top four in Orlando: Aquatica, Disney World Typhoon Lagoon, Disney World Blizzard Beach, and the country’s first water park, Wet ’n Wild). “We (Floridians) really don’t go to the beach unless we live very close—and even then some don’t go,” says Brian Szaks of Orlando, a water park devotee. He visits the local venues 20 times a year and another five or six new ones on his travels. “Daytona Beach has a water park situated literally a block from the beach, and it is packed during the summer months. Water parks offer something that the beach can’t: thrills, drops, and a guarantee that you won’t get sand in uncomfortable places.”

Szaks’ favorite—for nostalgic reasons—is Noah’s Ark in Wisconsin Dells. It’s where he went to camp every summer as a young boy. “On the way, everyone always talked about The Plunge,” he says, describing a face-first slide with an 85-foot drop. “Only a few were brave enough to do it. It was straight down and had places that leveled out. You got air time; and if you could do that, you were ‘the man.’ It was almost like a bar mitzvah.” (For the record, Szaks became “the man” at age 9).

These days, the public expects more than an 85-foot drop, and the water park industry is trying to oblige. Year-old Aquatica has a 250-foot triple-drop ride and 300-foot racing slide. One of the newest in the ever-growing cadre of water park thrills is the Tantrum. Splish Splash on Long Island, N.Y., added one this year. The TantrumTWIST features dizzying turns and twists. Riders enter Dr. VonDark’s Tunnel of Terror on WhirlyWHEEL tubes and plummet four stories in darkness, travel through a water curtain on which scary images are projected, and drop into a funnel before flying out into a pool. Another Splish Splash attraction, the Cliff Diver slide, drops you eight stories in three seconds.

As if the extreme physical aspects of the rides weren’t enough, ride developers are adding increasingly sophisticated effects to create corresponding mind-blowing experiences. Introduced last summer at Schlitterbahn’s New Braunfels Water Park, for example, The Dragon’s Revenge incorporates original music, fiber optics, spin tunnels, faux fire, animation projected on a water screen, olfactory effects (the scent of burning), and—perhaps most telling—a story line about a dragon that has escaped hundreds of years of captivity in an ancient castle.

Water park operators also cater to people who vacation in seasons other than summer and look for multiple recreational opportunities in one locale. According to Ezra, hotels with indoor water parks have been a major trend in the water park industry over the past few years, especially in the Midwest. Wisconsin Dells, Wis., extended its Memorial-Day-to-Labor-Day tourism season by becoming the nation’s water park capital with 21 parks, only two of which do not have indoor attractions.

With the Dells leading the way, Wisconsin hosts the most water parks in the country (30), followed by Minnesota (14), Michigan (12), and Iowa (10). You won’t find them in the Southwest or Southeast or Hawaii, but there is one in Juneau, Alaska.

Kalahari Resorts operates the largest indoor water park under one roof in the United States (at Sandusky, Ohio), as well as Wisconsin’s largest indoor water park in the Dells. In December, Kalahari added an indoor theme park to its Wisconsin property. “We are always looking for different things that we can do to enhance our guests’ experience,” says Kalahari President Todd Nelson.

This summer, the Ohio park introduces Safari Adventures, an outdoor zoo with giraffes, ostriches, zebras, African antelope, kangaroos, and other land-based creatures. Displacing the notion that water parks are a “one-hit wonder,” today they have become destinations that attract multi-day vacationers. “We are really in an ever-changing industry,” Nelson says.

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Lottery results in your cell phone

Even considering the fact that I travel a lot, the truth is that I would love to be rich and travel a lot more! Still, I need to win the lottery or something similar if I really want to be so rich…

Keeping this in mind, I play every week and I really hope that someday I can be the winner and realize many of the dreams that I currently have. As a matter of fact, if you live in Florida and would like to know the florida lottery results in you cell phone just a matter of seconds after the show, then you definitely need to have a look at the website above so that you can subscribe to this helpful service that will always make sure that you are able to know the results of the lottery even if you are not at home to watch it on TV.

Watch out for what you carry with you when traveling

As you have probably heard, some days ago a man was carrying a gun with him on the plane thanks to the help that he got from a friend. But was it really worth it? Is it worth trying to take things with us to the plane that we aren't allowed to carry? Below is another msnbc.com article telling you the whole story:

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PHILADELPHIA - The FBI charged a US Airways employee with helping his roommate get a concealed, semiautomatic handgun onto a plane departing Philadelphia early Thursday.

Customer service agent Roshid Milledge switched black carry-on bags with passenger Damien Young at the gate so Young could board the 7 a.m. flight to Phoenix with the unloaded 9 mm weapon, the FBI said in an affidavit.

Young, 29, was moving to Phoenix and had asked Milledge about the procedures for transporting guns. Milledge, 38, instead agreed to carry the bag through an employee entrance so it would not be screened by security.

An alert fellow passenger saw the switch and, sensing that Milledge seemed "fidgety," raised concerns. Young, already on the plane, allegedly denied to a US Airways manager that he had switched bags with anyone. The plane then started to taxi, but was soon called back to the gate so Young could be removed.

He then admitted the bag was his and both men gave statements, the FBI said. Milledge told agents he had grabbed the wrong laptop bag from their Philadelphia home that morning and was switching it back.

The gun is registered to Young, and he had a valid permit to carry it, authorities said.

The men were in federal custody late Thursday with court appearances expected in the next few days. Neither had a listed telephone number, and they did not appear to be represented by counsel.

The Transportation Security Administration declined comment because of the FBI investigation, spokeswoman Ann Davis said.

US Airways Flight 1195 departed Philadelphia several hours later. In a statement, the Tempe, Ariz.-based airline said only that additional passenger screening took place "after a concern was raised about a carry-on bag."

"We are cooperating with investigators fully and take security considerations very seriously," said the statement issued by spokesman Morgan Durrant.

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Taking the most out of Tel Aviv

Do you decide what you will be doing before you travel or do you simply let it roll? If you like to plan in advance and if you are considering the possibility of traveling to Tel Aviv then you definitely need to have a look at the msnbc.com article just below and see with your own eyes how incredibly cool your holidays will be:

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TEL AVIV - Got 48 hours to spend in Tel Aviv, the cosmopolitan, urban heart of Israeli culture?

With its vibrant nightlife, delicious eateries and Mediterranean beaches, the city tries hard to tempt visitors and next week hosts the annual conference of IOSCO — the world's financial regulators will debate ways to avoid new crises.

And there's no better time to visit than now, as Tel Aviv, dubbed the first modern Hebrew city, celebrates the centenary of its founding in 1909 by Jewish immigrants to Ottoman Palestine.

The work week starts on Sundays, so weekends typically begin Thursday night. While much of Israel closes from Friday night to Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, many shops, cafes and restaurants in Tel Aviv remain open.

Unless noted otherwise, restaurants are reasonably priced, though dinner reservations are highly recommended.

THURSDAY

6 p.m. - Start the evening with a stroll down Rothschild Boulevard. The wide promenade, named after a scion of the banking family who financed early Jewish settlements, is dotted with coffee shops, sushi stands, restaurants and the occasional street performer. Enjoy a stop at Max Brenner, now a famous chocolate chain. Its 20-page menu is dedicated just to desserts.

At the south end of the boulevard is Independence Hall, the cramped, modest building where David Ben-Gurion declared Israel's statehood in May 1948 as British rule over Palestine ended in war between Arabs and Jews. Take a detour along any small street to see some of the 1930s Bauhaus buildings that helped earn Tel Aviv a UNESCO World Heritage site designation.

8 p.m. - Enjoy dinner at Nanuchka on Lilienblum Street, a Georgian bistro nearby with unique Black Sea cuisine and charming atmosphere. As the night rolls on, the music gets louder as diners flock to the bar. There are several other pubs, nightclubs and late-night snack joints just around the corner.

FRIDAY

9 a.m. - The Hotel Montefiore in the center of town is the place to start your day. Its Israeli breakfast of eggs, cheeses, vegetables and fresh juices is a great choice and will give you energy for the entire morning.

10 a.m. - The Diaspora Museum at Tel Aviv University tells the story of the Jewish people and the communities they built as they scattered across the globe. A favorite exhibit has detailed models of synagogues from around the world.

12 a.m. - Special on Fridays are a pair of outdoor markets that run parallel to each other in downtown Tel Aviv.

The downtown area was a target of Palestinian suicide bombers in the 1990s and earlier part of this decade. But with the relative calm of recent years it has returned to become a popular spot, crowded with locals and tourists alike.

Down one street is the Carmel market, packed with food, clothes and any kind of houseware you can think of. Customers push their way through in search of the freshest fish, cheapest underwear or biggest pomelo — a giant relative of the grapefruit popular in Israel — before Sabbath begins at sunset.

Running parallel is the Nachalat Binyamin Street fair, where scores of artists sell their colorful creations, and musicians and performers entertain passers-by.

1 p.m. - Walk along Shebazi Street in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood, known for its abundance of boutiques and cafes. Take a rest and enjoy a glass of wine at Jajo Vino or just keep walking until you reach the restaurant Dallal for a delicious lunch.

3 p.m. - Head to the ancient port of Jaffa, just south of central Tel Aviv, just south of central Tel Aviv and now part of the city. It's a half hour walk down the beach, just a few minutes by cab. It still has Arab residents, though most of Jaffa's population fled fighting in 1948 and many ended up in Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, some 50 km (30 miles) to the south. Now artist studios and restaurants dominate Jaffa's Old City. They overlook the old stone harbor and Andromeda's Rock, a spot associated with the Greek myth of the princess being sacrificed to a sea monster.

4 p.m. - Have fun bargaining for all types of antiques and souvenirs at Jaffa's flea market, open late night in the summer. You can find there some good cafes and falafel/shwarma stands. Walk up the hill to St. Peter's Church, first built in 1654 and twice destroyed since. It is one of the largest buildings in the Old City. It holds daily Mass and is open to the public.

7 p.m. - Stick around Jaffa for dinner as well. For a cheaper meal, head to Dr. Shakshuka right near the clock tower, who specializes in the eponymous dish long loved by Sephardi, or Middle Eastern, Jews. From the word "shake," it's a spicy mixture of eggs, tomatoes and onions — and deceptively delicious. More pricey restaurants are also nearby, like Yoezer Wine Bar or Cordelia.

9 p.m. - Tel Aviv's own port is a newly renovated boardwalk located at the north end of the city. A lot of money was put into its development and it shows. Finish off the night in one of several outdoor bars, listening to the waves crash against the quay. If you have the energy, venture into one of the port's lounges or nightclubs. The party lasts until sunrise in Tel Aviv.

SATURDAY

10 a.m. - Enjoy a relaxed, late breakfast at the beachside restaurant Manta Ray. While it's well known, you can always tell a cab driver it's next to the Etzel Museum, commemorating one of the Jewish militant groups, also known as the Irgun, which fought British troops and local Arabs during the 1940s.

11 p.m. - Tour through the Tel Aviv Museum, which you'll notice is across the street from Israel's conspicuously located military headquarters. The museum has a wide selection of works, but most of its exhibits focus on Jewish and Israeli art. If you have extra time, see what's playing at the Opera House next door.

1 p.m. - Spoil yourself at the restaurant Herbert Samuel, on the street with the same name, overlooking the sea and promenade. You may pay a bit more for great food and service, but you are guaranteed a good time.

3 p.m. - From there, set out in search of a nice spot on the beach to sunbathe and get in some people-watching. Walk along the sections of beach, each with a different feel, until you find one that suits you. The sound of paddleball players and the high flying kites will keep you entertained.

Stop along the way for a refreshing fruit shake at Yotvata on the boardwalk. You may notice one walled-off beach designated for religious bathers — women or men only on alternating days.

The northern-most beach, Metzitzim, is a safe bet. Stay for a while, there is no better way to end your day than with a Mediterranean sunset.

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