Summer fun brings summer dangers

Summer is here and with the summer fun, comes the danger of accidental drowning.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 4000 people a year die from accidental drowning, with about 60 percent of those drownings happening in swimming pools.  "If there were more lifeguards or at least trained family members there to supervise, I would say at least 30-40 percent of those victims would have been saved" said Dr. Larry Tethers, who works with the CDC.

But someone needs to certify those lifeguards or family members.

Companies like Lifeguard Training NY do all of that and more.

"The classes we currently offer are life guarding, junior life guarding, swimming, CPR/AED, First Aid and emergency oxygen" says Lifeguard Training NY owner Mordechai Eliyahu. 
"We have students from Nassau County, Suffolk County, Brooklyn, Queens, all over New York City, all over New York to get ready for a potentially very busy summer season."

After passing the life guarding class, all students receive a Red Cross life guarding certificate that is valid for 2 years.

"Health care providers, such as doctors, nurses, paramedics and even police officers, need to get their CPR certification renewed every year and we take care of that too" Eliyahu said.

Another danger lurking in the summer is on the beach.

Riptides cause hundreds of drownings each year, but what should you do if you happen to get caught in one?

"Just relax, do not panic under any circumstances" Eliyahu said. "Your first instinct may be to swim against the current, back to shallow waters. In most cases, even if you're a strong swimmer, this will only wear you out. The current is too strong to fight head-on. Instead, swim sideways, parallel to the beach. This will get you out of the narrow outward current, so you can swim back in with the waves helping you along."

He also mentioned that if it's too hard to swim sideways while you're being dragged through the water, just wait until the current carries you past the sandbar. "The water will be much calmer there, and you can get clear of the rip current before heading back in" he said.

Why the protests in Iran will change nothing, why Ahmadinejad makes no difference and why it wont make a difference if Mousavi is Granted Victory

I am going to make this my shortest blog ever. Lets be honest. Iran's mullahs are not giving up power. If Mousavi wins, he still has the mullahs pulling his strings and anyone with a brain like some of my Iranian friends, understand this. It is terrible that people are dying because they are simply performing their G-d given right to freedom.
Well unfortunately ... to the people who like to think of it as a reverse 1979 Iranian revolution, with democracy as the end result, the army, revolutionary guards and other militia are well paid and fully support the current regime.
Personally I prefer Ahmadinejad or however you spell his name stay in power so he can keep showing the world Iran's real intentions. As Obama says, "With the mullahs in charge, theres no reason to think Iran's policy will change if the opposition wins the election, or at the very least Ahmadinejad resigns."
Iran's regime wants the bomb, most people know it and there is little the world can and will do about it. Keep in mind the irony of the fact that in 1935, the Persian Muslims wanted to show their solidarity with the Nazis so much that they changed the name of Persia to Iran, which literally means lands of the Aryans, keep in mind that they want nukes and it makes for a very scary scenario that the world must eventually be prepared to deal with.