A train-crazy youngster has landed his dream job after applying for the position of Director with the National Railway Museum in York, England.
Six-year-old Sam Pointon from Leicester wrote to the museum after he had read about the retirement of director Andrew Scott.
Bosses were so taken with his enthusiasm they created a role for him on the museum board: “Director of Fun”.
(READ the story in the BBC)
On the 17th anniversary to mark the start of the Rwandan genocide, read the story of Carl Wilkens — the only American to stay in the country — who remained behind to protect Tutsi friends.
Carl was inside his home in Rwanda with his family when Hutu militia arrived on the second day of the genocide, carrying machetes, clubs and rifles. They didn’t get past the front gates.”
“Mothers and grandmothers from the neighborhood rushed down the dirt road to stand outside the house, refusing to let the killers enter. “They’re good people,” the women explained, “Their children play with our children. They bring us to the hospital at night when we are sick.”
Why did he decide to stay in Rwanda when he knew that things were on the verge of exploding?
Two Tutsis had lived with Carl and his wife for three years and would almost certainly be killed if the Wilkenses left.
(READ the profile at Huffington Post)
Women suffering from hot flashes associated with menopause may have another alternative to hormone replacement therapy.
Leslie, a busy businesswoman in Vancouver, found her hot flashes and sleep deprivation debilitating until she finally tried acupuncture.
“I knew I didn’t want to take hormone therapy, but hot flashes and night sweats were waking me up almost every night, and I was finding it really hard to function during the day.”
“After my treatment with acupuncture I started feeling better, and after a few weeks of acupuncture treatments and Chinese herbal therapy, I noticed major relief. The number of hot flashes decreased dramatically, and I was actually sleeping through the night.”
One study, conducted by the Ankara Training and Research Hospital in Ankara, Turkey, documented similar outcomes with acupuncture. It included 53 postmenopausal women. Twenty-seven of the women received traditional Chinese acupuncture for 20 minutes, twice a week for 10 weeks. The rest believed they were given acupuncture treatment, but the needles didn’t actually penetrate their skin. The women who received real acupuncture showed significant drops in the severity of their hot flashes.
The result of another study, presented by the National Research Center in Alternative and Complementary Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway, showed “significant reduction in the severity and frequency of hot flushes in postmenopausal women undergoing a 12 week course of acupuncture.”
Researchers are still trying to understand how this 2000-year-old treatment affects menopausal symptoms.
According to Lorne Brown, clinical director of Acubalance Wellness Centre in Vancouver, “Studies have shown that acupuncture appears to bring hormones into balance and reduce anxiety through a process called homeostatic regulation: buffering hormonal disturbance and stimulating feel-good endorphins.”
Dr. Jerilynn Prior, UBC professor of endocrinology, author and world expert on women’s hormones, states: “This research supports a large body of anecdotal evidence that acupuncture can safely relieve hot flushes and night sweats–it may ‘work’ by decreasing the stress responses that we know make hot flushes worse.”
For Leslie, acupuncture has allowed her to resume her life. “Not only am I getting relief from hot flashes and the overwhelming fatigue and exhaustion, but I’m so glad to have the option of a safe, effective treatment for my menopause symptoms that actually improves my overall health.”
Terje Alraek of the University of Tromsø says in a press statement: “After menopause, 10% – 20% of all women have nearly intolerable hot flushes. The promising results of the Acuflash study suggest that acupuncture can help.”
The 2,000-year-old Chinese tradition has already become popular in the West for the reduction of symptoms related to arthritis, back, neck, knee and shoulder pain, and even infertility.
Women suffering from hot flashes associated with menopause may have another alternative to hormone replacement therapy, according to two new studies showing that treatment with acupuncture significantly reduces the severity and frequency of hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause.
Leslie, a busy business woman in Vancouver, found her hot flashes and sleep deprivation debilitating until she finally tried acupuncture. “I knew I didn’t want to take hormone therapy, but hot flashes and night sweats were waking me up almost every night, and I was finding it really hard to function during the day.”
Hyperactivity. Fidgeting. Inattention. Impulsivity. If your child has one or more of these qualities on a regular basis, you may be told that he or she has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Many kids with ADHD are treated with drugs, but a new study says food may be the key. Published in The Lancet journal, the study suggests that with a restrictive diet, kids with ADHD could experience a significant reduction in symptoms. By limiting themselves to reliable supplements, like CBD made for kids with ADHD and anxiety, one is able to reduce symptoms by 44% after a week of regular dosing.
Teachers and doctors who worked with children in the study reported marked changes in behavior. “In fact, they were flabbergasted.”
(READ the story in NPR.org)
When Regina Mayer’s parents dashed her hopes of getting a horse, the resourceful 15-year-old didn’t sit in her room and sulk. Instead, she turned to a cow, offering hours of training, tons of treats, cajoling and caresses.
The two are now soul mates and their daily routine involves grooming, petting, jumps and a roughly one-hour ride
(WATCH the video below)
When Regina Mayer’s parents dashed her hopes of getting a horse, the resourceful 15-year-old didn’t sit in her room and sulk. Instead, she turned to a cow, offering hours of training, tons of treats, cajoling and caresses.
The two are now soul mates and their daily routine involves grooming, petting, jumps and a roughly one-hour ride
Today President Obama is travelling to the Philadelphia area to hold a town hall event with employees at Gamesa Technology Corporation, a manufacturer of large-scale wind turbines, to further discuss the U.S. energy future.
In addition to his goal for increasing the US renewable energy portfolio and decreasing dependence on oil, energy efficiency ranks as vitally important for the country.
Not just in homes and buildings, Philadelphia has revved up its energy efficiency campaign in the streets.
Today President Obama is travelling to the Philadelphia area to hold a town hall event with employees at Gamesa Technology Corporation, a manufacturer of large-scale wind turbines, to further discuss the U.S. energy future.
In addition to his goal for increasing the US renewable energy portfolio and decreasing dependence on oil, energy efficiency ranks as vitally important for the country.
Not just in homes and buildings, Philadelphia has revved up its energy efficiency campaign in the streets.
Every state is the best at something. Wyoming has the cleanest air, California is safest for workers, and Colorado has the lowest obesity rate. Wisconsin can boast the highest graduation rate and Ohio, the highest library usage (but, who knows how long it will endure with layoffs and lower salaries on the horizon in those struggling states). Florida offers the most affordable in-state college tuition.
Spring means breeding season for toads and, in Philadelphia, that means closing off a city street so the tiny creatures are safe from traffic as they seek their mates.
Each year for the month of April, 150 volunteers organize the Toad Detour in the city’s Roxborough neighborhood, where American toads leave the woodlands of the 350-acre Schuylkill Center to breed across the road at an old reservoir.
New diets for cows and sheep could reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, research funded by Britain’s Department for environment shows.
Feeding the animals maize silage, naked oats and higher sugar grasses could reduce the amount of methane they produce, which is harmful to the environment and accounts for nine percent of all British greenhouse gas emissions.
25 tons of leftover food each year was dumped into landfills following Boston Bruin hockey games alone. Now, the lasagna and pizza, Italian sausage and panini sandwiches are donated to the Boston Rescue Mission to feed the city’s hungry, and the entire National Hockey League has followed suit.
Syd Mandelbaum began 21 years ago in Long Island, NY funneling donations of “rock star’ quality leftover food directly to a soup kitchen that he helped found in 1987. It was the opening chorus in a great symphony of charity and recycling that became “Rock and Wrap it Up”.
25 tons of leftover food each year was dumped into landfills following Boston Bruin hockey games alone. Now, the lasagna and pizza, Italian sausage and panini sandwiches are donated to the Boston Rescue Mission to feed the city’s hungry, and the entire National Hockey League has followed suit.
Syd Mandelbaum began 21 years ago in Long Island, NY funneling donations of “rock star’ quality leftover food directly to a soup kitchen that he helped found in 1987. It was the opening chorus in a great symphony of charity and recycling that became “Rock and Wrap it Up”.
With higher gas prices becoming a recurring reality, you should follow these tips to help reduce the amount of gas you use. Including advice about cruise control and what kind of gas and oil you should buy, these tips can save you money
1) Don’t Drive Like You Have a Dying Man in the Car Unless you Do
Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration and braking) wastes gas. It can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds and by 5 percent around town. Sensible driving is also safer for you and others, so you may save more than gas money.
With higher gas prices becoming a recurring reality, you should follow these tips to help reduce the amount of gas you use. Including advice about cruise control and what kind of gas and oil you should buy, these tips can save you money
1) Don’t Drive Like You Have a Dying Man in the Car Unless you Do
Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration and braking) wastes gas. It can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds and by 5 percent around town. Sensible driving is also safer for you and others, so you may save more than gas money.
A 10-year-old Pittsburgh boy took $8,500 out of his college education fund to buy the Super Bowl XX ring that once belonged to former NFL standout “Refrigerator” Perry.
“I Googled Mr. Perry and saw that he had a disease and had to sell it because of rough times,” he said. “I thought he would want it more than I did.”
Mixing 70 percent animal fat, and 30 percent used cooking oil, Pennsylvania’s largest biodiesel plant is on track to produce a record 40 million gallons of fuel this year, enough to rank among the nation’s five busiest plants.
Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture toured the Erie-based Hero BX plant last week, where trucks and trains refuel and 40 employees work round the clock, 365 days a year.
The Tata Group announced a collaboration with MIT scientist Daniel Nocera, founder of SunCatalytix, to develop an electrical power source that uses only minute quantities of water. Through a technique that mimics photosynthesis the process may be able to meet the entire planet’s electricity demands for one day using only a swimming pool-sized container of water.
The process splits hydrogen from water to generate power from the sun.
The Tata Group announced a collaboration with MIT scientist Daniel Nocera, founder of SunCatalytix, to develop an electrical power source that uses only miniscule quantities of water. Through a technique that mimics photosynthesis the process may be able to meet the entire planet’s electricity demands for one day using only a swimming pool-sized container of water.
The process splits hydrogen from water to generate power from the sun.
