Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Top 10 Vitamin D Foods!

Cod Liver Oil, Fish, Fortified Cereals, Oysters, Caviar (Black & Red), Fortified Soy Products (Tofu & Soy Milk), Salami/Ham/Sausages, Fortified Dairy Products, Eggs, and Mushrooms. 

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Most Americans think they can swim just fine, but a new survey reveals that 44% don't know basic water-safety skills--

Only 56 percent of Americans can perform the five core swimming skills, a recent survey conducted on behalf of the American Red Cross said. The steps, also known as “water competency,” include jumping or stepping into water over one’s head, returning to the surface to tread water or float for one minute, circling around and identifying an exit, swimming 25 yards to that point and then exiting the water. The Red Cross said Tuesday that it plans to instruct 50,000 people across 19 states how to swim properly, part of a new campaign to reduce the drowning rate in 50 cities by 50 percent during the next three to five years. An average of 10 people in the U.S. die from drowning each day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionIt turns out that Americans also think they are more skilled in the water than they are: 86 percent of the respondents to the same survey claimed they knew how to swim. Only 46 percent of those surveyed said they have experienced a situation in which they thought they might drown, and nearly a fifth said they knew somebody who drowned. “We’re asking every family to make sure that both adults and children can swim and that parents make water safety a priority this summer,” Red Cross Centennial Initiative director Connie Harvey said in a statement.
http://time.com/106912/red-cross-swimming-campaign/?hpt=hp_t2

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Monday, May 12, 2014

A Hole in the Sun??


A NASA spacecraft has made a surprising find on the surface of the sun: a square-shaped "hole" in the star's outer atmosphere.
The dark square on the sun, known as a "coronal hole," is an area where the solar wind is streaming out of the sun at superfast speeds. NASA captured a video of the sun's square-shaped coronal hole between May 5-7 using the powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
The coronal hole appears dark in the NASA view because there is less material emitting light in the ultraviolet range of the spectrum used to make the video, according to a NASA video description. [Biggest Solar Storms of 2014 (Photos)]
"Inside the coronal hole you can see bright loops where the hot plasma outlines little pieces of the solar magnetic field sticking above the surface," SDO officials wrote in the video description. "Because it is positioned so far south on the sun, there is less chance that the solar wind stream will impact us here on Earth."
NASA's sun-watching Solar Dynamics Observatory is just one of a fleet of spacecraft keeping a close watch on the weather on Earth's parent star. In 2013, the sun experienced its peak activity of its 11-year solar weather cycle.

Friday, May 9, 2014

Sirius Treasures

Sterling Silver plated over Copper-- 
Adjustable Ring: can be 
used for a mid-finger ring, regular ring 
or a toe ring. Adjustable to sizes 6, 7 & 8. 
SIRIUS TREASURES STORE.