New Studies show Chocolate is Good for you and currently Romaine Lettuce is Bad.
People are still Getting Sick
After eating Romaine Lettuce
Tainted with E. coli.
April 28, 2018 The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) said Friday that the outbreak has sickened 14 more
people, bringing the total to 98 cases identified since April 10. What’s
especially concerning is that more than half of those who’ve gotten
sick have been hospitalized.
https://www.consumerreports.org/e-coli/romaine-lettuce-e-coli-cases-climb-what-you-need-to-know
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, CDC officials say they are acting out of an abundance of caution as they investigate. The reported E. coli infections began between Oct. 8 and Oct. 31, but officials said there may be even more because it takes an average of two to three weeks for illnesses to be reported.
No deaths have been reported, although 13 of those affected were sick enough to be hospitalized and one person developed kidney failure.
From the amazing skateboard house in california to the tiny apartment in hong kong, here are 10 of the most amazing homes in the world.
5 - Skateboard House, California –
Okay, this house is pretty awesome. Also called the PAS house – the initials of its designer Pierre Andre Senizerguues. This home is still in the concept phase and it’s scheduled to be built in Malibu California. The idea is to be able to skate on any surface in or outside of the house. The house will be separated into three different spaces. The first space will consist of a living room, dining room and kitchen, the second space will consist of a bedroom and bathroom, and the third space will consist of a skateboard ramp area. All of the walls in the home are a continuous surface with a smooth transition from wall and floor. Every piece of furniture within the house can be used to skate on, including the chairs, tables, kitchen island and bed.
4 - The ‘Waldspirale’, Germany –
The Waldspirale, or Forest Spiral, is located in Darmstadt, Germany and was built in the 1990’s. This residential building has over 1000 windows and each one is different. All the corners of the building, from corners of the rooms and the corners on the exterior have all been rounded. The designer of the structure once called straight lines “the devil’s tool,” and you can see this philosophy translated to the design. The tall spiraled building is crowned with a forest of many varieties of trees, from maple to lime to beech. The building was completed in 2000 – the same year the designer died.
3 - The Ennis House, California –
The Ennis House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and can be found in Los Angeles California. The house uses a textile block design and was built using interlocking concrete blocks. There are two buildings that make up the home. The first building is the main house and the second building is the chauffer’s apartment and garage. The house is 10,000 square feet and the design connects public rooms with private rooms. The house was sold in 1940 to John Nesbitt, who had Wright add a swimming pool, billiard room and heating system to the design of the house. Before the house was even completed, the house had some structural issues, including cracks and lower parts of the foundation buckling under pressure. In 2006, a grant was issued to help renovate the existing house. The house was put on the market in 2009 for $15 million and after sitting on the market for over a year, the price was reduced to around $7.5 million. The house was still on the market in 2011 with an asking price of $6 million and was finally sold to a business executive in 2011 for $4.5 million.
2 - Giant Seashell House, Mexico City –
This house would definitely get the award for most beautiful house on this list. The Giant Seashell House is located in Mexico City and is officially named the Nautilus House.
Designed by Javier Senosiain, the house was built in 2006 and highlights a colorful mosaic of beautiful every color in the rainbow. The house is home to a family of four and the inside is just as unique as the outside. The interior of the home contains plants all through the house and a spiral staircase. The design is meant to be organic and the natural curves and rounded corners are supposed to mimic the shapes found in nature.
The AURA Residence is located in Cyprus and sits on a plot of land just 1525 square meters at the water’s edge. Commissioned by Mobius Design Group, the 912 square meter house was inspired by a painting called “The Great Wave,” and it’s easy to see why. The unusual shapes and lines of the structure resemble lapping waves and was constructed using stainless metal and glass. The modern look of the house doesn’t end with aesthetics, the interior utilizes automated hi-tech systems. Some of the perks this home is equipped with are a gym, media room, swimming pool, two Jacuzzis and a yoga platform.
If you could live in any one of these crazy houses, which would you choose? Let us know in the comments below. Don’t forget to like this video and subscribe to our channel for more cool videos like this one.
Spring is (supposedly) on its way, so we want to send a little love and appreciation to all the bees out there, making our everyday possible. Join us in celebrating these 8 reasons to celebrate our tiny, but mighty friends.
Spring is (supposedly) on its way, so we want to send a little love and appreciation to all the bees out there, making our everyday possible. Join us in celebrating these 8 reasons to celebrate our tiny, but mighty friends.
1. Bees make our surroundings beeee-autiful. In addition to pollinating our crops, bees are responsible for pollinating all of the things that make spring sing. And they’re no novices - they’ve been producing honey from flowering trees (fruit trees, nut trees, and bee-yond) for 10-20 million years! From the TED-Ed Lesson TThe case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce
2. Bees are social insects. Honey bees live together in large, well-organized family groups and engage in a variety of complex tasks not practiced by solitary insects. Communication, complex nest construction, environmental control, defense, and division of the labor are just some of the behaviors that honey bees have developed to exist successfully in social colonies. And they are not the least bit lazy: one single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers each day. From the TED-Ed Lesson The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce 3. Bees are above words. They communicate through ‘dance’ and pheromones. By performing what’s referred to as the ‘waggle dance’, bees can share information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new nest-site locations. From the TED-Ed Lesson Why do honeybees love hexagons? - Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson 4. Bees make great wingmen. Bees are very busy little matchmakers. The bees’ side of the whole “birds and the bees” business is to help plants find mates and reproduce. Today, around 170,000 plant species receive pollination services from more than 200,000 pollinator species, a good many of which are bees! In return, flowering plants are an abundant and diverse food source for pollinators. For instance, fossil records suggest that bees may have evolved from wasps that gave up hunting after they acquired a taste for nectar. From the TED-Ed Lesson How bees help plants have sex - Fernanda S. Valdovinos
5.Bees put food on our tables. Bees pollinate our crops on an industrial scale, generating over one-third of U.S. food production. Their work alone has contributed an estimated $15-20 billion of value to the U.S. agricultural business. From the TED-Ed Lesson The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce
6. Bees can totally pack up a car better than you. Honeybees are some of nature’s finest mathematicians. Not only can they calculate angles and comprehend the roundness of the earth, these smart insects build and live in one of the most mathematically efficient architectural designs around: the beehive. Charles Darwin himself wrote that the honeycomb is a masterpiece of engineering. It is “absolutely perfect in economizing labor and wax.” From the TED-Ed Lesson Why do honeybees love hexagons? - Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson
7. Bees are hooked on coffee, too. When bees pollinate coffee plants, they consume low doses of caffeine from the coffee flower nectar, which means that bees are **BUZZZZZING** from a caffeine high just like us, AND helping us to get our coffee fix on the daily! From the TED-Ed Lesson The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce
8. Honeybees are disappearing at astonishing rates. Not to be a **buzzkill**, but here’s a not-so-fun fact. In the past decade, the U.S. honeybee population has been decreasing at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Bee mortality rates in commercial production have more than doubled in the last decade, and in 2015, 40% of bee colonies were reported lost in just a single year. There are a variety of factors causing Colony Collapse Disorder, and scientists everywhere are working to prevent further loss of bees. Keep reading to see how you can help. From the TED-Ed Lesson The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce
Let’s hear it for the bees!
(Let’s give the bees a ha-aa-aa-aaand!)
Love bees as much as we do? Well, give the bees a hand, for real! Plant some bee-friendly flowers this spring and remember, when bees have access to good nutrition, we have access to good nutrition through their pollination services.
More than 1,400 independent record stores in the U.S. will be celebrating the 11th annual Record Store Day Saturday and thousands more stores worldwide.
That means there are a slew of special, limited-edition vinyl releases to be scored.
Vinyl remains a vital music format even though it had gone dormant for nearly two decades.
Last year, sales of vinyl LPs accounted for $395 million, up 10% over 2016, Recording Industry Association of America says.
Want to get in on the Record Store Day action? Check the Record Store Day web site for a list of participating stores.
The ubiquitous yin-yang symbol holds its roots in Taoism/Daoism, a Chinese religion and philosophy.
The Yin, the dark swirl, is associated with shadows, femininity, and the trough of a wave. The Yang, the light swirl, represents brightness, passion and growth.
John Bellaimey explains why we all contain the spirit of yin and of yang - and how we can achieve a balance of both in our lives.
VIDEO
Meet The Creators Animation Artist Celeste Lai, Godfrey Hibbert, Lisa LaBracio Director Jeremiah Dickey Educator John Bellaimey Narrator John Bellaimey
https://www.consumerreports.org/e-coli/romaine-lettuce-e-coli-cases-climb-what-you-need-to-know
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-to-know-romaine-e-coli-outbreak_us_5bf56824e4b03b230f9d691a
