Funny man Ben Aaron, a TV reporter and all-around nice guy at NBC’s LXTV San Diego, shows us a new fitness craze he has developed that he calls DANCE WALKING.
Ben’s Dance Walking concept is taking off.
“Schools are showing the Dance Walk video to their students,” he posted on his Facebook page. “They’re playing music through the loud speakers in the hallways so everyone can dance walk to their next class.”
Sometimes change happens in the most unlikely ways, fostered by the most unlikely of people. In the last few years, while Israel’s relationship with the Arab and Muslim world has drastically deteriorated, an Israeli heavy metal band has been uniting thousands of Jews and Muslims across the Middle East.
Orphaned Land, Israel’s biggest heavy metal band, is credited both with pioneering the genre of Middle Eastern metal and garnering thousands of fans in Muslim-majority and Arab countries, including Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, despite the fact that their music is banned in many of those countries.
Sometimes change happens in the most unlikely ways, fostered by the most unlikely of people. In the last few years, while Israel’s relationship with the Arab and Muslim world has drastically deteriorated, an Israeli heavy metal band has been uniting thousands of Jews and Muslims across the Middle East.
Orphaned Land, Israel’s biggest heavy metal band, is credited both with pioneering the genre of Middle Eastern metal and garnering thousands of fans in Muslim-majority and Arab countries, including Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, despite the fact that their music is banned in many of those countries.
Seven hundred million pigs produce a lot of manure.
China’s love of pork presents a mountain of a problem for the environment, but an Australian company believes it has part of the answer.
Why not turn the pig poo into power?
The economy of Iceland is growing at a clip that has surprised many people. A number of carefully planned steps has brought its fiscal deficit of more than 10 percent back to a near balance.
An export and tourism boom, growing consumer confidence, progressive taxes, as well as a phasing-in of austerity measures were also key to getting the country back on track.
Until now, building an NFL team roster was all about business, and never sentiment. This week the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach is receiving praise for an unconventional, yet inspiring choice to fill his pre-season roster.
A college football player critically injured and paralyzed during a 2010 game has served as an inspiration to his Rutgers teammates and fans, battling back from a debilitating injury. Now he can be a national inspiration to others with spinal cord disabilities.
Until now, building an NFL team roster was all about business, and never sentiment. This week the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach is receiving praise for an unconventional, yet inspiring choice to fill his pre-season roster.
A college football player critically injured and paralyzed during a 2010 game has served as an inspiration to his Rutgers teammates and fans, battling back from a debilitating injury. Now he can be a national inspiration to others with spinal cord disabilities.
Glimmers of hope are coming to the devastated capital of Haiti and its surrounding cities, as at least seven hotels are under construction or in the planning stage. The hotels have raised hopes that thousands of investors will soon fill their air-conditioned rooms looking to build factories and tourist infrastructure that will help Haiti bounce back from the 2010 earthquake.
Advocates of renewable energy have been trying unsuccessfully to pitch a new federal program in gridlocked Washington. But, in the states, progress in Hawaii, as well as the Connecticut Legislature’s near-unanimous approval last year of a similar program, have sparked optimism in the renewable energy sector that states will support the industry as federal funding fades.
“States are getting creative,” says Lew Milford, president of Clean Energy Group, a non-profit organization that advocates for increased energy efficiency. But their meager resources can’t match the funding once doled out from Capitol Hill. “You’ve got to figure out how to make the money go farther,” he says.
That means moving away from providing simple grants and subsidies. It’s what energy officials in Connecticut are aiming to do nearly one year after Governor Dan Malloy signed a bill that created what energy officials dub the “Green Bank,” or more formally, the Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority.
Manufacturing grew in April at the strongest rate in 10 months, easing concerns the economy had lost momentum at the start of the second quarter.
New orders, production, and a measure of hiring all rose, according to the Institute for Supply Management. Its index of national factory activity rose to 54.8 from 53.4 in March. The figure topped expectations for the reading to decline to 53.0 and was also above the top end of forecasts in a Reuters poll.
When asked to reveal the secret to her longevity, Bea Abrams Cohen credits her do-good attitude, helpfulness toward others, and the power of prayer.
The chatty 102 year-old has worked for more than seven decades supporting philanthropic organizations and especially the U.S. military, since her service in World War II.
She was recently recognized at a state Capitol celebration in California during Women’s Military History Week honoring the achievements of women in the armed forces.
“As a real-life ‘Rosie the Riveter’ and American soldier, I was able to pay back this country that I love for allowing me to become an American”
(READ the story in the L.A. Times – WATCH the video below, and see her biography from KCET)
Hometown hero Dr. John helped close out the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Sunday by jumping on piano during Bruce Springsteen’s headlining set for a funky rendition of “Something You Got.”
Afterward, Springsteen acknowledged the Doctor’s unmatched piano work. “It’s all about that groove. You can’t make that groove exactly in New Jersey. That’s all there is to it,” laughed Springsteen.
Earlier in the day, 71-year-old Dr. John, who this year was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, jammed with his 10-piece band looking dapper and lively.
Gene Gregory and Wayne Pacelle are the odd couple of American agriculture.
“We were adversaries. Some might say bitter adversaries,” says Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States.
These days, though, he and Gene Gregory, president of the United Egg Producers, are allies, walking shoulder to shoulder into offices on Capitol Hill, asking Congress to approve new rules for egg farmers.
More than $1 billion is headed to American consumers and employers this summer from their insurance companies thanks to a part of the federal health law that requires a rebate from plans that don’t spend at least 4 of every 5 premium dollars on medical care.
Rebates from health plans that spent too much on administrative overhead should arrive by August, and be tax free for the recipients, according to rules that are part of the Affordable Care Act signed into law two years ago by President Obama.
Seeking to reclaim her world record for oldest paraglider from a newcomer to the sport, a 101-year-old Utah woman who sailed to the Guiness World Book last month, 104-year-old Peggy McAlpine successfully jumped off a 2,400ft cliff two weeks ago.
The British centenarian refused to allow her legacy to be unceremoniously usurped, and so arranged for a repeat of her previous tandem paragliding adventure.
Seeking to reclaim her world record for oldest paraglider from a newcomer to the sport — a 101-year-old Utah woman who sailed to the Guinness World Book last month — 104-year-old Peggy McAlpine successfully jumped off a 2,400ft cliff two weeks ago.
The British centenarian refused to allow her legacy to be unceremoniously usurped, and so arranged for a repeat of her previous tandem paragliding adventure.
The skyscraper constructed to replace the twin towers destroyed in the September 11 attacks has become New York’s tallest building now that a final steel column has been lifted into place.
One World Trade Center is again the tallest building in New York, and third tallest in the world, extending more than 1,250 feet into the air (with the goal of standing 1776 feet tall when finished, commemorating the year the Declaration of Independence was signed).
The hunger and pain weren’t the worst of Victoria Grover’s ordeal as she shivered alone for four days with a broken leg and no food in Utah’s rugged wilderness.
The toughest challenge the 59-year-old faced was the severe cold which left her suffering with hypothermia as nighttime temperatures dropped to the low 30s in the high desert.
(WATCH the video below)
Russia’s richest woman, Elena Baturina, is investing $100 million in a new “creative think-tank” devoted to improving the world.
Dubbed Be Open, its noble aim is to stimulate innovation and creativity among young designers and improve sustainability while building bridges between Russia and the rest of the world.
She says she hopes her project, which launched April 16, will enable “the next generation to live in a beautiful, kind world by identifying solutions to major social issues and then developing them from concept stage to realization.”
The initiative that aims to harness the great minds in the arts, education, design, business and the media – and asks them to imagine and then build solutions for the future. The project will integrate international conferences, competitions, exhibitions, master classes, cultural and art events from its website, BeOpenFuture.com.
Their upcoming conferences, offering free admission, will take place in New York (May 2012) and London (September 2012), coinciding with those city’s established design weeks.
The conferences will be streamed live on the website. To attend the conferences, please register online at www.beopenfuture.com.
In April, three winners were announced in the first BE OPEN Awards, to promote young creative talent:
In first place is ALEXANDRA GINEVA from Russia, who receives a grant of 10,000 euros for the implementation of her project, which combines a futuristic winery, vineyard and spa.
Second place goes to ALBERTO VASQUEZ from Hungary, for an innovative public lighting project powered by a vertical wind turbine, to serve off grid locations.
In third place is MICHAL WROBLEWSKI from Poland, for an ingenious graphic design scheme for Polish television giant NTL.
Russia’s richest woman, Elena Baturina, is investing $100 million in a new “creative think-tank” devoted to improving the world.
Dubbed Be Open, its noble aim is to stimulate innovation and creativity among young designers and improve sustainability while building bridges between Russia and the rest of the world.
She says she hopes her project, which launched April 16, will enable “the next generation to live in a beautiful, kind world by identifying solutions to major social issues and then developing them from concept stage to realization.”
