Taking ice baths post-exercise seems to be the most popular method of reducing delayed onset muscle soreness for novice and elite athletes. This method, known scientifically as cryotherapy, is growing to be more popular than traditional ones such as massage, stretching, or taking non-steroidal…
I know it’s a cliché, but that view was too gorgeous, I couldn’t help it, I simply had to try this shot.
The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) used ARRA funding to help secure the safety and security of all New Yorkers and visitors who use our waterways. With this funding, the FDNY purchased three fast response fireboats as well as the City’s first medical response boat. The fast response fireboats are an excellent resource for response to shallow areas, such as those near New York airports.
FDNY is particularly excited about deploying the medical response boat (pictured above), which allows for patient pre-hospital care on the water. The boat can get to medical emergencies on the water swiftly and, at 31 feet long, it has room to treat patients. It is the first vessel in the FDNY’s fleet that will be certified as a waterborne ambulance. The boat has the same properties and capabilities as land-based ambulances.
All of the FDNY’s ARRA-funded fireboats are technologically advanced and have state-of-the-art features. They are equipped with night vision and heat detection to help responders locate victims in the water. Plus, with powerful 1000+ gallons-per-minute pumping capacity, they will be an enormous firefighting asset. The medical response boat also has a customized cabin so that responders can stabilize patients for safe transport.
Fire Department of New York, Port Security Grant Program - Fireboat Purchase and Technology Upgrade
In order to succeed in life, you have to make two decisions. First, you must decide what you really want. You have to get in touch with your truest, deepest desires, reaching the point where you’re able to tune out anyone who would reject you for wanting what you want. Desire must be all the reason you need. Secondly, you must decide that you and you alone will make it happen no matter what.— Steve Pavlina
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Just be Happy, why wait?
Everything that I think that I need to do is all only in order to propel me to some place that when I get there, I think I will be happier. So, everything that I am doing, no matter what it is, all of my lists of rights and wrongs… are all about me getting to a manifestation that I believe I will then be happier… So, why don’t I take a short cut and just go get happy?
—- Abraham
Great documentary on the failures of BP and the risks they took looking for high profit margins.
APRIL 20, 2010: Deepwater Horizon Explosion
Two years ago today, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caused a massive oil spill that would last for months in the Gulf of Mexico.
Soon after the spill, FRONTLINE and ProPublica set out to joint investigate the trail of problems that led to the disaster, including deadly accidents and countless safety violations which long troubled the oil giant, BP.
Could the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have been prevented?
Watch “The Spill” right here and read Azmat Khan’s “Do We Need a ‘Death Penalty’ for Negligent Oil Companies?”
