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White House aims to boost homeowner renewable energy use
By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Monday expanded its push for greater renewable energy adoption, announcing fresh financial incentives for solar panels, smart grid technology and other alternative energies for homeowners and builders. President Barack Obama will travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, later on Monday to unveil the new steps, which include an additional $1 billion in loan guarantees for new research projects and near-term savings
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2016 Volvo XC90, Nissan Maxima Recalled for Airbag Defects, Fuel Leaks
– That whole adage to wait a model year before buying a redesigned car is not without truth, even in the days of highly computerized quality control. To that point: The all-new 2016 Volvo XC90 and 2016 Nissan Maxima, only months in production, have been recalled for two fairly serious problems, one related to faulty airbags and the other to fuel leaks. – – On the 2016 XC90, the side
Move Your Pelvis Like Elvis!
Three easy ways to move your pelvis — and open your hamstrings!By Yanoula Athanassakis and Lara Heimann In a previous post we wrote that everybody, regardless of athletic ability or injury level, seems overly concerned with hamstring flexibility. As we’d said in that post: It’s an urban myth that bending down and touching your toes means that…
New York's Rikers health intern sues after inmate attack
A former mental health intern at New York’s Rikers Island jail system is suing the city after an inmate fractured her face and broke her jaw in an attack, her attorney said on Monday. Stephanie Procell, 24, said Rikers should have done more to protect her from an unprovoked punch by prisoner Joseph McRae at the jail’s George R. Vierno Center in April 2014, attorney Michael Ronemus said. Corizon Health,
Women Are Significantly More Sleep-Deprived Than Men
“Women are significantly more sleep-deprived than men,” confirms Dr. Michael Breus, author of Beauty Sleep. “They have so many commitments, and sleep starts to get low on the totem pole. They may know that sleep should be a priority, but then, you know, they’ve just got to get that last thing done. And that’s when it starts to get bad.”…
Parent and teen weight relate to feeding practices
Parents most often pressure their teen to eat when neither they nor the teen are overweight, while when parents and teens are both overweight, parents most often use food restriction, the researchers found. Previous research has shown that when parents use restriction and pressure-to-eat feeding practices, children and adolescents are at higher risk for being overweight and having eating disorders, said lead author Jerica M. Berge of the University of