jayparkinsonmd:

newsweek:

America’s Fattest States – 2009

Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity at 32.5 percent, making it the fifth year in a row that the state topped the list. Colorado continued to have the lowest percentage of obese adults at 18.9 percent.

Mississippi also had the highest rate of obese and overweight children (ages 10 to 17) at 44.4 percent. Minnesota and Utah had the lowest rate at 23.1 percent.

According to this report, Eight of the 10 states with the highest rates of obese and overweight children are in the South. Adult obesity rates now exceed 25 percent in 31 states and exceed 20 percent in 49 states and Washington, D.C. Two-thirds of American adults are either obese or overweight.

Sleeping at Last - Chandeliers

“When all of the pieces align,
When the balance is clearly defined,
We’ll sigh and we’ll settle down
For the first time

But held in museum display,
Time pulls us further away.
And when we rebuild it,
All of the details fade.

Into the tide,
Where the sun fills our eyes,
Only silhouettes
Will remain in the place
Where our rare bird of grace appeared.”

This song makes me want to cry.

(via topherchris)

electricpower:

Using federal grants and getting the community involved are the two biggest ways that solar is powering up in Austin. Incentives to install solar panels on homes are there if you look, and that’s the trick. There’s an upside to offering your home up as an experiment: you may be a guinea pig for working out the kinks of community-wide solar use, but you’re issuing in the renewable energy era.

According to one Austin resident interviewed in this Statesman article, at today’s costs, installing a solar array on your own roof will pay for itself in seven short years, but only because of subsidies from the government (local and federal) that will pay 80 percent of the cost.

To get the best deal on panels, Austin homeowners at the Mueller development are going in together on the panels to get a better price. Which means that the most effective way to harness solar power for your own home is to get involved with your neighborhood and encourage others to do the same.

For more, be sure to check out the Austin American-Statesman’s article here, or listen to another local angle on the same development at KUT 90.5 here.

(Image: Deborah Cannon for AMERICAN-STATESMAN.)

Originally posted at Re-Nest/Amber Byfield

(via Apartment Therapy Unplugged)

Golden Gate Bridge

hrrrthrrr:

Oh, The Temptation

2 Hidden Cameras
A bunch of Kids
1 Marshmallow each

ilovecharts:

thehwangspot:

Obama is not a socialist. Shut up.

boomshockalocka:

At President Obama’s health insurance reform rally today in Minneapolis. More pictures to come later, but first, the Gophers first home game in their new outdoor, on campus stadium!

iaminlikewithmybike:

danij12:

Want!

dudeseriously:

the best.