Take A Cold Shower
A 15-minute cold shower can potentially help one lose up to 350 calories by activating brown adipose tissue and increasing metabolic rate. The second story highlights Charlotte’s initiative, Loved Before, a soft toy adoption agency in London, which refurbishes and resells donated stuffed animals, with half of the profits going to charity. The third news item reveals the discovery of the SS Nemesis shipwreck, lost since 1904 with 32 crew members, found untouched. The fourth story celebrates the significant increase in the population of the orange-bellied parrot, a species previously near extinction, returning to Tasmania. Lastly, the script divulges Wallet Hub’s report on the happiest cities in America, with Fremont, California, topping the list.
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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm
Johnny Mack with five new stories. Good
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news. I can tell you how
to lose up to three hundred and fifty
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calories. You don't have to do
much. All you have to do is
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stand there. But you're not gonna
do it all right? How does this
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work, Johnny Mack? You take
a fifteen minute cold shower. Scienceists,
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this is what they do. Have
noticed that cold water activates brown adipose tissue
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known as bat or bat, which
can notably increase energy consumption. Research has
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shown that mild cold exposure at sixty
six degrees can increase caloric expenditure daily by
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around one hundred to two hundred calories. Taking a chili shower can cause a
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temporary rise at metabolic rate by as
much as fifteen percent. A fifteen percent
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increment could increase calorie burned to approximately
one point one five to one point seventy
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two five calories per minute during the
exposure. Or you know, skip the
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tic tac. Nice job by Charlotte. She was volunteering at a thrift shop
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in London. She noticed many of
the boxes dropped off by people were piled
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high with stuffed animals, but a
lot of the stuffed animals were thrown away,
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she said. As somebody with an
affinity to stuffed animals, I knew
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they had sentimental and emotional value,
and I hated to see them thrown away.
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I was sad to learn most of
them ended up at the landfill.
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She created Loved Before, a company
she describes as a soft toy adoption agency.
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It cleans up donated plushies and resells
them online for an average of ten
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to fifteen dollars plus shipping. In
the past five years, she's collected more
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than sixty thousand animals that she's cleaned
up and sent to new homes. That's
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awesome. She has donated fifty percent
of her profits to charity. She says,
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it doesn't matter if toys are old
or battered or worn, We'll find
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them homes. Sergey said, My
family and I were moving, and as
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I was sorting through my bedroom,
I realized how many soft toys I had.
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I didn't donate them because I didn't
love them anymore. It was because
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I loved them very much and wanted
them to go on adventures with new friends.
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They deserve better than staying in boxes
for decades. Charlotte says, before
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the animals are posted, they go
through a high temperature steam cleaning summer,
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photographed wearing eye patches and talohead wraps
to show that they've been to a spa.
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If they need it, some of
them will get extra grooming, stuffing
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and repairs. They work on fifty
two one hundred every day. Each one
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takes between one and five hours to
refurbish. She says, they just need
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a little love so they can be
cherished by another child. I'd love this
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story so much. A mystery ship
that vanished with thirty two Creup members has
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been found after one hundred and twenty
years. The SS Nemesis That's a Great
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Name was transporting cold to Melbourne in
July of nineteen oh four. It got
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caught in a powerful storm off New
South Wales and disappeared without a trace,
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along with its thirty two crew members. Recently, Subse Professional Marine Services,
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which is a remote sensing company searching
the ocean floor, accidentally stumbled across the
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Nemesis. It was found completely untouched. Good news if you're an orange bellied
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parent. In twenty sixteen and only
three wild female orange billied parrots returned to
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the breeding ground in Tasmania after migrating
to Australia. This year, eighty parrots
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have returned, the most in fifteen
years. The bird had been almost declared
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functionally extinct. Conservationists continue to work
on improving juvenile mortality rates. Wallet Hub
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has a new report, It's the
Happiest Cities in America. They compared one
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hundred and eighty of the largest US
cities and rated them on three dimensions one
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emotional and physical well being, two
income and enjoyment, three community and environment.
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The top twenty best cities in America
are twenty Bismarck, North Dakota nineteen,
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Lincoln, Nebraska, Seattle, Washington, Portland, Maine, Fargo,
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North Dakota, San Diego at fifteen, Gordon Crew of California at fourteen,
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Minneapolis, Haunting in Beach, Sioux
Falls, Your top ten, Scottsdale,
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Arizona, Columbia, Maryland, Pearl
City, Hawaii, San Francisco, Honolulu,
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Irvine, California, Madison, Wisconsin, San Jose, The Overland Park,
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Kansas, and the best city in
America for happiness Fremont, California.
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And those Your five good news stories
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