贵阳有下肢动脉硬化专科的医院(贵阳海绵状血管瘤去看什么科) (今日更新中)

In Westfield, Indiana, the city and surrounding areas are cashing in on youth sports. This Midwest town has about 40,000 full-time residents. On most weekends, however, that population more than doubles with families traveling in from across the country to play to big time competitive sports, and they're spending big bucks during their stay.“If you count hotels, gas, food, league fees, everything, ,000 to ,000 give or take,” parent Mike Williams of Imperial, Missouri says about the annual cost of competitive sports. With that kind of money, Westfield city leaders are capitalizing on what’s known as “sports tourism."To play ball, teams come to Grand Park, a massive multi-use sports complex that the city built a few years ago by investing million, turning hundreds of acres of cornfields into dozens of soccer fields and baseball diamonds.“Prior to Grand Park being here, we were kind of city without an identity,” says Westfield city spokesperson Vicki Gardner. “But now, you go places and you say Westfield and they say, ‘Grand Park.’”Gardner tells us investing in youth sports is paying off. Since its inception a few years ago, Grand Park has had a 0 million economic impact on the surrounding area. It's a number that city leaders hope to grow.“We’ve been in business for not even three years and we see about 2.5 million visits a year and we account for 92,000 hotel stays and that’s a conservative number,” Gardner said. “When people come here, they’re blown away by what they see and that’s a challenge. So, we got to get out there and let them know, tell the story of Grand Park, tell the story of Westfield.”Bub’s Burgers is one of many nearby businesses reaping some of those financial rewards. With its sales tripling during tournament time.“It’s controlled chaos but it’s constant,” Bub’s Burgers employee Jillian Isles says. To help fill these ball players’ bellies, this burger joint has added 30 jobs. But with economic growth comes growing pains. There’s new construction by entrepreneurs who are trying to cash in on spillover from the sports complex.Locals say more visitors means more traffic, but that it also means more money. “The fact that it developed so much in the last year, two years, they needed a barbershop here,” says Eli Resendez, who opened up Barbershop 32 down the street from Grand Park a few weeks ago. Resendez says he picked this location to hopefully capture customers from the visiting teams.“Most of my clientele this morning were out-of-towners,” he says. “Because of it, I have been able to thrive here very easily.” That easy money has more cities thinking about following Westfield’s business model and hoping to hit a home run in the growing sports tourism industry. 2746

It's been more than five years since Jim Stauffer's mother died in hospice care in Arizona. Seventy-three-year-old Doris Stauffer suffered from Alzheimer's disease during the last years of her life, but doctors says she didn't have the gene for it. Doctors worried the disease may have mutated, and hoped to study her brain after her passing to find out more. When the time came though, her neurologist couldn't accept the body. Her son hoped reaching out to other donation facilities could lead to the same result."I feel foolish," said Jim Stauffer. "Because I’m not a trusting person, but in this situation you have no idea this is going on -- you trust. I think that trust is what they fed on.”Biological Resource Center came to pick up his mother's body within 45 minutes of her death. “There was paperwork signed stating what was and what was not to happen with her body," added Stauffer. Days later, he received a wooden box with his mother's information and an ID number. Inside, he was told, was a majority of her ashes. Years went by before Stauffer learned what he was told, wasn't the case. Stauffer says a reporter from Reuters contacted him with documents showing a paper trail of where his mom's body really went. 1241

KEYPORT, N.J. — A pawn shop owner whose phone number was found in the pocket of one of the Jersey City, New Jersey shooters 136

It’s been more than four months since Elana Mugdan used her smartphone. Mugdan was the winner of Vitamin Water’s contest that asked participants to go smartphone free for a year for 0,000. When she found out she was selected, Mugdan was thrilled, stating, “I would love to get rid of my phone for a year and reclaim my life.”While most of us wouldn’t ditch the smartphone for an entire year, Mugdan was up for the challenge. She wasn’t completely tech-free, though. Mugdan was allowed to use a computer and a 10-year-old flip phone in case of an emergency. She says the hardest part has been navigating her way around new areas. Mugdan is an author, and she’s currently on a book tour.Her solution? “I go on Google Maps [and] print out directions,” she says.Despite some frustration, going without a phone has given her clarity and she encourages others to cut back.Mugdan recommends first limiting your screen time. Don’t check it first thing in the morning, and do not look at right before you go to bed. Even if you cut back an hour a two a day, Mugdan says, you will see and feel a difference. 1112

LAS VEGAS – Over the last 25 years, a Las Vegas woman has become a beacon of hope for midwestern kids with dreams of going to college. Christina Hixson’s scholarship sets aside class ranks and GPAs. Instead, it looks for students who exhibit resilience, potential and pure grit. Family photographs line Hixson's Vegas office. Although she has no children and she never married, hundreds of young people look to the sharp 92-year-old with love, admiration and gratitude."I don't have a lot of money anymore, but I still give away," said Hixson.In 1995, she established an educational fund for Iowa high school students, awarding one-half college tuition scholarships to one student in each of the 99 counties in the state."We do not look for the honor students,” said Hixson. “We're looking for ordinary people to make their lives better."The fund is geared toward those who face extraordinary hardships with courage and fortitude, offering them a chance to study at Iowa State University in Ames."She's looking for the student who's had to work their way through high school and isn't a star student," said Allison Severson, Director of the Hixson Award Program at ISU. She’s looking for students like Jackie Fisher. "I was a terrible student in high school,” said Fisher. “I got really bad grades. I never did my homework because I just didn't care."Once homeless, Fisher broke away from a household that discouraged education. Next semester, she’ll be the first in her family to graduate college and not with just one degree, but two."I got the scholarship and it just kind of gave me the opportunity to actually go," said Hixson.ISU sophomore Cinestie Olson battled through depression and anxiety to become a Hixson scholar. "That was really difficult to go through so I just had to keep reminding myself you know keep going, you have college ahead of you, like you can totally change your life after this."Perhaps most interesting is that Hixson inherited the seed money for the foundation from her boss, businessman and philanthropist Ernst F. Lied. He died without heirs or instructions on what she was to do with the money."I hope he would be pleased with what we've done," said Hixson.A small box of notecards helps keep track of just how much money she's donated to a handful of colleges and universities. "We've given away 8,238,404," said Hixson.Hixson says faith in what these students will do with their gifts is why they were chosen. "Extraordinary things are done by ordinary people given a chance,” said Hixson. 2543

来源：资阳报