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Joy Comes With Free Laptops to Remote Australia

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xo-laptop-mali-clasrm.jpgThe dream of an American scientist who imagined a world where every child in the world had a laptop computer has gained strength in eight years, and yesterday began its great sweep across remote north Australia.

At Yirrkala Community Education Centre, the One Laptop Per Child program handed over 200 of its white and green XO compact laptops to the wide-eyed youngsters.

Over the next 12 months, the OLPC program will deliver 15,000 of the laptops to remote schools across the inland and the north.

(READ the story in the Australian) Thanks to Suzanne for submitting the link!

Newark Celebrates First Murder-Free Month in 40 Years

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cory-booker-twitter-photo.jpgFor the first time in more than 40 years, an entire calendar month has come and gone without a homicide in New Jersey’s largest city.

It’s been 32 days since a homicide took place in Newark, marking the first time there has been a slay-free calendar month in the city since 1966.

The young mayor, Cory Booker (photo, right), shouted his pride on Twitter: “Best March Madness Ever – Congrats to Newark!”

(READ more from Star Ledger, in Huffington Post)

Serbia Apologizes For Srebrenica Massacre

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hand-shake-bi-racial.jpgSerbia’s parliament approved a declaration Tuesday condemning the 1995 Serb massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, in a bid to distance the country from past warmongering under the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

The declaration passed with a slim majority of 127 votes in the 250-seat parliament, after a daylong debate.

“The National Assembly of Serbia harshly condemns the crime committed against the Bosnian residents of Srebrenica in July 1995 … expressing condolences and apology to the victims’ families because not all was done to prevent this tragedy,” the declaration says.

(READ the AP story at NPR.org)

Strains Of Love Across Pakistan-India Border

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daisies-on-table.jpgShe is Indian. He is Pakistani. Both are young and glamorous sports stars.

But the Indian tennis ace and Pakistani cricket player are making headlines off the sports field, because they are ignoring six decades of hostility between their nations, They’re getting married.

That makes them what’s known in South Asia as a “cross-border” couple, whose romance transcends rival national arguments over disputed Kashmir and religious extremism.

(READ the story in NPR.org)

Pearl Jam Offsets Carbon from Latest Tour With New Trees

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pearljam.jpgThe rock band Pearl Jam has donated $210,000 to the Seattle-based Cascade Land Conservancy for the planting of native trees and shrubs to offset the carbon footprint left behind by their 2009 US tour.

The group’s investment covers their own travel and hotel contributions, as well as the emissions by fans who travelled to dates on the 32-date jaunt.

They made similar green moves in 2006, donating $100,000 to environmental organizations to help mitigate carbon emissions from that year’s tour. Going back to 2003, they have included carbon offsets in their business plan, making amends by donating money, for instance, to preserve a Madagascar rain forest.

“A band on tour generates a lot of carbon,” said Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam’s guitarist and founder. “We are constantly moving, using carbon-dependent forms of transportation and a great deal of energy. Since 2003, we have elected to mitigate our carbon output by tracking and calculating our emissions and contributing money to projects that strategically work to improve the environment. We view this as a cost of doing business.”

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Pearl Jam Offsets Carbon from Latest Tour With New Trees

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pearljam.jpgThe rock band Pearl Jam has donated $210,000 to the Seattle-based Cascade Land Conservancy for the planting of native trees and shrubs to offset the carbon footprint left behind by their 2009 US tour.

The group’s investment covers their own travel and hotel contributions, as well as the emissions by fans who travelled to dates on the 32-date jaunt.

They made similar green moves in 2006, donating $100,000 to environmental organizations to help mitigate carbon emissions from that year’s tour. Going back to 2003, they have included carbon offsets in their business plan, making amends by donating money, for instance, to preserve a Madagascar rain forest.

“A band on tour generates a lot of carbon,” said Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam’s guitarist and founder. “We are constantly moving, using carbon-dependent forms of transportation and a great deal of energy. Since 2003, we have elected to mitigate our carbon output by tracking and calculating our emissions and contributing money to projects that strategically work to improve the environment. We view this as a cost of doing business.”

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GM Partners with U.S. to Develop Jatropha Weed for Biodiesel

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jatropha-for-oil-gnu.jpgGeneral Motors (GM) yesterday announced a five-year partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help develop the potential of the jatropha plant as a sustainable biofuel energy crop. Traditionally considered a weed, jatropha plants produce an oil that can be refined into biodiesel. The drought-resistant, non-edible plant can be grown with minimal care on marginal or eroded land.

The goal of the project is to demonstrate that jatropha can produce significant quantities of oil for conversion to biodiesel and to develop new varieties of the plant that have high yields, can withstand frost, and grow in temperate climates such as the United States.

“Discovering new sources for biodiesel production is an important part of DOE research and development efforts,” said Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. “The expertise of this team can help speed the pace for the development of jatropha as a biofuel crop.”

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Magic Helps Healing – in Hospital and on Battlefield

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medic-performs-magic.jpgA National Guard medic from Oregon has saved many people on his multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. But it was the collection of magic tricks up his sleeve that gave Scott the ability to bring smiles and healing to patients, child burn victims, and fellow soldiers. Soon, the Army had him performing for whole villages.

WATCH the video below, at MSNBC…

FARC Guerrillas Release Hostage After 12 Years

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clouds-yellow-desert.jpgA soldier held hostage for more than 12 years was freed by Colombian rebels Tuesday, the International Red Cross said.

The soldier’s father waited on an airport tarmac with his wife and four daughters: “My heart is going a thousand an hour.” The family had been anxiously awaiting Moncayo’s release since the FARC first announced last April that he planned to set him free.

Sgt. Pablo Emilio Moncayo was one of the longest-held hostages of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC. He was 19 when taken captive during a rebel attack on an army outpost in the mountains Dec. 21, 1997.

(READ the AP story at NPR.org)

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Good News for World Forests: Deforestation Slows in Last Decade

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boreal-forest-bc-gov.jpgThe Earth lost fewer trees in the last decade as global deforestation over the past ten years fell by more than 18 percent, according to the UN’s Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010.

Between 2000 and 2010, about 50,000 square miles (13mil hectares) of forests each year were converted to other uses or lost through natural causes, as compared to around 61,800 sq. miles (16mil hectares) per year during the 1990s, say the key findings of the Food And Agriculture Organization’s most comprehensive forest review to date, which studied 233 countries.

Planting of new forests has significantly reduced net loss of forests

Brazil and Indonesia, which had the highest loss of forests in the 1990s, have significantly reduced their deforestation rates. In addition, ambitious tree planting programs in countries such as China, India, the United States and Viet Nam – combined with natural expansion of forests in some regions – have added more than 27,000 sq. miles (7mil hectares) of new forests annually. As a result the net loss of forest area was reduced to 20,000 sq. miles (5.2 mil hectares) per year between 2000 and 2010, down from 32,000 sq. miles (8.3 mil hectares) annually in the 1990s.

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Good News for World Forests: Deforestation Slows in Last Decade

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boreal forest in British Columbia

boreal-forest-bc-gov.jpgThe Earth lost fewer trees in the last decade, as global deforestation over the past ten years fell by more than 18 percent, according to the UN’s Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010.

Between 2000 and 2010, about 50,000 square miles (13mil hectares) of forests each year were converted to other uses or lost through natural causes, as compared to around 61,800 sq. miles (16mil hectares) per year during the 1990s, say the key findings of the Food And Agriculture Organization’s most comprehensive forest review to date, which studied 233 countries.

Planting of new forests has significantly reduced net loss of forests

Brazil and Indonesia, which had the highest loss of forests in the 1990s, have significantly reduced their deforestation rates. In addition, ambitious tree planting programs in countries such as China, India, the United States and Viet Nam – combined with natural expansion of forests in some regions – have added more than 27,000 sq. miles (7mil hectares) of new forests annually. As a result the net loss of forest area was reduced to 20,000 sq. miles (5.2 mil hectares) per year between 2000 and 2010, down from 32,000 sq. miles (8.3 mil hectares) annually in the 1990s.

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The People’s Priest

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father-boyle-homeboy-industries.jpgCatholic Father Greg Boyle started Homeboy Industries, a nationally recognized gang rehabilitation program during LA’s “decade of death”.

With people dying around him, Boyle was unable to keep his head down and stick to his parochial duties. He felt called to work with this “sub grouping of the poor,” and in 1988 started Jobs For a Future, a training program where former gang members could learn job skills and work ethic. It was the beginning of what would become Homeboy Industries, a five business, 400 staff-strong operation with a 10 million dollar annual budget located in downtown LA, including a bakery, cafe, maintenance and merchandising operations.

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From Mansion to Mud Hut: Millionaire Sells Home to Move to Uganda

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jon-pedley-uganda-orphans.jpgA 41-year-old millionaire businessman who nearly died in a car crash eight years ago is leaving behind his exquisite 16th-century farmhouse and lavish lifestyle in London to move to a mud hut in Uganda and start a children’s charity.

Jon Pedley plans to sell his telecommunications businesses, a $1.5 million Essex farmhouse with a 1-acre garden and his furniture to raise cash for African orphans, the U.K. Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

His charity, Uganda Vision, will send troubled British children to Uganda where they will help locals orphaned by AIDS and poverty.

The self-made tycoon has a troubled past that includes a criminal record, alcoholism and affairs. He says a serious car crash in 2002 in which he almost died led him to find God.

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From Mansion to Mud Hut: Millionaire Sells Home to Move to Uganda

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jon-pedley-uganda-orphans.jpgA 41-year-old millionaire businessman who nearly died in a car crash eight years ago is leaving behind his exquisite 16th-century farmhouse and lavish lifestyle in London to move to a mud hut in Uganda and start a children’s charity.

Jon Pedley plans to sell his telecommunications businesses, a $1.5 million Essex farmhouse with a 1-acre garden and his furniture to raise cash for African orphans, the U.K. Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

His charity, Uganda Vision, will send troubled British children to Uganda where they will help locals orphaned by AIDS and poverty.

The self-made tycoon has a troubled past that includes a criminal record, alcoholism and affairs. He says a serious car crash in 2002 in which he almost died led him to find God.

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Humans Not the Only Ones Who Like to Share – Bonobos Prefer Company

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bonobos-dine-in-zoo.jpgPreviously, it was thought that sharing food with others was exclusively a human trait. But now we learn from a team of researchers about the generosity of bonobos, one of our closest primate relatives.

An experiment revealed that they were actually more likely to choose to share their food than opt to dine alone.
Scientists now hope to uncover why the bonobos volunteered to share their food, rather than dine alone.

READ the report at BBC.co.uk…

Watch the silent research video below, from Duke University

Palestinian Astrophysicist Who Rose from Poverty Returns to Teach Gaza Teens to Gaze Upward

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hubble-cats-eye.jpgSuleiman Baraka, the eldest of 14 children of a Palestinian butcher, rose from humble beginnings in violence-wracked Gaza to become an astrophysicist, space weather expert and researcher for NASA, the US space agency.

Now, at 45, he is back home with a new mission: to teach kids to look up from their blockaded, beaten-down surroundings and into the limitless beauty of the universe.

(READ the AP Story at Jerulsalem Post)

Citigroup Bailout Could Net $8B for U.S. This Year

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dollar-sign-morguefile.jpgThe Obama administration is poised to sell the nation’s stake in Citigroup, netting about $8 billion in profit.

The $25 billion in shares purchased through the TARP fund bailout of Citigroup has grown to $33B, potentially netting the US government a huge return on its investment.

The windfall expected from the stock sale would amount to a validation of the rescue plan adopted by government officials during the height of the financial panic, when the banking system neared the brink of collapse.

(READ the UPI story at Good News Economist)

Japan Pedometer Gives Incentive to Skip the Taxi

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nyc-taxis.jpgA Japanese company is selling a pedometer that calculates how much money you save on taxi fares by walking as well as the calories you burn.

(READ the story at Reuters)

Thousands of New Jobs in 4 States Put Unemployed Back to Work

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green-corps-teens.jpgThis week we featured the report that Houston-area employers added 10,300 jobs from January to February. This piece of good news is not limited to one city. In Vermont, Alabama and New York, unemployment rates are dropping and thousands of new jobs are popping up.

There is encouraging news for Vermont in the state’s department of labor report showing the unemployment rate dropping to just over 6.5 percent. The state says Vermont added about 2,200 jobs in January and February. (WTEN.com)

Encouraging signs may uplift Alabama’s jobless ranks: February employment ended a three month slide in the state and its work force grew by 11,300. The State Department of Industrial Relations says those jobs came from across the board in areas such as professional and business services, manufacturing, hospitality, government and educational and health services. (MyFoxAL.com)

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Thousands of New Jobs in 4 States Put Unemployed Back to Work

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Green Corps teens

green-corps-teens.jpgThis week we featured the report that Houston-area employers added 10,300 jobs from January to February. Well, it turns out this good news is not limited to one city. In Vermont, Alabama and New York, unemployment rates are dropping and thousands of new jobs are popping up thanks to businesses keeping themselves organized. For those businesses who need new strategies, then consider using order fulfillment solutions.

There is encouraging news for Vermont in the state’s department of labor report showing the unemployment rate dropping to just over 6.5 percent. The state says Vermont added about 2,200 jobs in January and February. (WTEN.com)

Encouraging signs may uplift Alabama’s jobless ranks: February employment ended a three month slide in the state and its work force grew by 11,300. The State Department of Industrial Relations says those jobs came from across the board in areas such as professional and business services, manufacturing, hospitality, government and educational and health services. (MyFoxAL.com)

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