Kenyan aid groups, with US government backing, are fighting HIV/AIDS infection in Nairobi slums using a multi-player video game. It teaches young people problem-solving in the virtual world to improve lives in the real one.
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Home prices in major U.S. cities rose for the second straight month in June in the latest sign the housing market may be steadying after years of declines.
The S&P/Case-Shiller index for home prices in 20 major cities in the three months ended June 30 was up 1.4% from its level in the three months ended May 31. It was the first time the index rose two months in a row since mid-2006. Prices gained in 18 of 20 cities, some of them very strongly. For instance, Cleveland rose 4.2% after rising 4.1% last month, so its yearly rate is now down only 3%.
(Read more in Wall Street Journal)
Ever wonder if the inspirational leaders you admire actually walk their talk? The new documentary, Spiritual Liberation, follows a day in the life of Michael Beckwith — featured in The Secret — and shows us how he lives his own evolutionary teachings every moment.
“The role of a spiritual teacher is to consistently point to the limitless possibilities available to us,” says Dr. Beckwith, frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and the founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles.
“People want to know about their purpose, why are they here on the planet? It’s the question that won’t go away, because the answer reveals that we are here to wake up, to discover our true nature — our gifts, talents and capacities — and to express them. That’s why we’re here.”
Beckwith also wrote a book, Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential, that both inspires and challenges readers to enter the journey of fulfilling their soul’s highest purpose — self-realization — and thereby to know what it means to be “radically alive”.
Now for a limited time you can receive Spiritual Liberation plus 3 additional films FREE when you sign up for a trial membership of Spiritual Cinema Circle, the positive DVD club that sends you new films every month.
Spiritual Cinema Circle is not your run-of-the-mill DVD club. Each month they feature 4 extraordinary, inspiring films — often movies you won’t find at your local theater — delivered to your home. The DVDs are yours to keep and share with others.
Forget chip fat, sugar cane or rapeseed oil – the latest source of biofuel could be watermelons.
Scientists have discovered that the fruit is a great source of sugar that can be readily distilled into alcohol to power cars and farm machinery.
And because retailers rejects 360,000 tons of “substandard” fruit annually in America alone they could be used as an economical way to make fuel.
California’s Napa Valley is home to some of the world’s finest restaurants. But one of the culinary world’s rising stars left the fancy restaurant scene to become head chef in a Bay Area soup kitchen.
Being able to touch the lives of up to 1,200 people a day appealed to him — so much so that he didn’t want to leave when his one-year commitment expired.
The United Nations is citing dramatic improvements in security in Haiti, saying that a larger, more potent police force has pushed the crime rate down and broken the hold of armed gangs over large sections of the country.
It’s not every day that we get to drive a car that could change the world. Then again, maybe this is just another bizarre footnote in the rush to develop zero-emissions vehicles.
This car runs on air, taking 2 minutes to fill up giving a 100 mile range. Cost is just 2 cents a mile and it emits zero pollution. No expensive batteries ever need to be replaced. They’re fun to drive with fast steering response and come in 3-or-4-wheeled versions. Filling stations are much cheaper to set up than hydrogen power (it’s just a very powerful air pump). Plans for extending range and power include running gasoline and air combined, with the addition of a small device.
The 2010 MDI AIRPod emits no emissions and runs on nothing but compressed air. Yes, it sounds like another one of those crackpot inventions, but we traveled to Nice, France, for an exclusive test of the world’s only “air car.” And here at the research and development center of Luxembourg-based Motor Development International (MDI), the AIRPod seems like more than just a bright idea.
(Continue reading the review at Edmunds.com)
Taxi driver Thomas Chappell has a favorite new passenger. After driving the Arizona woman to regular dialysis appointments, he suddenly shocked her with his offer to donate a kidney. But even more shocking to her, doctors said they couldn’t have been better matched unless they were siblings.
An attorney in the racially-charged trial of the Jena-6 rescued the youngest of the incarcerated youth, bringing him to New York to live with his family.
In the Deep South, Jesse Ray Beard said he was constantly in trouble — even when he behaved. Now he is 18, interns at a New York law firm, and prepares for his senior year at Canterbury School, a prep academy where he is highly regarded among peers and teachers.
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How would you like to have a fuel pump right next your house supplying “organic e-fuel” for your car made from old beer and wine? Well, that’s exactly what inventors of the E-Fuel MicroFueler in California are providing.
Sugar may be the key to fueling your car cheaply and efficiently, and there’s support for the idea in government and industry: MicroFueler buyers are eligible for a $5,000 tax credit when buying the pump.
Former L.A. Laker Shaquille O’Neal is an investor in the system’s distributor, Green House Energy, which brings the ethanol waste mix in a truck to your pump at home.
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How would you like to have a fuel pump right next your house supplying “organic e-fuel” for your car made from old beer and wine? Well, that’s exactly what inventors of the E-Fuel MicroFueler in California are providing.
Sugar may be the key to fueling your car cheaply and efficiently, and there’s support for the idea in government and industry: MicroFueler buyers are eligible for a $5,000 tax credit when buying the pump.
Former L.A. Laker Shaquille O’Neal is an investor in the system’s distributor, Green House Energy, which brings the ethanol waste mix in a truck to your pump at home.
Watch the video below, or read the story from the L.A. Times.
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Two college rowers with engineering backgrounds decided to travel 2000 miles in a self-designed rowboat from Cleveland to Key West, and work on Habitat homes along the way.
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Everyone knows solar power can heat homes and generate electricity.
But on a rooftop in Downey, Southern California Gas Co. engineers are using solar mirrors to cool down their offices.
Engineers are testing two technologies from HelioDynamics that use mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto pipes with water running through them. The heated water powers a thermal process in a chiller that cools the cold water used in air conditioning units.
Kenya’s biggest mobile phone company, Safaricom Ltd., launched the nation’s first solar-charged phone this month. The handset comes with a regular electrical charger and a solar panel that charges the phone using the sun’s rays.
Retailing at about $35, Safaricom plans to make 100,000 of the phones available in the first wave, and expects to sell out in a week.
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The nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia has received a $500,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to expand its effort to make educational information freely accessible.
“The enormous popularity of Wikipedia and its collaborative premise make the Wikimedia Foundation an ideal vehicle for spreading the open educational resources movement,” Barbara Chow, director of the education program at Hewlett, said in a statement.
Talk Talk, a British phone and broadband provider, has hired a team of 20 ex-pickpockets to put money into Londoners pockets on the sly. They call it Put-Pocketing, the act of secretly putting money into someone’s pocket without them noticing.
The video below illustrates the game. On the tube or on the street, money – ranging from a £5 to a £20 note – is placed in the pocket with an attached note from the project sponsors, TalkTalk.
Former pickpocket and now “Head of Put-Pocketing”, Chris Fitch, said: “It feels good to give something back for a change – and Britons certainly need it in the current economic climate. Every time I put money back in someones pocket I feel less guilty about the fact I spent many years taking it out. Put-Pocketing is just as much of a challenge, and requires all the same stealth and skills.”
Mark Schmid of TalkTalk said “with so many scams out there, Britons have become very sceptical of companies giving money away so we have turned to Put-Pocketing to give something back. Whilst unconventional, we dont think anyone is going to mind finding a crisp £20 in their pocket courtesy of the activity.”
Put-Pockets are given a specific ID to show to public if caught in the act, and have plain-clothed minders who will intervene to calm and explain the situation if spotted. In addition, the Metropolitan police have been briefed on the activity so Put-Pockets aren’t arrested. However, to date, no-one has been caught red-handed.
The Put-Pocketing initiative has been piloted in London since July 1st, and will continue until the end of August before being rolled out nationwide to major UK cities. (Talk Talk blog)
Tillamook Cheddar is one talented canine, showing off his talents, painting up a storm in a New York studio and making a pretty penny to boot.
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A South Florida businessman Frank Kelly learns that homeless people are not unworthy of good jobs, they simply have lost hope.
Through mock interviews, speaker training, and clothing makeovers, Kelly’s Project Vacant Streets prepares homeless citizens for new jobs. Dozens of success stories prove his method and highlight the goals of the Community Partnership for Homeless in Miami.
2,200 people are back to work at General Motors’ Lordstown Assembly Plant in northeast Ohio, the result of a surge in sales at least partly due to the government’s “Cash for Clunkers” incentive program. GM announced this week that they will be joined by nearly 1,100 more this fall. (Continue reading or listen to the story at NPR)
Elsewhere, Hyundai is bringing 3,000 workers back to an Alabama plant, and Ford is increasing production of its vehicles.
