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Couple Marks 66th Anniversary With $15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel Room

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Fioravantes couple 1948Tony and Jo Fioravante will celebrate their 66th wedding anniversary today the same way they spent their wedding night, with a stay at the luxurious Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan — and the Park Avenue room will cost the couple just $15.75.

The Staten Island couple, who kept their original receipt from 1948, will pay the same rate this year, even though the room rates in 2014 start at $799.

The Fioravantes are cashing in on the hotel’s long-standing tradition of honoring the original rate for couples celebrating an anniversary of 50 years or more who spent their wedding night at the Waldorf and kept the receipt after all those years.

Ring Found in Frozen Pipes Returned in Time for 40th Anniversary

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wedding ring with sapphires-KGO-TVAn Illinois couple wrote a letter saying “Hooray for ice storms” after what they found while dealing with frozen pipes in their kitchen sink last week.

Willowbrook residents Tara Catogge and her husband Ian Comes found someone’s diamond and sapphire ring.

The honest couple immediately called the previous homeowners, who, it turns out, thought they had lost the wedding ring outside.

Random Stadium Seats Leads to Life Saving Donation

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Football buddies organ transplant-UC-SanDiegoIn October 2013, Louis Munoz donated one of his kidneys to William Lynch. The organ match would not have occurred without a bit of serendipity and a big love of football.

Munoz and Lynch hadn’t seen each other in years – then they found themselves randomly seated next to each other with season tickets for San Diego Chargers games.

“Louis and I knew each other as kids and then lost touch. Years later, by surprise, we ended up sitting right next to each other at Chargers games,” said William, a middle school teacher.

Number of Gray Whales Seen Migrating South Doubles From Year Ago

The number of gray whales spotted migrating south off the Southern California coast in December was double what it was compared with the same period last year, reflecting a possible population boom for the once endangered species. (LA Times)

Injured Skier Lindsey Vonn Adopts Shelter Dog With a Bum Knee

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Lindsey Vonn with shelter dog-Twitpic-WPBFOne day after announcing she was withdrawing from the Sochi Winter Olympics because of a bum knee, Lindsey Vonn adopted a shelter dog.

When asked why she picked this dog and if she felt any special kinship with the pup she said, “He has a bum knee, just like me.”

Vonn, America’s downhill skiing sweetheart who will soon undergo surgery to repair her injured right knee, finalized the adoption of Leo, a brindle boxer mix she initially saw on the day before Christmas.

(READ the full story from GrindTV.com)

Photo credit: Twitpic by Randy Gyllenhaal of WPBF

Thanks to Joel Arellano for submitting the link on our Facebook Page!

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Kentucky Facebook Users Rally to Help Homeless Woman Find Shelter in Cold

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homeless bag lady Dorothy-FBphoto-ConnieMillerOver the years, a homeless woman known as Dorothy with her carts filled with plastic bags became a familiar fixture to Lexington residents.

She had always refused any invitation to accept food, water or indoor shelter. She preferred to sleep outside, whatever the weather.

But things changed this past weekend, with the approaching arctic blast and its promise of temperatures that could induce frostbite.

ABC News Gets Insurer to Cover Cochlear Implants for Kids

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cochlear implant covered by insurance-ABCvidA kindergartner has shown dramatic improvement in school in just a few months after ABC News stepped in and asked his family’s insurance company to pay for a cochlear implant so the child hearing disability could be cured.

His parents told ABC that they worried the condition would not only damage his intellectual development but also endanger his safety.

Carson Rubin, 5 now laughs and plays like other kids, since Coventry Health Care agreed to cover the $250,000 procedure after repeated requests for an on-camera interview.

The Georgia branch of the company announced it will also cover the procedure for all its commercial clients beginning April 1.

(WATCH the video or READ the story from ABC News)

Thanks to Joel Arellano for submitting the link on our Facebook Page!

Slowly, Asia’s Factories Begin to Turn Green

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Solar installation on factory Vietnam-IntelPhoto-600pxIntel’s new $1 billion chip factory in Vietnam, about 10 miles from downtown Ho Chi Minh City, embraces environmental and sustainability measures far beyond those required by Vietnam’s laws.

Intel didn’t have to go to these lengths, but the motivation for these measures is simple, said the complex’s general manager: “It turns out, what’s good for the environment is also good for business.”

Pizza Shop Delivers Medicines During Cold Snap

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Pizza shop owner delivers medicine-WPIXvid-smWith bitter cold temperatures keeping people indoors, a pizza shop owner in Ligonier, Pennsylvania offered to make deliveries of prescriptions and other essentials to the elderly or others with health challenges.

Tom Wynkoop, the owner of Fox’s Pizza Den, decided that since there were so many elderly in the community and his drivers were out delivering anyway, that he would do everything he could to pick up prescriptions or food if people were in need.

Celebrating Deep Freeze, Insect Experts See a Chance to Kill Off Invasive Species

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hemlock-infectedWhile some people complained when temperatures in the region took a deep dive, entomologists, foresters and naturalists were rooting for the mercury to drop even lower. That is because the extreme cold has the potential to beat back some of the invasive insects threatening treasured local tree and plant species.

The insects, whether introduced pests like the hemlock woolly adelgid or native ones like the southern pine beetle, have weakened forests from Cape May, N.J., to Litchfield County in Connecticut. They are uncannily adept at surviving the winter, but most have a breaking point. And this week, that point was near.

(READ the story in the New York Times)

Photo: infected hemlock

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Target Employee Follows Her Intuition to Find Kidnapper

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yellow-sun-brightCalifornia Police are praising a Target Store employee for helping bring a child’s kidnapping ordeal to an end, before it even started.

“When I first spotted him in the store, I thought he was going to shoplift,” said 22-year-old Roxanna Ramirez, who followed him around, watched him on surveillance cameras, and even spoke to him.

She wrote down his license plate number, and didn’t think about it again until that night, when her girlfriend told her a child had been abducted — and Ramirez recognized the car as the one she’d been watching.

(WATCH the video below, or READ the article from KTVU)

Thanks to Joel Arellano for submitting the link on our Facebook Page!

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Detroit Snow Blowing Gang is Looking for Elderly, Disabled Who Need Walkways Cleared

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Snow-blower-Detroit news videoOver the past several summers, the ‘Mower Gang’ has volunteered to mow abandoned Detroit parks free of charge to help give kids a place to play. With winter here, the mower gang has traded in their lawnmowers for snow blowers.

“It’s just a good feeling,” Tom Nardone told News-4. “I have this awesome snow blower and it takes me five minutes to do my walkway and driveway.”

The problem for this Good Samaritan is that all his neighbors have snow blowers, so he wants to find people disabled or elderly who need help clearing walkways and driveways.

If you know somebody in need, you can contact the mower group on Facebook or on their website, the www.mowergang.com.

(READ the story at Click on Detroit)

Renewable Village Offers Lifeline to Fukushima Farmers

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solar panels in Fukishima - Rob GilhoolyIt seems the most unlikely place to try to put a utopian blueprint into practice. Yet a patch of land in Fukushima, the Japanese region contaminated by nuclear fallout in 2011, holds the foundations of a model renewable village of the future.

Construction has started to reuse farmland contaminated by radioactive fallout placing 120 photovoltaic panels that generate 30 kilowatts of power which is sold to a local utility. Plans are afoot to put wind turbines on some of the land, too.

(READ the article from NewScientist.com)

Restoring Lake Erie’s Largest Wetland After 75 Years

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wetland Lake Erie- Photo by Nature ConservancyOnly around 5 percent of the wetlands in western Lake Erie remain from the days before pollution and dam construction.

Now, a five-year process is underway to restore one of the lake’s largest coastal wetlands, thanks to the Nature Conservancy.

The 2,200-acre Erie Marsh, which has been cut off from the Great Lake since the 1940s, is home to 65 species of fish and 300 species of migratory birds.

(READ the article at GreatLakesEcho.com)

Photo credit: The Nature Conservancy

This Prank is a Blessing for Homeless Guys on Christmas Morn

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Christmas elves prank homelessThe holidays can be especially tough when you are living on the street. But not this year for a couple men sleeping on benches. Thanks to a couple of anonymous elves, the two woke up with a decorated Christmas tree next to them, complete with wrapped presents.

(WATCH the video below)

Hero is Jump Starting Cars Around Frigid Town for Free

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jumpstarting car Samaritan Brad McKorical-WQADHis company usually sells cars in Moline, Illinois but this week they are resuscitating cars — and they’re doing it all over town for free, thanks to one employee who wants to do some good in the community.

“I tried to give the guy five bucks,” said one woman, “but he told me no.”

Brad McKorical, who works at 4th Ave Auto Sales, decided to post on Facebook asking if anyone needs a jump-start for their car.

With so many batteries frozen in the cold, the phones started “ringing off the hook – about every five minutes,” one employee told WQAD.

“It was so nice for him to come and do that for free, especially in this awful weather” said another lady. “He’s an angel.”

WATCH the video below or READ the story from WQAD.com)

Thanks to Joel Arellano for submitting the link on our Facebook Page!

Dad’s Message Recorded At War is Gift for Family Decades Later

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soldier home from WWII w Margaret Ann Wolf Harris-familyphotoAt 71, Margaret Ann Wolf Harris heard her father’s voice for the first time in her adult life.

Her dad, Sgt. Cody Wolf, died in World War II when his plane was shot down over Germany on Jan. 11, 1944. But a couple of weeks before his death, he contributed to a Christmas broadcast, produced by war correspondents of the Maryland newspaper The Baltimore Sun.

Wolf recorded a message in which he mentioned his baby girl, Margaret Ann. Harris, who was 17 months old when her father was killed. She heard the recording for the first time 70 years later.

(HEAR the story or READ it from NPR News)

Thanks to Joel Arellano for submitting the link on our Facebook Page!

Intel Microprocessors Are Now All Conflict-Free

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miner hands African-RESOLVE photoJust six months into his role as CEO of Intel, Brian Krzanich announced today that the electronics giant hit a momentous goal in the world of corporate social responsibility: Starting right now, every microprocessor that Intel ships will be made entirely with conflict-free minerals.

Every piece of tantalum, tungsten, gold, and tin found in the microprocessors will come from smelters that only source minerals mined outside armed conflict zones like in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(READ the article from Fast CoExist)

Give Away Amazon.com’s Money to Your Favorite Nonprofit

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St Jude Children Hospital photoAttention Amazon customers. Start 2014 off right. AmazonSmile will allow you donate Amazon’s money to your favorite nonprofit organization at no cost to you.

Whenever you need to purchase a product from Amazon.com be sure to visit the AmazonSmile page so you can donate .5% of the purchase price to any of the one million nonprofits listed on their site.

It’s easy. Find out how to do it.

(READ the article at BradAronson.com)


BEST TV Ad Ever: Teen Absorbed by iPhone at Family Holiday – Or, Not?

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skipping in the snow-AppleIncAdThe Apple iPhone commercial for Christmas 2013 is called Misunderstood.

In the advertisement, a teenager looks like he is totally absorbed by his iPhone while ignoring his family during the holiday. But maybe he’s just misunderstood.

Watch the inspiring video below…