The Mayor of Newark, N.J. has saved another dog — after getting a Tweet from someone reporting that the dog was locked in a small crate.
Cory Booker responded to the tweet on Thursday and traveled to the scene to investigate.
In January, the mayor rescued a freezing dog from the cold. And the year before, he saved a neighbor from a burning building.
Among the more than 2,500 breweries in the United States, MillerCoors said it has accomplished something no other brewer can claim: a zero-waste factory.
MillerCoors changed its production process at its largest facility, in Golden, Colo., so it reuses or recycles 100 percent of the waste it generates, including all glass, paperboard, plastics, metal and brewing byproducts, such as spent grain. No waste is sent to any landfill.
Palestinian singer Mohammad Assaf received world-wide media coverage recently for winning the second season of “Arab Idol” and bringing joy to the Palestinian people.
Dear Mohammad Assaf,
You may be wondering why I, a young Israeli, am writing you, the winner of Arab Idol from Gaza City.
You may think we are not alike. True. We were raised an hour away from each other, but lived light-years apart: you in Gaza City and me in Jerusalem. At many crossroads, we took different paths. At 20 you sang at weddings, whereas I was serving in the Israeli Defence Forces. However, we have much in common: we are both young, we have seen too much blood and we both call this piece of land home.
You are the most beloved young Palestinian today. When you sang in the Arab Idol finals, you charmed Arabs and non-Arabs worldwide. I wanted to write to you because for people in Ramallah and Khan-Yunis you are not only charming, you are a source of hope — rare commodities for all of us living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
A married couple, who have spent years battling with depression, have a new lease a life after taking part in a positive-thinking workshop.
Laura and Gemma Ellison, from Latchford, were determined to close the negative chapters in their lives so signed up to Be Your Own Kind Of Beautiful – a series of workshops which aim to empower, enlighten and heal peoples’ minds.
In his fourth year as CEO for the Rusal Aluminum company, rather than accepting a bonus for himself, Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska will use the money to reward his employees.
The corporate executive is using his $3 million bonus to purchase shares for approximately 120 employees.
In Oregon, where the cost of tuition has soared as public funding for higher education declined, the state legislature this week approved an idea called Pay It Forward.
The program would call for students to attend public universities tuition- and loan-free. In exchange, students would have three percent deducted from their post-graduation paychecks for about a quarter-century. The money would go into a fund to pay for future students.
Four Iowa kids exploring a cool creek found a 20,000-year-old mastodon tooth turned upside-down like a rock beneath the water.
The five-pound (2.5 kilo) tooth is still attached to the huge roots.
Professors say because of the good condition of the tooth, there could be even more remains from the Ice Age animal in this same creek where the tooth was found in the northeast region of the state.
Here’s another story about a 3-year-old diagnosed with autism. She hadn’t been performing the “normal” tasks like speaking, playing, and interacting with others, but beneath the facade was a mind and personality busy with other talents.
Iris Grace Halmshaw has benefitted from therapy, since her diagnosis in 2011. Her anxiety levels and sleep are much improved. Painting is one of the talents that have come pouring forth as a result. Rather than talking, she can express herself through art.
Reminiscent of Monet, the little girl’s ethereal artwork has amazed not only her parents, but others who have looked at her work.
After the finale of Friends in 2004, Matthew Perry had been in and out of rehab programs trying to overcome addiction to alcohol and pain medication.
Now sober, Perry, who played Chandler on the NBC hit, is on a mission to help other addicts find a path to recovery.
In fact, the “Friends” star has turned his beautiful beachfront cliffside house in Malibu, Calif., into a sober living residence where men can transition from rehab to the real world.
The Virginia family sold its first Chesapeake Bay oysters in 1899 to supplement their farming income. But the Croxtons’ son, who took over the Rappahannock River Oyster business, ultimately cautioned his own kids against it because pollution, disease and over-fishing were wiping out the species.
But in 2001, two 4th generation cousins felt nostalgic about their grandfather and drawn to their family’s heritage. Less than two years after they started, Travis and Ryan Croxton sold their first oysters to a top New York City restaurant.
A 16-year-old girl from Istanbul, Turkey spent two years perfecting a plastic created from banana peels, substituting fruit waste for the typical petroleum base.
On Thursday, Elif Bilgin’s idea paid off when Scientific American named her the winner of its $50,000 Science in Action prize, a stepping stone to the Google Science Fair for young inventors in California this September.
“The method I designed is so simple, it is possible to say that one could actually do it at home,” writes Elif on her Google Science Fair page.
(READ the announcement from Scientific American)
Today, on July 4th, the Statue of Liberty will be reopened, inviting visitors to visit the pedestal and the crown for the first time since Superstorm Sandy pummeled the Mid-Atlantic region last fall.
Visiting Liberty Island, or circling it in on the ferry is one of the most rewarding experiences of any trip to New York City.
Three years after the Panchots received the ultimate bad news delivered on their doorstep by two soldiers, a compassionate response from a stranger arrived via FedEx truck, essentially delivering the memory of their son Dale, back home.
“There’s definitely a lot of love going in that box,” says goat rancher and artist, Kaziah Hancock.
She started Project Compassion, a fund that helps provide personal hand-painted portraits of soldiers killed in action, “so their faces will never be forgotten.”
It started years ago when Kaziah painted a portrait of Utah’s first fallen soldier. Since then, she has personally painted on canvas — and framed — over 800 portraits of US soldiers killed in action and shipped them across the country as gifts for their families.
Though her landscapes in oil normally sell for thousands of dollars, Kaziah accepts no money from a soldier’s family.
She started the non-profit organization (www.heropaintings.com), so many more tributes could be painted. Three other artists are now creating portraits; more than 2,500 families have received them as gifts.
Visit her website to see the portraits that Kaziah painted in Manti, Utah.
(MUST SEE the unforgettable video from KARE-TV)
In honor of Independence Day, Clint Carter of Men’s Health magazine shares some items for your closet, your yard and your kid that all support companies that have made products in the United States — including Stetson hats, New Balance shoes, Crayola Crayons and a company that makes cutting boards in the shape of any of the 50 states, which you can see here: aheirloom.myshopify.com.
The Indian government this week launched an ambitious food distribution program to make sure grain gets to millions of malnourished children and adults rather than rotting in grain silos.
Under the $22 billion-a-year National Food Security Bill, 75% of rural dwellers and 50% of the urban population would get five kilograms of grain per month at the subsidized price of 3 rupees (five cents) for a period of three years. The program would massively expand an existing program that provides food to 218 million people.
Pregnant women and families with children up to age 14 would get extensive benefits for buying food.
A decade after Julie Caldwell had the initial inspiration to build a peace park in Elko, Nevada, the community is spinning the park’s final installation, a hand-crafted 3000 pound “Universal Peace Wheel,” which is filled with thousands of hand-written notes and printed mantras collected by volunteers, and sent in, from people wishing for peace.
An inviting gazebo houses the cylindrical copper art form adapted from Tibetan Buddhist culture that features 36 colorful peace symbols from around the world on 80 wheel that provide the rotating outer casing.
The embossed casing crafted in Nepal by Gopel Sapota was hand painted by a team of local artists led by Julie Caldwell and installed by Jim McCann. The design process included five artists from four countries (Nepal, Canada, Tibet, USA).
Inside the wheel thousands of handwritten peace statements, wound by hundreds of volunteers around the wheel’s central shaft, called the Tree of Life. The peace statements were collected from local Elko County School students and residents. It is believed that every time a visitor spins the wheel, millions of wishes for peace and healing go out into the world.
The city of Elko, with a population of less than 20,000 in Northeast Nevada, invited the artists and poets, aroused by the idea of peace following the Iraq War, to build the park on an 8-acre parcel of land donated by the Bente family. In 2007, the Tibetan Lama, Zopa Rinpoche, performed a traditional land blessing on the property.
The park now features a medicine wheel, installed by the Te-Mok Shoshone Western Band of Native Americans, a labyrinth, and natural gardens nestled among pathways and bridges along a creek, and includes a pet-friendly trail system, a small amphitheater, picnic areas, shade structures, and bathrooms.
The global community is invited to celebrate International Peace Day at the Elko Peace Park on Saturday, September 14, where three stages of entertainment, art and poetry will, send further wishes for peace out into the world.
The group is on its final fundraising leg, collecting donations to build a permanent sign explaining the significance and meaning of the wheel. To donate, visit: UniversalPeaceWheel.net
See all the photos documenting all the steps of building the wheel on their Facebook page.
(WATCH the video below from KENV-TV)
Using scrap metal and tin sheets, a 44 year-old farmer has built a windmill in a remote village in India. He doesn’t notice the power shortage that is “gripping the rest of the state.”
Siddappa Hulajogi installed the windmill four years ago on his Nargund taluka farm after the local power company refused to extend service to his rural location.
It can be a nuisance when seaweed piles up on the beaches after high tide, but the leafy, brown plants might be the key to helping Galveston survive its next major hurricane.
Galveston officials have agreed to spend $140,000 on a project that will rely on the plant to create “seaweed-enhanced sand dunes” to shore up the island’s beaches.
In 2007 James Bowen had been a homeless heroin addict for more than a decade when he found a stray, injured cat called Bob, who would not leave his doorstep.
Sensing a bond with another lost soul, he nursed the tabby back to health and began traveling with him on the city bus.
Bob became the subject of an international bestseller, “A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets“.
James still pinches himself about the success of the book, which would go on to become a series and a 2016 movie, and he began saving to get a mortgage, no longer on federal benefits–or drugs.
(WATCH the video below, or READ the story w/ photos in the UK Mirror)
Jacob Barnett didn’t speak for years. Doctors declared that autism would keep him from ever doing simple tasks like reading or tying his own shoes. But after his mother began injecting fun and music and science into his life, he emerged from his cocoon.
Fortunately for Jacob, his mother noticed that when left to play on his own, the 3 year-old created wondrously complex maps and patterns. She yanked him out of “special ed” classes — where he was forced to do things that caused him to fail — and began preparing him for kindergarten herself.
The many forced hours of therapy, trying to persuade him to talk, finger paint, and to do basic physical tasks only frustrated and bored Jacob, making him more withdrawn.
