An expert coupon clipper from Sunbury, Ohio has filled the shelves of local charities with thousands of dollars worth of products for which he paid just pennies on the dollar.
Rodney Osborne began cutting the newspaper coupons when he and his wife lost their jobs and needed to save money.
But these days “The Couponator”, as he calls himself, spreads the benefit of savings to others in need.
In an interesting first person account, a young adult with cancer wrote in the New York Times about the love of her early life and how her disease has resurrected that passionate connection, once lost.
Most everything in Suleika Jaouad’s childhood related to animals, and her ultimate goal of becoming a veterinarian.
Then “life” took over along, along with a career in law and travel, which precluded her from even owning a pet.
A 6-year-old San Bruno boy who is battling brain cancer is collecting Halloween costumes for his friends in the hospital.
When Nico Castro heard he would be able to go trick-or-treating because of a break in his treatment he was delighted, but he felt badly for the kids who were too sick to join him so he started a costume drive.
The Dow Jones industrials index climbed to its highest level in nearly 5 years on Friday, after a surprise drop in the unemployment rate pointed to continued improvement in the labor market.
The S&P 500 rose for a fifth straight day and was also on course to close near a 5-year high. The index has appreciated nearly 17 percent so far this year, and is on track for its best yearly gain since 2009, when stocks rebounded after the financial crisis.
Number one New York Times bestselling author and blind 9/11 survivor, Michael Hingson will appear as guest judge for the American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards show being taped for broadcast nationwide next month on the Hallmark tonight.
Hingson, owner of Roselle, who was posthumously named 2011 American Hero Dog Award Winner for her heroic service on September 11, 2001, will help select the 2012 American Hero Dog award winner with fellow celebrity judges: Whoopi Goldberg, Miranda Lambert, Victoria Stilwell, Michelle Forbes, J.R. Martinez, Candy Spelling and Kristin Bauer Van Straten.
More than a century ago this estuary was teeming with wildlife. Expansive beds of shellfish and huge shoals of herring and salmon fed all the surrounding communities.
After more than a century of pollution, the River Forth is making a comeback.
Recent surveys of estuary bed sediments have found that species are returning in ever-increasing numbers following major decreases in the amount of pollutants and toxins entering the river system.
As a graduate student, Gabrielle Diamanti’s travels exposed him to the global water crisis. Since then, the issue has become a fascination for him.
As an Italian designer, he knows that technology doesn’t have to be complicated to be effective. Sometimes the simplest materials and concepts are best.
Too many women in developing nations die from complications in childbirth due to inaccessible and inadequate care.
To address this, New York City billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg is funding the expansion of a pilot maternal health program in Tanzania that is predicted to help 50,000 mothers and their children during the next three years.
The U.S. labor market continues to steadily improve. The monthly job report this morning showed the unemployment rate dropping to a near four-year low of 7.8 percent in September.
The Labor Department said the unemployment rate dropped by 0.3 percentage point to its lowest point since January 2009 as employers added 114,000 workers to their payrolls, and monthly job gains for July and August were revised upward adding 86,000 jobs.
Soloman Howard has something in common with the street people living outside the entrance to Washington’s Kennedy Center Opera house.
He was once homeless himself.
Today, Soloman is onstage playing the pivotal role in the revival of “Don Giovanni”.
He grew up only a few miles away, in a rough D.C. neighborhood.
Soloman Howard has something in common with the street people living outside the entrance to Washington’s Kennedy Center Opera house.
He was once homeless himself.
Today, Soloman is onstage playing the pivotal role in the revival of “Don Giovanni”.
He grew up only a few miles away, in a rough D.C. neighborhood.
Recent models including Apple’s iPhone 5 and the Samsung Captivate are less hazardous than old handsets, according to a new chemical analysis.
The new study offers encouraging results of tests on handsets which measured the amount of toxins these gadgets would unleash into landfills if not properly recycled.
23 people learned recently that they had been picked to receive $500,000 each to fund their work, with no strings attached.
Known as genius grants, the MacArthur Fellowships, given annually, are meant to provide recipients with the freedom to pursue creative activities and ambitious projects unburdened by financial concerns. This year, those activities range from bow-making for string instruments to art entrepreneurship to finding a new way to lift people out of poverty.
New Yorker Chris Thile, a prodigy mandolin player is one of two fellows who are musicians, along with two documentary filmmakers, two photographers, and a host of writers, mathematicians and scientists.
Meet the full class of 2012 at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation website: www.macfound.org
(WATCH the AP video below, and READ about the Fellows at WS journal)
17 years ago, a retired couple in Utah started making handmade wooden toys for poor and sick children. The little cars and trucks were received so enthusiastically in the local hospital, a workshop was set up which has since delivered more than 1.1 million toys to kids around the world.
News spread around Cedar City telling of a “Happy Factory” where retired couples could come to laugh and give their time in a collective effort to make kids happy around the globe. Volunteers began showing up every day.
Charles and Donna Cooley, the original founders, soon incorporated as a non-profit and found a local factory to donate scraps of hardwood — leftover kitchen cabinet pieces that would otherwise end up in a landfill.
There are a few expenses for car wheels, saw blades, building maintenance and shipping fees, which add up to around eighty five cents per toy, so the Happy Factory accepts donations on their website.
Designed by Mr Cooley himself, there are 5 types of wooden cars: a jeep, a sedan, a bug, a truck, and a hatchback. The volunteers use jigsaws to cut out the shape. These are then sanded, wheels are attached and the finished product is painted with protective mineral oil.
In the evolution of their toy-making enterprise, the Cooleys have learned that toys are not simply playthings, but tools that help unlock a child’s ability to think and to cope with the world around them. What started as a hobby has turned into a full time labor of love.
There is no shortage of love for any child, so the couple has welcomed juvenile offenders as volunteers.
(WATCH the inspiring video below, from Bus52.com)
17 years ago, a retired couple in Utah started making handmade wooden toys for poor and sick children. The little cars and trucks were received so enthusiastically in the local hospital, a workshop was set up which has since delivered more than 1.1 million toys to kids around the world.
News spread around Cedar City telling of a “Happy Factory” where retired couples could come to laugh and give their time in a collective effort to make kids happy around the globe. Volunteers began showing up every day.
The percentage of US high school students who drink and drive has dropped by more than half in two decades, according to the latest findings by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The officials said Tuesday the drinking and driving rate for teens dropped to 10.3 percent in 2011, from 33.2 percent in 1991 — a 54 percent decline.
Almost everybody deals with anxiety, stress and mild depression. Using a few specific tools, we can have an easier time managing these. Here is a list of five techniques you can use to help manage your most persistent fears and everyday anxieties.
1) Sometimes we get stressed out when everything happens all at once. We may not even want to get out of bed. When this happens, we should try to find something to do for a few minutes to get our minds off the problem.
Almost everybody deals with anxiety, stress and mild depression. Using a few specific tools, we can have an easier time managing these. Here is a list of five techniques you can use to help manage your most persistent fears and everyday anxieties.
1) Sometimes we get stressed out when everything happens all at once. We may not even want to get out of bed. When this happens, we should try to find something to do for a few minutes to get our minds off the problem.
Manufacturing unexpectedly expanded in September, exceeding even the most optimistic forecasts in a Bloomberg survey.
Sustained strength in motor vehicle sales and a rebound in demand for home construction materials provided a major lift for American factories, which outperformed their counterparts in Europe and Asia, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s factory index.
A monster weed called Kenaf can sequester huge amounts of carbon permanently while lifting villagers out of poverty by providing both protein-rich food and super-insulated building materials.
This is according to Bill Loftus, a retired building contractor who has patented an application for the fast-growing, carbon-sucking plant that can grow 14 feet in a single year.
