If you haven’t see viral video about the rescue of a little blind dog huddled near a dumpster, join the half million people who have been cheered by the sweet pup.
An animal rescue charity, Hope for Paws, based in Los Angeles, got a telephone call about a suffering dog found on the streets.
The couple fosters the dogs in their home, cage free, until they can find them permanent, loving families. In this case, they found a vet to restore the dog’s sight.
If you haven’t see viral video about the rescue of a little blind dog huddled near a dumpster, join the half million people who have been cheered by the sweet pup.
An animal rescue charity, Hope for Paws, based in Los Angeles, got a telephone call about a suffering dog found on the streets.
The couple fosters the dogs in their home, cage free, until they can find them permanent, loving families. In this case, they found a vet to restore the dog’s sight.
After six years, the Washington Post’s annual Peeps Diorama contest has become a survey of all that touches and taunts our collective consciousness, an anthology of absurd, artistic triumphs displayed through malleable marshmallow rabbits and chicks.
“And for the first time, our judging mirrored American political culture.”
The Occupy D.C. theme took first price with “OccuPeep DC”, a diorama from artist/painter Cori Wright, 38, of Falls Church, VA.
A Baltimore man spent a lot of his own money to dress up as Batman, even customizing a black sports car exactly like the comic book character. You might have seen a news video about him being pulled over by police.
But, this Batman isn’t interested in fighting crime. He visits sick children in hospitals, handing out Batman toys and books to up-and-coming superheros who first need to knock-out cancer or other life-threatening foes.
Like his caped crusader namesake, he doesn’t seek credit for what he does.
“I’m just doing it for the kids,” he says.
He spends $25,000 a year of his own money on Batman toys and memorabilia. He signs every book, hat, T-shirt and backpack he hands out, “Batman”.
(READ a story by his reporter friend who finally unmasked him in the Washington Post)
Horses, rescued from a Summerville, S.C. man who has been charged with starving and burning the animals, have found a new home with the “Red Headed Stranger.”
Country music legend Willie Nelson has agreed to adopt the horses, and bring them to his ranch in Texas.
Although baseball’s Ichiro Suzuki was the star player of the opening day game in Tokyo, this week, all eyes were on the tsunami heroes who threw out the first pitch after a moving tribute to them played on the jumbo video screen.
The video featured narration by Derek Jeter, Bobby Valentine and Cal Ripken Jr. telling the stories of three people who selflessly worked for others following the March 11 disaster last year. Major League Baseball players and owners presented a $500,000 check to help rebuild the stadium in Ishinomaki, about 200 miles north of Tokyo on the Japanese coast.
Beneath looming images of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and the Virgin Mary, Pope Benedict XVI today stood in Revolution Square in Havana, issuing a ringing call for “authentic freedom” to hundreds of thousands of Cubans.
With President Raúl Castro sitting in the front row (and a meeting with Fidel Castro scheduled later in the day) the Pope asserted in his outdoor Mass, “The truth is a desire of the human person, the search for which always supposes the exercise of authentic freedom.”
When Grayson Gilbert was in treatment for a rare form of pancreatic cancer, he didn’t doubt for a second that he’d be OK.
Doctors disagreed.
In 1995, Gilbert had been diagnosed with a cancer so rare in children that the doctors were entering uncharted territory when prescribing aggressive chemotherapy and surgery.
At 22 years old, the Maryland boy survived so long, that he has proven himself right — and baffled most doctors.
In January he started a charity called Inspirational Medicine, with the goal of connecting ailing children with their heroes, be they athletes, authors or artists.
(READ the story in Towson Patch)
When Jessie Almont of Mepham High School first saw the Kony 2012 video, she became outraged.
“When I saw all those kids, I thought about what would happen if I was in Uganda.”
Her classmates joined her in starting a website and planning activities.
Their “1,000 Bracelet Campaign” gathered 100 students to make bracelets out of string that were dedicated to victims of Joseph Kony’s reign. Students researched the names and stories of more than 100 child soldiers.
Stanford researchers found an antibody that was found to dramatically shrink or eradicate human cancer tumors that were transplanted into laboratory mice, no matter which type of cancer created the tumor. The research is unique in the variety of solid cancers that responded to the antibody.
Human tumors transplanted into laboratory mice disappeared or shrank when scientists treated the animals with a single antibody, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine that tested breast, ovarian, colon, bladder, brain, liver and prostate cancer samples.
The antibody works by masking a protein flag on cancer cells that protects them from macrophages and other cells in the immune system.
The dramatic response — including some overt cures in the laboratory animals — has the investigators eager to begin phase-1 and –2 human clinical trials within the next two years.
“Blocking this ‘don’t-eat-me’ signal inhibits the growth in mice of nearly every human cancer we tested, with minimal toxicity,” said professor of pathology Irving Weissman, MD, who directs Stanford’s Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and the Ludwig Center for Cancer Stem Cell Research and Medicine at Stanford. “This shows conclusively that this protein, CD47, is a legitimate and promising target for human cancer therapy.”
“This is exciting work and will surely trigger a worldwide wave of research designed to convert this strategy into useful therapies,” said Robert Weinberg, PhD, a professor of biology at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Massachusetts who was not involved in the research. “Mobilizing the immune system to attack solid tumors has been a longstanding goal of many cancer researchers for decades.”
The research was published online March 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Follow the progress of human trials on the Stanford page: stemcell.stanford.edu/CD47
Stanford researchers found an antibody that was found to dramatically shrink or eradicate human cancer tumors that were transplanted into laboratory mice, no matter which type of cancer created the tumor. The research is unique in the variety of solid cancers that responded to the antibody.
Human tumors transplanted into laboratory mice disappeared or shrank when scientists treated the animals with a single antibody, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine that tested breast, ovarian, colon, bladder, brain, liver and prostate cancer samples.
The antibody works by masking a protein flag on cancer cells that protects them from macrophages and other cells in the immune system.
The dramatic response — including some overt cures in the laboratory animals — has the investigators eager to begin phase-1 and –2 human clinical trials within the next two years.
“Blocking this ‘don’t-eat-me’ signal inhibits the growth in mice of nearly every human cancer we tested, with minimal toxicity,” said professor of pathology Irving Weissman, MD, who directs Stanford’s Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and the Ludwig Center for Cancer Stem Cell Research and Medicine at Stanford. “This shows conclusively that this protein, CD47, is a legitimate and promising target for human cancer therapy.”
“This is exciting work and will surely trigger a worldwide wave of research designed to convert this strategy into useful therapies,” said Robert Weinberg, PhD, a professor of biology at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Massachusetts who was not involved in the research. “Mobilizing the immune system to attack solid tumors has been a longstanding goal of many cancer researchers for decades.”
The research was published online March 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Follow the progress of human trials on the Stanford page: stemcell.stanford.edu/CD47
Reid Hoffman, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful entrepreneurs, has pledged one million dollars in micro-loans on the Kiva website to help tiny businesses around the globe. The cool part is that you can take $25 of that fortune and direct it to the borrower you think most deserves it.
There are still 3,178 free trials available for you to funnel $25.00 of Hoffman’s money to the person of your choice. Just sign up on the Kiva website and grab the $25 credit, then search among the plethora of global citizens seeking loans, from Ethiopian farmers to Pakistani weavers to mothers who run a shop in Peru.
While the loan is being repaid, you will receive updates from the borrower on how the funds were used and how they are doing. After you try Kiva for free, you can then decide if you want to lend your own money to another borrower on the site, as little as $25 at a time.
“Kiva brings us all closer to a time when each of us has the opportunity to reach our full potential, whether we live in the world’s biggest cities or most remote villages,” said Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and Kiva Board Member. “Through Kiva’s Free Trial program I am inviting people to make that potential a reality for 40,000 people worldwide so they can create a better future for themselves and their families.”
Kiva helps to break the cycle of poverty worldwide by connecting lenders to borrowers through loans that change lives. More than 98 percent of Kiva borrowers repay their loans, an unheard of rate for commercial banking.
Often only a relatively small amount of money stands in the way of Kiva borrowers and their dreams. Whether it is a family in New Orleans hoping to start a small business, or a young Bolivian woman who lacks the tuition for nursing school, Kiva gives the people the chance to lend their support to these and countless other borrowers. And, by lending as little as $25 to a borrower, you not only help an individual lift themselves out of poverty, you are setting in motion a ripple effect of change for their families and communities.
Since Kiva’s founding in 2005, more than 700,000 micro lenders have funded more than $293 million in loans to 748,000 borrowers from 61 countries including the United States. (Grab your free loan on the Kiva website, here.
Reid Hoffman, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful entrepreneurs, has pledged one million dollars in micro-loans on the Kiva website to help tiny businesses around the globe. The cool part is that you can take $25 of that fortune and direct it to the borrower you think most deserves it.
There are still 3,178 free trials available for you to funnel $25.00 of Hoffman’s money to the person of your choice. Just sign up on the Kiva website and grab the $25 credit, then search among the plethora of global citizens seeking loans, from Ethiopian farmers to Pakistani weavers to mothers who run a shop in Peru.
For the first time since the Second World War, a Jew has been elected as mayor of a major German city. The voters of Frankfurt (a city with a 1% Jewish population) this week elected Peter Feldmann its second Jewish mayor — the first since Ludwig Landmann was pushed out of office when Hitler rose to power in 1933.
Since Boston Magazine published an article one month ago naming Lawrence, Massachusetts the “City of the Dammed” and calling it “godforsaken”, outraged residents have been working to prove that there are more positive things in the city than the label “Nation’s Stolen Car Capital” would suggest.
On March 1st, community leaders, parents and teachers, met at Cafe Verde to discuss a strategy for turning around the public relations nightmare. They planned a rally, marching two weeks later under the banner “We are Lawrence”.
The “We are Lawrence” movement is building on what local high school students had already begun. Trying to reverse the town’s negative stereotype, the group of teens began printing a newsletter called “What’s Good In the Hood?”, hand-delivering the positive news stories around town.
Instead of a drumbeat of stories about drug arrests, robberies and murders, Good In the Hood aims to give the city of Lawrence an image makeover. The passionate multicultural teens are empowering their city using funding to print their publication by selling ads to local businesses and organizations.
Last summer, Good In the Hood won the Storytellers For Good documentary contest which resulted in the filming of their own documentary in December. Watch the inspiring video below…
Since Boston Magazine published an article one month ago naming Lawrence, Massachusetts the “City of the Dammed” and calling it “godforsaken”, outraged residents have been working to prove that there are more positive things in the city than the label “Nation’s Stolen Car Capital” would suggest.
On March 1st, community leaders, parents and teachers, met at Cafe Verde to discuss a strategy for turning around the public relations nightmare. They planned a rally, marching two weeks later under the banner “We are Lawrence”.
The “We are Lawrence” movement is building on what local high school students had already begun. Trying to reverse the town’s negative stereotype, the group of teens began printing a newsletter called “What’s Good In the Hood?”, hand-delivering the positive news stories around town.
A California gray whale found tangled in a fishing net off the Orange County coast swam free after a lengthy rescue over the weekend.
Whale-watching boats spotted the young whale stranded outside of Dana Point Harbor about 5:30 p.m. Friday with about 50 feet of netting and rope wrapped around its tail.
Wake Up London is becoming well-known for organizing meditation flash mobs in Central London every month. The group of young practitioners follow Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen master, author, and human rights activist.
In celebration of the Vietnamese teacher’s return to London this week, hundreds will gather for a “Sit in Peace” meditation on the open grounds of Trafalgar Square on Saturday March 31.
Wake Up London is becoming well-known for organizing meditation flash mobs in Central London every month. The group of young practitioners follow Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen master, author, and human rights activist.
In celebration of the Vietnamese teacher’s return to London this week, hundreds will gather for a “Sit in Peace” meditation on the open grounds of Trafalgar Square on Saturday March 31.
With 2.3 million inmates behind bars in the US, the goal of volunteers in mentor programs for the 2.7 million children of prisoners is: No child left alone.
Since 2003, a federal faith-based initiative called Mentoring Children of Prisoners has paired more than 100,000 children of prisoners with volunteer mentors.
