Michael Hingson was at his desk on the 78th floor in the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11 when an airline crashed into the building, 18 floors above. He lived to tell the tale because of his guide dog, Roselle.
The yellow lab calmly guided her blind charge 1,463 steps out of the building and, as debris fell and dust billowed, found a subway station and led them both underground to safety.
Roselle died in June at the age 13, but her heroism lives on. At a star-studded red carpet event in L.A. Saturday night the yellow lab was was honored as the American Hero Dog of the Year.
A store clerk’s mistake led to a $25 million lottery win for an unemployed Georgia woman. Kathy Scruggs, 44, asked for the sale of a Mega Millions ticket, but when she was handed a Powerball drawing along with the first ticket, she accepted them both.
She discovered her good fortune the night after the drawing and woke up the entire house.
“We were screaming and hollering, and everybody came running,” she said. “I could not believe it.”
Scruggs had been unemployed and trying to find a job for many months.
“I’ve been looking and looking and looking,” she said.
She will finally own a car, she says, and plans to help her family and others.
“I’m going to build my mom and grandmother a home,” she said. “That’s my first focus.”
She also wants to start foundations to help the homeless and to provide dental assistance to those in need.
Scruggs selected the cash option and will receive $15,124,017 before taxes.
As with all other Georgia Lottery games, proceeds from Powerball will benefit education in the state of Georgia. Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $12.7 billion to the state of Georgia for education.
A store clerk’s mistake led to a $25 million lottery win for an unemployed Georgia woman. Kathy Scruggs, 44, asked for the sale of a Mega Millions ticket, but when she was handed a Powerball drawing along with the first ticket, she accepted them both.
She discovered her good fortune the night after the drawing and woke up the entire house.
“We were screaming and hollering, and everybody came running,” she said. “I could not believe it.”
Scruggs had been unemployed and trying to find a job for many months.
The latest artistic stunt by Improv Everywhere featured a constructed custom wooden lectern with a megaphone attached and a sign that read, “Say Something Nice.”
The lectern was placed in a public square in New York City and then left alone. See what happens when New Yorkers are given the opportunity to amplify their voices and “say something nice.”
See the back story and learn more about Improv Everywhere on their website: ImprovEverywhere.com.
The latest artistic stunt by Improv Everywhere featured a constructed custom wooden lectern with a megaphone attached and a sign that read, “Say Something Nice.”
The lectern was placed in a public square in New York City and then left alone. See what happens when New Yorkers are given the opportunity to amplify their voices and “say something nice.”
The University of Maryland team won top honors over the weekend in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2011. Competing against schools from across the world, the Maryland students were awarded first place for designing, building, and operating the most cost effective, energy efficient and attractive solar powered house.
Purdue University took second place followed by New Zealand (Victoria University of Wellington) in third place. The solar homes are all temporarily constructed and on display and open to the public in Washington, DC on the National Mall every year.
The University of Maryland team won top honors over the weekend in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2011. Competing against schools from across the world, the Maryland students were awarded first place for designing, building, and operating the most cost effective, energy efficient and attractive solar powered house.
Purdue University took second place followed by New Zealand (Victoria University of Wellington) in third place. The solar homes are all temporarily constructed and on display and open to the public in Washington, DC on the National Mall every year.
Midlife women are flourishing compared with men. Despite the daily gloom of economic predictions, women in midlife are more optimistic about their lives and futures than men are.
25% of women ages 45 to 55 give themselves a 10 out of 10 on optimism about their future, finds a Gallup-Healthways daily poll of Americans’ well-being.
It may be key that the most optimistic women spend about six hours a day in social interaction.
We can learn a lot by looking back on the fifth anniversary of the Amish schoolhouse shootings, to the striking actions of the Amish community following the murders when they immediately expressed forgiveness to the shooter’s family.
This was not forgiveness offered in a prepared statement, delivered by lawyers or news crews, but forgiveness offered in person, from one human being to another.
What the Amish consider to be “standard Christian forgiveness” can teach all of us — in our own personal and political conflicts — that forgiveness is a way of life learned and lived in community.
We can learn a lot by looking back on the fifth anniversary of the Amish schoolhouse shootings, to the striking actions of the Amish community following the murders when they immediately expressed forgiveness to the shooter’s family.
This was not forgiveness offered in a prepared statement, delivered by lawyers or news crews, but forgiveness offered in person, from one human being to another.
What the Amish consider to be “standard Christian forgiveness” can teach all of us — in our own personal and political conflicts — that forgiveness is a way of life learned and lived in community.
With all the focus on Solyndra and the attacks on green jobs from the Right, the mainstream media have completely overlooked the explosive success of the weatherization assistance program (WAP) funded almost exclusively by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, say Jorge Madrid and Adam James, from the Center for American Progress.
“By the end of ARRA’s three-year lifespan next March, the WAP will almost double the number of homes upgraded in the first year of the program — bringing the total number of energy efficiency projects to 720,000.
“Not only has the WAP created jobs desperately needed in the construction industry, it also provides a boost for American manufacturing and small businesses.
With all the focus on Solyndra and the attacks on green jobs from the Right, the mainstream media have completely overlooked the explosive success of the weatherization assistance program (WAP) funded almost exclusively by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, say Jorge Madrid and Adam James, from the Center for American Progress.
“By the end of ARRA’s three-year lifespan next March, the WAP will almost double the number of homes upgraded in the first year of the program — bringing the total number of energy efficiency projects to 720,000.
“Not only has the WAP created jobs desperately needed in the construction industry, it also provides a boost for American manufacturing and small businesses.
With government help in the form of tax credits and grants, with companies making equipment available through long-term leases, and with prices coming down, the solar industry is seeing steady and continued growth.
Nationwide, installations drawing power from the sun have grown by 69 percent in the last year.
In the quest to develop practical solutions to the world’s problems, this school doesn’t really have classrooms. Instead, there are clusters of discussion and activity. Its walls are covered in massive sheets of white paper, design sketches, and countless Post-it notes.
At the Stanford Institute of Design, public-policy wonks mix with computer scientists, engineers, and med students all pushing each other to innovate. The program measures success by how its students improve lives in the developing world.
Looking out of the windows of Seattle Children’s hospital, patients eagerly search for new names painted on steel beams by union workers constructing a 7-story building across the street.
It all started a few weeks ago when one of the ironworkers painted a beam in tribute to a teenager who had died at the hospital, and whose father was a friend of the construction worker.
After that, other workers who knew of children being treated at the hospital painted those names on the beams: “Hi, Dede.” “Hi, Zac.” “Hey, Kyle.”
And then, “it went viral.”
Young patients who wanted their names on the beams put signs in their windows for the workmen to see, and checked back daily to see which names went up next, with the count now at some 50 names.
Looking out of the windows of Seattle Children’s hospital, patients eagerly search for new names painted on steel beams by union workers constructing a 7-story building across the street.
It all started a few weeks ago when one of the ironworkers painted a beam in tribute to a teenager who had died at the hospital, and whose father was a friend of the construction worker.
After that, other workers who knew of children being treated at the hospital painted those names on the beams: “Hi, Dede.” “Hi, Zac.” “Hey, Kyle.”
Despite the very real challenges that keep many small-business owners cautious, a recent survey of the Women Presidents’ Organization showed that these women-owned businesses (with annual revenues of at least $50 million) are optimistic.
Indeed, 50% of those surveyed indicated they are not only more optimistic about the economy than they were a year ago but that they plan on hiring and making capital investments between now and the end of the year. And 60% of respondents plan on expanding into new markets.
Today marks the start of a landmark election campaign, the first in Tunisia since the revolt in January that toppled a dictator and inspired similar movements in Egypt and Libya.
81 political parties will be campaigning in a country where more than 90 percent of the vote used to be awarded to just one.
Michael Hingson was at his desk on the 78th floor in the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11 when an airline crashed into the building, 18 floors above. He lived to tell the tale because of his guide dog, Roselle.
