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States Recycle Old Roofing Shingles into Asphalt for Roads

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Aug 14, 2011

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Illinois has joined the ranks of states that allow their public road projects to use an asphalt mix that includes recycled shingles.

Saying, “We can’t keep throwing things into landfills,” Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation Friday that will help turn old roofing shingles into asphalt for new road surfaces on public projects around Illinois.

Like most green initiatives, environmental advantages are just some of the benefits. The ability to reduce costs is an attractive argument for further recycling. With asphalt being created mostly from petroleum, the price savings on raw materials alone is significant. The Missouri Department of Transportation reports approximately $20 million in savings in 2009 by using recycled shingles in their hot-mix.

Workers Win Lottery After Getting Laid Off

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Aug 14, 2011

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Disappointment turned into celebration and happiness after a group of manufacturing plant employees in Ottawa won $7 million in the lottery a day after their company announced massive layoffs.

Ten employees who got layoff notices on Wednesday at SMART technologies were part of the group of winners

(WATCH the video below, or READ the story from CBC)

This $1 Plastic Chip Can Diagnose HIV In 15 Minutes

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Aug 14, 2011

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In Africa, waiting for blood work can take weeks, and many people don’t bother getting their results. A new device could make testing in remote villages a possibility, and that could lead to drastically improved treatment.

Columbia University researchers have a partial solution–a $1 plastic chip that can diagnose HIV and syphilis in 15 minutes, according to results published this week in Nature Medicine.

Department Of Energy Crowns Light Bulb Of The Future Contest-Winner

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Aug 13, 2011

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A Philips LED bulb is the winner of the U.S. Department of Energy’s $10 million competition to develop a low-cost, energy efficient, high-performance replacement for the incandescent bulb.

The 60-watt incandescent bulb is one of the most widely used types of light bulbs by consumers. It also is extremely wasteful in its energy usage. The energy-saving L Prize winner uses less than 10 watts of power, providing an energy savings of 83 percent, while still emitting the same amount of light, and with the familiar warm glow.

If every 60-watt incandescent bulb in the U.S. was replaced with the 10-watt L Prize winner, the nation would save about 35 terawatt-hours of electricity and avoid 20 million metric tons of carbon emissions. That’s enough electricity to power the lights of nearly 18 million U.S. households.

Department Of Energy Crowns Light Bulb Of The Future Contest-Winner

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Aug 13, 2011

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A Philips LED bulb is the winner of the U.S. Department of Energy’s $10 million competition to develop a low-cost, energy efficient, high-performance replacement for the incandescent bulb.

The 60-watt incandescent bulb is one of the most widely used types of light bulbs by consumers. It also is extremely wasteful in its energy usage. The energy-saving L Prize winner uses less than 10 watts of power, providing an energy savings of 83 percent, while still emitting the same amount of light, and with the familiar warm glow.

If every 60-watt incandescent bulb in the U.S. was replaced with the 10-watt L Prize winner, the nation would save about 35 terawatt-hours of electricity and avoid 20 million metric tons of carbon emissions. That’s enough electricity to power the lights of nearly 18 million U.S. households.

Bears Saved From Forced Vodka Drinking

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Aug 13, 2011

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Ukraine’s Environment Minister Mykola Zlochevsky vowed last week to free all bears kept in restaurants as entertainment, Interfax news agency reported.

Captured and tamed bears are still used for entertainment purposes and often forced to drink alcohol, a tradition that has survived since the rule of Russian emperors.

Obama Announces Higher Fuel Standards For Trucks

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Aug 13, 2011

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Fire trucks and concrete mixers, semis, heavy-duty pickups and all trucks in between will, for the first time, have to trim fuel consumption and emissions of heat-trapping gases under new efficiency standards announced Tuesday by President Barack Obama.

The White House said the standards, which apply to vehicle model years 2014 to 2018, will save businesses billions of dollars in fuel costs, help reduce oil consumption and cut air pollution.

Photo of Broom Army Inspires the Web After England Riots

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Aug 12, 2011

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Following the riots in London, crowds of people turned out Wednesday to help clean up the glass and ashes left on the streets of cities across the country.

Andrew Bayles joined the volunteer army in Clapham Junction. “The riots were shocking and I was really rocked to the core by what was going on.”

Since then, his photograph of brooms raised in the air has become an internet sensation via Twitter, and used by journalists around the world to underscore the decent citizens, which have come out in full force to outnumber the troublemakers.

“The ‘Broom Army’ tag and my photo is something that I think is very special,” Andrew told the BBC. “It is a movement of solidarity to stand up for everything that is good about this country. I am very proud to have been there to help in the clean up and very proud that the image is being used countrywide to inspire further support in the clean-up effort.”

READ the full story about how the photo came to be in the BBC.

And, VIEW these moving photos from Clean-ups in Manchester.

Thanks to Andrew Norris for submitting the links! – See a collection of his submitted stories on his Profile Page..

Photo of Broom Army Inspires the Web After England Riots

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Aug 12, 2011

photo of London broom army, by Andrew Bayles

Following the riots in London, crowds of people turned out Wednesday to help clean up the glass and ashes left on the streets of cities across the country.

Andrew Bayles joined the volunteer army in Clapham Junction. “The riots were shocking and I was really rocked to the core by what was going on.”

Since then, his photograph of brooms raised in the air has become an internet sensation via Twitter, and used by journalists around the world to underscore the decent citizens, which have come out in full force to outnumber the troublemakers.

Trojan Horse T-shirts Trick Neo-Nazis

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Aug 12, 2011

Neo-Nazi t-shirt dupe: before and after

Festival goers at a nationalist, right-wing concert in Germany were taken by surprise when souvenir t-shirts they were given had a secret anti-far right message that emerged only after being washed.

The slogan on the shirts first read “hardcore rebels” along with a skull and nationalist flags. But once washed the slogan turned into a message from a group offering help to right-wing extremists break away from the neo-Nazi scene.

(READ the story in Reuters)

98-Year-old Becomes First Woman Ever to Win 10th Degree Black Belt in Judo

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Aug 12, 2011

Sensei Keiko Fukuda reaches black belt goal at 98

After dedicating her life to the martial arts, 98-year-old, Keiko Fukuda of San Francisco, became the first woman to be promoted to judo’s highest level: 10th degree black belt.

Only three people in the world, all men living in Japan, have ever reached that mark.

The phone call brought the 4-foot-10-inch Sensei to tears at the women’s dojo where she still teaches in Noe Valley.

Burning Man Plans To Revitalize a Depressed San Francisco Neighborhood

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Aug 12, 2011

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The Burning Man festival — where people meet once-a-year in the Nevada desert for a hedonistic experiment in self-reliance, innovation and art — has spawned a community that has over the years launched many do-good ventures.

The latest project will work on revitalizing a down-and-out area of San Francisco, Burning Man’s home city — the Central Market Street corridor that’s been pretty much boarded up for 20 years.

The photo shows an art installation going up in May, symbolizing the rebirth of the area.

(READ the story in the Fast Company)

‘Huge’ Cancer Breakthrough Cures 2 of 3 Leukemia Patients

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Aug 11, 2011

A new leukemia treatment has experts buzzing over a possible cure that may one day change cancer treatment forever.

The experimental treatment delivered extraordinary results to the three leukemia patients who received it. Two of the three are now cancer-free.

Doctors genetically engineered white blood cells from the patients to make the cells kill the cancer.

Money is now pouring in to expand the research.

Americans Spent 8 Billion Hours Volunteering in 2010

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Aug 11, 2011

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American Volunteers increased the number of hours they contributed to their communities last year, whether tutoring and mentoring students, fundraising, job training or assisting during natural disasters.

More than 60 million Americans volunteered 8.1 billion hours of their services in 2010 in work valued at nearly $173 billion, according to a new report.

(READ the story from Reuters)

Arab Country Donates $500,000 to Help Joplin Schools to Reopen After Tornado Disaster

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Aug 11, 2011

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A $500,00 gift from the embassy of the United Arab Emirates to spend on laptops is the latest donation aimed at helping tornado-damaged Joplin, Mo., schools prepare to open next week.

School district officials said on Wednesday the $500,000 will help meet a goal of providing all 2,200 Joplin High School students with a personal laptop, to make up for a the lack of other resources.

US Stocks Rise After News of Best Unemployment Report in 4 Months

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Aug 11, 2011

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The US stock markets rose more than 3 percent in late morning trading today after hearing the latest U.S. economic data on unemployment claims.

The government reported that weekly initial jobless claims fell to their lowest level in four months — the first time that number has dropped below 400,000 since April.

Good Prevails Amidst Bad in London Riots as Twitter and Facebook Users Plan Clean-up

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Aug 10, 2011

Twitter and Facebook users are harnessing the power of social networking to coordinate a massive clean-up operation in areas affected by the riots across England.

An account on Twitter called @riotcleanup has so far attracted more than 70,000 followers and is helping people to co-ordinate efforts in the London.

But, the effort, started by artist Dan Thompson, 37, has taken on a life of its own with local clean-up projects organized around the country.

Man Raises Money to Offer Busloads of Veggies to a Neighborhood Without Produce

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Aug 10, 2011

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For folks living in West Chicago, it is hard to find fresh fruits and vegetables for sale, which is why one man took it upon himself to transport fresh produce into the neighborhood.

Steve Casey bought a bus and spent four years raising the $50,000 to turn it into a produce market on wheels that travels to the people. The Fresh Moves program now visits six locations that are described as food deserts twice a week.

8-Year-old Girl Finds Diamond in Back Yard

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Aug 10, 2011

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Eight-year-old April Sanity was gathering golf balls in her California backyard when she found a diamond. At first the family thought it was fake, but it passed all the tests. She now has a one carat diamond to sell for a thousand dollars and plans to keep it until she needs the money.

He Saved Six Soldiers’ Lives With Innovative Use of Child’s Toy

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Aug 9, 2011

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A remote control toy truck sent to a soldier in Afghanistan helped to save six of his friends after the toy triggered a bomb meant for the Americans.

In 2007, to help keep his brother safe, Ernie Fessenden teamed up with a hobby store owner in Rochester, Minnesota to create a radio-controlled model truck outfitted with a wireless video camera to check for bombs under trucks and along roadsides.

That souped-up toy ended up preventing the potential deaths of six soldiers two weeks ago in Afghanistan, after Sgt. Chris Fessenden lent the truck to a group going out on patrol.

Ernie learned about his invention’s success via email.

“At first I was just absolutely shocked,’’ Ernie told TODAY.com in a phone interview. “It could have been [Chris] out there. Then after that it was, ‘Do you need another truck?’’’

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