TV cameras were focused on two boys who tried to catch the same ball at an Arizona Diamondbacks game. The gesture of kindness displayed afterward surprised the broadcast announcers in the booth.
The boy’s generosity was paid back tenfold, as the baseball club rewarded him for his good deed.
(WATCH the video below, one a follow-up segment, from ABC News)
TV cameras were focused on two boys who tried to catch the same ball at an Arizona Diamondbacks game. The gesture of kindness displayed afterward surprised the broadcast announcers in the booth.
The boy’s generosity was paid back tenfold, as the baseball club rewarded him for his good deed.
Canada’s crime rate fell to its lowest in almost 40 years, Statistics Canada reported on Thursday, extending a positive two-decade trend.
Crime last year dropped a further 5 percent from 2009 to the lowest rate since 1973, the government agency said.
South and North Korea held high-level talks for the first time in two years on Friday, and said they would work to resume the stalled six-party dialogue for nuclear disarmament on the Korean peninsula.
The surprise meeting between their nuclear envoys led to an announcement on Saturday by North Korea proposing the restart of stalled six-party talks on nuclear disarmament, without preconditions and as soon as possible.
Good news for the Monarch butterflies and their wintering grounds in central Mexico: The clearing of forests used by the butterflies has dropped to just over one acre’s worth of trees, compared to the hundreds of acres lost annually in the past.
And fewer of the pine and fir trees that shelter the butterflies have been lost to bad weather this year, experts said Thursday, from Mexico’s National Autonomous University and the Monarch Fund.
Hi folks,
Just a quick note to say I am taking the day off Saturday to attend the funeral, and grieve the passing, of my father, Gerald M. Weis (Jerry) in Milwaukee.
I’m running to the airport now, so I’ll see you on the flip side.
xxoo, Geri
President Obama issued a directive for U.S. development policy in September 2010, which called for social and political reforms as a prerequisite for foreign assistance, along more investment from the private sector. And, only one year into the project, U.S. government executives at a Washington conference Jully 12 reported on genuine progress.
A few decades ago, U.S. government assistance made up 70 percent of the funds going from this country overseas, Littlefield said.
“And now today, it’s completely reversed. Eighty percent of the money flowing from the [United States] to the developing world is private capital,” said the president of OPIC, a government agency providing loans and investment insurance to American businesses operating overseas.
President Obama issued a directive for U.S. development policy in 2010 that called for social and political reforms as a prerequisite for foreign assistance, along with more investment from the private sector. Just one year into the project, U.S. government executives at a Washington conference Jully 12 reported on genuine progress.
A few decades ago, U.S. government assistance made up 70 percent of the funds going from this country overseas, Littlefield said.
“And now today, it’s completely reversed. Eighty percent of the money flowing from the [United States] to the developing world is private capital,” said the president of OPIC, a government agency providing loans and investment insurance to American businesses operating overseas.
New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg is giving the Sierra Club a substantial gift — $50 million to put toward battling coal-fired power plants across the nation.
The donation will go straight toward the “Beyond Coal” campaign that will target the nations oldest and worst-pollution coal power plants, get them shut down, and replace them with renewable energy.
A terrified kitten has been rescued on Dublin’s busy M50 thanks to the police (gardaí) and a driver for the Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The four month old kitten was spotted by passing motorists shuddering and alone as cars sped by within several feet.
A DCPCA driver was dispatched but had no way to get to the crouching animal in such traffic, with no pull-over space in the middle of the road…
Scientists, once again, pointed to those who have an optimistic outlook on life as being the people who age best.
Researchers at the University of Hamburg in Germany discovered that simply focusing your brain on positive thoughts — and living for the moment, rather than looking too far into the future — can help maintain good mental health and keep your brain young.
Dr Stefanie Brassen, the study’s author, said that successful aging came down to “the positivity effect”.
An anonymous donor in Denmark has left nearly $200,000 (£120,000) in a clothes recycling bin outside a charity shop run by the Red Cross.
The money was found in a bin liner under piles of donated clothing.
The note attached said: “To the Danish Red Cross, from anonymous. Have collected for 40 years.”
(READ the story from the BBC)
A man was “incredibly lucky to be alive” after his car flipped into a river near the Idaho-Washington border.
The 20 year-old squeezed through the rear seats and into the trunk of his two-door Hyundai Tiburon as chill, fast-flowing waters engulfed all but 6 inches of head room, creating a life-saving air pocket.
A passenger who had escaped was able to get his hand into an opening in the trunk area to hold the man’s hand and keep him talking until rescuers got to him.
(READ the story from Reuters)
James Slatcher is being hailed a hero, credited with saving more than 100 lives, after a devastating fire tore through a 36-unit townhouse development in Sutton.
The 21-year-old was out playing basketball at around 3 a.m. when he noticed thick, black smoke billowing a balcony and sprang into action.
After locating a fire alarm and getting his sister’s family out, with no thought to his own danger, Mr. Slatcher pounded on 36 doors and helped carry dazed and frightened children, as well as pets, outside to safety.
(READ the story, w/ photos, in YorkRegion.com)
Forget those gas-guzzling flying cars. Now you can drive and fly while saving lots of money on fuel.
The hybrid flying car, called BiPod, went from preliminary design to inaugural flight (in March) in just four months. The two-seater, which is designed to be driven like a car from the left cockpit and flown like a plan on the right, squeezes out 820 miles on a tank of gas and 35 miles in electric mode.
Half of all Alzheimer’s disease cases could be prevented by lifestyle changes such as exercise, eating healthily and not smoking, claim researchers.
For the first time, scientists have calculated the extent to which certain lifestyle traits – including lack of exercise, smoking and obesity – all contribute to the disease.
Score another success for species conservation. The Grand Cayman blue iguana now has a chance for complete recovery, even though the wild population numbered less than two dozen 8 years ago.
The Blue Iguana Recovery Program announced yesterday that 500 captive-bred reptiles have successfully been released since 2002.
Score another success for species conservation. The Grand Cayman blue iguana now has a chance for complete recovery, even though the wild population numbered less than two dozen 8 years ago.
The Blue Iguana Recovery Program announced yesterday that 500 captive-bred reptiles have successfully been released since 2002.
A rainbow nine stories high and 188 feet wide will tower over Culver City, California, as part of its Art in Public Places, a Sony Picture homage to the rainbow imagined in The Wizard of Oz — which filmed on its movie studio lot there.
According to the artist, Tony Tasset, the $1.5 million sculpture is intended to speak to “the sense of optimism and well-being associated with rainbows in general and more specifically with the rainbow in popular culture as imagined in the iconic Wizard of Oz film, created by the very studio that will become home to the Rainbow sculpture.”
Three years ago, Carol Steckel, Alabama’s Medicaid director, sent a national alert to all of her counterparts around the country. She asked them to join her in uncovering fraudulent prices published by major drug makers — prices that she said inflated the amount all states were paying to pharmacies.
At the time, Alabama had won three lawsuits against drug manufacturers on the grounds that published prices were artificially high. Steckel was working on an entirely new way to set drug prices for Medicaid beneficiaries, one that aimed to lower Alabama’s overall costs, but also remain sensitive to the needs of local pharmacies to make a profit.
Last September, Alabama won federal approval for the change Steckel sought. Since then, the state has launched its new pricing method, and expects to shave 6 percent off its prescription drug bill this year.
