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Students’ Home Design Wins Solar Decathlon 2011

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Solar Decathalon winning home 2011The 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.

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Women More Optimistic Than Men, Girlfriends Are Key

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Photo by Sun StarMidlife 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.

(READ the story in USA Today)

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Living Forgiveness: Lessons on the Anniversary of the Amish School Shootings

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film clip from the movie, Amish Grace

film clip from the movie, Amish Grace 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.

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Living Forgiveness: Lessons on the Anniversary of the Amish School Shootings

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L. Gregory Jones
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film clip from the movie, Amish Grace

film clip from the movie, Amish Grace 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.

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Home Weatherizing Program Creates Jobs, Saves Low-Income Families $400 a Year

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insulation-foam-soy-basedWith 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.

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Home Weatherizing Program Creates Jobs, Saves Low-Income Families $400 a Year

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Center for American Progress
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insulation-foam-soy-based

insulation-foam-soy-basedWith 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.

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Mother of Amish Shooter Cares for Son’s Victims

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Amish buggy in Lancaster PA, by Utente-TheCadExpert GNUFive years ago, her 32-year-old son Charlie Roberts shot 10 Amish schoolgirls before turning the gun on himself.

“Not only was my son not alive, he was the perpetrator of the worst crime anyone could ever imagine,” Terri Roberts said.

After the shooting, press reports made public the remarkable compassion of the Amish community as it embraced the gunman’s family with forgiveness.

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Solar Home Industry Shining in Maryland and Other States

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photo of home by Earthship.comWith 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.

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Operation Smile Video: Girl Sees New Smile for First Time

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Operation Smile patient in Brazil -video screenshotA little Brazilian girl born with a cleft palate often hid her face behind a doll.

But 24 hours after Operation Smile’s life-changing surgery, a cameraman turned around the viewfinder, to let her see her new smile for the first time.

Her lip is still swollen and painful but the amazement in her eyes when she sees her new face is unmistakable.

WATCH the video below. Donate to help more kids get new smiles: www.operationsmile.org/donate

 

Stanford Operates a Design School for World-Changers

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Stanford School of Design pushes collaboration - d. school photoIn 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.

(READ the article in CS Monitor)

Ironworkers Paint Names on Beams for Children in Hospital Windows

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Gordon Gray
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beams with names painted by ironworkersLooking 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.

(WATCH the video below, or READ the story in the Seattle Times)

Ironworkers Paint Names on Beams for Children in Hospital Windows

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Gordon Gray
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beams with names painted by ironworkers

beams with names painted by ironworkersLooking 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.”

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Women Small Businesses Owners are Optimistic, in a Mood to Hire

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Margery Kraus, CEO of Apco, from World Economic ForumDespite 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.

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Tunisia Kicks off First Election Campaign Since Uprising‎

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flags by BRQ on FlickrToday 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.

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Biker Thug Becomes Unlikely Hero to Many

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When the former drug addict and biker thug, Sam Childers, (along with his former stripper wife) got a hold of some old-time religion, he became an unlikely hero to over a thousand children in war-torn Sudan.

The gun-toting, motorcycle-riding preacher, is now the subject of the new movie “Machine Gun Preacher” starring Gerard Butler.

As told in the film, Childers travels to Sudan with a church group in the late 1990s. When he meets children whose homes have been razed, parents killed and siblings abducted, Childers decides to help in any way he can.

(READ the story from the Daily Caller)

Six Days After Driver Plunges Off Cliff, Kids Find Dad

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Ravine fallen dad - MSNBC video clipA 67-year-old man found alive six days after his car plunged 200 feet off a mountain road built a makeshift camp, ate leaves and drank water from a nearby creek to survive, when he couldn’t climb the ravine with his injuries.

His kids tried to retrace his route this week.

‘We stopped at every ravine, and looked over every hill…the next thing we heard Dad saying ‘help, help,’ and there he was,’ his daughter said.

The severity of the situation must have been felt by their dad because another wrecked vehicle from an unrelated accident was smashed at the bottom of the same ravine with a decomposing body inside.

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New Scorsese Film on George Harrison Looks Like a Must-see

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George Harrison - Scorsese movie posterA new three-hour film on the Beatle George Harrison (to be aired in two parts by HBO on Oct. 5 and 6) is one of Martin Scorsese’s most personal documentaries.

What is remarkable in Scorsese’s documentary, something that has become apparent in the decade since George’s death, is the uncanny symmetry of his life—a life lived to the fullest. His saturation in the material world drove him to seek the spirit in things.

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“Hero Dog” Awards Honor Top Dogs at Gala Tonight

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service dog, SpiritAfter more than 300,000 votes cast by American dog lovers, the top pooches have been elected for the first Hero Dog Awards show tonight in Los Angeles.

Eight top dogs selected after weeks of voting will vie to become the grand prize-winning American Hero Dog.

One dog was chosen in each of these categories:

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Multiple Sclerosis Patient Finishes 50th Marathon in 50th State

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Photo by Sun StarSince being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 13 years ago, Patrick Finney of Dallas, Texas has remained unwilling to endure a life of infirmity. With therapy, medication and strong will power, he has followed his dream to run marathons in every state, finishing his 50th on Sunday.

“I am the first person with multiple sclerosis to complete a marathon in all 50 states,” he said triumphantly, in a phone interview with Reuters moments after finishing. “It’s been an amazing journey, and I’m on top of the world.”

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Blind Adventurer Regains Some Sight With Experimental Drug

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Arctic adventurer Mike Scholes, adventurer

Arctic adventurer Mike Scholes, adventurerWithin days and without warning, adventure Mike Scholes lost most of the sight in his left eye, due to the onset of an inherited optic condition.

“This meant an abrupt change in my life,” Scholes says. “I had a very successful hot air balloon business, and I had to stop flying. I had to sell my cars as I could no longer drive.”

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