A baby dolphin has been rescued in Japan after being dumped in a rice field by a giant tsunami that hit the coast on March 11.
The dolphin was spotted in the flooded field, about a mile from the coast by a pet-shop owner who has been rescuing abandoned animals since the quake-tsunami struck.
Two Utah firms have joined up to send solar power units to hard-hit Japan, devices that can provide up to 50 hours of lighting from just collected sunlight.
They’ve already sent 300 units to Japan, and as soon as the solar panel is set under the daylight, the electricity starts flowing.
WATCH the NBC News video below…
Meat eaters should search out Heritage Acres’ all-natural pork products. Not only are their pasture-raised hogs hormone-free and fed only soy, corn and oats with no antibiotics, now its pork processing will become the first in the US to boast a zero-waste operation, fully powered by turning its waste products into biofuel to run the generators.
Russ Kremer, a fifth-generation Missouri hog farmer and leader of a coalition of 52 family farmers known as Heritage Acres Foods, says the plant should be completed in two years. With the new technology, Kremer and his fellow natural farmers will be able to reprocess all the farm’s waste, rather than paying to haul it or dump it, turning it all into bio-diesel fuel to power its entire operation.
Meat eaters should search out Heritage Acres’ all-natural pork products. Not only are their pasture-raised hogs hormone-free and fed only soy, corn and oats with no antibiotics, now its pork processing will become the first in the US to boast a zero-waste operation, fully powered by turning its waste products into biofuel to run the generators.
Russ Kremer, a fifth-generation Missouri hog farmer and leader of a coalition of 52 family farmers known as Heritage Acres Foods, says the plant should be completed in two years. With the new technology, Kremer and his fellow natural farmers will be able to reprocess all the farm’s waste, rather than paying to haul it or dump it, turning it all into bio-diesel fuel to power its entire operation.
Rick Sound, a TriMet bus driver for 24 years, was steering a No. 77 bus west over the Steel Bridge Tuesday morning when he saw something that stopped him – and the bus – in their tracks.
A woman had hoisted one leg over the railing of the bridge, which spans the Willamette River in downtown Portland. He quickly parked the bus in the lane — there was nowhere to pull over — and ran out to stop her apparent plan to jump.
“I thought I better do something quick,” he said. “It had about five seconds to go downhill real quick.”
Growing up in the Kenyan slums, Peninah Nthenya Musyimi was surrounded by drugs, prostitution and dire poverty.
“Because I was a woman, people looked at me like any other household slave,” she says.
Peninah turned to education as her lifeline, walking nine miles to attend school every day, and learning basketball within one month to secure a scholarship to college.
Now she’s helping other girls do the same. After getting her law degree she created Safe Spaces, a haven for girls living in extreme poverty in Nairobi, where they can get basketball, yoga, dance, and life skills training and professional development.
Peninah says she started Safe Spaces “to give girls who are growing up in the same harsh conditions that I grew up in a space where they can share their challenges, learn and nurture their talents.”
(WATCH her tell the story below)
What would you do if you were a college freshman and your MacBook Air was stolen?
Eighteen-year-old “technology entrepreneur” and Bentley College student Mark Bao didn’t write off his laptop as gone forever after realizing that by using the online backup software BackBlaze which he’d installed on his laptop, he would be able to see the machine’s browser history and track any hard drive updates.
The rest was an interesting look into what a fellow classmate does after stealing a laptop.
(READ the story in PCWorld)
6-year old Emily Bear was born to play piano, She has wowed audiences, even recently performing at the White House.
Playing the piano since age 3, Emily also composes her own music. She says her music comes from her heart (just like Mozart’s did).
WATCH the video from WGN with more than 17 million hits on YouTube…
6-year old Emily Bear was born to play piano, She has wowed audiences, even recently performing at the White House.
Playing the piano since age 3, Emily also composes her own music. She says her music comes from her heart (just like Mozart’s did).
WATCH the YouTube video from WGN that has more than 17 million hits…
An estimated 2,000 adult albatrosses and 20 percent of their newborn hatchlings nesting on a Pacific island did not survive a 5-foot tidal wave unleashed by the earthquake that hit March 11 off the coast of Japan.
But Wisdom was not a casualty — the 60-year-old albatross ranked as the oldest living wild bird known to U.S. biologists, named by the Scientists who were thrilled to spot her alive a week later.
Those tallies represent a small fraction of the overall population of 1 million Laysan albatross.
(READ the story at MSNBC)
The Seattle Mariners baseball club, with strong ties to Japan, is pledging support for relief efforts, led by their star outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, who has donated 100 million yen ($1.24 million) to the Japanese Red Cross in his native country.
The Mariners will also match all donations received from fans and employees during a fundraising campaign planned for their first six home games of the upcoming season, including a “Salute to Japan Night.”
(READ the AFP story in Yahoo News)
A US pilot — forced to bail out of his malfunctioning fighter jet over Libya — was greeted as a hero by villagers who lined up in the sheep field where he landed to shake his hand and tell him, “We are your friends.”
Villager Younis Amruni, 27, told Britain’s Telegraph newspaper: “I hugged him and said, ‘Don’t be scared. We are your friends. We are so grateful to these men who are protecting the skies.’ “
I got excited as the plane approached the tarmac. A wide smile overtook my face as I contemplated my last-minute decision to travel from New York to Cairo to vote in Egypt’s constitutional referendum.
Polling stations had opened early in the morning. Egyptians were finally getting their first taste of democracy.
Let’s face it; a bad mood impacts your personal effectiveness. If your mood is not kept in check you can damage important relationships at home and at work.
Moods are simply a manifestation of emotion, and I like Eckhart Tolle’s definition: “Emotions are the body’s reaction to the mind.” If you agree, then it makes sense that in order to beat a bad mood you must master your mindset, or your thinking.
What if you could reprogram your brain so that you don’t experience bad moods as often?
Let’s face it; a bad mood impacts your personal effectiveness. If your mood is not kept in check you can damage important relationships at home and at work.
Moods are simply a manifestation of emotion, and I like Eckhart Tolle’s definition: “Emotions are the body’s reaction to the mind.” If you agree, then it makes sense that in order to beat a bad mood you must master your mindset, or your thinking.
What if you could reprogram your brain so that you don’t experience bad moods as often?
How about recycling an old aircraft into a new home?
What a creative idea: Joanne Ussary bought a used Boeing 727 for $2,000. It cost $4,000 to move and $24,000 to renovate. The plane, hoisted onto a cliff overlooking the beach and touting beautiful wooden floors and walls, looks like a half-million dollar investment.
One of the bathrooms is still intact. There is a personal Jacuzzi in the cockpit.
(See the beautiful photos at AviationHumor.net)
How about recycling an old aircraft into a new home?
What a creative idea: Joanne Ussary bought a used Boeing 727 for $2,000. It cost $4,000 to move and $24,000 to renovate. The plane, hoisted onto a cliff overlooking the beach and touting beautiful wooden floors and walls, looks like a great investment.
One of the bathrooms is still intact. There is a personal Jacuzzi in the cockpit.
(See the beautiful photos at AviationHumor.net)
Yale Law School, renowned for competitiveness and its Supreme Court justices, is embarking on a pilot program next week in which students can check out a “therapy dog” named Monty along with the library’s collection of more than one million books.
Monty will be available at the circulation desk to stressed-out students for 30 minutes at a time beginning Monday, for a three-day trial run.
Once again the creative genius of the Washington DC community is on display in the Easter candy parade of homemade art that is the annual — and always humorous — Peep diorama contest.
Each spring the sticky critter-confections are decorated and transformed by readers of the Washington Post into scenes depicting famous books, paintings, or a current event, such as the party-crashers in the White House.
This year’s grand prize winner, entitled “Eep”, featured the whimsical scene from Pixar’s animated film, Up, in which the Victorian home was pulled aloft — in this case by dozens of balloons crafted using the yellow marshmallow chicks and pink bunnies.
All the finalists are unique and worth a look… like the one pictured above, featuring the Obama dog, entitled, Little Bo Peep.
(WATCH the slideshow – warning: auto-playing ad – at Washington Post)
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Anthony Robles, born without a right leg, won the US national collegiate wrestling title at 125 pounds on Saturday, completing an unbeaten senior season and an amazing career.
Robles, 22, finished with a perfect senior season, 36-0, and his three-day performance at the NCAA wrestling tournament earned him the Outstanding Wrestler award.
