Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones is on his way to a starring role in the Super Bowl, but his road to success led through homeless shelters from the time he was born until his freshman year in high school. Now he is helping other kids find their roads to success.
“Both of James’s parents were addicted to drugs, but the loyal son refused to leave his mom’s side for years.”
A house cleaning drop-out, Jon Foy, won the directorial award at the Sundance Film Festival for his homemade documentary, “Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles”.
During the 5 year odyssey of making his film, he learned how to write, shoot, and edit, mostly in the bedroom of a shared group house in West Philadelphia.
At 14, a victim of relentless taunting and cruelty herself, Ashley Craig dedicated eight months to researching, and preparing an anti-bullying program for her entire New Jersey school district. After her presentation to the High Point Board of Education, the members unanimously approved her initiative, “Students Against Being Bullied”.
The student group’s main tool will be two dedicated phone lines for student support and reporting abuse.
With an unlimited texting plan, the report line will reach administrative heads on alert for messages from victims or bystanders. The second phone number is a support line, where counselors will be available to provide resources to benefit troubled students.
“I hope to go statewide with this and I will work extremely hard to get there,” Craig said
(READ the story at New Jersey Herald)
Jeff Vinik, chairman of the Tampa Bay Lightning, and his wife, are donating more than $10 million for “deserving community heroes and charity partners in the Tampa Bay area.
The donation, to be distributed over the next five years, cements the Viniks commitment to making the Tampa Bay region its family’s home.
(READ more in Tampa Bay BizJournal)
After a heavy snowfall, a young man saw the warning signs Tuesday before a roof collapse and is being credited with saving people from being injured.
Tyler Sanders had worked at the Hard Rock Casino in Tulsa for only 6 months when he was cleaning the restrooms and observed some sheetrock on the floor and cracking in the ceiling, and alertly notified his boss.
The casino floor was evacuated before the ceiling collapsed on top of the poker tables and gaming machines. The online casino will include games from Finland’s largest online casino website Casinot.
(READ the story at KRMG news or Tulsa World)
Expanding waistlines present a challenge for middle aged adults — and for their kids — who want to enjoy comfort foods and salty snacks on football’s Super Bowl Sunday.
With a little planning, your game day menu can be delicious and healthy. (Partly healthy, at least!)
Guacamole, a favorite snack containing healthy fats from avocados; hummus, a tasty spread for pita bread, containing protein-rich chick peas; and a black bean salsa are three healthy dips for any kind chip or cracker.
(SEE these recipes, and 2 more, at Mother Nature News)
A group devoted to creating alternative energy jobs in Central Appalachia is building a first for West Virginia’s southern coalfields region this week – a rooftop solar array, assembled by unemployed and underemployed coal miners and contractors.
The 40- by 15-foot array going up on a doctor’s office in Williamson is significant not for its size but for its location: It signals to an area long reliant on mining that there can be life beyond coal.
(READ the AP story in the Stamford Advocate)
The evidence just keeps mounting that ordinary dogs can be trained to use their noses to detect various kinds of cancer with near-perfect accuracy — better than any standard test for the disease.
In the latest study, an eight-year-old black Labrador was 97 percent accurate in nosing out colon cancer when she was asked to choose among watery stool samples doctors collected from 185 patients with and without cancer.
Google unveiled a new website that allows virtual tours of some of the world’s most famous art galleries, featuring paintings photographed with extreme high-resolution “gigapixel” technology.
For the Art Project, video cameras mounted on trolleys recorded 360-degree tours of galleries in eleven cities around the world.
Google unveiled a new website that allows virtual tours of some of the world’s most famous art galleries, featuring paintings photographed with extreme high-resolution “gigapixel” technology.
For the Art Project, video cameras mounted on trolleys recorded 360-degree tours of galleries in eleven cities around the world.
A UK teenager has beaten a rare brain condition that nearly robbed her of her sight – after her father found a miracle cure on the internet.
She was the first person in the UK’s national health system to be prescribed Octreotide – a drug usually used to help hormone imbalances – to cure idiopathic intracranial hypertension, which affects just one in every 100,000 people.
Just six months later she was given the all-clear by doctors.
(READ the story in the Daily Mail)
Private employers added a seasonally adjusted 187,000 workers in January, payroll processor ADP said Wednesday.
That’s less than the 247,000-job increase in December, but, in a positive show of growth, hiring in the first month of 2011 jumped in most major industries and across all sizes of business, the report said.
(READ the report at NPR)
While Egyptians battle for their political future, social change is already sweeping the country. Amid the protesters, volunteers are sweeping the streets, picking up litter, and handing out food.
Health workers are also volunteering, making sure protesters are cared for.
Yesterday, the Daily News-Egypt posted this video from the center of the demonstration.
While Egyptians battle for their political future, social change is already sweeping the country. Amid the protesters, volunteers are sweeping the streets, picking up litter, and handing out food.
Health workers are also volunteering, making sure protesters are cared for.
Yesterday, the Daily News-Egypt posted this video from the center of the demonstration.
Researchers have a new tactic to save endangered whales tangled in fishing line: Get them to calm down with sedatives shot from a dart gun so they can pull closer and cut the potentially fatal gear away.
The method recently helped to free a young North Atlantic right whale from about 50 feet of line wrapped through its mouth and around its flippers.
(READ the AP article at Yahoo News)
An American Idol hero has emerged.
Not only can the young man sing, but Chris Medina’s personal life is lived with a loving heart, caring for a fiancee who was crippled and left with brain damage after a terrible car accident just two months before their wedding.
“I was about to make vows, just two months before the accident, to love her in sickness and in health,” he told the judges who asked about his family life. “What kind of guy would I be if I walked away when she needed me most.”
Originally from Chicago, Medina and the girl’s mom are full-time caregivers, helping her adjust to life in a wheelchair.
(WATCH the video from YouTube)
An American Idol hero has emerged. Not only can the young man sing, but according to their personal injury lawyer, Chris Medina’s personal life is lived with a loving heart, caring for a fiancee who was crippled and left with brain damage after a terrible car accident just two months before their wedding.
“I was about to make vows, just two months before the accident, to love her in sickness and in health,” he told the judges who asked about his family life. “What kind of guy would I be if I walked away when she needed me most.”
An L.A. attorney who, for years, had experienced a lot of bad luck in his life heard an inner voice telling him to start writing Thank You notes.
John Kralik wrote a thank-you card every day for an entire year — to his daughter’s piano teacher, a worker at Starbucks, and the lady who cuts his hair — and it changed his life.
He wrote a book, called, 365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life.
WATCH the video below from Steve Hartman via CBS…
An L.A. attorney who, for years, had experienced a lot of bad luck in his life heard an inner voice telling him to start writing Thank You notes.
John Kralik wrote a thank-you card every day for an entire year — to his daughter’s piano teacher, a worker at Starbucks, and the lady who cuts his hair — and it changed his life.
He wrote a book, called, 365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life
WATCH the video below from Steve Hartman via CBS…
A powerful new painkiller with no apparent side effects or addictive qualities, may now be only a year or two from the consumer market.
“This offers a major paradigm shift in the control of pain,” declares Dr. Simon Halegoua, Professor of Neurobiology & Behavior at Stony Brook University, who has identified a novel sodium ion channel involved in the transmission of pain.
