Major new health insurance reform benefits take effect today.
Starting today, insurers will be required to:
Keep you covered when you get sick: Simple mistakes or typos will no longer be grounds for insurance companies to cancel your insurance.
Cover kids with pre-existing conditions: Your kids can no longer be denied health coverage just because they have a pre-existing condition like hay fever, asthma, or previous sports injuries. This protection extends to all plans, except “grandfathered” plans in the individual market.
Allow young adults to stay on their parents’ plan up to age 26: Even if their first few jobs don’t provide health benefits, your kids can still remain covered by your insurance.
Major new health insurance reform benefits take effect today.
Starting today, insurers will be required to:
Keep you covered when you get sick: Simple mistakes or typos will no longer be grounds for insurance companies to cancel your insurance.
Cover kids with pre-existing conditions: Your kids can no longer be denied health coverage just because they have a pre-existing condition like hay fever, asthma, or previous sports injuries. This protection extends to all plans, except “grandfathered” plans in the individual market.
Allow young adults to stay on their parents’ plan up to age 26: Even if their first few jobs don’t provide health benefits, your kids can still remain covered by your insurance.
Today marks a new day for health insurance in America. From this day forward, if you or your children get sick and you want to buy health insurance you can no longer be denied coverage due to illness.
Ending some of the worst abuses of the insurance industry, it became illegal today for health insurers to place any limits on the amount of medical care you can receive — previously known as “lifetime (or annual) caps”. Additionally, no company can arbitrarily cancel your policy without the burden of proving fraud, or deny your claims without offering options for appeal. (Watch the video below, showing the president calling one patient.)
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, has agreed to donate $100 million to the chronically troubled public schools in the city of Newark.
As part of the deal, New Jersey’s governor will give up some control over the state-run system to the mayor, Cory Booker, officials said Wednesday night.
The three men plan to announce the arrangement Friday on the Oprah Winfrey Show. The donation comes at a time when a movie about Zuckerberg is due to released portraying him in not the best light.
When it comes to exercise, stress relief, and overall health, very little beats out yoga. In fact, you’d need several pairs of hands to list all the benefits. But, did you know that it also brings all kinds of unintended side benefits—like glowing skin, slower aging, and, yup, better sex.
Boeing unveiled its new unmanned airborne solar vehicle that will be capable of remaining aloft in the stratosphere for at least five years.
Designed to be a “zero-maintenance, launch-and-leave” aircraft, the SolarEagle can orbit as a satellite, but with a lower cost, which makes it attractive for a variety of intelligence, communications and commercial applications.
2000 people gathered this month in Massachusetts to release almost two thousand butterflies in honor an 8-year-old who died of cancer. The event raised money for the children’s charity founded by Lucy Grogan months before she died, hoping to bestow the benefits of holistic alternative therapies on other kids with cancer.
The brainchild of Lucy’s mother, Beecher, the first annual Fly-Away Festival drew teens and local leaders in support of the non-profit organization Lucy called, Lucy’s Love Bus.
The concept of a “Love Bus” started with a conversation between Lucy and her mom in the hospital. Lucy was aware that not all children with cancer were able to benefit from some of the treatments that she was receiving, such as acupuncture and raiki. It was Lucy’s desire to help provide her friends in the hospital with these and other integrated therapies. Beecher Grogan took this seed of an idea and formed it into a blossoming fully-fledged charity that is benefiting many children.
Along with pony rides, live music, and a plethora of butterflies, the group cheered a recent proclamation by the local mayor that September 12th will be forever known as Lucy’s Love Bus Day.
Teens helping with the Fly-Away Festival donned brightly colored tie-dyed butterfly shirts. Members of the freshman football team wore fake eyelashes and gave away “butterfly kisses”. Kids from the Sparhawk School that Lucy Grogan attended for a time, set up a wind sculpture on the hill. Paper butterflies swayed in the wind marking the names of people that have passed away. For $15 a real butterfly was purchased to be released on the day in the name of loved one.
Nathan Osmond the country singer and nephew of Donny and Marie Osmond, performed an original song appropriately called “Lucy’s Song”. The song, scheduled for release this week, features the lyrics of a poem Mrs. Grogan wrote for her daughter after her death. Osmond’s performance left not a dry eye among those gathered on the Woodsom farm in Amesbury where the event progressed.
Carrying the torch of Lucy’s dream was Miranda Berry from Orange, Mass, who mounted the stage to tell an inspiring story about her own encounter with a butterfly that held the audience breathless. Miranda is one of the many children who have been helped in dealing with her cancer treatments by Lucy’s Love Bus foundation.
The culmination of the day was the actual release more than one thousand monarch butterflies above the crowd. They took flight with hopes and dreams of cancer patients on their wings, a spark of healing from Lucy’s Love Bus.
2000 people gathered this month in Massachusetts to release almost two thousand butterflies in honor an 8-year-old who died of cancer. The event raised money for the children’s charity founded by Lucy Grogan months before she died, hoping to bestow the benefits of holistic alternative therapies on other kids with cancer.
The brainchild of Lucy’s mother, Beecher, the first annual Fly-Away Festival drew teens and local leaders in support of the non-profit organization Lucy called, Lucy’s Love Bus.
The concept of a “Love Bus” started with a conversation between Lucy and her mom in the hospital. Lucy was aware that not all children with cancer were able to benefit from some of the treatments that she was receiving, such as acupuncture and raiki. It was Lucy’s desire to help provide her friends in the hospital with these and other integrated therapies. Beecher Grogan took this seed of an idea and formed it into a blossoming fully-fledged charity that is benefiting many children.
Some 300 international scientists have recognized that efforts to protect the ozone layer have been a success, noting a significant decrease in the ozone layer depletion in the past years.
The report published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) noted that the ozone layer, which serves as a shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays, have stopped additional ozone losses and contributed to mitigating the greenhouse effect.
With the release of a new computer game, video gamers can build their own civilizations. They can wage wars, conduct diplomacy and even discover new technologies in their virtual wold. But before they begin, each gamer will help choose a charity to receive a quarter of a million dollars in the real world to improve education around the globe.
With the release of a new computer game, video gamers can build their own civilizations. They can wage wars, conduct diplomacy and even discover new technologies in their virtual wold. But before they begin, each gamer will help choose a charity to receive a quarter of a million dollars in the real world to improve education around the globe.
As the primary cooking and heating tool for nearly three billion people, traditional cookstoves and open fires cause 1.9 million premature deaths worldwide each year.
They not only endanger the lives of women and children but with their billowing smoke, also rank as a major contributor to global warming.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today announced a new partnership that will create a global market for clean and efficient cooking stoves designed to save lives, improve livelihoods, protect trees, and cut global carbon emissions. She predicted, “Clean stoves could be as transformative as bed nets or vaccines.”
The ultimate goal of the new “Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves” will be getting the stoves into the hands of 100 million households by the year 2020.
As the primary cooking and heating tool for nearly three billion people, traditional cookstoves and open fires cause 1.9 million premature deaths worldwide each year. They not only endanger the lives of women and children, but with their billowing smoke, also rank as a major contributor to global warming.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today announced a new partnership that will create a global market for clean and efficient cooking stoves designed to save lives, improve livelihoods, protect trees, and cut global carbon emissions. She predicted, “Clean stoves could be as transformative as bed nets or vaccines.”
The ultimate goal of the new “Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves” will be getting the stoves into the hands of 100 million households by the year 2020.
Since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a laboratory for all sorts of charter schools.
One school promising a college prep environment opened its doors to incoming freshman in the desolate Ninth Ward, where most of the students entered with reading skills at only a fourth grade level.
By focusing on enthusiasm for the goals of reaching college and daily character growth, the Science & Math Academy has designed a program that both addresses their deficits and accelerates them beyond the average. And, the program is working.
In two years, as founder and incoming principal, 28-year-old Ben Marcovitz has taken the original freshman class, previously with little hope for a successful future, to nearly the top of the city’s list for overall test scores.
WATCH the video to witness the transformation of kids enrolled at Sci Academy…
Since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a laboratory for all sorts of charter schools.
One school that promises a college prep environment in the desolate Ninth Ward opened its doors to incoming freshman who mostly entered with reading skills at only a fourth grade level.
By focusing on enthusiasm for the goals of reaching college and daily character growth, the Science & Math Academy has designed a program that both addresses their deficits and accelerates them beyond the average. And, the program is working.
In two years, as founder and incoming principal, 28-year-old Ben Marcovitz has taken the original freshman class, previously with little hope for a successful future, to nearly the top of the city’s list for overall test scores.
President Obama’s stimulus package is funding green technology around the nation – creating jobs, spurring innovation and quietly transforming the U.S. economy.
A portion of last year’s Recovery Act went towards fulfilling a campaign pledge: 1 million electric cars on U.S. highways by 2015. To that end, $2.4 billion was intended to jump start an entire industry geared toward the production of lighter, more energy-dense lithium-ion batteries to power the next generation of vehicles.
But Stimulus investments in green technology aren’t just about electric cars.
Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles are considered the most endangered sea turtle in the world, and are exceedingly rare visitors on North Carolina beaches.
Yet Kemp’s ridley turtles have been showing up this year in increasing numbers in North Carolina’s coastal waters, according to a report in the Winston-Salem Journal.
Alhough she doesn’t know why the turtles, which are strictly protected by national and state law, are more prevelant, Karen Sota, a leader at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, said it was a “good sign.”
The map below shows the historic range of the species.
Meanwhile, the LA Times reports that efforts to move thousands of turtle eggs away from damaged beaches in Florida has been largely successful. Around 14,000 baby turtles have hatched safely after being relocated.
Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles are considered the most endangered sea turtle in the world, and are exceedingly rare visitors on North Carolina beaches.
Yet Kemp’s ridley turtles have been showing up this year in increasing numbers in North Carolina’s coastal waters, according to a report in the Winston-Salem Journal.
Alhough she doesn’t know why the turtles, which are strictly protected by national and state law, are more prevelant, Karen Sota, a leader at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, said it was a “good sign.”
The map below shows the historic range of the species.
Meanwhile, the LA Times reports that efforts to move thousands of turtle eggs away from damaged beaches in Florida has been largely successful. Around 14,000 baby turtles have hatched safely after being relocated.
On September 1st, New York City based radio personality, Trey Morgan embarked on a journey designed to shock him into a more philanthropic way of life. He hopes his non-profit quest to volunteer for 30 charities in 30 days finally ends the quandary which has kept him from volunteering in the past, namely, among so many great charities, which group to choose.
A daily blog, 30 Deeds 30 Days, details his experiences as he goes from one volunteer gig to the next, all while holding down his DJ job and making it home for dinner with his wife. He plans to write a book cataloguing the charity types and providing tips for those who want to give back, but are frozen at the starting line.
A radio personality for New York City’s Z100, Morgan was drawn to charities that help animals or involve music, and because of a family string of illnesses, to cancer-related causes. Many are local charities, but he is also trying out some of the most well-known groups, like Habitat for Humanity and the Ronald McDonald House.
Of the challenge, Morgan says, “It’s so important to give back. With my reach over the airwaves, hopefully I’ll be able to inspire others by showing that even an ambitious feat like this is attainable, all it takes is a commitment.”
Each day, Morgan will arrive at a new charity, work with them in whatever capacity is needed, and document his adventure on the air in the evening, and through the blog, Facebook, and Twitter.
So far, one of his favorite charities has been Musicians On Call, which brings music to the bedsides of hospital patients and sick kids. Other non-profits slated to be involved include: Rosie’s Broadway Kids, Muscular Dystrophy Association, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Morgan was also inspired to donate a portion of his book proceeds to benefit the organizations he volunteers with.
Major new health insurance reform benefits take effect today.
Nathan Osmond the country singer and nephew of Donny and Marie Osmond, performed an original song appropriately called “Lucy’s Song”. The song, scheduled for release this week, features the lyrics of a poem Mrs. Grogan wrote for her daughter after her death. Osmond’s performance left not a dry eye among those gathered on the Woodsom farm in Amesbury where the event progressed.
