Do you have a drawer full of old cellphones, inkjet cartridges and good intentions? Now the Post Office is providing free envelopes for sending away your old gadgets to a recycler – without having to pay for postage!
Launched in 1,500 Post Offices located in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Washington, D.C., the new “Mail Back” program sends your electronic junk to Clover Technologies Group, an Illinois company that recycles the bits into new bytes.
“Some four hours after doctors declared Zack dead,” a nurse began to remove the 21-year-old ‘s feeding tubes. His two cousins observed “something about Zack’s appearance that made them think he wasn’t as dead as the doctors said.
On a hunch, one of them, who is a nurse, pulled out his pocket knife and ran the blade up the sole of one of Zack’s feet. The foot yanked away.” (View the Today show segment or read the story) Thanks to James Wittkop for submitting the link along with his hope that we all be grateful for the blessing of life we have been given.
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Over 85 percent of Ohio honeybees survived the past winter, a huge relief for farmers who rely on the marvelous insects to pollinate more than 70 different crops, including apples, pumpkins, and strawberries. Last year, less than 28 percent of the bee colonies survived a cold snap and mysterious illness. Scientist continue to monitor the situation, but farmers are optimistic for the future of the bee colonies. (More at The Columbus Dispatch)
“Australia committed $17 million on Thursday to train Aboriginal nurses and doctors, as part of efforts to close a 17-year gap in the life expectancies of indigenous and other Australians.” (Associated Press)
“A Florida woman with a golf ball-size tumor buried so deep in her abdomen that it was first called inoperable and terminal, risked a cutting-edge surgery to save her life and is now on her way to a full recovery.” (ABC News has the story)
In what is being described as a major victory in the global fight against polio, the United Nations health agency announced yesterday that the disease has been eradicated in strife-torn Somalia thanks to the efforts of some 10,000 volunteers and health workers across the Horn of Africa nation.
Against a backdrop of widespread conflict, migrating populations, and an ineffective government, transmission of poliovirus in the country has been successfully stopped, said a UN World Health Organization (WHO) news release.
A new biomass plant that converts wood or agricultural waste into a combustible gas mixture is offering remote communities access to electricity in an environment friendly, carbon neutral way, thanks to the United Nations Development Program.
The gasifier was fired up yesterday in a remote village of southern India called Boregunte, in Karnataka state.
Just because you are in the Guiness World Record book doesn’t mean your life is all roses. Leonid Stadnik got frostbite from walking in socks, because he couldn’t afford custom shoes to fit his frame of 8 feet 5 inches . He walked with crutches when his knees gave out from the strain of supporting 440 lbs. But the Ukrainian has found new hope in the kindness of strangers who sent a giant bicycle to help with transportation and oversized shoes and clothes — even a computer with internet service. The Heartwarming story is from AP via MSNBC.
“A Seattle student’s school project to learn about oceans comes full circle 21 years, 1,735 miles later in Alaska along a quite beach along the Bering Sea.” (AP story via MSNBC)
This is a really sweet story about how tiny–or not so tiny–wheelchairs are giving disabled pets a new lease (or should that be ‘leash’?) on life. (Associated Press w/ photos) Thanks to Sondra for submitting this!
Maureen O’Haire gave birth to five children, adopted another four and cared for more than 50 foster kids. But now she’s playing mother hen to an entire platoon of Marines. Steve Hartman brings us this inspiring video report. Pass the tissues!
(Video w/ 30 sec ad from CBS News)
“The elementary school I attended told my mother that I would never get past a first-grade reading level, and that I would never graduate from high school. I started to take opera and piano lessons and my reading and learning skills started to improve. I decided to sing Italian opera. I now sing on stage with a perfect Italian accent.” (The Salt Lake Tribune)
A new Harvard study suggests that people who go to the trouble of punishing colleagues, co-workers or others in one-on-one situations do not profit from their revenge. Nice guys do finish first! Thanks to Sondra for submitting the link!
Happy Spring and Happy Easter — a time of renewal, rebirth, and growth! … Does your life need a little renewal? Are there dandelion weeds in your head? If so, I’ve got great news, and you won’t have to lift a finger! Next week I’m releasing a stunning collection of my *personal notes* from the past 7 Great Mentors tele-seminars, with high-powered experts, virtually free.
(You remember, the free calls featuring top-notch authors and coaches straight from the N.Y. Times Best Seller list, Oprah, and the Whoopi show? Experts like Carol Adrienne, Debbie Macomber and Joan Marie Whelan?)
British TV host, Sarah Beeny, gives her top tips on how to spruce up your kitchen and living room with small changes – all for under $150.00 – instead of spending a ton of major improvements. Watch here for part II for bedroom tips. (UKs Daily Mirror.uk ) Note: £1 is equal to $1.50…
“A mother of three was at rock bottom — jobless, no prospects for work and with no money to feed her young kids. But now she’s running her own business recycling clothes, earning a decent living and giving a substantial chunk of her turnover to a local children’s charity.” (Daily Mirror.uk)
Despite early opposition from some business types, high-rise apartments are being built for poor residents in downtown Dallas. Now, the city’s business-minded mayor is standing up to call for more compassion for our most vulnerable residents, including the homeless. (Dallas Morning News Video and story)
An associate professor of exercise science at Virginia’s Old Dominion University shares the stories of some 55 people who’ve managed healthy lives through type 1 and type 2 diabetes in 50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes
The speech on race and religion that Senator Barack Obama delivered Tuesday has been viewed more than two million times on YouTube and has prepared the ground for further discussions in schools, in churches, and around the water coolers and kitchen tables throughout America.
Race and religion, the two most electrified rails in American politics, have both challenged and empowered the Obama candidacy and, in turn, the nation.
The Washington Post said, “Obama’s speech was remarkable: ambitious, lofty, gritty, honest and unnerving. He not only ventured into the minefield of race and made it back alive, but he also marked a path for the rest of us to follow. In tone and substance, and in the challenge he laid down to the country about the need somehow to move beyond the racial stalemate, it was the kind of speech Americans should expect of a presidential candidate or a president.”
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union,” began the speech. Obama recalled that America’s founding document was “unfinished” because it left any final resolution on slavery to future generations. He said he chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because he “believes deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together — unless we perfect our union.”
The New York Times is reporting yesterday that, “Universities were moving to incorporate the issues Mr. Obama raised into classroom discussions and course work, and churches were trying to find ways to do the same in sermons and Bible studies.”
Julian Bond, the longtime civil rights activist and Hillary Clinton supporter, said the speech moved him to tears.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said that “As an example of contemporary oratory, it was stunning. If Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination in the most unlikely campaign in American history, chances are good that his Philadelphia speech will have been a watershed moment.”
The Nation wrote, “If people have the opportunity to hear him in full and think about it, they will recognize the strength it took for him to open his arms this way, casting aside all defenses and evasions.”
From Time: “An extraordinary speech — not because of any rhetorical flourishes, but because it was honest, frank, measured in tone, inclusive and hopeful… [Obama] clearly demonstrated today his capacity to lead public opinion and not simply be a slave to it. Indeed, I would say he appeared wise beyond his years and genuinely presidential.”
If you haven’t had a chance to see the speech, you must watch:
