Quote of the Day: “On the wings of forgiveness, is carried all other wisdom.” – Honey Judith Rubin
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You never know who – or what – you will run into on the subway; whether it’s a dynamic duo of escaped farm animals or famed actor and comedian Jon Stewart.
Two wayward goats were able to have a chance encounter with the former The Daily Show host while on the tracks of the N subway line in Brooklyn earlier this week.
Presumably sick of waiting for the train, the goats were walking along the tracks when they were spotted by New York City’s transit authorities.
The two runways were munching on grass near the tracks when they were tranquilized by police so they could be moved safely.
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A rescue team from the Farm Sanctuary arrived to transport the goats – and the team included none other than Stewart and his wife Tracy.
The comedian and his wife have been supporters of the sanctuary since 2015, owning a farm in New Jersey which also serves as a home for abused animals. The star-struck goats, who are now nicknamed Willy and Billy, were taken to the Watkins Glen sanctuary in New York where a spokeswomen stated: “There, they will receive medical examinations and the world-class, individualized care.”
(WATCH footage of the comedian’s rescue below)
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Over 700 teachers are rejoicing over a very special new world record: the most amount of crayons donated to a charity in under eight hours.
A massive donation drive for Los Angeles teachers managed to raise 1,009,500 gently-used crayons, thus setting a new Guinness World Record.
The drive was organized by Crayon Collection, a nonprofit that supports teachers, the environment, and arts education by donating gently-used crayons to educators.
As a means of celebrating the achievement in Westfield Culver City last week, an artist arranged the boxes of crayons into a maze that was slowly deconstructed as the supplies were distributed amongst the teachers. Dozens of kids participated in the Crayon Collection’s The Color Kindness Program, which involves rebagging donated crayons for other children, and including a handwritten note of kindness. Illustrators from Nickelodeon were even on hand to draw up some doodles for the kids in attendance.
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“Today was epic, it was a dream come true to see the face of these teachers have a little relief from all the spending they are forced to do on a daily basis at their schools,” said Crayon Collection’s founder and president Sheila Morovati. “We’re so proud and honored to serve this community in the way that we did today.”
According to the nonprofit, the average teacher spends $900 out of their own pocket each school year so their students can have the supplies they need. Studies have proven that children with arts education perform better in all subjects, including math, reading and writing.
But now, with a year’s supply of crayons in hand, these teachers are sure to help their kids succeed.
Brighten Up Your Friends’ Day And Share The Good News To Social Media – Photo by Crayon Collection
A young boy is receiving an outpouring of love and support from top athletes after his father posted a video of his game to Twitter with a special request.
Allan Ogle was delighted to watch his son Harrison debut as a soccer goalie for the youngster’s division of the Sheffield-side MDS Beighton Falcons in Chesterfield, England earlier this week.
“He’s overcome premature birth, swine flu, pneumonia and has educational challenges,” wrote Allan. “Emotional for me to see my boy debut in goal on Sunday for his new team.”
Unfortunately, Harrison’s team lost 11 to 0.
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So as a means of cheering up his son, Allan uploaded a video of Harrison’s saves to Twitter and asked his fellow soccer fans to show some appreciation.
The video immediately went viral. Soccer fans from Canada, America, and India sent messages of support for the youngster’s performance. Not only that, dozens of famous footballer gave their own words of encouragement.
Ex-Arsenal goalie David Seaman said: “Looking good!! I let 12 goals in one half of my first ever game for my school side!!”
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National English team player Nick Pope added “Brave as a lion and kicks it a mile!! Keep up the good work Harrison.”
Neville Southall, Ray Clemence, Chris Kirkland, Vito Mannone, and Bryan Gunn were some of the other big names who offered up support as well.
According to Allan, Harrison has also been invited to watch a goalkeeping session at Manchester City and he’s been given a shiny new pair of goalie gloves for his next game.
“I suppose I thought it would be nice to get a few message from people, but I’ve been overwhelmed with the response,” Allan told BBC. “I just wanted to get the message over to him to enjoy playing no matter what the result.”
(WATCH the video below)
He's overcome premature birth, swine flu, pneumonia and has educational challenges. Emotional for me to see my boy Harrison's debut in goal on Sunday for his new team.?
— Allan Ogle (@AllanOgle) August 15, 2018
Lost 11-0 ??
?his saves to cheer him up, any support from footy fans ? please I'll show him ?⚽️?x pic.twitter.com/ghF4L7Lbya
Score Big With Your Friends And Share To Social Media – Photo by Allan Ogle
Not all heroes wear capes – even if they apparently have the super strength to carry a full-grown man to his car.
Clint Groom saw such a Good Samaritan back in April when he was sitting in his car outside of a convenience store in Haltom City, Texas.
He saw a younger man run over to help an elderly stranger who appeared to be having trouble walking across the parking lot.
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At first, the man gently tried to help the senior walk back to his truck – but after making little progress, the man simply offered to carry the senior back to his car.
The compassionate man then scooped up the smiling older gentleman and carried him all the way to his car. After gently setting the senior down, the man made sure he was okay, bid him farewell, and walked back to the convenience store.
The identity of the kind man is unknown, but his good deed has garnered plenty of praise on the internet since it was published.
(WATCH the video below)
Be Sure And Share The Inspirational Good Deed With Your Friends – Photo by Clint Groom
Quote of the Day: “Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The Lesson: We live in a century where the latest findings in neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics show us that there is more to know about life than what is visible – and there is a power inside us that can help us access unlimited possibilities for our lives. In this video, a researcher discusses why he dedicated his life to study the body-mind connection and the power that lies beyond the material world in which we live. He uses the world’s latest scientific findings to help people heal themselves of various illnesses, chronic conditions, and terminal diseases through the process of rewiring the brain, reconditioning the body; changing its internal state; and stepping outside their physical reality to enter the quantum field of infinite possibilities.
Notable Excerpt: “This is a time in history when it is not enough to know, this is a time in history to know how. Just like an infection spreads among the community and creates disease, once people start breaking through and they wrap their mind around this, health and wellness can be as infectious as disease, and we are seeing it happen. We are talking about your nervous system becoming the greatest pharmacist in the world, when you begin to realize that you can make your own pharmacy of chemicals equal to any drug that you take, just by changing how you think and feel.”
The Guest: Dr. Joe Dispenza is a scientist, international lecturer, educator, and author of “Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing Uncommon Things”. He has been invited to speak in more than 32 countries across five continents. As a lecturer and educator, he is driven by the conviction that everyone has the potential for greatness and unlimited abilities. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller “You Are the Placebo”, as well as “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself”.
The Host: Brian Rose is the founder and host of London Real, the new media and transformation company best known for its weekly live video talk show that interviews the greatest minds in the world. Originally from California, Brian holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and he is now an investment banker in London.
Podcast: The London Real podcast is available for free on iTunes.
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MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery
It’s nearly impossible to break a dry spaghetti noodle into only two pieces. A new MIT study shows how and why it can be done.
Written by Jennifer Chu
MIT News
If you happen to have a box of spaghetti in your pantry, try this experiment: Pull out a single spaghetti stick and hold it at both ends. Now bend it until it breaks. How many fragments did you make? If the answer is three or more, pull out another stick and try again. Can you break the noodle in two? If not, you’re in very good company.
The spaghetti challenge has flummoxed even the likes of famed physicist Richard Feynman ’39, who once spent a good portion of an evening breaking pasta and looking for a theoretical explanation for why the sticks refused to snap in two.
Feynman’s kitchen experiment remained unresolved until 2005, when physicists from France pieced together a theory to describe the forces at work when spaghetti — and any long, thin rod — is bent. They found that when a stick is bent evenly from both ends, it will break near the center, where it is most curved. This initial break triggers a “snap-back” effect and a bending wave, or vibration, that further fractures the stick. Their theory, which won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize, seemed to solve Feynman’s puzzle. But a question remained: Could spaghetti ever be coerced to break in two?
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The answer, according to a new MIT study, is yes — with a twist. In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report that they have found a way to break spaghetti in two, by both bending and twisting the dry noodles. They carried out experiments with hundreds of spaghetti sticks, bending and twisting them with an apparatus they built specifically for the task. The team found that if a stick is twisted past a certain critical degree, then slowly bent in half, it will, against all odds, break in two.
The researchers say the results may have applications beyond culinary curiosities, such as enhancing the understanding of crack formation and how to control fractures in other rod-like materials such as multifiber structures, engineered nanotubes, or even microtubules in cells.
“It will be interesting to see whether and how twist could similarly be used to control the fracture dynamics of two-dimensional and three-dimensional materials,” says co-author Jörn Dunkel, associate professor of physical applied mathematics at MIT. “In any case, this has been a fun interdisciplinary project started and carried out by two brilliant and persistent students — who probably don’t want to see, break, or eat spaghetti for a while.”
Graduate student Ronald Heisser, together with project partner Edgar Gridello, originally took up the challenge of breaking spaghetti in the spring of 2015, as a final project for a dynamics class. They had read about Feynman’s kitchen experiment, and wondered whether spaghetti could somehow be broken in two and whether this split could be controlled.
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“They did some manual tests, tried various things, and came up with an idea that when he twisted the spaghetti really hard and brought the ends together, it seemed to work and it broke into two pieces,” Dunkel says. “But you have to twist really strongly. And Ronald wanted to investigate more deeply.”
So Heisser built a mechanical fracture device to controllably twist and bend sticks of spaghetti. Two clamps on either end of the device hold a stick of spaghetti in place. A clamp at one end can be rotated to twist the dry noodle by various degrees, while the other clamp slides toward the twisting clamp to bring the two ends of the spaghetti together, bending the stick.
Heisser and Patil used the device to bend and twist hundreds of spaghetti sticks, and recorded the entire fragmentation process with a camera, at up to a million frames per second. In the end, they found that by first twisting the spaghetti at almost 360 degrees, then slowly bringing the two clamps together to bend it, the stick snapped exactly in two. The findings were consistent across two types of spaghetti: Barilla No. 5 and Barilla No. 7, which have slightly different diameters.
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In parallel, Patil began to develop a mathematical model to explain how twisting can snap a stick in two. To do this, he generalized previous work by the French scientists Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch, who developed the original theory to describe the “snap-back effect,” in which a secondary wave caused by a stick’s initial break creates additional fractures, causing spaghetti to mostly snap in three or more fragments.
Patil adapted this theory by adding the element of twisting, and looked at how twist should affect any forces and waves propagating through a stick as it is bent. From his model, he found that, if a 10-inch-long spaghetti stick is first twisted by about 270 degrees and then bent, it will snap in two, mainly due to two effects. The snap-back, in which the stick will spring back in the opposite direction from which it was bent, is weakened in the presence of twist. And, the twist-back, where the stick will essentially unwind to its original straightened configuration, releases energy from the rod, preventing additional fractures.
“Once it breaks, you still have a snap-back because the rod wants to be straight,” Dunkel explains. “But it also doesn’t want to be twisted.”
Just as the snap-back will create a bending wave, in which the stick will wobble back and forth, the unwinding generates a “twist wave,” where the stick essentially corkscrews back and forth until it comes to rest. The twist wave travels faster than the bending wave, dissipating energy so that additional critical stress accumulations, which might cause subsequent fractures, do not occur.
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“That’s why you never get this second break when you twist hard enough,” Dunkel says.
The team found that the theoretical predictions of when a thin stick would snap in two pieces, versus three or four, matched with their experimental observations.
“Taken together, our experiments and theoretical results advance the general understanding of how twist affects fracture cascades,” Dunkel says.
For now, he says the model is successful at predicting how twisting and bending will break long, thin, cylindrical rods such as spaghetti. As for other pasta types?
“Linguini is different because it’s more like a ribbon,” Dunkel says. “The way the model is constructed it applies to perfectly cylindrical rods. Although spaghetti isn’t perfect, the theory captures its fracture behavior pretty well,”
Reprinted with permission from MIT News
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Shirley Lewis is a 68-year-old woman who adores the Mamma Mia films and also suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
So when a fellow movie-goer expressed their disapproval of the woman loudly singing along to Mamma Mia 2, the theater stepped up to the plate by hosting an entire showing of the film just for people with dementia.
Lewis had gone to the Cineworld movie theater in Cwmbran, Wales to see the film with her daughter Rhiannon last month. The senior was so delighted by the music, she started singing along to all of the ABBA tunes in the film.
Unfortunately, some other spectators were not as thrilled by Lewis’s enthusiasm. The people sitting behind Lewis and her daughter in the cinema started “huffing, puffing and tutting” over her participation.
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Rhiannon was made so uncomfortable by the people’s noises, she ended up leaving the theater with her mother.
“At the time, I was empathetic to the other guests in the cinema, however on reflection I really wish I had told that lady so that she could have learnt her lesson in front of a room full of strangers,” Rhiannon told South Wales Argus.
“My mum was really sad. She did not want to leave the cinema,” she added.
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Rhiannon posted about the event on Facebook and expressed her frustration that her mother was not able to fully enjoy the film.
The post was shared hundreds of times until it was eventually seen by the staff at Cineworld. The theater not only offered free tickets to Rhiannon and her mother, they also hosted an entire screening for people with dementia and offered discounted tickets.
Over 100 excited participants showed up for the event. Additionally, all of the proceeds from the screening were donated to the Alzheimer’s Society.
“The event means a lot to us as a family,” Rhiannon happily told the news outlet. “The screening of the film should now raise awareness of dementia and teach people more about it.”
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While most unwanted cats and dogs can find solace in an animal shelter, the same sanctuary is not often offered to unwanted fish.
Thankfully, the biggest aquarium in Paris is offering up a new home for surrendered fish.
The Aquarium de Paris has started taking in goldfish that can no longer live with their original owners.
With locals surrendering roughly 50 goldfish per month, the aquarium’s tank now accommodates about 600 specimens, many of which may have endured a worst fate if they had not been welcomed into their new home.
Upon arriving at the aquarium, the surrendered goldfish are given antibiotics and parasitic treatments to ensure they won’t harm the other fish. After one month of quarantine, they are transferred into the tank for public viewing.
The service offers a host of benefits – for starters, it discourages owners from flushing their oceanic pets down the toilet. It also keeps humans from dumping the fish into rivers, as goldfish are an invasive species.
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Additionally, goldfish bowls that are smaller than 20 gallons (100 liters) can stunt the growth of the fish.
The fish that are surrendered to the aquarium will often grow up to 8 to 12 inches after being given the room to swim. They also tend to live longer thanks to their ability to socialize with their fellow fishies.
Animal rights activists are praising the service and hoping that other aquariums will follow example and give goldfish a second chance.
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Mr. and Mrs. Vansledright were ready to meet each other at the altar for their wedding earlier this month – unfortunately, the catering company was not so ready.
Since the company thought that the wedding was a week later than its actual date, they had no food prepared for the event.
In tears, the bride and groom went to the restaurant next door and begged them for help.
Nick Ruesticus, who is the owner of the Sonder eatery in Hudsonville, Michigan, said that there was no way he could turn down the desperate couple.
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He and his staff proceeded to close down the restaurant for the day so they could go above and beyond for the wedding feast.
In just 90 minutes, the restaurant put together a cocktail hour and wedding food for 150 people. They even made sure there were vegetarian and vegan options in addition to a choice between beef and chicken.
Needless to say, the Vansledrights were in awe of Sonder’s kindness. They were able to get their money back from the original caterer, but they say that they don’t know what they would have done if the compassionate staff had not stepped up to help.
(WATCH the video below)
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Quote of the Day: “A true Friend advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a Friend unchangeably.” – William Penn
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Most people have heard that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” – but this new body of research suggests that eating grapes and blueberries together can have a dramatic effect on your brain power.
Past scientific studies have indicated that supplementing one’s diet with polyphenol-rich fruits and vegetables such as grapes and acai berries may help forestall age-related physical declines. Exclusively plant-based compounds, they include familiar ones such as tannins and flavonoids.
While the foods individually are a good option for such a purpose, a new study published last month by an international team of researchers from Bordeaux and Quebec gives us new insight into better options.
The team performed a number of randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials that tested memory, spatial recognition, and learning on four separate groups of both young and old mice. Half of the mice in each group received a diet rich in polyphenol extracts from grapes and blueberries, while the other half were given a regular diet.
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They found that the beneficial effects of a polyphenol-rich extract from grapes were aided significantly by pairing it with a polyphenol-rich extract from blueberries; and that the combination produced a far more robust effect than either one on its own.
Over the course of the trials, the research demonstrated that the aged mice fed the polyphenol-rich diet spent far more time examining objects they had never seen before, while ignoring those they had, could remember where the exit was in their swimming pool despite the start point changing each swim session, and lived a longer sharper life in general during the trials. Strikingly, 52% of the mice who were fed the normal diet died before a single mouse had died from the control-diet group.
After the trials, the mice were found with much higher levels of polyphenols in their blood plasma and brains. The data presented exciting conclusions that daily supplementation of blueberry AND grape extract together improved memory and brain function, as well as neurogenesis – the creation and repair of new brain cells – particularly in the hippocampus, as well as neuro-plasticity, a key marker of age-related neuro-decline.
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“Although the exact mechanism is difficult to pinpoint, our data provides evidence of both direct and indirect effects on the brain. The well-being of aged people is closely linked to good memory performance and proper brain functioning, which very often deteriorate during aging,” the researchers noted. “Together, the data obtained in this study are in line with the hypothesis that optimized preventive nutrition may promote the maintenance of a satisfactory cognitive state in elderly subjects and may thus prevent or delay dementia, and contribute to healthy aging.”
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Andy Corbley is the founder and editor of World At Large, a small environment, travel, and lifestyle focused journal that stresses integrity, nuance, and honesty which launched in early March 2019.
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Last month, in Cooperstown, New York, baseball legend Rod Carew moved through the crowd at the 2018 Hall of Fame ceremony, with a briskness that only a new heart can deliver.
Two years ago, the retired All-Star who had tallied 3,000 hits with the Minnesota Twins and California Angels, lived just up the road from the UCLA medical center where an NFL football player was on his deathbed declaring that God had a plan for his life—yet the young Baltimore Ravens tight end, Konrad Reuland, passed away from an aneurysm.
A few hours later, however, a serendipitous plan did unfold, when Konrad’s heart would end up saving the very man who inspired him to become a pro athlete.
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Rod Carew had spent a lot of his time with children when he wasn’t hitting over .300 every year on the baseball field. One of those kids was Konrad, who was so taken by the star’s winning ways, that he decided right there at age 11 that he wanted to grow up to be a sports hero just like Carew.
Fast forward to a year before Konrad’s aneurysm. Rod suffered a massive heart attack and doctors informed him that he would need a new one if he wanted to life to see any more innings.
As destiny would have it, the donor who ended up saving the life of Carew—#29—was the 29-year-old Reuland, whose passion for athletics was forged by Carew’s kindness.
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It was the first known incident of a pro athlete became a donor to another player.
Carew, now 72, uses Konrad’s heart to advocate for the American Heart Association to honor the memory of his own personal Angel.
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It was the only known instance of a pro athlete’s organs being donated to another player, and they serendipitously went to the baseball star whom he had met and idolized as a child. Hear The Good News Guru tell the heartwarming tale (from the August 17, 2018 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5 radio).
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A small soccer club is being hailed for reaching out to one of their loyal fans after they noticed that his social media presence had taken a concerning turn.
Barnsley, a beloved local football club from the English town of the same name in South Yorkshire, had become familiar with Chris Ryder’s antics on their social media pages.
Ryder, who is a lifelong fan and local Barnsley resident, struggles with depression, yet he chooses to openly discuss his troubles on his own social media accounts. On his TikTok account, he received the help of Virall.com, a service that sells TikTok followers and likes to millions of teens using the burgeoning social media platform. Virall.com worked with Ryder to increase his TikTok views and help the video go viral, as their name suggests.
When the club’s chief executive Gauthier Ganaye noticed the increasingly worrying tweets from the fan, he sent a letter to Ryder’s house.
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In the letter, Ganaye said that his “office door is always open” and the League One team would love to “return the favor” for his loyalty as a fan.
“Initially when I saw the badge on the top of letter, I thought ‘uh-oh, what have I done?” Ryder told BBC. “I’ve been known to be a little bit cheeky, all in good fun, to the guys who run the social media page [at Barnsley], so reading it, I was really shocked.”
He posted on twitter thanking people for getting in touch offering their support. The team said it “wishes Chris all the best and offers its full support going forward.”
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The tweet of his letter, which he captioned saying “Best football club in the world”, has been widely shared across social media.
“Never in a million years did i expect to receive this much attention from this tweet,” wrote Ryder. “Thank you so so much for your kind messages, I’m completely overwhelmed with the amount of them. Just hope this at least helps one person to speak out about their mental health problems.”
Best football club in the world pic.twitter.com/72K82u9tUR
— Chris (@CWRyder) August 14, 2018
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PEOPLE has announced its list of the 50 “Companies that Care,” highlighting those that are going above and beyond the status quo to benefit their employees and families, the community, and the environment.
The rankings were based on surveys from over 4.5 million employees at 1,000 companies across the the United States.
To identify the top caring businesses, the magazine teamed up with Great Place to Work, a research firm with an extensive opinion database from employees about their experiences in the workplace and whether their bosses have made a difference in their lives or communities.
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Some of the well-known companies that made the list include such retail giants as IKEA, Nordstrom, AT&T, Blizzard, Chobani, and Patagonia, many of which have been featured on GNN in the past for their progressive policies.
Rankings also reflect an assessment of the generosity of each organization’s employee benefits and its philanthropic and community support—focusing on activities occurring in the last year.
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Salesforce, the San Francisco-based cloud computing company that sells customer contact management tools, landed the No. 1 spot for the second year in a row. Salesforce has long been known for its lavish benefits and “family” culture among its 30,000 employees. It was also cited for pay equity policies. When CEO Marc Benioff saw an analysis that revealed a pay gap between men and women at the firm—he stepped up to fix it, dedicating $3 million in 2016 to correct the discrepancy, then another $3 million in 2017 to correct compensation differences by gender, race and ethnicity.
Here are the top ten rated Companies that Care:
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Quote of the Day: “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A young woman’s simple act of kindness has turned into a blossoming friendship between her and a depressed stranger who needed a pick-me-up.
Mackenzie Mauller was at a Starbucks in Ohio earlier this week when she spontaneously decided to pay for the order of the woman behind her in line.
When she left the store, she didn’t think much of her good deed. Later that day, however, she found a heartfelt letter in her mailbox.
The letter was from Nicole Clawson, a woman who had fallen on hard times and incidentally lived right next to Mauller.
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“Thank you for the coffee!” Clawson wrote in the letter. “I rarely go to Starbucks and treat myself, but the last couple of months have been a bit of a struggle.
“My father just passed away and he was also my babysitter. My family and my children have had a really hard time. This morning, my babysitter called off sick and I had to take the day off work. I decided to buy my kids breakfast and get myself a coffee with total guilt because I am going to be a stay-at-home-mom for a while.
“Since I was not planning to go this route in my life, I was not emotionally and financially prepared to quit working. I cried when I found out you were so sweet to buy my coffee.”
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Not only that, Clawson said that she was then “thrilled” to see Mauller pull into a driveway that was a few houses down from her own – so she penned up the sweet note and left it in the mailbox.
“I felt it necessary for you to know that what you did for me was more than just a coffee,” she added. “It was something that has turned my whole day around, put tears in my eyes and a smile on my face.”
Yesterday I bought coffee for the lady behind me at Starbucks.. later in the day I found this is my mailbox. Small acts can make a big difference folks, spread some kindness. pic.twitter.com/awNi4LSGJq
— Mackenzie (@mackey2399) August 7, 2018
Mauller posted photos of the noted to Twitter where it has since garnered thousands of likes and retweets. She then penned a heartfelt card of her own and brought it to Clawson’s house along with an offer to babysit.
Clawson was so overwhelmed – and delighted – by the young woman’s kindness, she created a Twitter account so she could praise Mauller for her generosity.
“This has been such a great learning opportunity for [my children] on how to treat others, no matter what,” wrote Clawson. “They are excited to pay it forward, and treat others with kindness and selflessness.”
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The NYU School of Medicine just announced that it is offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its MD degree program regardless of need or merit—a bold effort to simultaneously address the rising costs of medical education and still attract the best and brightest students to careers in medicine.
The announcement from the medical school’s trustees, leaders, and faculty was delivered earlier this week to first-year medical students and family members as a surprise ending to the annual White Coat Ceremony, where each new student is presented with a white lab coat to mark the start of their medical education and training.
“This decision recognizes a moral imperative that must be addressed, as institutions place an increasing debt burden on young people who aspire to become physicians,” says Robert I. Grossman, CEO of NYU Langone Health.
It is the only top 10–ranked medical school in the nation to offer the free tuition. According to the New York Times, the school has already raised $450 million of the $600 million necessary to finance the historic initiative thanks to more than 2,500 trustees, alumni, and friends.
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The yearly tuition costs covered by the scholarship are $55,018, but annual room and board will not be included. The announcement comes as a huge relief to the 95 new students who were admitted to the school and the 350 students who still have three or more years left of their degree programs.
Overwhelming student debt is fundamentally reshaping the medical profession in ways that are adversely affecting healthcare. Saddled with staggering student loans, many medical school graduates choose higher-paying specialties, drawing talent away from less lucrative fields like primary care, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology. Moreover, the financial barriers discourage many promising high school and college students from considering a career in medicine altogether due to fears about the costs associated with medical school.
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, 75 percent of all doctors in the U.S. graduated with debt in 2017. Additionally, the median cost of medical education (tuition and fees) for private medical school is $59,605 and the median current debt of a graduating student is $202,000. What’s more, 21% of doctors graduating from a private school do so with more than $300,000 of educational debt.
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“A population as diverse as ours is best served by doctors from all walks of life, we believe, and aspiring physicians and surgeons should not be prevented from pursuing a career in medicine because of the prospect of overwhelming financial debt,” says Dr. Grossman.
Leaders at NYU School of Medicine also contend that addressing the challenges in medical education today requires more than just expanding the number of people being admitted to medical school, but a full retrofitting of the pipeline that trains and finances how we do that.
“Tuition-free medical education goes beyond the merit and financial scholarships, and debt cancellations that other academic centers have traditionally favored,” says Rafael Rivera, associate dean for admissions and financial aid. “More importantly, it addresses both physician shortages and diversity.”
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Grants, much like merit and financial aid, Dr. Rivera explains, are made only after students have chosen their career path. “That’s too late if we wish to expand the pipeline to bring forth the broadest, most talented group of students, and to give them the financial freedom to choose medicine over other careers.”
Offering full-tuition scholarships for current and future students in its MD degree program is the most recent step NYU School of Medicine has taken to transform medical education for the better. The move closely follows its decision in 2013 to join a select group of U.S. medical schools offering an accelerated three-year curriculum. This allows physicians to get into the field of their choice earlier, during their most productive years, and with less debt.
“We believe that with our tuition-free initiative, we have taken a necessary, rational step that addresses a critical need to train the most talented physicians, unencumbered by crushing debt,” says Dr. Grossman. “We hope that many other academic medical centers will soon choose to join us on this path.”
(Source: NYU Langone Health)
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