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Download 2000 Magnificent Turn-of-the-Century Art Posters, Courtesy NY Public Library

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Terry Turner
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Hundreds of high-resolution posters from the dawn of modern graphic art are now available to download for free thanks to the New York Public Library.

The posters are among 180,000 out-of-copyright, high-resolution images the library is making available to anyone who wants to use them.

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“No permission required, no hoops to jump through: just go forth and reuse!” a statement from the library said in January.

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The library credits Edward Penfield’s design used on the March 1893 cover of Harper’s magazine as “the advent of the art poster in America.” For the first time, the image took precedence over text. Before that, advertisements and publications were filled with mostly descriptions using small type.

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Penfield would go on to illustrate dozens of covers for Harper’s, like the one above from c. 1900.

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Magazines, including Sunset (above), originally published by the Southern Pacific Railroad for it’s passengers, took these bold images into people’s homes, changing American perception of graphic art as the 20th century approached.

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The style soon dominated book covers and slip jackets, cementing its association with literature.

The image of two lovers at the top of this page is from the cover of “When Hearts are Trumps,” a collection of poems by American Tom Hall. The artist was Will Bradley, another leader of the graphic art revolution.

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Bradley (illustrator of the peacock above), Ethel Reed, and other artists ran with Penfield’s innovation, moving lowly commercial advertising design into what the library calls “an elevated, artistic position.”

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The most famous example may be the works of French artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Renowned as one of the great post-impressionist painters in history, reproductions of his posters, such as this one for Divan Japonais from 1898 remain popular today — even though the concert-cafe that it advertised closed more than 100 years ago.

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In the first half of the twentieth century, advertising posters were becoming more popular with collectors than the products they promoted, like this New Jersey brewery that was bought out by Ballentine’s in 1943.

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Most of the NYC Library’s graphic art posters come from one, single collector — Anna Palmer Draper, who left her extensive collection to the library in 1914.

View all the images at the Digital Collection of The New York Public Library

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Children Leave Cute Random Notes With Coins for Cars at Parking Meters

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Guessing by the adorably child-like scribbles and pictures left on a dozen envelopes taped to parking meters, we’d say these kids knew it was Random Act of Kindness Week on Valentine’s Day.

In a slew of photo Tweets posted by ABC-7’s Melanie Woodrow this month, parking meters and bus stops all over San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood were adorned with envelopes holding loose change for pedestrians.

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The envelopes featured encouraging little notes and doodles with sayings like “Happy Valentine’s Day!”, “money!!”, and “To parents: to help you out”.

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Your Morning Buzz is Lifting Homeless People Off London’s Streets

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Terry Turner
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Londoners are contributing their morning coffee habit to a job training program for the homeless.

“Change Please” sells hot coffee at mobile carts around the city while brewing up a brighter future training homeless people to be baristas.

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Cemal Ezel, who runs the Old Spike Roastery teamed up with The Big Issue magazine, which already helps the homeless earn money by selling magazines on the street.

The innovative enterprise pairs Ezel’s expertise in the coffee business with this working network of homeless folks, like cream and sugar enhance a morning cup of Joe.

 

The dark green carts are popping up in eight locations around London, selling “ethically-sourced” coffee for about $3.50 a cup. Change Please baristas earn the city’s living wage — about $13.00 an hour — while learning skills that can land them permanent jobs in the food and beverage industry.

Jatinder Budwal, who took a barista job with Change Please in December, has been able to use his earnings to move off the street.

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“I saved up my wages and I was lucky enough to find a little room to rent,” he tells The Big Issue. “It makes me smile every time I jump in the shower, or use the toaster, or open the fridge and take some food out to eat.”

The slogan of this social enterprise is, “Baristas Wanted, No Home Needed.”

(WATCH the video from ITV News below) — Photo via Change Please on Facebook

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Auto Mechanics Astutely Posed to Recreate Renaissance Paintings (LOOK)

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Freddy Fabris paid homage to the great Renaissance painters of old in a new photo series with an amusing tool-tailored twist.

In “The Renaissance Series”, a group of Midwestern mechanics are portrayed as figures in famously historic paintings such as Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper (pictured above), Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson, and Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam (below).

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For their satirical resemblance to the original artworks, the photos have received several awards including the One Eyeland Silver and the International Color Award.

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Photos by Freddy Fabris

In Freddy’s 16-year long career as an advertising photographer, his subjects have ranged from fashion models, to cars and food.

You can check out more of Freddy’s Rembrandt-inspired portraits on his website, FabrisPhoto.com.renaissance-mechanics-photo-portraits-freddy-fabris-4-exported

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Simon Cowell Calls Mom of Toddler, With Money to Help Save Boy’s Life

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Reality show creator and star Simon Cowell has made plenty of people cry with his harsh, talent show judgements over the years, but one mother of a little boy fighting cancer cried tears of joy over his gift to her son.

Three-year-old Kian Musgrove is battling an aggressive form of cancer for the second time in his young life. His family in the UK has been trying to raise $700,000 for special cancer treatments in the U.S.

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They were nearing their goal when the brash judge on shows like “The X Factor” and “American Idol” heard about the little boy’s plight. Cowell phoned Kian’s mother, Kat, telling her he’d give $35,000 (£25,000) toward the treatment and pay for the flights to and from the clinic in New York.

“I’m still trying to get my head around it all,” Kat told Chronicle Live. “He was so nice and kind and just said he wanted to do something to help.”

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Cowell also appealed to his 12.5 million followers on Twitter to help raise the remaining $100,000 needed for Kian’s treatment.

 

You can see the family saying ‘thank you’ in the video below, and follow Kian’s progress at the Caring for Kian Facebook page and donate online at his Kapipal page.

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After Two Centuries, Atlantic Salmon Return to the Connecticut River

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For the first time since the American Revolution, wild Atlantic Salmon are spawning in the Connecticut River.

Industrial pollution and a series of dams constructed in the 1700s killed off the annual runs that used to feature 50,000 of the fish swimming upstream to to lay their eggs — the largest such annual migration in North America at the time.

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With new pollution controls becoming law, a restoration program in the 1960s tried to reintroduce the salmon to the river, which runs all the way from the mountains of New Hampshire through Connecticut and New York into the Atlantic Ocean, and in the 1970s, a captive breeding program tried to create a strain of salmon that conservationists hoped would eventually return to spawn in the river.

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But the program ran into what Connecticut fisheries biologist Steve Gephard called “a perfect storm” of bad luck.

Salmon and other fish populations in the North Atlantic saw massive population declines in the 1990s as their food supply disappeared. Shifting ocean currents in the 2000s further damaged the recovery. To top it off, a hurricane severely damaged the program’s hatchery in 2011, so the Fish and Wildlife Service gave up on the program the following year.

Biologists were surprised, three years after it was shut down, to discover five salmon swimming upstream past a dam in 2015. After following them, the scientists saw something no one had seen on the Connecticut River in 230 years — a salmon nest full of eggs.

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Conservationists are keeping the location secret, and quietly watching, waiting for the eggs to hatch later this spring – delivering the first Atlantic Salmon born in the Connecticut River since the birth of the United States.

These, too, will instinctively return to the river to lay their own eggs, beginning an ancestral line that researchers hope will thrive.

(READ more at Al Jazeera America) — Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Instead of ‘Million Dollars in Tickets’ Cop Gives Helpful Advice, And His Cap

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Terry Turner
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When a Baltimore, Maryland woman saw police lights in her rearview mirror, she expected the worst but ended up writing an open letter praising the police officer.

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Courtney Gross realized her tags were expired and figured she’d get “a million dollars in fines” but the officer not only told her how to fight the tickets in court, he asked if he could pose for a selfie with her son, Ty, after engaging him in conversation.

Here’s how she told the story on Facebook:

I got pulled over because my stickers are old and I need to renew my registration on my car.

The officer comes to my window and of course asks for my license and registration…..well little Ty starts talking to him.

Lol so as I’m digging for my registration, the officer asks me if I would roll down little Tys window so he can go talk to him.

I tell him that’s fine and I roll the window down….the whole time the cop has his flash light in his hand….you know how they do when they pull us over at night

Anyway Ty had just got a miniature light saber that lights up from the store earlier and the cop asked Ty did he wanna trade flash lights and they did and he showed him how to make his flash light blink really fast and Ty thought it was cool.

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So I find my registration and I give it to him and he takes it back to his car and comes back a couple minutes later and this time he has his hat on.

Instead of towing my car and giving me a million dollars in fines, this guy gives me 2 tickets for a little over 100 dollars and then tells me NOT to pay them but to go to court so they can be reduced and explained every thing and every step to me.

Then gives me 2 warnings that could have been 2 more tickets as well, but he didnt hit me with them. Then proceeds to tell me that he had come back with his hat on for a reason and asked me if I would be okay with getting Ty out of the car and letting him wear his hat for a few seconds and take a picture with him!

I said that would be fine and I appreciated that, but my phone was dead.

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So I take Ty out of his car seat and we go on the side walk and he’s wearing the officers hat and he loved it.

The officer then tells me that we can just take the picture with his phone and he would send it to me!

So we did and he sent it while I was standing right there and I watched him delete the text so he didn’t have my number in his phone and I didn’t even ask him to do that.

I really couldn’t believe how cool he was and how he really made my son’s night.

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I thought for sure that my car was getting towed. I’ve had my fair share of run ins with some cops that are arrogant jerks and use their power in the wrong way, but this man showed me that there still are some nice police officers out there and there’s hope.

I don’t care how ignorant and rude police can be, I will NEVER teach or allow my children to disrespect the police…..because it will only make things worse for them. I’m really thankful for how this whole thing played out and I’m more than blessed to receive those 2 citations over my vehicle being taken away from me.

Thank you God.

Photo: Courtney Gross, Facebook; geralt, CC

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Connecticut Becomes Second State to End Veteran Homelessness

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Terry Turner
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Any veteran who wants a home in Connecticut now has one. The state has become the second, after Virginia, to effectively end homelessness among veterans.

Connecticut created a coalition of state and federal government agencies, non-profit groups, and other organizations to launch a coordinated effort to make sure homeless vets had permanent shelter if they wanted it. The state also committed to spending a billion dollars on new housing and other help for the homeless.

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“We will not stop here,” Governor Dannel Malloy said in his announcement Thursday. “We will keep working to end all chronic homelessness in Connecticut by the end of this year.”

Last year, the state became the first in the country to end chronic homelessness among veterans, defined as being without a home for one year coupled with a disabling condition, or having at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years.

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Connecticut is one of several states and cities that signed onto a 2014 White House initiative to eliminate homelessness. The strategy seeks to eliminate veteran homelessness first, and use what works with that effort to address the broader homeless population.

Several cities — and now two states — have been able to effectively end veteran homelessness since then.

(WATCH the video below from WFSB News, or READ more at CTPost) — Photo: EsotericSapience, CC

UPDATE: New Zealanders Win Bid to Buy Beach By Crowdfunding; It’s Now Public

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They were called “naive” for believing they could rally public support to buy a beach and outbid the real estate tycoons, but in the face of a long-shot, their crowd-funded campaign to save the property for the New Zealand people has paid off.

During a Christmas dinner, Duane Major and his brother-in-law, Adam Gardner, came up with the idea of raising money from individuals in order to buy a gorgeous stretch of beach in order to make it public.

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In the end, so many people were inspired to donate that their bid was the highest of the roughly 100 buyers and business interests in the running to purchase the 18-acre plot near Abel Tasman National Park.

The brothers announced they’ve turned the land over to officials with the New Zealand’s Department of Conservation, which have said they would love to own the land.

The asking price was $2 million, but close to 40,000 people donated more than $2.3 million — with New Zealand’s government contributing $350,000 to the cause.

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“At 10:57 last night we delivered a pristine piece of beach and bush into the hands of all New Zealanders to look after and to cherish and to treasure and enjoy forever,” Major said on the Paul Henry radio show Wednesday morning.

(WATCH the video below from RNZ)

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Bride Holds Wedding at 35,000ft For Mother With Cancer Who Has One Flight Left

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Terry Turner
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Airline Wedding courtesy Christina Frees, Frees it in Time Photography

A couple who met on a flight from Los Angeles to Seattle got married on that same flight six years later in a special ceremony for the bride’s mother.

Kristy Stratton has been a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines for 11 years. She met Jim Larson on a layover to Seattle, where the couple now live.

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Kristy’s mom, Billie Jo Stratton, was a world traveler and inspired her daughter’s career choice. But when Billie Jo was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, she had to give up her globetrotting ways.

She decided she wanted one more trip to see where Kristy worked, lived, and would get married.

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The flight attendant got the idea of holding the wedding on the flight as her mother came to visit. The airline approved it and bride and groom walked down the aisle of a Boeing 737 as passengers cheered them on.

“I was really touched and overwhelmed by the amount of love and joy flooding through the cabin,” Kristy Stratton told TODAY.

(WATCH the video below from the wedding flight) — Photos: Christina Frees, Frees it in Time Photography

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Solar Power in US Sets New Records, Beats Natural Gas for the First Time

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Terry Turner
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For the first time in history, solar beat out natural gas in new additions to generating capacity on the American electrical grid last year.

More than 29% of all new power capacity in the U.S. came from solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in 2015 – offering 7.3 gigawatts (GW) in additional renewable energy, a 17% increase over 2014.

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Graph by Solar Market Insight

Overall, solar now accounts for 25 GW of the U.S. power supply, up from just 2 GW in 2010.

Electrical utilities accounted for more than half the new installations, but residential installations accounted for a record breaking 2 GW of the total.

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Sunny states in the west and south led the way with California, North Carolina, and Nevada topping the list for the most solar installations, but the fourth and fifth place slots went to Massachusetts and New York in the northeast.

Solar outperformed U.S. Energy Department forecasts for the year, and is part of a mix of renewable energy sources — including wind, water, and biomass — supplying more than 17% of U.S. electrical needs.ecocapsule1 released ecocapsule

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The findings were announced Monday by the Solar Energy Industries Association ahead of it’s U.S. Solar Market Insight report to be released on March 9.

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Sleek 3-Wheeled Car to Get 84 mpg and Sell for Just $6,800–Meet the Elio

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Terry Turner
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3 wheel 84mpg car released Elio MotorsYou may be seeing a lot of these three-wheeled, two-seat cars in the future because more than 50,000 people have already signed up to buy one when they roll off the assembly line late this year.

Priced at just $6,800, the American-made Elio is designed to save you money–not just when you purchase the vehicle, but at the gas pump, too.

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Because of its aerodynamic shape, the car can go 84 miles per gallon — about twice as far as the most fuel efficient subcompacts — but still has a 672-mile range on a tank of gas. Its fuel efficiency means the Elio has a smaller carbon footprint than any of its four-wheeled cousins.

Prototypes have been touring the car show circuit around the United States in the past few months, and Elio Motors has just launched a national advertising campaign with commercials running on major cable channels including ESPN and FOX News networks.

Paul Elio created the company in 2009 with a goal of building a safe, fuel-efficient, and inexpensive car right in America.Elio side view released Elio MotorsThe Elio gets twice the mileage of a standard compact through aerodynamics and by keeping its weight 50% lower than similar two-seat roadsters. At the same time, it comes equipped with power windows and steering, air conditioning, and multiple airbags.

The company is currently building a new series of prototypes for safety tests and to serve as models to tweak the final design.

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The car will be assembled at a plant in Shreveport, Louisiana, and 90% of its parts will be made in North America.

Elio Motors expects to employ 1,500 workers in its factory when it opens in the autumn and another 1,500 in corporate and sales positions once the three-wheelers start rolling off the assembly line. The company expects it will indirectly support 19,000 more jobs at companies supplying parts for the car.

(WATCH the video from Elio Motors below) — Photo: Elio Motors

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Chicago Celebrates Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with 3-Day Festival on 30th Anniv.

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Ferris Bueller is getting three days off in Chicago this spring.

The city is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the film that told an epic story of teenagers skipping school — “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”

The 1986 comedy directed by John Hughes, and starring Matthew Broderick in the title role, follows Ferris, his girlfriend Sloane, and best friend Cameron, as they play hooky from school, steal Cameron’s father’s Ferrari, and cavort around downtown Chicago.

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At one point, they hijack a parade float so Ferris can lead the crowd in a rendition of The Beatles’ “Twist and Shout.”Ferris Bueller Weekend screenshot Ferris Fest

“Ferris Fest” scheduled to run May 20 through 22, promises a recreation of the parade scene, along with screenings of the movie, and bus tours to locations used in its filming including the Willis Tower and Cameron’s house.

(WATCH the video from WGN News below, and READ more at the Chicago Tribune)

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Scottish Wildlife Group Buys Puffin Breeding Ground to Protect Species in Peril

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Terry Turner
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Puffins and other water birds have a new home at the most northern point of Scotland, after a UK wildlife group purchased a stunning 40-acre site at Dunnet Head.

Sitting on a rugged peninsula with 300-foot tall cliffs, the site is a natural “seabird city,” drawing tens of thousands of puffins, guillemots, razorbills, fulmars and kittiwakes.

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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has leased the land since 2008, but has finally been able to buy it outright. With the purchase, the historic waterfowl breeding ground will become a permanent bird refuge.

Previous owner Ben Colson had held onto the site for 25 years, preventing any commercial development. He said selling it to the Scotland group will “ensure it continues as a place of wild beauty.”

(WATCH the video below of Dunnet Head puffins – READ more at The Scotsman) — Photo: Wilson44691, CC

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Best Moments of First Reunion for ‘Friends’ in 12 Years (WATCH)

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Terry Turner
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What keeps friends apart for 12 years? Successful careers, or maybe just that “Smelly Cat?”

Five of the six stars from the long-running American TV comedy, “Friends” reunited for one night to salute the driving force behind their sit-com – a television icon named James Burrows.

David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow sat together on stage during the all-star gala reminiscing about their ‘friend-ships’ and paying tribute to the creator and director of so many hit shows—“Friends” in the 1990s, but also “Cheers,” “Fraiser,” “Will and Grace,” and “Taxi,” among others. (See a second video below...)

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Matthew Perry, who is currently working on a stage play in London, couldn’t attend in person Sunday night but sent a video introducing his co-stars to the stage.

The actors reflected on how working together was the start of actual real-life friendships between them:

“We really just fell in love and adored each other instantly, and would hang out at each other’s houses and watched the show together,” recalled Aniston, while her cast mates nodded.

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The actress who played Rachael also called the series “the opportunity of a lifetime, and probably the best 10 years of our acting careers.”

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The five also talked about their favorite episodes–although Smelly Cat, with it’s unforgettable song, remained just a memory.

Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat, What are they feeding you?
Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat, It’s not your fault.

(WATCH the videos from Yahoo! and NBC) – Photo: NBC

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Students Reserve 50 Tickets So Veteran Families Can Watch Baseball For Free

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When teams take to the field in Fort Worth, Texas this weekend, the stars of the day will be sitting in the stands.

Fifty tickets have been set aside for veterans who are studying at Texas Christian University (TCU). Inviting their families to a barbeque party and fun at the ballpark is part of a campaign to raise awareness of veterans turned college students at the school.

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Two daughters of student veterans will will also throw out the first pitch Saturday morning as the TCU “Horned Frogs” take on Loyola Marymount in baseball.

Lila Public Relations, a student-run PR team, teamed up with TCU’s Student Veterans of America to secure the tickets, arrange the first pitch ceremony, and host a tailgate party for veterans and their families before the game.

(READ more at SB Nation) — Photo: eric molina, CC

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The 15 Most Healthy And Happy Cities in The US Are…

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Want to be healthier, less stressed, and leave depression behind? You may want to move to Naples, Florida or nearby Marco Island and Immokalee, where well-being and love of community is highest in the nation.

The place with its Gulf breezes earned the top spot in this year’s Gallup-Healthways poll of 190 metro areas in the US.

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The State of American Well-Being: 2015 Community Rankings annually weighs each city’s quality of life in five categories–purpose, social, financial, community and physical–to determine the happiest and healthiest places in America.

Top rated metropolitan areas in this year’s poll tended to feature lively culture and higher income levels, with half of them located along beaches.

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The tri-city area of Naples, on Florida’s Gulf Coast, did not rank in the top ten last year, but a city located just 117 miles to the north, Sarasota, was voted number one – it fell to #3 in the latest survey.

Here are the top 15 cities for overall well-being:

1. Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, Florida
2. Salinas, California
3. North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, Florida
4. Fort Collins, Colorado
5. Town of Barnstable, Massachusetts
6. Santa Cruz-Watsonville, California
7. Boulder, Colorado
8. Charlottesville, Virginia
9. Anchorage, Alaska
10. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, California
11. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas
12. Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, California
13. Honolulu, Hawaii
14. Provo-Orem, Utah
15. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California

The 15 cities ranking at the bottom:

176. Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, Indiana
177. Utica-Rome, New York
178. Flint, Michigan
179. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
180. Scranton-Wilkes Barre-Hazleton, Pennsylvania
181. Rockford, Illinois
182. Dayton, Ohio
183. Worcester, Massachusetts-Connecticut
184. Toledo, Ohio
185. Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, Ohio-Pennsylvania
186. Chico, California
187. Huntington-Ashland, West Virginia-Kentucky-Ohio
188. Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, North Carolina
189. Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma
190. Charleston, West Virginia

The scores are based on more than 353,000 Gallup interviews with adults in all 50 states, conducted between January 2, 2014, through December 30, 2015. Scores ranged from zero to 100, with high scores being the best.

Naples ranked first with 65 points, while Charleston, the least favored region, scored 57.1.

(Photo: Wilhelm Rosenkranz, CC)

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Flint Students No Longer Fear Washing Hands As Boy Raises $10,000 for Sanitizer

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When a seven-year-old boy heard about Flint, Michigan’s water problems, he wanted to do something to help. He ended up helping every grade school student in the city.

When Flint changed water supplies in 2014, corrosive water from the Flint River caused lead to leach from pipes, contaminating the city’s water supply.

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Isiah Britt of Gainesville, Virginia heard that students at Flint’s Eisenhower Elementary School were afraid to wash their hands in the water, so he asked his parents to help him send hand sanitizer to the school.

They helped Isiah launch a GoFundMe campaign to raise $500 — enough for 20 cases of hand sanitizer, one for each classroom at Eisenhower Elementary. But in just over two weeks, people have donated more than $10,000.

That’s enough to supply every classroom at all 12 elementary schools in Flint.

Hand Sanitizer Flint released Danielle Britt

The first shipment of product with alcohol as the active ingredient (above) arrived February 12 at Eisenhower Elementary, and his family is continuing to ship hand sanitizer to other Flint schools.

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“It doesn’t matter if you’re small, it doesn’t mean you can’t do big things” Isiah Britt said in a video thanking donors for their contributions.

(WATCH the video below from WTVR News) — Photos: Danielle Britt

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Doctor Brings Caring on Campus With Mobile Medical Van for Homeless Teens

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When teens can’t go to the doctor, Dr. Seth Ammerman brings his office directly to them.

Ammerman runs a mobile health clinic out of a big, blue bus — making stops on the campuses of seven high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area to provide free health care for teens.

He treats 400 young people every year in his “Teen Health Van”. Forty percent of those patients are homeless and many of the youth have never seen a doctor because their families couldn’t afford an office visit.

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The doctor says you can’t expect kids in that situation to seek out a practitioner—someone has to “meet them where they are.”

It’s not just quick medical care he’s providing. Ammerman’s team also provides counseling for depression, abusive relationships, and drug use. A dietitian works with malnourished teens — common among the poor and homeless kids the van reaches.

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The van is a project of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Stanford and the Children’s Health Fund which has been providing the service for 20 years now. They just rolled out a new version of the van equipped with Wi-Fi and a lab that can give out HIV test results in 20 minutes.

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“Going to the patients makes all the difference,” Ammerman told NPR News, “and it’s not just a matter of convenience. It really is that these kids, because of all these access barriers — lack of insurance, lack of transportation — they’re not going to get this kind of care unless we go to them.”

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Heart Disease Runs In Your Family? Ingenious Blood Test Detects All Possible Conditions

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Terry Turner
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An all-in-one test can now identify every known, inherited heart disease with a single blood sample.

The test identifies 174 faulty genes associated with heart and circulatory system conditions including heart rhythm disturbances, a propensity for high cholesterol levels, and aortic diseases — 17 known diseases and conditions in all.

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The new test can identify family members at risk years earlier than before, allowing them to take action ranging from surgery to simple lifestyle changes to prevent heart trouble later on. It could benefit about a half-million people at risk of inherited heart disease in the UK alone.

The British Heart Foundation, which funded a portion of the research to develop the new test, says it provides a “cheaper and more efficient diagnosis” than previous genetic tests.

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“Genetic tests are invaluable when managing inherited heart conditions,” Dr. James Ware, one of the lead researchers said. “Without a genetic test, we often have to keep the whole family under regular surveillance for many years, because some of these conditions may not develop until later in life.”

The test is already being used to diagnose about 40 patients per month at a Royal Brompton Hospital in London. Researchers hope National Health Service labs across the UK will adopt it in the near future.

The research was funded by the British Heart Foundation, and the UK’s Health Innovation Challenge Fund and the findings were published February 17 in the Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research.

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