A group devoted to creating alternative energy jobs in Central Appalachia is building a first for West Virginia’s southern coalfields region this week – a rooftop solar array, assembled by unemployed and underemployed coal miners and contractors.
The 40- by 15-foot array going up on a doctor’s office in Williamson is significant not for its size but for its location: It signals to an area long reliant on mining that there can be life beyond coal.
(READ the AP story in the Stamford Advocate)
The evidence just keeps mounting that ordinary dogs can be trained to use their noses to detect various kinds of cancer with near-perfect accuracy — better than any standard test for the disease.
In the latest study, an eight-year-old black Labrador was 97 percent accurate in nosing out colon cancer when she was asked to choose among watery stool samples doctors collected from 185 patients with and without cancer.
Google unveiled a new website that allows virtual tours of some of the world’s most famous art galleries, featuring paintings photographed with extreme high-resolution “gigapixel” technology.
For the Art Project, video cameras mounted on trolleys recorded 360-degree tours of galleries in eleven cities around the world.
Google unveiled a new website that allows virtual tours of some of the world’s most famous art galleries, featuring paintings photographed with extreme high-resolution “gigapixel” technology.
For the Art Project, video cameras mounted on trolleys recorded 360-degree tours of galleries in eleven cities around the world.
A UK teenager has beaten a rare brain condition that nearly robbed her of her sight – after her father found a miracle cure on the internet.
She was the first person in the UK’s national health system to be prescribed Octreotide – a drug usually used to help hormone imbalances – to cure idiopathic intracranial hypertension, which affects just one in every 100,000 people.
Just six months later she was given the all-clear by doctors.
(READ the story in the Daily Mail)
Private employers added a seasonally adjusted 187,000 workers in January, payroll processor ADP said Wednesday.
That’s less than the 247,000-job increase in December, but, in a positive show of growth, hiring in the first month of 2011 jumped in most major industries and across all sizes of business, the report said.
(READ the report at NPR)
While Egyptians battle for their political future, social change is already sweeping the country. Amid the protesters, volunteers are sweeping the streets, picking up litter, and handing out food.
Health workers are also volunteering, making sure protesters are cared for.
Yesterday, the Daily News-Egypt posted this video from the center of the demonstration.
While Egyptians battle for their political future, social change is already sweeping the country. Amid the protesters, volunteers are sweeping the streets, picking up litter, and handing out food.
Health workers are also volunteering, making sure protesters are cared for.
Yesterday, the Daily News-Egypt posted this video from the center of the demonstration.
Researchers have a new tactic to save endangered whales tangled in fishing line: Get them to calm down with sedatives shot from a dart gun so they can pull closer and cut the potentially fatal gear away.
The method recently helped to free a young North Atlantic right whale from about 50 feet of line wrapped through its mouth and around its flippers.
(READ the AP article at Yahoo News)
An American Idol hero has emerged.
Not only can the young man sing, but Chris Medina’s personal life is lived with a loving heart, caring for a fiancee who was crippled and left with brain damage after a terrible car accident just two months before their wedding.
“I was about to make vows, just two months before the accident, to love her in sickness and in health,” he told the judges who asked about his family life. “What kind of guy would I be if I walked away when she needed me most.”
Originally from Chicago, Medina and the girl’s mom are full-time caregivers, helping her adjust to life in a wheelchair.
(WATCH the video from YouTube)
An American Idol hero has emerged. Not only can the young man sing, but according to their personal injury lawyer, Chris Medina’s personal life is lived with a loving heart, caring for a fiancee who was crippled and left with brain damage after a terrible car accident just two months before their wedding.
“I was about to make vows, just two months before the accident, to love her in sickness and in health,” he told the judges who asked about his family life. “What kind of guy would I be if I walked away when she needed me most.”
An L.A. attorney who, for years, had experienced a lot of bad luck in his life heard an inner voice telling him to start writing Thank You notes.
John Kralik wrote a thank-you card every day for an entire year — to his daughter’s piano teacher, a worker at Starbucks, and the lady who cuts his hair — and it changed his life.
He wrote a book, called, 365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life.
WATCH the video below from Steve Hartman via CBS…
An L.A. attorney who, for years, had experienced a lot of bad luck in his life heard an inner voice telling him to start writing Thank You notes.
John Kralik wrote a thank-you card every day for an entire year — to his daughter’s piano teacher, a worker at Starbucks, and the lady who cuts his hair — and it changed his life.
He wrote a book, called, 365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life
WATCH the video below from Steve Hartman via CBS…
A powerful new painkiller with no apparent side effects or addictive qualities, may now be only a year or two from the consumer market.
“This offers a major paradigm shift in the control of pain,” declares Dr. Simon Halegoua, Professor of Neurobiology & Behavior at Stony Brook University, who has identified a novel sodium ion channel involved in the transmission of pain.
Steve Inman always wondered what had happened to his older sister Sally, born in South Korea and missing for 37 years. Finally, Facebook brought them together.
How Sally disappeared was never quite clear to Steve, but an old baby photo reminded him of how much he felt a part of her — and he decided to try using Facebook to find her.
The dog was a sickly-looking beagle with no hair on her ears. “You could see all of her ribs,” said Lynn Marshall, who rescued the animal from a hunter and nursed her back to health.
That was 20+ years ago and ‘Penny’ now may be one of the oldest dogs living in the world.
Penny was a full-grown adult when the Marshalls adopted her, saving her from the previous owner who didn’t want her anymore and was going to shoot her. Today, she looks like a million bucks, despite the “unsteady gait and cloudy eyes”.
(READ the Christmas time story in the Wichita Eagle)
A special delivery for one Connecticut mom made for a dramatic snow story with happy ending.
Cynthia Mello was expecting her second child when her water broke 11 days early. It happened during the height of Thursday’s snowstorm.
“I told my husband to start shoveling the driveway. He came back in minutes later and told me there was too much snow.”
(READ the story at MSNBC)
After 7 years, Canadian lottery officials say they’ve finally awarded to the correct people a multimillion-dollar jackpot that authorities say was fraudulently claimed by someone else.
Seven construction workers who played the lottery together in December 2003 were awarded $12.5 million plus $2.35 million in interest after being declared the rightful jackpot winners.
“After more than seven long years, the right prize is going to the right people,” a beaming Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission (OLC) chair Paul Godfrey said before the winners were introduced at a ceremony.
The winners of the Lotto Super 7 were identified through an exhaustive investigation by Ontario Provincial Police, supported by OLG’s own investigative team, and information provided by OLG’s new Data Analysis and Retrieval Technology (DART) system.
“They tracked us down after seven years! The OLG is great,” said James Reaman, one of the group members.
A lottery retailer’s relative claimed to be the winner after the clerk had not disclosed to a buyer that he had won a free ticket, which later turned out to be a winning ticket.
The winning group members, who at one time all worked together, are:
* Adam Barnett, 32 years old, of Grimsby
* Daniel Campbell, 37 years old, of St. Catharines
* Jason Dykema, 34 years old, of Burlington
* Daniel MacGregor, 36 years old, of Burford
* Michael Maddocks, 35 years old, of Beamsville
* James Reaman, 40 years old, of Ridgeville
* Joseph Reaman, 35 years old, of Ridgeville
(SEE the great photo of the 7 winners, and read more at Toronto Star)
After 7 years, Canadian lottery officials say they’ve finally awarded to the correct people a multimillion-dollar jackpot that authorities say was fraudulently claimed by someone else.
Seven construction workers who played the lottery together in December 2003 were awarded $12.5 million plus $2.35 million in interest after being declared the rightful jackpot winners.
“After more than seven long years, the right prize is going to the right people,” a beaming Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission (OLC) chair Paul Godfrey said before the winners were introduced at a ceremony.
