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  • Props to Marissa - Breast Cancer Vixen

    Beth
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:24 am
    Last week, while getting a free mammogram, a friend speculated, “What good is this free mammogram? What if they find something? It’s not like I have any resources.” Then almost magically, that same day, I heard about Marisa Acocella, who must have heard my friend’s pleas. Here’s her story found on the Home page of her most wonderful and creative site: May 15, 2004, just three weeks before I was about to get marrried for the first time at 43 to the wonderful Silvano Marchetto, owner of Da Silvano restaurant, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. A bad situation was…

  • Notes Left Behind

    Beth
    4 Nov 2009 | 5:36 am
    Some of us make the most of our time, no matter how limited. Such was the case of Elena Desserich, a little girl with a serious problem. When Elena was only five years old, she was diagnosed with pediatric brain cancer. “They told us at the very beginning that she had 135 days to live,” Elena’s father, Keith Desserich, told WLWT News. Elena and her family made the most of that time. She spent the long days in the hospital working on her paintings, which were full of hearts, fairies, and smiling families. One of her artworks was displayed in a local gallery in Cincinnati, right next to a…

  • The World’s Greatest Pumpkin

    Beth
    3 Nov 2009 | 5:21 am
    Let it not be said that pumpkins aren’t taken seriously. VERY seriously. People who compete each year, hoping to win the title of the “world’s biggest pumpkin” work very hard on it and get quite competitive. Nick and Christy Harp of Jackson Township, near Canton, brought a pumpkin weighing 1,725 pounds to the annual Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers weighoff last Saturday, making them a shoo-in for the biggest pumpkin title - and possibly a Guinness-certified World Record. “I kind of knew I had a good shot at the world record, but when it hit the scale, it was…

  • It Comes Back to Gratitude…Again

    Beth
    2 Nov 2009 | 6:07 am
    Professor Robert Emmons recently lectured to students at Chico University to talk about what he knows best: Psychology has long followed the medical model, focusing on what’s wrong with a person and how that could be fixed, he said. In the last decade, proponents of positive psychology have added something new: an emphasis on the person’s strengths and potential. For instance, someone who has lost his or her job and feels depressed might seek help from a psychologist, he said. A practitioner of positive psychology might, in addition to considering the depression, also explore the…

  • This Halloween, Unleash!

    Beth
    30 Oct 2009 | 1:26 am
    “The holidays are more for the kids,” you’ll often hear weary parents moan, as they go through the motions but have long since forgotten their own connection to this time of year. This year, instead of writing Halloween off as a sweets-laden waste of time, remember its your time to change who you are - to play “dress up” without any repercussions. Why not dress up in a way that really suits the inner you (and sure, wicked witches are allowed in this category!) More than just dress up, dare to act it out. When was the last time you allowed yourself to…
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  • First Lady Honors After-School Arts Projects That Inspire Youth

    6 Nov 2009 | 9:06 am
    The Keshet Dance Company uses dance to teach literacy, math and conflict-resolution skills to 250 incarcerated youths at the New Mexico state juvenile detention center. The Harmony Project in Los Angeles provides intensive, year-round music instruction, choir and orchestra programs, to inner-city children from low-income families. These are just two of the 19 after-school programs to which first lady Michelle Obama presented a 2009 "Coming Up Taller Award" in a White House ceremony Novembe ...

  • Military Hails 2 Heroes in Fort Hood Rampage

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:47 am
    The top commander at Fort Hood is crediting a civilian police officer for stopping the shooting rampage that killed 13 people at the Texas post. Lt. Gen. Bob Cone also hailed a young Army nutritionist who helped wounded victims. Both women heroically intervened despite being shot. The commander told NBC's TODAY show that the nutritionist put a tourniquet on a wounded soldier and carried him out to medical care. Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley responded within three minutes of the gunf ...

  • Dying in her Sleep: Just What She Always Wanted

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:04 am
    Sometimes, just when you need it most, you come across a story you couldn't make up if you tried. My Mother Yvonne was a master positive thinker, a woman of faith, and could have written circles around The Secret. She prayed fervently, visually, with feeling and energy, daily, and always for positive change. She read inspirational stories every day. She also prayed that she would die in her sleep. Contrary to being a negative thing, dying in one’s sleep, in old age, sure beats all the o ...

  • Extinct Oysters Return to Scotland

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:26 am
    Declared extinct in 1957, wild oysters have been found in the Firth of Forth once again. University scientists who made the discovery said it was hugely significant and could lead to future commercial production. Forth oysters, once regarded as among the best in Britain, were wiped out through over-fishing. (Read more from the BBC) Thanks to Mrs. L. Withers who sent the link and said, " it is sooo rare to see good news in UK papers these days." ...

  • Girardi Helps Driver Hours After Series Win (w/ Video)

    6 Nov 2009 | 2:51 am
    Just because someone has just won the World Series, doesn't mean they wouldn't run across three traffic lanes to help someone who has just crashed their car.  Yankees manager Joe Girardi capped his victorious night by helping a young woman who had just hit a wall on a suburban New York parkway. Watch an AP video below, or read the story at Chicago Tribune... ...
 
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    Daryn Kagan

  • Kindness Movement Saves Cafe

    Here's another example of a women's touch making a difference. Lisa Metwaly's husband's cafe was struggling when customers moved away. Lisa tapped into her passion for kindness to re-brand the cafe and lure customers back. It's working at the Q Kindness Cafe in St. Paul, MN.

  • All-Women Run Bank Serves Iraqi Women

    The only men working at this bank stand guard at the door. Inside, women bankers serve women-only clientele in Iraq's holy city of Najaf. It allows Iraqi women to gain financial independence while respecting their cultural beliefs.

  • Teen Runner Hailed For Helping Opponent

    Helena Page wanted to win her high school cross country meet as much as anyone in the race. But when she came across a girl from the other team who had passed out, she knew just what she need to do. Helena's choice shows she is a true winner, even if stopping to help a girl she'd never met meant being disqualified.

  • Wily Coyote Survives Amazing Impact

    Talk about a story with a couple surprise endings! A brother and sister driving across a dark Western highway think they accidently hit and kill a coyote. The story unfolds instead like a wacky episode of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. The very resourceful animal had other plans than becoming the victim of a hit and run.

  • From Homeless To Broadway

    Do you need a spoonful of hope today? Of what's possible. Come bask in the glow of Terri White. She has known the glow of the Broadway stage. She's also known what it is to lose it all and end up hopeless. And she also knows how the kindness of one friend can help you get back up and star once again. Here's to friends, overcoming obstacles, and hope.
 
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  • Real family values

    28 Oct 2009 | 4:00 pm
    How suppressed emotions cut us off from loved ones and ourselves. Photograph: David Servan-Schreiber Tom had a successful career... in the mafia. He'd been a millionaire, able to have any woman he wanted, and rubbed shoulders with influential people. Yet when he came to see me after a lifetime of alcohol, drugs and crime, he was like a lost child who needed direction. To "succeed" in his world, he'd had to learn to block his emotions, and didn't know who he was any more. Tom told me about the time he was a new recruit and he'd agreed, for a substantial sum, to cut his best friend's ear off…

  • Tales of the credit crunch

    19 Oct 2009 | 11:04 am
    Filmmaker Johan Kramer finds inspiration in the financial crisis. Photograph: Wouter Westendorp A Japanese woman walks two dogs along a winding path in a well-groomed park. The dogs sniff around the bushes as the woman walks patiently behind, plastic bags in hand, ready to clean up after them. This scene is from The Crisis and Us, the new film from Dutch film director Johan Kramer (photo), who previously gained international acclaim with The Other Final, about a soccer match between Bhutan and Montserrat, the two lowest-ranked teams at the time, and Sing for Darfur, about the tragedy in…

  • A good kind of group think builds sustainable small businesses

    30 Sep 2009 | 10:35 am
    Ernesto Sirolli taps into the collective genius of communities. Sirolli says the businesses he’s helped build have an 80 percent success rate.Photograph: Sirolli Institute If you happen to ride your bicycle to Ernesto Sirolli's Sacramento, California, residence, as I did, your effort won't go unrewarded. When he opens the garage door, you'll be treated to a glimpse of his prized possession, a white 1951 Morgan Roadster. The Morgan Company, he'll quickly and enthusiastically tell you, is a family-owned business in England founded by H.F.S. Morgan that this year celebrates its 100th…

  • Open Medicine provides medical knowledge to the public

    29 Sep 2009 | 9:31 am
    Palepu believes medical publishing should be free from corporate influence.Photograph: Eugene Lin Anita Palepu was an associate editor at the Canadian Medical Association Journal in 2006 when the publisher fired two editors in a conflict over editorial independence. Angry at what she felt was a move to allow advertisers to dictate what appeared in the journal, Palepu and some other colleagues resigned. But she says cheerfully, "Instead of being outraged, I'm doing something about it." Within a year, Palepu became co-founder and co-editor of Open Medicine, a free, independent online quarterly…

  • Vitamin Angels combats malnutrition with nutritional supplements

    28 Sep 2009 | 9:40 am
    How giving every child basic nutrition may provide a starting point for tackling Africa's other challenges. At Alupe Hospital in Busia, Kenya, pregnant women take supplements to increase their chances of having healthy babies.Photograph: Matt Dayka Touching down in Eldoret, a rural town about 185 miles (300 kilometers) from Nairobi near the Ugandan border in western Kenya, everything seemed calm and peaceful. The countryside is lush; indeed, most of the residents are farmers, growing wheat, coffee and tea as well as rearing dairy cattle. Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the airport and…
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  • What are you grateful for today?

    5 Nov 2009 | 2:45 pm
    By: JoeMonkman “The litmus test for self-realization is a constant state of gratitude. This gratitude is not something you can look for or find. It comes from another direction, and it takes you over completely. It’s so vast that it can’t be dimmed, or overlaid. The short version would be ‘mind in love with itself.’ It’s the total acceptance and consumption of itself reflected back at the same moment in the central place that is like fusion. When you live your life from that place of gratitude, you’ve come home.” - Byron Katie, A Thousand Names For Joy This year more than any…

  • Sawano Motohiro Sensei: A Jazz Musician

    4 Nov 2009 | 10:23 am
    By: Anne Thomas The first time I met Sawano Motohiro Sensei (1) I was deeply impressed by his gentle nature and open mind. We met in a rather unusual way, so let me explain. Early in the day I had been introduced to a young American exchange student, Evan. He was a jazz major, but also loved Japanese. So, he came to Japan to learn the language. As we chatted that day, I realized his real love was music. So, I told him I would like to hear him play. As luck would have it, we were near a Kawai Music shop. My new friend had the brilliant idea of going there and pretending to buy a piano. That…

  • Soap Hope: All-natural soap to end global poverty

    4 Nov 2009 | 9:49 am
    By: KristinSchutz May 16, 2009: Doomsday. With a degree in public relations and an economic environment of fear and hiring freezes, I found it hard to have faith in finding a decent job in public relations and even less faith in a job that shared my vision for progressive change. Then along came a job at Soap Hope: a company with a deeply integrated social mission to end global poverty. The first thing we learn as an introduction to PR at school is "Don't Lie." As a PR practitioner, I am well aware of the traps and narrow roads that challenge our paths as communicators. But at Soap Hope I…

  • People 4 Earth Webinar: Revolution of sustainable products

    4 Nov 2009 | 9:22 am
    By: Mieke Join the People 4 Earth webinar on the 4th of November for an exclusive discussion with bestselling author, Daniel Goleman, on how a new wave of information on the sustainability impacts of products is shifting the balance from seller to buyer. The experts discuss how 'radical transparency' promises to mobilize sustainable consumption among consumers, reward sustainability leaders in business with competitive advantage, and help drive a higher standard of business innovation. The briefing will take us from the farmer's market to the capital markets to the corporate boardroom. How to…

  • Creating a life of substance

    4 Nov 2009 | 9:18 am
    By: lexsisney Imagine you’re a participant on a new game show called “Your Life”. The host of the show presents you with two locked doors and two keys. The door on the left is labeled “External Substance.” The door on the right is labeled “Internal Substance.” The rules of the game are simple. You can choose only one door. Behind each door is an unlimited substance of its type. External substance is all the material stuff of the universe. Whatever your heart desires; gold, riches, houses, cars, the new MacBook Air, food, wine, travel, chocolate, books, art, planes,…
 
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    Green Tech

  • Wind Pole Ventures tackles faulty wind data

    Martin LaMonica
    6 Nov 2009 | 7:29 am
    Wind farms aren't just about putting steel into the ground. A start-up is carving a business out of getting better wind-speed data to predict electricity output.

  • Hybrid Humvee coming up over the horizon

    Candace Lombardi
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:35 am
    U.S. Army contracts with EnerDel to develop a lithium-ion battery system strong enough for use in a hybrid version of its iconic truck. Originally posted at Planetary Gear

  • Lack of global climate deal won't crush green tech

    Martin LaMonica
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:32 am
    No matter what happens in Copenhagen next month, green-tech companies say industry and national governments will drive investment in the near term, an analysis shows.

  • Senate panel approves Democratic climate bill

    Reuters
    5 Nov 2009 | 9:46 am
    Bill, which would require industry to trim greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels, joins several other initiatives in the Senate.

  • PetroAlgae signs deal with Indian Oil

    Candace Lombardi
    5 Nov 2009 | 6:55 am
    Another Big Oil company looks to build large-scale production facilities for generating biofuel from algae.
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