Save the Children Announces Grant from PepsiCo Foundation to Address Malnutrition in Developing Nations
"Save the Children announced it will receive a three-year, $5 million grant from the PepsiCo Foundation to help ensure the survival and well-being of children living in rural India and Bangladesh, which together are home to 40 percent of the world's malnourished children."
More on the announcement is here.
Country music singer/songwriter has music in his heritage
"Bo Porter started playing guitar at age six. The guitar he plays today, a 64 Gibson B-25, was given to him by his dad. By age seven Bo was touring throughout the South with his father Reid Porter and his bluegrass band . In the 1950’s Bo’s dad had a band called The Dixie Playboys that toured the southern parts of the U.S. If it’s musical heritage you’re looking for, Bo definitely came by it honest."
Click here for more about this interesting entertainer.
Small businesses in England help cooking oil move from restaurants to roads
"As he has done frequently over the past 18 months, Andy Roost drove his blue diesel Peugeot 205 onto a farm here, where signs pointed one way for eggs and another for oil."
Cruise on over to the rest of the story here.
Shot and paralyzed in 2006, Chicago bluesman feels pain of music but vows to walk, perform again
"Piano C. Red spent a lifetime singing the blues, but it wasn't until he was robbed, shot and paralyzed that Red said he truly felt the music's pain.
'More so now than ever before,' a gravely-voiced Red said, sitting in his wheelchair at a North Side nursing home.'It's been hard.'"
Read Red's story and his dreams here.
The American Bungalow: Where compact equals comfort
"Living in an American bungalow home may not fulfill the American dream for homeowners today who want footprints with mega space, yet those who adore these cool, compact homes cannot imagine living in any other style residence."
Click here for more on this American icon.
Allee Willis’ bubble-gum-pink house in Valley Village
"For the unsuspecting visitor, musician and artist Allee Willis’ bubble-gum-pink house in Valley Village is a winking, delightful shock. The William Kesling-designed property was commissioned by MGM in 1937 as the studio’s party house. Willis bought it in 1980 and has carried on the revelry ever since, throwing much-publicized bashes with regularity."
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009 Good News Stories (Margaret)
Flower Gardening - Consider A Cutting Garden
"Everyone loves to give and receive flowers. So great is their appeal, that fresh cut flowers play a role in the celebration of holidays and the milestones of family and personal life over much of the world. It is a particular luxury to have fresh flowers on display at home on a daily basis. What a delight it is to be surrounded indoors by bouquets and arrangements of fragrant, colorful blossoms - to have a bit of the garden in the house."
Click here to read more.
The Day After Fat Tuesday
"Nobody likes to poop on a party, but it is quite obvious that we have lost sight of the true meaning of the festivities. If I thought that this next point would be contested by many, I might actually do a survey to verify it. But if we were to ask the average crowd on Bourbon Street during a Mardi Gras celebration, “What day is tomorrow?” I am willing to bet that many of them would not really have a clue what we were really asking. Midnight on Fat Tuesday is not just the end of the party, it’s the beginning of something much more significant and much more important. It’s the beginning of Lent. The day after Fat Tuesday is Ash Wednesday ."
Click here to read more.
Park service plans for day when home for Hansen's patients will close
"The National Park Service has begun a process that will determine the future of Kalaupapa as the most important chapter in its history slowly comes to an end.As a home for Hansen's disease patients, its designation for more than 140 years, Kalaupapa will close when the last patient dies."
Click here to read more.
Showing up, but not signing up
"Joining a church doesn't make sense for Jonathan Busarow right now.
He's a graduate student at Ohio State University who doesn't know where he'll live in a couple of years. He doesn't have extra money to donate or a lot of time.
But he still wants to worship, so he regularly attends Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in German Village."
Click here to read more.
"Everyone loves to give and receive flowers. So great is their appeal, that fresh cut flowers play a role in the celebration of holidays and the milestones of family and personal life over much of the world. It is a particular luxury to have fresh flowers on display at home on a daily basis. What a delight it is to be surrounded indoors by bouquets and arrangements of fragrant, colorful blossoms - to have a bit of the garden in the house."
Click here to read more.
The Day After Fat Tuesday
"Nobody likes to poop on a party, but it is quite obvious that we have lost sight of the true meaning of the festivities. If I thought that this next point would be contested by many, I might actually do a survey to verify it. But if we were to ask the average crowd on Bourbon Street during a Mardi Gras celebration, “What day is tomorrow?” I am willing to bet that many of them would not really have a clue what we were really asking. Midnight on Fat Tuesday is not just the end of the party, it’s the beginning of something much more significant and much more important. It’s the beginning of Lent. The day after Fat Tuesday is Ash Wednesday ."
Click here to read more.
Park service plans for day when home for Hansen's patients will close
"The National Park Service has begun a process that will determine the future of Kalaupapa as the most important chapter in its history slowly comes to an end.As a home for Hansen's disease patients, its designation for more than 140 years, Kalaupapa will close when the last patient dies."
Click here to read more.
Showing up, but not signing up
"Joining a church doesn't make sense for Jonathan Busarow right now.
He's a graduate student at Ohio State University who doesn't know where he'll live in a couple of years. He doesn't have extra money to donate or a lot of time.
But he still wants to worship, so he regularly attends Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in German Village."
Click here to read more.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Good News for February 21 (posted by Mary Beth)
Being frugal is IN!
"Cecilia Dames, an expat Midwesterner who has lived in Europe for the past 17 years, noticed it when she returned to St. Louis for a recent family visit.
'Conspicuous consumption is out,' she said. 'Conspicuous frugality is in.'"
Get the lowdown on being frugal here.
Ax masters: Father-son team fixes, builds guitars for stars and the not-so-famous
"On the busy Main Street just north of Winchester Center, two huge storefront windows reveal hundreds of guitars hanging on the walls. One entire wall is devoted to basses, while Fender Stratocasters, Telecasters, Gretsch Country Gentlemen, Rickenbacker, PRS, and Gibson Les Pauls and SGs line another wall. Behind the display area, another 160 guitars wait patiently in their cases for the expert touch of luthier Jim Mouradian and his son Jon of the Mouradian Guitar Co."
Click here to read the rest of this harmonious story.
Steeling their Courage: Naming the beams for Dana Farber patients
"It has become a beloved ritual at Dana-Farber: Every day, children who come to the clinic write their names on sheets of paper and tape them to the windows of the walkway for ironworkers to see. And, every day, the ironworkers paint the names onto I-beams and hoist them into place as they add floors to the new 14-story Yawkey Center for Cancer Care."
Share this uplifting story here.
The World Revels in Mardi Gras
"Mardi Gras celebrations are not limited to New Orleans. Take a tour of the variety of ways various places observe the day."
Join the party here!
An out-of-this-world move to save Saturn
"Saturn owners (in some circles they are called fans) obviously are concerned about warranties and service for their vehicles after financially troubled General Motors announced it would phase out the product. They received some good news today, with the circulation of a letter Saturn General Manager Jill Lajdziak sent to owners."
More on the plan here.
6,000 inspiring miles
"This can be a bad world, full of self-interest and hard-heartedness, but every now and again something comes along that is dazzlingly generous and full of the excitement of life. Today's 'something' is a movie about a bicycle journey that three young men took across the United States to raise money for two causes - the American Diabetes Association and the Kupenda foundation for disabled children in Kenya."
Click here for more information.
"Cecilia Dames, an expat Midwesterner who has lived in Europe for the past 17 years, noticed it when she returned to St. Louis for a recent family visit.
'Conspicuous consumption is out,' she said. 'Conspicuous frugality is in.'"
Get the lowdown on being frugal here.
Ax masters: Father-son team fixes, builds guitars for stars and the not-so-famous
"On the busy Main Street just north of Winchester Center, two huge storefront windows reveal hundreds of guitars hanging on the walls. One entire wall is devoted to basses, while Fender Stratocasters, Telecasters, Gretsch Country Gentlemen, Rickenbacker, PRS, and Gibson Les Pauls and SGs line another wall. Behind the display area, another 160 guitars wait patiently in their cases for the expert touch of luthier Jim Mouradian and his son Jon of the Mouradian Guitar Co."
Click here to read the rest of this harmonious story.
Steeling their Courage: Naming the beams for Dana Farber patients
"It has become a beloved ritual at Dana-Farber: Every day, children who come to the clinic write their names on sheets of paper and tape them to the windows of the walkway for ironworkers to see. And, every day, the ironworkers paint the names onto I-beams and hoist them into place as they add floors to the new 14-story Yawkey Center for Cancer Care."
Share this uplifting story here.
The World Revels in Mardi Gras
"Mardi Gras celebrations are not limited to New Orleans. Take a tour of the variety of ways various places observe the day."
Join the party here!
An out-of-this-world move to save Saturn
"Saturn owners (in some circles they are called fans) obviously are concerned about warranties and service for their vehicles after financially troubled General Motors announced it would phase out the product. They received some good news today, with the circulation of a letter Saturn General Manager Jill Lajdziak sent to owners."
More on the plan here.
6,000 inspiring miles
"This can be a bad world, full of self-interest and hard-heartedness, but every now and again something comes along that is dazzlingly generous and full of the excitement of life. Today's 'something' is a movie about a bicycle journey that three young men took across the United States to raise money for two causes - the American Diabetes Association and the Kupenda foundation for disabled children in Kenya."
Click here for more information.
Saturday, February 21, 2009 Good News Stories (Margaret)
Peanut Flour May Ease Peanut Allergy
"Eating a tiny bit of peanut flour every day may increase peanut tolerance in children who are allergic to peanuts, a new study shows.
But the scientists who conducted the study aren't recommending their strategy as a do-it-yourself treatment for peanut allergy."
Click here to read more about this study.
Ministry partners with the U.S. Navy
"Unsafe drinking water causes illness: more people have died from water-borne diseases than from war."
Click here to read how the Navy is helping.
Three Big Questions for the Frantic Family
"The vast majority of families I know —including mine —would admit that one or more of the following adjectives apply to them: reactive, scattered, frantic, chaotic, stressed. Kids who are being shuttled from school to soccer to ballet to baseball to piano lessons to birthday parties are not turning out the way their parents want. And parents who are doing all the shuttling and working and cooking and cleaning and socializing and exercising are not feeling fulfilled.
They're looking at each other and wondering, Is this how life's supposed to be? And when they see everyone else is scattered and stressed, they come to the conclusion, maybe it is.
Life is not supposed to be lived this way. Yes, it will be busy and demanding at times, but our lives should be lived with a sense of purpose that allows us to be the people we're meant be. In order to restore sanity and clarity to our family and to live with greater context and purpose, we need to answer and act upon three big simple questions:"
Click here to read more.
"Eating a tiny bit of peanut flour every day may increase peanut tolerance in children who are allergic to peanuts, a new study shows.
But the scientists who conducted the study aren't recommending their strategy as a do-it-yourself treatment for peanut allergy."
Click here to read more about this study.
Ministry partners with the U.S. Navy
"Unsafe drinking water causes illness: more people have died from water-borne diseases than from war."
Click here to read how the Navy is helping.
Three Big Questions for the Frantic Family
"The vast majority of families I know —including mine —would admit that one or more of the following adjectives apply to them: reactive, scattered, frantic, chaotic, stressed. Kids who are being shuttled from school to soccer to ballet to baseball to piano lessons to birthday parties are not turning out the way their parents want. And parents who are doing all the shuttling and working and cooking and cleaning and socializing and exercising are not feeling fulfilled.
They're looking at each other and wondering, Is this how life's supposed to be? And when they see everyone else is scattered and stressed, they come to the conclusion, maybe it is.
Life is not supposed to be lived this way. Yes, it will be busy and demanding at times, but our lives should be lived with a sense of purpose that allows us to be the people we're meant be. In order to restore sanity and clarity to our family and to live with greater context and purpose, we need to answer and act upon three big simple questions:"
Click here to read more.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Good News for February 20 (posted by Mary Beth)
Prime Time America: PTA Digest for February 20
"This week’s podcast begins with a conversation with attorney David Gibbs III of the Christian Law Association. David and I talked about the recent passage in the North Dakota state house of a measure that would give a fertilized human egg the status and rights of a human being. Next, Dr. David Stevens talks with us about the growing occurrence of autism in our country. And finally, some spring gardening tips with Melinda Myers. I hope you enjoy the PTA Digest. – Greg Wheatley"
Listen to the podcast here.
Feeding Frenzy: Stimulating Times for Lobbyists
"The feeding frenzy has started. I was on an airplane the other day heading to the funeral of a very dear friend. Next to me was seated a man in a business suit who, I noticed, was poring over a statute printed off the Internet related to lobbying."
Click here to read the rest of Chuck Colson's commentary.
Niles, IL man nears 100–and he's still working
"Anxious employees clinging to their jobs in these uncertain economic times might do well to heed advice from Max Fabian, who next month hits the century mark and is still working. Make yourself invaluable, he says. And pay attention to the boss."
More of his wisdom awaits you here.
Tipsheet: Shooting in B&W
"Since a couple of black-and-white images have won contests lately (partly because of the winter themes), and this month's theme is black-and-white, I figured it might be a good time to go over some tips on shooting in B&W."
Get the lowdown on shooting better photos here.
Calling All Readers: They're giving away books!
"If you enjoy books, you'll want to check out BookTrib, a website offering information, reviews, news and free books. Each week, five books are given away. Interested readers can select the book they find interesting and register their email for a chance to win the book. You can even ask to be reminded to enter each week! BookTrib is a full service portal dedicated to bringing all the news, blog, sites, and information about books, writers, and readers under one link. One place to stay up-to-date about the world of books and everything related to them."
Click here to read all about it.
When Details Get You Down: Maintaining a spiritual life amid war, famine, and plague is what made Gregory the Great
"How can I maintain a spiritual life while dealing with people's incessant problems and needs? The question didn't originate with a pastor whose cell phone kept interrupting his prayer life. It goes back at least as far as Gregory, the first practicing monk to be elected, over his own objections, to the papacy."
You'll find more on Gregory's life here.
"This week’s podcast begins with a conversation with attorney David Gibbs III of the Christian Law Association. David and I talked about the recent passage in the North Dakota state house of a measure that would give a fertilized human egg the status and rights of a human being. Next, Dr. David Stevens talks with us about the growing occurrence of autism in our country. And finally, some spring gardening tips with Melinda Myers. I hope you enjoy the PTA Digest. – Greg Wheatley"
Listen to the podcast here.
Feeding Frenzy: Stimulating Times for Lobbyists
"The feeding frenzy has started. I was on an airplane the other day heading to the funeral of a very dear friend. Next to me was seated a man in a business suit who, I noticed, was poring over a statute printed off the Internet related to lobbying."
Click here to read the rest of Chuck Colson's commentary.
Niles, IL man nears 100–and he's still working
"Anxious employees clinging to their jobs in these uncertain economic times might do well to heed advice from Max Fabian, who next month hits the century mark and is still working. Make yourself invaluable, he says. And pay attention to the boss."
More of his wisdom awaits you here.
Tipsheet: Shooting in B&W
"Since a couple of black-and-white images have won contests lately (partly because of the winter themes), and this month's theme is black-and-white, I figured it might be a good time to go over some tips on shooting in B&W."
Get the lowdown on shooting better photos here.
Calling All Readers: They're giving away books!
"If you enjoy books, you'll want to check out BookTrib, a website offering information, reviews, news and free books. Each week, five books are given away. Interested readers can select the book they find interesting and register their email for a chance to win the book. You can even ask to be reminded to enter each week! BookTrib is a full service portal dedicated to bringing all the news, blog, sites, and information about books, writers, and readers under one link. One place to stay up-to-date about the world of books and everything related to them."
Click here to read all about it.
When Details Get You Down: Maintaining a spiritual life amid war, famine, and plague is what made Gregory the Great
"How can I maintain a spiritual life while dealing with people's incessant problems and needs? The question didn't originate with a pastor whose cell phone kept interrupting his prayer life. It goes back at least as far as Gregory, the first practicing monk to be elected, over his own objections, to the papacy."
You'll find more on Gregory's life here.
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