San Francisco has many homeless people. Among the many problems the homeless face is little or no access to showers. San Francisco only has about 16 to 20 shower stalls to accommodate them. Doniece Sandoval started Lava Mae, a sort of showers on wheels, a new project that aims to turn decommissioned city buses into shower stations for the homeless. Each bus will have two shower stations and Sandoval expects that by 2015, they’ll be able to provide 2000 showers a week. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has donated one bus for the cause and is willing to donate three more in the future if the project succeeds. Sandoval hopes the first bus will be able to hit the road in March.
Chef in St. Paul leaves high end job to work at the salvation army. Jeff Ansorge left his six figure paying job as an executive chef. He had a 70% pay cut. Ansorge said that he wanted the high paying job and all the perks that come along with it but wasn't satisfied so that is why he took the cut. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/11/chef-leaves-job-at-high-end-restaurant-to-serve-at-salvation-army/
After a house fire in Greenville, Kentucky, a father and daughter were all that survived the blaze. Both are undergoing treatments in the hospital being listed in critical and stable condition. The mother and eight other children were killed in the fire. Living in a small town with median income it would hit any family hard emotionally and finically. Country singers, The Band Perry, heard about the incident and decided to help out as much as they could. They offered to pay for hotel rooms for family staying near the hospital and for the funerals of the mother and eight children. The Band Perry and the family had to connections, just a lot of generosity. http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/01/showbiz/kentucky-band-perry-funerals/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
A girl in South Korea has started a new trend out of watching people eat online. This girl can eat 4 pizzas in one sitting and stay incredibly skinny, due to her high metabolism. She spends hours eating, then spends a few extra hours talking to fans. People enjoy her broadcasts for a few reasons. One fan says that she helped them recover from anorexia. Other fans say that when they're dieting, they'll watch her videos and it helps them stay on track. Some fans watch because in South Korea, eating is a big family thing, so since they live alone, they'll eat as she broadcasts and pretend they're eating next to her. She makes $9,000 monthly off her broadcasts, and spends $3,000 monthly buying her food. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/29/world/asia/korea-eating-room/index.html?hpt=wo_t4
Armed and dangerous killer on the loose from jail. A huge manhunt is looking for a man who is armed and dangerous, that escaped from a Michigan prison late on Sunday.Authorities are afraid he may have made it to Indiana, by carjacking a women. The man's name is Michael David Elliot.He is described as a 5'8 165 pound white male with brown eyes and hair.He was last seen with a blue jacket on and black pants. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/02/03/22553699-armed-and-dangerous-killer-on-the-run-after-jailbreak?lite
Police officers came together on sunday to help there own. They held a breakfast benefit that brought hundreds to the moose lodge in waterloo. They held the fundraiser for the people that were willing to sacrifice there lives for us. and a silent auction.
There was breakfast benefit held by the Black Hawk County law enforcement in Waterloo at the Moose Lodge. They were trying to raise money to help three different families that have had a family member that worked in the law enforcement. Those three family member have a lot of medical expenses that they have to pay. They raised almost 5,000 dollars. http://www.kwwl.com/story/24613454/2014/02/02/breakfast-benefit-raises-money-for-families-of-law-enforcement
If you ate pizza on Super Bowl Sunday, you weren't alone. Super Bowl Sunday is one of the busiest days for pizza deliveries. At Mama Nick's Circle Pizzeria in Waterloo, business was pretty steady all night, but deliveries were up. They say it's hard to predict how busy the night is going to be. It all depends on if the game is exciting or how bad the weather is. "We've been in business since the 60's so you know we've just gone through the whole time frame of first of all being the only place and then after that many other places jumped in, many more deliveries," said George Nicholas, restaurant owner. Nicholas says other big delivery days for his business are the night before Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve
15 year old Anna Holcombe from Canon, Georgia she made a anti-bullying group in her 4-H. The group went so well she spoke at a 4-H state wide conference. And Then got to speak in D.C. She calls her program the No Bull program and many schools are teaching it's kids this method to prevent bullying.
A Saudia man loses massive amounts of weight. He was originally 1345 pounds. He lost a total of 700 pounds. The man was only in his late teens. He was unable to move. A giant wheel chair was made for him to get around easier. The head doctor says he is getting better. They say his lung and heart functions are improving and he is now able to move his feet. He has also gained more muscle. http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/03/world/meast/saudi-arabia-obesity/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Big retailers and Banks are debating who should have to increase security standards. Retailers are saying that banks need to upgrade their technology for debit cards and credit cards. While banks are saying that even with new technology for cards that it would not have stopped the breach at Target and that they need a more secure way to deliver payments. They both think that Congress should make national standard on notifying consumers of data breaches.
Childhood science teacher Bill Nye the Science guy will be debating creationism vs evolution. In a hopefully peaceful argument Bill Ne will side with evolution against creatonist Ken Hamhttp ://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/03/why-im-debating-the-science-guy-about-creationism/?hpt=us_bn3
A castaway who says he survived 13 months adrift in the Pacific said yesterday he thought about suicide but was sustained by dreams of eating his favorite food tortillas, and reuniting with his family. Alvarenga said he set out on a shark fishing expedition in late December 2012 with a teenager, when they became lost in their 7m fiberglass boat.
The FDA is launching a teen anti-smoking campaign. The goal of the campaign is to reduce teen smoking. It is an issue because smoking as an adolescent can be harmful or cause permanent damage. http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/04/health/fda-smoking/index.html?hpt=he_c2
An armless 14 year old was given a trip to the Super Bowl. It special for him because he was born without arms and is a kicker for a state championship winning title. He had a VIP pass. Football is his passion and he someday wants to play int the NFL. He is very inspirational
14-year-old Isaac Lufkin is still smiling after a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Super Bowl.He was born without arms, but that hasn't stopped him from being place kicker for his Classical High School freshman football team in Providence, Rhode Island. In fact, he helped lead his team to an undefeated 2013 season and the freshman football state title.
There has been a 24 hour friendship hotline has been released for the elderly in the UK. This hotline is to help the elderly to become less lonely and to talk about if they'd been neglected or abused in nursing homes or at home. There has also been a study that being lonely is equal to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. http://positivenews.org.uk/2014/wellbeing/14562/friendship-phone-call-elderly/
A firefighter in North Carolina has developed a new app for google glass. This app is designed to help firefighters out by giving them important info. The app will have a notification if something happens, then in the top right corner there is a map and location of where it took place, and it says what type of call it is. Patrick Jackson the developer also plans on adding new features like blueprints and possible building hazards.
Over the weekend a woman handed 3 Illinois waitresses $5,000 each. The owner of the Boone County Family Restaurant in Caledonia, Matt Nebiu, said business was slow Saturday when the customer handed checks to 25-year-old Amy Sabani, 23-year-old Sarah Seckinger and 28-year-old Amber Kariolich. The woman thought she originally wrote the checks for $500, but when she saw the actual amount she wouldn't take it back. She told the girls to use the money for school and other things in life. Seckinger says a last semester to earn her associate degree in criminal justice was too expensive, but she will now return to school.
CVS Caremark announced on Wednesday that they will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at their stores by October 1 of this year."Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS is the right thing to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health." Larry J. Merlo, president and CEO of CVS Caremark. CVS estimates an annual loss of $2 billion from tobacco shoppers.
Children in Blake Academy in Florida are staying warm. Good Samaritan donated hundreds of hats to all the first graders and kindergartners. Marian Meyers made the hats bright colors so that all drivers can see the kids when they are walking. Just this year she has created more than 800 hats.
CVS is planing on stoping the production and sale of tobacco across the nation.CVS is the nation’s second-largest drugstore chain.The drugstore chain also plans to expand its effort in helping people quit. That includes training its pharmacists to counsel people on how to quit smoking. It will cost about 2 million dollars and It will only take away about 4% of cigarettes sold, but its a start.
The University of Northern Iowa has developed an app aimed at improving a speech disorder.
The "Name That!" app was created by AppsLab in UNI's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center. Its main focus is on Aphasia, a language disorder that inhibits speech and language comprehension.
The app is available for Apple devices and Android devices in Google Play.
They are creating a movie on the miners from 2010. The movie will show the value of life to society. They went and asked the miners about it and they said that it was alright
Good Samaritans Help Save Man who Jumped into Lake to Rescue His Dog
A Chicago Man jumped into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan to try and save his dog. He was walking 3 poodles when one decided to run into the Lake. A cross country skier and jogger both witnessed the seen and immediately called 911. They knew the police wouldn't be fast enough so they saved him by putting a piece of twine into the water to grab onto. They got the man out shortly Fire officials helped the man and he's only suffering from sever hypothermia.
A new class of surveillance cameras able to monitor an area the size of a small city for hours at a time has won the hearts of law enforcement in the U.S. but has privacy advocates worried about a creeping surveillance state. Built by the company Persistent Surveillance Systems, the cameras — mounted on a fixed wing aircraft — can spot people up to 25 miles away
CVS Pharmacy says they have banned cigarettes. CVS is the first major pharmacy chain to ban cigarettes. Hopefully this will stop people from smoking cigarettes and will decrease the amount of people that have cancer. http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/05/news/companies/cvs-walgreens-cigarettes/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
When Nicholas Lowinger was 5 he went to a homeless shelter with his mom and saw kids his own age with old shoes. He felt bad and relized the living situations was very different from his. So in 2010, when he was 12, Nicholas started a program that donates new shoes to homeless children. He started the Gotta Have Sole Foundation. Since 2010, the organization has donated new shoes to more than 10,000 homeless children in 21 states.
CVS, America's second largest chain of pharmacies, has made the decision to no longer sell tobacco in their stores. By doing this, they are giving up an estimated 2 billion in tobacco sales each year. http://m.kwwl.com/w/news/story/108960826/
It isn't just farmers who will benefit from the sweeping farm bill that Congress has sent President Barack Obama. There's also help for rural towns, grocery stores in low-income areas and, most notably, the nation's 47 million food stamp recipients. After years of setbacks, the Senate passed the nearly $100 billion-a-year measure Tuesday on a 62-38 vote. The White House said the president will sign the bill Friday in Michigan, home state of Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow.
Texas man funds school lunches for kids. Last week many kids at Utah elementary school had their lunch trays taken away because some students had a negative balance. Kenny Thompson didn't want to see that repeated. He paid off lunch account balances of more than 60 students. http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2014/02/05/texas-man-funds-lunch-for-school-kids/?hpt=li_c2
Boy's Crush Just Lost Her Dad. So He Raised More Than $2,500 To Help Her Family. David Carnahan who is now a 6th grader has had a crush on a girl since 2nd grade and put together a fund to help support the family after they suffered a lost. Jolie Fowler lost her dad at the end of last year. He didn't have any life insurances. David was hurting for the Fowler family so he decided to set up a fund on a GoFundMe site and named it "David's Crush Lost Her Daddy." In the description he wrote about how his crush since 2nd grade just lost her Daddy. They had a goal of collecting 500 dollars. They easily made 500 within 24 hours. Thursday afternoon, David had collected almost 3,000 dollars for the Fowler family. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/09/davids-crush-lost-her-daddy_n_4570835.html
McDonalds has released a video of showing people what McNuggets are really made out of. There has been a picture released that states that the whole chicken, eyes, guts, and bones all together are ground up and made into a pink snake looking goo. In the video McDonalds shows the whole process and it doesn't show the pink goo at all. It just shows ground up chicken breasts. The photo was just all a hoax.
A breakfast benefit was held by the Black Hawk County law enforcement in Waterloo at the Moose Lodge. They raised almost 5,000 dollars. They were trying to raise money to help three different families that have had a family member that worked in the law enforcement. Those three family members have a lot of medical expenses that they have to pay.
A California based artist recently gave up making expensive sculptures to build shelters for the homeless - made completely out of garbage. The artist, Gregory Kloehn, collects illegally discarded garbage and uses it to build shelters that are about the size of a sofa. All come equipped with wheels and a pitched roof. To date, Kloehn has built 10 such homes. Since word of his project spread, there have many volunteers willing to help. He noted on his Facebook page that people have come forward to donate money, materials and workspace, and he's invited supporters to come by and help him build.
The first power plant that uses waste wood for electricity is being built in the UK. It will save 2.1 million tons of green house gases. It will supply more than 17,000 homes. It will cost 47.8 million dollars. It is set to be completed in 2016.
Lawmakers are pushing to impose federal standards for protecting the country's electric grid from attack in the wake of a new report about a sniper assault on a California electrical substation last year that has raised fears the power grid is vulnerable to terrorism. increasing the security would mean that the community there would also be a little more protected.
San Francisco has many homeless people. Among the many problems the homeless face is little or no access to showers. San Francisco only has about 16 to 20 shower stalls to accommodate them. Doniece Sandoval started Lava Mae, a sort of showers on wheels, a new project that aims to turn decommissioned city buses into shower stations for the homeless. Each bus will have two shower stations and Sandoval expects that by 2015, they’ll be able to provide 2000 showers a week. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has donated one bus for the cause and is willing to donate three more in the future if the project succeeds. Sandoval hopes the first bus will be able to hit the road in March.
ReplyDeletehttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/11/lava-mae-creating-showers-on-wheels-for-the-homeless/
Chef in St. Paul leaves high end job to work at the salvation army. Jeff Ansorge left his six figure paying job as an executive chef. He had a 70% pay cut. Ansorge said that he wanted the high paying job and all the perks that come along with it but wasn't satisfied so that is why he took the cut.
ReplyDeletehttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/11/chef-leaves-job-at-high-end-restaurant-to-serve-at-salvation-army/
After a house fire in Greenville, Kentucky, a father and daughter were all that survived the blaze. Both are undergoing treatments in the hospital being listed in critical and stable condition. The mother and eight other children were killed in the fire. Living in a small town with median income it would hit any family hard emotionally and finically. Country singers, The Band Perry, heard about the incident and decided to help out as much as they could. They offered to pay for hotel rooms for family staying near the hospital and for the funerals of the mother and eight children. The Band Perry and the family had to connections, just a lot of generosity. http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/01/showbiz/kentucky-band-perry-funerals/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
ReplyDeleteA girl in South Korea has started a new trend out of watching people eat online. This girl can eat 4 pizzas in one sitting and stay incredibly skinny, due to her high metabolism. She spends hours eating, then spends a few extra hours talking to fans. People enjoy her broadcasts for a few reasons. One fan says that she helped them recover from anorexia. Other fans say that when they're dieting, they'll watch her videos and it helps them stay on track. Some fans watch because in South Korea, eating is a big family thing, so since they live alone, they'll eat as she broadcasts and pretend they're eating next to her.
ReplyDeleteShe makes $9,000 monthly off her broadcasts, and spends $3,000 monthly buying her food.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/29/world/asia/korea-eating-room/index.html?hpt=wo_t4
Armed and dangerous killer on the loose from jail.
ReplyDeleteA huge manhunt is looking for a man who is armed and dangerous, that escaped from a Michigan prison late on Sunday.Authorities are afraid he may have made it to Indiana, by carjacking a women. The man's name is Michael David Elliot.He is described as a 5'8 165 pound white male with brown eyes and hair.He was last seen with a blue jacket on and black pants.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/02/03/22553699-armed-and-dangerous-killer-on-the-run-after-jailbreak?lite
Police officers came together on sunday to help there own. They held a breakfast benefit that brought hundreds to the moose lodge in waterloo.
ReplyDeleteThey held the fundraiser for the people that were willing to sacrifice there lives for us. and a silent auction.
There was breakfast benefit held by the Black Hawk County law enforcement in Waterloo at the Moose Lodge. They were trying to raise money to help three different families that have had a family member that worked in the law enforcement. Those three family member have a lot of medical expenses that they have to pay. They raised almost 5,000 dollars.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kwwl.com/story/24613454/2014/02/02/breakfast-benefit-raises-money-for-families-of-law-enforcement
If you ate pizza on Super Bowl Sunday, you weren't alone. Super Bowl Sunday is one of the busiest days for pizza deliveries. At Mama Nick's Circle Pizzeria in Waterloo, business was pretty steady all night, but deliveries were up. They say it's hard to predict how busy the night is going to be. It all depends on if the game is exciting or how bad the weather is. "We've been in business since the 60's so you know we've just gone through the whole time frame of first of all being the only place and then after that many other places jumped in, many more deliveries," said George Nicholas, restaurant owner.
ReplyDeleteNicholas says other big delivery days for his business are the night before Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve
http://www.kwwl.com/story/24614747/2014/02/02/pizza-places-stay-busy-on-super-bowl-sunday
15 year old Anna Holcombe from Canon, Georgia she made a anti-bullying group in her 4-H. The group went so well she spoke at a 4-H state wide conference. And Then got to speak in D.C. She calls her program the No Bull program and many schools are teaching it's kids this method to prevent bullying.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.stopbullying.gov/blog/2013/07/17/georgia-teen-making-difference-bullying-prevention
A Saudia man loses massive amounts of weight. He was originally 1345 pounds. He lost a total of 700 pounds. The man was only in his late teens. He was unable to move. A giant wheel chair was made for him to get around easier. The head doctor says he is getting better. They say his lung and heart functions are improving and he is now able to move his feet. He has also gained more muscle.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/02/03/world/meast/saudi-arabia-obesity/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Big retailers and Banks are debating who should have to increase security standards. Retailers are saying that banks need to upgrade their technology for debit cards and credit cards. While banks are saying that even with new technology for cards that it would not have stopped the breach at Target and that they need a more secure way to deliver payments. They both think that Congress should make national standard on notifying consumers of data breaches.
ReplyDeletehttp://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/target-data-breach-pits-banks-retailers-22355092
Childhood science teacher Bill Nye the Science guy will be debating creationism vs evolution. In a hopefully peaceful argument Bill Ne will side with evolution against creatonist Ken Hamhttp
ReplyDelete://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/03/why-im-debating-the-science-guy-about-creationism/?hpt=us_bn3
A castaway who says he survived 13 months adrift in the Pacific said yesterday he thought about suicide but was sustained by dreams of eating his favorite food tortillas, and reuniting with his family. Alvarenga said he set out on a shark fishing expedition in late December 2012 with a teenager, when they became lost in their 7m fiberglass boat.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11196771
The FDA is launching a teen anti-smoking campaign. The goal of the campaign is to reduce teen smoking. It is an issue because smoking as an adolescent can be harmful or cause permanent damage.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/02/04/health/fda-smoking/index.html?hpt=he_c2
An armless 14 year old was given a trip to the Super Bowl. It special for him because he was born without arms and is a kicker for a state championship winning title. He had a VIP pass. Football is his passion and he someday wants to play int the NFL. He is very inspirational
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/02/03/us/armless-kickers-super-bowl-trip/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews
14-year-old Isaac Lufkin is still smiling after a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Super Bowl.He was born without arms, but that hasn't stopped him from being place kicker for his Classical High School freshman football team in Providence, Rhode Island. In fact, he helped lead his team to an undefeated 2013 season and the freshman football state title.
ReplyDeleteThere has been a 24 hour friendship hotline has been released for the elderly in the UK. This hotline is to help the elderly to become less lonely and to talk about if they'd been neglected or abused in nursing homes or at home. There has also been a study that being lonely is equal to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. http://positivenews.org.uk/2014/wellbeing/14562/friendship-phone-call-elderly/
ReplyDeleteA firefighter in North Carolina has developed a new app for google glass. This app is designed to help firefighters out by giving them important info. The app will have a notification if something happens, then in the top right corner there is a map and location of where it took place, and it says what type of call it is. Patrick Jackson the developer also plans on adding new features like blueprints and possible building hazards.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/01/21/tech/innovation/google-glass-firefighter/index.html
Over the weekend a woman handed 3 Illinois waitresses $5,000 each. The owner of the Boone County Family Restaurant in Caledonia, Matt Nebiu, said business was slow Saturday when the customer handed checks to 25-year-old Amy Sabani, 23-year-old Sarah Seckinger and 28-year-old Amber Kariolich. The woman thought she originally wrote the checks for $500, but when she saw the actual amount she wouldn't take it back. She told the girls to use the money for school and other things in life. Seckinger says a last semester to earn her associate degree in criminal justice was too expensive, but she will now return to school.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/woman-gives-3-illinois-waitresses-5-000-020430273.html
CVS Caremark announced on Wednesday that they will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at their stores by October 1 of this year."Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS is the right thing to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health." Larry J. Merlo, president and CEO of CVS Caremark. CVS estimates an annual loss of $2 billion from tobacco shoppers.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/02/05/health/cvs-cigarettes/index.html?hpt=us_c2
Children in Blake Academy in Florida are staying warm. Good Samaritan donated hundreds of hats to all the first graders and kindergartners. Marian Meyers made the hats bright colors so that all drivers can see the kids when they are walking. Just this year she has created more than 800 hats.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/22/florida-good-samaritan-creates-hundreds-hats-for-kids/?&test=gnews
CVS is planing on stoping the production and sale of tobacco across the nation.CVS is the nation’s second-largest drugstore chain.The drugstore chain also plans to expand its effort in helping people quit. That includes training its pharmacists to counsel people on how to quit smoking. It will cost about 2 million dollars and It will only take away about 4% of cigarettes sold, but its a start.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/2014/02/05/cvs-caremark-plans-stop-selling-tobacco-products/kTpvZ80qK0PYdKxAT3MlvN/story.html
The University of Northern Iowa has developed an app aimed at improving a speech disorder.
ReplyDeleteThe "Name That!" app was created by AppsLab in UNI's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center. Its main focus is on Aphasia, a language disorder that inhibits speech and language comprehension.
The app is available for Apple devices and Android devices in Google Play.
http://www.kwwl.com/story/24571781/uni-develops-app-to-improve-speech-disorder
They are creating a movie on the miners from 2010.
ReplyDeleteThe movie will show the value of life to society.
They went and asked the miners about it and they said that it was alright
http://www.foxnews.com/topics/good-news.htm
Good Samaritans Help Save Man who Jumped into Lake to Rescue His Dog
ReplyDeleteA Chicago Man jumped into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan to try and save his dog. He was walking 3 poodles when one decided to run into the Lake. A cross country skier and jogger both witnessed the seen and immediately called 911. They knew the police wouldn't be fast enough so they saved him by putting a piece of twine into the water to grab onto. They got the man out shortly Fire officials helped the man and he's only suffering from sever hypothermia.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/05/good-samaritans-lake-michigan-man-dog_n_4731163.html?utm_hp_ref=good-news
A new class of surveillance cameras able to monitor an area the size of a small city for hours at a time has won the hearts of law enforcement in the U.S. but has privacy advocates worried about a creeping surveillance state.
ReplyDeleteBuilt by the company Persistent Surveillance Systems, the cameras — mounted on a fixed wing aircraft — can spot people up to 25 miles away
http://nation.time.com/2014/02/05/surveillance-cameras/
CVS Pharmacy says they have banned cigarettes. CVS is the first major pharmacy chain to ban cigarettes. Hopefully this will stop people from smoking cigarettes and will decrease the amount of people that have cancer.
ReplyDeletehttp://money.cnn.com/2014/02/05/news/companies/cvs-walgreens-cigarettes/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
When Nicholas Lowinger was 5 he went to a homeless shelter with his mom and saw kids his own age with old shoes. He felt bad and relized the living situations was very different from his. So in 2010, when he was 12, Nicholas started a program that donates new shoes to homeless children. He started the Gotta Have Sole Foundation. Since 2010, the organization has donated new shoes to more than 10,000 homeless children in 21 states.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/us/cnnheroes-lowinger-homeless-shoes/index.html?hpt=wo_bn3
CVS, America's second largest chain of pharmacies, has made the decision to no longer sell tobacco in their stores. By doing this, they are giving up an estimated 2 billion in tobacco sales each year.
ReplyDeletehttp://m.kwwl.com/w/news/story/108960826/
It isn't just farmers who will benefit from the sweeping farm bill that Congress has sent President Barack Obama. There's also help for rural towns, grocery stores in low-income areas and, most notably, the nation's 47 million food stamp recipients. After years of setbacks, the Senate passed the nearly $100 billion-a-year measure Tuesday on a 62-38 vote. The White House said the president will sign the bill Friday in Michigan, home state of Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow.
ReplyDeletehttp://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FARM_BILL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Texas man funds school lunches for kids. Last week many kids at Utah elementary school had their lunch trays taken away because some students had a negative balance. Kenny Thompson didn't want to see that repeated. He paid off lunch account balances of more than 60 students.
ReplyDeletehttp://eatocracy.cnn.com/2014/02/05/texas-man-funds-lunch-for-school-kids/?hpt=li_c2
Boy's Crush Just Lost Her Dad. So He Raised More Than $2,500 To Help Her Family.
ReplyDeleteDavid Carnahan who is now a 6th grader has had a crush on a girl since 2nd grade and put together a fund to help support the family after they suffered a lost. Jolie Fowler lost her dad at the end of last year. He didn't have any life insurances. David was hurting for the Fowler family so he decided to set up a fund on a GoFundMe site and named it "David's Crush Lost Her Daddy." In the description he wrote about how his crush since 2nd grade just lost her Daddy. They had a goal of collecting 500 dollars. They easily made 500 within 24 hours. Thursday afternoon, David had collected almost 3,000 dollars for the Fowler family.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/09/davids-crush-lost-her-daddy_n_4570835.html
McDonalds has released a video of showing people what McNuggets are really made out of. There has been a picture released that states that the whole chicken, eyes, guts, and bones all together are ground up and made into a pink snake looking goo. In the video McDonalds shows the whole process and it doesn't show the pink goo at all. It just shows ground up chicken breasts. The photo was just all a hoax.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2014/02/06/erin-moos-whats-in-a-mcnugget.cnn&hpt=hp_c3&from_homepage=yes&video_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F
A breakfast benefit was held by the Black Hawk County law enforcement in Waterloo at the Moose Lodge. They raised almost 5,000 dollars. They were trying to raise money to help three different families that have had a family member that worked in the law enforcement. Those three family members have a lot of medical expenses that they have to pay.
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A California based artist recently gave up making expensive sculptures to build shelters for the homeless - made completely out of garbage. The artist, Gregory Kloehn, collects illegally discarded garbage and uses it to build shelters that are about the size of a sofa. All come equipped with wheels and a pitched roof. To date, Kloehn has built 10 such homes. Since word of his project spread, there have many volunteers willing to help. He noted on his Facebook page that people have come forward to donate money, materials and workspace, and he's invited supporters to come by and help him build.
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The first power plant that uses waste wood for electricity is being built in the UK. It will save 2.1 million tons of green house gases. It will supply more than 17,000 homes. It will cost 47.8 million dollars. It is set to be completed in 2016.
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Today is national wear red day. Wear red to represent heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer of women.
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Lawmakers are pushing to impose federal standards for protecting the country's electric grid from attack in the wake of a new report about a sniper assault on a California electrical substation last year that has raised fears the power grid is vulnerable to terrorism. increasing the security would mean that the community there would also be a little more protected.
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