Lengthy questionnaire arrived more than two years after the Richmond Tea Party applied for tax-exempt status
IRS demanded ‘names of the donors, contributors, and grantors‘ andinsisted: ‘Please identify your volunteers’
Tax collectors began in 2012 to scrutinize conservative nonprofits more closely than others
Documents show senior IRS officials in Washington knew of the practice as early as August 2011, but the White House says it learned last month
The Internal Revenue Service wrote to the [...]
BEVERLY HILLS (CBSLA.com) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived at a Beverly Hills gala to much fanfare on Wednesday as she prepared to accept an award for her public service.
Local volunteers from a national organization called “Ready for Hillary 2016? were organized outside the Beverly Wilshire hotel, where the Pacific Council on International Policy would be honoring the secretary.
The Council awarded Clinton with the inaugural Warren Christopher Public Service [...]
Injections of ‘platelet-rich plasma’ already used to combat ageing on the face and hands
Study on volunteers showed significant hair regrowth on bald spots
Balding men would do almost anything to have a full head of hair, but the latest ‘cure’ might be a painful step too far even for them.
Scientists have been able to regrow hair on bald patches by injecting the heads of follicular-challenged volunteers with a solution from their [...]
MARTINEZ (CBS SF) — Meals on Wheels of Contra Costa launched an urgent appeal for more donations Monday, saying that a funding shortage could force it to drop 200 people from its roster of 1,200 seniors receiving home-delivered meals.
The Martinez-based nonprofit group currently uses 800 volunteers per year to deliver one nutritious meal each day to 1,200 homebound, low-income elderly people throughout Contra Costa County, according to program director Paul [...]
Brain scans now allow researchers to know exactly what a person is imagining.
The latest breakthrough comes after scientists used brain scans to decode images directly from the brain.
Researchers have been able to put together what numbers people have seen, the memory a person is recalling, and even reconstruct videos of what a person has watched.
‘We are trying to understand the physical mechanisms that allow us to have an inner world, [...]
People who only got five hours sleep a night gained two pounds in a week
When sleep deprived, people eat less breakfast but more snacks
Lack of sleep slows the metabolism, causing the body to burn fewer calories
Not getting enough sleep doesn’t just make you tired. It also makes you fat, according to scientists.
In a study, participants who slept for five hours each night gained two pounds in weight over a week [...]
A new study shows that when heavy Internet users go offline, they undergo withdrawal symptoms similar to those experienced by drug users.
The study, carried out by researchers at Swansea and Milan Universities, is the first into the immediate negative psychological impacts of Internet use.
Sixty volunteers, with an average age of 25, were first tested to determine their level of Internet use — particularly, whether they used the Internet obsessively or to the detriment of their social [...]
The Bread of Life Mission, which has served the homeless community in Pioneer Square for more than 70 years, said the city has directed them to stop feeding the hungry in downtown parks.
On the third Saturday of every month for the past three years, volunteers for the mission have handed out meals at places such as City Hall Park. The offering was in addition to the three meals a day [...]
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A group of volunteers from Cape May County drove hours with truckloads and truckloads of clothes, toiletries and blankets for victims of Superstorm Sandy. The problem is the city of Hoboken is out of room for the stuff, so it wound up on the sidewalk.
A volunteer who helped unload the donations Sunday alerted Fox 5 that the stuff had been left outside on the sidewalk. When we went by [...]
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He had just come from a meeting with the Long Island Power Authority, where he had been informed that no one would get power until an electrician had inspected the homes. “I told them that was impossible,” he said. “People aren’t going to have heat until Christmas.”
When I called Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office to ask why so much of the relief effort had been left to volunteers, I got [...]
Many things went wrong with Romney’s campaign for president, but one of the biggest was the epic failure of the campaign’s big-data app for getting out the vote, called Orca. When the campaign needed it most, Orca was beached.
Politico has an excellent summary of the problems it says that Orca had. Among them were that the Romney campaign kept it secret and didn’t beta-test it before it was rolled out on [...]
Voting in Pennsylvania — and especially in Philadelphia — has the capacity to be a perplexing and intimidating task. To make your Election Day life a bit easier, I checked in with Zack Stalberg, the head of the Committee of Seventy, a non-partisan election watchdog group that will have 800 volunteers on the phones and streets to try to make sure everything is on the up-and-up.
Yesterday, I started hearing complaints that people [...]
In a speech to a packed room of Obama for America phone bank volunteers at the Democratic National Committee headquarters Thursday night in Washington, D.C., Special Assistant to the PresidentKareem Dale said that people with disabilities are going to be “absolutely killed” under the proposed policies of Mitt Romney and delivered strong message to the crowd: “let’s win this motherfu**er.”
Dale, who is himself partially blind, acts currently as the associate director for the White [...]
Tests revealed schizophrenics find it harder to maintain a steady gaze
The eye tests are simple, cheap, and take only minutes to conduct, say researchers
Scientists have developed an almost 100 per cent accurate test to detect schizophrenics – by checking their gaze.
Impaired eye movement has long been thought to be associated with schizophrenia.
Now a new study has reported a model of testing which demonstrated 98 per cent accuracy in distinguishing between those [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two volunteer poll workers at an Ohio voting station told Human Events that they observed van loads of Ohio residents born in Somalia — the state is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States — being driven to the voting station and guided by Democratic interpreters on the voting process. No Republican interpreters were present, according to these volunteers.While it’s not unusual for get-out-the-vote [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two volunteer poll workers at an Ohio voting station told Human Events that they observed van loads of Ohio residents born in Somalia — the state is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States — being driven to the voting station and guided by Democratic interpreters on the voting process. No Republican interpreters were present, according to these volunteers.
While it’s not unusual for [...]
Felice Freyer
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October 5, 2012
Rhode Island today became the first state in the nation to mandate seasonal flu shots for all health-care workers.
Overriding the objections of health-care workers’ unions and the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, Health Director Michael D. Fine filed new regulations requiring seasonal flu shots for doctors, nurses and others — employees, temporary workers and volunteers — working for hospitals, nursing homes, home-care agencies [...]
Curious how many Democrats live on your block? Just download the Obama campaign’snew mobile app.
The app, released last week, includes a Google map for canvassers that recognizes your current location and marks nearby Democratic households with small blue flags.
For each targeted address, the app displays the first name, age and gender of the voter or voters who live there: “Lori C., 58 F, Democrat.”
All this is public information, which campaigns [...]
Curious how many Democrats live on your block? Just download the Obama campaign’snew mobile app.
The app, released last week, includes a Google map for canvassers that recognizes your current location and marks nearby Democratic households with small blue flags.
For each targeted address, the app displays the first name, age and gender of the voter or voters who live there: “Lori C., 58 F, Democrat.”
All this is public information, which campaigns [...]
Mitt Romney was greeted by Polish supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul as his motorcade passed through Gdansk on Monday. Volunteers from the Romney campaign struggled in vain to use umbrellas to block a large Ron Paul banner from sight, Bonney Kapp of CBS News reports.
The Paul supporters’ sign read, “Polish Choice – Ron Paul Kongres Nowej Prawicy.” Kongres Nowej Prawicy stands for “Congress of the New Right” and is the name [...]
EFE
July 24, 2012
Humanitarian organizations in Arizona on Monday accused the Border Patrol of continuing to implement a “culture of cruelty” that includes destroying water stations placed in the desert with the aim of saving the lives of dehydrated migrants crossing the border illegally from Mexico.
Danielle Alvarado, a volunteer with the group No More Deaths (No Mas Muertes), told Efe that the organization is constantly receiving complaints from immigrants about systematic [...]
The pool report on President Obama’s trip to Roanoke, Virginia says that more than 20 people fainted during the president’s speech this evening.
“TV viewers may have heard POTUS pointed out a couple of faintings during the rally in downtown Roanoke,” writes the pool report. “In fact, fire officials say more than 20 people fell out during the course of the speech. There were waves of exclamation as one person after [...]
During a campaign stop for her husband in Miami, Fla., on Tuesday, first lady Michelle Obama urged grassroots volunteers to find unregistered voters and “shake ‘em,” reminding them that President Obama has predicted this election “will be even closer than the last one.” Obama also told voters to “multiply” themselves to help get the president reelected.
http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/07/10/michelle_obama_you_have_to_find_unregistered_voters_and_shake_em.html
First Lady Michelle Obama is coming to Miami and Orlando Tuesday, to thank grassroots supporters and volunteers, officials announced…
Mrs. Obama will speak at Barbara Goleman High School in Miami Lakes and at the University of Central Florida arena.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.nbcmiami.com …
LUSAKA — Former President George W. Bush has kept a relatively low profile in the United States since leaving office. But in Africa this week he is publicly promoting his institute’s initiative to prevent and treat cervical cancer. While Bush is following a familiar post-presidential path in supporting humanitarian causes, he would prefer to focus on quiet service, to lead through example and hard work.
He worked alongside other volunteers in [...]
The odds might be stacked against them, but there is no shortage of volunteers willing to take on a zoo’s unusual challenge – to play tug-of-war with a tiger.
Visitors to Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Florida, are being given the chance to play with some of the most world’s most fearsome animals.
In each contest, volunteers take a rope in their hands and a tiger tries to pull it from them [...]
Vandals broke into one of the oldest cemeteries west of the Mississippi in April 2011, toppling and smashing 26 headstones. It took almost a year and $28,000 for volunteers to repair the damage in Marysville, Calif. And just when the work was complete, hoodlums struck again, knocking over and smashing 10 more. “It’s very upsetting,” said Roberta Shurtz, the chairwoman of the Marysville Cemetery board. She says that she would install [...]
Goggles that trick the wearer into thinking the plain snack in their hand is a chocolate cookie, or make biscuits appear larger have been unveiled in Japan, offering hope to weak-willed dieters everywhere.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed devices that use computer wizardry and augmented reality to fool the senses and make users feel more satisfied with smaller — or less appealing — treats.
On one device goggle-mounted cameras [...]
Do smokers not know that filters are not cotton, and not easily biodegradable? They are trash, yet most smokers I know/see throw them wherever they are when they finish smoking. Driving down the road, into the water, on the sidewalk. It’s especially gross finding them in the sand at the beach. It’s no different from crumbling up trash and tossing it at your feet.
Edit: I don’t mean to insinuate that [...]
President Obama’s reelection campaign launched a national drive Friday to counter new restrictive voter-access laws, which advisers said threaten his electoral chances in November.
Organizers will fan out in key swing states this weekend to teach volunteers and voters how to navigate a series of laws passed by Republican-controlled state legislatures imposing stricter identification requirements, limiting early voting and making it harder to organize voter-registration drives. It is the beginning of [...]
In test, volunteers offered rewards from $10 to $100
Performance drops as reward grows
‘Fear of loss’ thought to drive drop in performance
Throws into question jobs driven by ‘bonus culture’
The research throws into question jobs, such as investment banking, built around a ‘bonus culture’
The more money people are offered as a ‘reward’, the more likely they are to ‘freeze up’ and fail at crucial moments.
In a trial where volunteers had to perform [...]
In test, volunteers offered rewards from $10 to $100
Performance drops as reward grows
‘Fear of loss’ thought to drive drop in performance
Throws into question jobs driven by ‘bonus culture’
The research throws into question jobs, such as investment banking, built around a ‘bonus culture’
The more money people are offered as a ‘reward’, the more likely they are to ‘freeze up’ and fail at crucial moments.
In a trial where volunteers had to perform [...]
Most people have likely experienced brain freeze — the debilitating, instantaneous pain in the temples after eating something frozen — but researchers didn’t really understand what causes it, until now.
Previous studies have found that migraine sufferers are actually more likely to get brain freeze than people who don’t get migraines. Because of this, the researchers thought the two might share some kind of common mechanism or cause, so they decided to use [...]
Encyclopedia edited by team of 90,000 volunteers
30-year-old from Indianapolis edits 385 times per day
One of Wikipedia’s crew of volunteer editors has become the first to edit the online encyclopedia a million times – averaging 385 edits per day since he began in 2005.
Justin Knapp, 30, of Indianapolis has edited pieces about politics, philosophy and pop culture.
Knapp said: ‘Being suddenly and involuntarily unemployed will do that to you.’
Knapp’s millionth edit was [...]
Washing up, cooking and cleaning can help reduce the risk of Alzheimers even in those over 80, a study has claimed.
Researchers asked 716 volunteers with an average age of 82 to wear a device that monitors day-to-day activity.
Study participants were also given cognitive tests to measure memory and thinking ability.
Those who kept active by doing day-to-day tasks were said to have a lower risk of Alzheimers, according to experts
After around [...]
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First man hits a MILLION Wikipedia edits – beating rivals in secretive clan of writers who control encyclopedia
Encyclopedia edited by team of 90,000 volunteers
30-year-old from Indianapolis edits 385 times per day
One of Wikipedia’s crew of volunteer editors has become the first to edit the online encyclopedia a million times – averaging 385 edits per day since he began in 2005.
Justin Knapp, 30, of Indianapolis has edited pieces about politics, philosophy and pop culture.
Knapp said: ‘Being suddenly and involuntarily unemployed will do that to you.’
Knapp’s millionth edit was [...]