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Instead of Shutting Down Teen’s Hot Dog Stand, City Helps Him Get a Permit and Start a Business

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Instead of shutting down a teenager’s hot dog stand for not having a permit, the city helped him turn his stand into a business.

13-year-old Jaequan Faulkner started his hot dog stand in 2016 as a means of doing something creative to fend off his depression. Additionally, he wanted to use the money to buy himself some new clothes.

So with his tabletop business set up in front of his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the youngster started selling hot dogs, chips, and sodas to the locals – and everybody loved it.

As his stand garnered more and more attention, however, someone complained to the city’s health department for Jaequan’s lack of permit.

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But instead of shutting down the entrepreneurial venture, a dozen different city departments came together to help the teen get a permit and start a business.

“When I realized what [the complaint] was, I said, ‘No, we’re not going to just go and shut him down’ like we would an unlicensed vendor,” Minneapolis Environmental Health Director Dan Huff told WTVR. “We can help him get the permit. Let’s make this a positive thing and help him become a business owner.”

Several Minneapolis health inspectors volunteered to train the youngster on food safety. They gave him a thermometer that he could use to make sure the food was above 140 degrees; they got him a hand-washing station and a tent; and they even paid for Jaequan’s permit fee.

Not only that, a local nonprofit has been teaching Jaequan entrepreneurial skills and helping him to establish his new business: Mr. Faulkner’s Old-Fashioned Hot Dogs.

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The team is now raising money through a GoFundMe campaign so they can get Jaequan a mobile hot dog stand. The teen says that he will be donating a portion of the proceeds to mental health charities, and any additional funds will be put into his college fund.

But while the 13-year-old says that he has enjoyed making money and learning about business, he mostly enjoys using his hot dog stand to make people happy.

“It’s the cooking and the people,” he said. “I see someone go by with a frown on their face. I’m there with a smile, then I see a smile on their face. I just made a smile on somebody’s face by selling them a hot dog.”

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Watch Hero Neighbor Help Save Dog Falling From a 9th-Story Balcony

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A Brazilian man is being hailed as a hero after he saved a dog that had fallen from a ninth-story balcony.

Joao Augusto was in the right place at the right time when he was walking through Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paolo earlier this month.

He heard a bark coming from an apartment almost 100 feet above him. When he looked up, he saw that there was a Shih Tzu that was in danger of falling off the balcony.

The complex’s caretaker, Paulo Narciso, had reportedly opened the door of the building when Augusto ran up and asked for help.

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As the caretaker ran up to see if the dog’s owner was home, Augusto went back outside to keep an eye on the Shih Tzu – and then it fell.

Nearby CCTV footage shows Augusto positioned under the dog with arms outstretched. When it falls, it slips through Augusto’s arms and knocks him to the ground. Then, it runs away unharmed.

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“I knew that I wouldn’t be able to catch her but I was aware that I could cushion the fall,” Augusto told the Daily Mail. “I was on the floor for a few seconds, but it was from relief.”

Despite the dicey nature of the impromptu rescue mission, both Augusto and the Shih Tzu named Mel were confirmed to be okay after the incident. According to reporters, the dog’s owner requested to remain anonymous, but she says that she has since installed protective netting over the balcony so Mel won’t repeat her experience.

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Work Less, Accomplish More: New Zealand Firm’s 4-Day Work Week an ‘Unmitigated Success’

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A company in New Zealand has been researching the benefits of their employees working for four days per week, rather than the usual five days – and the results are incredibly positive.

Perpetual Guardian is an Auckland-based firm that manages estates and wills. Between March and April, they launched a “world-first” trial in which they started giving their 240 employees an extra day off for free. The staff still got paid for a 5-day work week, but they only worked Monday through Thursday.

Based on metrics that were utilized by outside researchers, the trial had a multitude of benefits. For starters, 78% of employees reported feeling capable of managing their work-life balance, which is an impressive 24% increase from a survey in November.

Workers were less compelled to check social media and they were less distracted by out-of-work projects. The team reported feeling less stressed and expressed more satisfaction with their lives. Employees were also shown to be more productive, engaged, committed, and stimulated.

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The company is currently working on permanently implementing the 4-day work week, and they hope their model will inspire other businesses in New Zealand and around the world.

“It was just a theory, something I thought I wanted to try because I wanted to create a better environment for my team,” Perpetual Guardian CEO Andrew Barnes told CNN. “I’m humbled that my team has responded, and they went beyond my wildest dreams.”

“I have ended up with statistics that indicate my staff are fiercely proud of the company they work for because it gives a damn,” he added.

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Stranger Helps Lonely Widower Celebrate After Seeing Flowers and Cake in Shopping Cart

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There’s no better way to celebrate a happy occasion than with cake and red roses – so when Gregory Jonson saw an older man in a wheelchair buying a bouquet of flowers and a cake, he assumed there was something to be excited for.

“He had a dozen roses and a big birthday cake in his cart,” Johnson wrote in a Facebook post. “I made the comment, ‘it looks like you’ve got a big night planned.’ He glanced up at me with the saddest eyes I believe I’ve ever seen and told me his story.”

The man, who was called Jim, said that his wife Gloria had passed away five years ago. As a means of honoring her birthday, Jim started his annual tradition of putting roses out on his kitchen table and cutting two slices of cake for him and his wife.

“My heart just broke. I was just devastated and he looked completely broken. And I knew that I wanted to do whatever I could in that moment to take his mind off of his heartbreak,” Johnson told CBS News. “So I starting asking him questions about their life together and I believe his reminiscing made him feel better.”

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When given the chance to talk, Jim happily recounted how he first met Gloria in high school because she was a cheerleader for his rival basketball team. After his team won the game, he invited her to see him play the next night – which marked the start of what would become a 53-year marriage.

Jim and Johnson ended up chatting in the grocery store for a full 90 minutes. The manager of the Kroger soon approached them and explained how he had been taking pictures of Jim every year with his flowers to mark the occasion. Upon seeing the two men talking, the manager asked if he could take a photo of the both of them together – and according to Johnson, the difference between the two pictures was very noticeable.

“Now there was a grin on his face where in the earlier picture, a sad defeated man was photographed with his roses and birthday cake. He was happy in the moment,” Johnson wrote on Facebook.

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Jim then invited Johnson back to his home in Greenwood, Indiana to share the cake and celebrate Gloria’s birthday. Johnson accepted, saying he would be “honored.”

The two men ended up talking the night away, looking at old photos of Gloria, and reminiscing about the past. Johnson says that they plan on going out to lunch soon so they can continue facilitating their new friendship.

“Hopefully I made that little old man’s night a tad bit better,” wrote Johnson, “because he certainly made mine one of the best I’ve had in a long time.”

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“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” – Catherine the Great

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Quote of the Day: “The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” – Catherine the Great

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All The Single Ladies: Why More Women Are Living Alone and Why They Love It

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The Lesson: The script is officially being flipped on the concept of the ‘bachelor pad’. Nowadays, more and more single women are choosing to live alone, and they’re absolutely loving it. Freed from financial or marital expectations, women of all ages are finding empowerment in the concept of living on their own. According to research, living alone can be socially beneficial as it encourages women to lead socially active lives outside the confines of their homes, meaning they become more actively involved in non-solitary activities, thus happiness skyrockets.

Notable Excerpt: “The research on living alone versus living with others is very interesting. It turns out that people who live alone are more likely to be engaged outside the home in a specific activity whereas married couples, for example, especially with young children are much less likely to have the time and the energy to maintain and create social bonds outside the home. So, there is a little bit of counterintuitive findings there because we think of families as being most connected and integrated but basically … people are social animals, in whatever situation we live in. What matters is that we have strong bonds with other people, are we well cared for, do we have others that we care for, and do we have enough economic support to be able to live well, and the research shows that it really doesn’t matter if you live alone or not, what matters are those other factors and we need to move beyond focusing on people’s marital status and their housing status especially in terms of gender, where it’s no longer the notion that a single woman of old age—women like that we called spinsters, now we call them independent women. What matters is that people have rich social lives regardless of where they live or how they live, and that’s what the research shows.”

The Host: Linda Wertheimer is an American broadcast journalist for NPR. Getting her start as the director of news magazine program All Things Considered, she was soon appointed political correspondent and was the first female anchor of NPR’s coverage of a presidential election night in 1976. Wertheimer has won a DuPont-Columbia Award for excellence in broadcast journalism, and has been named to Vanity Fair’s ‘200 Most Influential Women in America’ list.

The Guests: Wertheimer is joined by Ashley Fetters, staff writer for the Atlantic, Diana Olick, real estate reporter for CNBC and author of the Realty Check column, Kathleen Gerson, professor of sociology at NYU and author of “The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family”, and Michelle Singletary, a personal finance columnist for the Washington Post.

Podcast: You can stream the On Point podcast from NPR on their website or on iTunes.

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On a Hunch, Doctor Gives HPV Vaccine to Advanced Skin Cancer Patient and Dozens of Tumors Disappear

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A doctor’s hunch has eliminated all signs of advanced skin cancer from a patient who had no other options of treatment.

Two years ago, a 97-year-old woman whose right leg was covered with squamous cell tumors went to see dermatologist Anna Nichols, at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Surgery is the standard of care for most patients with skin cancer, but the woman’s tumors were so numerous, it was impossible to operate.

“She was not a candidate for surgery because of the sheer number and size of her tumors. She wasn’t a candidate for radiotherapy, again for the same reasons,” said Dr. Nichols, an assistant professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, whose report on this case was published online in JAMA Dermatology.

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Luckily, Nichols has had experience with this kind of cancer before.

Squamous cell carcinoma is the second-most-common form of skin cancer. Evidence suggests the human papilloma virus (HPV) plays a role in the development of some types of this skin cancer.

Though there is very little research that suggests an HPV vaccine could combat existing skin tumors, a case report by Dr. Nichols in 2017 showed the HPV vaccine Gardasil reduced the number of new basal and squamous cell skin cancers in two patients – so Tim Ioannides, a voluntary faculty member at UM, suggested using the vaccine as an off-label treatment by directly injecting it into the tumors.

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Since her patient had no other options, Dr. Nichols offered her the treatment. It is considered an “off-label” use because Gardasil is only approved for the prevention of cervical, anal, and genital cancers caused by the human papilloma virus.

“I think we had a really reasonable expectation and good data that this was actually going to, at the very least, do no harm to this patient, and possibly provide some benefit,” said Dr. Ioannides. “To have this type of result in such an advanced patient I think was beyond all our expectations.”

The patient was first given two doses of the 9-valent HPV vaccine in her arm, six weeks apart. A few weeks later, Dr. Nichols directly injected several, but not all, of the patient’s tumors. The injections were given four times over 11 months.

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“All of her tumors completely resolved 11 months after the first direct tumor injection, and she has had no recurrence,” Dr. Nichols said. “It has been about 24 months now since we started with the treatment.”

“They decided to try it and it worked. It killed them all off,” said the patient, who is now looking forward to celebrating her 100th birthday this fall.

Nichols hopes that the patient’s success story will prompt further research into using the vaccine as a treatment for skin cancer patients.

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When Little Girl’s Beloved Toy Disappears, Grocery Store Workers Sift Through Landfill Until They Find It

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These three grocery store workers went above and beyond the call of duty to help a little girl who was heartbroken over the loss of her best friend: a small stuffed animal named Bunny.

3-year-old Madison had been out shopping with her mother, Jenna Rachal, at a Publix grocery store in Daphne, Alabama when they arrived home and realized that her beloved toy friend was missing. Since Madison has had Bunny since she was born, the youngster was understandably distraught.

So on Friday morning, Rachal returned to the store and asked if anyone had found the stuffed rabbit.

The customer service rep said that no one had turned in the rabbit, so the dejected mother went home and took to social media, asking if anyone had seen Bunny.

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The post was shared hundreds of times until it was spotted by Mike Gayheart, the manager of the local Publix. Unable to bear the thought of the heartbroken toddler being without her best friend, he told Rachal that he would be checking surveillance footage for the rabbit.

Gayheart looked over the security footage of Rachal’s visit to see that Bunny had been left in their shopping cart as they were loading their groceries into their car. He was then mortified to see poor bunny thrown in the trash, where it then made its way to the dumpster, and finally, to a compactor that was taken to the landfill.

Not to be discouraged, Gayheart got three of his employees, Alex Chandonnett, Jordan De La Rosa, and Bobby Barnhart, to go with him to the landfill and sort through the trash in search of Bunny – and they actually managed to find him amidst the garbage.

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Gayheart took the rabbit home, washed him off three times, and brought it back to Madison. Rachal – who had not known of the rabbit’s journey to the landfill, or the resulting rescue mission – was so shocked by Bunny’s homecoming, she made a post on Facebook praising the Publix workers for their compassion.

“I plan on calling Publix corporate to tell them and posting to news sites and radio sites to make sure everyone knows how awesome these people are,” wrote Rachal. “This is above and beyond, and a true example of the good people in the world!”

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Everyone in This Village Can Speak Sign Language So Deaf Residents Can Be Treated Equally

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This village of 3,000 people is not quite like most communities.

Almost everyone in the little village of Bengkala in Bali can speak sign language so they can properly communicate, welcome, and respect their 40 deaf residents.

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Ordinarily, a town of 3,000 people would have an average of 4 deaf residents, but the community experiences a high rate of deafness due to a recessive gene that has been passed down for the last seven generations.

Instead of ostracizing their deaf neighbors, however, the town made up their own form of sign language called Kata Kolok.

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Thousands of Leading AI Researchers Sign Pledge Against Lethal Robots

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Over 2,400 leading leading scientists and researchers specializing in artificial intelligence have taken a firm stance against wielding their technology in a lethal way.

Demis Hassabis from Google DeepMind and Elon Musk of SpaceX are some of the bigger names who have signed a pledge against manufacturing, building, developing, using, or selling AI robots that can target or attack humans without oversight. 170 other AI-related firms, businesses and organizations have also signed the pledge.

The pledge was facilitated by The Future of Life Institute, which is a Cambridge-based nonprofit dedicated to ensuring the regulation of dangerous AI technologies.

“Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to play an increasing role in military systems,” reads the pledge. “There is an urgent opportunity and necessity for citizens, policymakers, and leaders to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI.

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“In this light, we the undersigned agree that the decision to take a human life should never be delegated to a machine. There is a moral component to this position, that we should not allow machines to make life-taking decisions for which others – or nobody – will be culpable.”

In addition to the pledge, 26 countries in the United Nations have endorsed a ban on the use and development of lethal autonomous weapons systems, also known as LAWS.

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Good Manners Pay Off: When Man is Desperate to Meet Lotto Deadline And Stranger Lets Him Go First

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A man and his fiancé are now millionaires thanks to a compassionate stranger.

Arron Walshaw was desperate to buy a ticket for the Lotto Millionaire Raffle last week before it closed. When he quickly popped into a shop in Osset, West Yorkshire, he walked up to the counter and ended up waiting behind a woman who had approached the cashier before him.

Sensing his anxiety, the woman told Walshaw to go ahead of her. With two minutes to spare, he bought a ticket for the raffle. He thanked the woman and left.

The next day, Walshaw and his fiancé, Ceri Hall, went about their business and ran a few errands. The two spent some time counting pennies in their home to see if it was enough for a weekend camping trip. Then, they checked their lottery app and saw that they had won £1,000,000 ($1,305,000).

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“We had lots of pennies lying around the house and we just decided that evening to count up how many we had,” says Hall.

“We were chuffed when we worked out we had over £50 in pennies. That was going to be used to go camping. But that was all blown out of the water when we later checked our ticket.”

Walshaw and Hall believe that they would not have been winners if the woman had not let him cut in line.

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“She must have seen that I was in a rush because she insisted I went before her. What a stroke of luck that turned out to be,” said Walshaw.

“I don’t think I would have been in time to buy my ticket if she hadn’t let me go first. We would love to meet her again and say thank you for changing our lives.”

The couple plans on using the money to plan their first home together – and it’s all thanks to a kind woman who let the stranger jump in line.

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“There is no passion in playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela (on the 100th anniversary of his birth)

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Quote of the Day: “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela, on the 100th anniversary of his birth

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Africans Are So Happy Border Fight is Over They’re Calling Random Phone Numbers On the Other Side

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Have you ever been so happy that you began to celebrate with total strangers? Well, in the wake of a historic peace agreement in East Africa, the people of the region have every cause to do so.

Ethiopia and Eritrea – two East African countries that have been at odds since 1993 when Eritrea voted with a super majority to separate from Ethiopia – have just agreed to end the conflict which saw many families split apart as the borders shut down and phone lines were cut off.

Now, however, as telecommunications reboot between the two East African neighbors, people are celebrating in a very unusual fashion. Selehadin Eshetu, an Ethiopian, spent 3 days dialing random phone numbers before someone from Eritrea picked up.

“I am Selehadin and I am calling from Ethiopia,” said Eshetu, according to NPR, “and I am calling randomly to say hi and to tell you how happy I am.”

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Eshetu told the news outlet that he “heard the same happiness from the voice at the other end of the line.” The voice told Eshetu that the peace agreement was huge for him and he wanted this relationship to continue. “And he said, ‘I am going to save your number; I am going to call you regularly. We will be family.’”

Selehadin is just one of a large number of people reaching out from both countries to express their joy over such a wonderfully positive and historic moment. Feeling like she wanted to be part of history, Frehiwot Negash did a Google search for Asmara, the Eritrean capital, and found the number for the Crystal Hotel.

“When I called,” she told NPR, “the receptionist answered, and I said, ‘I am calling from Ethiopia to say congratulations.’ And I told her, ‘I am very happy.’ The receptionist then told her she was happy too. Negash told her that someday she would fly to Asmara – and the receptionist replied, “We will welcome you.”

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Early in April, Abiy Ahmed took over as Ethiopian Prime Minister after the previous leader resigned suddenly in February amid massive anti-government protests. In Ahmed’s inaugural address, he called upon Eritrean leaders to aid him in ending the deadly 20-year-old border conflict and resolved to create a new chapter in the two nation’s histories.

Mr. Ahmed’s administration has also been praised for its release of thousands of jailed political prisoners, and a greater focus on maintaining the basic rights of Ethiopians, as well as a more open relationship with the press.

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The Mathematics of Weight Loss, and Toppling the Diet Myths Along the Way

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The Lesson: When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go? Confused? You aren’t alone. In these modern times, obesity is one of the most pressing health issues plaguing the world. Millions of people have struggled with weight loss, and the overwhelming majority of Americans are grossly undereducated on their basic high school math and chemistry. Businesses, “health gurus”, and various other so-called specialists gleefully take advantage of these two facts in order to sell useless products that are based on pseudo-science. In his simple yet effective talk, Ruben Meerman utilizes fun chemistry demonstrations and simple mathematics in order to give listeners an easy-to-understand explanation about where fat actually goes and the only proven way to lose it.

Notable Excerpt: “And the question was this: When somebody loses weight, where does it go? What does it become? How does it get out of your body? You’re probably dumbstruck by the question. These people were, so listen to this. ‘Um. These are the mysteries of science. I have no idea. I’d like to say into the ether? It gets used up. The universe. Another dimension. It doesn’t go anywhere. It becomes nothing. It doesn’t exist anymore I guess. Sweat. Moisture. It evaporates…Well, basically, you burn it up as energy.’ So, what the heck is going on? We’re in the middle of an obesity epidemic. I don’t need to tell you about it. So why don’t these people know the answer to this fundamental question? Because not one of them was right. And we do know the answer. This is not ground-breaking stuff I’m about to tell you.”

The Speaker: Ruben Meerman is an Australian researcher, public speaker, and television science presenter. Passionate about education for all, Meerman visits schools as “The Surfing Scientist” in order to capture kids’ attention and curiosity about science with exciting demonstrations. Recently, he has published research in the British Medical Journal concerning weight loss and fat metabolism pathways.

Books: Meerman’s book “Big Fat Myths” simplifies the world of health into a few simple, science-based truths while casting aside harmful weight loss myths.

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When Cops See Boy Wearing Torn, Dirty Socks, They Return With New Shoes and Ice Pops

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Two anonymous police officers are being hailed for protecting the feet of a young boy and serving up a sweet treat in the process.

According to a Facebook post from the Tukwila Police Department in Washington, two cops were patrolling a local park when they spotted a youngster who was wearing dirty, torn-up socks and sporting a large bloodied cut on his foot.

When asked why he wasn’t wearing shoes, the boy said that his shoes were too small for him to wear.

So while one of the officers kept the boy company, his partner went to the store and bought a new pair of shoes. Not only that, he returned to the park with several ice pops for the three of them to enjoy.

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“Because what isn’t better than a cold popsicle on a hot summer day?!” wrote the department on Facebook.

One of the officers was photographed tying up the boy’s shoes while the kid enjoyed his sweet treat.

The compassionate cops were only identified as “Sergeant Modest and Officer Bashful” as a means of “protecting their bashfulness”, but the photo of the policeman and the boy has already garnered tons of praise on social media.

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State is Boosting Bee Populations By Giving Free Hives and Equipment to Beekeepers

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As a means of boosting bee populations, Virginia has launched a new program that distributes beehives and beekeeping equipment directly to state beekeepers.

The Beehive Distribution Program, which is being administered by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), provides beehive equipment directly to eligible beekeepers.

Residents of Virginia who are 18 years of age or older are eligible to receive up to three beehive units per year. Individuals who receive a beehive unit will be registered as beekeepers with VDACS, allowing for periodic inspection of beehives by the agency.

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Staff will review applications for the Beehive Distribution Program in the order in which they are received. If all available beehive units are distributed before the fiscal year ends on June 30, 2019, VDACS will stop accepting applications and notify applicants that the program has ceased processing applications for the fiscal year. Applications will not carry forward to the next fiscal year.

To apply for the program as a beekeeper, click here.

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Watch Dog Push His Disabled Owner’s Wheelchair Down the Street

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Dingong the dog is a perfect example of why canines are man’s best friend.

The 7-month-old pup was spotted on the streets of Davao in the Philippines pushing his disabled owner along in a wheelchair.

His 46-year-old owner, Danila Alarcon, lost the use of this legs in a motorcycle accident several years ago – which is why Dingong helps to push his wheelchair through Davao.

A woman named Faith Revilla had been driving home with her husband when she spotted the heartwarming duo last month.

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She pulled out her phone and filmed the pup pushing the back of the wheelchair with his head.

Revilla was so touched by the Dingong and Alarcon’s bond, she stopped the man and offered to buy him lunch.

“t was a really beautiful moment when we saw the pair of them,” says Revilla. “We took Danilo to our favorite buffet. We wanted to treat him.”

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‘Captain Wiggle Wings’ – The U.S. Pilot Who Dropped Tons of Candy for Kids in Berlin After Fighting Their Country

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70 years ago today, a US Air Force pilot went down in history as the man who started dropping candy with miniature parachutes – because every child deserves a sweet treat, even in times of war.

In 1948, the Soviet Union instituted the cruel ‘Berlin Blockade’ as an attempt to cut off all inroads to West Berlin, yet they refrained from stopping the massive humanitarian airlift led by American, British, and French flyers.

For nearly a year, more than a quarter million flights delivered thousands of tons of food and fuel, coal, and liquid fuel to the otherwise strangled German city, which was surrounded by 1.5 million Soviet military troops. Despite the Germans having been the sworn enemy of the West just three years earlier, the merciful airlift—dubbed Operation Vittles—gained popular support and was called “America’s greatest humanitarian mission”.

Gail Halvorsen, one of the many Airlift pilots, decided to use his off-time to fly into Berlin and make movies with his hand-held camera. He arrived at Tempelhof on July 17th, 1948 on one of the C-54s and walked over to a crowd of children who had gathered at the end of the runway to watch the aircraft. He introduced himself and they started to ask him questions about the aircraft and their flights. As a goodwill gesture, he handed out his only two sticks of Wrigley’s Doublemint Gum. The children quickly divided up the pieces as best they could, even passing around the wrapper for others to smell.

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He was so impressed by their gratitude and that they didn’t fight over the gum, he promised the children that he would drop off more candy the next time he returned. Before he left them, a child asked him how they would know it was him flying over. He replied, “I’ll wiggle my wings.”

The next day on his approach to Berlin, he rocked the aircraft and dropped some chocolate bars attached to a handmade handkerchief parachute to the children waiting below. Every day after that, the number of children increased and he made several more drops. Soon, there was a stack of mail in Base Ops addressed to “Uncle Wiggly Wings”, “The Chocolate Uncle” and “The Chocolate Flier”.

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When an officer heard about it, he immediately expanded it into “Operation Little Vittles”. Other pilots participated, and when news reached the US, children all over the country sent in their own candy to help out. Soon, major candy manufacturers joined in.

In the end, over twenty three tons of candy were dropped on Berlin during the airlift that kept that blockaded city alive and the operation became a major propaganda success.

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Quote of the Day: “Self love isn’t a destination, it’s a journey that doesn’t end. Never stop searching for more ways to love yourself.” – Reyna Biddy

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‘I was going to die, she brought me back’: Girlfriend Saves Life of Teen Struck by Lightning

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A young couple’s weekend camping trick took a turn for the worst when Juliette Moore exited their tent to find her boyfriend face down in the grass without a pulse.

Juliette and her 18-year-old boyfriend Isaiah Cormier had been camping near Denver, Colorado when a lightning storm rolled into the area. Isaiah had been standing next to the tent when authorities believe that a bolt of lightning jumped from a nearby tree into his neck.

Upon seeing the flash of light from inside the tent, Juliette walked out of the tent and saw Isaiah on the ground.

As fate would have it, she had taken a CPR class one month before the camping trip, and she immediately began chest compressions. After one round of resuscitation, her boyfriend started gasping for air, only to stop breathing once more. After the second round, he finally regained consciousness.

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“Luckily, his girlfriend was right there, moved into swift action, started resuscitation efforts and began CPR,” Sgt. David Salaman of the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office told WMUR. “It’s very important that resuscitation efforts were started right away.”

The couple rushed to meet paramedics near the campsite so Isaiah could be taken to a hospital in Boulder County. Despite now having a scar on his neck from the incident, his family is stunned by his miraculous recovery – and they credit Juliette with his survival.

“I was going to die. She brought me back. I was going to die again. She brought me back,” Isaiah told WPIV.

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