On the YouTube channel, Vitalyzd TV, a comedy prankster named Vitaly wanted to show he was essentially a good guy with a heart, so he found a homeless street person and gave him an extreme makeover, buying him a new wardrobe and treating him to a steak dinner at a restaurant.
Watching the man’s joyful reaction to being showered with gifts is neither comedy nor pranking, but it is a lot of fun.
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From straws to chip bags, mangoes to popsicles, this guy shares ten great tips for making life easier and more stylish in the summer.
Do you want to know a natural way to get rid of fruit flies or ants, this video by ‘The King of Random’ can show you the way.
One of the best suggestions is a way to safeguard your valuables on the beach while you are in the water or playing ball. Take an empty shampoo container and pop off the top. Make a slit big enough to fit your money, iPhone and keys, then push the top back on to conceal the slit. Very cool.
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Using a poignant video to make a point, the WaterIsLife charity brought a four-year-old African child on an incredible journey, fulfilling everything on his would-be bucket list. From kicking downfield in a professional football stadium, to seeing the ocean, to flying in a plane and taking a bubble batch.
The Kenyan child, living in an area where clean water is scarce, has a one-in-five chance of dying before his fifth birthday.
By creating the moving video, the charity hopes to expand its donation base and help more children like Nikaitole to live a long, full life.
(WATCH the video below and learn more at WATER is LIFE)
Tampa Bay attorney Mindy Miller wants to show others how easy it is to help people who need it. In her community, she asks parents for donations and school backpacks and asks their kids to help fill 100 packs for needy families.
Throwing a party is how she gets people involved.
“If everyone does a little… we can accomplish a goal that we might not have if it was just ourselves,” she told Bay News 9.
This is the fifth year Miller has organized the event, which has raised enough for 450 backpacks that have brought excitement for school to 450 children.
– WATCH the video online here
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Disaster struck Haitian eco-preneur Duquesne Fednard only a week after his workers were trained and ready to start production: his new stove-making factory was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake that killed thousands of Haitians.
He wanted to quit, but his employees refused to let him walk away.
Instead, production was moved into two tents and, despite having no roof, the company employs 35 people. To date, 33,000 clean fuel-efficient stoves, called the Eco Recho, have been sold.
Joe Markovitch often takes his border collie to Stanley Park in Vancouver, Canada, where he loves to fetch big sticks in the harbor. But on Thursday the 12 year-old dog chased a stick that turned out to be a little too big.
“Because he grabbed it at one end, the current wouldn’t allow him to turn,” Markovitch told Global News, “so he just kept swimming out to sea.”
I live with someone who’s difficult: strong-willed, obstinate, opinionated and even argumentative at times. You know the type: they want what they want, and they fuss with you if they don’t get their way. No, I’m not talking about my mate. I’m talking about myself.
For years I denied that this part of me existed. That just made it impossible to deal with the selfish behaviors that would rear their ugly head. Then, after shamefully acknowledging that I could be self-centered, I tried to stamp out that part of me. Failing in that effort, I began to ruminate on those times when I was painfully aware that I had misfired.
I’m a psychologist, yet I was willfully recalling moments that made me feel badly about myself. I got so good at self-recrimination that I could easily recollect unpleasant incidents from 40 years ago. I’m supposed to know better than to behave like that.
Nowadays, I really do know better. No, I still do things that I regret. I’ve just learned to accept the fact that I can be self-absorbed at times. The diagnostic label for people like me is “being human.” We are all hardwired to think about our own needs first, that’s our evolutionary programming.
That fact makes me, like billions of other people, an imperfect person. Sadly, it can never change. What can change is my ability to be much more accepting of myself. Not of my behavior, but of myself. I am much more than the sum of everything that I have done wrong in my life.
Accepting myself actually makes it much easier to change my behavior, I’ve discovered. Self-acceptance permits me to acknowledge, however begrudgingly, the parts of me that can contribute to creating painful experiences. It also allows me to own the extraordinarily good parts of me that are able to produce some meaningful moments of love, caring, and triumph in my quest to help others transform their lives.
I have been blessed with some exceptional strengths: intelligence, compassion and gratitude to name a few. Yes, I can say that out loud as well. That’s how it works, you see. You get to feel good about yourself sometimes. In fact, a lot of the time.
When you’re struggling with your weaknesses, you can’t see your positive qualities. But self-acceptance opens the door to all of who you are as a human being. And when you’re aware of the great attributes you possess, you can harness them to help you make your life work well.
No one can always do things right, but we can always figure out how to make things right. When stressful situations strike, especially when we’ve had a string of them occur and we’re low on energy, we automatically lapse into fight, flight or freeze reactions. That doesn’t justify our bad behavior, but it does explain the biological basis for it. These moments inform us that we need to take a time out and replenish our resilience resources.
Step away from the stress when you feel yourself misfiring. The first rule regarding what to do when you find yourself standing in a hole is to put your shovel down. Walk away, take a time out, or simply ask for time to think about how to handle the problem. Give yourself time to think about what strengths you could deploy.
There’s an old Cherokee tale about a chief who’s telling his grandson about a fight that’s going on inside himself. He said it’s between 2 wolves. One is evil: anger, envy, sorrow, regret, fear, worry, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other is good: joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.
The grandson thinks about the story for a minute and then asks, “Which wolf wins?”
The chief simply replied, “The one I feed.”
Dr. Tom Muha is a psychologist practicing in Annapolis. Previous articles can be found at www.achievinghappiness.com. To contact him, call 443-454-7274 or email [email protected].
He’s printed his CV on coffee cups, and handed out sweets with a smile, all to make himself stand out in the crowd of grad students looking for work in the financial field.
Dressed in a dark blue suit and tie, Michael Penn parked his table in the plaza outside Goldman-Sachs with a large banner announcing his website HireMichaelPenn.com.
The Florida native told ABC News. “I wanted to do something innovative for my job hunt. I am graduating in two weeks. I came up with the idea to get some face time.”
A new malaria vaccine has become the first in tests to be 100% effective in providing protection against the deadly disease. The promising results provide hope for a future cure.
Sanaria, a company in Rockville, Maryland, developed the vaccine, called PfSPZ, which uses a weakened form of the malaria organism to instigate a response from the immune system.
Vancouver’s downtown bus drivers – and their passengers – are quite a friendly bunch. The moment an elderly or pregnant person boards the bus, people are jumping up like popcorn to give up their seats. The drivers are friendly and helpful, even letting tourists slide by with an expired transfer pass.
Possibly the best reason for sustained affection toward a transit line is when you meet your true love in the next row.
An animal-loving truck driver pulled his trailer off the road so he could help an injured swan and her mate facing down traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike Thursday.
Even with oncoming cars and trucks roaring by, the swans didn’t seem to want to move. Finally, a turnipke employee arrived to help Fred Kowal shoo the pair into the meadow below.
(WATCH the video or read the story in NJ.com)
Scientists have discovered a new species of shark in the ocean off South Carolina and have named it for the region where it was found.
The “Carolina hammerhead” is thought to reach 11 feet long and weigh about 400 pounds. The distinct species might be found worldwide.
48 year-old Nathan Romo was all set to start culinary classes as the first fully blind student enrolled in the Fresno, California school.
He had a good knife set, a talking thermometer, measuring spoons in Braille and a Macbook computer that connects to a scanner that can read books to him.
Then, someone broke into his house and stole everything, but it was the start of a good news story after his friend told a local TV news reporter.
Among other local donations, including hundreds of dollars and an iPad, a chef surprised him with a magnificent gift.
(READ the story in the Fresno Bee)
The honors and accolades have streamed in over the decades as Joe Segal built a business empire that includes starting Fields department stores, acquiring Zellers and becoming the largest single shareholder of the Hudson’s Bay Company. But the billionaire would rather talk about the plight of the mentally ill than himself.
As long-awaited peace talks resumed last week in Washington, young Jewish and Arab kids are learning peaceful co-existence in the great Canadian outdoors.
For three summers now, Camp Shomria brings 14- and 15-year-old Israelis from their tension-filled communities for a two-week vacation on the shores of Otty Lake.
The teens, drawn from both Jewish and Muslim cultures, learn what it’s like to live together.
Disappointed when he took some boy scouts to gaze at the stars but clouds quickly obscured them, a Wisconsin man decided to open his own planetarium using the money he earned while working at a local paper mill.
Frank Kovac built the planetarium himself — a huge spherical structure in the backyard — and painted 5000 stars, each with the correct brightness, resulting in a spectacular replica of the entire night sky as seen on a clear night in the northern hemisphere.
The high school graduate who now operates full-time his facility near Rhinelander, says it took him ten years but he managed to install the world’s largest mechanical globe planetarium.
His friends thought the 47-year-old was crazy, but they contributed their knowledge and help, whenever asked. “They were a tremendous boost on a project of this magnitude”.
“Throughout history only three known globe style planetariums were constructed dating back to the fifteenth century.” according to KovacPlanetarium.com. “Thanks to my late father, who took the time to show me the stars, the world now has the fourth.”
(WATCH the Steve Hartman video below or READ his story at CBS News)
Six-year-old Muskaan Grewal, a recent heart transplant recipient and the youngest person in the world to receive a heart pump, couldn’t wait to get home to Surrey on Saturday to see the rest of her family.
As she waited with her dad for her bags to arrive on the conveyor belt at Vancouver airport, she hopped up and down in excitement.
A Russian man who decided to write his own amendments into a credit card contract has been given a thumbs-up by a court who upheld his version after the bank sued.
Ironically, after the man sent in the signed contract with numerous changes, like 0% interest, no fees and unlimited credit, the bank complained because they had certified the contract without reading the fine print.
Tinkoff Credit Systems took Dmitry Agarkov to court, but a judge agreed with the the 42-year-old, deciding that the agreement he crafted was valid.
A user of the online website Reddit posted a photo of a delightful note that he said came from a stranger at the airport in Tampa, Florida.
The Redditor said he was trying to pay for his baggage fee when his credit card was denied. He said he then “Stepped out of line to check my balance, and when I came back this was waiting for me.”
Someone had paid the fee for him leaving a nice note:
Hey, I heard them say your card was declined. I know how that feels. Your bag fee’s on me. Just pay it forward the next time you get a chance. – Have a safe flight 🙂
“Thanks for making my day,” wrote the user, brbmycatexploded, on Reddit. The story caused others to chime in with similar stories of kindness.
Here is one of their stories:
“I’ll never forget when I was on vacation in Dallas-Fort Worth with my family (attending a wedding). A man walked up to my dad with a flower that he had picked from in front of the hotel and said, “would you like to buy this flower for your lovely wife? The money will go toward buying my family food for the night”. My dad reached into his pocket, pulled out a $100 and said, “take it and keep the flower for your wife.” The guy was so incredibly great full but the minute he walked away my Mom went off because she was convinced the guy was just going to go off and buy drugs or booze or come back and rob us since he knew we had money. !5 minutes later we see the same guy walking on the sidewalk again, this time he had at least 10 bags of groceries hanging from his arms, one of which contained diapers and he had a chicken wing hanging from his mouth. My dad still gloats about how wrong my mom was that night.”
Major innovations—forged by the struggles of the Great Recession and fostered by technology—are coming to higher education, according to a high-profile gathering of education innovators meeting in Phoenix recently.
Many of the 1,500 attendees there agreed that the recession exposed structural flaws in higher education. The system simply costs too much and accomplishes too little.
