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When Sick 3-Year-old is Quarantined, People Begin Showing Up at His Window to Entertain Him

A little boy whose doctors confined him to his bedroom for three months has learned that ‘All the world IS a stage”—just outside his window.

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An energetic 3-year-old named Quinn Waters was under doctor’s orders to stay away from people. His body’s immune system was temporarily wiped out because of a life-saving stem cell treatment to kill his cancer. Even a common cold could create a medical emergency, so poor Quinn had to stay in his room, quarantined from even his family.

While the boy is steadily recovering, there has been one thing the family could do to ease his solitude—they would show up to play with him through the window.

Then, the neighbors heard about his predicament and began appearing on the front lawn, too.

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At first, it was just smiling and waving to the boy but soon they began showing up with impromptu entertainment!

The toddler eyes grew wide watched folk dancing, acoustic concerts, and makeshift circus shows. They even organized a dog parade. Hundreds of people rallied to keep the boy occupied.

He was even surprised by some members of the Irish punk band from Boston, The Dropkick Murphys, who arrived at his window to sing some of their most famous songs.

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Quinn, instead of looking at a Windows computer all day, is getting a daily jolt of happiness from the real world—loving neighbors keeping him company during the pain of solitude through a pane of glass.

“It’s the positive energy from all these people that we believe has gotten him through his sickness, you know,” Quinn’s father tearfully told CBS News. “You can never repay this.”

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These Israelis Are Forging Peace on the Beach, Bringing Palestinians to the Ocean for Their Very First Visits

This determined group of Israeli volunteers has been forging bonds of friendship and peace with their Palestinian neighbors—and they have been doing it with a little help from the ocean.

For the last four years, Robby Berman has been rallying his fellow Israelis to bring Palestinian families to the beach.

Despite how these Palestinians live only an hour away from the seaside, most of them have never even seen the ocean because they are unable to travel across the Israeli military border without a permit.

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That’s why Berman recruits Israeli volunteers to cross the border, pick up the families in their villages, and bring them back to the beach for a day of fun which many of them will never forget.

Rabbi Jonathan Feldman, who is one of the volunteers for the initiative, says that he believes it is his religious duty to facilitate these connections in order to encourage peaceful connections between the two religious groups.

“I think Jewish values are to reach out to other people and have peace with our neighbors—and that’s what we’re striving for,” he told VOA News in the video below. “We say prayers for peace many times every day and the first peace we need is with our neighbors.”

(WATCH the heartwarming news coverage below)

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Not Only Does This New Clothing Charge Your Phone, It Can Protect You From Viruses and Bacteria

Photo by Purdue University

A new addition to your wardrobe may soon help you turn on the lights and music—all while also keeping you dry, clean, and safe from the latest virus that’s going around.

That’s because Purdue University researchers have developed a new fabric innovation that allows wearers to control electronic devices through their clothing.

“It is the first time there is a technique capable to transform any existing cloth item or textile into a self-powered e-textile containing sensors, music players, or simple illumination displays using simple embroidery without the need for expensive fabrication processes requiring complex steps or expensive equipment,” said Ramses Martinez, an assistant professor in the School of Industrial Engineering.

The technology is featured in Advanced Functional Materials.

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“For the first time, it is possible to fabricate textiles that can protect you from rain, stains, and bacteria while they harvest the energy of the user to power textile-based electronics,” Martinez added. “These self-powered e-textiles also constitute an important advancement in the development of wearable machine-human interfaces, which now can be washed many times in a conventional washing machine without apparent degradation.

The clothing is waterproof, breathable, anti-bacterial, and self-powered. Its technology is based on omniphobic triboelectric nanogeneragtors (RF-TENGs) which use simple embroidery and fluorinated molecules to embed small electronic components and turn a piece of clothing into a mechanism for powering devices.

The Purdue team says the RF-TENG technology is like having a wearable remote control that also keeps odors, rain, stains, and bacteria away from the user.

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“While fashion has evolved significantly during the last centuries and has easily adopted recently developed high-performance materials, there are very few examples of clothes on the market that interact with the user,” Martinez said. “Having an interface with a machine that we are constantly wearing sounds like the most convenient approach for a seamless communication with machines and the Internet of Things.”

The technology is being patented through the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization. The researchers are looking for partners to test and commercialize their technology.

Reprinted from Purdue University

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Jeopardy Host Alex Trebek is Back After Announcing He is ‘On the Mend’ From Stage-IV Cancer Diagnosis

Trivia fans are rejoicing since Alex Trebek, the iconic host of the Jeopardy! television game show, announced that he is “on the mend” after finishing with his chemotherapy treatments.

In an official Jeopardy! video that was released earlier this week, the 79-year-old entertainer says that he returned to the show in order to host its upcoming 36th season.

They began filming the new season on July 22nd, Trebek’s birthday, and it is due to premier on public cable channels on September 9th.

The announcement comes just five months after he told the public about his stage-four pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

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“I’ve gone through a lot of chemotherapy and thankfully that is now over,” said Trebek in the video. “I’m on the mend and that’s all I can hope for right now.”

Though game show officials have declined to discuss further details about Trebek’s health, he told People back in May that he was having a “mind-bogglingly” positive response to his chemo treatments and he was “near remission”.

“The doctors said they hadn’t seen this kind of positive result in their memory,” mused Trebek. “Some of the tumors have already shrunk by more than 50%.”

(WATCH the announcement video below)

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“Fashion you can buy, but style you possess…It’s about self expression and, above all, attitude.” – Iris Apfel

Quote of the Day: “Fashion you can buy, but style you possess…It’s about self expression and, above all, attitude.” – Iris Apfel (fashion icon)

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Watch a Soothing Montage of Inspiring Quotes to Uplift Your Day—or Help You Sleep—NEW From GNN

Watching this is like a meditation!

This video was submitted by GNN super-fan Robert Davis. He assembled over 100 inspiring quotes and beautiful images taken from the Good News Network homepage / Quote of the Day feature—and he narrated them all with soothing music in the background.

The reason? He made the video in honor of GNN’s 22nd anniversary this week—yes, we’ve been delivering positive news since 1997!

Thank you so much, Robert… ‘May good bless!’

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After Neighbors Ran to Save a Man’s Life, He Put Up a Sign to Thank Them for the Happy Ending

After neighbors rallied together to save the life of an unidentified man earlier this month, he used a sign to thank everyone for coming to his rescue.

Alphonso and Deborah Williams were just two of the community members who were startled by the sound of a car collision on their street as they were watching television at their home in southeast Washington DC.

As they ran to their door to investigate the sound of the noise, they found an unconscious man sitting behind the wheel of a car that had crashed into a number of parked vehicles.

By the time they rushed to his side, he was barely responsive—and as more people joined them at the scene of the crash, he stopped breathing and started turning blue.

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After they dialed 911, the neighbors then took turns performing CPR on the man while Deborah brought them water to stay hydrated in the heat.

An ambulance eventually arrived and whisked the man off to the hospital. Fearing the worst, Deborah told The Washington Post that she and the other Good Samaritans worried that the man wasn’t going to survive. “Everybody was out there, we were all concerned,” she said.

One week after the incident took place, however, a sign appeared in the neighborhood. It read: “Good Samaritans of Potomac Ave — you saved my life!

“I passed out from a heart attack while driving near here,” it continued. “My doctor said your quick, immediate, steady CPR action saved me. Today, I am recovering back home. Forever grateful, Joe.”

Police declined to identify Joe following the accident, but the neighbors say that they are simply happy to know that the incident had a happy ending—and they’re grateful to know that they live in a community where people are ready to help at a moment’s notice.

Alphonso told The Post: “When there’s an accident, they will always pull together.”

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Mom Overwhelmed With Gratitude When Hotel Manager Befriends Autistic Boy Wanting to Show Off His Card Tricks

A Pennsylvania hotel manager is being praised for going above and beyond the call of duty to befriend a boy with autism.

Back in March, Megan Haas and her 13-year-old son Colin had been staying at the Hampton Inn in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. The hotel’s manager, Khalif Hill, had been managing the front desk when he looked up to see Colin staring at him intently.

After they exchanged greetings, Colin asked if he could show Hill a card trick, to which he accepted.

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The two then spent 30 minutes showing each other magic tricks. The very next evening, Colin returned to the front desk only to be enthusiastically welcomed by Hill once more, eager to share more card tricks with the boy.

Little did Hill know, Colin uses magic tricks as a coping mechanism for his autism. Not only that, Ms. Haas says that the boy has missed having male influences in his life since he lost his father several years ago—which is why Haas was so touched by Hill’s kindness.

“It was such a small gesture but it meant SO much to Colin and I both,” Haas told Good News Network.

In a Facebook post that has since been shared thousands of times, Haas described the encounter with Hill, saying: “He allowed Colin to hang out at the desk with him for what felt like forever, watching Colin do card tricks and then showing Colin some tricks that he knew as well.

“He paused when he needed to, when the phone rang or a customer came in, (in the pic he is on the phone, the person he was speaking to had him on hold), but he never once made Colin feel like he was a nuisance or a burden.”

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This is not the first time that Hill has been a positive role model for autism awareness, either.

“Kahlief was actually helping to put together an event at the Applebee’s by the hotel a few weeks after this encounter,” Haas told GNN. “It was a pancake breakfast to raise money for autism awareness, so I took Colin back out to go to the event and they got to spend a little more time together and show more card tricks.”

Hilton Hotels later recognized their employee for his good deed, but no one is more grateful for the exchange than Haas.

“I love and live for feel good moments like this,” she wrote. “It is so easy to be kind, yet seems to be such a rare occurrence these days.”

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‘All my pain disappears’: South Korean Seniors Are Finding Healing in New Nightclub for the Elderly

Girls aren’t the only ones who just want to have fun; dozens of elderly men and women in South Korea are raving about the health benefits of their new day-time disco club.

The dance parties in Seoul are the first events of their kind to be funded by the government in order to combat senior loneliness, isolation, and dementia.

South Korea currently has the fastest aging population of any developed nation in the world. According to a 2016 census, roughly 14% of the country’s population was made up of citizens over the age of 65, amounting to 6.8 million people.

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As the world becomes increasingly aware of the dangerous health risks of loneliness, communities and countries have tried everything from pairing aging nuns with millennials to enlisting the help of mailmen to check up on senior homeowners. One popular UK supermarket chain even launched a “talking tables” initiative for lonely strangers to chat with each other.

This is not the first time that nightclubs have been used to combat senior loneliness—and based on the testimonials from the elderly attendees, it’s not hard to see why.

One South Korean gentleman told BBC in the interview below: “I have a bad back and legs but when the music comes on, my body is immersed in it and all my pain disappears. I’m full of energy for two or three days after this.

“No lie!” he added with a laugh. “I’ve even kicked my drugs and supplements!”

(WATCH the daytime discos in action in the BBC video below) – Photo by BBC

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Teacher’s Powerful Exercise of ‘Leaving Emotional Baggage at the Door’ Has Totally Changed Her Classroom

This Oklahoma teacher is being praised for teaching her students a powerful emotional lesson that they will not soon forget.

Karen Loewe has been teaching seventh and eighth grade students for 22 years, but her most recent day in class was apparently the most impactful day of her educational career.

For her sixth day of classes at Collinsville Middle School, she decided to try a new exercise in empathy with her students called “The Baggage Activity”.

Upon establishing that her classroom was a safe space for expression and respect, she asked what emotional baggage meant to her students. She then asked them to write about some emotional baggage of their own—and since they were not required to put their names on the paper, they could describe their issues as freely as they wanted without being identified.

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The youngsters were then asked to take turns reading what their classmates wrote, and all of them were given the opportunity to identify themselves as the person responsible for the writing.

“I’m here to tell you, I have never been so moved to tears as what these kids opened up and about and shared with the class,” Loewe wrote in a Facebook post. “Things like suicide, parents in prison, drugs in their family, being left by their parents, death, cancer, losing pets … and on and on.

“The kids who read the papers would cry because what they were reading was tough. The person who shared (if they chose to tell us it was them) would cry sometimes too. It was an emotionally draining day, but I firmly believe my kids will judge a little less, love a little more, and forgive a little faster.”

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Since writing about her exercise on social media, her post has been shared more than 500,000 times; teachers from all over the world have reached out to her about implementing similar activities in their own classrooms; and her students have apparently been “so much more respectful” of each other.

“They don’t interrupt or talk down to each other,” she told TODAY. “They’re not rude. It’s completely, completely changed how they treat each other … I wish I would have done this years ago. It’s been so good.”

Furthermore, Loewe made sure to keep all the paper confessions in a plastic bag so that her students won’t soon forget their exercise in empathy.

“This bag hangs by my door to remind them that we all have baggage,” Loewe concluded in her Facebook post. “We will leave it at the door. As they left, I told them they are not alone, they are loved, and we have each other’s back.”

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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo

Quote of the Day: “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo

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Homeless Man Offered a Job After Expressing His Gratitude Toward Jogger Who Gave Him Shoes Off His Feet

This homeless man has been given a new lease on life thanks to a simple act of kindness from an anonymous jogger in New York City.

30-year-old Joe Arroyo had been sitting on a sidewalk in Lower Manhattan earlier this month with a cardboard sign explaining how he was homeless, hungry, and wearing broken shoes.

When a passing jogger noticed Arroyo’s sign and the holes in his shoes, the man stopped, took off his shoes and socks, handed them to Arroyo, and walked away barefoot.

Needless to say, Arroyo was shocked.

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“I never thought somebody would come out and take their shoes off and just give them to me,” Arroyo told WABC. “[He said] ‘I’ve been blessed my whole life, God has been very nice to me, I feel like I should bless you too’ and he took off his shoes and gave them to me.

“I wanted to hug the guy but a homeless man hugging someone out here is not normal,” he added.

A woman who had been seated in a nearby taxi cab was stopped at a red light when the exchange took place. When she happened to look over and see the man taking off his shoes, she took out her phone to take a video.

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She later uploaded the video to Twitter where it has since been viewed almost 100,000 times. Not only that, it prompted local reporters to interview Arroyo about the shoes.

Arroyo used the news coverage as an opportunity to express his bottomless gratitude for the unidentified man and ask viewers for a job.

As fate would have it, a local entrepreneur saw the interview and contacted reporters so he could offer Arroyo a job.

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Children Memorialized in Nature After Hospice Translates Their Names into Birdsongs for Wild Birds to Mimic

A Welsh hospice has been honoring their deceased young patients in a powerful, one-of-a-kind way.

The Tŷ Hafan hospice center in the Vale of Glamorgan has been translating the names of children into birdsong so the calls can be played through the speakers in the medical center’s memorial garden.

To create the birdsongs, sound engineer Justin Wiggan translates the children’s names into Morse code. He then works with hospital staffers to select a bird which best represents the deceased child so he can sample its unique chirp and use its sounds to spell out the name in Morse code.

As the birdsongs are played in the hospital’s memorial garden, each name is followed by one second of silence for every year of the child’s life.

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What makes the hospital’s “Birdsong Project” so unique is that birds can hear the names being played in the garden and mimic them in the wild, thus immortalizing a child’s memory in nature.

“In terms of inspiration for the project, the care team wanted more of a unique way of remembering the children who pass away,” Tŷ Hafan spokesperson Dani Harries told Good News Network. “Before Birdsong, the names would be read out at an annual memorial service held at the hospice, and although this was lovely, it was very long and was only going to take longer.

“That was when we teamed up with Justin Wiggan on a soundscape project to explore the possibility of a more innovative way to honor the children with a personal and special touch.”

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Wiggan and the hospice team have already translated the names of more than 300 children who have died at the facility, and they don’t plan on stopping their emotional tributes any time soon.

“Now, the bereaved parents can pop into the hospice memorial garden, sit down and just listen to the birdsong which is played all year round, and listen out for the song that represents their child,” says Harries. “And the thought that this song could be mimicked by birds in the wild means that the child’s name really could live on forever.”

Pauline Harvey, whose 10-year-old daughter Abigail was one of the children memorialized by the project, described the initiative as a “humbling, breathtaking” experience.

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“I stood in the Memorial Garden gazebo listening as the individual birdsongs came from different areas of the garden,” she wrote in a blog post. “All the songs were very different from each other, unique and beautiful. And a surprising thing happened—it felt as though the emotional downpour lifted and the sun came out from behind the clouds (the actual real rain continued unabated, the weather was horrific and clearly had no sense of occasion).

“I felt overwhelming warmth and comfort. I was no longer waiting to hear Abigail’s name, that didn’t seem to matter anymore. She was part of the chorus, she was part of every birdsong, the silences celebrated each individual short life, but it felt like all the children were together in the song of each bird.

“Abigail is not alone,” she concluded. “She is with friends and they are joyfully singing.”

(LISTEN to the 2018 BBC interview on the project below)

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Dad Has Been Using His Town’s Roadside Message Board to Make Thousands of People Laugh

 

When Vince Rozmiarek first started volunteering as the official manager of his community’s roadside message board six years ago, he probably didn’t think that it would make him internationally famous.

Rozmiarek—who lives in the tiny town of Indian Hills, Colorado with a population of about 1,000 people—says that he took on the job in 2013 because he had been left with an abundance of time on his hands after all three of his kids had grown up and left home.

 

 

Initially, he took his job very seriously and only used the highway sign to display relevant messages to the community.

On April Fool’s Day, however, he decided to have a little fun by using the message board to make a joke about the neighboring town. After that, he couldn’t resist sharing more of his dad jokes with the community.

 

 

Using his stash of joke books, the 56-year-old dad starting using the message board to leave amusing quips and puns for the neighbors, such as “I looked up the definition of opaque; it wasn’t very clear” and “I periodically make bad science puns.”

“Obviously, I’m a man with time on my hands,” he told The Washington Post. “My three kids are all grown, and people could use something to smile about. So, why not, I thought.”

Despite his enduring career as the community jokester, Rozmiarek says that he has never posted a pun more than once and he has never used a joke that someone else has taken credit for.

 

 

He also says that he tries to avoid making political or offensive jokes so he doesn’t alienate any of his readers.

Up until 2015, Indian Hill residents were the only ones privy to his jokes—but then one of his neighbors felt inspired to create a Facebook page so he could share his jokes with the world.

 

 

“I wanted him to be able to post his … signs for everyone to enjoy,” she told The Post. “Vince’s puns are absolutely brilliant. He’ll text me now and then with new ones and I just die laughing.”

Since creating the Indian Hills Community Sign Facebook page, the photos of Rozmiarek’s signs have racked up more than 84,000 followers from 54 countries.

 

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‘First of its Kind’ Zero-Emission Geothermal Energy System in Canada May Soon Be in Your Town

Photo by Eavor Technologies Inc.

A new geothermal energy project is now being piloted in Canada—and experts say that it could be a “game-changer” for clean energy.

The Eavor Loop is a scalable closed-loop system that could soon allow us to generate consistent, unlimited electricity from the heat emanating from the Earth’s core.

The system works like a radiator. The Eavor Loop consists of two wells that are drilled about 2 miles deep (3.5 kilometers) and 3 miles apart (5 kilometers) with several connecting pipes between the two. The wells then circulate proprietary fluid through the loop in order to absorb the Earth’s heat and use it to make electricity.

The closed-loop design means that—unlike other geothermal projects—the system requires no fracking or water; it generates zero greenhouse gas emissions; it doesn’t run the risk of polluting nearby water sources; and unlike wind or solar power, it does not depend on external elements to generate electricity.

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“It’s just a much more benign system and it’s something that you can implement across 80% of the world instead of 5% of the world like traditional geothermal,” Eavor Technologies CEO and President John Redfern told CBC News.

“You can put it almost anywhere. It’s not like a windmill or solar panel … almost everything’s underground so you can literally put it in someone’s backyard.”

Photo by Eavor Technologies Inc.

Eavor Technologies recently began construction on a new $10 million testing facility in Alberta. With the first-of-its-kind pilot project expected to conclude by the end of the year, government representatives have helped to fund the project with the hopes that it will provide new jobs for regional oil and gas workers who may want to transition into the green energy sector.

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“Projects like [this facility] advance new technologies and can create highly skilled jobs. They show how investing in innovation reduces GHG emissions while growing the economy,” said Laura Kilcrease of Alberta Innovates (AI), a provincially-funded corporation that contributed $1 million to the project.

“Projects like this are possible because of the experience and unique approaches in energy services, drilling and technology development that are found in Alberta,” she added.

After testing is finished, Eavor will be working to launch a dozen more commercial facilities around the world. According to Global News, one commercial facility is estimated to generated roughly 4 megawatts of energy.

(LISTEN to the radio interview with John Redfern below)

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Picture of 3 Italian Grandmas Happily Holding Migrant Kids On Their Laps Might Be the Best Photo of the Week

This powerful photo of three Italian grandmothers holding migrant children on their laps has been shared across the internet as a gorgeous example of humanity at its finest.

The picture was originally uploaded to a closed Facebook group called “Sei di Campoli se…” which means “You’re from Campoli if…” in English.

According to Rowena De Nigris, the woman who published the photo, the three grannies were taking care of the children at a welcome center for migrants in southern Italy.

“I hope to brighten your day with this wonderful photo,” wrote Nigris. “It portrays the ladies of a small village in the province of Benevento that spontaneously and in a completely natural way (human, I dare to say) have become the grandmothers/babysitters of the little guests of the reception center.

“This is integration,” she added, “and it’s beautiful.”

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The women pictured in the photo have reportedly been identified as Aunt Nicolina, Aunt Vincenza, and Aunt Maria. Their hometown of Campoli del Monte Taburno has reportedly welcomed many refugees who have sought sanctuary after crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Africa—and these three seniors have made it very clear that they are happy to welcome many more with open arms.

Since the photo has gone viral, a man who claims to be the grandson of one of the women left a nostalgic comment on the picture, saying: “To think that 37 years ago, I was on those same legs, wrapped in the same smile—and now miles away and with a few more years, I’m very happy to be able to share the same emotions with a child I don’t know, but who deserves everything and more. You are beautiful, grandmother.”

Photo by Rowena De Nigris

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“Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love.” – Brennan Manning

Quote of the Day: “Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love.” – Brennan Manning

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Teen Spent Saturday Registering People to Vote As They Waited in Line to Try New Popeyes Sandwich

As people line up outside of Popeyes restaurants to try the fast food chain’s notorious new chicken sandwich, a 17-year-old boy took advantage of the hype to make a difference in his community.

David Ledbetter spent his Saturday outside of a Popeyes restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina so he could register customers to vote.

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Though the high school senior was pleased to discover that many of the customers were already registered, he was able to help register more than a dozen new voters while handing out sample ballots and pamphlets to people standing in line.

David says that he came up with the idea as he was discussing voter engagement tactics with local attorney Stephanie Sneed who is running for the local school board.

 

“We were seeing how long the lines were [at Popeyes] and figured we would try to go get individuals to vote,” the teen told CNN.

Additionally, he told local reporters that he wanted to register voters because he “saw there was a lack of young people politically involved.”

“I believe that it is our duty to vote as American citizens and it would be wrong not to exercise our political voice,” he added.

Though Ledbetter is not currently old enough to vote, he is already pre-registered to vote once he turns 18.

(WATCH the news coverage below)

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For the First Time Ever, Giraffes Are Given International Protection at Historic Geneva Summit

Photo by Bernard Gagnon, CC

Hundreds of endangered species are being offered essential new protections against international trade thanks to the latest wildlife convention in Geneva.

Most notably, giraffes have been given their first ever international protections through a new Appendix II designation by the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Giraffes were recently classified as a “vulnerable” species by the IUCN due to their 36-40% population decline over the past 30 years. However, conservationists expect the new regulations to help “protect this imperiled species in the future.”

“Securing CITES Appendix II protection for the giraffe throws a vital lifeline to this majestic species, which has been going quietly extinct for years,” says Adam Peyman, Humane Society International’s wildlife programs and operations manager. “This listing could not come soon enough. CITES listing will ensure that giraffe parts in international trade were legally acquired and not detrimental to the survival of the species.”

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Every three years, delegates from around the world gather at the CITES summit to implement legislation that will help to protect endangered species by regulating the trade of animal byproducts.

Over the course of the last few weeks, 183 summit members have agreed to pass protections on more than 500 species, including the smooth-coated otter, swallowtail butterfly, pancake tortoise, southern white rhino, and mako shark.

“CITES sets the rules for international trade in wild fauna and flora,” said CITES Secretary-General Ivonne Higuero. “It is a powerful tool for ensuring sustainability and responding to the rapid loss of biodiversity—often called the sixth extinction crisis—by preventing and reversing declines in wildlife populations. This year’s conference will focus on strengthening existing rules and standards while extending the benefits of the CITES regime to additional plants and animals threatened by human activity.

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“Clear and enforceable rules based on sound science and effective policies are vital for protecting natural wealth and achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals that have been adopted by the world’s governments. Because it is science-based, implementation-oriented and pragmatic, CITES plays an essential role in advancing international efforts to conserve and sustainably use our natural capital.

“Wildlife crime continues to pose a serious threat to many species, and the criminal groups involved are increasingly organized, and constantly adapting their tactics to conceal their illegal activities and avoid detection. The good news is that the Consortium will continue to relentlessly work with the law enforcement community, building capacity and making available the tools and services they need to bring these criminals to justice by enabling them to mobilize the same measures against wildlife crime as those used against other serious domestic and transnational organized crimes,” she added.

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Comcast Representative Saves Man From a Stroke Moments After He Dialed the Customer Service Line

After suffering a massive stroke earlier this month, 65-year-old Dan Magennis is alive and well today—and it is all thanks to a cable company employee who followed her instincts.

Magennis had been getting things done around his house in Walker, Michigan when the incident took place. Instead of doing yard work, Magennis opted to call Comcast so he could discuss his account.

It’s a good thing that he did, too; moments after he began speaking to a customer service rep, he lost feeling in his limbs and found himself unable to speak.

On the other end of the line was 35-year-old Kimberly Williams in Jackson, Mississippi. After she asked for Magennis’s name, she says that she knew something was wrong when his speech suddenly became slurred. When she heard his phone drop to the floor, she immediately began calling emergency services in his area.

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Once she was finally able to direct medical crews to the address that was listed on his account, they found him collapsed on the floor of his garage. He was then whisked to a nearby medical center where doctors confirmed that he was indeed having a stroke.

Magennis underwent an hour-long surgery to unclog the artery in his brain. Days later, he was released from the hospital with no discernible signs of ever having a stroke—which is a rare occurrence for such a deadly medical event.

“Had this person not intervened and just hung up the phone, I think [Magennis] likely would’ve had a very large left-sided stroke that would’ve left him with a significant disability,” neurosurgeon Justin Singer told WZZM-TV in the interview below. “Under certain circumstances, someone could even die from a very large stroke.”

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