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Canada’s First ‘Dementia Village’ is Set to Open its Doors Next Year

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Canadian residents are becoming more and more excited over the construction of a new village in British Columbia.

This isn’t just any village, however – it is a place specifically designed for seniors suffering from dementia.

The community, which will simply be called The Village, will host a few dozen cottages and shared living spaces for up to 72 dementia patients.

Construction workers started building The Village in Langley earlier this week. Elroy Jespersen, who is the vice-president of special projects at Verve Senior Living and the mastermind behind the Village, told CTV News that he wanted dementia patients to feel the same amount of independence as their able-bodied counterparts. The Village will give them a controlled space in which to live their lives, free of the stressful feeling of always “running into a locked door”.

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He told CTV: “We believe that it’s really important for people to be connected to nature and life and the outdoors.”

The initiative draws inspiration from Hogeweyk, a similarly-designed community in the Netherlands that was declared the world’s first village for dementia patients. The compound features everything from supermarkets and stores, to restaurants and gardens.

While The Village currently is being developed through private funding, and will be completed by spring of next year, its organizers hope that the government will eventually assist with some of the resident’s costs.

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Street Fighter is Giving Back: 14-0, The Inspiring Story of UFC’s Brian Ortega – Hispanic Athlete of the Year

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How often does a teenage street fighter — four times expelled from school — turn his life around and start giving the love he never got as a kid?

[You can also listen to “The Good News Guru” tell this story on the Ellen K. radio show.)

Brian Ortega grew up in LA with 13 brothers and sisters, yet had no champions in his corner—but that’s not the case anymore.

The one thing “falling in with a bad crowd” did for Ortega is inspire his purpose. Because he loved to fight, he was drawn, at 13, to the famed Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy. He asked the owners if he could clean the mats, wash towels, help in any way possible, in exchange for lessons in the Brazilian martial art. Later he found a pair of mentors and started training in MMA.

While some athletes have fancy facilities and high-tech equipment, Ortega wanted to show the world that he could make it happen from a tiny one-car garage. And, show the world he did.

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But the best part about this young man is his love of giving back.

“I want to be the person who stands for the people that need help,” he says in the inspiring video below.

For ten years, he’s made an impact in his community, volunteering to give surfing experiences to kids with cystic fibrosis, and going on a nationwide tour of children’s hospitals.

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Even though he has earned well over a hundred thousand dollars, the 27-year-old is still driving a 20-year-old car without heat or air conditioning. He did, however, just spend $20,000 to set up the charitable Brian Ortega Foundation.

He recently received the Hispanic Athlete of the Year Award and, thanks to his unrelenting hard work, the UFC Championship Title is in his sights. Currently undefeated at 14-0, having beaten second-ranked former champion Frankie Edgar on Saturday in Las Vegas, he will soon compete to become the world featherweight UFC champion.

“I was down and out, but was lucky enough to have good people come into my life — I want to do that for kids who are at risk of going down the wrong path and help steer their energy into something positive,” says the fighter.

(WATCH him discuss love and giving back in the video below)

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“Sorrow looks back; Fear looks forward; Faith looks up.” – Irish proverb

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Quote of the Day: “Sorrow looks back; Fear looks forward; Faith looks up.” – Irish proverb

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Street Fighter Gives Back: 14-0, UFC’s Inspiring Brian Ortega –Hispanic Athlete of the Year (Good News Guru Radio)

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Raised on the hard streets of LA, Brian Ortega now wants to use the fruits of his hard work to help others—and he’s fighting for the chance to win the UFC title. Hear The Good News Guru tell the inspiring story.

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Inspired Sleep: How to Put Your Dreams to Work

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The Lesson: Is your body trying to tell you something as you sleep? This Harvard psychologist confirms what people have always known; answers, ideas, and inspiration can come while we sleep. Dr. Deirdre Barrett has spent her career studying the science of dreaming and has some compelling insights on how you can first remember your dreams, then make them work for you.

Notable Excerpt: “First of all, I think [dreams are] naturally already working for us to a certain extent without us having to have any very specific intent about that. In my work … I went around interviewing experts in all fields about whether they ever had had a dream that was useful and the majority of the examples I collected were completely spontaneous. The narrative would often be, ‘You know, I never paid much attention to my dreams until I was working on this chemistry problem that I just couldn’t solve and then one night, I had this dream where dream solved it.’ People who aren’t particularly paying attention to their dreams can sometimes have breakthrough dreams. I think it happens a lot more in cultures that explicitly teach that dreams may be useful for practical things, because I think some of the problem-solving dreams are so obvious that when you wake up, it’s just you remember being told exactly the literal answer to this problem.”

The Speaker: Dr. Deirdre Barrett, PhD, is a psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School and specializes in the study of dreams. Barrett has written a few books about human behavior and the science of sleep, such as “The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Dreams for Creative Problem Solving––and How You Can Too”.

The Host: Dave Asprey, the CEO and Founder of Bulletproof, is a biohacker (changing his environment from the inside-out to have full control of his biology). For nearly two decades, he’s been questioning the status quo of nutrition and medicine so he could feel better—and have more energy in his 40s than he had in his 20s. Join more than 1 million biohackers who follow Bulletproof for leading-edge information on how to supercharge your body and upgrade your brain.

Books: Asprey is the author of “The Bulletproof Diet” – a guide on how to feel more energized and lose weight – and “Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks”.

Podcast: The Bulletproof podcast is available on PodcastOne, iTunes, Stitcher, and YouTube.

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LEGO Bricks on Sale Now Are Plant-based Instead of Plastic

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As a means of pushing their company towards sustainability, LEGO has just announced that they will soon be selling bricks made from plant-based plastic.

The natural polyethylene plastic, which is sourced from sugar cane, will be used for a line of botanical-themed LEGO pieces that will be included in box sets later this year. While they aren’t completely biodegradable, they are much more recyclable than their crude oil counterparts. Plus, the sugarcane used for the polyethylene is sustainably sourced.

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The corporation has already spent the last 3 years pouring millions of dollars into developing renewable substitutes for their current oil-based plastic.

The initiative is part of the Danish toy company’s goal of achieving 100% sustainability by 2030.

Tim Brooks, the firm’s vice-president of environmental responsibility, said: “This is a great first step in our ambitious commitment of making all Lego bricks using sustainable materials.”

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Have You Ever Seen a Shaolin Monk Pierce a Pane of Glass With a Needle?

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Humans are capable of extraordinary things – such as piercing a pane of glass with a needle.

The hosts of The Super Slow Show on Youtube traveled to China so they could film such an astonishing feat of skill performed by Shaolin Master Feng Fei.

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The camera filming the throw was able to slow the footage down to 28,500 frames per second – and the result is incredible.

If you want to skip the details, just fast forward to about two minutes into the video for the throw.

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Canadian Man Offers to Share His “Stolen Land” With First Nations Family

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Joel Holmberg was tired of seeing racist language against the First Nations on social media. So instead of allowing such prejudice to flourish, the 45-year-old took to Facebook with an offer of kindness and camaraderie.

Holmberg, who owns 5 acres of land near Barrhead in Alberta, Canada, offered to share his land with a First Nations family for free.

Holmberg writes: “Any First Nations family who just wants to live on the land, hunt, fish, grow foods, and spend their life immersed in their culture, raising their kids traditionally, should get a hold of me. I have space for a family to live here, lots of moose around, and plenty of space to grow foods.

The Alberta resident says that he had been playing with the idea of sharing his land for a few years now, but he finally became spurred to take action after social media became inflamed over a recent hate crime in Saskatchewan.

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“My 5 acres – though it constitutes my life’s work and I’ll be paying for it another 20 years – in reality, it is stolen land and I know that.

“Our acreage can be a model of how things should go in Canada.”

Since making the post on Facebook, Holmberg has received over 100 messages concerning his offer. According to The Guardian, indigenous elders have contacted him about performing ceremonies on the land. Chinese, Sikh, and Muslim communities in Canada have also sent him messages saying that he had inspired them to take on similar initiatives.

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The 45-year-old will be responding to messages and giving tours of the acreage to interested families during the coming weeks in hopes that he will find the right folks.

“If you are indigenous, have kids, are clean and sober, and want to be free on the land, we have a home for you here,” says Holmberg. “No rent, no bills, just live free, far from the big s****y cities.”

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“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.” – Nathan W. Morris

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Quote of the Day: “Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.” – Nathan W. Morris

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How to Find Your Passion

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The Lesson: If you’ve reached a point in your life where you need to find the one thing that deserves all of your creative energy, it can be frustrating trying to nail down which of your passions deserves your attention. But Jason Silva has a method of how you can “follow the trail of neurochemistry” to find your ultimate passion.

Notable Excerpt: “Here’s how you find your passion, if you don’t know it: you make a list of 15 things that you’re really curious about. Elizabeth Gilbert, who wrote ‘Eat, Pray, Love’, often talks about the pressure of knowing your passion, and she says that if you don’t know your passion, at least chase curiosity. Because at least you know things that you’re curious about, so you make a list of 15 things. Now what you’re gonna do is create a kind of Venn diagram and you’re gonna find where these things overlap. Where do 3 to 5 of those 15 things that you’re curious about overlap?”

The Speaker: Jason Silva is an Emmy-award winning television host, motivational speaker, and filmmaker. In addition to hosting his YouTube series Shots of Awe, Silva has given hundreds of lectures on creativity, technology, innovation, mental health, and relationships. His National Geographic TV show Brain Games has been broadcasted in over 171 countries.

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3 Invigorating Tips for Kicking Boredom if You’re in Recovery

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“An idle mind is the devil’s playground,” the saying goes. And if you’re one of the roughly 10% of people in this country who are reportedly in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction, unattended boredom can be a trigger for relapse.

Everyone gets bored from time to time. When day-to-day life seems tedious and lackluster, a lack of motivation or creative inspiration may be the reason. There may even be a medical cause, such as an underlying diagnosis of depression that may be contributing to a general lack of interest in daily activities.

For people in recovery, these same dynamics can also be the source of boredom—or there may be other causes unique to healing from a substance use disorder. For example, whereas in active addiction a person may have become accustomed to getting “high,” in sobriety (following detox and treatment) that experience of intense and immediate, drug-induced euphoria is no longer there. The result can be a phenomenon known as “anhedonia,” which is not uncommon in recovery. Anhedonia is a psychological condition characterized by the inability to derive pleasure from normally pleasurable acts.

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Second, successful recovery happens gradually, over time, with the daily practice and cultivation of healthy lifestyle choices. Good sleep hygiene. A nutritious diet. Regular exercise. Mindful meditation. Weekly attendance in a recovery support group like Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous. As these daily ins and outs of recovery become habitual, it’s not uncommon for them to lose their novelty and shine. Like any routine, they can grow tedious.

How, then, can you stay engaged and motivated in your recovery when boredom hits? Here are some tips to help you harness boredom in the service of personal growth and renewed enthusiasm for sober living:

  1. Accept and embrace your boredom. You need to be aware and accepting of what you’re feeling before you can channel it in a positive direction. When I work with clients in early recovery, we spend a lot of time getting connected to inner emotions like boredom, which can often lie outside the realm of conscious awareness. One way you can do this on your own is to spend just a few minutes daily connecting with your breath and mindfully scanning your body for any thoughts or sensations you may be experiencing. When these come, take note of them matter-of-factly and non-judgmentally. Then let your attention go back to your breath. The more attuned and even welcoming you are to your boredom, the better prepared you’ll be for addressing it constructively.
  2. Turn off your autopilot mode by taking periodic mindfulness breaks. If you’re bored, it may be because you have been operating on autopilot, having become so habituated to the motions of a daily recovery routine that you could do them in your sleep. What you may need is to re-awaken your five senses to the beauty and wonder of the world around you. Consider taking a periodic mindfulness break—even just one daily—to pause, breathe, engage all five senses and say “thank you” for the present moment. One of the best ways to do this is getting out in nature.
  3. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” I can’t think of a better cure for boredom than this recommendation from the humanitarian and former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. For some of us, “one thing every day” may be too ambitious. If so, try adding just one scary new thing to your life that you can commit to for the next couple of months—and that will make you a more courageous and adventurous person. Are you terrified of public speaking? Join a Toastmaster’s club or sign up for an improv comedy class. Are you introverted and afraid to meet new people? Practice starting conversations when you’re in line at the grocery store or doing errands.

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When you embrace your boredom, practice more daily mindfulness, and do one thing that scares you, boredom can be an opportunity to reinvigorate your recovery and reinvent yourself.

Anna Ciulla is the Vice President of Clinical and Medical Services at Beach House Center for Recovery where she is responsible for designing, implementing and supervising the delivery of the latest evidence-based therapies for treating substance use disorders. Anna has a passion for helping clients with substance use and co-occurring disorders achieve successful long-term recovery.

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Power is Restored to Puerto Rican School Thanks to Boy’s Generous Heart

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If it had not been for the kindness of one boy from Illinois, these Puerto Rican students may have been forced to continue sitting through their classes in darkness.

7-year-old Avery Huddleston was heartbroken by the amount of damage sustained by the Caribbean territory following Hurricane Irma in September. So instead of celebrating his birthday this year and receiving gifts for himself, the first grader asked for school supplies to be donated to Puerto Rican schools.

Ameren electrical workers ended up distributing the supplies to the students of the La Escuela Rafael de Jesus elementary school in Rio Grande – but while they were there, they noticed that almost all of the classroom lights were still out.

Even though the facility had largely been without electricity since the hurricane, however, the workers noticed that some of the lights in the building were still on. Upon investigating the circuitry, they were able to repair the broken transformer and restore power to the building.

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The students were so overjoyed by the lights coming back on, the youngsters started dancing, cheering, and screaming with happiness.

Ameren worker Mike Beardsley told KTVI: “If it wasn’t for one kind gesture by Avery, a little 7-year-old boy, they’d still be sitting in the dark at this school.”

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Hungry Sea Lion Hilariously Demands Fish While Hitching a Ride on the Back of a Boat

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Who could resist a face like that? Certainly not this group of sympathetic fishermen.

A group of sailors were boating across the waters of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico when a hungry sea lion hitched a ride on the back of their boat.

The sea lion can be seen balefully eyeing the gang as it casually hangs onto the speeding ship.

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As a reward for the creature’s resourceful mode of travel, the sailors decide to treat it to some of their bounty.

One of the boaters scoops out a fish from their tank and throws it into the eagerly awaiting mouth of the sea lion. Another sailor can be heard imitating the sea lion with periodic exclamations of “Om nom nom nom!”

After a few treats, the intrepid hitchhiker finally hops off into the ocean to rejoin his buddies.

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Doctors Turn Down Pay Raise So Their Fellow Health Care Workers Can Get a Raise Instead

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Instead of accepting a pay raise for themselves, over 250 Québec doctors have asked the provincial government to give the pay raise to overworked nurses and clerks.

Following a newly-proposed medical budget that would award a salary hike for Québec doctors, a representational group of physicians and medical students wrote an open letter in which they insisted that their fellow health care workers deserved better wages and working conditions.

“We, Québec doctors who believe in a strong public system, oppose the recent salary increases negotiated by our medical federations.

“These increases are all the more shocking because our nurses, clerks, and other professionals face very difficult working conditions, while our patients live with the lack of access to required services because of the drastic cuts in recent years and the centralization of power in the Ministry of Health. The only thing that seems to be immune to the cuts is our salaries…

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“Contrary to the Prime Minister’s statements, we believe that there is a way to redistribute the resources of the Québec health system to promote the health of the population and meet the needs of patients without pushing workers to the end.

“We, Québec doctors, are asking that the salary increases granted to physicians be canceled and that the resources of the system be better distributed for the good of the health care workers and to provide health services worthy to the people of Québec.”

Currently, the average medical specialist within the Canadian province reportedly makes about $403,537 a year. According to the new budget, the medical association would hike up allocated funds for physician salaries from $4.7 billion to $5.4 billion in 2023.

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Québec’s health minister, Gaétan Barrette, said that he had no problem with the collective rejection of the pay raise. Earlier this week, he told media sources: “If they feel they are overpaid, they can leave the money on the table. I guarantee you I can make good use of it.”

Time will tell how the budget will be reshaped, but one thing is for sure – the doctors of Québec have made it clear that they are dedicated to taking care of more than just themselves.

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Less-Adopted Black Cats Have More Suitors Thanks to New Marvel Movie

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Despite their winning personalities, black cats will allegedly languish in American animal shelters for longer periods of time than their differently-colored counterparts.

That’s because western cultures often view black cats as bad luck because they were thought to be the companions of witches in the 14th century.

But now thanks to Black Panther, the latest Marvel flick to hit movie theaters, black cats are being adopted by the dozens, according to one resident of Durango, Colorado.

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The social media user wrote in a blog post: “Unexpected Benefit of Black Panther: my local pet shelters went from having something like 50-60 black cats between them to having NONE, because they’ve all been adopted out and named after the characters.

“’T’challa’ is the most popular, but there are a fair number of ‘Okoye’s and ‘Shuri’s as well. And one very confused Elderly Humane Society Volunteer wondering why someone would name such a sweet cat ‘Killmonger’,” they added.

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If you’re concerned about whether this is a short-lived fad that will end in the cats being returned a while time later, the writer reassures us by saying that the adoption process of the local shelters is extremely stringent.

And while an ASPCA spokesperson of New York City reportedly told media sources that they have seen no particular increase in black cat adoptions, the blogger goes on to say that at least cat adoptions are up in general – even if it’s just in one Colorado town.

Additionally, one movie theater in Dallas reportedly held an adoption event where anyone who adopted a black cat was given two free movie tickets to see Black Panther. According to the Dallas Observer, the shelter did not have enough cats to fulfill the demand.

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“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Quote of the Day: “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Photo: Young visitor looks out the window at Shakespeare’s home in Stratford-Upon-Avon

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The 10 Commandments of Startup Success with the Co-founder of LinkedIn

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The Lesson: It can be hard to imagine the world’s biggest businesses when they were just beginning as modest startups – but there are a handful of lessons and rules that you can follow to experience the exact same success. If you’re about to embark on a new business venture or startup initiative, these titans of business –including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman– have some tips for you.

Notable Excerpt: “Commandment number five: release your products early enough that they might still embarrass you. Imperfect is perfect, in this case. The fifth commandment is actually one of Reid’s more famous recommendations. He believes that if you’re not embarrassed by your first product release, you’ve released too late.”

The Guest: Reid Hoffman has had his hands in every big business you can think of; in addition to being the co-founder of LindedIn, Hoffman has been an early investor in Netflix, Facebook, AirBnb, Zynga, and a dozen other companies that experienced a major boom in early success. Now, he shares his wisdom, experience, and advice with the world via his Masters of Scale podcast.

The Host: Over the course of his career, Ferriss has become a one-time national Chinese kickboxing champion, a lecturer at Princeton University, a professional breakdancer on MTV, a horseback archer, and a multimillionaire author, motivational speaker, and investor. If that isn’t impressive enough, his critically-acclaimed podcast, the Tim Ferriss Show, was also voted #1 in its category on iTunes.

Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show is available for free on Overcast, Stitcher, and iTunes.

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When Old Dog Won’t Play With Anything But Discontinued Toy, PetSmart Folks Don’t Give Up

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12-year-old Jaxon the dog refuses to play with anything if it isn’t his green dragon toy.

His owner, Kelli Brown of Bowling Green, Kentucky, has tried to replace “Greenie” the dog toy multiple times, but her senior pup has stubbornly refused to change his mind.

“We’ve tried other green toys over the years, he won’t have anything to do with them,” Brown wrote on Twitter. “And– there was a red and yellow version of his fave toy– same size, same fabric, just a different color and no dice. What a weirdo.”

When Greenie finally started to deteriorate beyond repair, Brown started searching the internet for a replacement – but the toy had been discontinued by the manufacturing company.

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She then took to Twitter and begged for help finding another Greenie.

Luckily, her tweet was spotted by a PetSmart worker named Ken.

Ken began her search in the clearance section of the store she worked at. When she couldn’t find any of the dragons, she posted about the dilemma on a PetSmart employee Facebook page until they were all able to dig up a dozen of the retired toys.

Brown received them in the mail one month after her initial plea.

Needless to say, the senior canine was overjoyed to find himself suddenly surrounded by a dozen of his precious toys.

“Happy to say the power of the internet came through BIG TIME,” says Brown. “[Jaxon] is so happy right now… thank you all!!!”

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Grocery Store Unveils World’s First Plastic-Free Aisle

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The world’s first plastic-free grocery store aisle has just been unveiled in Amsterdam, and Dutch legislators are hoping that it will encourage the UK to do something similar.

Dutch grocery store chain Ekoplaza unveiled the aisle at their Jan Pieter Heijestraat location on Wednesday. The aisle includes over 700 products – such as fruits, vegetables, cereals, condiments, beverages, snacks, meats, and non-perishables – all of which are packaged in recyclable and biodegradable materials.

The company’s 70 other branches are set to roll out similar aisles by the end of this year.

“Plastic-free aisles are an important stepping stone to a brighter future for food and drink,” Ekoplaza chief executive, Erik Does, said in a statement. “We know that our customers are sick to death of products laden in layer after layer of thick plastic packaging.”

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The project, which was orchestrated by environmental group A Plastic Planet, is just one of many initiatives that have recently been taken to ditch plastic packaging. Replacing the harmful material has been a popular subject of legislation following the release of the BBC documentary series Blue Planet II, which highlighted the scourge of oceanic pollution.

A Plastic Planet’s co-founder Sian Sutherland said: “The introduction of the world’s first Plastic Free Aisle represents a landmark moment for the global fight against plastic pollution. For decades shoppers have been sold the lie that we can’t live without plastic in food and drink. A Plastic Free Aisle dispels all that. Finally we can see a future where the public have a choice about whether to buy plastic or plastic-free.”

“There is absolutely no logic in wrapping something as fleeting as food in something as indestructible as plastic. Europe’s biggest supermarkets must follow Ekoplaza’s lead and introduce a plastic-free aisle at the earliest opportunity to help turn off the plastic tap.”

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Einstein the Parrot Celebrates Her 30th Birthday By Doing a Lot of Startlingly Good Impressions

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Einstein the African grey parrot just turned 30 years old – and she has about five minutes of killer comedic material to show for it.

The Knoxville Zoo of Tennessee posted a video of their feathered impressionist earlier this week as a means of celebrating her birthday.

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Einstein’s caretaker and trainer, Adam Patterson, gives the bird dozens of prompts for her to imitate.

With a slew of sunflower seeds as bribery for her impressions, the bird impersonates animals, children, ghosts, aliens – even rock stars (although she is a little tone deaf during her cover of “Smoke on the Water”).

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