During his 50 years in show business, Campbell has released more than 70 albums. He has sold 45 million records and accumulated 12 RIAA Gold albums, 4 Platinum albums and 1 Double-Platinum album.
Campbell was also an actor, and was personally chosen by John Wayne to be his co-star in the film True Grit. The guitar player also landed a TV variety show for a few years called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
After a 2012 farewell tour, with his three children as backup band, Campbell became a patient at an Alzheimer’s long-term care facility in the last stages of the disease until his death today.
Upon talking with the perpetrator, however, Jeyanesan discovered that the man had tried to steal the products in order to prepare for a job interview that he had on Tuesday. Without any resources or finances to his name, the man felt that shoplifting was his only option.
When the young man was released without any charges, Jeyanesan then secretly bought the clothes and gave them to the youth for his job interview
“This young person has been facing his own difficulties in life and he was looking to straighten out all that by providing for his family and trying to get a job,” Jeyanesan told CP24 News.
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As a gesture of unity and goodwill, this Indian boxer handed his recently-won champion belt back over to his Chinese opponent in order to ease tensions between their two countries.
Vijender Singh defeated China’s Zulpikar Maimaitiali in a 10-round fight at the National Sports Club of India on Sunday night when he won by the judge’s unanimous decision.
Singh, who is the WBO Asia Pacific super middleweight, was not only able to defend his title during the weekend fight, but he also took Maimaitiali’s WBO Oriental super middleweight belt.
After he won by a 96-93, 95-94, 95-94 verdict, however, he said that he would be giving the belt back to his opponent in order to ease tensions amidst territorial disputes between the Chinese and Indian governments in the Himalayas.
The strained situation began in June over the mountainous Doklam plateau, a disputed mountainous region on the border of Bhutan, China, and India.
“I don’t want this title. I will give it back to Zulpikar,” said Singh after the ruling. “I don’t want tension on the border. It’s a message of peace. That’s important.”
An anonymous airline passenger is being hailed as a hero after she stopped a potential sexual assault by glancing at a fellow passenger’s text messages.
A preschool teacher was on a flight from Seattle, Washington to San Jose, California when she noticed that the man in the row in front of her was sending explicit texts about sexually abusing children.
Since the texts were in an especially large font on a sizable phone, the teacher was able to snap pictures of the texts and use them as evidence against the suspected predator: 56-year-old Michael Kellar of Tacoma, Washington.
The teacher alerted Southwest flight attendants about the situation, who then contacted law enforcement authorities on the ground. After the plane landed, Kellar was taken into custody.
His text messages then led to the arrest of the woman with whom he was corresponding: a 50-year-old Tacoma resident named Gail Burnworth who had been babysitting two children ages 5 and 7.
If the plane passenger had not intervened upon seeing the messages, it is quite possible that the children would have been exploited by Burnworth or Kellar.
According to news sources, Kellar is being held at the Santa Clara County Jail, while Burnworth is being held at the Pierce County jail, both of whom are being charged with attempted child molestation and solicitation of sex crimes.
“It’s kind of mind-blowing,” San Jose sex-crimes Detective Nick Jourdenais told the Mercury News about the anonymous passenger. “She gets on a plane, a normal citizen minding her business. A couple of hours later, she’s intervening on quite possibly the most traumatic thing children can go through. This was life-altering for them.”
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If you have ever received an inspiring message inside of your 40th birthday card, now is the time to share it with NASA.
Voyager 1, which has become the longest continuously operating space mission ever, as well as the most distant manmade object, is celebrating 40 years of space exploration. Over the course of its trajectory, it has become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and the only spacecraft to fly by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
In honor of its birthday, NASA is giving social media users the chance to send in an inspiring message that might be beamed up to Voyager 1 on September 5th.
Only one of the submissions will be elected as the official birthday message for Voyager. The messages can be submitted on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, or Instagram under the tag #MessageToVoyager.
The posts, which must be under 60 characters long, will be chosen through popular public vote with input form the Voyager team.
Public voting will run from August 23rd to August 29th.
Since NASA announced the opportunity, Twitter has been flooded with messages that are both hilarious and serious; some of them religious, others political, and some of which are just plain clever.
What would you say to Voyager 1 if you had the chance? Let us know in the comments below.
While smoking rates are on the decline in some countries, there will always be those who’ll never quit the harmful habit—and cigarette butts will likely remain an eyesore, littering the world.
That’s why this company is trying to minimize the negative effects of smoking by selling biodegradable filter tips that plant seeds, instead of creating litter.
Karma Tips was created by ex-advertising representatives Chetana and Ved Roy of Bengaluru, India. Ved first got the idea for Karma Tips when he was working with a tobacco company and he learned about the list of chemicals found in commercial cigarette papers. The couple, who has worked for dozens of corporate giants in the past, quit their jobs so they could pursue creating low-impact cigarette materials.
Their handmade filters are 100% organic, biodegradable, and non-addictive, and are sold alongside a similarly improved book of rolling papers. When disposed of, the butt degrades in a matter of days and gives root to basil, New Zealand lawn grass, rosemary, or thyme.
In addition to being better for the environment, the filters are healthier for the smoker, because they are not exposed to the chemical-infused paper used by larger tobacco companies.
The Roys also employ roughly two dozen employees – most of which are women – from local villages to help make, package, and distribute Karma Tips. All the packaging used for the products are created locally, thus stimulating small village economies.
“The bags that contain the products are handwoven by a community of local weavers, using organic cotton and locally grown raw material. Even the ink we use for printing is food-grade, non-toxic, and made locally. These small initiatives go a long way in involving local and rural communities in the business, thereby helping them prosper,” Ved told Your Story. “After all, any business that makes only money, we believe, is a bad business.”
To buy your own Karma Tips, or follow the development of the company, check out the product’s Facebook page.
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Each word requires an entire sentence to roughly describe what the term means, and to fully convey the full meaning of the native tongue.
From Greenland to Norway, Lebanon to Wales, Brazil to Sri Lanka; all of these phrases are touching examples of how love is a universal language everyone knows, but we have different words to define it—some more colorful than others.
1) The meaningful, wordless look shared between two people who want to initiate something, but are scared to make the first move (Chile)
2) A hug – safe haven given to you by the one you love (Wales)
3) The literal translation is “you bury me” — used to express the hope that your loved one outlives you, so you don’t have to endure the pain of living without them (Lebanon)
4) The euphoric feeling experienced when you start falling in love (Norway)
5) The feeling of anticipation when waiting for someone to come over to your home (Greenland)
7) The emotional pain felt due to being away from the one you love (India)
6) The motion of running your fingers through your beloved’s hair (Brazil)
8) The act of fake-sulking after getting into a trivial argument with your loved one (Sri Lanka)
9) The desire to pinch or squeeze someone who is overwhelmingly cute (Philippines)
10) Feeling that you’ve been struck by Cupid’s arrow when you have an intense connection with a stranger (Spain)
The business pioneer who co-founded Costco is being remembered today around the country, but particularly in the Seattle area where he opened his first store in 1983.
Well known as a philanthropist who treated his workers like family, Jeff Brotman died in his sleep at age 74, still the chairman of the warehouse chain that now operates 736 stores across the world, including 511 in the U.S.
The son of son of Jewish immigrants from Romania, Brotman not only transformed the way many families shop, he “transformed the way we treat people”, according to King 5 news in Seattle.
The state’s Governor said so many companies now in the region are offering full health insurance benefits to even part-time employees, as well as financial aid so employees can go to college, and that is due to Costco’s leadership.
His personality was “bubbly” and he had fun while he worked, an infectious quality that spread throughout the store’s aisles, where Brotman knew most employees by name.
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This sweet story is almost as beautiful as the beauty herself.
The internet has been enchanted by photos of Arlene and Harvey’s Disney-themed Beauty and the Beast wedding ceremony last week—and the couple is 64 and 70 years-old.
“I’m a widow and Harvey’s divorced. We’ve been together 10 years,” Ms. Sherman told ABC News. “We both agreed we didn’t want the traditional bride-cuts-the-cake and first-dance stuff. We also didn’t want to taint what we had in the past—and we wanted something for us and the kids.”
These choreographers are on a mission to prove that anyone can dance – no matter their abilities.
The nonprofit called Infinite Flow hosts classes, dances, and inclusive programs for kids and adults alike—and touts itself as the first professional wheelchair ballroom dance company in the world.
The founder herself, Marisa Hamamoto, used to be confined to a wheelchair when a rare disease called spinal cord infarction left her paralyzed from the neck down in 2006. Two months after the diagnosis, however, she regained her mobility and was able to walk out of the hospital so she could pick up her career as a professional dancer once more.
Then, eight years later, she stumbled upon wheelchair dancing at the Abilities Expo in Los Angeles.
“When I discovered wheelchair dancing in 2014 … I couldn’t believe how underdeveloped it was,” Hamamoto told Good News Network. “Having been paralyzed from the neck down myself, I felt compelled to do something about it. I could not imagine my life without dance and it was not fair that there were millions of people who did not have access to it.”
She eventually connected with Adelfo Cerame Jr., a paraplegic bodybuilder on social media, and the two became dance partners.
“… though he was completely new at dancing, after a few practice sessions together, I not only felt like I was connecting with him like my other professional dance partners, but I did not see the chair anymore – I just saw Adelfo, not ‘Adelfo in the wheelchair’.”
“My barriers were broken, and I knew in that moment that I wanted to share this experience to the millions people around the world, and this experience led to founding Infinite Flow in March 2015,” explained Hamamoto.
Recently showcased at the National Day of Dance by the Dizzy Feet Foundation & The Music Center in California on Saturday, their children’s troupe and the professional dancers in the group blew away the crowd with a stunning performance.
Marisa believes if the world danced together, there would be no war—and her goal is to prove it.
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This Air Force veteran was taught that he should never leave a man behind – and that is exactly the creed behind his new tiny house project.
Donnie Davis is creating a micro-housing community in Franklinville, New Jersey that will provide shelter, counseling, and therapy animals to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder – and it will all be provided free of charge.
An Afghanistan War veteran himself, Davis first got the idea for the Operation Safe Haven project when he got a call about an abandoned 277-acre campground that was going up for sale in Franklinville. Since Davis is also a pastor, the caller asked whether he would want to build a church on the property.
Instead, Davis launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for a tiny house community that would nurture vets with PTSD back to health.
In 14 months, Davis has raised over $200,000 of his $500,000 goal.
Davis has already moved onto the property so he can dedicate all his time to the initiative. A team of volunteers and veterans alike are currently working on building the facilities and recruiting potential residents. In return for housing within the community, residents will help care for the animals, grounds, and gardens.
“The houses are the easy part. Providing the counseling, social and medical aspects of the program are still ‘fluid’ as we create a personal program for each vet,” Davis told Good News Network. “We also have the 200 acres to prepare for the vets so they have a truly beautiful retreat!”
The facilities will also be carbon neutral and environmentally-friendly thanks to solar panels installed on the roofs.
Since Davis started working on the project, the veteran has found that the calming outdoor atmosphere of the campground has helped treat his own PTSD. After being in the Air Force for five years in the 90s, he worked for five years as a Maryland police officer. But now, surrounded by nature and peace, Davis feels the anxiety of his past ebbing away – and he now wants to help other veterans who are just like him in a meaningful way.
“[We want] as many [veterans] as we can help!” he told GNN. “But our goal is to also inspire others to do the same! Many hands make the load light!”
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Despite the suggestion, Simmons himself was impressed by the surprising resemblance and posted the photo on Twitter with the caption: “This is real, folks!!!”
While most cows at the ranch are bred for the slaughter, they insisted that Genie is far too special for such treatment. In fact, they are now trying to get the KISS singer to visit the ranch and meet the bovine who stole his signature look.
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Anita Hughes used to be a notorious homebody who rarely left the house, except on Sunday mornings. If she did venture out during the week, she insisted on not doing it alone.
So when she eventually got the nerve to take a road trip from her home in Cleveland, Ohio to a gospel concert in North Carolina, it was a momentous occasion.
The devout churchgoer made it to the concert without any issues – but on the way back, she got dizzyingly lost.
She then stopped at a convenience store in Virginia and begged the customers to give her directions home.
Jason Wright stepped forward and gave his best instructions on how to get to Ohio – but Hughes was still scared.
Moved by her desperation, Wright traveled dozens of miles out of the way so he could lead her back to the right interstate highway.
Wright’s patient kindness had such a big impact on Hughes, she has since become a fearless traveler, unafraid of misdirection.
The Virginia gentleman has taken a lot more trips, too. He reportedly enjoyed his time with Hughes so much, he has given rides to dozens of other strangers – all of which stem from that first encounter in the convenience store.
These Kenyan students are the embodiment of “girl power”.
Five teens who call themselves “The Restorers” are taking a stand to end female genital mutilation (FGM) with their innovative cell phone app.
The app, known as i-Cut, is a program that allows girls to call for help, seek assistance, and report abuse to reputable law enforcement organizations. When utilized by a user, the app connects her with the legal, medical, and therapeutic counseling and resources required—all at the touch of a button.
For their ingenuity, the Restorers were invited and became the only African participants to attend the Technovation Challenge in Silicon Valley, California – a competition for women who are using technology to address problems in their community.
If i-Cut wins the challenge, Technovation—which is sponsored by Google and the UN—will award the team $15,000.
The girls’ own community has denounced the practice of FGM, but since the tradition is deeply embedded in the social structure of many African villages, some Kenyan women are still subjected to the “rite of passage”.
“FGM is a big problem affecting girls worldwide and it is a problem we want to solve,” team member Stacy Owino told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “This whole experience will change our lives. Whether we win or not, our perspective of the world and the possibilities it has will change for the better.”
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Mexico City is finally taking a stance on dolphin abuse.
A bill recently passed by the Legislative Assembly of Mexico City has banned the captivity of dolphins for entertainment, performances, therapy, and research.
The bipartisan legislation, which was hailed as a “landmark ban” by the international animal protection organization In Defense of Animals, took effect earlier this week.
The law was passed in light of the organization’s “Ten Worst Tanks” list of abusive cetacean facilities. Mexico City’s Six Flags park, which is renowned for housing the late ora from Free Willy, is ranked at number 6 internationally.
Though the fate of the two dolphins and two sea lions currently at the park is still unknown, In Defense of Animals is encouraging their retirement to an aquatic sanctuary for rehabilitation.
“This landmark ban will spare generations of animals from cruelty and sends a clear message that the public increasingly rejects dolphin captivity,” said Dr. Toni Frohoff, Cetacean Scientist for In Defense of Animals. “We thank Mexico City officials for recognizing our Ten Worst Tanks list and acting swiftly to end the abuse. We urge Six Flags to retire the dolphins at a seaside sanctuary where they may recover.”
“All parties, from rights to strong lefts voted just as one,” said dolphin advocate Yolanda Alaniz at a press conference. “Deputies recognized dolphins as sentient beings who suffer living in concrete tanks. Politics spoke with ethics, and marked a new way to follow for our country, and we will follow this path.”
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This 5-year-old was all set to have a safe flight as an unaccompanied minor last month – but then the kindness of the crew made it even better
Since Southwest Airlines reportedly allows children aged 5 and up to travel unaccompanied (as long as it is either a nonstop flight or non-plane change layover), Aisley Schatz was flying home to Orlando, Florida from visiting her grandparents in Los Angeles, California
The youngster was on a non-plane change layover in Omaha when she tried to call her mother Natesha on her tablet, only to have the call give out.
That’s when Jessica Darnell, one of the trip’s flight attendants, offered up her own phone so Aisley could FaceTime her mother.
Then, even though Aisley had been able to take some snacks aboard, she began to get a little hungry.
The captain of the flight, Wes Huston, then stepped off the plane and bought the young passenger some KFC chicken strips and potato wedges.
Aisley’s mom was so grateful for the crew’s kindness, she posted her praise to Facebook.
“With all of the negativity going around with airline companies and their employees, I want to point out these … wonderful employees you guys have and I want to give them a shout out for taking care of my daughter by going above and beyond when it wasn’t something they had to do,” wrote Natesha.
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So when the parents started readying themselves for a third adoption, the family was anticipating a lengthy legal process. After 10 months of waiting, an adoption lawyer finally paired them with a 3-week-old baby girl.
Two weeks ago, the Pruitts brought the baby back to their home in Rowlett, Texas to surprise their daughters with their new sister – and their reactions are priceless.
If there is anything more road rage-inducing than when someone doesn’t use a turn signal, it is when someone is driving under the speed limit in the left lane.
And that is why Nevada lawmakers passed legislation that makes it illegal to drive too slowly in the passing lane.
Nevada State Troopers reportedly state that the number one cause of road rage is slow drivers in the left lane. In order to address this issue and encourage safer driving habits, law enforcement will be on the look out for sluggish drivers.
According to KTNV, first offense drivers will be ticketed $50, second offenses will cost $100, and third offenses clock in at $250.
The new legislation will hopefully prevent dozens of car collisions caused by frustrated drivers having to pass on the right side, rather than the left.
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No matter what happens, we will always love this video of a 9-year-old boy with Down syndrome singing a Whitney Houston song.
A video of Dane Miller belting along to Houston’s “I Have Nothing” has gone viral, with over 23 million views in just one week.
Miller reportedly first got hooked on the tune when he was watching a documentary on the award-winning musician last month – and he has loved singing the song ever since.
His mother Danna says that while Dane has always been a passionate singer, she was surprised that the video she took of her son became so popular.
“We just posted [the video] because it is so cute and precious … [but] we’re just so grateful and so happy to share Dane’s joy with people. He has a pureness of heart and a light inside him that is truly infectious,” Danna told TODAY.
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For the first time in American history, scientists have successfully used a gene-editing tool to correct a disease-causing mutation in human DNA with the goal of ending its heredity for future generations.
Until now, the CRISPR gene-editing tool had never been used for human testing in the United States. But, according to a new report published in Nature, researchers at Oregon Health and Science University were able to edit the DNA in donated embryos to remove the gene for a heart condition that is the most common cause of sudden death in young athletes.
CRISPR, which stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, uses an enzyme to track down specific sets of gene mutations that cause certain diseases. When CRISPR removes the mutation from the embryo’s DNA, it effectively brings an end to the disease being passed down that family line.
“Every generation on would carry this repair because we’ve removed the disease-causing gene variant from that family’s lineage,” said the study’s senior author and scientist Shoukhrat Mitalipov. “By using this technique, it’s possible to reduce the burden of this heritable disease on the family and eventually the human population.”
The targeted disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, affects 1 in every 500 people worldwide. It is entirely undetectable and devoid of symptoms until the host basically goes into cardiac arrest.
Since CRISPR is a controversial topic of medicine due to the ethical implications of gene-editing, researchers made sure to clarify that they were not modifying or enhancing any genes – simply correcting the mutations that had already occurred. While there may be some debate over the moral action of editing genes, scientists say that they are proceeding with caution in order to fully understand the scope of the research.
Scientists at Temple University have already successfully removed HIV from the DNA of living animals using the much-touted genetic tool.
CRISPR could also be effective in eliminating a disease like sickle cell anemia—which causes crippling pain, organ failure, and death—by removing the single misspelled letter in the genetic code that causes it.
Muscular dystrophy is another disease that might be an ideal candidate for gene correction technology that could convert mutant genes back to normal.
“This research significantly advances scientific understanding of the procedures that would be necessary to ensure the safety and efficacy of germline gene correction,” said Daniel Dorsa, senior vice president for research at OHSU.
“The ethical considerations of moving this technology to clinical trials are complex and deserve significant public engagement before we can answer the broader question of whether it’s in humanity’s interest to alter human genes for future generations.”
Most known for singing the hit songs “Gentle on my Mind,” “Rhinestone Cowboy,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Galveston,” and “Wichita Lineman”, country singer Glen Campbell, was born on April 22, 1936.
