Lauren Hernandez didn’t just become a high school graduate – she became the officially adopted daughter of a new dad.
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Joe was so overcome with happiness, he fell to the ground in tears as Lauren announced the good news to the crowd.
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Joshua Neally may not have made it to the hospital in time to save himself from the pulmonary embolism crippling his system if it hadn’t been for his week-old automobile.
The driver switched on the autopilot feature and directed it towards the nearest hospital 20 miles away.
“It was kinda getting scary. I called my wife and just said ‘something’s wrong’ and I couldn’t breathe, I was gasping, kind of hyperventilating,” Neally told KYTV-TV. “I just knew I had to get there, to the ER.”
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Pulmonary embolisms are blocked blood vessels in the lungs that can be fatal if not treated quickly. If Joshua wasn’t escorted to the hospital by the Model X, he would have had to pull over and wait for an ambulance – which may have spelt disaster for the Missouri lawyer.
Even though the autopilot feature has been controversially hailed, Neally has vouched for the technology ever since the life-saving incident in July.
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Tourists on top of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City in 2014 thought that they were getting their photos taken for the building’s website.
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Little did they know that Golden Globe winning actor Jon Hamm and The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon were making side-splitting guest appearances behind their backs.
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Siberian percussion group Ethnobeat aren’t famous for waling on any ordinary drums – the foursome are renowned for beating out funky grooves using only a frozen lake as their instrument.
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But when these Russians start slapping the lake’s chilly surfaces, it’s hard not to marvel at how much it sounds like a steel drum’s tropical beats.
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By the time the Italian coast guard reached this unconscious feline floating on the waves, they thought that they already might be too late.
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A few nerve-wracking minutes of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and massaging later, the bedraggled little kitten finally awoke.
Once a veterinarian declared the cat unharmed, he was immediately adopted by the Marsala district office and fondly dubbed Charlie.
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When Hector Montoya was only 9-years-old, he happened to see one of the many horror stories regularly broadcasted on the news: a little girl’s parents had perished in a house fire.
That wasn’t a good enough reason for Hector – so instead of using the $300 stashed away in his savings account for a new Playstation 4, the boy spent the money on smoke detectors.
Now 11-years-old, Hector has donated 6,425 smoke detectors to families across Texas.
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After his most recent contribution of 125 detectors to the Desoto Fire Department on Wednesday, the boy was honored for his generosity in a ceremony featuring local firefighters, his family, and the city mayor. The donations will be distributed throughout nearby senior homes in need.
Hector’s compassionate actions make sense considering he dreams of one day becoming a firefighter himself.
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“We have a fire academy here. We’re giving him a scholarship for the academy. He’s given so much, and we’re going to give a little back to him,” DeSoto Fire Rescue Chief Jerry Duffield told Inside Edition. “A smoke detector wakes [up families], gets them outside, saves their lives. Not only is Hector saving the lives of these folks who wake up and hear the alarm, he’s also saving the lives of the firefighters who are first to respond to a scene, having to make a tough decision about sending people in. There’s a lot of layers of what he’s done.”
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Since he made his own fortunes through real estate, Dale Stoner has been able to cover every want or need his family has ever had – yet now that he’s in his old age and his kids are all grown up, he’s decided to give back to his community by paying for eight high school students’ college tuition.
Dale sat down with officials at University Prep in Victorville, California and found several names of hardworking teens that deserved the financial leg up.
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Two of the kids, Ronaldo Lopez and Tonantcy Vargas, were introduced to the elderly philanthropist so he could surprise them with the big news in person.
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) today announced the number of veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States has been cut nearly in half since 2010. The data revealed a 17 percent decrease in veteran homelessness between January 2015 and January 2016—quadruple the previous year’s annual decline—and a 47 percent decrease since 2010.
This significant progress is a result of the partnership among HUD, VA, USICH, and other federal, state and local partners. These critical partnerships were sparked by the 2010 launch of Opening Doors, the first-ever strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness. The initiative’s success among veterans can also be attributed to the effectiveness of the HUD-VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) Program, which combines HUD rental assistance with case management and clinical services provided by the VA. Since 2008, more than 85,000 vouchers have been awarded and more than 114,000 homeless veterans have been served through the HUD-VASH program.
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“We have an absolute duty to ensure those who’ve worn our nation’s uniform have a place to call home,” said HUD Secretary Julián Castro. “While we’ve made remarkable progress toward ending veteran homelessness, we still have work to do to make certain we answer the call of our veterans just as they answered the call of our nation.”
In 2014, First Lady Michelle Obama launched the Mayors Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness with the goal of accelerating progress toward the ambitious national goal of ending veteran homelessness. More than 880 mayors, governors, and other local officials have joined the challenge and committed to ending veteran homelessness in their communities. To date, 27 communities and two states have effectively ended veteran homelessness, serving as models for others across the nation.
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HUD and VA have a wide range of programs that prevent and end homelessness among veterans, including health care, housing solutions, job training and education. In FY 2015, these programs helped more than 157,000 people—including 99,000 veterans and 34,000 children—secure or remain in permanent housing. Since 2010, more than 360,000 veterans and their families have been permanently housed, rapidly rehoused or prevented from becoming homeless through programs administered by HUD and VA.
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The Louisiana black bear is the state mammal for Louisiana, and it is one of 16 subspecies of the American black bear. While the American black bear can be found across North America, the Louisiana black bear subspecies is only known to occur in Louisiana, East Texas and western Mississippi. Compared to other black bears, the Louisiana black bear’s skull is longer, narrower and flatter, with larger molar teeth.
The mammal was removed from the Lists of Threatened and Endangered Wildlife under the Endangered Species Act due to recovery.
Recovery was made possible thanks to the active partnerships of many private landowners, state and federal agencies, universities and non-governmental organizations. Since the Louisiana black bear was listed in 1992, voluntary landowner-incentive-based habitat restoration programs and environmental regulations have not only stopped the net loss of forested lands in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial River Valley, but have resulted in significant habitat gains.
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A major factor in this positive habitat trend is the success of incentive-based private land restoration programs, such as the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP). Since 1992, more than 148,000 acres of habitat have been permanently protected and/or restored through the WRP program. Additional private lands have been restored through the efforts of private landowners and organizations. Over 65,000 additional acres of bottomland hardwood forest have been protected and restored through the efforts of such groups as Wildlife Mississippi, Mississippi Land Trust Mississippi River Trust, Black Bear Conservation Coalition, Bear Education and Restoration Group of Mississippi and the East Texas Black Bear Task Force.
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Currently it is estimated that between 500 and 750 Louisiana black bears roam the United States, approximately double the population size at the time of listing. Techniques such as live trapping, winter den inspections, radio telemetry monitoring, and DNA sampling have been used to determine population size.
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A friend of mine once said to me “wherever there is happiness, you can be sure love was there first.”
By the same token, experiences of sadness, injustice, violence, discrimination and anger that seem to abound also started out as a lack of love. The main antidote then, in my view, is for us to relentlessly and creatively find ways to nourish love back into our world. With that in mind, three months ago I launched a campaign called #LiveLove no matter what as an invitation for us to do precisely that, to live love, to breathe love, to celebrate love, to speak of love, to sing of love and to love love.
Meditation, specifically morning meditation, is also an accessible way to #LiveLove. By starting the day focusing on our breath, we give ourselves a chance to step back from repetitive thought patterns, especially the destructive ones. On particularly tumultuous periods, I can hear some of those loud and disturbing thoughts. I acknowledge them and then I consciously replace them with a thought that is more aligned with the day I’m wanting to live. It’s a simple step but there’s a lot of love involved.
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Another effective way that I have found to #LiveLove is to give myself mini-breaks throughout the day when I treat myself to something physical that makes me happy. My favorite treat is to dance. Sometimes I go for a short walk. It could even be that during my mini-break I finally realize I need to go to the restroom. I like to do something physical because I have a tendency to get stuck in a rational mode that leaves little to no space for love. By extending awareness to my body, I can recognize love when it comes my way and express it freely.
I also believe guarding our thoughts from negativity is crucial if we are to stop adding to the existing hostility in our world which is in itself an important way to #LiveLove. Turning off the television is an efficient way not to nourish destructive thoughts. In addition, with social media, we can now choose to broadcast little bits and pieces of hope, love and compassion through stories of people, like you and me, who believe in those things. Simple choices like watching movies that warm our hearts, listening to music that calms our soul, being selective of the thoughts we invite into our heads and meditating can play a decisive role in our ability to nourish love. After all, society – local or global – is nothing but a sum of all individuals that make it up. When individuals like you and I decide to #LiveLove, there is no stopping us. Cheers to love!
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These veterans struggling with PTSD aren’t the only ones hurting – that’s why these birds and humans are taking care of each other.
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The love and dependency that forms between the two parties is tangible.
Ever since the sanctuary started encouraging the unique rehabilitation, it revealed such remarkable improvement, that group therapy and medication simply couldn’t compete.
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What happened last night reaffirmed my beliefs that racial harmony is still strong in Singapore!
At about 7:30pm last night, I was about to chase a bus back home with my wife. Then I heard a woman yell “That old man fell down!”
I yelled to my wife to call the ambulance while I dug in my bag for a shirt. While I applied pressure to where he was bleeding on his head, he was shivering and muttering. I continued applying pressure and carried him over to a ledge for him to sit on. At that point in time, all I could think about was stopping his bleeding, as it had already went down to his shirt.
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Out of nowhere, a few passerby came by to help:
1) a Chinese woman shielded the old man with an umbrella while asking the old man for his family member’s contact.
2) an Indian man came to us and took the old man’s bicycle aside (it was still in front of me).
3) a Malay man rushed to the nearest clinic and called the doctor for help.
4) a Bangladeshi man stood behind me to shield me and the old man from the rain while I was still applying pressure.
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The scariest part for me was holding the shirt and feeling it getting heavier and warmer. I didn’t want to apply too much pressure and hurt the man nor did I want to be too soft and have the blood keep flowing.
1) the Malay man was constantly looking out for the ambulance.
2) the Chinese woman got a hold of the old man’s family and comforted the old man, telling him that they were on their way.
3) the Indian man gave his wet tissues to my wife so she could wipe blood off of the old man’s hand and face.
4) the Bangladeshi man was still using his umbrella to cover the old man and the doctor.
After what seemed like forever, the ambulance finally came to bring the old man and his grandson to the hospital.
I don’t even know the names of the people who helped me last night but I was truly touched and moved by the unconditional help of our fellow Singaporeans (and foreign help!)
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What gave me hope that the elderly man would make it was that he was asking for his bicycle even when he was being put into the ambulance.
Thank you my wife Jenny Insyirah Farhanah Lim for calling the ambulance and telling them to come to the exact location and also wiping the blood off of his face and hands.
But most of all, thank you to those people who rushed over to help. I am extremely touched.
Written by Khairul Farhan
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Even though Jeni Stepien’s father passed away in 2006, there was still a part of him that came back to walk her down the aisle.
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Not only did she invite him to the wedding, but she asked if he would like to walk her down the aisle in her father’s stead.
Even though the two families had never met, Thomas traveled from New Jersey to Pittsburgh just to assist the bride-to-be.
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No one in their right mind would want to go near a big cat in the wild, but these brave villagers weren’t about to let an endangered animal drown.
After they received the call for help, the Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Centre arrived on the scene and – with a team of villagers at their side – sprung into action.
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First, the group lowered a large wooden platform into the well next to the cat. Once it had crawled on, they eased a metal cage in to seal the deal.
Even though the leopard was wary of the contraption, it soon gave in to its exhaustion and climbed aboard.
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Once wildlife specialists examined the animal and declared it unharmed, it was released back into its natural habitat.
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Jessica Bean, due to her lifelong struggle with cystic fibrosis, prepared for the worst and married her childhood sweetheart when she thought there was no more hope for her condition – until she had a conversation with a health coach that changed her life forever.
Jessica became determined to plan a wedding between her and her fiancé Cameron in Queensland, Australia, even though she knew she might die soon after the ceremony – at least she would die a married woman.
As fate would have it, her wedding photographer happened to be the wife of a health coach who suggested that maybe Jess just needed to lay off the sugar.
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Instead of chocolates and lollipops, she started eating healthier fats like avocados and peanut butter in fruit smoothies.
The results were dramatic: Jessica’s lungs healed so quickly, her ER visits became fewer and fewer until they stopped althogether. In fact, the 28-year-old just celebrated an entire year without a trip to the hospita.
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Jessica is now a happy health and wellness coach on Instagram who uses her own success story to encourage her clients to be more considerate of the substances they put into their bodies.
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The Nigerian men’s soccer team was dangerously close to missing their first chance at competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics, but thankfully, they had luck – and a good airline – on their side.
That’s when they were told that all the flights to Brazil were fully booked.
Efforts to book a charter flight failed because the team of over 30 officials and players was too many people for any plane.
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Delta Airline officials started scrambling to find a solution for the displaced team in time for their match on Thursday evening.
Finally, on Wednesday, airline workers discovered an NBA charter plane that was free to take the entire squad without having to bump passengers. Arriving just hours before their game against Japan, the Nigerian team was given the flight free of charge with a return trip home included.
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When Eric Rieger was younger, he always used to get in trouble for doing graffiti – that’s when he decided to use a less destructive art medium and switch to yarn instead.
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City officials adored the installation so much, they started locking up the court at night so no one would be able to vandalize the project.
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What started as an hour long Uber ride home became the start of a lifelong friendship – and the chance for a father to see his son compete in the Rio Olympics.
However due to a lack of funds, the father simply couldn’t afford to watch him perform.
Liz was saddened by her new friend’s plight, so after returning to her home, she created a Go Fund Me page asking for $7,500 to fly Ellis to Brazil.
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Within two days, 150 backers had pushed them over their goal.
Ellis was walking out of his church when a television station called him to announce he was going to Rio.
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“I haven’t seen my son in a couple months because he’s been training,” Hill told People. “I cant wait to see him and encourage him in person and let him know I’m 100 percent in his corner.”
Liz and Ellis have been in constant touch since the campaign’s success, and the two anticipate a lasting friendship for years to come.
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When the other kids at Chick-Fil-A’s Galaxy Night told Caleb Merriken that he couldn’t play with them, the employees of the chicken restaurant decided to take matters into their own hands.
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The 8-year-old Star Wars fan suffers from spinal muscular dystrophy and is confined to a wheelchair – but that didn’t stop the Georgian workers from whipping out their lightsabers and dueling with the young Jedi themselves.
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Even though Mahdi Gilbert was born without hands or feet, that didn’t stop him from becoming an award-winning magician on national television.
Since every magic trick in the book is based on having hands, Mahdi had to create his own techniques in order to perform his magic.
One he came to the dramatic reveal – with a little help from the audience – Penn and Teller were shocked.
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“Wow!” exclaimed Penn on the show. “One of the things that we’re doing on this show is we read a lot of magic books and study a lot of magicians and watch a lot of videos and every single thing we watch and study is for people with hands.”
After a few more congratulatory words, the legendary magicians that Mahdi had looked up to his whole life declared themselves bamboozled.
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“I was very surprised,” Mahdi told the Good News Network. “I did not go on the show with the intention of fooling them. I went with the intention of performing really good magic to millions of people.”
The 26-year-old New York City based magician is keeping his future plans a secret but you can follow his activities on his Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube pages.
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