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91-Year-old in Hospice Care Has Knit 8,000 Hats For the Homeless

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Morrie Boogart isn’t letting anything stand in his way of helping those less fortunate – even the skin cancer that’s put him in hospice care.

The 91-year-old of Grandville, Michigan has knitted over 8,000 hats for the homeless during the last 15 years.

Even though he spends his days fighting the cancer and a growth on his kidney, Morrie never stops stitching.

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“Why do I do it? It just makes me feel good.” Boogart told WXMI. “This has been the best thing that’s happened to me because I just stay in my room,”

The crates of caps are to be delivered to homeless shelters throughout Grand Rapids in October.

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New Zealand Businessmen to Buy Cruise Ship For the Homeless

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A couple of New Zealand’s businessmen are making a big splash in the country’s rising homelessness population.

Homelessness is a huge problem in Auckland, New Zealand: property prices have increased almost 80% over the past five years, making the city’s housing market one of the most expensive in the world.

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That’s why Gary House and his colleagues are considering purchasing a 400-bed cruise liner to dock in Auckland.

“Living on a cruise ship is not a long-term solution,” House told The Guardian, “but things are so bad for so many families now, it could help ease the pressure for two or three years while longer-term strategies are put into place.’

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The philanthropists have received some negative responses about the quality of life in the cruise ship, but House’s enthusiasm is unmoving.

“People would not be on the ship 24/7. They’d be getting off, going to work, living normal lives. But at least, at night they could return to a bed and not a park in the middle of winter.”

Currently, dozens of families are sleeping in cars, garages, and parks due to homelessness. House estimates he could have the cruise liner ready in a month.

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Huriomoan Dennis, the chairman of Te Puea Marae – an area providing shelter to homeless families in Auckland – supports House’s plan.

“It is obviously a short-term solution but I support any proposal that will get people out of cars and into something warmer and bigger,” said Huriomoan. “At the moment there is nowhere short term for people in desperate housing situations to go, and a cruise ship would allow the social agencies to catch up with families and help them while they have a roof over their head.”

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Cruise ship or not, the huge waves House and his colleagues have made towards the awareness of homelessness in Auckland can only bring support and more ideas for solutions.

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These Teens Developed a Seed That Can Cleanse Polluted Water

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Two teenage Brazilian students, 15 and 18 years old, won the Latin America Google Science fair that awards young scientists for innovative projects in science and technology with a magic seed that cleans polluted water.

João Gabriel and Letícia Pereira’s project on supplying clean water for regions in need proved that seeds of moringa oleífera can be used to filter contaminated water, remove impurities, and make water drinkable again. The idea is to use the plant as an easy access alternative to remove pollution instead of using chemicals.

According to the students, the idea came to them after an incident left a nearby city without clean water.

“We wanted to do something to help the ones in need after the disaster in Mariana, where a broken dam sent tons of mining residues to the rivers, and help them to filter [the] water” says Leticia, a recent high school grad from Fortaleza, Ceará in northeastern Brazil.

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The project, Magic Seed: Transforming Polluted Water Into Drinkable Water, has been developing since the beginning of the year and only just finished before the competition deadline.

With the award, Joao and Leticia are searching for sponsors in order to compete in the finals of the international competition taking place in California come September.

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Boss Buys Car for Employee Who Suddenly Was Tardy, ‘Because We Love You’

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Alex Rios knows the value of loyalty and hard work—and doesn’t hesitate to reward it.

As the owner of a daycare center in Edinburg, Texas, he cherishes not only the children he teaches but also his workers. His employees at Kids’ Kollege Learning Center make it the best it can be—and earned him the city’s Business of the Month award in June 2016.

One employee had been with the company almost from the beginning. Veronica Solis cooked homemade meals for the kids every day. Despite being treated for cancer, she remained a stellar employee, never missing a day—until Rios noticed she was suddenly always late.

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After he learned about her transportation problems, he decided to buy her a new car. He videotaped the surprise, saying on YouTube, “Maybe someone out there will be touched and also continue this chain of paying it forward.”

“It is not every day that we can do something like this for other people, but right now that I am able to, why not do it for someone that cares for you and takes good care of your business?” he added. “It‘s because we love her, and she has inspired my life to never give up and always work hard.”

(WATCH her being surprised on YouTube)

 

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Prisoners Can Reduce Jail Time by Helping Street Dogs

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Prisoners in the regional penitentiary of Pelotas, a country side city in the south of Brazil, are building houses for dogs and – since the project started roughly three months ago – over 50 houses have been already been built.

Every three days of work reduces one day of jail time. When the wood and shingle houses are ready, they are placed around the city and dogs can come and go as they please.

“I [leave] a blanket and a few sheets of newspaper and they love to stay inside” Says the local resident Maria Queiroga.

Some citizens have enjoyed the projects contributions so much that they have donated materials to the prison and requested shelters for their own yards.

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“Most of the residents who request these animal houses for their backyards are people that have street dogs around their houses and decide to keep them”, says Fluvio Bubolz, the director of the facility.

The project also helps to resocialize the criminals.

“It’s good for nothing to just lock the person in a cell. So we try to give them something they can do, give some meaning in life.”

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The prisoners like the idea. “I would work all day and all night if I could because winter here is very cold. [It is hard] for people, so is for an animal”, says a prisoner.

“This really helps to make time goes by faster and keep our ideas out of crime. Besides, one of the residents that asked for the shelter visited us and told me about Jesus. That changed my life, this is the best place of this jail”, says another prisoner. For privacy purposes, we didn’t disclose prisoner’s names.

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High School Cross Country Team Take Shelter Dogs For a Run

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These abandoned pups were taken out for the time of their lives thanks to a nearby high school cross country team.

Coach Luis Escobar of the St. Joseph High School Cross Country Team in Santa Maria, California had been trying to figure out how his students could have fun while logging their necessary volunteer hours that their curriculums require.

Then he thought of the pups cooped up at the Santa Barbara County Animal Services and got an idea: his runners could do their daily jog while tracking volunteer hours and giving the shelter dogs some exercise.

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The teens were paired with twelve dogs for a few miles of romping and – judging by the adorable video below – it was a great success.

“I am not sure who was more excited and having the most fun…the dogs or the kids,” he wrote in his Facebook post. “Either way, it was a great time and I am sure we will do it again sometime soon.”

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Watch 1,000 Musicians Play Epic Tribute to David Bowie

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The same group of 1,000 musicians that demanded a Foo Fighters concert in their town by simultaneously playing “Learn To Fly” is back to pay homage to the late and great rock visionary David Bowie.

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After the Rockin’ 1,000 in Cesena, Italy – also known as the biggest rock and roll group in the world – performed their plea in 2015, the Foos actually ended up visiting their town to play a show.

This week, they organized the “That’s Live” concert with a performance of Ziggy Stardust’s “Rebel Rebel”.

(WATCH the rock and roll video above)

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Flight Attendant Adopts Stray Dog That Always Awaited Her Return From Countries Abroad

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When Olivia Sievers paid attention to this poor homeless pooch outside her hotel, it was love at first sight—afterwards, he only had puppy eyes for her.

In February 2016, the German flight attendant flew to Argentina for business. On her way to the Hilton in Buenos Aires, she met the amiable stray for the first time and offered him some love and attention. The dog refused to leave her side and followed her all the way to the hotel, hanging out with her for two days whenever she left the building.

When it was time for Olivia to fly back to Germany, she sadly bid a fond farewell to her new friend expecting to never see him again.

But in April she returned and they reunited for two more days. They spent many hours walking many miles together—and he always followed her back to the hotel.

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Afterward, she didn’t fly to Buenos Aires for three months. When she returned in July, she wanted to sleep for a few hours and planned to search for the dog and continue trying to find him a home.

When she came down to the lobby, he was already sitting in front of the Hilton’s glass doors.Rubio The Dog-Olivia Sievers Facebook

‘How did he know I was back,’ she wondered.

“The Hotel staff told me later that day, that he was sitting in front of the hotel for three months—sometimes returning a few times a day—looking for me.”

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This time, she tried to arrange an adoption with a manager in a nearby hotel in San Telmo. She delivered the dog, whom he named Rubio, but after one week he escaped, faithfully backtracking the 1.7 kilometers to join the flight attendant once more at the hotel in Puerto Madero.

Olivia realized their long-distance relationship had to end.

To save Rubio from his dangerous life as a street dog, she decided to adopt the hound herself, bringing him all the way home to Germany. He has settled in happily with her other pooches and now spends long afternoons romping in the back yard never having a care in the world about where in the world Olivia might be.

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An audio book about their extraordinary friendship, “Love without Borders – Rubio, the most loyal dog of the world” is available on Amazon.

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Michael Phelps Gets Revenge, Wins Two Olympic Medals for Historic Tally of 21 (WATCH)

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A famed US swimmer won back the gold medal that is closest to his heart on a day of pure dominance for the most medaled Olympic athlete of all time.

By his own admission, Michael Phelps “couldn’t have scripted it any better,” but Tuesday would also be the toughest day of his career.

The 200m butterfly was the event in the last Olympics, in London in 2012, where he was beaten by a fingertip by South African Chad Le Clos. But yesterday the 31-year-old exacted revenge in Rio and won it one last time.

“Mission accomplished,” he said on Tuesday after claiming the 20th Olympic gold of his career. “That was the last time I’ll ever swim it and I didn’t say anything to anyone else, but there wasn’t a shot in hell I was losing it.”

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Remarkably, his historic tally of gold medals rose to 21 after he helped Team USA win the 4x200m freestyle relay, just 70 minutes later.

Phelps said he had been prepared to leave “every ounce” in the pool, and it paid off when he won by just 0.04 seconds. “Just being able to see the number one next to my name again, one more time in the 200 fly, I couldn’t have scripted it any better.”

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The London 2012 gold medallist swimmer Le Clos just missed out on the bronze, which was won by Tamas Kenderesi of Hungary, and the silver went to Japan’s Masato Sakai.

(WATCH the Highlight Reel From SB Nation)

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How A Yellow Car Saved Me From Myself

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Toni Powell’s delightful and funny ‘once upon a time’ time style tale ‘How A Yellow Car Saved Me’ tells the story of how one little car changed her life. Just a few moments of epiphany, in a quiet suburban street, gave her the simplest of tools to reduce her anxiety, stress and whining.

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If you’d like to be happier, smile more, and stress less – watch this video. To find out more and get the book ‘The Yellow Car – How I Stopped Driving Myself Crazy’ (which tells the rest of the story and includes a second epiphany) visit Toni Powell’s website.

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Watch Man Use His Flyboard to Extinguish Boat Fire

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The fire department didn’t even have time to arrive before Jesse Gavic had extinguished the blaze ravaging a pontoon boat on Saturday.

When Jesse and his brother Caleb saw the smoke climbing over the Minnesota lake, they got their flyboard ready and took to the skies over the boat.

After politely seeking permission to put out the fire from the sailors who had jumped overboard, Jesse used the flyboard’s water to spray the boat until it stopped smoking two minutes later.

“It’s different than anything anyone has probably ever tried,” Jesse Gavic told WCCO. “You really do feel like Iron Man.”

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A flyboard is a jet-propelled pair of boots that is connected by hose to a jet ski or watercraft. The water shooting out of the boots is enough to carry someone up to 50 feet into the air.

The brothers are international flyboarding competitors and help run the Sky High Flyboards company in Minneapolis.

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Crowd Cheers as Girl Saves Unsuspecting Fan from Fast Fly Ball (WATCH)

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A ball girl at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California prevented certain disaster when she caught a 103 mile per hour fly baseball that was headed straight towards a fan who was not paying attention.

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After using her cat-like reflexes to snatch it out of the air, the crowd roared with approval as she handed the ball to the man she had just saved.

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Couple Can’t Find Cruelty-Free Diamonds So They Make Their Own

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When Murad Osman wanted to propose to his girlfriend Nataly in India, he couldn’t bring himself to spend money on the diamond industry that exploited child labor and the environment.

That’s why the couple started Follow Your Love: a conflict-free jewelry line that sells man made diamonds equal in brilliance to natural gems that took millions of years to develop in the ground– except it only takes a matter of weeks.

The process for manufacturing the man made diamonds dates back to the 1950s when the High Pressure, High Temperature technique was originally developed by General Electric.

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“In this process, we melt graphite under tremendous pressure and temperature to mimic nature’s process,” Follow Your Love’s COO, Isaac Gottesman told the Good News Network.

The molten metal alloy produces 2-3 carat cuboctahedral-shaped crystals with a variety of color ranges — or a 1 carat faceted gem that is colorless.

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The company also donates a minimum 10% of their proceeds to The Adventure Project, a nonprofit that provides support and resources to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

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Have Tissues Ready: Gwen Stefani Invites Bullied Fan on Stage (WATCH)

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In the midst of her tour promoting her latest album “This Is What The Truth Feels Like” Gwen Stefani paused her show mid-performance to show a bullied fan some love.

A mother at the West Palm Beach, Florida show passed a sign to the pop star reading “My son was bullied from first to fifth grade. He would come home every day upset, but he’d go to his room, listen to your music, and smile.”

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Without missing a beat, the singer demanded the little boy join her on stage.

Not only did he receive rousing applause from the audience and bear hugs from Gwen, but he was also invited backstage after the show for selfies.

(WATCH the tear-jerking video below)

 

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Watch Woman Surprise Stepdad With Porsche He Gave Up To Marry Her Mom

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Dave had spent years putting money away so he could restore his favorite automobile to working condition: a white 1973 Porsche 914.

That is, until he met Kristin Russell’s mom and spent every dime of his savings on their wedding, leaving his beloved car gutted for parts.

Years passed and eventually Kristin becomes a grown woman who wants to give back to the stepdad that was always there for her by tracking down a replacement of his dream Porsche.

After countless searches, the determined daughter finally finds a model in Arizona and she starts on a cross-country mission from her home in California to pick up the car and bring it to a mechanic near her parent’s in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Father’s Day.

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Kristin starts by giving Dave a card explaining how grateful she is to have him in her life – then she has someone rev the vehicle’s engine outside.

When the lucky stepdad walks outside, he doesn’t realize the car is his right away – but when he does, he can’t believe it.

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‘Mood ATM’ Checks in on User’s Feelings Instead of Their Money

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Now instead of checking up on the varying states of their bank accounts, New Zealand pedestrians can take a look at how the residents of their city are feeling.

The Moodbank is an ATM-like machine where users can select a combination of over 1,000 moods and emotions to explain how they’re feeling.

Engineered by Australian artist Vanessa Crowe as an experiment in human and technologic interaction, the installation has been making its way around New Zealand, creating a geographic mood map of the country.

The graphs show incredibly colorful and elaborate trends of people feeling moods such as ‘snappy’, ‘peachy’, ‘groggy’, ‘loved’, and ‘buzzing’.

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“City spaces have often been thought about in terms of the functional flows of people and things: the money that is exchanged, the congestion of rush hour, the accumulation of rubbish and the cold face of professionalism,” reads the Moodbank Tumblr. “More recently businesses, governments, and social media have come to see the value in finding out how happy we are. But what about the more diverse and complex emotional life of the city?”

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The first Moodbank branch opened in Wellington in March 2014, with over 2000 mood deposits made in the first ten days, many of which took shape in the form of colored pencil drawings. The Moodbank ATM itself has moved from Wellington, to Auckland, to Whangarei.

You can check in on the Moodbank deposits on the project’s website, Tumblr, or Facebook page.

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Man Breaks Down in Tears When Graduating Girl Asks Him To Be Her Dad (WATCH)

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Lauren Hernandez didn’t just become a high school graduate – she became the officially adopted daughter of a new dad.

During her graduation party, Lauren surprised Joe Iosco – her mother’s boyfriend of 17 years – with a framed poem and adoption papers to make him her legal father.

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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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Tesla Autopilot Feature Saves Sick Driver’s Life

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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.

Neally had only been driving a Tesla Model X for seven days when all of a sudden on his way home from work in Springfield, Missouri, an intense pain started to grow in his abdomen.

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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Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon Play Hilarious Celebrity Photobomb Prank (WATCH)

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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 Ice Drummers Use Frozen Lake as Musical Instrument (WATCH)

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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.

Lake Baikal is the deepest and largest freshwater lake in the world – it also becomes a fantastic set of bongos in cold weather. With temperatures averaging at -4º Farenheit (-20º Celsius), the ice freezes to roughly one meter thick.

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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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