American Family Insurance created a short film for Father’s Day that has attracted 3.5 million views on YouTube and caused quite a few tears to flow.
“Here’s to all dads out there supporting their kids’ dreams,” the company wrote.
The father in the story knows his son wants dance lesson, but provides a little “insurance,” so the boy won’t be bullied for it, in the form of a confidence boosting regimen.
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A tiny newborn chipmunk fell 20 feet from its nest, so a family in India called on animal rescue volunteers who decided to scale a building in order to reunite it with its mother.
The mother’s nest was perched on an air conditioner unit, with nothing but flat wall around it, so volunteers on the roof hoisted the man up—all while the mother frantically chirping maternal warnings at the approaching stranger.
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The baby, with its eyes still closed from birth, was returned to its family, where the Indian aid group said its brothers and sisters were “going nuts”.
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After public outcry following a media investigation, the interim President of Brazil, Michel Temer, announced that the Brazilian Armed Forces will provide a plane exclusively for transporting organs for transplant patients.
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After hearing the report and talking to his assigned staff, the president decided to equip an airplane exclusively for the transportation of patients or their life-saving cargo.
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A chauffeur was driving in New York last week when he saw a car stopped in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge. He noticed a little dog limping underneath the vehicle, and pulled over his limousine to hurry over and help.
“The dog was nervous and didn’t want to move from under the car so I went back to my limousine to find something I could use as a leash,” said Garrick Quinones. “Thank God I quickly found my phone cord and went back under the car to get him.”
After a few tries the stray allowed Quinones to put a cord on him, and lead him slowly out—all while cars were rushing by and honking.
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The driver scooped up the pup and went searching for the nearest police officer. He could see the dog was thirsty and bought a bottle of water.
Quinones, who works at Limousine of New York, brought him to the 19th police precinct and was told they would scan the red-haired dog for a chip because it didn’t have collar. He told Good News Network wanted to stay with the dog, which looked like Toto from the Wizard of Oz but, the officer assured him they would give him water and take care of him.
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“My newest little dog friend looked up at me and started to follow me and didn’t want me to leave after I brought him to the precinct,”
A few hours later the police called to say the dog did have a chip and the owners were contacted.
A happy ending, but also another reminder of the importance of having your pets microchipped.
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For most brides, the father-daughter dance is such a special moment.
Julie Finkel from Ohio wanted to make it especially memorable for her dad who’s deaf, so she signed the song lyrics earlier and projected them on a screen above the dance floor.
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Both Julie’s parents were born hard of hearing because of an outbreak of the Rubella Measles in the mid-sixties.
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The best part, captured by wedding videographers, was the touching embrace at the end.
(WATCH the video above from Inside Edition) – Photo via Agape Photography
It’s a miracle the driver made it out alive because the flames were towering before firefighters hosed down his SUV in a California shopping plaza parking lot.
Minutes earlier, a man can be seen on video shouting at the driver to get out of the vehicle before it burst into flames, but no one emerged.
The stranger, worried about the threat as black smoke billowed from the car, pulled the driver from the front seat, dragging his unconscious body along the pavement in a daring rescue.
The sheriff’s department is working on getting him a plaque to honor him from his bravery.
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This raccoon’s baby was driving her up a wall–but the animals pulled together for an incredible rescue.
Check out this YouTube video of raccoons holding on to each other so they could pull a baby to safety over a roadside barricade.
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The adult raccoon leans over the wall to grab the baby while another raccoon holds onto its legs. A police officer in Missouri spotted the nocturnal animals making a break for it near a high school.
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The owner of a gas station in Canada says he is “blessed with a team that ‘saves the world from the ordinary’ every day,” and he posted an adorable moment caught on surveillance camera to prove it.
At the Milne Court Petro-Canada in New Minas, Nova Scotia, employees love the customers and the customers love them back.
Owner-operator Scott Fraser hears the stories everyday, “Ken will say, ‘I just saved another motor’ or he will find another senior with a safety inspection expired, or about to expire.”
He often hears customers ask, “Where do you find all of these wonderful people?”
But even for Scott’s team, occasionally something will happen that “stands out–even from the extraordinary.” Scott described what happened on Sunday.
“An elderly lady came in and I am not sure exactly how the subject was broached but… one of the workers, Sean, was asked if he would mind dancing with the Petite Belle from Britain. He promptly agreed. He also explained that the customers in line were his priority however if she did not mind waiting he would love to dance with her.”
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“She waited.
And then they danced.
She danced, twirled and even broke into song.
From beginning to end, Sean was a gentleman. Allowing the ‘Petite Belle’ to enjoy herself, while never breaking eye contact, or his engaging smile.
I love that he took the time to dance with her.
I love that the customers who were initially in line said ‘You dance with her, we’ll wait’.
Dr. Seuss once said ‘Why fit in when you were born to stand out.’
And stand out he did.
Bravo Sean.”
(WATCH the YouTube video below)
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In the middle of America’s most urban metropolitan area, the world’s largest vertical farm is about to deliver its first harvest of sweet, leafy baby greens.
In a warehouse just outside New York City, near Newark, New Jersey, this 70,000 square-foot indoor farm will produce two million pounds of fresh produce every year once it is in full bloom
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The vertical farm can grow 70 times more food per square foot than farmers can raise in an open field. Because the facility recirculates water, it uses only 5% as much water and half as much fertilizer, which often pollutes nearby streams.
AeroFarms achieves its high production by staggering crops throughout the year. The company is able to switch between 22 different crops featuring roughly 250 varieties of fruit and vegetables.
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The crops will be marketed to people in New York City, less than an hour away, to cut down on both the cost and pollution of transportation. The first “planting” at the Newark facility took place in March and the first harvest will feature leafy summer greens.
The Newark facility is one of four vertical farms the company is operating, with more projects underway across the U.S. and abroad.
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Celebrating a 100th birthday is rare enough, but when three lifelong friends do it together, it really is a cause for celebration.
Even Oprah Winfrey had to send birthday wishes to these three BFF centenarians.
Ruth Chatman Hammett, Gladys Ware Butler and Bernice Grimes Underwood were all born within a couple months of each other in 1916. They almost were a quartet reaching 100 (in this photo above), but one of them just passed, less than two months ago.
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They met as children in Washington, DC attending Zion Baptist Church, where a birthday party for the ladies was attended by the mayor and D.C.’s congresswoman, and family members including great-great-grandchildren.The fourth friend, Leona Barnes, was celebrated, too—with a framed photo that sat beside the three centenarians during the ceremony.
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Butler told the Washington Post she prays every day, Barnes still lives independently and says she wants to go to college, and Underwood said she still dances, “Sometimes by myself,” as seen in the video below which shows her doing the Electric Slide.
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“Finding Dory” is breaking box office records while entertaining whole families— but it is also teaching children valuable lessons about how to treat people with disabilities.
The title character, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, is a fish who has suffered with short-term memory loss since her birth. The movie is filled with other characters who have disabilities, too, and they all overcome obstacles together.
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The entire film shows how their assumed shortcomings actually give them qualities that provide unseen advantages.“I love that message, too, that even your disability can be your biggest strength,” DeGeneres told Entertainment Tonight.
It also sends viewers the message that, while Dory’s mind works differently from others, those who aren’t willing to be patient or kind are the ones with the real problems.
(WATCH the video below from CBS News) — Photo: Disney/Pixar
When his nine-year-old daughter asked dad to “babysit” her doll for the day, this Kansas trucker took Abbie on the road.
“She really wants to go trucking with her ‘Grandpa,’” the little girl told him.
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So Trent McCain loaded Abbie into his grain-hauling rig and started sending his daughter Joselyn photos throughout the day documenting the doll’s big adventure.
“She was too late on that,” he chuckled, retelling the story.
The photos were so popular on Facebook that a friend suggested the McCains put the photos on their trucking company’s business page. Overnight, the page went from 300 likes to more than 5,200.
Commenters on the McCain Enterprises Facebook page have been overwhelmingly positive about this “Take Your Daughter’s Doll to Work Day.”
“In my eyes, that’s what make a man sexy,” Anjanette Hicks-Davidson posted.
McCain has been fielding media calls from “Montana and Australia” regarding the photos, but Trent reminded Good News Network that he didn’t share the images for “fame or glory.”LOOK: Airport Not Only Returns Lost Toy, It Makes Picture Book of Tiger’s Travels
“We did it because we love our daughter,” he said by telephone. “It brought a lot of joy to people and it’s brought a lot of joy to me, too, because it made everybody’s day.”
“With all the upheaval in the world right now and the negativity you’ve got going on, it was refreshing for everybody to see something positive,” he said. “A gal in Virginia even took the time to call me and thank me for what we’d done, and that really makes your day that you were able to bring a bit of happiness to somebody’s life.”
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As crowds gathered for a week of candlelight vigils for the Orlando shooting victims, a rainbow arched over the city, and 49 birds — one for each person lost — flew overhead.
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One day after the shooting, Joel Franco snapped a photo of a flock of birds flying overhead at a memorial service. Only his friends began counting them did he realize there were exactly 49 birds in the sky.
49 birds flew over the #Orlando shooting memorial honoring the 49 victims. pic.twitter.com/6dVIBJbkEU
— Joel Franco (@OfficialJoelF) June 15, 2016
A week later, as 50,000 people gathered to remember the victims, storm clouds cleared and a rainbow appeared.
(READ and WATCH the touching memorial coverage at CNN) — Photo: Gino Iavarone III, Facebook
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Being pranked on the first day of college in Brazil is part of the “welcome ritual” for public college freshman. State run universities here are free and normally offer a good quality education so the competition is tight–and pranks are nearly inevitable.
In the past five years, however, freshman had no motivation to avoid the hazing at the Federal University of Medicine in Itajuba because seniors started practicing solidarity pranks where the incoming students must collect food for local charity institutions.
Historically, the prank is only a one-day thing, but these students had to gather food from May 9th to the 13th, and the donations collected totaled over two tons of groceries.ALSO: College Students Invent Gloves that Speak Sign Language Out Loud
The idea was born after academic officials decided to put an end to harassing pranks that put students in embarrassing situations.
The freshmen divide themselves into groups and compete against each other to see who can gather the most food.
“Every year, the 87 freshman are divided and the goal is to overtake the numbers from the previous year, says Freshman Vitoria del Sarto. “This competition helped us to double last year’s total donations.”
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Of the total amount, 2000 Kg (2 tons), the winning group this year amassed 800 Kg (1763 lbs) for delivery to charity organizations, poor families and low-income college employees.
According to Del Sarto the act of delivering the food is a nice way to approach students and the local population.
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India’s yoga-loving prime minister Narendra Modi celebrated the second annual International Yoga Day by leading a throng of practitioners through a series of poses and breathing exercises.
He arose early Tuesday to get down on a mat with 30,000 others in the city of Chandigarh—and proclaimed the 5,000 year-old Indian tradition to be the “biggest mass movement in the world”.
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People who make yoga an integral part of their life accrue a range of health benefits, including stress reduction, better balance and more flexibility of movement.
Last year, the Indian government announced that millions of its country’s stressed and out-of-shape officials would be participating in free daily yoga lessons.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first buprenorphine implant for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. It is designed to provide a constant, low-level dose of the drug for six months in patients who are already stable on low-to-moderate doses of other forms of buprenorphine, as part of a complete treatment program.
Regular use of the drug reduces opioid withdrawal symptoms and the desire to use, without causing the cycle of highs and lows associated with opioid misuse or abuse. At sufficient doses, it also decreases the pleasurable effects of other opioids, making continued opioid abuse less attractive. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, patients receiving MAT for their opioid use disorder cut their risk of death from all causes in half.
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However, as an implant, Probuphine provides a new treatment option for people in recovery who may value the unique benefits of a six-month implant compared to other forms of buprenorphine, such as the possibility of improved patient convenience from not needing to take medication on a daily basis. An independent FDA advisory committee supported the approval of Probuphine in a meeting held earlier this year.
“Opioid abuse and addiction have taken a devastating toll on American families. We must do everything we can to make new, innovative treatment options available that can help patients regain control over their lives,” said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. “This approval provides the first-ever implantable option to support patients’ efforts to maintain treatment as part of their overall recovery program.”
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“Scientific evidence suggests that maintenance treatment with these medications in the context of behavioral treatment and recovery support are more effective in the treatment of opioid use disorder than short-term detoxification programs aimed at abstinence,” said Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. “This product will expand the treatment alternatives available to people suffering from an opioid use disorder.”
President Obama proposed a 2017 budget that would spend $1.1 billion to expand programs for those addicted to heroin and prescription painkillers.
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They celebrated more than just musical theater at the 70th annual Tony Awards June 12. It was announced Andrew Lloyd Webber was awarding $1.3 million to music and theater education in America.
The money will go towards helping talented students overcome economic barriers to pursue a career in the theater and provide state school drama teachers with the resources they need to nurture young talent in their schools, with a special emphasis on music.
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According to the group, theater education is now offered in only 4% of primary schools and 45% of secondary schools—and African-American and Hispanic students are getting less than half the access to arts education as their peers.
Funding will be provided directly to under-resourced public schools to provide instruments, dance floors, lighting grids, and other materials to help create new theater programs and enhance existing ones. Grants will also go towards covering the costs associated with sending select students to summer study, after school training programs and theatre studies at the University level.
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“I am passionate about the vital role of the arts in education. My career started in schools with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat premiered by a college in both Britain and the USA,” said Webber through his foundation, which has already boosted such programs in his own country of Great Britain. “Disgracefully the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.”
“Our partnership with Andrew and his Foundation on this initiative will help us ensure that the long term ecology of the theater remains healthy, accessible, and inclusive,” added Heather Hitchens, President and CEO of the American Theatre Wing.
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If you never get around to eating your food leftovers, this machine will use them to cook your next meal.
Set it up in your back yard, dump in your leftovers and other organic waste, and HomeBioGas turns it into clean cooking gas. It can even process fats, oils, milk, and meats that cannot easily be composted.
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The byproduct from the gas-making process can either be used in a gas stove, or be used as a natural, liquid fertilizer.
The Israel-based inventors launched an Indiegogo campaign to deliver the machines by August. They raised almost a quarter million dollars through donations and pre-sales, so far.
The green machine, which costs $995, can crank out enough gas for three hours of cooking every day.
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HomeBioGas is easy to set up and break down and doesn’t need electricity to operate. Those qualities have made prototypes of the device ideal for villages in Palestine and Uganda that are using them to produce fuel because they lack basic electricity.
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When a Pennsylvania teen literally slept through his high school graduation week, his classmates were willing to re-stage the entire milestone ceremony for him.
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Scott Dunn was injured in a car crash just days before he was set to receive his diploma, and remained in a coma for days, missing his graduation.
To cheers from the crowd, Dunn was able to walk across the stage and pick up his diploma.
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“I’m speechless, to know this many people are behind me,” Dunn told WPVI News.
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Most Muslims observe the holy month of Ramadan by abstaining from food and drink during daylight hours, but one Islamic group near Detroit asked its members to break their fasting so they could donate blood in the immediate aftermath of the Orlando shooting.
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We will work with our neighbors and our fellow citizens, and do the best we can as members of the Muslim community to remove hate and build bridges.” Dr. Mansoor Qureshi, president of Detroit chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslims told the Detroit Free Press.
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