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She Got Lesson in Patience From Young Target Employee Named Ishmael

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Sarah Owen Bigler hoped to be in and out of the Target store quickly.

With a toddler suddenly fussing in the cart and a young daughter in tow, she found a line with just one person it. But her pace slowed quickly and she became slightly annoyed when she saw the elderly woman ahead of her who was slowly counting change to pay for her items–one by one separately.

“Part of me… was frustrated with this woman and the inconvenience she had placed on me, but then I watched the young employee with this woman. I watched him help her count her change, ever so tenderly taking it from her shaking hands. I listened to him repeatedly saying ‘yes, ma’am’ to her. Never once did this employee huff, gruff or roll his eyes. He was nothing but patient and kind,” recalled Sarah in a Facebook post Wednesday.


Then, she noticed her daughter, Eloise, who was watching, too.

“I realized I hadn’t been inconvenienced at all. That my daughter was instead witnessing kindness and patience and being taught this valuable lesson by a complete stranger; furthermore, I realized that I too needed a refresher on this lesson.”

She snapped a photo on her phone to help bring praise and credit to the ever-patient employee, who had actually been working at the Glendale, Indiana store for only a few days.

“When the woman was finished, the employee began ringing up my items and thanked me for my patience. I then thanked him for teaching us patience and kindness by his treatment of that elderly woman. And although my timeline for target was askew, when Ishmael was finished I pushed my cart through the store trying to find the manager. I wanted her to know of the employee’s, kindness and patience, and how much it meant to me. After tracking her down and sharing the story with her, we left Target with a cart full of consumable items, but, what is more, a heart full of gratitude for such an invaluable lesson.”

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Ishmael’s mother came to see him interviewed by a local news station, after Sarah’s photo was picked up by the media and shared thousands of times on Facebook. She asked him what he learned from the experience. “He said hopefully he will inspire others to be kind and treat everybody like you would want to be treated.”

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“I felt very proud that this young father was being acknowledge for his outstanding customer service and positive energy in the workplace,” wrote mom Amiee Smith Gilbert on Facebook. “I have always tried my best to raise my children to respect everyone no matter their race, age or gender.”

Target has said he will be receiving a gift for his outstanding customer service.

(WATCH a video from WXIN News) – Photo via Sarah Owen Bigler, Facebook

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Struggling With Grief, Waitress Gets Great Tip and An Even Better Note

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It was a quiet night at the Cheddar’s Restaurant in Baytown, Texas that brought these two women together for a heaping serving of healing.

In the end, it wasn’t the shocking tip given to waitress Heather Schelsteder that made the biggest difference. It was the quality listening offered by the mother of two and the uplifting note she wrote on the bill.

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Schelsteder and the criminal psychologist got to talking about grief counseling and Heather opened up about her grandmother dying weeks earlier and how hard it was to lose someone close.

“She made me realize there are still people out there that do care.”

(WATCH the video above from KHOU News)

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Record Number of 2015 Organ Transplants is ‘Testament to Generosity of Americans’

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Organ transplants performed in the United States for the first time exceeded 30,000 in a single year, according to a report from the branch of the US Department of Health and Human Services that oversees national organ transplantation policy.

“This landmark achievement is a testament to the generosity of the American public to help others through donation, and their trust in the transplant system to honor their life-saving gift,” said Betsy Walsh, President of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).

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The 30,973 transplants represent an increase of nearly 4.9 percent over 2014 and continues a three-year trend of record-breaking totals. 81 percent of the transplants involved organs from deceased donors, who can donate multiple organs, while 19 percent were made possible by living donors.

If you are not a registered organ donor, you can sign up here.

Notable trends included the following:

  • The proportion of African-American and Hispanic deceased donors increased: 16.3 percent were African-American and 13.6 percent were Hispanic.
  • While the 5,986 living donor transplants in 2015 remain below all-time records, they represent an increase of nearly 2.9 percent over 2014.
  • The proportion of living donors older than 50 increased slightly, with a slight decline in the proportion of living donors between the ages of 18 and 34.

More than 121,000 men, women and children continue to wait for a transplant.

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“As the nation’s transplant network, we will continue to seek improvements to the matching system to ensure that more organs are accepted and used with the best possible outcomes for recipients,” added Walsh. “Opportunities remain for us to use more of the organs currently donated, even as we hope for more people to choose to save lives through donation.”

United Network for Organ Sharing serves the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network by contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Transplantation. The OPTN brings together medical professionals, transplant recipients and donor families to develop national organ transplantation policy.

Photo credits: (home) United Network for Organ Sharing; (top) ND Nat’l Guard and Karol Franks, CC

Despite Low Oil Prices, Renewables Attract Record $329 Billion in 2015

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Despite bargain basement prices for oil and natural gas, renewable energies like solar and wind raked in a record $329.3 billion of investment last year.

Clean energy investment surged in 2015 in China, Africa, the US, Latin America and India, driving the world total up 4% from 2014 and beating the previous record, set in 2011 by 3%, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report released Thursday.

“These figures are a stunning riposte to all those who expected clean energy investment to stall on falling oil and gas prices,” said Michael Liebreich, founder of the London-based research arm of Bloomberg LP. “They highlight the improving cost-competitiveness of solar and wind power.”

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Not only did crude oil prices plunge 67% over 18 months to the end of 2015, the price of solar photovoltaics continued their decline. Yet the record investment was unhindered by declines in the cost of photovoltaics, which allowed more capacity to be installed for the same price.

The biggest piece of the $329.3 billion invested in clean energy last year was from the financing of utility-scale projects such as wind farms, (like the string of large offshore wind arrays in the North Sea and off the coast of China), solar parks, biomass and waste-to-energy plants and small hydro-electric schemes. These totaled $199 billion, up 6% over the previous year.

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“Wind and solar power are now being adopted in many developing countries as a natural and substantial part of the generation mix: they can be produced more cheaply than often high wholesale power prices; they reduce a country’s exposure to expected future fossil fuel prices; and above all they can be built very quickly to meet unfulfilled demand for electricity. And it is very hard to see these trends going backwards, in the light of December’s Paris Climate Agreement.”

Africa and the Middle East are two regions with big potential for clean energy, given their growing populations, plentiful solar and wind resources and, in many African countries, low rates of electricity access. In 2015, these regions combined saw investment of $13.4 billion, up 54% on the previous year.

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Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Adele Shows She’s a Spice Girls Fan and “Monster” Rapper in Karaoke Video

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Record breaking recording star Adele took her show on the road in Wednesday night’s edition of “Carpool Karaoke.”

In the episode, shot in London just before Christmas, she told Late Late Show host James Corden she was a huge fan of the Spice Girls — especially “Ginger Spice,” Geri Halliwell — and the “Girl Power” image they brought to music in the 90s.

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Corden got to sing along to some of her music before Adele did a crossover cover of Nicki Minaj’s “Monster” that won the songstress a thumbs up from the rapper on Twitter.

(WATCH the video from The Late Late Show)

Humane Trend as More Major Food Companies Choose Cage-Free Eggs

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Restaurant chains Denny’s and Quizno’s are the latest to pledge their intention to buy only cage-free eggs following a transition period. They join McDonald’s, Subway, Burger King, Starbucks and Costco, along with food manufacturers, Nestle, Unilever, and General Mills, in wrapping up relationships with egg suppliers who do not treat their hens humanely.

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“These serial announcements make it plain that the long history of caging chickens as a conventional production method is coming to an end,” Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, wrote in a blog post.

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Most of the commitments will not come to pass for a couple years as companies adjust supply chains, but one chain that is not waiting is Taco Bell. It announced it would switch to serving only cage-free produced eggs by the end of 2016, which will benefit approximately 500,000 hens annually.

(LEARN how producers feel about it at NPR News)

Photo by Big Dutchman, designer of cage-free spaces 

Kind Homeless Man Gives His Own Coat to Cold Teen In Snow (WATCH)

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A sad-looking, 14-year-old boy sat in the cold with a sign asking for money, but no one paid him any attention — until a homeless man offered him the coat off his back.

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The boy wasn’t homeless, but was instead filming a social experiment with his brother. Both were shocked when Putulik Qumaq took off his own coat and gave it to the teen as snow fell around them in Montreal, Canada.

 

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Qumaq, who’s been homeless for 17 years himself, said he knew what it was like to be young, homeless and cold and it was just his “good spirit” shining through.

(WATCH the full video interview below, featuring Qumaq at his shelter, from CBC News) — Photo: MTL Cinema video

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Cop Saves Neighborhood Playtime With Gift Out Of The Blue (Watch)

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Officer Christian Coe thinks it should be against the law for kids to be without proper sporting goods.

While making his rounds through Concord last Sunday, the North Carolina cop noticed a host of kids playing basketball with a deflated soccer ball.

Later, while the kids were outside shooting hoops again, the police car stopped in front of the driveway with Officer Coe blowing a whistle.

ThinkinGNN-app-banner-ad-optg they were in trouble, the kids were nervous.

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However instead of questioning the youth, Christian got out of the car with a brand new basketball he bought for them. The kids were shocked.

Their mother was touched, and took a selfie before contacting a local news crew to make sure the good deed was publicized.

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(WATCH the adorable video above from WCNC News)

Man With Heart of Gold Keeps Theater Open So Kids Have Something to Do

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This guy has a heart that is rarely seen except on silver screens.

The Desert Historic Theatre is the only cinema within 100 miles for the people of Burns, and its owner runs it without a profit just so the kids in remote Eastern Oregon will have something to do.

“Tiny” Pedersen bought the 1940s-era movie house 13 years ago. On a good night, 30 people will turn out to see a show, buying tickets that barely cover the cost of heating the place.

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Pedersen was able to keep the theater open, thanks to a full time job at an auto repair shop and some volunteers in the community, until Hollywood shifted to digital projection a few years ago.

Tiny couldn’t get films that run on the old-fashioned projectors anymore, so the town rallied to raise $100,000 to buy new digital equipment for him.

“You just enjoy with the kids, you talk to ‘em and you know most of them by name and ask them how they’re doing in school, how they are doing in their sport if be basketball or in wrestling or whatever,” Tiny told Northwest Public Radio.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens finally opens at the Desert Historic Theatre this weekend, and Tiny says it’ll be a rare, sold-out show.

But “for the kids,” he’s running each of the six previous Star Wars episodes on the big screen first — all free of charge.

— Photo: Desert Historic Theatre, Facebook 

Boss Suggests His Employee Take a Sick-Day–and It Saved His Life

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Mike Bell’s boss didn’t like the way he looked — and taking time to be concerned saved the car salesman’s life.

The dealership’s owner, Gus Rodriguez was worried about his health, so he told him to take a sick day, and see a doctor to “figure out what’s going on.”

It was a good thing Bell took his boss’ advice — he collapsed at the hospital on his way to have an X-ray and had to be rushed into emergency open-heart surgery.

Doctors believe he would have died had he not come in that day, due to a tear in his aorta that surgeons had to patch.

Rodriguez insisted that his employee regain lost weight before letting him return to the showroom floor.

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The owner of Jeep-Chrysler-Dodge City of Mckinney, Texas also helped with his employee’s financial health — supporting Bell through his 14-day hospital stay and lengthy recovery at home.

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“He took care of me and made sure I could still pay the bills,” Bell told WFAA News.

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Stunned Toddler Pours All the Bubble Bath Into the Tub (Hilarious)

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It was an average and quiet night in the post-dinner Galvez household – until bathmageddon took over out in the tub.

Luke the four-year-old toddler was enjoying the suds that arose in his nightly bath supervised by his father Jason in New York.

“After filling the tub with warm water,” Jason told Good News Network, “I added just a cap-full of bubble-bath so Luke could enjoy some bubbles.”

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While dad nipped out of the bathroom to grab a fresh pair of kiddie PJs, he returned to find soap hiding almost every inch of the bathtub with Luke peering out amongst the white suds.

“Luuuuuke,” Jason asked, “did you pour all the bubble-bath into the water?”

The stunned tot wisely assessed the situation before replying innocently, “What bubble bath?”

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The Positive and Negative Effects of Ego in Relation to Others

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I’m going to own it… My ego is completely self-obsessed.

When I meditate I can watch my fearful, dramatic, and selfish thoughts pass by with their trove of stories and beliefs. My fearful thoughts even contradict each other:

“I’m afraid I may get pregnant.” vs. “I’m afraid I can’t get pregnant.”
“I’m afraid I will get a corporate job.” vs. “I’m afraid I won’t get a corporate job.”
“I’m afraid of too much challenge.” vs. “I’m afraid I’ll get too bored.”

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I notice my insecure, overly-dramatic obsessions about silly things:

“Did she ignore my text message because she doesn’t want to be my friend anymore?”
“This company obviously knows I’m a fraud and a failure, that’s why they aren’t contacting me immediately. They clearly don’t want me as a consultant because they know I’ll screw something up.”
“He didn’t clear my dish because he doesn’t care.”

Let’s be clear, it’s a big ol’ bag of weird in my ego-mind!

The scary thing isn’t even that we tell ourselves these types of stories, it’s that we usually believe them! Thank goodness my ego isn’t who I am and your ego isn’t who you are. If it were, we would never get anything done and the world would be madness.

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A byproduct of these fearful, insecure, and melodramatic thoughts is selfishness. All of the above thoughts, whether good intended or not, are all about me. They are about my needs, wants, desires, fears, etc. They are small and unconcerned with the greater world at large.

This is the real trouble with our frenetic and chaotic ego-minds. The ego-mind isn’t contributing to humanity and isn’t able to look at the world as a whole. It’s only able to look at a fragmented piece of the whole that it identifies as “Me”.GNN-app-banner-ad-opt

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Now there is a contradiction in this, or really a dichotomy, that in order for the world to be at peace, individuals need to be at peace. In order for the world to be happy, individuals need to be happy. So there is a certain level of “contributive-selfishness” that’s necessary.

This is the “contributive-selfishness” of growth, healing, and setting healthy boundaries. Don’t confuse this with the ego-mind’s selfishness.

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Contributive-selfishness also involves the reality that people are more at peace and happier when they are contributing to society and acting in altruistic ways. When we are outside the mania of our ego-minds, we are able to enjoy the blessings of life. When we are outside the smallness of the ego-mind, we are able to graciously contribute to the betterment of our world.

It is like all complimentary cycles. Do good – feel good. Give more – receive more. See yourself in the eyes or others – others will see themselves in your eyes.

How often during your day today were you more focused on “Me” than on “We”? How did you contribute to The World today?

This doesn’t have to mean some grandiose gesture. It could be smiling at a stranger, listening intently to a friend, or opening a door for someone that needs help.

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Contributing to the flow and goodness of each other’s lives is what ensures our future existence as a species. Focusing on selfish gain will wipe our species out.

Now we humans are unique from other species because we have the gift, or curse, of freewill and choice. We can feed the ego “Me” or feed the greater “We”.

You choose in every thought, word, and action every single day. Make the best choice for something bigger than “Me” and contribute to “We”.

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Somali Teen’s Inventions From Trash, Earn Him Ticket Out of Poverty

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He’s living in poverty, but a 13-year-old’s fascination with building his own electric toys from trash has earned him a free education.

Guled Adan Abdi first started building toy cars and airplanes using plastic trash picked up around his hometown in Somalia. He fashioned the parts mainly from cooking oil containers, cutting the bottles to create doors, fenders, and wings.

Then he found discarded electric motors and started thinking about something that would change his life.

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“I used to play with them without any motor,” Guled told the BBC. “But later I said to myself: ‘Why don’t you make them into a moving machine?’”

He studied real cars to figure out how to motorize the toys and hi other creations (pictured below).

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The only cost for Guled’s toys is the price of batteries to run them — about 25-cents for a pair.

His experiments with electric power led Guled Adan Abdi to invented a fan that cools his family home in the day, and works as a light at night.

Neighbors come by after school to watch him build his creations and his teacher has been telling local leaders about the young engineer.

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That won him a meeting with President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali of Somalia’s Puntland’s region where he demonstrated his creations for the head of state (photo, top).

The president was so impressed, that he promised his government would pay for Guled’s schooling.

Now, instead of worrying about how he’ll pay for school, Guled is already working on plans to build and sell his toys — and one day, build real cars.

Photos: Information Department, President of Puntland

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Student Uses Coupon Clipping Skills to Buy $100,000 of Products for the Poor

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Reality TV shows are good for something, it turns out.

A 16-year-old girl actually learned a valuable skill while watching “Extreme Couponing,” and has turned it into a philanthropic powerhouse for aiding people in hospitals and homeless shelters.

Instead of hoarding a stash of goodies, she uses those coupon skills to deliver food, household and personal supplies, and electronics to people in need. Hannah Steinberg has delivered many thousands of dollars worth of products by being a savvy shopper, stockpiling the goods that she buys super cheap–and continues the effort, even while in college, through her own nonprofit.

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The Tufts University student runs her nationally recognized nonprofit, “Our Coupons Care” in Massachusetts.

A youth coordinator at Coachman Family Center in White Plains says Hannah has donated $100,000 in products to that shelter alone, helping the 175 children living there.

By understanding how “Extreme Couponing” works, Hannah tracks deals and stacks coupons and other offers together in combinations, which slashes the price of items to tiny fractions of their usual cost.

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Funneling the money her nonprofit raises into buying more bargains lets her multiply every dollar’s purchasing power by five.

She’s done so much good for her community, she has earned recognition by New York congressional leaders and her city of Scarsdale declared a Hannah Steinberg Day.

“This has become something so much bigger than I would’ve imagined, for me and for the families,” Hannah told the Boston Globe. “What I’m doing is very simple.”

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Even in college, she finds time to organize a new donation drive almost every month and has rounded up donations for the Toys for Tots campaign and for Boston Children’s Hospital among her other causes.

(READ more at the Boston Globe) — Photo: Chris Potter, CC

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Church Bells Ring Out David Bowie Melody, Space Oddity (Watch)

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David Bowie, always reinventing and changing the face of modern music with showmanship and innovation, would be proud of the innovative ways his fans are remembering him, since his passing Sunday at the age of 69.

Of course, astronaut Chris Hadfield’s memorable version of “Space Oddity” recorded aboard the International Space Station in 2013 has been making the rounds on social media again, but Bowie’s iconic music has also being played from a church’s bell tower in Denmark, echoing down the streets of his boyhood home.

The carillon at the 634-year-old Dom Tower in Utrecht rang out with “Space Oddity” and “China Girl” on Monday.

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Master carillonneur Malgosia Fiebig plans to devote an hour Saturday to playing Bowie’s music on the historic church’s bells.

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And in London, thousands of fans flocked to the Brixton area where Bowie grew up. People gathered around the local mural (pictured, top) which has become an impromptu memorial piled high with flowers.

As fireworks lit up the sky, a marquee proclaimed, “David Bowie, Our Brixton Boy, RIP.” Music blared from speakers during a celebration of the singer’s life, until an electrical problem caused them to fall silent.

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Undaunted, the crowd belted out their own acoustic version of “Starman.”

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Etch-a-Sketch Pillows Change Design With Every Touch (MUST-SEE)

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Some people update their pillows with the change of seasons. Now you can redesign them every day.

Bling Is The New Black is a fashion company that has made millions of dollars with this reverse-sequined pillow that performs like an etch-a-sketch– its surface changing with every touch.

Selling for $99, you can get their “Mermaid Pillows” in several colors.

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The website has had over 80 million views since the fabulous 100% hypoallergenic polyfill pillows debuted on the internet.

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Cops Bring Month’s Worth of Groceries to Old Man Who Phoned 911 Hungry

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Police officers went above and beyond their duty to help an elderly, disabled man who hadn’t eaten in two days.

The 79-year-old called the Mount Pleasant Tennessee Police Department as a last resort after, he says, a caretaker took off with his social security check.

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Four officers spent $160 out of their own pockets to make sure he had food for a month, until his next check arrived. They then showed up at his house with armfuls of groceries.

Afterwards, they started a food pantry at the station, just in case they can help other people in similar situations.

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“We’re out here to take care of the public at large and that doesn’t always mean stopping a car,” Patrolman Mark Billions told WKRN News. “Sometimes it’s us doing little things like this.”

– Photo via WKRN

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Students Crochet Plastic Bags Into Sleeping Mats for the Homeless

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Honor students are turning plastic shopping bags into “miles of mats” to keep the homeless warm during the cold Michigan winter– and those pesky bags out of the trash.

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Miles of Mats released Three Rivers Community Schools
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The teens at Three Rivers Community Schools cut up the bags, then crochet the strips together to create insulating sleeping mats. It takes 500-to-700 bags to make each one, and the kids say they won’t quit until they’ve made a mile-long line of the six-foot by four-foot mats.

The local chapter of the National Honor Society plans to make 880 of the mats using about 616,000 plastic bags — and are looking for all the donations they can pull in.

Students are also seeking pledges of $200 for each mat they create, with a goal of raising $176,000 over the course of “Miles for Mats” to fund this and other community projects.

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“It means quite a bit to be able to give back to the community, especially the homeless who, no one really realizes how many homeless people, are here in Michigan,” junior Michael Hayes told WXMI.

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Watch This Pup Grin After Being Rescued Whenever He Hears “Say Cheese!”

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This lucky dog has plenty of reasons to flash a smile that will warm any heart, since a no-kill shelter rescued him just days before Christmas.

Ever since, Herbert the Staffordshire Terrier has been flashing his goofy, toothy grin every time someone tells him to “Say Cheese!”

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Paws Chicago has put the five-month-old pup up for adoption.

Herbert’s big smile should go a long way in finding him a family — preferably one who likes to take pictures.

(WATCH the video from ABC News below) — Photo: Amanda Robles, Facebook

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POWERBALL Dreams: 79 Winners in $1.6 Billion Lottery Jackpot

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Terry Turner
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Three lucky winners will split last night’s $1.6 billion American Powerball jackpot, with winning numbers reported in California, Florida, and Tennessee.

But 76 others won a half-million dollars or more in the drawing by getting some, but not all five numbers, plus the “Powerball” number.

The winning picks were 4, 8, 19, 27, 34 and Powerball 10.

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Winners can take their money in smaller, lump sum payment or take the full amount paid out to them in installments over 30 years.

The three winners matched all the numbers drawn, but there were smaller prizes for matching different combinations of the numbers. Because of that, 65 tickets won at least $1,000,000, eight won at least $2,000,000, and the three big winners will take home $500 million each, before taxes.

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The jackpot grew to the biggest of any lottery in American history, after changes to the rules in October. By changing the pool of numbers, the odds of winning the jackpot nearly doubled to 1-in-292-million.

The increased odds prevented anyone from winning the top prize for almost two months, letting the amount rise after each drawing. So, while you may not have won, expect to see more giant jackpots in the future.

(READ more at the Washington Post) — Photo: Public Domain Pictures; Multi-State Lottery Assn.

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