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the [h=2]Alzheimer's Husband Shows the Heart Always Remembers video:[/h]Beautiful!!!
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Bad news which turned good!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/samara-is-the-real-queen?bffb&utm_term=4ldqpgp#4ldqpgp
[h=2]An Aboriginal mother says that a woman racially abused her 3-year-old daughter for being dressed up as Elsa, telling her “black is ugly” and that “Queen Elsa isn’t black.”[/h]
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/samara-is-the-real-queen?bffb&utm_term=4ldqpgp#4ldqpgp
[h=2]An Aboriginal mother says that a woman racially abused her 3-year-old daughter for being dressed up as Elsa, telling her “black is ugly” and that “Queen Elsa isn’t black.”[/h]
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i LOVED READING THE TRIUMPHANT ENDING TO THIS OTHERWISE SAD STORY. THAT LITTLE GIRL IS SO CUTE! THANKS AMERISCOT!
Wasn't it lovely how it turned out?! Hope the racist mother and her kids saw all this and it showed them just how ignorant they are.
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You betcha! 
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[FONT=proxima_nova]Dad, daughter celebrate birthdays with '39 Random Acts of Kindness'
Jun. 24, 2015 at 11:20 AMChris Serico
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Anyone can make a wish for birthday presents, but a father and daughter celebrating their birthdays chose to be the gift-givers as they performed "39 Random Acts of Kindness."
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[video]https://youtu.be/OSGBJCkh6fU[/video]
Jun. 24, 2015 at 11:20 AMChris Serico
TODAY
Anyone can make a wish for birthday presents, but a father and daughter celebrating their birthdays chose to be the gift-givers as they performed "39 Random Acts of Kindness."
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[video]https://youtu.be/OSGBJCkh6fU[/video]
Adidas Makes Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Trash and Illegal Fishing Nets from Poachers
Adidas has an environmentally friendly idea to make sneaker out of materials from recycled ocean trash and fishing nets. By 2016, they will start to incorporate this fiber into their products. http://www.boredpanda.com/recycled-fish-net-ocean-trash-sneakers-adidas/
Adidas has an environmentally friendly idea to make sneaker out of materials from recycled ocean trash and fishing nets. By 2016, they will start to incorporate this fiber into their products. http://www.boredpanda.com/recycled-fish-net-ocean-trash-sneakers-adidas/
WOW! That is a great love story, SB! Thanks!
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Lenore, I could'nt view this video, but after reading the many comments there I know what it was about and the comments alone warmed my heart. Thank uou!
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Lenore thanks for the second one. It was amazing and yes, made me cry. What a beautiful example of the good organ donors do with the added bonus of the faithfulness of the dog!
Abandoned baby girl infant in China, gets together with an abandoned dog from Topeka, and comfort and love each other, teach each other to trust again...story and short video here.
A 5-day-old baby, umbilical cord still attached, abandoned at a bus stop in China.
A puppy, worm-infested, vomiting blood and starving to death on a porch in Topeka.
Two creatures born to misery worlds apart but brought together to teach each other about love, family, faith and, above all, about trust.
“It’s OK,” the little girl would whisper in his floppy ear the first time they meet. “Marvin, I got left behind, too, once. But sometimes, God does that so you can end up in the family you’re supposed to be in.”
Eden
When Kathryn and Kirk White brought their 9-month-old baby home from China in August 2005, the 33-year-olds decided to name their second daughter Eden.
“As in the Paradise,” Kathryn White said Tuesday. “Because she was so beautiful.”
The early years were a breeze, compared to the stories the Whites had heard about other abandoned babies. Eden was all smiles, even with Kirk — likely one of the first men who had ever held her.
It wasn’t until she was about 3 years old that she started waking up screaming in sheer panic.
White had read that for some children, night terrors were the manifestation of the abandonment they knew as a child. But that didn’t make them any easier to handle.
“She was in a constant state of being afraid, of being left,” White said. “She couldn’t calm down enough to get a good sleep.”
Sometimes, Eden would be sleep walking, repeating the same phrase — “I don’t want you to leave.”
This went on for years, progressively getting worse and more frequent until it was just about every night.
“No one was sleeping,” White said. “You don’t realize how important sleep is until you stop getting it.”
The Whites tried everything, from taking turns sleeping with her to waking her up every time someone was going to leave the house. She would want to give her dad and sister, Peyton, tons of kisses, in case they didn’t come back.
Last summer the couple, firmly against the idea but at their wits’ end, finally started to cave. It was time to look into getting Eden what she always wished upon a star for: A dog.
Marvin
Meanwhile, a 1-year-old brindle mix, then named Pork Chop, laid starving and vomiting blood on a porch across Topeka.
He had been abandoned by his former owners, left as a neighbor’s problem. The neighbor, out of money, phoned who people call in such instances: Maureen Cummins, co-owner of Second Chance Animal Refuge Society in Auburn.
“This dog is dying,” Cummins said when she saw Pork Chop, noting to herself the dog had never even seen the food of his namesake.
She immediately took him to the nearest veterinarian, who diagnosed him with three types of worms, possibly a bleeding ulcer and acute diarrhea, which was compounded by starvation. He weighed less than 20 pounds.
Marvin was given the OK to leave one week later, but he wasn’t out of the woods yet.
The next two months were a blur of feeding, antibiotics, vitamins and exercise, Cummins said. And she renamed him Marvin — as in Starvin’ Marvin.
By August, Marvin was up to 50 pounds and, while still shy, he was more energetic and active with the other 50 dogs at the refuge.
“Someday,” Cummins assured him, staring into his gentle eyes, “you will be strong, and you will be someone’s hero.”
Then, the Whites called.
They meet
All Cummins knew about Eden was that she was adopted and she needed to feel safe — not that she had been abandoned as an infant or suffered horrific night terrors.
With that information, the refuge workers came up with a list of qualities Eden needed in a dog: Calm, good with children, never shown any sign of aggression, no accidents, big enough to intimidate strangers, but safe and loving.
Marvin fit the ticket.
But when he bounded out of Cummins’ vehicle that fateful August day last year, White was having second thoughts.
“I was thinking something small she could put bows on,” White said. At 50 pounds, Marvin weighed more than Eden, and he had a face like a pit bull — White had heard the stories.
But Eden took to him immediately, and the two started playing and running around in the backyard while both women watched with careful eyes.
Cummins hadn’t known Eden’s background, but as White described it, she started to cry.
It was then Eden pulled Marvin aside, when she told him bad things happen sometimes so God can bring the right families together.
“To me, that is what rescue is about,” Cummins said.
Inseparable
In the past nine months, Marvin has become an central figure in the White family, despite breaking all of Kathryn’s rules about being inside, sleeping on the bed and sitting on the furniture. Family members describe him differently: For Eden, he is a best friend, a baby, a cuddle buddy. For White, he is her child’s protector. For Peyton, 13, he is a brother.
But as much as everyone loves Marvin, there is something special between him and Eden.
“They’ve been like this from the start,” White said, nodding to where her daughter laid on top of Marvin, showering him with kisses. “He loves all of us, but he and Eden have A Thing.”
Eden, now 9, knows exactly why they get along so well.
“Because we’re alike,” she said in the soft, shy way she has. “We don’t like to be alone.”
Each morning, Eden takes time to explain her day to Marvin: Why she is leaving and when she will be back — something she used to require of her own family. That doesn’t keep Marvin from trying to stop her, by grabbing onto her backpack or lying in front of the door.
Eden said she doesn’t like how Marvin was found and would rather he forget it. On one trip to the veterinarian, as the doctor was going over Marvin’s history — the worms, the bleeding, the starving — Eden quickly cupped her hands over her friend’s ears.
“I don’t think he remembers much of it,” she chided the vet. “I want to keep it that way.”
That was a mouthful for her little girl, White said.
Another change: The Whites can’t remember the last time Eden woke up screaming.
Marvin’s initial jitters at the slightest noise have subsided, too, White said.
“The point was for him to make her feel more secure, but I think she’s done that for him, too,” she said. “When you’ve got somebody who needs you, you’re not so focused on what you need anymore.”
Marvin has become a security blanket for her daughter, White said, the embodiment that everything will be OK, that she can count on someone.
“He’s a symbol of trust,” she said. “And vice versa.”
A 5-day-old baby, umbilical cord still attached, abandoned at a bus stop in China.
A puppy, worm-infested, vomiting blood and starving to death on a porch in Topeka.
Two creatures born to misery worlds apart but brought together to teach each other about love, family, faith and, above all, about trust.
“It’s OK,” the little girl would whisper in his floppy ear the first time they meet. “Marvin, I got left behind, too, once. But sometimes, God does that so you can end up in the family you’re supposed to be in.”
Eden
When Kathryn and Kirk White brought their 9-month-old baby home from China in August 2005, the 33-year-olds decided to name their second daughter Eden.
“As in the Paradise,” Kathryn White said Tuesday. “Because she was so beautiful.”
The early years were a breeze, compared to the stories the Whites had heard about other abandoned babies. Eden was all smiles, even with Kirk — likely one of the first men who had ever held her.
It wasn’t until she was about 3 years old that she started waking up screaming in sheer panic.
White had read that for some children, night terrors were the manifestation of the abandonment they knew as a child. But that didn’t make them any easier to handle.
“She was in a constant state of being afraid, of being left,” White said. “She couldn’t calm down enough to get a good sleep.”
Sometimes, Eden would be sleep walking, repeating the same phrase — “I don’t want you to leave.”
This went on for years, progressively getting worse and more frequent until it was just about every night.
“No one was sleeping,” White said. “You don’t realize how important sleep is until you stop getting it.”
The Whites tried everything, from taking turns sleeping with her to waking her up every time someone was going to leave the house. She would want to give her dad and sister, Peyton, tons of kisses, in case they didn’t come back.
Last summer the couple, firmly against the idea but at their wits’ end, finally started to cave. It was time to look into getting Eden what she always wished upon a star for: A dog.
Marvin
Meanwhile, a 1-year-old brindle mix, then named Pork Chop, laid starving and vomiting blood on a porch across Topeka.
He had been abandoned by his former owners, left as a neighbor’s problem. The neighbor, out of money, phoned who people call in such instances: Maureen Cummins, co-owner of Second Chance Animal Refuge Society in Auburn.
“This dog is dying,” Cummins said when she saw Pork Chop, noting to herself the dog had never even seen the food of his namesake.
She immediately took him to the nearest veterinarian, who diagnosed him with three types of worms, possibly a bleeding ulcer and acute diarrhea, which was compounded by starvation. He weighed less than 20 pounds.
Marvin was given the OK to leave one week later, but he wasn’t out of the woods yet.
The next two months were a blur of feeding, antibiotics, vitamins and exercise, Cummins said. And she renamed him Marvin — as in Starvin’ Marvin.
By August, Marvin was up to 50 pounds and, while still shy, he was more energetic and active with the other 50 dogs at the refuge.
“Someday,” Cummins assured him, staring into his gentle eyes, “you will be strong, and you will be someone’s hero.”
Then, the Whites called.
They meet
All Cummins knew about Eden was that she was adopted and she needed to feel safe — not that she had been abandoned as an infant or suffered horrific night terrors.
With that information, the refuge workers came up with a list of qualities Eden needed in a dog: Calm, good with children, never shown any sign of aggression, no accidents, big enough to intimidate strangers, but safe and loving.
Marvin fit the ticket.
But when he bounded out of Cummins’ vehicle that fateful August day last year, White was having second thoughts.
“I was thinking something small she could put bows on,” White said. At 50 pounds, Marvin weighed more than Eden, and he had a face like a pit bull — White had heard the stories.
But Eden took to him immediately, and the two started playing and running around in the backyard while both women watched with careful eyes.
Cummins hadn’t known Eden’s background, but as White described it, she started to cry.
It was then Eden pulled Marvin aside, when she told him bad things happen sometimes so God can bring the right families together.
“To me, that is what rescue is about,” Cummins said.
Inseparable
In the past nine months, Marvin has become an central figure in the White family, despite breaking all of Kathryn’s rules about being inside, sleeping on the bed and sitting on the furniture. Family members describe him differently: For Eden, he is a best friend, a baby, a cuddle buddy. For White, he is her child’s protector. For Peyton, 13, he is a brother.
But as much as everyone loves Marvin, there is something special between him and Eden.
“They’ve been like this from the start,” White said, nodding to where her daughter laid on top of Marvin, showering him with kisses. “He loves all of us, but he and Eden have A Thing.”
Eden, now 9, knows exactly why they get along so well.
“Because we’re alike,” she said in the soft, shy way she has. “We don’t like to be alone.”
Each morning, Eden takes time to explain her day to Marvin: Why she is leaving and when she will be back — something she used to require of her own family. That doesn’t keep Marvin from trying to stop her, by grabbing onto her backpack or lying in front of the door.
Eden said she doesn’t like how Marvin was found and would rather he forget it. On one trip to the veterinarian, as the doctor was going over Marvin’s history — the worms, the bleeding, the starving — Eden quickly cupped her hands over her friend’s ears.
“I don’t think he remembers much of it,” she chided the vet. “I want to keep it that way.”
That was a mouthful for her little girl, White said.
Another change: The Whites can’t remember the last time Eden woke up screaming.
Marvin’s initial jitters at the slightest noise have subsided, too, White said.
“The point was for him to make her feel more secure, but I think she’s done that for him, too,” she said. “When you’ve got somebody who needs you, you’re not so focused on what you need anymore.”
Marvin has become a security blanket for her daughter, White said, the embodiment that everything will be OK, that she can count on someone.
“He’s a symbol of trust,” she said. “And vice versa.”
Korean War Memorial Renovated Thanks to $100k Contribution from South Korea
...http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2015/07/korean_war_memorial_in_jersey_city_renovated_with.html
Korean War veterans and their families braved the heat and humidity today for the official unveiling of the refurbished Korean War Memorial, made possible bya generous donation from the province of Gyeonggi, South Korea.
Last November the city of Uijeongbu in Gyeonggi donated $100,000 to Jersey City to update the monument in Paulus Hook after vandals defaced it, said Eddie Paradine, commander of the Korean War Veterans Association of Hudson County.
"Sixty-two years ago the [Korean] War ended," Paradine said in front a crowd outside the monument at the foot of Washington Street in Jersey City. "And now we can celebrate it by putting the finishing touches on the monument for the 133 soldiers from Hudson County who gave their lives."
Eighteen new pictures were engraved inside the circular memorial with the donated money about two weeks ago, according to John Burns, the owner of Burns Bros. Memorials, whose company completed the work. The pictures depict scenes from modern day South Korea as well as moments from the Korean War.
The memorial's mounted floodlights were ripped from their bases and granite etchings of soldiers' names were defaced last year, drawing the outrage from veterans of the war.New floodlights donated by a developer in Hoboken have since been installed and have deterred anymore vandalism, Ward D Councilman Michael Yun said prior to today's ceremony.
"They [the vandals] should have a good slap," said Alfred Czarnetki, 89, who served as a Marine in the Korean War back in 1950.
Meanwhile, a list of additional Hudson County residents that died serving in the Korean War is still being compiled which will later be etched into the monument, explained Paradine. The association is still looking into getting surveillance cameras installed.
The Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953, pitted the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north again the Western-backed Republic of Korea to the south. The bloody conflict saw more than 33,000 U.S. soldiers killed in combat and upwards of 5 million civilians and soldiers.
Several other city officials and members of organizations like the Korean-American Association of New Jersey delivered comments during the ceremony. Hyung Gil Kim, deputy counsel general of the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York, expressed his deepest gratitude on behalf of South Koreans.
"I was born and educated in a free democratic nation and now I'm here with you today, all because of your services and sacrifices of the Korean War veterans," said Kim to applause. "These days you can witness that Korea is writing an unprecedented story of success [...] All the while, North Korea has gone down a misguided road..."
"Ladies and gentleman, I tell you: The Korean War is not forgotten. The Koreans will never, ever forget the services and sacrifice of your brothers and husbands and your fathers and grandfathers."
...http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2015/07/korean_war_memorial_in_jersey_city_renovated_with.html
Korean War veterans and their families braved the heat and humidity today for the official unveiling of the refurbished Korean War Memorial, made possible bya generous donation from the province of Gyeonggi, South Korea.
Last November the city of Uijeongbu in Gyeonggi donated $100,000 to Jersey City to update the monument in Paulus Hook after vandals defaced it, said Eddie Paradine, commander of the Korean War Veterans Association of Hudson County.
"Sixty-two years ago the [Korean] War ended," Paradine said in front a crowd outside the monument at the foot of Washington Street in Jersey City. "And now we can celebrate it by putting the finishing touches on the monument for the 133 soldiers from Hudson County who gave their lives."
Eighteen new pictures were engraved inside the circular memorial with the donated money about two weeks ago, according to John Burns, the owner of Burns Bros. Memorials, whose company completed the work. The pictures depict scenes from modern day South Korea as well as moments from the Korean War.
The memorial's mounted floodlights were ripped from their bases and granite etchings of soldiers' names were defaced last year, drawing the outrage from veterans of the war.New floodlights donated by a developer in Hoboken have since been installed and have deterred anymore vandalism, Ward D Councilman Michael Yun said prior to today's ceremony.
"They [the vandals] should have a good slap," said Alfred Czarnetki, 89, who served as a Marine in the Korean War back in 1950.
Meanwhile, a list of additional Hudson County residents that died serving in the Korean War is still being compiled which will later be etched into the monument, explained Paradine. The association is still looking into getting surveillance cameras installed.
The Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953, pitted the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north again the Western-backed Republic of Korea to the south. The bloody conflict saw more than 33,000 U.S. soldiers killed in combat and upwards of 5 million civilians and soldiers.
Several other city officials and members of organizations like the Korean-American Association of New Jersey delivered comments during the ceremony. Hyung Gil Kim, deputy counsel general of the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York, expressed his deepest gratitude on behalf of South Koreans.
"I was born and educated in a free democratic nation and now I'm here with you today, all because of your services and sacrifices of the Korean War veterans," said Kim to applause. "These days you can witness that Korea is writing an unprecedented story of success [...] All the while, North Korea has gone down a misguided road..."
"Ladies and gentleman, I tell you: The Korean War is not forgotten. The Koreans will never, ever forget the services and sacrifice of your brothers and husbands and your fathers and grandfathers."
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Thanks for these, SeaBreeze! Spirits now lifted.
Volunteers Re-Paint Senior's Home, When Teens Said It Was So Crappy It Should Be Burnt Down
Full story, more pics here.
When railroad track inspector Josh Cyganik of Union Pacific heard local kids making rude comments about 75-year-old Leonard Bullock’s home, he decided that he had to do something about it. On July 15th, he posted this message to Facebook:“…I was at work a couple weeks ago and I heard 2 teenage boys walked by this old man’s house…[and] they said loud enough for me to hear ‘look at this crappy house they just need to burn it down’!…
So I’m asking if anyone that wants to help this Saturday to volunteer their time to help paint this gentleman’s house!”The response was stunning. “I stopped counting at 95 volunteers, but everyone showed up excited and willing to help.” People came from as far as Texas, Washington, and California to help out. When asked for a comment by the Daily Mail, Cyganik said, “According to the media, I’m a hero. I’m not a hero, I just heard something that bothered me.”
Full story, more pics here.
When railroad track inspector Josh Cyganik of Union Pacific heard local kids making rude comments about 75-year-old Leonard Bullock’s home, he decided that he had to do something about it. On July 15th, he posted this message to Facebook:“…I was at work a couple weeks ago and I heard 2 teenage boys walked by this old man’s house…[and] they said loud enough for me to hear ‘look at this crappy house they just need to burn it down’!…
So I’m asking if anyone that wants to help this Saturday to volunteer their time to help paint this gentleman’s house!”The response was stunning. “I stopped counting at 95 volunteers, but everyone showed up excited and willing to help.” People came from as far as Texas, Washington, and California to help out. When asked for a comment by the Daily Mail, Cyganik said, “According to the media, I’m a hero. I’m not a hero, I just heard something that bothered me.”
Husband Plants Fields of Sunflowers to Honor His Wife Who Died from Cancer
And uses the seeds to support cancer research, more here.
Babbette Jaquish was known as the “Sunflower Lady” in the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, community where she lived. When she died last November after a long battle with cancer, her husband, cash grain farmer Don Jaquish, decided to fulfill one of her dreams. He planted 400 acres of sunflowers and started a company, Babbette’s Seeds of Hope, to raise money for cancer research.“She realized the importance of research in clinical trials. She went from being expected live two weeks to two months to nine years,” Jaquish told ABC News. “Her attitude was everyday I can stay alive I’m one day closer to a cure. Unfortunately her health just kept declining over the years, and it got to be too much to start and operate a business when she was so sick.”
And uses the seeds to support cancer research, more here.
Babbette Jaquish was known as the “Sunflower Lady” in the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, community where she lived. When she died last November after a long battle with cancer, her husband, cash grain farmer Don Jaquish, decided to fulfill one of her dreams. He planted 400 acres of sunflowers and started a company, Babbette’s Seeds of Hope, to raise money for cancer research.“She realized the importance of research in clinical trials. She went from being expected live two weeks to two months to nine years,” Jaquish told ABC News. “Her attitude was everyday I can stay alive I’m one day closer to a cure. Unfortunately her health just kept declining over the years, and it got to be too much to start and operate a business when she was so sick.”
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Wolf pack sighting could signal comeback in California
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34020774
A pack of wolves has been spotted in Northern California for the first time in nearly 100 years.
The appearance of the five grey wolf pups and two adults could signal a return of the animals, which have not been found in the state since 1924.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife first discovered the pack this month in Siskiyou County near the Oregon border using a remote camera.
The wolves have been named the "Shasta Pack" after a nearby mountain.
"This news is exciting for California," Charlton Bonham of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said on Thursday. "We knew wolves would eventually return home to the state and it appears now is the time."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34020774
A pack of wolves has been spotted in Northern California for the first time in nearly 100 years.
The appearance of the five grey wolf pups and two adults could signal a return of the animals, which have not been found in the state since 1924.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife first discovered the pack this month in Siskiyou County near the Oregon border using a remote camera.
The wolves have been named the "Shasta Pack" after a nearby mountain.
"This news is exciting for California," Charlton Bonham of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said on Thursday. "We knew wolves would eventually return home to the state and it appears now is the time."
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Love both of those stories, go grandma. Wonderful reunion, made me shed a tear or two or more.