tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27053693411709213812024-02-20T17:45:17.130-08:00 Web of Good newsGood news. Cool Stories. Humor.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705369341170921381.post-25770917050989736712013-03-29T18:21:00.001-07:002013-03-29T18:21:15.717-07:00Lost Florida Girls Signal Helicopter With Light-Up ShoesThree little girls got lost in the Florida woods Monday night, and their quick thinking helped law enforcement find them.
Two sisters, Grace Shaffer, 6, and Aubrey Shaffer, 9, and their 13-year-old neighbor wandered into a densely wooded area about two miles from their homes in Lakeland, Fla., early Monday evening hoping to see horses.<br />
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“They have boundaries set in the front yard,” Missi Shaffer, Grace and Aubrey’s mother, told ABCNews.com. “They usually stay within those boundaries. We’ve never had a problem with them wandering off.”<br />
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The three girls had passed through a barbed-wire fence into a prohibited area on the way to a nearby horse trail.
“As night began to fall, they got disoriented,” Donna Wood, Polk County Sheriff’s Office public information officer, told ABCNews.com. “They were pretty far into the area and got lost.”<br />
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Shaffer was alarmed when she did not see her daughters within their designated play area and checked with her neighbors before calling 911 to report them missing. “We were told a suspicious vehicle had come in near their boundaries,” Shaffer said. “Our first thought was they were kidnapped.”<br />
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After the 13-year-old called her father from her cell phone and told them where they were, the sheriff’s office directed their search to the woods, bringing in a helicopter and K-9 authorities.<br />
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Read more and see video at <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/03/lost-florida-girls-signal-helicopter-with-light-up-shoes/">ABC News</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705369341170921381.post-32806440370582797622013-03-09T12:43:00.001-08:002013-03-09T12:43:23.264-08:00Dog Saves Missing Polish Girl, Keeps Her Warm in Freezing ColdA small dog saved the life of a three-year-old girl who went missing in Poland and spent the night in freezing cold temperatures, Vesti FM radio reported on Sunday.<br />
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Read more at <a href="http://en.ria.ru/world/20130303/179787703/Dog-Saves-Missing-Polish-Girl-Keeps-Her-Warm-in-Freezing-Cold.html">RIANOVOSTI</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705369341170921381.post-16234518679616798462013-03-04T10:21:00.000-08:002013-03-04T10:21:40.320-08:00Humans of New York Raises $100,000 for Brooklyn YMCANew York street photographer Brandon Stanton found out a lot of his photos had been used in a DKNY store in Bangkok without his knowledge or approval. When he found out, he requested they donate $100,000 to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. DKNY apologized for using his photos without his approval and agreed to donate $25,000. Read his blog posting about it <a href="http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/43997717109/i-am-a-street-photographer-in-new-york-city">here</a>.<br />
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Stanton decided he'd still like to raise the $100,000, so he asked his readers if they would help contribute money to the YMCA. After a few days, they reached the goal. Read the blog posting <a href="http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/44380628962/my-name-is-brandon-stanton-and-im-a-photographer">here</a>.<br />
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The fundraiser also made the cover of the <i>Metro New York</i> newspaper. <a href="http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/44549494137/our-fundraiser-is-on-the-cover-of-metro-this">Link</a><br />
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KCTV first did a story on the unintended donation Feb. 9. Sarah Darling had put her engagement ring in her change purse because it was bothering her finger. A chance encounter with Harris on the street led Darling to give the man her loose change. It was only a day later that she realized her engagement ring was missing. When she came back to Harris on the same street, he still had the ring and gave it back to her.<br />
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The New York Daily News reveals when the woman and her husband returned, they gave the homeless man all the cash she had on her -- around $40 to $60. Then Bill Krejci, who is a web designer, was inspired by some media outlets' websites where people asked how they could help. Enter GiveForward.com.<br />
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This, apparently, has not sated his wanderlust. So now he's in a dusty village in Ethiopia's Rift Valley, ready to launch a seven-year, 21,000-mile journey on foot that will take him from Africa, across the Middle East and through Asia, over to Alaska and down the Western edge of the Americas until he hits the southern tip of Chile.
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"The short version is I'm interested in narrative, I'm interested in storytelling," Salopek, speaking by satellite phone, tells Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep. "After jetting around the world as a foreign correspondent, after flying into stories, after driving into them, helicoptering in, even, I thought about what it would be like to walk between stories. Not just to see the stories we were missing by flying over them, but to understand the connective tissue of all the major stories of our day."<br />
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Gosha - a 15-year-old Black Sea bottlenose dolphin - can now leap out of the water and crawl up to 10 metres on his belly.<br />
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Winnipeg's residents are at it again.<br />
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According to Yahoo News, customers at a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Winnipeg started a chain of goodwill that ended up extending to 228 lucky residents on Friday.
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"One generous customer at the restaurant on Beaverhill Blvd. started a chain of customers paying for the person behind them that lasted about three hours," an employee told CBC News.<br />
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Read more at the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/pay-it-forward-chain-in-w_n_2366237.html">Huffington Post</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705369341170921381.post-91093304913520213922012-12-27T16:51:00.003-08:002012-12-27T16:51:30.814-08:00Anonymous family pays $211 grocery billAn Iowa family received a gift they said they will never forget.
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Ruby Modlin was grocery shopping at the Walmart with her family Friday night, picking up items to make cookies and other holiday food with her grandchildren when she noticed a man following her around the store.
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"I kept noticing this man, and I'd smile at him," Modlin said.
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Modlin thought maybe she graduated from high school with the man, but when she got to the checkout counter and her husband was about to pay, the man stepped in front of her to swipe his credit card.
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"I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘I’m paying for this.’ I said, ‘No, you’re not.’ He said, 'Yes, I am,’” Modlin said.
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The man paid, and then handed her the receipt for $211, saying, “Merry Christmas!”
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Read more and see video at <a href="http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/Anonymous-family-pays-211-grocery-bill/-/9357080/17883184/-/10gpf4f/-/index.html">KCCI</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705369341170921381.post-81271599836686748732012-12-27T16:44:00.002-08:002012-12-27T16:44:38.244-08:00Blind dog Abby finds her way home in depths of Alaskan winter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When their blind eight-year-old dog went missing from their remote Alaskan home in a heavy snowstorm, the Grapengeter family felt sure they'd never see her again. But after more than a week of searching in temperatures as low as minus 40C, Abby, a brown-and-white mixed-breed whom the Grapengeters rescued from an animal shelter as a puppy, turned up safe and sound at the home of a local vet.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705369341170921381.post-5515534835140265342012-12-27T16:38:00.002-08:002012-12-27T16:38:32.255-08:00Girl of ten opens family cafe to serve dinner for 50 homeless After ten-year-old Gracie McNulty’s father died in an accident, she wasn’t sure how to cope with her first Christmas without him.<br />
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So she decided to abandon the usual family festivities – and make her father’s last Christmas wish come true instead.<br />
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With the help of her mother and three siblings, Gracie served turkey with all the trimmings to 50 homeless people yesterday.
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Some 400 Vancouver elementary schoolchildren were asked to report on their happiness after four weeks of participating in one of two scenarios, according to the study published Wednesday in the online publication PLOS ONE.
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Monzon and Valdovinos were sitting on a bench outside their Chicago homes listening to music when a gang member opened fire. Monzon sensed the danger and jumped to his feet, taking 3 bullets in his arm and chest that would have struck Valdovinos in the head.<br />
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Read more at <a href="http://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/220/14-year-old-Hero-Rony-Monzon-took-3-bullets-to-save-his-friend/">Sunny Skyz</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705369341170921381.post-16979802530148352962012-12-25T15:57:00.004-08:002012-12-25T15:57:50.586-08:00Santa Claus Uses Sign Language With Boy, Makes Family's Christmas Special <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IER1p7f_SgI" width="450"></iframe><br />
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According to the London Free Press, members of the London, Ontario, Muslim mosque helped the Society of St. Vincent du Paul, a Catholic organization, gather enough food to feed more than 100 families during the Christmas season.
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More than 20 years later, it has grown into an event nearly 25 times bigger, helping 4,000 children and 1,800 parents from various homeless shelters, according to a statement from the organization.<br />
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<a href="http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/12/17/christmas-city-gift-holiday-cheer/oRW4dcUEGfeJVI1u8UbNOK/story.html">Read whole article at the Boston Globe</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705369341170921381.post-81160730439677450822012-12-13T11:11:00.002-08:002012-12-13T11:11:56.058-08:00Landlord gets into the Christmas spirit by sending tenants letter dropping rent for the festive period A small act of Christmas kindness on the part of a Los Angeles landlord has spread across the Internet - restoring some people's faith in humanity.<br />
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A picture posted by Reddit user Mikeoley shows a letter he and other tenant's received telling them that because it is the Holiday Season, he is lowering their rent.
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Explaining that the generous gesture is a tradition, the landlord known as Joel offers to 'deduct $70 from your regular rent for the month of December and perhaps use those monies to purchase a gift for someone special in your life.'<br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241714/Buy-gift-special-life-Landlord-gets-Christmas-spirit-sending-tenants-letter-dropping-rent-festive-period.html">Read more at the Daily Mail</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705369341170921381.post-58056013504711532872012-12-13T10:59:00.000-08:002012-12-13T10:59:49.727-08:00For Salvation Army, there's gold in them thar kettlesModern coins go "plink" when they drop into a Salvation Army kettle. But gold is a softer metal; it goes "plonk." And in a Christmas tradition that's 30 years old this year, the gold coins are once again starting to plonk into the iconic red kettles.
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It happened Nov. 9 in Bettendorf, Iowa, when a 1/4-ounce gold coin worth about $500 was dropped in a volunteer's pot outside Schnuck's Market. It was nestled in a cardboard setting with cellophane wrapped around it, so it stood out when the kettle was opened, said Holly Nomura, development director for the Salvation Army's Quad Cities Corps.
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Then on Tuesday, outside a Sam's Club in southwest Houston, someone — no one but the donor knows who — left a 1-ounce gold coin worth almost $2,000 in the pot, wrapped inside a $1 bill. Attached was this note: "A child is born, Jesus! Merry Christmas!"
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<a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/30/15517575-for-salvation-army-theres-gold-in-them-thar-kettles?lite">Read More at NBC News</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705369341170921381.post-25515504901729702222012-12-13T10:41:00.000-08:002012-12-13T10:41:10.322-08:00The 'pacemaker' implanted in the brain to prevent Alzheimer's patients losing their memory A ‘pacemaker’ has been implanted in to the brain of an Alzheimer's patient in a bid to reduce memory loss. <br />
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The device, which uses deep brain stimulation, has already been used in thousands of people with Parkinson’s disease as possible means of boosting memory and reversing cognitive decline.
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2243515/The-pacemaker-implanted-brain-prevent-Alzheimers-patients-losing-memory.html">Read more at the Daily Mail</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0