Posts Tagged: ‘Good news’

March 2, 2013

A Kick-in-the-Pants Note From a Fan

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Via private message on FaceBook, yesterday:

Oof, Carrie C., what a story. Sad—but with a happy ending! Hooray! It is so thoughtful of you to take the time to send us that note. We are truly touched. Thank you more than we can say – truly.

P.S. We asked Carrie exactly how she uses the Kindle to accommodate her impaired vision. We thought we’d pass it on in case it can help anybody else out there:

Yes – I can adjust the font size as large as I need it, depending on my vision that day. I have a real weird eye disease, the closest thing that people would know is macular degeneration. I see things slightly skewed as well. Most days I read on my kindle with the soft beige background always, and the font is either the 3rd largest, or the 2nd largest if I’m having what I call a bad eye day.

Thanks again, Carrie! Happy reading!

     —Uncle John the entire crack staff at the BRI 

P.S. We were going to start off our reply by saying, “Hold on…there’s something in our eyes…”—but it was too funny seemed inappropriate…

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January 22, 2013

Dolphin Approaches Divers – Lets Guy Try to Remove Hook and Line From It

Wow. Really seems like this dolphin wanted some help, doesn’t it?

KITV:

As it approached, diver Keller Laros saw it had a fishing line wrapped around its pectoral fin.

The amazing part of this video — to watch as this dolphin simply rolls over and patiently lets Laros get to work.

“i was trying to unwrap it, I got the line fishing hook out of the pectoral fin. There was a line coming out of his mouth. But, the line wrapped around his pectoral fin. Was so tight and he had cuts both front and aft,” said Laros. “I was worried if I tugged on it, it might hurt him more. I was able to cut the fishing line and unwrap it.”

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December 28, 2012

DIY Kid’s Dumpster-Dive Spaceship

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Television station dumpster not included:

This DIY spaceship will fill any boy’s [or girls!] fantasy and can be made up from salvaged electronics. This particular one was constructed using a control board from a TV station dumpster. With a little creativity and some constructive ingenuity, the universe can be your playground.

They have a bunch of pics as the project progressed over at the link – here’s just one from near the end:

With young kids, you could have them draw or paint their own scenes of outer space – meeting aliens! – to put up in the spaceship’s “window.” They could make stories through the pictures, and add a lot of hours to the fun, huh?

Bonus: Hey, Moms [or Dads!]: This is the kind of thing that could keep Dad [or Mom!] out of trouble for a good long while, too…

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October 17, 2012

Omaha schoolgirl dresses as a different historical figure each day

We love this kid:

This is how Stella Ehrhart, age 8, decides what to wear for school.

She opens her closet. She opens her book, “100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century.” And she opens her mind.

Voilà, she is Billie Holiday, in a black dress with a red tissue-paper flower tucked into her strawberry-blond hair.

Behold, she is Grace Kelly in pink satin lace on her wedding day.

Poof, she is Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, wearing a hat her aunt got her in Vietnam.

The Dundee Elementary School third-grader comes to school dressed as a different historical figure or character — Every. Single. Day. And she’s done that since the second day of second grade, when this all started.

Since the second grade! Wow. That is one inspired kid. She’s either going to be president or invent a new musical genre one day.

HufffPo has a slideshow of several of her outfits over this way…

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August 15, 2012

Canadian Boy Sends Football Medal to Olympians Stripped of Medals

Get the hankies:

Elijah Porter was distraught when Canada’s 4x100m relay team were stripped of their bronze medal following the final in London, a decision which was taken when video replay evidence showed that Jared Connaughton stepped out of his lane during the race.

But rather than simply feel sad for his idols, Elijah decided to do something to try and cheer them up: he sent the quartet a medal he had won in a recent football tournament so that they didn’t finish their summer empty handed.

The athletes, the story says, were so touched that they took a pic of the letter and medal and put it on Twitter. Here it is:

That’s one nice 10-year-old kid. Bravo, Elijah.

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August 9, 2012

Cop Saves Moose Caught in Swingset

Wow – very brave. This moose is clearly very distressed, and the cop is right next to him – and facing right into those huge antlers – when he makes the last cut and frees him. That moose could have ended him in a heartbeat. Way to go, Weber County Sheriff Department’s Sgt. Lane Findlay!

Found here.

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July 31, 2012

Michael Phelps Meets Another Olympic Super-Champion

Great story:

LONDON — Larisa Latynina won 18 Olympic medals in gymnastics for the former Soviet Union, but she attended swimming Tuesday night. Michael Phelps was racing. He was trying to beat everyone in the pool and Latynina’s record as well. And when the moment came, she knew exactly what a great champion should do. She put on her lipstick.

Well that’s just sweet. And a nice example of the kind of small, encouraging human stories an event like the Olympics can flush out.

Well done, Michael Phelps, and well done Larisa Latynina.

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July 31, 2012

Couple Divorced 50 Years to Remarry

As time goes by…

There are all kinds of love stories, but few are as enduring and reaffirming and yes, even inspiring, as the tale of Lena Henderson and Roland Davis of West Seneca.

They are not, to be frank, your typical newlyweds, but when they join hands Saturday at the age of 85, there will be a sense of fulfillment, maybe even restoration, among the four generations on hand to see it happen.

This is their second time around – they married each other as teenagers but later divorced. And now, after nearly 50 years apart, they are marrying again.

Related: How long do you legally have to wait to remarry after being divorced? By state?

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July 30, 2012

James Taylor Makes Free Online Fingerpicking Videos

How cool:

Singer-songwriter James Taylor is known for writing many classic compositions that are still being performed 40 years after they were written. “Fire and Rain.” “Country Road.” “Shower the People.” The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and multiple Grammy winner also happens to be one of the great guitarists.

He has such a unique finger-picking style that he decided to record a series of free online video guitar lessons to help fans get a closer look. Lessons are available at his jamestaylor.com website. He started the project in late 2010 and releases new videos occasionally. This week, Taylor releases his sixth lesson, the intro to the lesser-known 1997 song Enough to be On Your Way, and hopes to have three more lessons out this year.

Just fantastic. What a guy.

And they are really smartly filmed, and narrated, so you can actually see and understand what he’s doing. Wow.

Here’s Part I. You can find the rest at the James Taylor website.

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July 20, 2012

A Little Medicine For a Sick Day

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