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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Inspiration: Katelyn Norman, Tennessee Teen Dying From Cancer, Gets Amazing Dream Prom From Her Community
Disco balls hung from the ceiling, balloons and other
decorations covered the room and teens in suits and dresses milled about. There
was a blue cake with the night's theme, "Katie in the sky with
diamonds" iced in white.
At the center of it all was crown-wearing Katelyn Norman,
14, who was presented with a "Prom Queen" sash from her white
suit-wearing date.
It would be just like every other prom except that this one
took place in a hospital room and the prom queen wore an oxygen mask as she lay
in a bed.
For one magical night, Katelyn's hospital room was
transformed into the bucket list prom she had wished for, even if it wasn't the
prom that was going on in another part of town.
Katelyn is dying from osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone
cancer. After fighting the cancer for two years, she was told last week that it
has spread and there's not much more doctors can do. She was sent home to spend
her last days.
She made a bucket list that included a prom, a last slow
dance, learning to drive a car, seeing Italy and a day with each sibling.
A fundraising page to help pay for Katelyn's wish list has
produced an outpouring of affection and generosity towards the teen. The page
has raised more than $62,000 since Tuesday morning.
Katelyn's prom was planned for Tuesday night in LaFollette,
Tenn., but during the day Katelyn was having difficulty breathing and had to be
taken to the hospital. Doctors told her she couldn't go to her special prom,
but she didn't want that to stop others for going.
"Katelyn wanted the prom to go on. That's her. That's
Katie bug," Sharon Shepherd told ABCNews.com today.
Little two year old boy Kyle Moser is caught in home sting operation after his sister's toys went missing..."Bedtime Bandit"
Here's a question: What would you do for a unicorn pillow pet?
How about breaking and entering?
Kyle Moser, a two-year-old was caught using a nail clipper to pick the lock of his sister's bedroom door to get at that highly coveted pillow pet.
When his sister's toys went missing, she always pointed at Kyle. Their parents set up the sting operation in the hopes of catching him in the act...and they struck web video gold.
This morning on "Starting Point," Kyle's parents Joann and Mike Moser, tell Soledad about catching their little bandit in the act.
Watch the "Bedtime Bandit in Action Below:
Dallas Wiens, the man who received this countries first full face transplant gets married...
A Texas man who received the first full face transplant in the country at Brigham and Women’s Hospital was married Saturday in the church where he was injured, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Dallas Wiens, 27, married Jamie Nash, a woman he met in a support group for burn victims, The Associated Press reported.
Wiens’ grandfather, Del Peterson, planned to read a toast at the reception from Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, the surgeon who led his operation, hospital spokeswoman Erin McDonough said.
A 2008 accident left Wiens without facial features, save for part of his chin. He was standing in a cherry picker, painting the second floor of Ridglea Baptist Church in Fort Worth, when the picker touched a high voltage power line.
Doctors in Texas removed the nerves, muscles, and tissue in his face, covering the area with skin and muscles from his back. Wiens was blind and without lips, a nose, or teeth.
Carl Mays: Good news warms the cockles of the heart
Carl Mays, speaker and author in his own words.
My wife Jean really likes to read or view “good news stories,” and quite frequently shares them with me – like she did this morning.
Jean told about how a golfer in Florida saw a pelican on the course and noticed a fish hook embedded in the bird. So, with some difficulty, the golfer removed the hook and set the bird free to go its way. However, the pelican’s “way” turned out to be that of following the golfer who removed the hook and decreased the pain.
Jean saw the story on television, which showed the pelican following the golfer around – and even riding with him in a golf cart. This was one appreciative bird!
I wrote about the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh in a recent column, and quoted from a letter he sent to his brother Theo about the value of relationships: “Like everyone else, I have need of relationships, of friendship or affection or trusting companionship, and am not like a lamp post...” In the pelican story, the golfer reached out to the injured bird; Theo reached out to Vincent when many others would not.
When Jean shared the pelican story, she began by saying, “I have two good news stories.” Her second story was about a husband and wife who visited a humane shelter to adopt a dog. They narrowed their choice to two, who just happened to be in adjoining cages, before finally deciding on a yellow lab.
The couple’s fond attachment to the lab grew quickly, but a few days later when the husband took out the trash the lab shot through the open door and bolted away. The lab was found 10 miles away – at the humane shelter – licking the face of his next-door soul mate. The couple ended up with two dogs.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Lenny B. Robinson is not your ordinary Batman...
On March 21, police caught Batman on Route 29 in Silver
Spring, Md., outside Washington D.C. He was pulled over because his license
plate had no numbers, only the Batman symbol.
"It's a black Lamborghini and a driver dressed as
Batman," the police officer said over the radio. "You can send me
Robin if you wish."
The dashcam video quickly went viral, and the media search
to identify the man behind the mask intensified.
The Washington Post was the first to discover the Cape
Crusader's identity and unmasked him in a front-page story. It turned out he
was not Bruce Wayne but Lenny B. Robinson, a 48-year-old father of three.
Robinson discovered Batman about 12 years ago when his son,
Brandon, became obsessed with the superhero. He was drawn to the comic book icon
because of what Batman couldn't do.
"He's a superhero, but he doesn't have any
superpowers," Robinson told ABC News. "We all can be Batman."
Friend buys lottery ticket for a birthday gift - retiree wins one million dollars!
Brockton, MA:
My old pal Earl never buys a lottery ticket for anyone else.
"What if they won?" he asks,
Good point. Wonder if one of Joe Cahill's friends is asking himself the same question.
On March 19, the retired Brockton resident claimed a $1 million prize in the 20X The Cash instant game. He received the $5 ticket as a birthday gift and did not realize it was a winner until his daughter pointed it out.
Cahill selected the cash option and received a one-time, lump sum payment of $435,000 after taxes. The retiree plans to buy two new cars with the winnings.
He beat odds of 4.2 million to 1.
Brockton Shell at 620 Belmont St. in Brockton will receive a $10,000 commission on the sale of the ticket.
How your brain finds your car keys...
Different neurons in a brain region called the dentate gyrus fire when encountering a place for the first or second time. Different brain cells also fire to distinguish subtle changes in familiar terrain, new research in mice suggests.
The findings, which were published March 20 in the journal eLife, may help unravel how the brain tracks minute changes in our everyday environments, a process known as pattern separation. The phenomenon is how we find our car keys or wallet, for instance.
"Everyday, we have to remember subtle differences between how things are today versus how they were yesterday, from where we parked our car to where we left our cellphone," said study co-author Fred H. Gage, a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, in a statement. "We found how the brain makes these distinctions, by storing separate 'recordings' of each environment in the dentate gyrus."
Small differencesSeveral studies suggested that a brain region called the hippocampus helps people navigate and orient themselves in space, in part by retrieving memories from different environments. For instance, London cabbies have more hippocampal gray matter after training in navigation.
There are FIFTEEN sets of twins in the West Clinton Elementary School in Utah...
CLINTON, Utah (KSTU) – A Utah elementary school home to 15 sets of twins is creating some unique challenges for teachers and parents at the school.
“At least one set of twins in each grade level,” explained Steve Hammer, the principal of West Clinton Elementary. “We do have a fifth grade class that has two sets of twins in one classroom.”
“We call them our mini mes because Bridger is almost a little mini me of my husband and Cambria has lots of mannerisms just like me,” said Cathy Maisey, a mother of twins.
Some of the siblings have the same teacher and go through the same lesson plans as their twin.
“It’s pretty funny when they come home from school. They’ll have a race, who can whip out their schoolwork and show it to me fastest?” laughed Maisey.
“The ones that request they’re in the same class is so they have the same homework, and it’s easier for the parents to help them,” offered Hammer.
Good Samaritan Christopher Knafelc risks his own life and jumps on train tracks to save a life...
PHILADELPHIA -- Transit police in Philadelphia are calling a local man a hero for jumping onto subway tracks to help a man who fell off a platform.
Christopher Knafelc, 32, was waiting for a train in north Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon when he saw a man walk off the platform and fall on the tracks. He jumped down to help the man, knowing that a train would be arriving in a few minutes.
"I had a plan if a train came I was going to roll him underneath," Knafelc told WPVI-TV, "or if I couldn't, I was going to ask someone to jump down and help me roll him."
He held the man's head and neck stable until firefighters arrived. Train traffic was halted.
The man fell just inches from the third rail, and the two could've been electrocuted if they had come in contact with it, according to WPVI-TV.
"I was like 99.9 percent positive that I wouldn't get electrocuted," Knafelc told the Philadelphia Daily News. "I can't see (the tracks) being able to electrocute you, because too many people would get hurt."
Friday, March 29, 2013
Huge whales decide to come up and take a look around at some strangers in their territory that happen to be in a rather small 15' boat...
A couple of fishermen on a small boat off the coast of Dana Point, Calif., had a (very) close encounter with several enormous gray whales.
One whale surfaced just a few feet away from the 15-foot boat, spraying water and waving its tale in the ocean breeze. According to ABC-6, one of the 50-foot whales actually rubbed up against the boat's engine.
While the encounter is amazing to watch, the World Wildlife Fund explains that gray whales are known for being friendly. "They have an unusual tendency to approach whale-watching boats and even let whale-watchers touch them and scratch their tongues," the WWF says.
"Vail Veterans": The words "I can't" do not have room in the vocabularies of these United States wounded war Veterans
On these Colorado ski slopes, wounded veterans are not only learning a sport they once thought was out of reach, they’re also gaining confidence to rebuild their lives.
“The thing about skiing, once I'm up there on the mountain, I'm on equal footing with everybody else,” Col. Gregory Gadson told TODAY during his fourth trip to the Vail slopes since losing both legs in Bagdad in 2007.
Gadson is a graduate of the Vail Veterans Program, which has taught wounded warriors to ski for the past ten years.
Childs play: Grown man dresses up to recreate cute baby photos.
It can get annoying when your friends overload Facebook with photos of their babies, so the folks behind the blog My Precious Roommate took matters into their own hands, re-enacting baby photos using a grown man in place of an adorable infant.
The site features a few hundred photos of actor Mick Bleyer in full-on baby mode, sucking pacifiers, wearing bibs and even sticking his foot in his mouth. Bleyer and roommate Molly Thomas got the idea back in June 2011 after seeing a friend's photograph of a newborn in a laundry basket.
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Bleyer models his poses on photos of babies he and Thomas collect from friends.
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"We joked offhandedly that he should strip and I should take pictures of him in my laundry basket," Thomas, who is also an actor, told TODAY.com.
The "Partridge Family's" David Cassidy is auctioning off costumes to Alzheimer's Charity after his mother's passing.
Back in the 1970s, legions of screaming teenage fans would have loved to rip the clothes off of "Partridge Family" heartthrob David Cassidy. But come May 18, they'll be glad they didn't, because Cassidy will be auctioning off some of his beloved 1970s'-era stage costumes and some personal items in the hope of raising money for the Alzheimer's Association of America. He and Julien's Auctions executive director Martin Nolan joined TODAY's Savannah Guthrie and Natalie Morales Thursday to talk about the outfits -- and Cassidy's personal connection to the charity.
"My mother recently passed," said Cassidy. "She had severe dementia for over seven years, and in the end she was really not functioning at all ... she was 89."
Workers pool money and win lottery and share their winnings - even with the new girl who wasn't in their pool.
PLANTATION, FL (KCTV) -This is a story of family, friendship and incredibly generous spirits. As the Powerball jackpot began to grow and grow last week, the co-workers at a Florida real estate agency excitedly began to discuss an office pool to help them buy a pile of tickets.
Jennifer Maldonado had just joined Keller Williams Partner Realty on March 8. The mother of a 4-year-old autistic boy had been unemployed and didn't have her first paycheck yet. She told the Today Show that she didn't feel like she could afford the $20 pool price, and passed up.
Some of her co-workers offered to loan her the money, but she didn't want to impose. She said she would join the next pool.
Then the texts began to fly on Sunday among the 12 co-workers. They headed to the office where they had an impromptu celebration. They had won $1 million!
They matched all five numbers but missed the Powerball number.
Maldonado, 31, recalled that she thought it was a prank on the new girl.
"I really thought they were pranking me, I was the new girl. I was the only one who didn't put into the pool," she said.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Hardworking and determined couple Angela and Willie Gillis lose a combined 500 lbs!
(CNN) -- Marriage, any good therapist will tell you, is a
balancing act.
For Angela and Willie Gillis, the act is easy. They've been
best friends for more than 10 years, married for three. Their individual
strengths balance the other's weaknesses.
They credit this sense of balance with helping them lose a
combined 500 pounds.
"Everyone needs that one person to help them through,
to talk to and someone who will hold them accountable. That person has been my
husband," Angela writes on her blog, WeBeatFat.com.
A few days before their first wedding anniversary, Willie
woke up and told his wife, "I'm tired of being big." He had just
gotten back from visiting his newborn goddaughter and was scared he might not
live long enough to see her grow up.
"For years I had been reading up on 'This is how you
lose weight -- nutrition, exercise,'" he says. "I wanted to see if I
could do it."
That was January 2011. He weighed 492 pounds.
His wife didn't have to think long about joining him in his
quest.
"You don't need feet to Dance..." the inspiring story of Sidiki Conde
At the age of fourteen, Sidiki Conde collapsed on his way to school, in Guinea. For several months, he was in a coma. The lack of adequate medical knowledge muddies the source of his illness; it may have been polio. When he finally returned to consciousness, he was paralyzed from the neck down. He became deeply depressed; suicide crossed his mind.
One night in a dream, a voice asked him, “Why you are so sad? You are still here. You have something to offer.” Inspired, Sidiki finally asked to be released from the hospital, and in the next few years gradually regained the function of his arms. He then completely reinvented himself: he learned to walk again, on his hands, and to bicycle, water-ski, and dance. Gradually, he added drumming, choreography, and composition to his resume, eventually playing gigs at Lincoln Center and with world-class musicians, like Youssou N’dour and Baaba Maal. In 2007, the National Endowment for the Arts named him a Fellow.
A few days shy of his fifty-second birthday, Sidiki has the arms and shoulders of an N.F.L. linebacker. He makes his living teaching music and playing in his band, Tokounou, as well as in the African-folk-pop trio Afro-Jersey, with Terre Roche of the Roches. And he is the subject of a documentary that opens tonight in Manhattan, “You Don’t Need Feet to Dance.”
He may also be the only paraplegic in New York City living in a fifth-floor walk-up apartment. Before Sidiki’s paralysis, he had not been musical. He got where he is today by the same force of will that powers him up five flights of stairs—he practiced constantly, at one point learned to play rhythms with rocks tied to his hands and wrists, and performed for several hours a day without stopping. As the music producer Roger Greenawalt put it, Sidiki’s “life force is considerable.”
To listen to in-depth discussion on the motives for this illuminating documentary and the complexities that accompanied its filming. Click on the link below.
Rhonda Stone always knew she was not the rightful owner of a Purple Heart Medal she bought at auction - 34 years later she was finally able to return it...
As Ronda Stone sees it, she wasn't the owner of a Purple Heart medal she bought at a storage auction in Woodburn, Ore., 34 years ago. She was just holding onto it.
"I've always known it was my job to get it back to whoever it belonged to," the Canby, Ore., woman, 66, said. "I just waited and knew there would be a time I could, hopefully, find the family."
The medal, which is given to service members wounded or killed in combat, was engraved with the name Lowell L. Reynolds.
In the years before the Internet, finding Reynolds or surviving relatives of the World War II vet was an uphill battle for Stone. She tried flipping through the phonebook, but was daunted by the number of people with the same last name. She tried calling veteran's groups but had no luck, before she tucked the medal away in a drawer.
A 2006 fire decimated her home and her belongings but, somehow, the Purple Heart was unscathed.
"The smoke and fire and water didn't get it. I knew it was meant to survive," she said.
When Stone logged onto Facebook last week, she saw an advertisement offering to reunite Purple Hearts with their owners. She got in touch with U.S. Army Capt. Zachariah Fike of Purple Hearts Reunited.
17 year old whiz kid sells his company Summly to Yahoo and gets $30M...
A 17-year-old British whiz kid’s startup jackpot — a reported
$30 million Yahoo acquisition of his Summly app — is just the latest Internet bonanza inspiring young entrepreneurs to go for broke with their own business concepts, the world’s largest startup accelerator said yesterday.
“We will hold that as an example of anything is possible with great ideas,” said Akhil Nigam, founder and president of Boston-based MassChallenge. “Every startup has their own path. It’s less to do with age. It’s more a matter of when you get the right idea, and the right people to work on that idea, and what is possible with that idea.”
U.K.-based Nick D’Aloisio — though still in high school — will join Yahoo’s mobile team and “play a key role in building and delivering our summarization efforts,” a spokeswoman for the Silicon Valley Web content provider said. Two other Summly executives will join Yahoo’s personalization and engineering teams in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Curious dog finds trapped hiker and leads his owner right to the victim
A dog's intuition helped rescue a hiker who was trapped for days under rocks, reports CBS Los Angeles.
Ramon Llamas and his dog, Mole, were on a hike Monday morning on a popular landmark, Mount Rubidoux, when Mole led his owner off the main trail and right to the victim, who was wedged between two boulders.
Llamas said he immediately called rescue crews.
Riverside Fire Capt. Bruce Vanderhorst said the hiker appeared to have slipped and fell into a crack between the rocks.
The captain said he estimates the victim was trapped for four or five days based on the level of the man's dehydration.
"He was severely dehydrated. He was conscious. We were able to talk to him. But we could not fully get all the information out of him," said Vanderhorst. "He was slightly confused with his timeline of events."
The hiker was taken to the local hospital and treated for dehydration.
KCAL9's Greg Mills said the victim wanted to thank Llamas and of course, Mole, for saving his life.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Random Act: Stranger leaves note on car for U.S. soldier deployed in Afghanistan ... 'I Thought It Was Absolutely Unbelievable and It Brought Tears to My Eyes.'
A U.S. soldier deployed in Afghanistan was thrilled to the point of tears by $40 and a note of support for his girlfriend back home, he told ABCNews.com in a phone call from Afghanistan.
Army Spc. Albert DeSimone said what overwhelmed him was knowing that a stranger was "there for her" while he was away at war.
DeSimone's girlfriend Samantha Ford was leaving a Dunkin' Donuts Sunday in Arlington, Mass., when she saw a white envelope tucked under the windshield wiper on her car. She has a bumper sticker that reads, "1/2 of my heart is in Afghanistan."
Written on the outside of the envelope was a note that read, "I noticed the sticker on the back of your car. Take your hero out to dinner when he comes home. Thank you both for serving. Him deployed and you for waiting."
It was signed, "United States Veteran, God Bless." There were two $20 bills inside the envelope.
"I thought it was absolutely unbelievable and it brought tears to my eyes because it just made me feel good that people back home were there to be there for her, which has made her feel really good," DeSimone said.
Hollywood mega director James Cameron donates his Deepsea Challenger sub to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, MA
FALMOUTH — Marine scientists on Cape Cod are teaming with filmmaker and explorer James Cameron to advance deep sea research.
Cameron announced Tuesday that he's giving his Deepsea Challenger sub to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as part of a partnership to speed up ocean research and discovery.
The announcement comes on the one-year anniversary of Cameron's record solo dive in the sub to the deepest place on earth — the Challenger Deep in the Marianna Trench, nearly 36,000 feet below sea level.
Woods Hole scientists say they haven't yet determined the full range of applications for the sub system. But some uses include using the Deepsea Challenger's cameras and lighting systems on their own remotely-operated vehicle.
Cameron is the Academy Award-winning director of movies including "The Terminator," "The Abyss" and "Titanic."
10 year old Sophia Bailey Klugh writes a letter to President Obama about her two dads - he responds and now she and her family are headed to the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll...
SAN DIEGO - A local 11-year-old who wrote a letter to President Obama about her two dads will be featured on the talk show "Katie" on Tuesday.
Sophia Bailey Klugh's letter to the president about her dads has generated interest nationwide.
"I think it's neat to have a sister that is kind of, like, famous," said 9-year-old Ava Bailey-Klugh.
Her sister Sophia has become so famous that Katie Couric taped an interview with her and the president has invited her and her family to the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll next Monday.
A letter about her family is the reason why. Last October, Sophia wrote to the president about her adoptive parents, who are gay men.
Jon Bailey was so proud of his daughter that before she sent it, he took a photo of the letter and posted it on Facebook.
"It just blew up," said Bailey. "It went viral. In a matter of hours, it went all over the world and we were getting thousands and thousands of responses."
One of those responses was from the president himself. He sent a personal, signed letter back to Sophia.
It reads in part, "You and I are blessed to live in a country where we are born equal no matter what we look like on the outside, where we grow up, or who our parents are."
Now, with the same-sex marriage debate being taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court, Sophia and her parents are surprised that they are a major part of the national debate.
Triton Klugh told 10News that when he met Bailey 16 years ago, he would never have envisioned being at the center of the conversation about gay issues.
"It's pretty amazing to be here at this point and to have two beautiful daughters and to have all the support around us," said Klugh.
When asked what she would say to the president if she finally meets him next Monday, Sophia said, "It's been a great honor to come to your house and thank you for inviting us."
Phillip Berenz was born with Cerebral Palsy - so he decides to do a little climb for charity - all the way to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro - "Everyone has the ability to do something healthy or to help someone, you just have to make up your mind to do it"
(Elizabeth Comeau - Boston Globe)
During the course of documenting my own fitness journey,
many people have asked me how I stay motivated. The answer -- other than my own
crazy sheer will -- is quite simple: People like Phillip Berenz keep me going.
I've filed this guy away under the category labeled
"people who don't believe in the word can't" -- one of my favorite categories
of people.
I connected with Berenz, 28, in a serendipitous way through
this blog when another reader told me I should interview him about what's he's
accomplished.
What exactly has he accomplished? For starters, Berenz, who
has cerebral palsy, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro -- for charity.
Berenz has an unassuming nature that's inspiring on its own
as he tells his courageous story.
"Everyone has the ability to do something healthy or to
help someone, you just have to make up your mind to do it," Berenz said
earlier this week.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Pete Peterson, ex-POW, teaching Vietnam to swim: "I return here not to re-live what was probably the most unhappy day of my life, but to signify to the entire world that reconciliation is not only possible but absolutely the way to reach out..."my life was preserved to do something constructive,"
More than 30 years after being stripped, bound and paraded
through countless Vietnamese villages, Pete Peterson returned to the country as
America's ambassador. While there, he shook the hands of his captors - and
began a mission to save the lives of young swimmers.
Douglas "Pete" Peterson could have got out of
flying bombing missions in Vietnam.
When his number came up - in May 1966 - he had already
served in the US Air Force for 10 years, both on home soil and in Germany.
Since his wife was pregnant with their third child, he would have been eligible
for a deferment - but he didn't apply.
"I was a professional soldier and I did what I had to
do and she was a professional military wife and she did what she had to
do," he recalls. "But I obviously regret that now."
The job Peterson had to do was fly F-4C Phantom II fighter
planes. Taking off in Thailand, almost always at night, and flying right across
Laos and into North Vietnam, he bombed enemy transportation routes. He was what
was known as a Night Owl fighter pilot.
A rotation lasted 100 missions. Four months into his tour,
Peterson had already flown 66 missions - it was starting to look like he might
be home in time for Christmas.
Then on 10 September, Capt Peterson and co-pilot Lt Bernard
"Bunny" Talley took off to attack a bridge and ferry complex close to
Hanoi.
"Unfortunately the weather was worse than forecast and
we ended up getting into the clouds. We couldn't see the missile coming,"
he says.
Shot of the day: Golfer Sergio Garcia climbs a tree at the Arnold Palmer Invitational...
On the par-4 10th hole at Bay Hill on Sunday, the 33-year-old Spaniard landed his second shot in a tree. After climbing up into the tree, he took a backwards, one-handed swing and managed to knock the ball out of the tree and into the fairway.
According to Golf Channel, Garcia scored a double bogey on the hole.
Woman's long lost diamond ring turns up in an office printer of all places...
An Indiana woman has been reunited with a diamond she lost nearly five years ago - and it had been lodged in her office printer the entire time.
Christi Hansen panicked when the half-carat marquis diamond from her beloved engagement ring disappeared one day while she was working at Evansville business Brake Supply in 2008.
'I looked down and noticed that my diamond was gone out of the top of it,' said Hansen, who married the love of her life 13 years earlier in February 1995.
She searched frantically for the jewel, which had been sitting on top of the ring with channel-set baguettes on all four sides, and her colleagues joined in but to no avail.
'We basically tore my whole desk apart, on our hands and knees going through the floor. I even went through all the bathrooms,' Hansen told NBC News.
Good Samaritans come to the rescue of woman having a seizure while driving her car...
ARNOLD, Mo (WHDH) -- A woman was having a seizure behind the wheel and her car was rolling through an intersection when two people realized what was happening and didn't hesitate to jump into action.
Good Samaritans, Kristin Martin and Zachery Green jumped out of their car in a busy intersection to yell for help.
"I told my girlfriend- I said we've got to help this lady you know we have to. So I just slammed it into park and went with my instincts,” said Green.
"And that's when her foot must of hit the gas and took off so I'm running after her as fast as I can and I’m just screaming at the top of my lungs for somebody to stop and call 911,” said Martin.
10 year old Declan Buckley to shave his head with New England Patriot Rob Gronkowski to help put an end to pediatric cancer at 3rd Annual Kids Cancer Buzz Off at Gillette Stadium
Hundreds of men, women and children like 10-year-old Walpole resident Declan Buckley will join New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski in “buzzing” their heads to help honor and support the many brave and hopeful children that struggle with pediatric cancer every day.
As we know – and some have very unfortunately experienced – nothing is more devastating than having a child diagnosed with cancer. In 2013, more than 10,000 children will heartbreakingly suffer through this statistic.
Buckley has pledged to courageously shave his head for his fourth consecutive year at One Mission’s Kid’s Cancer Buzz-Off - held at Gillette Stadium on June 9th - in order to show solidarity for children that have undergone pediatric cancer-related treatments.
“[Buckley] is very excited to shave his head again to help put an end to pediatric cancer,” Lindsay Rotondi, vice president of Regan Communications Group in Boston.
Buckley will be buzzing in honor of his friend, Patrick Melavin, who has battled liver cancer and in memory of his cousin, Joe Kelly, who very unfortunately passed of a brain tumor last year. Buckley will be joined by fellow “buzzee,” Gronkowski and many other caring families, friends and supporters who have been both directly and indirectly affected by pediatric cancer.
One Mission, a childhood cancer foundation, is dedicated to enhancing the lives of pediatric cancer patients and their families.
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