Oh yeah, I saved a woman yesterday from a criminal and potential rapist in Hebrew! I overheard her saying that she is from Israel.
She was on a blind date with this street-thug at the Barnes and Noble I hang out at, and I couldn't help but overhear that he was a gangmember, been in jail, and lost his license due to drunk driving. I started speaking to her in Hebrew and warned her that he was a dangerous person and that he only wanted sex from her.
She hadn't understood a lot of the slang he was using, so she hadn't known how bad he was until I told her right in front of him!
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
A Quick Thinking Driver
The quick thinking driver of a milk tanker in Northern Ireland saved the lives of two car crash victims trapped in a burning car by dousing the flames with milk. When he came across the crash scene, Michael Coyle positioned his truck so he could hose the fire from the tank's rear valve.
Firefighters and ambulance arrived on the scene, rescued the trapped men, and took them to the hospital, where they were listed in stable condition. "it was down to the driver's actions that the two men were saved," said fire official Martin Jeffrey.
Source: The Week Magazine - April 29
Firefighters and ambulance arrived on the scene, rescued the trapped men, and took them to the hospital, where they were listed in stable condition. "it was down to the driver's actions that the two men were saved," said fire official Martin Jeffrey.
Source: The Week Magazine - April 29
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Grandmother helping Chicago kids 'off the block'
In Roseland, one of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods, many residents stay off the streets to protect themselves from rampant gang violence.
But one grandmother opened her door and invited gang members to come inside.
"They say I'm a nut because I let kids into my home who I didn't even know," said Diane Latiker, 54. "But I know (the kids) now. And I'll know the new generation."
Since 2003, Latiker has gotten to know more than 1,500 young people through her nonprofit community program, Kids Off the Block. And she hopes that by providing them with support and a place to go, she is also bringing hope to a community in crisis.
"We are losing a generation to violence," said Latiker, who started the program in her living room.
According to Chicago Public Schools, 140 of its students have been shot since the school year started in September.
"How can a kid get a gun like he can get a pack of gum? It's that crazy," Latiker said.
Latiker, a mother of eight and grandmother to 13, has lived in Roseland for 22 years. She said she was once "young and dumb," dropping out of high school and having seven children by age 25. But she said that by 36, she had turned her life around: She got remarried and earned her GED. She had also given birth to her eighth child, Aisha.
To read the follow story, please go to:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/04/07/cnnheroes.latiker.roseland.youth/index.html
But one grandmother opened her door and invited gang members to come inside.
"They say I'm a nut because I let kids into my home who I didn't even know," said Diane Latiker, 54. "But I know (the kids) now. And I'll know the new generation."
Since 2003, Latiker has gotten to know more than 1,500 young people through her nonprofit community program, Kids Off the Block. And she hopes that by providing them with support and a place to go, she is also bringing hope to a community in crisis.
"We are losing a generation to violence," said Latiker, who started the program in her living room.
According to Chicago Public Schools, 140 of its students have been shot since the school year started in September.
"How can a kid get a gun like he can get a pack of gum? It's that crazy," Latiker said.
Latiker, a mother of eight and grandmother to 13, has lived in Roseland for 22 years. She said she was once "young and dumb," dropping out of high school and having seven children by age 25. But she said that by 36, she had turned her life around: She got remarried and earned her GED. She had also given birth to her eighth child, Aisha.
To read the follow story, please go to:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/04/07/cnnheroes.latiker.roseland.youth/index.html
Saturday, February 19, 2011
The Cash Box
Yekaterina Sheneyderova, a 22 year old student at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, was examining a cash box for sale at a local thrift store when she found something unexpected inside - $2000. "I saw the money and the envelope with an address and I thought it might be someone's life savings," she said. "I couldn't keep it." Sheneyderova gave the money to the store manager, Lance Letson, who returned it to the rightful owners, Ronald and Imogene Crowder. The Crowders gave Sheneyderova a $200 reward and the cash box.
Source: The Week Magazine
Source: The Week Magazine
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Parents Unite Across Violent Borders
With Middle East peace talks at a standstill, a group of activists is taking matters into its own hands. The Parents’ Circle Families Forum, a group comprising Palestinians and Israelis who have lost family members in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, aims to build a bridge between the two fractured communities.
"Waiting for our respective leaderships to forge peace will take too long," Israeli board director and forum member Rami Elchanan told IPS. "It is through the common people that we can consider a different tomorrow.
"We want to prevent further bereavement, in the absence of peace, to influence the public and the policy makers – to prefer the way of peace to the way of war, as well as educate for peace and reconciliation. We also want to promote the cessation of acts of hostility and the achievement of a political agreement and prevent the usage of bereavement as a means of expanding enmity between our peoples," said Elchanan.
Every week members of the Parents’ Circle Families Forum give talks at schools, universities, hotels and other venues to Israelis, Palestinians and foreigners. The group also holds summer camps, offers youth leadershp seminars and its public and media activities consist of TV and radio programmes and documentaries.
To read the full article, please go to:
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54028
"Waiting for our respective leaderships to forge peace will take too long," Israeli board director and forum member Rami Elchanan told IPS. "It is through the common people that we can consider a different tomorrow.
"We want to prevent further bereavement, in the absence of peace, to influence the public and the policy makers – to prefer the way of peace to the way of war, as well as educate for peace and reconciliation. We also want to promote the cessation of acts of hostility and the achievement of a political agreement and prevent the usage of bereavement as a means of expanding enmity between our peoples," said Elchanan.
Every week members of the Parents’ Circle Families Forum give talks at schools, universities, hotels and other venues to Israelis, Palestinians and foreigners. The group also holds summer camps, offers youth leadershp seminars and its public and media activities consist of TV and radio programmes and documentaries.
To read the full article, please go to:
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54028
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Do not give up hope
In 1987, an anguished, trembling Joy White pleaded for someone to help her find her infant daughter."I hope she's all right," the heartbroken mother told reporters at the time before collapsing in tears. Now, 23 years later, White is crying tears of joy as the decades-long mystery of her missing daughter reached a happy ending.
The saga started on August 4, 1987, when White took her sick baby, Carlina, to a Harlem hospital because of an extremely high fever, a New York police official said.
Carlina was admitted in the hospital and White went home to rest. When the mother returned, Carlina was gone.
Years passed as White searched for her daughter, all the time holding onto a photograph of a baby girl she had only held for three weeks.On January 4, White's phone rang. The woman on the other end of the line said she was Carlina, and she sent White a picture taken in 1987.
The face in the photograph bore a striking resemblance to that of the baby in the tattered picture White had held on to.Police too agreed that the photographs looked alike and carried out a DNA test. On Tuesday, the results came back -- and they were a match.
"Carlina was a missing link," Pat Conway, Carlina White's aunt told CNN affiliate WABC as she raised her hands in the air. "We have gotten her back. In the name of Jesus, Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah."
For her part, Carlina Renae White, had nursed a nagging feeling that she was raised by a family she did not belong to, said Ernie Allen from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Raised under a different name, Carlina grew suspicious when the woman who raised her could not provide her with a birth certificate. So she scoured the Internet for answers, stumbling on the website of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. There, she came across an item about a baby girl who had been taken from a New York hospital .
She called the center, which in turn notified authorities. Authorities are not saying much about the woman who raised Carlina White as they continue their investigation.
"I never gave up hope," Carlina White's grandmother, Elizabeth, told WABC. "It is like she has been around us all her life. She wasn't a stranger. She fit right in."
To watch the video, please go to: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/20/new.york.missing.reunion/index.html?hpt=Sbin
The saga started on August 4, 1987, when White took her sick baby, Carlina, to a Harlem hospital because of an extremely high fever, a New York police official said.
Carlina was admitted in the hospital and White went home to rest. When the mother returned, Carlina was gone.
Years passed as White searched for her daughter, all the time holding onto a photograph of a baby girl she had only held for three weeks.On January 4, White's phone rang. The woman on the other end of the line said she was Carlina, and she sent White a picture taken in 1987.
The face in the photograph bore a striking resemblance to that of the baby in the tattered picture White had held on to.Police too agreed that the photographs looked alike and carried out a DNA test. On Tuesday, the results came back -- and they were a match.
"Carlina was a missing link," Pat Conway, Carlina White's aunt told CNN affiliate WABC as she raised her hands in the air. "We have gotten her back. In the name of Jesus, Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah."
For her part, Carlina Renae White, had nursed a nagging feeling that she was raised by a family she did not belong to, said Ernie Allen from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Raised under a different name, Carlina grew suspicious when the woman who raised her could not provide her with a birth certificate. So she scoured the Internet for answers, stumbling on the website of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. There, she came across an item about a baby girl who had been taken from a New York hospital .
She called the center, which in turn notified authorities. Authorities are not saying much about the woman who raised Carlina White as they continue their investigation.
"I never gave up hope," Carlina White's grandmother, Elizabeth, told WABC. "It is like she has been around us all her life. She wasn't a stranger. She fit right in."
To watch the video, please go to: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/20/new.york.missing.reunion/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Secret Donors Stuff Stockings Of Needy With $100
A rabbi, a priest and a minister have been meeting in their town of Canton, Ohio, to look through more than 700 letters. About 360 of the letter writers will be chosen to receive $100 each.
The writers are people in need of help at Christmastime. The money comes from a special Christmas fund made of donations big and small.
The fund was started by three retired businessmen who had been fascinated by a story published in the local newspaper, The Repository, at Thanksgiving. The story told of an act of kindness during the Great Depression. Using the pseudonym B. Virdot, a Canton merchant had put an ad in the paper asking people who needed financial help to write. He then sent $5 checks to 150 families.
Two years ago, Ted Gup opened an old, small suitcase left by his grandfather, Samuel J. Stone, and found the letters to B. Virdot from 1933. Gup had solved a mystery, and he went on to write about his grandfather and many of those who sent the letters in a book called The Secret Gift.
The new Christmas fund was thought of as a way to pay tribute. And the new donors wanted to be anonymous as well.
"If somebody wants to say thank you, the simplest way is to send the money and do the same thing," one said.
The money has piled up to more than $48,000 in the week before Christmas. It would help during Canton's Rust Belt hard times.
"We had a story in November that fully 25 percent of the children in our county live in poverty," says Jeff Gauger, The Repository's executive editor.
Christy Nelson, a 33-year-old mother of two, made her case in a letter to the newspaper. Nelson is out of work and broke, trying to finish a nursing degree.
"I feel that I'm not doing my job as a mom," she says. "I can't make sure that my kids have a TV to watch. I get help from the government, and they're fed and they're taken care of, but I can't provide a Christmas."
Nelson's request? She'd like to pay her overdue utility bills.
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/21/132217435/secret-donors-stuff-stockings-of-needy-with-100
The writers are people in need of help at Christmastime. The money comes from a special Christmas fund made of donations big and small.
The fund was started by three retired businessmen who had been fascinated by a story published in the local newspaper, The Repository, at Thanksgiving. The story told of an act of kindness during the Great Depression. Using the pseudonym B. Virdot, a Canton merchant had put an ad in the paper asking people who needed financial help to write. He then sent $5 checks to 150 families.
Two years ago, Ted Gup opened an old, small suitcase left by his grandfather, Samuel J. Stone, and found the letters to B. Virdot from 1933. Gup had solved a mystery, and he went on to write about his grandfather and many of those who sent the letters in a book called The Secret Gift.
The new Christmas fund was thought of as a way to pay tribute. And the new donors wanted to be anonymous as well.
"If somebody wants to say thank you, the simplest way is to send the money and do the same thing," one said.
The money has piled up to more than $48,000 in the week before Christmas. It would help during Canton's Rust Belt hard times.
"We had a story in November that fully 25 percent of the children in our county live in poverty," says Jeff Gauger, The Repository's executive editor.
Christy Nelson, a 33-year-old mother of two, made her case in a letter to the newspaper. Nelson is out of work and broke, trying to finish a nursing degree.
"I feel that I'm not doing my job as a mom," she says. "I can't make sure that my kids have a TV to watch. I get help from the government, and they're fed and they're taken care of, but I can't provide a Christmas."
Nelson's request? She'd like to pay her overdue utility bills.
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/21/132217435/secret-donors-stuff-stockings-of-needy-with-100
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