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Middle school wrestler Justin Kievit intentionally lost a match to do something nice for a boy with cerebral palsy. Kievit, who his coach says was chosen for the task due to his big heart, put his opponent's arm around him, "pinning" him and therefore, causing him to win.

A dog carried her 10-day-old puppies to safety after a house fire in Temuco, Chile, destroyed the portion of the home where they lived. All but one survived.

A young woman and her service dog caused quite a stir over the weekend when they both showed up to her college graduation ceremony dressed in matching caps and gowns.

"The girl and the dog received the loudest applause hands down. Very adorable," tcjones54 wrote.

According to posts on Reddit, the photo was taken at the Saturday convocation ceremony of the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

"This picture is everything that is right in the world," wrote Redditor AndreThreeHundred. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/)

and another...



"This is my service dog, Hero, after we graduated with our Master's degrees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign," she wrote in a caption accompanying this Imgur photo.

"Hero knows over forty commands to assist me," she added on Reddit on Monday, adding that the dog had been quite the "celebrity" at the graduation ceremony. "He loves to retrieve objects for my like envelopes, pens, my crutches, etc. He also turns off the lights, opens doors, and he pulls me in my wheelchair up ramps! I couldn't have gone to college without him."

'After WE graduated?!' Heart melting. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/)

that's him, and his name is kirsch, during the awarding at the johns hopkins university.  the honorary degree bestowed on him:  M.S. in Counseling.  you are putting your faith on the right track, bai hubag.  

kwintas ug pulseras pod uy.

truth to tell, that's my hand-me-down coat.

ahak... aw, aherm diay.  tug-an na lang god nga unggoy diay ka.  naka-rayban pa >>>

makahinuklog baya.  have yourself a blessed sunday too, hof, and all other days besides.   

hehe, naay duha ka dunggan nisiwil sa sink.  do gyod ko malipat basta iring na.  cute.

and thus we mourn.

mabuhay!  mabuhi!

mas cute tuod ang orig, but his is no longer a mask; it's a headdress.  second, unlike watermelon brother, he's not drunk.  

my bad.  what forty years can do to a free man.  the u.s. justice system wasted this man's four decades.  sometimes, justice is not only blind, it also suffers from retinitis.  sad.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 08, 2014, 01:41:15 PM
from http://slightlywarped.com/

my fevorite.  reminds me of bai hubag of tubagbooy.

siya baya ang madayegon, ikaw gyod.

the chilotes









images from flicker

The population of the province with its ten municipalities according to the 2002 census was 154,775; of this, 44% lived in rural areas, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). Chiloé's people are known as Chilotes. (wikipedia)


Fishing boats in Quellón. Corcovado Volcano in the background. (photo by Bryan Freeman)

The Chiloé Archipelago (Spanish: Archipiélago de Chiloé) consists of several islands lying off the coast of Chile. It is separated from mainland Chile by Chacao Channel in the north, the Sea of Chiloé in the east and Gulf of Corcovado to the southeast. All of the archipelagoâ€"except Desertores Islands, which are part of Palena Provinceâ€"forms the province of Chiloé. The main island is Chiloé Island (Isla Grande de Chiloé). (wikipedia)


location within Chile

more at http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30939461

The earthquake that hit Chiloe in May 1960 was the largest recorded in the 20th Century

The wooden churches were first built by Jesuits and the tradition was later continued by Franciscans

The church of Nercon in Chiloe has Unesco World Heritage status

The islanders who don't want a bridge to the mainland

By Lucy Daltroff
Chiloe
25 January 2015



A group of islands once visited by Charles Darwin could soon find itself at one end of Latin America's longest bridge. But not everyone in Chiloe, off the coast of Chile, is happy about it.

Headlights, rime and fog (Gabrielle Jaffe)


Portrait of the 'icy flowers' (Gabrielle Jaffe)

from The quest to see China’s extraordinary frozen fog, 15 January 2015, by Gabrielle Jaffe,Nature & Outdoors, more at http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20150114-the-quest-to-see-chinas-extraordinary-frozen-fog/1

Rime tourists bundled up against the cold (Gabrielle Jaffe)

For rime to occur, it needs a combination of cold climate, sufficient airborne moisture and clear skies overhead. Typically this happens in the interior of large continents, in a protected river valley or on mountain slopes shrouded in mist. Located at a latitude of 44 degrees north and some 350km inland, Jilin’s geography is ideal for the formation of rime. Despite air temperatures sometimes dipping as low as -32C, a hydropower dam on the city’s river keeps the water flowing, which in turn encourages the creation of milky white freezing fog.


Rime near the Songhua River (Gabrielle Jaffe)

Rime under blue skies (Gabrielle Jaffe)

When fog forms below 0C, its super-cooled water droplets remain liquid, even though the temperature is below freezing. But as soon as the droplets brush something solid such as a tree branch, they freeze instantly. Tiny ice granules build up, growing into feathery white forms known as rime.


Two trees amid the rime (Gabrielle Jaffe)

Elusive rime near Jilin (Gabrielle Jaffe)

In China...

From late November to early March, dazzlingly white ice crystals form on the trees along the city’s Songhua River. Giving trees the appearance that they’ve been carefully dusted with sugar, these crystals form only when fog freezes.


Fog over the Songhua River. (Gabrielle Jaffe)

Quote from: Lollapalooza on January 21, 2015, 05:01:54 PM
Thank you!!! <3 November 30 Tita Isles... road trip ang gift sa akong friends sa akoa that time.. nangadto mi sa akong isa ka friend sa New Bataan, ComVal (5 hrs travel from Digos) biktima sya sa bagyong Pablo pero naningkamot sya makabangon ug karon successful iyang mga negosyo didto.. Happy ko para niya ^___^

you have the same birthday as my father's, wow!

i promise to pay you a visit kun madayon mi sa among annual clan reunion in the month of may, venue davao city.  last year unta to ang davao, but it was decided at the last minute that cagayan de oro city was easier, being in the middle of everyone.  sadly, we are the farthest from anywhere in the philippines because we're out of the country now.  but i hope to be able to attend as i was able to attend last year.

you know how to fall and rise again.  it would be great to meet you in person.  

This picture of a little boy and his #best friend on a swing is just as adorable without a back story. The little boy's mother shared the image, writing that her son wouldn’t go on the swing without his beloved cat, and that they spent every moment together. Just adorable…Images that warm your heart like this instantly restore your faith in humanity.

When Sue Drummond’s Shih Tzu, Bibi, fell off a pier in Melbourne, it seemed certain that the little dog wouldn’t survive. Until Roden Soemawinata spotted him, that is. Roden had been scattering his grandmothers ashes on the pier, but quickly stripped off his clothes and jumped into the sea in his underwear to grab the dog and pass him back to Sue. Utterly amazing.

This photograph of a firefighter administering oxygen to a kitten he’d just rescued from a big house fire went viral almost instantly, and it’s no real surprise. Just #look how caring he looks, and how cute that kitten is. It’s actually heart-warming.

When Cuttack City in India flooded, everyone was told to try to reach high land. It was quick, and unexpected. Despite that, this villager filled a bowl with kittens, and balanced them on his head while he walked them to safety. He saved them.

These two Norwegian men went viral after they were photographed saving a sheep that had somehow got lost in the sea. Despite it not looking good for the sheep, the #men were determined to save it, and prevented it from drowning. And that’s really, really lovely.

way sapayan, wards.  isn't it great to know that there are real reasons why humanity must never lose hope? 

open-air papal mass in manila
18 january 2015

When Iranian schoolteacher Ali Mohammadian noticed that one of his students was being bullied after going bald as a result of a mysterious illness, he decided to show solidarity and shave his own hair. In no time, his entire class shaved their heads and the bullying stopped. (http://www.theguardian.com/)