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Saturday, January 25, 2014
......... to support his friend battling cancer.
When 6-year-old Zac Gossage lost his hair while undergoing chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, he cried to his mom that he didn't want to go to school.
When his teacher at Central
Elementary School in Union, Missouri, told the class about Zac's
illness, his best friend, 7-year-old Vincent Butterfield, went home and
told his dad he wanted to shave his head. In support, Vincent's father
also shaved his head. When asked in an interview why he wanted to
support his friend in that way, Vincent simply stated, "I didn't want
him to feel like the only one without hair."
As if that wasn't enough, Vincent
took things a step further and started selling scarves on Facebook to
raise money for the Gossage family when he learned how expensive Zac's
treatments were. "We had been making these scarves, and he just kind of
said it would be cool if we could make a whole bunch of these and sell
them," Vincent's mom, Karen Butterfield, said. He initially wanted to sell 10 scarves at $10 a piece, but instead, doubled his goal in only five hours and raised $200.
Today, Zac is reportedly doing
well, although he will still be undergoing treatments. He continues to
attend school on most days, except when he has to get a spinal tap.
How does Zac feel about his
friend's gesture? "It made me feel awesome, because I wouldn't be the
only one with no hair," he said.
When asked, "What is friendship?"
by a reporter, Vincent responded, "A beautiful thing." Who are we to
argue with such a wise first-grader?
Thursday, January 23, 2014
by Nhasilangque
Hôm nay 23 tháng Chạp giờ Việt Nam cô Ốc nhé! Ở Mỹ chắc không có lễ Ông Táo về chầu trời cô nhỉ?
Cảm ơn cô Ốc vì tất cả nhé. Chúc cô sang năm thật nhiều sức khỏe và nhiều tiền nữa ạ!
Hôm nay vui vui, em có viết bài này tặng cho cô nè:
"Hai ba ông Táo về trời,
Em ngồi em viết gửi lời tri ân.
Cảm ơn cô Ốc ân cần,
Dạy em đọc, viết, đánh vần từng câu.
Em còn nhớ mãi hôm đầu,
Vào room được ốc gọi tên, gãi đầu.
Gia tài cô Ốc chưa giầu,
Bốn cái máy lọc dãi dầu nắng mưa,
Răng giả cô làm còn thưa,
Cô sợ làm khít tốn thêm chút tiền.
Cô Ốc có phải cô tiên?
Dạy không cần phí, ngồi liền tới trưa.
Cho dù trời có nắng mưa,
Ốc vẫn ngồi đó say sưa giảng bài,
Mỗi tuần đều có thứ hai,
Chờ dài thứ sáu, tới mai học rồi.
Thời gian cứ thấm thoắt trôi,
Suốt ba tháng ấy học cô miệt mài,
Mỗi lần nha sĩ đọc sai,
Đọc đi đọc lại đọc hoài mới thôi.
Cô Ốc cười lớn thôi rồi,
Cả room nghe thấy như sôi hết người.
Cô ốc dạy cách làm người,
Dạy ăn, dạy nói, dạy cười, dạy chơi,
Lô tô quay số một hồi,
Vui xong có thưởng thêm phần hân hoan.
Khi nào Ốc về Việt Nam,
Nhớ kêu nha sĩ tới thăm cô liền,
Cảm ơn cô Ốc dịu hiền,
Sang năm mới kiếm nhiều tiền cô nghen.
Ông Táo gửi bài giới tiên,
Nhớ thay nha sĩ gửi liền đó nha!
Mong sao cô ốc lâu già,
Để cùng em mãi trong nhà ESGO."
Cám ơn nhasi bài sớ thật vui nhộn và hy vọng là em luôn cố gắng và được nhiều thuận lợi trên đường học vấn. Chúc em một tương lại thật rạng rỡ (mai sau này về VN làm răng giả ốc sẽ tìm em). Ốc
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Standing tall through it all
This 6-foot beauty captured not only the attention of the judges but also the world when she was recently crowned Miss Israel. Soon after, another dream was fulfilled when 21-year-old Yityish “Titi” Aynaw was invited to dine with President Barack Obama. It was in celebration of his most recent trip to Israel.
Titi, the first Ethiopian immigrant to win the Miss Israel title, says she’s come a long way in less than 10 years. Born in a tiny African village where things like staircases didn’t even exist, Titi suffered the tragic loss of both her parents by age 12. She then came to Israel and created a new life.
Today, an estimated 121,000 citizens of Ethiopian descent are living in Israel.
“This was an incredible moment,” Titi says. “Obama is a figure that I want to emulate. I did a project on him in school and I knew what he had been through and what he had done. He was like a mentor for me, so to meet him and say hello, it was like closing a circle.”
Yityish “Titi” Aynaw
Cangumbang, located around 11 miles (17.7km) south of the devastated city of Tacloban, was hit directly by record wind speeds of up to 200mph, but miraculously, every one of its 300 residents survived, due to work that was started by a charity before the storm hit. China Correspondent Angus Walker reports.
Tropical storms and typhoons in previous years struck Cangumbang hard, with many homes being damaged or lost.
Ms Thomasma, now dubbed "the woman who saved a village", raised over $40,000 to ensure the project was completed by the end of August.
Although the roof was ripped off during the typhoon, everyone sheltering beneath survived as their homes were swept away in the storm.
"I'm just so thankful that we built the centre in the way we did and that it was ready in time. The children are like my children so, to be able to still have them here and be able to see them whenever I want ... it's just a great feeling to know they are OK."
article link: http://www.itv.com/news/2013-11-19/philippines-village-celebrates-miracle-storm-shelter/
Saturday, January 11, 2014
........ MAY RESET BUDDHA'S BIRTH DATE
A
dig at the suspected birthplace of the Buddha has led to the discovery
of an unknown timber structure beneath a series of brick temples.
Remarkably, it's the first known archaeological evidence linking the
life of the Buddha to a specific century.
According
to the best historical accounts, Siddhartha Gautama — otherwise known
as the Buddha — was born to Queen Mayadevi in Lumbini, a district of
Nepal. The site, which was re-discovered in 1896 by Nepalese
archaeologists, has become one of four sacred pilgrimage points
associated with with the life and times of the Buddha, the others being
Kushinagar, Bodh Gaya, and Sarnath. Lumbini was designated a UNESCO
World Heritage Site in 1997.
It's
thought that Gautama Buddha was born sometime around 563 BCE and died
around 483 BCE. But there's no consensus on this, with some historians
claiming he was born in the fourth century BCE and died as late as 380
BCE. The problem is that no historical or archaeological records about
the Buddha have been found from his lifetime. The only thing that's
known about him comes through textual sources and oral tradition.
A Man of the Sixth Century B.C.
But the new excavations in Nepal have the potential to rewrite the books on this important period of history. It now appears that the Buddha lived as early as the sixth century BCE.
Professor Robin Coningham of Durham University, U.K., who co-led the
investigation, confirmed these dates after uncovering a previously
unknown chamber containing the remains of a tree shrine within the
Sacred Garden of Lumbini.
According
to Coningham, the ancient timber shrine appears to be the inspiration
for the brick Maya Devi Temple built on top of it — a strong indication
of continuity of worship at the site. And remarkably, the wooden
structure features an open area where a tree once grew. Buddhist legend
has it that Gautama was born under a tree at the sacred Lumbini
compound, making the newly discovered temple — which is the oldest
Buddhist shrine — all the more profound and intriguing.
The National Geographic Society, which partly funded the research, elaborates:
Digging beneath a central shrine, the researchers uncovered postholes pointing to a wooden railing surrounding a tree shrine and dating to around 550 B.C....They also found an older brick structure.
The center of the shrine was unroofed, the team found, and contained mineralized tree roots, surrounded by clay floors worn smooth by visitors. It was likely an ancient bodhigara, or tree shrine.
The tree roots appear to have been fertilized, and although bodhigara are found in older Indian traditions, the shrine lacked the signs of sacrifices or offerings found at such sites.
To
establish the time pieces for the various artifacts found — like pieces
of charcoal, grain, and sand — the archaeologists used radiocarbon
dating and optically stimulated luminescence techniques. The
international team of archaeologists, who were given special permission
to dig at Lumbini, were comprised of Japanese and Nepalese officials and
overseen by UNESCO.
It's worth noting that not everyone is convinced that the dates should be rewritten. Again, from National Geographic:
Outside scholars applauded the discovery but cautioned against too hastily accepting the site as the oldest discovered Buddhist shrine without more analysis.
"Archaeologists love claiming that they have found the earliest or the oldest of something," says archaeologist Ruth Young of the United Kingdom's University of Leicester in an email message.
Today,
some half a billion people around the world are Buddhists, and by 2020,
some 22 million Buddhist pilgrims are expected in South Asia. It's the
only major religion that doesn't believe in God or the soul, and it considered by some to be the 'religion' of the future.
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