Breaking happy + Inspirational news

kefkat

kefkat

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Get so fed up of all the misery in the world, I thought I would start a topic which only allowed happy & inspirational news. So get posting your news articles/or and own happy/inspirational news. Here's my starter for ''10' :14: This little girl would have died without the wonders of modern technology

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Surgeon Uses 3D Printed Heart To Improve Surgery

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Surgeons turn to 3D printing to get an exact replica of a girl's heart to carry out a transplant faster and more effectively.

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A five-year-old girl, who had a life threatening heart condition has made a full recovery, thanks to an innovative technique used by a surgeon in the United States.

In March, Mia Gonzalez was given just days to live.

She had a rare heart malformation, known as Double Aortic Arch, which restricts a person's airflow.

Cont: http://news.sky.com/story/1563135/surgeon-uses-3d-printed-heart-to-improve-surgery
 
What a good start to the thread kefkat. Yeah, we need more good news etc. Definately been in short supply recently.

 
Yes it is and also fun stories too can go in as long as they fun at no one's expense type. Here's my next one..

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Bride's Dad Stops Wedding So Stepdad Can Walk Down The Aisle Too
The definition of fatherly love.

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When Todd Bachman's daughter got married last weekend, he wanted to make sure that her stepfather was recognized at the wedding in some way. After all, her stepdad had helped raise her.

So when it came time to walk his daughter Brittany down the aisle, Bachman did something completely unexpected: He stopped the procession, ran to the front row and grabbed her stepdad Todd Cendrosky in order to share the honor of walking their daughter down the aisle.

The beautiful moment was captured by Ohio-based wedding photographer Delia D Blackburn, whose Facebook album of the Elyria, Ohio wedding has received more than one million "likes."

Cont: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brides-dad-stops-wedding-so-stepdad-can-walk-down-the-aisle-too_560ac699e4b0768126ff4f2b?utm_hp_ref=good-news&ir=Good%2BNews&section=good-news
 
We definately need stories like these to cheer us up, and when I read this, well it just had to be posted on here;

An 84 yr old pension left his wallet at home, not realising until he got to the cash-out at his local Aldi. A kind starnger then gives him £20 to pay for his shopping.....

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/pensioner-reduced-tears-stranger-paying-134252704.html#RKhuPD3


 
It's Yogyakarts's 259th birthday this month and there are a lot of things going on within the city to celebrate throughout the month.

Couple of pics posted here - they're not my pics so I wouldn't post them on the official photography thread. The first being one of the posters announcing the cities birthday. The second is a photo from north of the city (we're on the south side) which shows our near neighbour Merapi Volcano shrouded with a bit of early morning cloud..... which in itself is unusual......

 

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Wonderful story and pictures Pride. Thank you. I am glad you are also posting in here to spread the good news
 
Great idea kefkat, I never watch the news anymore because it's just misery, misery, misery.

If I can find any good news I'll post it here!

 
Great thread, heard this on the news a family had a horrific car crash and there toddler had his head detached from his body but he has survived in a neck brace which can be removed in 8 weeks time and he is now walking about WOW:-

http://www.unilad.co.uk/articles/doctors-reattach-toddlers-decapitated-head-in-medical-miracle/

This story bought tears to my eyes blimey
 
I am glad you all like the thread

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A strangers kindness

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A Stranger Asked If She Could Hold Her Baby, And It Changed Everything

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It's amazing how an act of kindness from a complete stranger can completely turn your day around.

Rebekka Garvison, who's scared to fly, was also traveling with an infant. It doesn't get much more stressful than that.

Before the plane took off, her daughter began crying, and she could not get her to stop.

That's when she met Nyfesha Miller - an angel in disguise.

Read more at http://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/1339/A-Stranger-Asked-If-She-Could-Hold-Her-Baby-And-It-Changed-Everything#sQGHhj6MMOWWYb1m.99
 
Here is a good one especially for us disabled lot

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The new disability travel site making exploring accessible for all

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Srin Madipalli has always been an avid traveller, despite being confined to a wheelchair with severe spinal muscular atrophy. Going on holiday has never been easy for him, but that may be set to change.

Along with business partner Martyn Sibley, the pair have just launched Accomable, a new website that connects disabled people, or those with mobility issues, to suitable accommodation. It’s being hailed as the Airbnb for the mobility sector and is already changing the lives of hundreds of disabled travellers around the world. Here, he explains what the new project is all about:

“I’m 29. I used to be a corporate lawyer, for my sins. But I was absolutely miserable. I wanted to do something that was more creative, more impactful.

Cont: http://positivenews.org.uk/2015/culture/positivetravel/18614/new-disability-travel-site-making-exploring-accessible-for-all/
 
This is beautiful

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Tonight I want to tell you ladies about a time I messed up really badly. It was back when I first started boudoir, and I had a mid-forties lady book my services at a GORGEOUS hotel in downtown San Antonio. She was a curvy, beautiful size 18. I thought she looked like a goddess, but as most women do, she had a request.....
She came to me, looked me straight in the eyes, and said "I want you to photoshop all of my cellulite, all of my angry red stretch marks, ALL of my fat, and all of my wrinkles....just make it go away. I want to feel gorgeous just ONCE." So, I did exactly as she asked. We spent an hour and a half together going through many, many poses. I went home, made every last stretch mark disappear, smoothed out every dimple of cellulite, took away every wrinkle. I turned her into the epitome of what every woman dreams of being.
Christmas rolls around, and she gifts her husband a BEAUTIFUL hand tooled album with about 30 of her images. 3 days later, I receive this very REAL email:
"Hi Victoria,
I am (blank)'s husband, ********. I am writing to you because I recently received an album containing images you took of my wife. I don't want you to think that I am in any way upset with you....but I have some food for thought that I would like to pass on to you. I have been with my wife since we were 18 years old, and we have two beautiful children together. We have had many ups and downs over the years, and I think...well, actually I KNOW that my wife did these pictures for me to "spice things up". She sometimes complains that I must not find her attractive, that she wouldn't blame me if I ever found someone younger. When I opened the album that she gave to me, my heart sank. These pictures...while they are beautiful and you are clearly a very talented photographer....they are not my wife. You made every one of her "flaws" disappear...and while I'm sure this is exactly what she asked you to do, it took away everything that makes up our life. When you took away her stretch marks, you took away the documentation of my children. When you took away her wrinkles, you took away over two decades of our laughter, and our worries. When you took away her cellulite, you took away her love of baking and all the goodies we have eaten over the years. I am not telling you all of this to make you feel horrible, you're just doing your job and I get that. I am actually writing you to thank you. Seeing these images made me realize that I honestly do not tell my wife enough how much I LOVE her and adore her just as she is. She hears it so seldom, that she actually thought these photoshopped images are what I wanted and needed her to look like. I have to do better, and for the rest of my days I am going to celebrate her in all her imperfectness. Thanks for the reminder.
Regards,
******** "
Ladies, I can photoshop just about anything. But I encourage you to think twice about how much "altering" we do. Our loved ones cherish and adore us just as we are. This email was 100% real, and I cried like a baby with guilt for at least 6 months after that whenever I read it. I encourage you to embrace YOU just as you are!
...oh, and just in case you don't have anyone telling you how beautiful you are tonight....YOU ARE SO DAMN BEAUTIFUL
 
Not sure if this is the right place however it is a story of learning and beauty to me

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They Looked With Disgust At His Dad For Spilling His Food. But What This Man Said Next Is Priceless.

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A son took his old father to a restaurant for an evening dinner.

The father being very old and weak, dropped food on his shirt and trousers. Others diners watched him in disgust while his son was calm.

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Cont: http://www.tickld.com/x/they-looked-with-disgust-at-his-dad-for-spilling-his-food
 
Wonderful: I love her quotes and why she gave up smoking at 117 LOL. Yeah you read that right

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I hope I'll be like this when I'm old


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Jeanne Louise Calment had the longest confirmed human lifespan on record: 122 years and 164 days. It seems that fate strongly approved of the way Madam Calment lived her life.
Jeanne was born in Arles, France, on 21st February 1875. When the Eiffel Tower was built, she was 14 years old. It was at this time that she met Vincent van Gogh. ’He was dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable’ she recalled in an interview given in 1988.

Cont: http://brightside.me/article/i-hope-ill-be-like-this-when-im-old-7205/
 
I dithered on putting this here or elsewhere, but decided here as it is good news of sorts.

About 70 hostages held by IS have been rescued with imminent mass execution near, by Kurdish commandos, backed by the US. Sadly one US Special Op. was killed - the first in this in the fight against the IS scum.

Full details;

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/us-special-forces-raid-iraqi-prison-135953798.html#ViVGG9d

 
I need this thread tbh, anything with good news right now is nice, nothing like a heart warming story of real life to cheer you up.
 
Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton who has won the USA Grand Prix and by doing so wins his third F1 World Drivers Championship.

Well Done Lewis!...........

 
Also you forgot Pride. Congratulations to Tom Fox for not dithering and being more decisive than Randy Lerner :15: :7:
 
kefkat - 26/10/2015 05:21

Also you forgot Pride. Congratulations to Tom Fox for not dithering and being more decisive than Randy Lerner :15: :7:
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Yes kefkat, you're right, but there was so many threads in 100% to post my feelings, I forgot this one...... apologies.


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Pride of Lions - 25/10/2015 22:41

kefkat - 26/10/2015 05:21

Also you forgot Pride. Congratulations to Tom Fox for not dithering and being more decisive than Randy Lerner :15: :7:
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Yes kefkat, you're right, but there was so many threads in 100% to post my feelings, I forgot this one...... apologies.


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LOL I was teasing you :18:
 
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