Instead of shutting boy’s hot dog stand down, officials help him grow his business

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Monica Pop
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For someone to be successful it doesn’t only take hard work and determination, but a little support from the community as well.

13-year-old Jaequan Faulkner from Minneapolis is a young entrepreneur who decided to open a hot dog stand and make some money on his own instead of asking for a pocket money from his parents.

Once the Bike Cops for Kids learned of Jaequan’s stand, they decided to promote his business on their Facebook page. This was a huge success as may people were eager to try his hot dogs. However, there were also those who didn’t like what he was doing and filed a complaint against him saying he was working without a permit.

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When officials learned that Jaequan was still a teen, they decided to help him instead of shutting his business down.

“When I realized what it was, I said, ‘No, we’re not going to just go and shut him down’ like we would an unlicensed vendor,” Minneapolis Environmental Health Director Dan Huff told KCPQ-13.

“We can help him get the permit. Let’s make this a positive thing and help him become a business owner.”

That is exactly what happened. The employees at the health department chipped in and helped the young man get the $87 10-day permit. What’s most, they got him a tent for shade, meat thermometers, and a hand-washing station for food handling.

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Jaequan’s story spread around the community and the Northside Economic Opportunity Network, a non-profit organization, decided to step in as well. They help “underserved entrepreneurs” and taught Jaequan basic business principles like financing, marketing, and pricing.

After the permit expired, the young man’s stand was relocated. Finally, the church collected money for his next permits until it was time for him to get back to school.

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“It’s the cooking and the people,” Jaequan told KCPQ-13 of why he does it. “I see someone go by with a frown on their face. I’m there with a smile, then I see a smile on their face. I just made a smile on somebody’s face by selling them a hot dog.”

“My auntie always told me, ‘Can’t nobody stop you but you.’ If you say ‘I can’t do that,’ well, then you just set yourself up for failure,” he told CNBC.

We are very glad that young people like Jaequan are interested in starting their own business and we truly hope that one day “Mr. Falkner’s Old-Fashioned-Hot-Dogs” would grow into a big business.

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Baby goat jumps all over the place, and this footage of him is going viral

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Monica Pop
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There isn’t anything cuter out there than babies. Whether it is a human bundle of joy or a baby animal, whenever we see one, we like to hold them and cuddle with them.

When it comes to animals, this isn’t only true for cats and dogs, but the little creatures living on the farm too. Well, what’s not to love about fluffy little animals?

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If you are an animal lover yourself, the following video will certainly make your day. It is a compilation of funny baby goats jumping and running around. Also, one thing that these animals seem to enjoy the most is climbing on things, no matter if that’s a huge doll house or other animals.

They are not only great around humans but dogs too.

They are so darn cute. We really needed the laugh! To see the baby goats having the time of their life go to the video below.

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Pilot forced to turn plane around because mom forgets her baby at the airport

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Waiting long hours at the airport can be tiring. With all those people rushing to get their flights, the long queues, and the pressure of flying, one has to double check all their belongings needed in order to board the plane. As it turns out, it’s not really that uncommon for passengers to forget their passport, luggage, or ticket, but what about a child? This is definitely something we think happens only in the movies. Does “Home Alone” and the McAllisters ring a bell?

Well, one obviously highly forgetful mother did exactly that. She boarded the plane, and as it took off, she remembered her baby was still in the terminal. 

She was heading to Malaysia from Saudi Arabia, and since that flight takes around eight hours, she had to beg the pilot to turn the plane around. Distressed and in panic, this mother feared for her child’s safety, although it was her fault for allowing something like that to happen. 

Flying the plane around seemed like a mission impossible, but it was a kid left all alone at a huge airport in question, so the pilot asked for permission to return. 

According to a YouTube video, he calls the traffic controllers and says, “May God be with us. Can we come back or what?” He then explains the reason for his requests saying, “This flight is requesting to come back…a passenger forgot her baby in the waiting area, the poor thing.”

The operators couldn’t believe what they were hearing and took a minute or two to come around saying, “This is totally a new one for us” after which they gave the pilot a green light to land. 

Thankfully, the mother soon had her child in her arms. No one really knew how it happened for her to left the poor kid behind in the first place. People assume the crowd at the airport made everything too hectic for her so her brain just stopped working. 

We honestly hope she will never let something like this happen ever again. Although we understand all moms are too busy, and many times too tired because of all the commitments on their plate, forgetting a child at the airport is something we can’t really understand. 

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Uvalde First Responder shares agonizing moment he learned his child was among the victims of the shooting

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Monica Pop
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On Tuesday, a shooter gunned down 21 people at Robb Elementary School. The nineteen children whose lives were claimed were aged between seven and 10. Two of their teachers lost their lives too as they tried to protect their students.

The day started as any other, and no one could have ever predicted that a man at the other side of town would fire the opening shots of one of America’s deadliest mass shootings.

The killer, Salvador Ramos, first shot his grandmother in the head and then announced his plans on Facebook in a series of text messages he sent to a girl from Europe he met online.

One of the victims was a girl named Amerie Jo Garza. He father, Angel Garza, responded to the aftermath of the shooting still unaware that his girl was among the killed. Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Angel explained that he attended to a girl “covered in blood, head to toe.”

“I thought she was injured, I asked her what was wrong and she said she’s OK,” Garza told Cooper. “She was hysterical, saying that they shot her best friend, that they killed her best friend, she’s not breathing and she was trying to call the cops.

Then he asked the young girl for her friend’s name. “She told me, she said Amerie,” he said, before breaking down and weeping on air.

“She was so sweet, Mr. Cooper,” the grief-stricken father said after an emotional pause in which he hugged a framed photo of his daughter. “She was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong. She listened to her mom and dad, she always brushed her teeth, she was creative, she made things for us, she never got in trouble in school.”

“I just want to know what she did to be a victim,” he said crying.

Sweet Amerie died a hero. Her grandma, Berlinda Arreola, told The Daily Beast that her granddaughter tried to call 911 on her cellphone before the 18-year-old gunman killed her.

“And instead of grabbing it and breaking it or taking it from her, he shot her,” Arreola said. “She was sitting right next to her best friend. Her best friend was covered in her blood.”

Amerie had just celebrated her birthday on May 10, her dad told Cooper. The phone was a birthday gift.

“She’d been wanting a phone for so long and we finally got it for her,” Angel said and added that other children confirmed how his daughter died while trying to call the police.

“She just tried to call the police … and I guess he just shot her,” he said through tears.

“How do you look at this girl and shoot her?” he said.

We are so very sorry for all the lives lost. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims’ families.

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Hollywood Legend Ray Liotta Dies Aged 67

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Devastating news has just hit the headlines and left millions in shock.

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Hollywood actor Ray Liotta has tragically passed away.

Liotta, who was born in New Jersey in 1954, is best known for his star turns in films such as Goodfellas in which he played the main character Henry Hill as he navigated the world of being a gangster. He’s also famous for playing Shoeless Joe in Field of Dreams.

The actor’s publicist, Jennifer Allen, said the he died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming his latest movie, as per Press Association news agency.

His fiancee Jacy Nittolo was on location at the time of his death, Allen said. Liotta was a father to daughter Karsen.

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Liotta received many awards throughout the years. Back in 2016, he told PA agency that he regretted how he handled his career, including turning down a chance to audition for Tim Burton’s Batman movie. “I wish I’d handled my career differently but, you know, hindsight…” 

“When I did my first movie, Tim Burton was getting ready to do Batman and he was interested in me because he wanted it to be edgy and real. I thought, ‘Batman? That’s a stupid idea’, even though he had just done one of my favourite movies of all time, Beetlejuice. So yes, I regret not auditioning for that.”

In recent years Liotta appeared in Marriage Story and No Sudden Move.

Rest in peace, Ray.

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Witness for Amber Heard testifies that Johnny Depp joked about hitting his then-wife on their wedding day

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Monica Pop
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A friend of Amber Heard’s, iO Tillett Wright, who met Heard back in the day through a mutual friend testified on Tuesday claiming he acted as a mediator of the couple whenever things turned heated between them. Heard and Wright have been seen pictured together multiple times over the last decade and rumors are that he was “the friend” she defecated Depp’s bed with.

The prerecorded testimony played to the courtroom shows Wright explaining how Heard sent him a message in May 2016 saying she wanted to talk to him. Later, over the phone, after she put him on speakerphone, she told him how her then-husband, Johnny Depp, accused them of the incident mentioned above, to what Wright laughed. However, he then realized that the actor wasn’t joking.

“I could hear him walk away from the phone,” Wright said. “He came clomping back down the stairs and I heard like a [punches hand] noise and then the phone dropped and he said to her, ‘Oh? You think I hit you? You think I fucking hit you? What if I peel your fucking hair back?’ And then I heard the phone drop again and then I heard her scream.”

Wright claimed that he then called Heard’s neighbor and friend Raquel Pennington and called 911 although he was in New York while the couple was in Los Angeles.

As he was good friends with Heard, Wright became a close friend with Depp too. During the prerecorded testimony, Wright said that Depp believed Heard was cheating on him with her costars.

He continued saying that Depp would get jealous sometimes and feel crazy, and had to get it under control but was “kind, generous, and loyal” when he wasn’t under influence of alcohol.

Further, he spoke of a joke Depp made during the now ex-couple’s wedding. “I was walking with Johnny and congratulating him that they pulled it off and they did it,” Wright explained. “And he said, ‘We’re married. Now I can punch her in the face and no one can do anything about it.'”

Wright, however, said that he never really witnessed Depp physically abusing Heard.

Depp is suing his ex on the grounds that she defamed him in an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post. She didn’t mention his name, but he claimed that was implied and he lost out on development deals as a result.

Heard is counter-suing Depp, claiming that he launched a smear campaign to paint her domestic abuse allegations as “fake” and a “hoax” orchestrated by her.

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Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe’s, who played the role of Precious, road to fame

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You call it luck, or you call it hard work and determination, actress Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe, like most of the Hollywood celebrities, perhaps needed both when she auditioned for the role of Precious which earned her the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, in addition to nominations for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actress.

This is what Gabby’s journey to Hollywood looked like.

She was born on May 6, 1983 in Brooklyn, New York, to a mother who was a street performer and a dad who worked as a cab driver.

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From very early age, Gabby showed interest in becoming a comedian and drew inspiration from actress Mo’Nique. In fact, Gabby wanted to be just like her, probably never assuming she would get to play alongside her in the future.

“I always thought she was really funny, but also she’s very confident in the way she looks, and that’s what I prayed about,” she explained in an interview with the NY Times. “At that time in my life, I wanted to be everybody else, but I wanted to want to be Gabby.”

Gabby studied psychology at Mercy College and worked as a part-time receptionist in order to be able to pay for her tuition.

Then, one, day, a friend of hers called her and told her there was an audition for Lee Daniel’s upcoming movie Precious. Gabby knew the character well as she had read the book the movie was based on, Push: A Novel. With no previous experience of that type, Gabby took the book in her hands and went to pursue her dream. There were around 300 women who auditioned for the role, but Gabby was the perfect fit, and Lee Daniel’s knew that from the beginning.

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“She’s way smarter than me, way, way smarter than me, and most of the actors I’ve worked with,” Daniels told the New York Times. “I love her with all my soul.”

”I have to be really protective of her because she’s baring me her soul,” he added. ”A lot of her truth is in her.”

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The movie was a huge success and suddenly, all eyes were on Gabourey Sidibe.

Her name became well known in Hollywood and everyone agreed that what she showed on screen was marvelous and extraordinary. Her noteworthy performance elevated her into the national cinematic dialogue for which she received the award ‘New Hollywood’ at the Hollywood Film Awards and the ‘Virtuosos Award’ at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

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Gabby later spoke of her career and said that it is usually the case with Oscar nominees to get on the top in Hollywood but that wasn’t really the case with her. “I work really, really hard though. I work really, really hard. An no, the Hollywood seas didn’t part for me in the same way that it might have for maybe Anna Kendrick who was nominated for the first time that year as well, who then went on to star in films and television and the whole thing,” she said. “The seas did not part that same way for me and I assume that there are a few factors that made that so, but I am still working 10 years later.”

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In recent years, “Precious” was part of the movie Yelling to the Sky, the Showtime series The Big C, American Horror Story, and the Fox musical drama series Empire.

Gabby doesn’t really want to speak of her weight, but back in 2009 she told Oprah Winfrey, “It’s something I’ve had to work at. My first diet started when I was six years old,” and added, “I’ve never been a small girl. One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body.”

Three years ago, the 37-year-old actress published her book This is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare in which she spoke of her panic attacks and depression, and how her mother never understood her condition seriously.

“When I was sad about something, she told me to ‘get a thicker skin.’ When I was upset, she told me to ‘stop nitpicking.’ My mom has always had faith that things would be okay, but saying ‘tomorrow will be a better day’ wasn’t enough for me,” Gabby told People.

She is dating boyfriend Brandon Frankel, a marketing expert, and is very happy with him. The two share lots of cute pictures of themselves on Instagram, like the one below, where Frankel calls his girlfriend his queen and writes, “You’re a ball of sunshine, so generous and giving of your time and love- and your excitement and passion for life and people/things you love truly lights up my heart. You’ve taught me so much about life, myself, and the world that is truly invaluable. You make me push myself to be a better me, even though you probably don’t even realize you are. I love you more and more every single day- which seems impossible, but continually amazes me.” 

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Gabby is also posting photos of her from the gym and people praise her for her dedication. She is a real role model and a wonderful person.

Little girl tried to explain child birth to her class. This is priceless

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Monica Pop
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When little children ask how babies are born, adults are always left startled. The truth is that it’s not that easy for this complex process to be explained to a young child and that is why grown ups tend to use simple words or even joke how the newborns are brought by the stork.

For one young girl named Erica, this process is not something unknown. On the contrary, she described it so profoundly during lesson time that her teacher couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

The teacher starts her story, which happened few years back, by explaining that they had a story telling class when Erica came to the board with a pillow stuffed under her shirt. As she started talking, she said: “This is Luke, my baby brother, and I’m going to tell you about his birthday.”

As the rest of the kids watched with amazement, Erica continued: “First, Mommy and Daddy made him as a symbol of their love, and then Daddy put a seed in my mother’s stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for 9 months through an umbrella cord.”

At this point, the teacher who shared this story was sad she didn’t have her camera rolling so she could take a video of the detailed yet innocent explanation.

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“Then, about two Saturdays ago, my mother starts going, ‘Oh, oh, oh!” Erica said as she put a hand behind her back and groaned. “She walked around the house for, like an hour, “Oh, oh, oh!” At this point, bright Erica started doing a hysterical duck-walk, holding her back and groaning. “My father called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn’t have a sign on the car like the Domino’s man. They got my mother to lay down in bed like this.

“And then, pop! My mother had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!” 

She had her legs spread and mimicked water flowing. “Then the middle wife starts going push, push, and breathe, breathe. They start counting, but they never even got past 10. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff they said was from the play-center, so there must be a lot of stuff inside there.” 

Following her thorough explanation on how babies are born, Erica took a bow and returned to her seat.

The teacher was so impressed that she gave her the loudest applause.

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