Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are on the cover of TIME’s most influential people list

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Monica Pop
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Ever since Harry and Meghan tied the knot, the world went crazy about them. The stir they caused when they decided to step down from their royal duties made their lives even more appealing to the media and their names could be seen in a huge number of headlines. When they gave Oprah an interview in which they revealed a lot of things that made the Royals angry, Harry and Meghan’s relationship with the family became a hot topic.

During the interview, Meghan spoke of her mental struggles and the Firm’s inability to provide help. According to her, they cared more about the image of the family than her suicidal thoughts. Among the rest, the couple revealed that a senior royal was questioning the potential color of then-unborn son Archie’s skin.

The Queen issued a formal statement saying that the Palace would settle any issues privately and that Harry and Meghan will always be a much loved members of the family.

Well, the Sussexes seems to have settle in California pretty well. They have their hands full raising their two children and being involved in a number of charities. The couple also made contracts with both Netflix and Spotify and are quite busy running their Archewell foundation.

For all they have accomplished during the last couple of years, TIME magazine placed them on their list of 100 most influential people. And not only that, they are gracing the cover of it.

Other people who got on the list are U.S. gymnast Simone Biles, Apple CEO Tim Cook, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

The short profile about the couple written by chef Jose Andres praised them for their work with the Archewell Foundation.

“Springing into action is not the easy choice for a young Duke and Duchess who have been blessed through birth and talent, and burned by fame,” Andres wrote. “It would be much safer to enjoy their good fortune and stay silent.

“Hand in hand with nonprofit partners, they take risks to help communities in need – offering mental-health support to Black women and girls in the US, and feeding those affected by natural disasters in India and the Caribbean.

“In a world where everyone has an opinion about people they don’t know, the Duke and Duchess have compassion for the people they don’t know. They don’t just opine. They run toward the struggle.”

They look happy and accomplished.

65-year-old model is celebrated as “the world’s most beautiful grandmother”

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Monica Pop
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The modeling industry is a representation of youth and beauty and certain standards unreachable for the “ordinary” women. But does one need to be young in order to be part of it and walk the runways? This 65-year-old model says no.

Yazemeenah Rossi is a stunning lady who entered the fashion world in her thirties and is still going strong. In fact, she defies age and is looking better than most 20 year old models. Rossi is celebrated as “the world’s most beautiful grandmother,” and once you see her, you’ll understand why she is given this title.

However, despite her long and successful career as a model, she admits that the modeling industry remains primarily for the young.

Speaking to Vice, she said: “There was a time, some years ago, when I started to think things would gradually begin to change and we’d start to see more older models, but that did not happen. I do believe that men and women have the same concerns about growing old, although men might talk less about it. Nobody likes to see their skin give in to gravity. At the same time, growing old is something beautiful because you become stronger with the passing of time.”

Asked how she manages to stay young, she says it’s all about how you see yourself as age is just a state of mind. “You need to have a playful, adventurous, curious spirit,” she adds.

“I haven’t had any cosmetic surgery so far. The idea of going under the knife when I am perfectly healthy doesn’t make much sense to me.”

She told The Potion Tree how she takes care for her skin by scrubbing it with olive oil and fine sugar once a week.

Rossi is an inspiration to a number of women out there. We are sure her career as a model will last many more years.

Man saves 7-year-old girl found wandering alone in the snow wearing just a onesie

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Monica Pop
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One man’s action during a cold winter day warmed the hearts of the citizens of Englewood, Chicago.

Tony’s story is quite extraordinary. Namely, as he and his 5-year-old daughter were driving, they spotted a 7-year-old girl wearing a onesie and carrying a laptop. Despite the extremely low temperatures and the freezing weather, the girl wasn’t wearing any shoes. It was Tony’s daughter who first noticed the girl. When she said “Daddy look at the little girl,” Tony couldn’t believe his eyes.

He couldn’t stop wondering what a girl that young was doing outside all by herself. He immediately stopped the car and rushed to the girl. Her feet were ice cold and it was obvious she was out for a longer period of time.

“She was just wearing a onesie, her feet were very cold, with a laptop in her hand,” Tony said. “I took my coat off, picked her up and called 911.”

While he was waiting for the police to arrive, he started a live video on Facebook asking if anyone knew who the girl might be.

He later said that the girl told him how she left the house alone and didn’t want to get back to her mom and dad, as reported by ABC7 Chicago.

“When I put her in the car, it brought tears to my eyes,” Tony said. “She just looked at me and said, ‘Mr. Sir, I love you.’ And I said, ‘I love you too.’”

Once media outlets picked the story up, the community hailed Tony a hero. “We want to acknowledge, salute and honor you for being an angel and a hero, not only in Englewood. You saved a baby’s life,” 16th Ward Alderman Stephanie Coleman said, as reported by ABC 7 Chicago.

“No one saw her walking? I don’t understand that,” Tony said. “When I was grabbing her foot, it’s not like she was outside for five minutes. Her feet were, I mean, like icicles. She was just crying and crying and crying.”

As for now, the young girl has been placed with members of the extended family and she won’t be returning to her mom and dad until the investigation is over.

Thanks Tony, you are a real-life hero!

For more on the story go to the video below.

After a yearlong deployment, soldier surprises his 3 kids with school visit

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Monica Pop
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Those who serve in the military know the heartache of not being able to be by their family’s side during holidays, birthdays, and other special occasions. However, no matter how hard it is for them to be separated from their loved ones, they know they make that sacrifice for their country and its people.

We would say that the best part of serving overseas is coming home and reuniting with the friends and family who pray for the soldiers’ safe return.

One of our national heroes, Army Staff Sgt. Andy Patterson, returned home after being deployed in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for one long year. This was his third deployment, which means he spent a long time away from home and didn’t have the chance to see his three children grow up.

However, now that he was finally home, he and his wife Andrea decided to surprise each of their kids with an individual visit at school.

Sharing the incredibly sweet and touching video of the three separate reunions with their father, the Killeen Independent School District wrote “Tissue Alert!” and added: “Staff Sgt. Andy Patterson and his wife Andrea surprised their three children in a trio of individual reunions in the hallways at Brookhaven Elementary School.

“Following a pair of deployments with a brief break between, the pair wanted to make this return special. It was!”

Speaking to Killeen ISD, Patterson said: “For me, it meant a lot. I could tell by their reactions it meant a lot to them.”

The family said that although this wasn’t the first time for Patterson to be away from home for so long, it’s still as hard as the first time.

“If anything it gets harder watching your children grow up and knowing that you’re missing out on a majority of their life when you’re gone during that time period,” he said.

Mom Andrea said she is as excited as her kids to have her husband home. “It feels good because they need their dad, you know, and, you know, as a military family we know the sacrifices we have to make as a whole but doesn’t change the fact that we’re human and we just want to be together too,” she said.

We hope they will have a fun time and will use every second of every day that they are together to make the most of their father’s presence.

Thank you for your service, Sgt. Andy Patterson, we are happy you got home safely.

Autistic boy builds the world’s largest Titanic replica using 56,000 Lego bricks

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Monica Pop
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One thing that most kids love playing with are the legos. A great number of beautiful creations can be made using these tiny interlocking plastic bricks, all you need is a creative mind and some artistic skills, pretty much like those possessed by a young boy named Brynjar Karl Birgisson.

In the case of Brynjar, these bricks not only helped him create the largest replica of the Titanic when he was just 10 years old, but also helped him with his autism and his inability to put words together.

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According to him, he was able to speak until the age of three, and then out of the blue, he had a hard time producing sentences. Speaking to My Autistic X Factor, this clever boy said: “Suddenly, I couldn’t say all the things I wanted to say. All the words I had learned disappeared into a fog […] I changed from a happy boy into an unhappy and lonely boy. I felt behind, trapped in my fog…I wasn’t able to put words together.”

At the age of 5, Brynjar was diagnosed with autism. From words, he turned to pictures which helped him learn. Over time, sweet Brynjar developed passion for legos and ships, and that resulted in an incredible creation of the largest Titanic replica ever. “It took 11 months and 700 hours to build my 6.5 meter (21.3 feet) long dream ship, using 56,000 bricks,” he said.

Posted by Brynjar Karl on Sunday, 12 July 2015

He had the support from his family, especially his grandfather, and all the people who helped him buy the bricks through crowdfunding.

The Titanic Brynjar built from legos took him to a lot of places, among which Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and Germany, as well the U.S., where he could show off with his creation.

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“I was totally unable to communicate when I started the project and now I’m standing on stage and giving interviews,” Brynjar said as per The Guardian newspaper.

“It has given me confidence. When I started the building process I had a person helping me in school in every step that I took, but today, I’m studying without any support. I have had the opportunity to travel and explore and meet wonderful people.”

Listen to Brynjar proudly speaking of the largest replica of Titanic made out of lego bricks.

Sir Tom Jones is staying fit at 81-years-old, and uses unique healthy technique to help him with his back problem

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Monica Pop
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With everlasting hits like It’s Not Unusual, She’s a Lady, Sexbomb and Delilah, among the many, it’s not surprising that Sir Tom Jones’ career spans over six decades.

Being one of the greatest pop singers of all time, Sir Jones’ music is popular today as it was back in the day when he started on singing.

Born Thomas John Woodward on June 7, 1940, in Whales, Sir Jones has always been in love with music. Ever since he was a young boy, he was part of the church choir and sang during every family gathering.

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Sir Jones married Linda, the love of his life, when he was just 17 years old. A month after they tied the knot, the pair welcomed their son Mark into their lives. Sir Jones and Linda had been together for 59 years, until her passing in 2016.

Speaking of the loss, Sir Jones said in an interview with This Morning that he would “never love again.” Wanting to fulfill his wife’s wish to get back to her roots, Sir Jones sold his Bel Air mansion after her death and moved to England.

He had a hard time getting back to singing long after Linda said her final goodbye.

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“When my wife passed away, I didn’t think I could sing,” Sir Jones told Express UK. “When you’re emotional, you can’t sing, your voice closes up. 

“There are certain songs I wouldn’t do. But you have to try and get things in the right perspective. Feeling emotional; use it to your advantage and put it into the song. It took me a while,” he continued. “Took me a few months to try and see if I could sing. I got some of my musicians around and tried a few songs. But it was very emotional.” 

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When it comes to his career, Sir Jones became a frontman of the local band Tommy Scott and the Senators at the age of 23. He played the drums and the guitar, but soon after, he figured out that singing was his thing.

When he started his solo career, his agent, Gordon Mills, made him change his name to Tom Jones as he believed it was a better stage name than his real one. Pretty much, like all artists do.

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After six months of recording demos, Mills showed Sir Jones a song he had written for then young artist Sandie Shaw. Sir Jones loved the piece and asked to record it. Mills decided he would give the song to Shaw who first heard it as a demo performed by Sir Jones. She loved how it sounded so much that she said the person who sang it should have it. That is how Sir Jones ended up with the legendary It’s Not Unusual which became a top 10-hit in the US.

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Sir Jones performed in the legendary Flamingo casino in Las Vegas when he first met Elvis Presley. He recalled the meeting and said how the King recognized him the moment he saw him.

“So he gets out of this helicopter and starts walking towards me. I had a record out at the time, my third single called With These Hands and Elvis is suddenly walking towards me and he’s singing ‘With these hands, I will cling to you,’” Tom Jones said on The Graham Norton Show.

“And I thought ‘My God! If the boys back home could see me now!’ Elvis said to me, ‘How the hell do you sing like that?’”

Tom (Jones) and Linda Woodward ca.1970’s.

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Today, Sir Jones, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his services to music in 2016, is still very active and doesn’t plan to stop working any time soon. He recently revealed what helps him remain in shape and although some may find it strange, it’s not unusual for the singer. Namely, as he has experienced back pain for many years, he decided to try this technique called “inversion therapy” during which he dangles upside down. According to the singer, it helps him with his blood circulation and eases the pressure on his spine.

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“In 2030 I am going to be 90 years old,” he told The Sun. “I hang upside down. You know on one of those frames. It’s great. You put your feet in the thing and you flip and you hang.”

Recently, Sir Jones received two shots of the vaccine against COVID-19.

We are so happy one of our favorite singers of all time is doing strong. We only wish him the best in the years to come.

Newborn baby boy found alive in a dresser drawer in Chicago alley

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Monica Pop
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The day started as any other for a woman from Montclare, Chicago, who was talking a walk. Near an ally, she noticed a pile of trash. She took a closer look and a discarded dresser caught her attention. She taught she could use the handles so she stopped to remove them. In the next moment, she was left in complete disbelief. There, in the bottom drawer, there was a baby.

As per NBC Chicago, the woman who wanted to remain anonymous said she believed someone placed the baby there in the morning.

“I put my finger on the little foot, too just to see he was moving,” she said.

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The little one was extremely lucky the woman spotted him just in time as a pick up truck was on its way to collect the trash that morning.

“It’s a good thing somebody came by. It’s hot out there, it could’ve ended differently, but it’s all seemingly worked out,” Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford told the Chicago Tribune.

The police reported that the baby boy was taken to a hospital and is doing fine. He’s perfectly healthy. However, they are now trying to track down the person who left him in the trash and are asking the public to come forward with any information valuable for the investigation.

They also want to remind the public that under the Illinois’ Safe Heaven, parents who don’t want to keep their 30-day-old or younger infants can safely surrender them to a hospital, police station, fire station, or emergency medical facility without facing any legal charges.

For more on the story, check out the video below.

Owner believes dog is riddles with bug bites, soon realizes they are bullet holes

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Monica Pop
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They were no ordinary marks…

Hayden Howard, the owner of a beautiful English Mastiff named Jackson, was left puzzled when she noticed strange marks on the dog’s body. After a thorough examination, the only logical explanation she could come up with was that her baby was covered in bug bites.

“I wasn’t sure what (the holes) were, so I googled it, and it said something about botfly,” Howard remarked.

However, in order to be sure, she took Jackson to the vet. There, she learned the horrific truth. The poor dog was shot with a BB gun 27 times. The culprit shot Jackson while he was staying in his fenced backyard, 400 Vehslage Road.

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The vet was able to successfully extract 20 BB pellets and 7 gunshot bullets out of Jackson’s body. He said the shooting took place from a close range and Jackson was lucky he survived the gruesome attack.

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“It just baffles me that someone would want to do that to him. He’s not a vicious dog. He’s lovable and just lays there in the backyard. No one has ever come to me with a problem about him. He’s always been shy, even around me,” Howard said.

“He had one under his eyelid, and he could have been blinded,” she recalled tearfully.

Jackson was given a handful of medications to help him with the injuries and the pain.

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Howard offered a $500 reward for any information that could lead to the horrible person who hurt her baby.

Shortly after the incident, the police arrested 44-year-old Tim Woodard for drug possessions of meth, paraphernalia and marijuana. They also linked him to the shooting of Jackson.

We are so glad the man responsible of hurting Jackson will get his punishment.

You can take a look at the entire story in the video below.

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