Inspiring Story - The Wright Brothers

An inspiring story based on the Wright Brothers. Armed with nothing more than a high school education, they rose above all obstacles and achieved the impossible. Be inspired by this lesson about attaining success even if the odds are against you!

They wouldn't know unless they put their caring thoughts into actions to touch their hearts.

Autistic Boy Scores 20 Points in Four Minutes

Jason McElwain was a student and water boy for his high school basketball team. His coach let him play in the last few minutes of the final game of the season. He did what most people can't do, scoring 20 points in 4 mins. And yes, he is an autistic.

What Goes Around Comes Around

Bridge collapse hero is offered free tuition
Jeremy Hernandez, 20, of Minneapolis, was on the Waite House school bus helping care for dozens of children on a field trip when the bridge fell away beneath them. "I had the good fortune of seeing Jeremy interviewed on CNN," Dunwoody President Ben Wright said Monday afternoon. Wright insists Dunwoody does not want any student leaving the school for lack of funding.


Money Found in Toilets Across Japan
A mysterious man has been leaving money in public toilets at local government buildings in Japan with notes urging finders to spend it on good deeds.

Family Gives Waitress $10,000 Tip for College
A family in Angola, Indiana, dined at the local Pizza Hut at least once per week and always asked for Jessica to be their server. They'd chat about their lives and one day Jessica told them she'd tried college twice but had to drop out for lack of money. Last week, the family, who wish to remain anonymous, gave her a tip she'll never forget.

Senior Collects Cans for 30 Years to Build Community Pool
An 83-year-old Kansas woman spent 30 years driving open roads, picking up aluminum cans, in a single-handed effort to raise enough money to build a community swimming pool for the children in her home town of Eskridge. For more than three decades, Maisie DeVore gathered and delivered cans, scrap metal and car parts to a recycling facility. Can by can, year after year, she earned $73,000 and received a matching grant to raise the rest. Says Maisie, "If you really want something and pursue it with all your mind, you'll get it done one way or another." Here's a video featuring her and the pick-up truck, and that Kansas can-do attitude..


Contribute to the pool fund to help with maintainence,
or find out more information at: maisiespool.com

Lessons from the Geese - Teamwork

I did not know that geese can teach us some fundamentals in human relationship until I watch this clip. One of the most suprising lession I learn about geese is that they will fly down to protect a sick geese just to make sure he is alright. Watch the clip and learn something from the geese.

Youngest Busker in Singapore

Ethan has been playing the drums since 2. He made history in Singapore as its Youngest Busker. He performs regularly on weekends outside Paragon Shopping Centre in Singapore. Its true that you dont have to be good to start, but you have to start to be good.

Handi-Capble - A Part, or Apart?

This is a video that will inspire anyone. Its really does shows no matter what happen to a person physically, its the spirit that is more important. I really like one of our advertising campaign on how we should treat people who are physically disabled. In it, there is a quote that says: They are not a part from us, they are apart of us.


Handicapable - More bloopers are a click away

Lesson From a Baboon - Never Give Up!

This baboon fought for her life when others have given up on saving her. It also shows how close our behaviors are compared to the animals.

Cruel Gossip Cruel Hoax

SOMEONE close to you has been missing for weeks.

You are worried sick.

You put up posters, look for her everywhere and as a last resort, you put up a website hoping against hope someone will help you find her.

But then, to your dismay, people go online and begin posting horrid rumours about your friend.

Some even abuse the contact information you posted online.

So you get prank calls and false information on your friend's whereabouts, leading you on heartbreaking wild goose chases.

This is what happened to friends of 19-year-old student Felicia Teo Wei Ling, who went missing more than a month ago.

The friends are now incensed over comments posted on a forum thread, where they used to get information on Miss Teo's whereabouts.

Miss Teo went missing on 30 Jun, and was last seen leaving a friend's flat in Marine Terrace. She had gone there after a party at the LaSalle-SIA School of the Arts campus, where she is studying.

Search efforts have been futile, and police still have no leads on Miss Teo's whereabouts.

Posting under a forum nickname, an Internet user on the popular local forum, sgforums.com, provided 'information' on Miss Teo's whereabouts.

The user, nicknamed playb0y, claimed that Miss Teo is now living with a friend named Ben, and that he had even seen her last Tuesday.

He claimed that she had taken to drinking, and had left home because she had failed her exams and didn't want to face the music.

He even provided a phone number - claiming it was Ben's - challenging visitors to the site to call and find out the 'truth'.

But repeated calls to the number went straight to a voice mailbox.

These, her friends said, are all cruel lies.

And the agony didn't end there.

Posters appealing for information on Miss Teo's whereabouts were put up all over Singapore.

Miss Teo's close friend, Mr Dahiyaht Yusof, 27, told The New Paper that in addition to the malicious online posts, he has also received numerous prank calls giving false information on Miss Teo's whereabouts.

His handphone number is one of two contact numbers provided on the website set up for Miss Teo (findfelicia.blogspot.com).

On the site are also pictures of Miss Teo posing casually with her friends.

Mr Dahiyaht said: 'When we actually went down to the places they said she (Miss Teo) was, we realised that these were all pranks.'

He added that he firmly believes that MissTeo is 'not a runaway case', contrary to all the wild speculation on the forums, and on Miss Teo's website.

On how to handle these online rumour-mongers, Mr Dahiyaht said exasperatedly: 'What can we do? We just want to find her.'

He declined to comment further.

UNAWARE OF BEN

Another of Miss Teo's friends, who did not want to be named, told Shin Min Daily News that the forum posts about Miss Teo living with a friend were likely to be a hoax, because none of her closest friends knew of any 'Ben' she may have known .

'I called the number (given by Ben) to check - but it wouldn't get through,' he said.

There were many visitors to the Findfelicia website, but the thing that upset Miss Teo's friends further were dubious comments by visitors claiming they had seen visions of MissTeo in various places.

One user wrote that he had seen Miss Teo in a dream, being tortured and begging for help.

Crime Library founder and ex-policeman Joseph Tan, 40, who is helping in the search for Miss Teo, told The New Paper that these incidents were to be expected since Miss Teo's friends' contact information were so widely broadcasted.

'It's all right for friends to seek help, but when they are sent on all these wild goose chases, their morale is bound to be dampened,' he said.

Mr Tan said that when those closest to Miss Teo are highly anxious, false information on her whereabouts would only raise their hopes unnecessarily.

'In cases like this, I would encourage friends and family to refrain from putting up their own personal contact information,' he advised.

VULNERABLE TO SCAMMERS

He added that in his experience, families of missing people who widely disseminate their contact information also find themselves prey to unscrupulous con artists.

He said: 'Some have even called families to solicit money.'

But these negative incidents aside, the search for Miss Teo is going on strong.

The Crime Library has put up a half-page advertisement in The Straits Times today with photographs of Miss Teo and five other missing people.

A notice is also placed on the Crime Library's website.

The library's 274 volunteers are constantly on the lookout for information related to MissTeo's disappearance.

Anyone with information on her should call the police hotline at 1800-255 0000.

Source: The Electric New Paper

Hope she can be found soon.

"Free Hugs" Campaign Aims to Inspire Reserved Japanese

A group of university students were on a mission earlier this year to change Japan -- and make hugging more acceptable. Inspired by the original Free Hugs campaign in Sydney ('must-see' video from earlier this year), and by living in the U.S., where people smile at strangers, Saki Inoue longs for friendliness and more hugs between Japanese...

Original Free Hug campaign in Sydney

Motivated by Anthony Robbins in 20 mins

Tony Robbins talks about how to unlock your true potential -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row! A fast-paced, mind-expanding, motivating TEDTalk for high achievers and those who wish to be. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.)