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It certainly says something about the state of Hollywood today that a three minute ad produced at a fraction of the cost of most movies is more moving and poignant than almost anything the big studios have to offer.
The Thai telecommunications conglomerate True is getting rave reviews worldwide for its latest spot, "Giving," which tells the story of a man unexpectedly rewarded for a lifetime of good deeds he performed without expecting anything in return.
TrueMove too says it "believes in the power of giving without expecting a return."
Which would probably be more meaningful if they were to, say, give away their services and devices for free. Which they are not. But what the company lacks in commitment to its own philosophy, it more than makes up for in inspirational advertising.
Lynn Haven -- Bay County investigators are trying to find out who - or what - is behind a series of cat decapitations.
Two decapitated cats were found in the Panhandle neighborhood of Lynn Haven this week and another cat was found earlier this month.
The News Herald of Panama City reported an investigator from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation says it appears the first cat was killed in an intentional manner.
But Lynn Haven Police Chief David Messer told the newspaper that a coyote is the prime suspect.
Martin Main, a wildlife researcher, believes further testing will confirm that the cats were not killed by a coyote, adding that a coyote would not have left any of the cat's remains behind.
Investigators are waiting further testing.
Source: The Associated Press
Two decapitated cats were found in the Panhandle neighborhood of Lynn Haven this week and another cat was found earlier this month.
The News Herald of Panama City reported an investigator from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation says it appears the first cat was killed in an intentional manner.
But Lynn Haven Police Chief David Messer told the newspaper that a coyote is the prime suspect.
Martin Main, a wildlife researcher, believes further testing will confirm that the cats were not killed by a coyote, adding that a coyote would not have left any of the cat's remains behind.
Investigators are waiting further testing.
Source: The Associated Press
A mystery fever has affected more than 26,000 people in Bhojpur area of Moradabad.
Taking cognizance of the matter, the health department had sent a team of experts to the affected area to take stock of the situation. The team, headed by director communicable diseases and epidemic control, Dr MK Gupta, submitted a status report to the health department on Thursday. The team also took the blood samples of some patients and sent them to the National Center for Disease Control lab in Delhi for analysis.
Dr MK Gupta has attributed the mystery fever to high pathogen burden in Bhojpur. Pathogens are disease causing micro organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses, commonly found in sewage, rotting household waste, run-off water from farms and open drains. "The main source of pathogens in Bhojpur are illegal slaughter houses which feed the big ones in the main city. A visit to the affected area explains why people are taking ill," he said.
He added that almost every second household in the affected ghetto is into scrap dealing of e-waste. This means that there is no dearth of spots for rainwater to collect and facilitate the breeding of mosquitoes. Since Moradabad is an industrial area the general suspended particulate matter volume in the air is high. This makes the heat index or the levels of humidity and heat of the place high, said the expert.
Taking cognizance of the matter, the health department had sent a team of experts to the affected area to take stock of the situation. The team, headed by director communicable diseases and epidemic control, Dr MK Gupta, submitted a status report to the health department on Thursday. The team also took the blood samples of some patients and sent them to the National Center for Disease Control lab in Delhi for analysis.
Dr MK Gupta has attributed the mystery fever to high pathogen burden in Bhojpur. Pathogens are disease causing micro organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses, commonly found in sewage, rotting household waste, run-off water from farms and open drains. "The main source of pathogens in Bhojpur are illegal slaughter houses which feed the big ones in the main city. A visit to the affected area explains why people are taking ill," he said.
He added that almost every second household in the affected ghetto is into scrap dealing of e-waste. This means that there is no dearth of spots for rainwater to collect and facilitate the breeding of mosquitoes. Since Moradabad is an industrial area the general suspended particulate matter volume in the air is high. This makes the heat index or the levels of humidity and heat of the place high, said the expert.
© Heidi Kirschbaum
Or, maybe it was a joke.
But Heidi's sister-in-law, Charlan, who was down at the family farm, wasn't joking.
"It wasn't alive when we saw it," Kirschbaum said. "But it had one neck, two ears and four eyes."
Kirscbhaum told KBOI 2News that a two-headed calf was born on the family farm in Jamieson, Ore., in Malheur County on Monday. When Heidi and the rest of the family arrived in the field, the calf was already dead. The calf's mother is doing fine.
"You do a double-take and say, wait a minute, whoa," she said.
Word has spread throughout the farming community about the two-headed calf -- especially after kindergarten class. Heidi's daughter, Holly, asked if she could share the calf for show and tell.
"We brought pictures to her class -- the kids and the teacher really enjoyed it," she said.
The family isn't sure what it plans to do with the head. It's now ice cold in a freezer at the family farm.
"We know it doesn't happen very often, but it happened to us," she said.
© News9 Oklahoma
Custer County - A fire followed by explosions near the town of Thomas in Custer County caused evacuations Wednesday night.
Police have confirmed that the explosions happened at the Danlin facility near Thomas.
Just after midnight a News 9 photographer that is on the scene reported large flames and explosions.
Multiple agencies in the area are assisting the Thomas Fire Department as they work to contain the fire.
An employee for the Thomas Fire Department told News 9 that evacuations have been ordered for the immediate area.
A representative for Danlin is on the scene and stated that the last employee left the plant between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
At this time there have been no reports of injuries and a cause is unknown.
Stay with News 9 and www.news9.com for the latest as more details become available.
© Police HandoutRuben Fox and Amber Fox, both 23, face multiple counts of crimes against nature for filming themselves having sex with dogs and sharing the clips.
A filthy Fort Bragg soldier and his wife remained locked up Tuesday after having sex with dogs and sharing clips of the encounters online, cops said.
Ruben and Amber Fox, both 23, were caught Monday in Raeford, N.C., south of the Army base.
Their capture followed an investigation that culminated two weeks ago, when Fairfax County authorities in Virginia alerted Raeford about the criminal activity, police Maj. Marc Godwin told the Daily News.
The couple has been charged with bestiality, disseminating obscene materials and conspiracy.
Amber Fox was additionally charged with soliciting a crime against nature, police said.
© SHAUN LOWE/GETTY IMAGESThe recently retrieved cars (not pictured) may hold the key to solving old cold cases.
A submerged Camaro matches the description of a vehicle that went missing 1970 along with three teenagers. The other, a Chevrolet, has been missing along with two people since the late 1950s, the Daily Elk Citian reported.
"It's just been under water for 40 years. It's a mucky mess," Sheriff Bruce Peoples of Custer County told KWEY radio.
Dive teams found the rusty cars last week while training with sonar in the lake, said Betsy Randolph, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokeswoman.
"So they went back and did a scheduled dive today and were going to recover the cars," she said. "When they pulled the cars out of the water, the first one that came out, they found bones in the car."
Dozens of extreme Israeli settlers have stormed the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem Al-Quds under the protection of the Israeli army,
Dozens of settlers were taken on a so-called Jewish historical tour of the compound where they were given lectures of the history of the area by a Jewish group claiming it was Temple Mount.
All Muslims were prevented from entering their Islamic Holy Site by the Israeli Authorities. When they attempted to protest, the Israeli army began shooting tear gas, rubber coated steel bullets towards the crowd. They then began beating men, women and children with batons and sprayed them with pepper spray.
© AFP Photo
From her new home in central France, Lina K. has been obsessively monitoring the situation in her homeland. "When we see what's happening in Syria, we thank God everyday for our good luck, for the chance to be in France," she says.
The 42-year-old mother of three left the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in early 2012 as the conflict between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was turning into a brutal civil war.
Along with her husband and kids, Lina - who did not want her real name revealed - fled her comfortable home in the bustling Syrian commercial capital, abandoning family, friends and cherished memories of a lifestyle that has all but disappeared these days.
Flashback Sex and Super Bowl: Former sex trafficking victim shines light on dark underworld of Super Bowl
© The Times-Picayune
For Greenlee's pimps, the influx of people provided a massive money-making opportunity.
"When they come to these kinds of events, the first thing you're told is how many you're gonna perform a day," she said Friday. "You've got to go through 25 men a day, or you're going through 50 of them. When they give you that number, you better make that number."
Having been abducted and gang-raped by her captors at age 12, Greenlee said, she was one of about eight girls controlled by a ring of pimps, men who injected them with heroin and, at times, kept them handcuffed to beds. For trying to run away, she was once stabbed in the back.
Now 53, Greenlee works at Eden House in Uptown New Orleans, the first shelter for sex-trafficking victims in Louisiana; the center opened in October 2012.
"If you don't make that number (of sex customers), you're going to dearly, dearly, severely pay for it," Greenlee said. "I mean with beatings, I mean with over and over rapings. With just straight torture. The worst torture they put on you is when they make you watch the other girl get tortured because of your mistake."
