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10-Year Old Last Of Us Actor Meets His NHL Hero In Heartwarming Video
Keivonn Woodard starred as Sam in an episode of HBO’s The Last of Us, and in addition to blowing us away with his acting skills, the youngster is an avid hockey player and fan of the sport. Woodard, who is deaf, aims to become the NHL’s first deaf Black hockey player.
Recently, Woodard had the opportunity to meet his idol–NHL superstar Alexander Ovechkin–and the video of the two meeting will likely melt your heart and make your day.
The encounter was captured on video by reporter Olivia Garvey, and you just have to watch it. Woodard stands in awe and eventually moves forward to give Ovechkin a nice big hug. Woodard plays for the Bowie Hockey Club Under-10 team in Maryland, so it’s no surprise that Ovechkin and the nearby Capitals who play out of Washington D.C. would be his local favorite.
Blanc review: heartwarming co-op, but its weak second half leaves you out in the cold
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if there’s a cute animal game that looks like it’s going to make me cry, then sign me up, I’m ready to go. In fairness, though, co-op adventure Blanc looks like it’s going to be a lot lighter than games like Endling: Extinction is Forever and the notoriously upsetting Shelter series at first glance, but I’ve learned to never let my guard down around these kinds of games. Those cute art styles are almost always a front for a brutal sneak attack on your emotions.
Blanc is very much aiming for your heartstrings with its adorable animal duo and picturesque snowy landscapes. The first half teases massive potential for a cutesy story with fun puzzle antics, but the game is majorly let down by a repetitive and often frustrating second half and lacklustre ending. After the promise of a warm, cosy adventure, I watched the end credits roll and couldn’t help feeling like I’d been left out in the cold.
Heartwarming moment young boy is pulled from rubble after deadly earthquakes in Turkey & Syria, as expert issues warning
THIS is the heartwarming moment a boy was miraculously saved after 70 hours of being trapped under the rubble and ruins of what was his home in Syria.
It comes as an expert warns aid to the region is too little and too late.
The crisis organisation, The White Helmets, desperately tries to reach Abdul Hakim – who has been trapped for likely 70 hours[/caption]
As he is freed there is an overwhelming sound of cheers, praying and crying from the hundreds of people who are watching[/caption]
A moment of hope amongst the tragic news that the death toll has passed 20,000[/caption]
Dramatic footage shows the heart-wrenching scenes of young Abdul Hakim’s rescue as hundreds pray and cry in a moment of relief from the misery inflicted by the deadly earthquakes.
The major 7.8 magnitude earthquake – a once-in-a-century event – brutally struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria in the early hours of Monday.
It was followed by another 7.5 magnitude earthquake and violent aftershocks and tremors that continued to devastate the region and hinder rescue efforts.
The World Health Organisation predicts 23 million people are affected by the disaster, and the death toll has now surpassed 20,000.
Search and rescue volunteers have been desperately scrambling over the ruins of flattened buildings to find survivors – listening out for voices of those trapped.
The footage was released by the White Helmets – otherwise known as Syria Civil Defence – who are the longstanding civil society crisis organisation working tirelessly to save survivors across the war-shattered country.
It captures the teams exhaustingly trying to free Abdul Hakim in a lengthy mission, which provides a singular moment of hope for all those watching on.
The rescue took place in the town of Armanāz, west of Idlib in Syria’s North West – an area considered to be a stronghold of Syrian rebels.
The war-weary region was deeply vulnerable to the earthquake as its buildings were already battered from bombing raids throughout Syria’s decade-long civil war.
The only open humanitarian corridor from Turkey to northern Syrian is Bab al-Hawa, and until today, roads leading to it were too badly damaged or destroyed to cross it.
The first UN lorries bringing aid have finally crossed the damaged border on their way to the region that has been starved of aid since the earthquake struck.
However, “access to the region has been very political,” according to Reva Dhingra from the global foreign policy think tank, Brookings.
Help was necessary three days ago when people were alive under the rubble
Reva Dhingra, Brookings Institute
In rebel-held areas of Syria’s northwest, the humanitarian disaster is unfolding at an unstoppable pace.
This “enclave of specific rebel groups are blocked off from the rest of the world except for that one crossing”, Dhingra told The Sun Online.
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has had little desire to help the opposition-led areas flattened and devastated by the disaster, and it is trying to block attempts for international aid to reach rebel-held areas directly.
It’s a political and logistical nightmare, she explained, but the issue is also deepened by a “relative lack of interest in the area” by Western nations.
The lack of political pressure to open up access to aid, particularly from the UN, Dhingra says, has helped to play into the Assad-regime’s interests to “isolate” the opposition-led area.
“There needed to be political pressure to get aid to this area, and it was necessary three days ago when people were alive under the rubble,” she said.
Even as beautiful moments like Abdul Hakim being pulled from the rubble are happening, Dhingra warned that “hope is diminishing with every hour that is passing”.
The reality, she said “is that a lot of people that could have been saved weren’t”.
A view of the damage inflicted by the earthquakes in the rebel-held town of Jandaris, near Aleppo[/caption]
The visible scale of destruction across the already war-shattered region of Syria[/caption]
People gather around recently-dug graves to mourn the loss of their relatives[/caption]
Journalist tries ‘ask for Henry’ code at Morrisons and says result was ‘heartwarming’
Heartwarming moment Prince William cracked jokes with congregation members of Swansea church
See the heartwarming support for California’s farmworkers on TikTok
The people that pick your vegetables and harvest your fruit deserve to vote to unionize without being intimidated — and they want the governor of California to know it. This month, members of the United Farm Workers walked for 24 days, and their grueling 355 mile march in 100 degree weather was documented on TikTok and Instagram.
Their destination was the state Capitol building in Sacramento, where they are now protesting to convince California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign a bill that would give them the right to vote to unionize via mail-in ballot. Bill AB 2183 has passed in the state legislature as of Aug. 29 and is awaiting a signature from Newsom. United Farm Workers says the bill would eliminate employer coercion and intimidation and allow farmworkers to organize to secure better working conditions.
Newsom had refused to sign a version of the bill in September 2021, citing “various inconsistencies and procedural issues related to the collection and review of ballot cards.”
Perhaps his opposition to this particular bill has something to do with the $14.5 million winery he just bought.
Farmworkers have always been an especially vulnerable group, given the uncertainty of many of their immigration statuses. According to KQED, there are almost half a million undocumented farmworkers in California alone. Their work involves intense physical labor, without protection from pesticides, heat, or dust. Some of it requires that they bend down for much of the day, leading to significant health problems. This is often the only work undocumented workers can find, and their pay is usually dependent on how much produce they can harvest a day.
After Newsom refused meetings with elected worker leaders to discuss the bill on Cesar Chavez Day (Mar 31), United Farm Workers announced the march. Its 355 miles trace the route Cesar Chavez walked in 1966 when he brought demands for worker’s rights and protections to Sacramento. Chavez founded United Farm Workers in 1962.
This year’s march began in Delano, California on Aug. 3 and concluded at the Capitol 24 days later, on Aug. 26. Along the way, many displays of support have been captured on social media by Flor Martinez, an activist and founder of farmworker-focused nonprofit Celebration Nation. Here are some of the most touching interactions:
UPS workers
Construction workers
Andres Chavez (grandson of Cesar Chavez) and Martin Luther King III
This sweet man, passing out hand-cut oranges
Families in the towns they walked through
Firefighters
Students from the UC Davis School of Medicine
Schoolchildren
And many, many more
You can support United Farm Workers by learning more about their work or donating to them at ufw.org.
Long Lost Family: What Happened Next viewers in tears as brain cancer survivor gives heartwarming update
LONG Lost Family: What Happened Next viewers were in bits tonight as the show caught up with brain tumour survivor Dominic Matteo.
The ITV show picked up the story of Dominic, who was previously featured on the series when he was on a mission to find his biological mother.
After beating brain cancer Dominic wanted to find his birth mother[/caption]
Magaret gave Dominic up for adoption when she was 17[/caption]
Ex-premiership footballer Dominic Matteo, who played for Liverpool, came to Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell-fronted series last year, desperate to find his biological mother.
It came after a life threatening experience – being diagnosed with a brain tumour.
After beating brain cancer, the ex- footballer was emotionally reunited with his birth mother and determined to build a relationship with her.
When the team found Dominic’s mother Magaret, it was revealed that she saw her son playing football on TV, and didn’t realise it was the baby she gave up for adoption.
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Full of regret, Magaret later admitted she had ‘hoped’ she ‘made the right decision’.
After meeting with his mother, and starting to build somewhat of a relationship with her, Dominic decided it was time she met his daughters.
In this heart-warming update episode, Dominic finally introduced his girls to their grandmother for the first time and it was very emotional for all – including fans watching along at home.
Margaret was left in tears as she finally met her two granddaughters in-person.
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The emotional grandma said: ‘It was amazing, just to see the girls, they’re so nice… It’s a miracle that we’re back together, going from no son to like having the whole family.”
She added: “It just feels like a dream come true for me.”
Fans were sobbing watching along and took to twitter to air their emotions.
One wrote: “#longlostfamily gets me every time!”
Another labelled themselves a “crybaby” watching the poignant scenes.
“I’m not generally a crier,” commented a third. “Feels good to let some tears go.”
Also in the show, viewers met Grant Williams, who returned to Derry in Northern Ireland to spend more time with his daughter Wendy O’ Hagan, after the show first found him.
But sadly, Grant has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and so his time with his daughter is limited.
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The father and daughter tried to spend as much time together as they can.
Long Lost Family: What Happened Next currently airs on Monday nights at 9PM on ITV.
Dominic decided to introduce Magaret to his daughters too[/caption]
Football superstar brothers look unrecognisable from heartwarming photo of them when they were children
AN image of two football superstar brothers as children has gone viral on social media as the duo look unrecognisable.
The heartwarming photo shows Rafinha on the left pictured with his brother Thiago Alcantara.
Rafinha won an Olympic gold medal with Brazil in 2016[/caption]
Thiago Alcantara is one of the best technical midfielders in the world[/caption]
Fans reacted online to the post made by Rafinha, one joked he can see the likeness to what Thiago is like now on the pitch: “He got this serious face from childhood. No smiling mood.”
Rafinha, 29, is the younger of the pair. He is currently at Paris Saint-Germain but spent last season out on loan at Real Sociedad.
The central-midfielder has also played for the likes of Inter Milan and Celta Vigo.
Like his brother Thiago he began his career at Barcelona.
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While at the Nou Camp he won the LaLiga title three times and the Champions League once.
Meanwhile, Thiago, 31, has had even more success than his sibling winning ten league titles and two Champions Leagues in a glittering career at both Barca and Bayern Munich.
He is now an integral part of Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool side.
Interestingly, the brothers play have opted to play for different national teams as a result of holding dual citizenship.
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Rafinha has two caps for Brazil and Thiago has made 46 appearances for Spain.
They are from a sporting family, their father is ex-footballer Mazinho who won the 1994 World Cup with Brazil.
And their mother Valeria Alcantara was a former Brazilian volleyball player.