These boys are amazing! Vincent raise money selling scrafs to help his bestfriend Zack.
Vincent maybe young but teaches us – “Friendship is a beautiful thing”
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Sunday, January 25, 2015
First Grader Shaves Head For Cancer Stricken Best Friend
So that his best friend with cancer wouldn’t feel alone this first grader shaved his head.
These Porn Stars Fisted for a Charity Science and Tech Scholarship
One of the most evocative things about the Internet is its uncanny ability to connect seemingly random things in joyous cacophony. If you want to see a substitute teacher terrorized by Lebron James, it's here. If you're in the mood to watch a group of grandmas get stoned for the first time, here you go. And let's say you have the sudden desire to watch porn stars live-stream a sex show for an education scholarship. Well, god bless the internet because that exists too. The Porn Charity is the brainchild of California porn star and former aerospace engineer Mercedes Carrera. Along with Toronto based venture The Fine Young Capitalists, Carrera just held a live cam show to establish the first porn-funded STEM scholarship.
STEM programs, which loosely refers to studies in either Science, Technology, Engineering or Math, have gained particular importance in the last five years as the need for a tech savvy workforce grows at an exponential rate. Tech companies, education coalitions and school boards alike have emphasized the importance of STEM particularly with women and certain minority groups who are less likely to pursue studies in these areas. Recent studies have shown that Canada, compared to its peer countries, has something of a STEM problem.
Inspired by Carrera's own engineering career as well as her love of gaming, The Porn Charity's merit-based scholarship is open to any student pursuing a STEM program degree in the United States or Canada. "Tuition is like $40,000 [a year] nowadays at a state school," Mercedes emphasized. "I don't know how these kids are doing it." The application process is handled by The Fine Young Capitalists, a group of specializes in working with underrepresented groups looking to break into the technology sector. Prospective students will be able to apply for the scholarship this February and will be required to submit school transcripts and a short essay outlining why they should be chosen for the program.
The group's fundraising model was simple: top cam site Webcams.com donated free airtime to Carrera's team of five porn stars, which included well known actresses like Paisley Parker and Holly Heart. As with most cam shows, subscribers were able to request specific sex acts for a fixed donation amount. Webcams.com charitably agreed to double all tips and donations.
VICE asked Carrera about the most outlandish thing she was asked to do on camera during the three hour show. She said that much of what the performers did was standard cam repertoire: solo masturbating and playing with dildos and, of course, one another. But there was one exception.
"Well, Paisley and I did fist Holly for a thousand dollar donation," she laughed. "And it was Paisley's first time fisting anybody. So she lost her fisting virginity on a live stream in front of a few thousand people. That was pretty funny."
Their performance was dubbed "The View of Sex" and, despite conjuring up some very traumatic images of Joy Behar, raised over $5,000 in a mere few hours. The group received donations from across the world, with the biggest sums coming from the United States and Canada, respectively. Coupled with an Indiegogo campaign that sold Vivian James merchandise, The Porn Charity's inaugural campaign raised $11,280 in less than two weeks.
While the effectiveness of such a project seems like a no brainer, similar sex and porn based initiatives have been riddled with controversy and clashing feminist politics.
Before deciding to build her own scholarship, Carrera initially tried to partner with Able gamer a foundation that works to make gaming accessible for people with disabilities. When the group learned of her plan to raise funds through a live cam show, they withdrew from the project. And famously, the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation snubbed Pornhub.com in 2012 by rejecting the reported $30,000 tube site's breast cancer campaign raised.
And while the rejection of funds in certain cases might be justified (see: motorboating bros with misogynistic ends), money fundraised as a result of sex work appears to still be viewed by charities as controversial and "dirty." Which is interesting when you consider that Goldman Sachs a company whose image is far from squeaky clean maintains a steady philanthropic relationship with dozens of universities, including here in Canada, where they've awarded scholarships at both The University of Western Ontario and Queen's University in recent years.
But when I asked Carrera if she would have any hang ups accepting donations for The Porn Charity from potentially nefarious sources. She replied, "I would take money from Hitler himself if it was to fund something I believe in."
The near-overnight success of The Porn Charity's first project proves the indisputable weight of porn consumers and just how easily they can finance charitable endeavours. It also highlights a persistent cultural discomfort with pornography and shows how our views about sex remain woefully antiquated.
"The mainstream still sees porn as it was in the 1970s... they think we're doing coke off each other's buttcracks," said Carrera.
I wasn't able to view a copy of the live-stream prior to writing this article, but the photos I saw were almost disappointingly banal. Sure, everyone was naked, but there was something so reassuringly familiar about a group of girlfriends playfully hanging out in front of a computer screen. In fact, I've spent many nights in a similar situation. Swap out the self deprecating jokes for some dirty talk, add some double penetration, and you've got yourself a (raunchier) version of my Tuesday night.
I quickly realized that The Porn Charity also plays an important social function. Carrera and her team challenge the dominant narrative that sex workers are inherently oppressed and unable to practice self-determination. The women I saw in those photos seemed sly and funny. The kind of ladies you could easily open up to about an embarrassing sexual experience.
"The porn industry is full of very empowered women," said Carrera. "I'm on set and I'm talking to these women who are accountants and who have master's degrees it's our dirty little secret from the outside world."
The Porn Charity is currently in the process of registering as a 501(c)(3) organization in the US and Carrera hopes to expand its reach to other educational areas. Her next project is to establish an education grant specifically for people in the adult entertainment industry who want to go on and pursue other fields.
"I would even love to see some adult performers apply for the STEM scholarship," Carrera said. "There are some brilliant people in porn and a lot of them are students."
If the success of The Porn Charity's first campaign tells us anything, it's that the future of fundraising is looking creative. And a hell of a lot less puritanical.
New York continues funding electric shocks for autistic children
The city of New York pays the Judge Rotenberg Center, which gives electric shock therapy to children with autism or mental disorders, $30 million a year. The facility, 30 km from Boston, has often been at the centre of attention in the past 30 years due to the punishments meted out to its young patients (some as young as three years), which include fasting, isolation and electric shocks. Even so, there has never been a lack of funding from New York and this year it has increased. This is all thanks to Mayor Bill De Blasio, who increased funding for schools and private centres that treat children with special needs.The JRC proudly says it accepts difficult cases and manages patients without psychotropic medications. But the centre’s actual methods of treatment have been revealed by Jennifer Msumba, a self-harming patient who used to banged her head against the wall. She stayed at the centre for seven years, until 2009, when she left and decided to sue. “It’s so scary that you don’t feel like it’s real life anymore. I begged God to stop my heart when that was happening to me. I just did not want to live. They told me that if I did certain things I would get five electric shocks in 10 minutes.” With an electric belt around her waist 24 hours a day, Jennifer even received ‘corrective’ shocks remotely.
“The brutal truth is that we are doing this to innocent children in Massachusetts. If we did this to terrorist prisoners in Guantanamo, there would be a global outcry,” said senator Brian Joyce. Another former student at the centre, Andre McCollins, was 18 when, in 2002, he was tied face-down by his hands and feet and given 30 shocks over a period of seven hours, during which time he screamed and begged staff to stop.
But psychologist Matthew L. Israel defends the methods used: “It’s a short, harmless shock lasting two seconds on the surface of the skin. It’s like a sharp pinch. The centre has saved the life of a child who vomited so frequently that he was in danger of starving to death, as well as restored the eyesight of two children whose head-banging was so severe that each detached both retinas and risked permanent blindness. It’s a very effective treatment that is approved in advance by a parent, a doctor and a judge.” Israel founded the centre in 1971 and the institution was later named after Judge Rotenberg, who ruled that the punitive methods could be used as long as they had court approval on a case by case basis.
Man Accused of Taking His Dead Mother’s Body to Bank to Withdraw Money
But Vanzo says he did nothing wrong and denies the allegation.
“My mother and I had an agreement,” he told a KMSP reporter. “I took care of my mom for years. I’m the good guy here, not the bad guy.”
Carol Vanzo died two weeks ago, just before she turned 91. Her son was arrested for elderly neglect when, according to KMSP, police were ”overwhelmed by the stench of urine and feces” when they entered the home, and found the woman in bed with her boots covered in feces. Vanzo claimed his mother wouldn’t eat as she was dying.
Just seven hours before Vanzo reported his mother’s death, he allegedly took her to a bank via a taxi to withdraw $850 in her name. Bank employees said the woman’s feet were dragging and that they could not tell if she was breathing.
Vanzo reportedly has a history of financially exploiting his mother.
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'Oh My Goodness!' Says Little Girl To Humping Turtles (VIDEO)
Their minds are telling them no, but their bodies are telling them "HNG! HNG!"
That's "yes" in turtle speak, we think.
In a video uploaded to YouTube on Monday and later posted to Reddit by user Michael Trout, two turtles make sweet, disgusting love as a little girl looks on.
"Oh my goodness!" the now-corrupted child exclaims.
"HNG!" a male turtle grunts, like some old man trying to walk up stairs.
It's all pretty uncomfortable to watch. Still, that hasn't stopped us from watching it approximately a bajillion times.
Court Rules Man Can Pee All Over His Floor If That's What He Wants
BERLIN (AP) A German court has ruled that a tenant who liked to pee standing up doesn't owe his landlord money for damages apparently caused by splashing, or missing his target altogether.
The Duesseldorf administrative court rejected the landlord's claim of 1,900 euros ($2,200) for alleged damage to the bathroom's marble floor, the dpa news agency reported Thursday.
While accepting expert testimony that urine had damaged the marble, Judge Stefan Hank ruled the man's method was within cultural norms, saying that "despite the increasing domestication of men in this context, urinating standing up is still common practice."
Hank said further that the tenant could have expected "regular conflicts" with those he lived with but not that the bathroom's marble floor would be damaged.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/23/right-to-pee-on-floor_n_6531412.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
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