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Brian would eat fast food every day and drink a fifth of vodka mixed with a liter of pop every night.

When Brian Fleming met Jackie Eastham, he was morbidly obese, depressed and an alcoholic. Brian would distract himself from his depression by over-eating and drinking away his sorrows. It would have led to his death… if it weren’t for Jackie.
He met her using an iPhone Pictionary-like app called Draw Something. He never realized that she could save him from such a depressing life. Then, in 2012, he weighed 625lbs.

He was 30, he dropped out of college and would play video games for hours at a time.

It wasn’t until he met Jackie over a game of Draw Something that everything changed.

He confided in her about his weight, depression and drinking problems.

Jackie, who suffers from myotonic muscular dystrophy and was 20 years his senior, knew that he was wasting his life away.

Soon, she inspired him to stop drinking. He lost 100lbs in the first month just from that.

Then, he began eating healthy and exercising.

Jackie was there to encourage him every step of the way.

Jackie lives an extremely health-conscious lifestyle because of her condition, so she had the experience and wisdom to coach Brian along. Almost a year after they met on Draw Something (and countless online chats and encouragement), Brian lost 400lbs. He had a new job, he was in therapy and he was training for his first marathon.
He even flew to Paris to meet Jackie, his champion, in person. They climbed to the top of the Eiffel Tower together.
“Jackie is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I feel that she saved my life, even though she would never take credit,” Brian Flemming wrote in a blog post.
It’s never too late and no one is ever too far gone to make a change. Share Brian and Jackie’s inspiring story with others; maybe it will give people motivation to change their lives.

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Every button, panel, room and wall has a feeling.

Photographer Matt Emmett makes it his goal to rediscover forgotten worlds all around us. His online portfolio, Forgotten Heritage Photography, focuses on showing these creepy and abandoned places to others.
‘No entry’; ‘access strictly prohibited’; ‘trespassers will be prosecuted’; common sights on perimeter fences around many of this country’s forgotten buildings or abandoned industrial sites. In some cases warnings of the potential dangers contained within or an ineffective deterrent against thieves and vandals. To the urban explorer / photographer these signs are the proverbial ‘red rag’ and serve to whet the appetite for the promise of hidden wonders that may lie beyond.

For those that ignore the warnings and climb the fences, what awaits is usually worth the risks.

Vast industrial spaces that feel more like an alien landscape or a poignant residential setting slowly surrenders to the inexorable advance of nature.

Places once alive with sound and movement, now silent and still but no less sensory. Immense and powerful beauty resides in these forgotten places.

For some, just getting inside a location to experience this alternative form of sightseeing, is enough to satiate the desire to go where the powers that be tell us we shouldn’t.

But for others there is a need to capture the spirit of a location in words and pictures, giving others a metaphorical ‘leg-up’ over the fences and to walk them through the debris and rubble.

Matt Emmett falls into the latter of these groups.

He travels regularly to places in the UK and in Europe, seeking out vast power stations and their cooling towers, steel works, mines, bunkers, tunnels, schools, engine sheds, hotels, castles and a myriad of other buildings.

All have their own stories to tell in a variety of voices.

Without the distraction, sounds and people who inhabited them, those stories are clear and strong and the character of the building is laid bare.

You don’t need to know the exact history of these structures to know there WAS history.

Even when that feeling or history seems to be laced with darkness.

Matt and other urban explorers find a side to society that we so often miss. It’s lonely, dark and decrepit… but I can’t get enough of it. To see more of Matt’s awesome work, visit his Facebook page, Forgotten Heritage Photography.

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As you can see here, this father is putting a child into a plastic bag…

For some people around the world, a flooded river is serious business. It’s not just what you talk about at the water cooler that day. Take the Sam Lang village in Vietnam, for example. When the local river was flooded, the nearby suspension bridge was rendered useless. Travel was impossible and the village’s children couldn’t get to school.

But that’s when one heroic father stepped up and did the unthinkable: he put those kids in plastic bags.

But it’s not a crime.

In fact, he is trying to help.

This caring citizen is attempting to help children at a Vietnamese primary school get to class during extreme flooding.

A nearby suspension bridge was broken, so the dad put the kids in bags to keep them dry.

Then, he crossed the river with them.

His devotion to these kids was filmed by their teacher Tong Thi Minh.

The teacher told the newspapers, “It’s normal. That’s the only way to cross the stream because no bridge can stand floodwater.”

It’s incredible that THIS is how the children stayed safe!

It seems unorthodox and unsafe, but swimming across was the only way to get to the school. The current was too strong to use the bridge. The caring father didn’t mind slogging across the swollen river. He just wanted these kids to get an education that day. Now that’s inspiring. Here’s the unbelievable act on video:

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Bowls in the form of urinals and food that looks like feces. Welcome to the toilet restaurant in China.

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Why would you ever get out of bed?

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Looks expensive.

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You have only two options…

You have only two options…

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