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Lisa Curry begs parents to do one thing in memory of her daughter

<p>Devastated Olympian Lisa Curry is struggling to come to terms with the death of her daughter Jaimi, who passed away from an unspecified illness at the age of 33.</p> <p>Lisa has called on parents to hug their children and tell them they love them after her heartbreaking loss.</p> <p>She's also thanked her fans for the "outpouring of love and strength" as they have flooded her social media with kind messages.</p> <p>“There are so many messages from so many people and it’s difficult to get back to all of you but in time we’ll try,” Lisa wrote.</p> <p>“Sadly, I know that we are not the only parents who have lost a child...</p> <p>“So to all the parents who have lost a child, and to those who will, today, tomorrow.... somehow I guess we get through it.</p> <p>“The grief is immense and we are allowing it to take its course.</p> <p>“If I can ask you to do something [for] Jaimi ... right now, go and give your children the biggest hug and tell them how much you love them, and do that every day, because you’ll never know if it’s the last day...</p> <p>“Our beautiful Jaimi. Resting peacefully now.”</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFLUI5KDRgA/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFLUI5KDRgA/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and strength we are receiving. There are so many messages from so many people and it’s difficult to get back to all of you but in time we’ll try. Sadly, I know that we are not the only parents who have lost a child... so to all the parents who have lost a child, and to those who will, today, tomorrow.... somehow i guess we get through it. The grief is immense and we are allowing it to take its course. 😞💔 If I can ask you to do something from Jaimi... right now, go and give your children the biggest hug and tell them how much you love them, and do that everyday because you’ll never know if it’s the last day... 😞 Our beautiful Jaimi🌸Resting peacefully now🌸</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/lisacurry/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> Lisa Curry AO</a> (@lisacurry) on Sep 15, 2020 at 5:10pm PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Lisa announced on Monday that her daughter had passed, saying she was "heartbroken".</p> <p>“Jaimi will forever be remembered as a caring, bright and loving soul who always put others before herself,” Lisa said.</p>

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Local authorities beg tourists not to use Google Maps to find “hidden beaches”

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A spike in lost visitors has prompted the local authorities in Sardinia, Italy to warn tourists about using Google Maps to find hidden beaches.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The island is famed for its white sand coves and stretches of sand.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Local authorities have recently reported a spike in lost tourists who have tried to find the island’s “hidden beaches” but ended up on dangerous cliff edges instead.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emergency services and the fire brigade are regularly called out to rescue tourists who find themselves stuck on dirt tracks. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A family who were travelling in a Porsche were forced to abandon the vehicle after nearly falling off a cliff.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">144 vehicles have been rescued in two year and authorities are now putting up signs that advise visitors not to use Google Maps on the island.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Baunei Mayor Salvatore Corrias told </span><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/sardinia-google-maps-tourists-lost-baunei/index.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CNN</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the signs are in both English and Italian, warning of the road tracks.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He said Google Maps were "misleading" drivers and often took cars on "unpassable tracks".</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Google Maps spokesperson told </span><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/10147431/tourists-google-maps-sardinia-beaches/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sun Online Travel</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"We're aware of an issue in Sardinia where Google Maps is routing some drivers down roads that can be difficult to navigate due to their terrain.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"We're currently working with the local government to resolve the issue and are investigating ways we can better alert drivers about these types of roads."</span></p>

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Meghan Markle’s half-sister begs for forgiveness

<p>Meghan Markle’s half-sister has begged the bride-to-be to forgive her for not staying in contact for three years and for the nasty public comments she has made about her famous sibling to the media.</p> <p>Samantha Grant, 53, also hopes that her upcoming book, <em>The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister,</em> won’t stop her getting an invite to the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Markle.</p> <p>In an interview with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/i-last-talked-three-years-11838018">The Mirror</a></strong></span>, Grant said that Markle’s last words to her in 2014 were: “I love you, babe. I’m really glad we had this conversation. Keep in touch.”</p> <p>But she said they fell out of touch because Markle “got busy”, saying: “I tried. But I think she just got really busy.”</p> <p>Grant, a former actress who is now confined to a wheelchair after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, said: “I hope now that she knows I was there. I should’ve really reached out more ... but I’m proud of her.”</p> <p>She also defended her book’s title, saying her book does not seek to criticise Markle but instead pokes fun at “social perceptions and labels”.</p> <p>Grant believes their rift may have been caused when she suggested on the phone that Markle should contribute financially to the family.</p> <p>Grant recently told In Touch, “If you can spend $US75,000 on a dress, you can spend $US75,000 on your dad”, referring to Markle’s dress she wore for her engagement announcement photos with Prince Harry.</p> <p>“It was probably not my place to say but I was just saying, ‘Hey, help Dad with some of that money for school now you’re making a lot of money’. I think at that time she wasn’t that pleased about what I had to say. And she said, ‘There are too many cooks in the kitchen, babe’,” Grant told The Mirror.</p> <p>When asked if she thinks she will get an invitation to the royal wedding, she said: “That’s her day. It’s her special moment. And I would love to be a part of it. But, I think, possibly she might also understand that it’s not easy for all of us to get there. But if we can, we will.”</p> <p>She added: “It would be pleasing for us to be there and be invited. But it’s entirely her decision.</p> <p>“I’d be lying to say that I wouldn’t be hurt if I didn’t get an invite but that’s really up to her.”</p> <p>She ended with a plea to Markle: “I can only say to Meg, ‘Forgive me’.”</p>

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Family begs for thieves to return mother’s stolen ashes

<p>A Queensland woman is distraught after thieves broke into her home and stole her mother’s ashes.</p> <p>The family from Waterford West spoke to Seven News, begging the robbers to return the sacred remains of their loved one.</p> <p>Vicki Roberts lost her mum Phyllis to cancer eight years ago and can’t believe that even thieves would stoop so low to steal someone’s ashes.</p> <p>"I'm just so upset that someone would be low enough to take my mum's ashes," she said.</p> <p>The ashes were in a box on Vicki’s coffee table.</p> <p>On Tuesday afternoon, Vicki returned home from her Christmas holidays to find her house ransacked and the box gone.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img width="497" height="275" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7266745/1_497x275.jpg" alt="1 (74)"/></p> <p>"I promised her that I would look after her and I haven't," Vicki said.</p> <p>Other things missing after the robbery included jewellery, a camera and two money tins.</p> <p>The family believes the thieves thought the box of ashes was a money box.</p> <p>"The other stuff can be replaced, but that can't," Phyllis's grandson Nathan Roberts said.</p> <p>"She was everything."</p> <p>Forensic officers have dusted for fingerprints as they search to locate the ashes and find the offenders.</p> <p>"She'd be angry, she'd be the kind of person who would come back and haunt them," Nathan added.</p> <p>Vicki has pleaded for the thieves to return the ashes, either by leaving them at a police station or on her front door at night – no questions asked.</p> <p>"I would love to be able to go to sleep and wake up and she's back here," she said.</p>

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Woman exposed and arrested for “faking” homelessness

<p>An American woman has been arrested for faking her homelessness after she was recorded returning to her expensive car just moments after begging for money at a nearby intersection.</p> <p>“How much did you make today? How much is that bag?” one of the men filming asked, outraged as the woman rushed to her late model black Fiat, parked in a McDonald’s carpark. “This is wrong. You're taking people’s money. What year is that vehicle? You’re begging for money, why do you do that? You own a car, you’re not homeless. Some people are really homeless and need help.”</p> <p>The woman, who has been identified as 40-year-old Virginia resident Micha Leigh Dominguez, replied that she was begging not due to homelessness, but “because I have a disability.”</p> <p>Upon being asked about the nature of her disability, Dominguez retorted, “None of your business.”</p> <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J8LNjR_VA5s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p>The original video, which recently went viral, was seen around two million times before it was taken down by YouTube.</p> <p>According to local news station <a href="http://wtvr.com/2017/05/23/micha-leigh-dominguez-arrest/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">WTVR</span></strong></a>, was arrested after she reportedly threw full bottles of Gatorade at passing vehicles who had been “harassing” and “videotaping” the now infamous viral star. She has been charged with three counts of throwing a missile at a moving vehicle.</p>

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Photographer captures moment dog begs for freedom

<p>These powerful emotive photographs capture a shelter Chihuahua in California beginning for an escape and more crucially a new home to belong to.</p> <p>Photographer, John Hwang, has spent one on one time with the pooch, who he described as restless from being in the kennel, looking to find a way out. It wasn’t until he started snapping some shots of the furball when something surprisingly touching suddenly happened.</p> <p>“He got up on his hind legs, put his front paws together and shook them up and down, as if begging me to help him,” Hwang said.</p> <p>Initially it was too real to be true and Hwang thought this action of beginning was unintentional, but the dog continued to do it and it was seen as a sign of beginning for freedom.</p> <p><strong><em>Related links:</em></strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/health/mind/2016/01/worlds-happiest-countries-in-2015/">These are the happiest countries in the world</a></strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/health/mind/2015/11/how-to-banish-negative-thoughts/">7 ways to banish negative thoughts</a></strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/health/mind/2015/11/how-to-be-happy-in-todays-world/">How to be truly happy in today’s world</a></strong></em></span></p>

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