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-On a quiet, secluded street in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood sits a house that few locals have ever paid much attention to.
-The Little Farm House (281 N.E. 84th Street, Miami) is part event space and part animal rescue.
-Conceived by Gabriella von Rosen, The Little Farm House is now an in-demand venue for photographers and video shoots.
-But while it generates revenue, it is also taking care of scores of rescue animals. They range from dogs to a pony.
-It all started when Gabriella came across a vacant 100-year-old home on NE 2nd Ave and 84th St in Miami. The home had been on the market for over 3 years and it was in rough shape.
-“It snowballed into doing events and doing photoshoots and flimsiest. And that is actually now our bread and butter,” von Rosen said in an interview with RISE NEWS. “We’ve had British Vogue, Elle Magazine, Urban Outfitters; Telemundo loves to come here for their soap operas.
-But the real heart of the place are the animals. Gabriella and her professional skateboarding boyfriend Danny Renaud rescue animals and let them live on the property.
-Gabriella has built a truly unique space in the heart of Miami’s urban sprawl.
-Renaud said of von Rosen: “She is very talented and people all the time tell me how gorgeous the place is and I tell them that I have nothing to do with it. I just make sure it doesn’t catch on fire and I’ll fix something if it breaks. But, she decorated all this and people love it. I love it.”
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Senator Lied About Her Mother Being Dead During Irma To Skip Power Outage Line
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–State Senator Daphne Campbell lied about her mother being ill in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. Her mother had been dead for at least a year by that time.
–RISE NEWS was the first to expose text messages Campbell sent to a FPL lobbyist one day after Hurricane Irma impacted South Florida.
–The messages revealed that Campbell tried to use her status as a State Senator to get FPL to turn on electricity at her home.
–Her reasoning for the abuse of power? She had a sick mother at home who needed electricity to run an oxygen machine.
–Campbell texted: “Can someone helps [sic] me with the power. I do have a sick person in my house and she’s using oxygen. The address is… [address redacted]. Same than my children’s house…[address redacted]. Thanks Senator Campbell.”
–The problem (one of many with that rationale) is that Campbell’s mother was dead at the time, according to Campbell’s own words.
–Campbell was caught by the Miami New Times in the latest lie after reporter Jerry Iannelli came across a Youtube video from 2016, where Campbell talked about her dead mother.
–“My father and my mother died,” she says around the 2:20 mark of a video posted to Youtube in 2016.
-A Campbell staffer tried to defend his boss to the New Times by saying that she wasn’t actually talking about her biological mother. “Instead, Campbell was referring to a long-standing family friend whom she allegedly refers to as ‘mom.'” The staffer did confirm that Campbell’s biological mother was dead.
–Campbell called the original RISE NEWS report “fake news”. About that…
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Pokemon Creative Director Dies In Freak Windstorm In Seattle
Eric Medalle, the Pokemon Company Interational creative design director died last Sunday in a windstorm after a tree fell on his car according to multiple sources.
Medalle was 42 years old and a father of two.
According to the Seattle Times:
“The 42-year-old was in a black BMW X3 in Seward Park, less than 4 miles from his reported home, when a massive evergreen tree snapped in fierce winds, according to public records and authorities. He was pronounced dead at the scene.”
Medalle’s family was heartbroken by the tragic accident.
“It’s very sad and tragic to lose someone so young so suddenly,” Estrella Ferrer, Medalle’s aunt told the Seattle Times. “Everybody was shocked. I was completely shocked. I can’t believe it happened.”
According to a local tv report, Medalle was driving in the car with one of his daughters when the tree fell on the car. The girl only experienced minor injuries.
A crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the family has been set up and has already raised over $20,000.
According to gaming industry website Nintendo Everything, Medalle had a long track record of work on a number of Pokemon games.
They included:
Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
Pokemon X and Y
Pokemon Black and White Versions 2
Pokemon Conquest
Pokemon Black and White Versions
Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs
Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions
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H/T: Nintendo Everything
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Really Didn’t Like The Balloon Drop At The DNC Last Night
NBA hall of famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gave one of the most pointed speeches of the Democratic National Convention.
Unfortunately for him, his speech wasn’t pointed enough to pop all the balloons that dropped on the convention floor after Hillary Clinton’s speech.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar just hates balloons.
Democratic New York Delegate and Mayor of Ithaca Svante Myrick took some photos of Abdul-Jabbar looking angered by the balloons and put them on his Facebook page.
The photos caused a stir online with nearly 1,000 people “liking” them.
Poor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
All he wanted to do was make fun of Donald Trump and show off his very good speaking abilities.
Instead, he had to wage war with his old nemesis- latex balloons.
Dear God.
At least the night started out well.
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