On the day of the surprise, he walks around town and time after time, people greet him using sign language. At one point, he asks his sister, “What’s going on?”At the end of the video, you can see everything is revealed to him and it’s a very emotional moment that brings him to tears.
When Brian Maixner finally looked into a mirror, he didn’t recognize the man staring back at him. His face was fuller. The wrinkles in his cheeks were gone. His chin looked more prominent. And most striking: The smile that for years had been full of big holes and painful infected areas had been replaced with two rows of perfectly straight, white teeth.
Hours after the procedure in Ponca City, Okla., on Tuesday, Maixner was still trying to adjust.
“I’m still in shock,” he said.
Maixner, the cheerful, smiling waiter who is well known to customers at both Doo-Dah Diner, 206 E. Kellogg, and at his previous employer, Ming’s at 1625 S. Seneca, has long struggled with serious dental problems. He never could afford the dental work he needed. Then, in January, he got a surprise tip from a customer. One Saturday, he waited on out-of-towner Fred Boettcher, who’d had dental problems of his own as a child. Now a successful Ponca City attorney, Boettcher offered to pay for Maixner to get a new smile. He’d done the same for a few other people in the past. Maixner had his remaining bad teeth pulled by Boettcher’s dentist, Phillip Tyndall in Ponca City. He was fitted with a new set of dentures. In about six to eight months, Maixner said, once the bone heals, the dentist will replace the dentures with dental implants – also a gift from Boettcher. Maixner said he’ll be back at work and can’t wait to show off his new look. He’ll be on soft foods for a while, and he’s having to learn to speak clearly again. “I’m enjoying the heck out of this,” he said. “It’s a whole life changer.” source sited: http://www.kansas.com/
India’s Daughter is the story of the gang rape and murder of a young woman that shocked the world and sparked riots and protests all over India. Grieving parents and one of the rapists tell the story of the night six men brutally assaulted 23 year old medical student, Jyoti Singh while driving around Delhi, India's Capital, in a bus.
"So many of our people grow up thinking that a girl is less important than a boy is. Because she's less important you can do what you like with her." -Sheila Dixit, DELHI Chief Minister (1998-2013)
On December 16, 2012 Jyoti and a male friend boarded a private bus to return home after going to a movie. The six men on the bus objected to a girl and unrelated boy being out alone and in order to teach them a lesson they beat her friend unconscious and brutally assaulted and gang raped her for almost an hour as the bus rode round and round the highways, before throwing them out of the bus and into a ditch. Against all odds, Jyoti survived two weeks but died after multiple surgeries.
"For a father who once upon a time let his baby girl sleep over him, who held her in his arms and played with her, who held her finger and taught her to walk...to have to set fire to that daughter during cremation by his very hands...this is very difficult. The most difficult."
-Badri Singh From birth Jyoti's parents considered her a gift, a light in their lives. When their daughter decided she wanted to be a doctor, her parents, against the wishes of their extended family, sold their ancestral lands to send their girl to medical school. After working night shifts at a call centre, and sleeping just three hours a night for four years Jyoti had just finished her final exams when her evening out turned fatal. The brutal and brazen crime inspired Indians to take to the streets for over a month and protest their country's tragic problem of systemic violence against women. Ordinary men and women withstood tear gas, water cannons and police brutality to demand changes in India's attitudes towards women. The collective outrage has led to changes in law and the first glimmers of change in a deeply ingrained mindset. India’s Daughter also examines the values and mindsets of the rapists whom the filmmakers had exclusive and unprecedented access to interview between their conviction and expected hanging. It exposes a skewed patriarchal society in which an institutionalized view of women as second-class, and even undesirable, citizens leads to such heinous crimes against women. It makes an impassioned plea for change and reveals the deadly price one young woman and her family have paid for the continuing tragedy of violence against women. "Our daughter's name is Jyoti Singh. In death she has lit a torch...she posed a question. What is the meaning of 'a woman?' I wish that whatever darkness there is in the world should be dispelled by this light." -Badri Singh India's Daughter is being aired around the world to coincide with International Women's Day (March 8) and will be shown in more than 15 countries around the world. It is a UK-India co-production of Assassin Films and Tathagat Films. Before the film was even released it has been banned in India and has caused much upheaval. I encourage you take part in this important issue.
Muaharrem is a young deaf man from Istanbul, and his sister, Ozlem, teamed up with a production crew recently to give him one hell of an amazing day. The Leo Burnett ad firm and Samsung organized the huge stunt for an ad campaign. They spent a month setting up cameras around his neighborhood and teaching his neighbors sign language. In the ad, Ozlem takes Muaharrem out and about on what he thinks is a normal day. That is, until the guy behind the counter of a local shop greets him with sign language.
Then he goes outside and ANOTHER guy signs at him
By this point he’s starting to get a little weirded out.
He bumps into a woman who signs an apology at him.
Muaharrem and Ozlem get in a cab. The driver signs “hello.”
This is the face of a very, very confused man.
The cab then drops them off in a public square where Muaharrem’s neighbors greet him.
And the production crew reveals the whole thing was part of an advertisement for Samsung Turkey’s new video call center for the hearing impaired. And he, obviously, loses it, because advertisement or not, it is one of the sweetest things ever. According to BuzzFeed a Samsung spokesperson confirmed that everything you see in the ad is genuine.
On the day of the surprise, he walks around town and time after time, people greet him using sign language. At one point, he asks his sister, “What’s going on?”At the end of the video, you can see everything is revealed to him and it’s a very emotional moment that brings him to tears.
