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Post by auntym on Apr 2, 2018 12:31:10 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/2018/03/30/health/teen-college-20-acceptances-trnd/index.html?sr=twCNN033018teen-college-20-acceptances-trnd0821PMStory He applied to 20 of the best colleges and got a full ride to all of themBy Isabella Gomez and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN / Sat March 31, 2018 Micheal Brown celebrates his acceptance to Stanford with his friends. (CNN)Micheal Brown stared at the acceptance letter in front of him: It said yes. So did the next one. And the one after that. The 17-year-old from Houston applied to 20 of the best universities in the US. He was admitted to every single one with a full ride and $260,000 in additional scholarship offers. "It's something I'm proud of because I see my hard work paying off, determination paying off, sacrifices paying off," the student told CNN. Of those 20, he listed his top eight choices as: Harvard, Princeton, Northwestern, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Georgetown and Vanderbilt. Currently a senior at Mirabeau B. Lamar High School, Micheal has been heavily involved in his school's debate team, mock trial and student government for years. He has also volunteered for political campaigns, citing his interest to "the moment I saw Barack Obama get elected." He is set on majoring in political science, but is also considering a second degree in economics. The first letterWhen he received his first acceptance in December, he chose to do it at a friend's house to relieve the pressure of being around his whole family. "My family had high expectations and maybe didn't realize how competitive the process is," he said. But he still invited his biggest supporter to come along -- his mom. Berthinia Rutledge-Brown filmed as Micheal stood in shock by the computer while his friends excitedly rallied around him. Stanford, of course, said yes."After sixth grade, Mike was in control of his education," recalled the proud mom. "He was focused, he knew what he wanted and he made his own decisions." A mother's dedicationRutledge-Brown lost three babies before becoming pregnant with Micheal. Once she finally had a son, she poured all of her energy into giving him the very best that she possibly could. He only received one B during his entire academic career, which she said was very difficult for the goal-getter. On March 28, Micheal opened the last four admissions decisions that would mark his 20-school streak. His mom, who works two jobs as a licensed chemical dependency counselor, took the afternoon off to be with him. They are both still in shock about the college and scholarship offers. Urging others to dream bigBut he didn't want to talk about his own accomplishments alone. "For me, it's important to highlight that I'm not the only student of color who is achieving," the teenager noted. Micheal, far right, stands with friends Eric Muthondu and Sammantha Garcia during the Subiendo Academy at University of Texas Austin. All three are first-generation college students that have been accepted to Harvard. He has met countless friends through organizations like QuestBridge, Emerge Fellowship and Breakthrough Collaborative, which match students from low-income communities with higher education opportunities. In fact, Micheal has at least one friend at every single Ivy League school thanks to these initiatives. He stressed the importance of using his platform to show other kids that they can dream big, too. "I want people to be informed and get access to these same programs," he said. The high achiever will spend the next 30 days touring additional schools before he makes his final choice on May 1. And he's not taking a break until the fall.This summer, he'll spend two weeks traveling around cities that have historically fought for racial justice as part of Rustic Pathways' "Race in America" program. www.cnn.com/2018/03/30/health/teen-college-20-acceptances-trnd/index.html?sr=twCNN033018teen-college-20-acceptances-trnd0821PMStory
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Post by jcurio on Apr 5, 2018 12:28:00 GMT -6
I’d like to think “we” have a LOT more up-and-comers whose brains aren’t mush. 😉😇
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Post by auntym on Apr 20, 2018 14:50:33 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/2018/04/18/opinions/southwests-hero-pilot-kayyem/index.html?sr=twCNN041818southwests-hero-pilot-kayyem1140PMVODtop We shouldn't be surprised that Southwest's hero pilot is a womanBy Juliette Kayyem, CNN National Security Analyst / www.cnn.com/profiles/juliette-kayyem-profile Wed April 18, 2018 Pilot praised for her handling of emergency
WATCH VIDEO; www.cnn.com/2018/04/18/opinions/southwests-hero-pilot-kayyem/index.html?sr=twCNN041818southwests-hero-pilot-kayyem1140PMVODtopTammie Jo Shults"CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem is the author of the best-seller "Security Mom: My Life Protecting the Home and Homeland." She is a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School, a former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in the Obama administration and CEO of Zemcar. The opinions expressed in this commentary are hers." (CNN)The image of a pilot under stress, making a heroic emergency landing with a disabled plane, is the heart of lots of movies. "Sully" Sullenberger, the cool-headed pilot who landed US Airways Flight 1589 on the Hudson River in 2009, was played by Tom Hanks in a film based on the few minutes after a flock of birds damaged both engines and Sully was forced to land without power. Now, rethink that image. That is what happened Tuesday after the emergency landing of a Southwest Airlines plane in Philadelphia. An engine broke up in flight, the debris shattered a window and the rapid decompression nearly sucked out a passenger, who later died. Watch passenger video inside Southwest plane Oxygen masks came dangling down and the pilot took action. In recordings to air traffic control, in a calm cool voice, the pilot showed nerves of steel and landed the plane quickly and safely. "We have a part of the aircraft missing," the pilot told air traffic control as the plane descended to safety. The public was quick to call the pilot a hero. Her name is Tammie Jo Shults. She is one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots and the first woman to fly a F/A-18. Why does that matter? Ultimately it doesn't. And that's the point, especially to those passengers so terrified, Some used video chat during their perceived last moments and others tried to help wounded passengers and calm terrified travelers. It was a potential catastrophe being streamed and tweeted in real time. Were they thinking of the gender of the pilot? Likely not. All they wanted was the pilot to perform flawlessly. But, the image of the hero pilot as a "he" made some reports erroneous; not to pick on CBS, but the description of the aftermath -- "Everyone clapped and praised the pilot after he set the aircraft down" -- was wrong. And that error cultivates the stereotypical image of the cool guy saving the masses. Shults did everything that a highly trained professional would do. It wasn't magic to her or her colleagues; they have trained and exercised for that moment of crisis for most of their careers. In other words, she is a hero to us, but for her and her colleagues she performed exactly to plan. Shults is proof, again, that there is no "female" approach to high-risk jobs, especially those in the military and public safety. Women should be given access because there really is no difference in their performance. The fight, for example, to get women into combat roles in our military, a debate that ultimately led to complete access for women in 2013, wasn't because there is a girl's way to fight, but because, if trained, women can perform in the same way as men. The goal of giving women access to these jobs, and promoting them once there, isn't pursued because it makes us feel good, but because there is no reason to exclude women if they can perform as well as men. Our images of the hero pilot aside, Shults showed that "nerves of steel" can have two X chromosomes. A combination of a person's natural inclinations and the kind of training she received in the military were the key factors in her safe landing. I'm all for promoting a female hero, and the casting for the movie may have already begun. But the lesson of the safe landing isn't that a female pilot performed heroically, but that a professional pilot performed exactly as trained. www.cnn.com/2018/04/18/opinions/southwests-hero-pilot-kayyem/index.html?sr=twCNN041818southwests-hero-pilot-kayyem1140PMVODtop There are nearly 160,000 pilots in America. Fewer than 7,000 are women www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/us/women-pilots-us-airlines/index.html?sr=twCNN042018women-pilots-us-airlines0406PMVODtopLink
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Post by randy on Apr 20, 2018 23:52:45 GMT -6
Reading about Chief Joseph trying to lead his people to Canada during battles with the army women and children in the tribe used guns as well as the indian men did and they took part in the battles. Problem with that is that women were regarded as targets in battle regardless if they were really taking part in the battles The mongols used women and kids to shoot arrows in clouds at their enemies. Still women are not as strong as men and they do not belong on the battle field period.
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Post by jojustjo on Apr 21, 2018 0:49:27 GMT -6
You would probably find quite a bit of argument there. Lots of women today are stronger than men, depends on how they train. A woman fire fighter has to be able to lift and carry exactly the same as a man, and female soldiers are put through the same rigorous training as the men are.
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Post by auntym on May 17, 2018 15:19:15 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/health/james-harrison-blood-donor-retires-trnd/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-05-17T21:08:05 He donated blood every week for 60 years and saved the lives of 2.4 million babiesBy Doug Criss, CNN / www.cnn.com/profiles/doug-criss-profile Fri May 11, 2018 (CNN)Most people, when they retire, get a gold watch. James Harrison deserves so much more than that. Harrison, known as the "Man With the Golden Arm," has donated blood nearly every week for 60 years. After all those donations, the 81-year-old Australian man "retired" Friday. The occasion marked the end of a monumental chapter. According to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, he has helped saved the lives of more than 2.4 million Australian babies. First, a note about antibodiesHarrison's blood has unique, disease-fighting antibodies that have been used to develop an injection called Anti-D, which helps fight against rhesus disease. This disease is a condition where a pregnant woman's blood actually starts attacking her unborn baby's blood cells. In the worst cases, it can result in brain damage, or death, for the babies. Here's why:The condition develops when a pregnant woman has rhesus-negative blood (RhD negative) and the baby in her womb has rhesus-positive blood (RhD positive), inherited from its father. If the mother has been sensitized to rhesus-positive blood, usually during a previous pregnancy with an rhesus-positive baby, she may produce antibodies that destroy the baby's "foreign" blood cells. That could be deadly for the baby. Harrison's remarkable gift of giving started when he had major chest surgery when he was just 14, the Australian Red Cross Blood Service said. Blood donations saved his life, so he pledged to become a blood donor. A few years later, doctors discovered his blood contained the antibody which could be used to create Anti-D injections, so he switched over to making blood plasma donations to help as many people as possible. Doctors aren't exactly sure why Harrison has this rare blood type, but they think it might be from the transfusions he received when he was 14, after his surgery. He's one of no more than 50 people in Australia known to have the antibodies, the blood service says. "Every bag of blood is precious, but James' blood is particularly extraordinary. His blood is actually used to make a life-saving medication, given to moms whose blood is at risk of attacking their unborn babies. Every batch of Anti-D that has ever been made in Australia has come from James' blood." Falkenmire said. "And more than 17% of women in Australia are at risk, so James has helped save a lot of lives." Why his donations were a game changerAnti-D, produced with Harrison's antibodies, prevents women with rhesus-negative blood from developing RhD antibodies during pregnancy. More than three million does of Anti-D have been issued to Australian mothers with negative blood types since 1967. Even Harrison's own daughter was given the Anti-D vaccine."That resulted in my second grandson being born healthy," Harrison said. "And that makes you feel good yourself that you saved a life there, and you saved many more and that's great. The discovery of Harrison's antibodies was an absolute game changer, Australian officials said. "In Australia, up until about 1967, there were literally thousands of babies dying each year, doctors didn't know why, and it was awful. Women were having numerous miscarriages and babies were being born with brain damage," Jemma Falkenmire, of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, told CNN in 2015. "Australia was one of the first countries to discover a blood donor with this antibody, so it was quite revolutionary at the time." Why he's a national heroThat would be more than two million lives, according to the blood service, and for that Harrison is considered a national hero in Australia. He's won numerous awards for his generosity, including the Medal of the Order of Australia, one of the country's most prestigious honors. "It becomes quite humbling when they say, 'oh you've done this or you've done that or you're a hero,'" Harrison said. "It's something I can do. It's one of my talents, probably my only talent, is that I can be a blood donor." Now that Harrison has given his last blood donation (in Australia you can't donate blood past the age of 81), Falkenmire and others hope people with similar antibodies in their blood will step up and donate. "All we can do is hope there will be people out there generous enough to do it, and selflessly in the way he's done," she said. CNN's Samantha Bresnahan contributed to this report. www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/health/james-harrison-blood-donor-retires-trnd/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-05-17T21:08:05
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Post by jojustjo on May 18, 2018 23:59:52 GMT -6
Definitely someone to be so very proud of. Nice find Auntie.
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Post by auntym on Jun 30, 2018 17:23:01 GMT -6
www.insideedition.com/window-washers-dressed-superheroes-delight-kids-childrens-hospital-iowa-44543 Window Cleaners Dress as Batman, Spider-Man to Cheer Kids in Iowa HospitalInside Edition Published on Jun 26, 2018 When these superheroes found out a bunch of kids were stuck in the hospital, they came to brighten their day and their view. Employees at Larry's Window Cleaning in Iowa threw on some capes to bring smiles to these kids' faces. Dressed as Batman, Captain America, The Flash and Spider-Man, they entertained young patients at Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines and gave the windows a good cleaning too. InsideEdition.com's Mara Montalbano (https://twitter.com/MaraMontalbano) has more. These action heroes have very special powers. They can cut a mean streak through window grime while warming the hearts of very sick children. Every year, employees at Larry's Window Service in Des Moines don superhero costumes and rappel down the walls of Blank Children's Hospital to clean the glass and delight lads and lasses receiving treatment inside. Batman was there. As was The Flash, Captain America and Spider-Man. Armed with their trusty squeegees and red pails of soapy water, they dangled in midair, eliminating grime and generating grins. The pint-sized patients rushed to the hospital windows Tuesday, slapping their hands on the panes and laughing. The costumed washers performed daring feats of cleaning while waving and giving thumbs-up signals to the kids. "It makes my heart absolutely explode," hospital spokeswoman Amy Varcoe told the Des Moines Register. "When [the children] see that, they forget about everything. They forget about why they're here." The window washers have been performing for years at the hospital and consider the events one of the best parts of their jobs. www.insideedition.com/window-washers-dressed-superheroes-delight-kids-childrens-hospital-iowa-44543
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Post by auntym on Jul 1, 2018 15:46:31 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/2018/07/01/europe/spiderman-first-day-paris-fire-brigade-intl/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-07-01T20:29:29 'Spider-Man's' first day on the job at Paris Fire BrigadeBy Sandrine Amiel and Sheena McKenzie, CNN Sun July 1, 2018 'Spider-Man' rescue hero lands job as fireman (CNN)A migrant who earned the nickname "Spider-Man" after scaling a building to save a child dangling from a balcony had his first day at a new job with the Paris Fire Brigade. Mamoudou Gassama's remarkable rescue of a child in May not only won him internet stardom -- but French citizenship and a job with the fire department. The 22-year-old Malian migrant began his new job on Sunday, his press spokeswoman Djeneba Keita told CNN. He was one of 24 new recruits, the Paris Fire Brigade tweeted on Thursday. Gassama's jaw-dropping rescue prompted French President Emmanuel Macron to invite the young man to the Élysée Palace where he was given a certificate and a gold medal for performing an act of courage and dedication. Gassama told Macron: "I didn't think about it. I climbed up, and God helped me." Gassama said that when he reached the apartment, he became scared and started shaking. The remarkable moment Gassama scaled a building.Speaking to CNN affiliate BFM TV after the rescue, Gassama said he had been in the neighborhood to watch a football match in a local restaurant when he saw the commotion. "I like children. I would have hated to see him getting hurt in front of me," he said. "I ran and I looked for solutions to save him and thank God I scaled the front of the building to the balcony." According to judicial sources, the 4-year-old child's father was out shopping when the incident occurred. The father, who was being investigated for abandoning his parental responsibilities, will be sentenced in September, a spokesman for the Paris prosecutor said. Sandrine Amiel reported from Paris, and Sheena McKenzie wrote in London. CNN's Saskya Vandoorne, Samantha Beech and Ben Westcott contributed to this report. WATCH VIDEO: www.cnn.com/2018/07/01/europe/spiderman-first-day-paris-fire-brigade-intl/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-07-01T20:29:29
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Post by lois on Jul 1, 2018 20:27:41 GMT -6
www.insideedition.com/window-washers-dressed-superheroes-delight-kids-childrens-hospital-iowa-44543 Window Cleaners Dress as Batman, Spider-Man to Cheer Kids in Iowa HospitalInside Edition Published on Jun 26, 2018 When these superheroes found out a bunch of kids were stuck in the hospital, they came to brighten their day and their view. Employees at Larry's Window Cleaning in Iowa threw on some capes to bring smiles to these kids' faces. Dressed as Batman, Captain America, The Flash and Spider-Man, they entertained young patients at Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines and gave the windows a good cleaning too. InsideEdition.com's Mara Montalbano (https://twitter.com/MaraMontalbano) has more. These action heroes have very special powers. They can cut a mean streak through window grime while warming the hearts of very sick children. Every year, employees at Larry's Window Service in Des Moines don superhero costumes and rappel down the walls of Blank Children's Hospital to clean the glass and delight lads and lasses receiving treatment inside. Batman was there. As was The Flash, Captain America and Spider-Man. Armed with their trusty squeegees and red pails of soapy water, they dangled in midair, eliminating grime and generating grins. The pint-sized patients rushed to the hospital windows Tuesday, slapping their hands on the panes and laughing. The costumed washers performed daring feats of cleaning while waving and giving thumbs-up signals to the kids. "It makes my heart absolutely explode," hospital spokeswoman Amy Varcoe told the Des Moines Register. "When [the children] see that, they forget about everything. They forget about why they're here." The window washers have been performing for years at the hospital and consider the events one of the best parts of their jobs. www.insideedition.com/window-washers-dressed-superheroes-delight-kids-childrens-hospital-iowa-44543 How cute is this auntym.
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Post by auntym on Jul 10, 2018 12:52:41 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jul 10, 2018 13:07:30 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/thai-cave-rescue-live-intl/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-07-10T15:26:18 All 12 boys and soccer coach rescued from Thai caveBy bob Ries, Euan McKirdy, Hilary Whiteman and Meg Wagner, CNN July 10, 2018 Officials are likely monitoring the boys for "cave disease"Navy Seals/UPI/NewscomHealth officials say the boys will likely to remain in a quarantine for seven days because of their weakened immune systems. Authorities will likely look for signs of Histoplasmosis, also known as "cave disease." It's an infection caused by breathing in spores of a fungus often found in bird and bat droppings, according to the Mayo Clinic. The first eight boys who were rescued on Sunday and Monday seem to be healthy, officials said. They're "free of fever, fit mentally, they can feed themselves and talk normally,” according to Dr. Jesada Chokedamrongsuk, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Public Health. How the divers got the boys out of the caveFrom CNN's Euan McKirdy, Kocha Olarn and Steve George The rescue mission was complicated to begin with due to fast-moving shallow water passing through very narrow passages. Then the rain started, and forecasts of more rain threatened to raise water levels and reduce the amount of available air in the cave. It became clear the boys were likely going to have to dive out. Here's how it went down: *First, experts were sent in to teach the boys how to use scuba gear. *During the hours-long trip out of the cave, each boy was accompanied underwater by two divers. *The boys and their escorts were required to squeeze through a narrow, flooded channel. *Rescuers had to hold the boys' oxygen tanks in front of them and swim pencil-like through submerged holes. *Having completed that narrow section, the boys were then handed over to separate, specialist rescue teams, who helped them through the remainder of the cave, much of which they could wade through. The entire rescue team is now out of the caveThai Navy SEALsThree remaining divers and a doctor are now out of the cave, mission commander Narongsak Osotthanakorn said at a press conference moments ago. Osotthanakorn also said the members of the Thai soccer team are in the hospital will see their family “soon.” "We have made the thing that people thought it was impossible. Now it is mission possible." R.I.P. He died while trying to rescue the boys — and made teams rethink the missionFormer Sgt. Saman Kunan, an ex-SEAL, died on July 6 while working on the mission to free the trapped boys.The 38-year-old, who was a triathlete, ran out of air while underwater as he returned from delivering oxygen tanks to the cavern where the boys were located. Kunan's death hammered home the difficulty of bringing out the group — and may have changed the way rescue teams approached the operation. Finnish volunteer diver Mikko Paasi, a long-term resident of Thailand, talked to CNN while the rescue mission was still in motion. He said Kunan's death had changed the mood on the ground and made real for rescuers just how dangerous the mission had become. One of Kunan's longtime friends, Sgt. Anuram Kaewchano, told CNN he was shocked to learn the news. "I can't believe this happened," he told CNN by phone. "He was very fit, he exercised every day, and he was a triathlete. Our last trip together was to Malaysia." He added that the last time the two spoke, "We talked about the kids — whether they were out yet." MORE: www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/thai-cave-rescue-live-intl/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-07-10T15:26:18
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Post by auntym on Jul 10, 2018 13:57:03 GMT -6
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44761821?ocid=socialflow_twitterCave rescue: The divers who got the Thai boys outForeign divers, including Ivan Karadzic (2nd left) and Erik Brown (3rd right), were part of the extensive rescue operations The rescuers who worked to save the group trapped in a Thai cave were a mix of international divers collaborating with Thai navy Seals. The 12 boys and their football coach were first found by British divers but the effort to get them out was a truly global operation. Several Thai navy divers took part in the rescue. One ex-navy diver, Saman Gunan, died in the cave last Friday. Little information has been released about exactly who was involved and how, largely because most participants have been reluctant to talk. It is thought that dozens of divers - Thai and foreign - were part of the efforts. Here are just some of them: CONTINUE READING: www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44761821?ocid=socialflow_twitter Thailand cave rescue www.bbc.com/news/topics/cnrxwmw1dzkt/thailand-cave-rescue
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Post by auntym on Sept 17, 2018 13:06:08 GMT -6
www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/17/noahs-ark-except-its-a-school-bus-truck-driver-rescues-64-dogs-and-cats-from-floods-of-hurricane-florence/?utm_term=.54443cf2a47b&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1Noah’s Ark except it’s a school bus: Truck driver rescues 64 dogs and cats from floods of Hurricane FlorenceBy Meagan Flynn / www.washingtonpost.com/people/meagan-flynn/?utm_term=.5423f6a4c411September 17,2018 There is nothing like a meal at the Waffle House after driving more than 60 animals from the South Carolina coast to southern Alabama inside a school bus. Tony Alsup can attest. Alsup, a 51-year-old trucker from Greenback, Tenn., was parked at a Waffle House outside Fayetteville, N.C., on Sunday night for a quick pit stop and a plate of waffles and grits. He had been on the road since Monday, when he hopped in his bus and headed toward the coast, committed to rescuing as many animals as possible ahead of Hurricane Florence. Inside the bus, the seats have been ripped out to make room for its passengers. On the bus’s side are the words “EMERGENCY ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER.” But it could have said “Noah’s Ark.” In the last week, Alsup and his bus have rescued 53 dogs and 11 cats from South Carolina shelters that were in Florence’s treacherous path, as first reported by the Greenville News. And come morning, Alsup expects to search for more. “I’m like, look, these are lives too,” Alsup told The Washington Post during his Waffle House stop. “Animals — especially shelter pets — they always have to take the back seat of the bus. But I’ll give them their own bus. If I have to I’ll pay for all the fuel, or even a boat, to get these dogs out of there.” Inside Tony Alsup’s animal-rescue bus. (Tony Alsup) Alsup, who wants to open his own animal shelter one day, has been rescuing shelter pets from floodwaters with his school bus since Hurricane Harvey ravaged the Texas coast last year. When Alsup saw on the news how numerous animal shelters had become overcrowded with lost or rescued animals, he thought he could help. He wanted to help transport the animals to vacant shelters — but he knew he couldn’t put them in a semitrailer. “I thought, well what can I do?” he said. “I’ll just go buy a bus.” He has since helped with rescues during Hurricanes Irma and Maria (no bus for the latter; he was feeding horses) and now during Florence. Last Monday, when Alsup began his latest rescues, the kennels in his vehicle were stacked from floor to ceiling. Pet food, water bowls, leashes and toys were strewn about the aisle. But as he rolled along his route, Alsup kept telling his Facebook followers that he had room for more, asking them to point him to where pets needed help. “NO ONE LEFT BEHIND,” he wrote in one Facebook post, before signing off with his standard line, “Love y’all, mean it.” In less than 48 hours, he stopped at the Humane Society of North Myrtle Beach (S.C.), the Dillon County (S.C.) Animal Shelter, another in Orangeburg, S.C., and Saint Frances Animal Center in Georgetown, S.C., which sang his praises on social media Sunday. In a Facebook post late Sunday, the Saint Frances Animal Center said that Alsup was rescuing all the “leftover” pets — the dogs and cats the shelter couldn’t seem to hand off to anyone else. “It’s all true. Tony swooped in at 4am Wednesday morning to pick up our ‘leftovers’ — the dogs with blocky heads, the ones with heartworm,” the center wrote on Facebook. “The ones no one else will ever take. And he got them to safety. Not the most conventional evacuation, but surely the one with the most heart.” Once he had them in his bus, Alsup drove to Foley, Ala., where his friend, Angela Eib-Maddux, opened her privately run dog shelter to the new arrivals for the night. She gave them baths and fluffy blankets and “spa treatment,” Alsup said, until they could find enough shelters or foster homes for the animals. They managed to do it in a matter of a day. “We just burned up the airwaves,” Alsup said. Some people came to adopt some of the dogs and cats on the spot, while Alsup coordinated with other animal shelters or volunteers to meet him in Knoxville, Tenn., where he would hand off about 40 others. From there, Alsup said the remaining dogs and cats went off to vacant shelters across the country. And then after a short rest he got back on the road Sunday, and drove until he got to the Waffle House. On Monday, he will head to Wilmington, N.C. — if he can make it there. He said he’s heard the roads are closed, that everything is flooded and no one can get through. But he heard there was a shelter that needed him, he said, so he is going to try. www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/17/noahs-ark-except-its-a-school-bus-truck-driver-rescues-64-dogs-and-cats-from-floods-of-hurricane-florence/?utm_term=.54443cf2a47b&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
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Post by jcurio on Sept 17, 2018 14:42:37 GMT -6
Awesome! Love this thread, Aunty! 😘😘😘😘 ———————
The human clients that I have been seeing, that are mostly “homebound”, every one of them have pets. (Pets are well cared for).
Anyway, last week most had their TV sets to watching the progress of the latest hurricane. Each client mentioned the “pets left behind”. 😲
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Post by casper on Sept 17, 2018 18:17:17 GMT -6
Leave it to a truck driver to do something cool like that. I didn't get to go to hurricane Florence. I don't think skywalker did either. Our company is taking some fema loads in but I guess they didn't need me. Maybe I'll get to help out with the next one.
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Post by auntym on Oct 21, 2018 18:57:46 GMT -6
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/obituaries/raye-montague-a-navy-hidden-figure-ship-designer-dies-at-83.html Raye Montague, the Navy’s ‘Hidden Figure’ Ship Designer, Dies at 83Raye Montague in an undated photo. At the height of her career, she was briefing the Joint Chiefs of Staff every month and teaching at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Many of her ship designs are still in use. CreditCreditJim Cunningham, via The Arkansas Democrat-GazetteBy Katharine Q. Seelye / www.nytimes.com/by/katharine-q-seelye Oct. 18, 2018 During World War II, when Raye Montague was 7 and growing up in Arkansas, her grandfather took her to see a traveling exhibit of a German submarine that had been captured off the coast of South Carolina. She was enchanted. “I looked through the periscope and saw all these dials and mechanisms,” she recalled years later. “And I said to the guy, ‘What do you have to know to do this?’ ” His response: “Oh, you’d have to be an engineer, but you don’t have to worry about that.” The clear implication was that as a black girl she could never become an engineer, let alone have anything to do with such a vessel. She would go on to prove him very wrong. The girl who faced racism and sexism in the segregated South, where she rode in the back of the bus and was denied entry to a college engineering program because she was black, became an internationally registered professional engineer and shattered the glass ceiling at the Navy when she became the first female program manager of ships. She earned the civilian equivalent of the rank of captain. In a breakthrough achievement, she also revolutionized the way the Navy designed ships and submarines using a computer program she developed in the early 1970s. It would have normally taken two years to produce a rough design of a ship on paper, but during the heat of the Vietnam War Ms. Montague was given one month to design the specifications for a frigate. She did it in 18 hours and 26 minutes. At the height of her career, she was briefing the Joint Chiefs of Staff every month and teaching at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Many of her ship designs are still in use. Ms. Montague was one of a number of black women who, starting in the 1930s, performed invaluable, highly technical work for the United States government but who, working behind the scenes, were invisible to the public — and often to their colleagues. She died of congestive heart failure on Oct. 10 at a hospital in Little Rock, Ark., her son, David R. Montague, said. She was 83. Although she was decorated by the Navy, Ms. Montague, who retired from the service in 1990, was not acknowledged publicly until 2012, when The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette wrote an in-depth profile of her. She was not recognized nationally until the publication in 2016 of “Hidden Figures,” Margot Lee Shetterly’s best-selling account of the black female mathematicians at NASA who facilitated some of the nation’s greatest achievements in space. Their acclaim was amplified later that year when the book became an Oscar-nominated movie. The Navy honored Ms. Montague as its own “hidden figure” in 2017. She was inducted into the Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame this year. Like her counterparts in the space program, Ms. Montague faced enormous obstacles — or what she called challenges, since she believed she could always find ways to work around anything that stood in her way. She grew up in Arkansas in the racially fraught 1950s, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., and Gov. Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas called up the National Guard to bar nine black students from the all-white Little Rock Central High School. But Ms. Montague had a certain confidence about herself, she said, instilled by her mother, who raised her alone. www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/obituaries/raye-montague-a-navy-hidden-figure-ship-designer-dies-at-83.html
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Post by auntym on Dec 3, 2018 12:58:31 GMT -6
www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/12/03/boy-writes-letter-his-dad-heaven-post-office-delivers/2192172002/ A boy wanted to mail a letter to his dad in heaven. The post office 'delivered'by Brett Molina, USA TODAY / www.usatoday.com/staff/44883/brett-molina/ Dec. 3, 2018 A boy in England sent a birthday card to his dad in heaven and the Royal Mail service responded. Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story. Buzz60 Mailbox In The UkA 7-year-old boy prepared a letter hoping the post office would send it to his dad in heaven. What he got was a beautiful response from the post office on a successful "delivery." Last week, Teri Copeland shared her son Jase's letter on Facebook, sealed inside an envelope with a message for the postman: "Can you take this to heaven for my dad's birthday, thanks." Weeks after Jase mailed the letter, he received a response from the U.K.'s Royal Mail confirming his letter had indeed been delivered, shared Copeland. "This was a difficult challenge avoiding stars and other galactic objects on route to heaven," reads the letter posted by Copeland on Facebook. "However, please be assured that this particular important item of mail has been delivered." In her post, which has since been shared more than 274,000 times on Facebook, Copeland said the letter "restored her faith in humanity." "I actually cannot state how emotional he is knowing his dad got his card," she wrote. The letter was signed by Sean Milligan, an assistant delivery office manager with Royal Mail. "Jase's letter touched us all," said Royal Mail in a statement to USA TODAY. "We are very proud of Sean for his response to give some comfort to Jase and his family." Teri Copland last Wednesday A few weeks ago my 7 year old son posted this card to his dad in heaven and today he got a lovely reply from the postman 😊 I actually cannot state how emotional he is knowing his dad got his card... you didn’t have to make the effort to do this you could have just ignored it but the fact that yous have made the effort for a little boy you’ve never met is such a lovely thing to do Royal Mail you’ve just restored my faith in humanity and thank you it honestly means the world to him please share this so all the staff at Royal Mail know just how greatful we are 💙 thanks and merry Christmas x www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/12/03/boy-writes-letter-his-dad-heaven-post-office-delivers/2192172002/
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Post by auntym on Dec 9, 2018 13:08:16 GMT -6
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