A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
A Tennessee restaurant manager’s generosity helped ease the anxieties of Florida newlyweds evacuating during Hurricane Irma, WATE reported.
Source: Tennessee restaurant manager’s act of kindness helps Irma evacuees | WJAX-TV
The worst brings out the best in us….
A Florida nun is pitching in on the cleanup efforts following Hurricane Irma by taking a chain saw to downed trees while dressed in her full habit.
Source: Nun with chainsaw clears trees after Hurricane Irma – CBS News
Go, Sister! 🙂
When people drink beer, rescuing a dog does not usually come to mind. On Saturday, Dirty Dog Squad and enFuego Events brought the two concepts together.
Source: Beer festival helps rescue at risk dogs with beer – Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Behold the power of … beer? 🙂
Colorado is launching a first-in-the-country apprenticeship program that’s designed to let students earn it all: a diploma, a degree, and a middle-class wage. The best part? It’s free.
Source: New School – 5280
Free is good, but to me the “best part” is that we have yet another non-traditional educational option that promises to help create a well-educated workforce with skills that are actually in demand once they complete their training.
Now Tesla has even facilitated travels for some of them as the automaker remotely unlocked the full battery pack capacity of Model S/X 60/60D vehicles with 75 kWh battery packs.
I realize this is kinda geeky, but as a Tesla owner I appreciate it, and as a geek I like the potential that it shows some of our upcoming technology promises…
Joss said he’s looking forward to life with Mack, which starts Friday, during the official service dog graduation day at the prison.
Source: Coworkers surprise quadriplegic employee with money for service dog
It’s lengthy, but well worth the read. There’s more to this story than the headline suggests: perseverance, redemption, generosity, gratitude, … and of course a happy dog & owner.
There’s a new Lady of the Lake. A 7-year-old girl has found a 4-foot-long sword in the same lake where King Arthur’s Excalibur was said to have been thrown. Matilda Jones was paddling waist-deep in Dozmary Pool on Bodmin Moor last week when she came across the blade while on a family holiday,
Source: King Arthur’s Excalibur? Girl pulls sword from legendary lake in Cornwall | The Kansas City Star
Well, now, there’s a story she’ll be telling everyone back at school. 🙂
Readers of travel guidebook Rough Guide voted Scotland as “the most beautiful country in the world”, beating Canada and New Zealand to the top spot.
Source: Scotland Has Been Named The Most Beautiful Country In The World
Canada and New Zealand are gorgeous, I can only imagine what Scotland must be like.
The airline has also added flights to its schedule out of select cities where they have aircraft available.
Source: JetBlue caps ticket prices before Irma
What I like about this is not just what JetBlue is doing, but that they’re setting an example that some other airlines are apparently following.
And that’s just direct costs. The estimated overall economic impact of vaccines is $820 billion.
Source: Vaccines in poor countries have saved 20 million lives and 350 billion dollars since 2001
Something that most of us in wealthier countries just take for granted — until too many people start avoiding them, and an outbreak follows.