The 21-year-old who made headlines around the world for single-handedly running a hotel and caring for its 90 guests trapped along with him during a flood was rewarded in big way by the city of Beaumont, Texas.
Homewood Suites employee Satchel Smith was honored with a proclamation for his heroics during tropical storm Imelda, which included answering phones, cooking, doing dishes, and washing laundry, during a solo shift that lasted over 32 hours.
The young man, who said he was “just doing his job,” also lost his car in the flooding—but, after his marathon of good work, city officials surprised him with a new one, a 2013 Honda Hybrid, during an event.
“I mean it was a bit unexpected—overwhelming!” he told KFDM News. “I mean I don’t expect anything for what I did.”
“I’m truly thankful.”
And, too, so are the guests he catered to, including Angela Chandler, who said Smith handled the situation “with grace, kindness, and a beautiful smile on his face.”
(WATCH the report from KBMT News) – Featured screenshot image from KFDM video
These jaw-dropping images show a sea filled with thousands of mobula ray fish appearing like large winged birds.
Ocean photographer Nadia Aly spent four hours swimming above the huge shoal in Baja California, Mexico.
Mobula rays, which are closely related to sharks and come from the same family as some manta rays, are normally shy and difficult to film.
“It is very rare to get an encounter like this, with this many rays, in near perfect visibility,” said Nadia.
The 35-year-old from Mountain View, California, estimates that there were over 10,000 rays.
“They were not as skittish as they normally are.”
All photos by Nadia Aly – SWNS
Species of this genus are often collectively referred to as ‘devil rays’ or simply ‘flying rays’, due to their propensity for breaching the water, sometimes in a spectacular manner.
Known to local fisherman as ‘flying tortillas’, they gather in their thousands before launching themselves out of the ocean.
Nadia Aly – SWNS
They use their wing-like pectoral fins to reach heights of over two meters before belly-flopping back down into the sea to join the school.
(WATCH the beautiful undersea life of these fantastic creatures)
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A team of female soccer players are winning hearts across social media after they were captured on video rushing to the rescue of their opponent during a moment of vulnerability.
The touching scene took place in Jordan earlier this month at the WAFF Women’s Club Championship.
The Shabab al Ordon soccer club had been playing against the Arab Orthodox Club when one of the rival team’s players felt her hijab begin to slip off during playing.
Rather than take advantage of the woman’s wardrobe malfunction, the Shabab players quickly stopped playing so they could huddle around the Arab player and keep her hidden while she fixed her hijab.
The Shabab players went on to win the championship anyway.
But after their act of kindness was shared on Twitter, they won many more accolades for sportsmanship from millions of new fans on social media.
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Opponents huddle up around a Hijabi footballer in order to protect her from showing her hair. pic.twitter.com/O5aC84AhmN
The short list for the prestigious International James Dyson Award has finally been announced, and a critical safety tool for managing seizures has risen into the top 20: Cocoon, a self-deploying, portable safe space for people affected by epilepsy.
The Dyson award invites entries that solve a specific problem—and this particular innovator is intimately aware of the need for this solution because she has the condition herself.
Seizures are a part of life for the 50 million people worldwide that are epileptic, and they have a risk of death 3-6 times greater than the average population.
Many can sense the seizures’s onset, giving them time to find a safe place to lie down. Doctors can only hope they are with a friend or caregiver who can time the seizure, call for an ambulance if it lasts longer than five minutes, and be there to reorient them as the condition subsides.
Uma Smith, the mastermind behind Cocoon says, “I was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 11. Since then, I’ve been hospitalized four times—three of them while I was away from a safe space and caretakers.”
Seizure-sensors and protective headgear do exist, but nothing so far has combined all the safety elements into a single device. This new product has all of those requirements, plus more. It integrates soft protection that stays on the head and helps the seizing person stay on their side, plus clear instructions that automatically unfurl for strangers who may want to help, including the person’s name and emergency contact phone numbers.
But what if the person is alone? In this circumstance, Cocoon features GPS to help caregivers find the person, seizure sensors, a timer, automated messaging to alert an emergency contact, and after 3 minutes of seizing, a 911 call for an ambulance. If the seizure ends early, the sensors will detect it and call off the emergency measures automatically.
The Cocoon rolls up and becomes a portable pillow and is compact enough to slide into a tote bag, giving those with epilepsy a new sense of freedom to explore and be out on their own.
The Brooklyn-based industrial designer who invented the device, is also a sculptor and photographer and has designed other innovations combining form and function. Information about her works, including the Cocoon, can be found on her website.
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Does “dinner for two” sometimes mean “you and your device”?
Being alone doesn’t necessarily mean being lonely: even when you’re dining alone, you’re often in the company of your phone—which means you’re in touch with friends and family, with the tap of a screen.
A new survey of 2,000 Americans found that the average adult eats alone during 7.4 meals each week. However, many say it can be a good thing. In fact, the survey revealed that 68 percent of Americans look forward to eating a meal alone.
The top reason Americans eat alone? It’s more relaxing, says 50 percent of respondents. Busy schedules (44 percent) and saving money (38 percent) round out the top three answers.
The new study, conducted by OnePoll on behalf of The U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council, revealed that busy schedules are challenging for Americans in general, and it impacts mealtime is no exception.
The average American says they rush through four meals a week due to lack of time, with two meals being eaten on their feet and/or on the go.
Technology may be changing how we perceive our alone time—and dining beside your phone could be just as good as eating with a friend.
At least half of respondents will partake in some “eat and scroll” for six meals every week, but, two in three (66 percent) say they don’t feel like they’re eating alone when they’re scrolling through their phone.
Keeping our relationships strong doesn’t always require being together physically (though the average person in the poll ate with another person six times a week—one shy of their “solo meals” tally). According to the poll, three in four respondents (76 percent) feel that engaging with their friends and family on social media platforms helps them feel more connected.
“Today, ‘togetherness’ is more of a feeling than a physical state, and people get creative to stay connected,” said a spokesperson for The Highbush Blueberry Council. “The joy of being together – however you manage it – never changes.”
TOP 5 REASONS AMERICANS EAT ALONE 1. I can relax more 50%
2. I’m busy/rushed 44%
3. Want to save money 38%
4. My friends are all busy 37%
5. Allows me to catch up on my TV shows 31%
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This determined high school student bought an old school bus, so he could use it to help even more children get a better education.
Back when Dylan Ence was just a freshman student at Dixie High School, he and his family visited the Mexican village of Patamban Michoacan so they provide the local schools with supplies and sports equipment.
Though Dylan is now a senior at the school in St. George, Utah, he’s never forgotten about the poverty he witnessed during that fateful trip four years ago—and he is now planning a return trip to the village to do more.
During his stay at the village, the compassionate teen learned that many of the local children would sleep at their local school so they didn’t have to make the miles-long trek to and from classes every day.
Dylan decided to buy a school bus at a local Minnesota auction with the intention of driving it all the way down to the village and donating it to the school.
Photos by Dylan Ence
Not only that, he has spent the last four years collecting donated backpacks, socks, gas money, and school supplies for the Mexican village.
He hopes to fill the bus with as many donations as possible before he and his family journey south from Utah on December 20 to the village 1,700 miles away.
Dylan set up a donation page with a goal of raising $5,000, and has raised $3,705, so far. To help him reach his goal, go to supportful.com/dylansschoolbus
He is currently in the process of getting insurance and travel papers from the Mexican government to get his bus and supplies safely across the border.
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After 50 years of loneliness working for the circus, Ramba the Asian elephant is finally making the 2,551-mile journey to her new forever home in Brazil.
Escorted by elephant welfare experts and several dedicated volunteers, Ramba caught a flight out of Santiago, Chile, on October 16th.
After flying over the Andes Mountains, she landed safely in Campinas, Brazil. From there Ramba continues on for a 3-day drive before reaching the 2,800-acre Elephant Sanctuary Brazil, located in the Brazilian municipality of Chapada dos Guimarães.
These are the final steps of a journey that began over 7 years ago. In 2012, Ecopolis—a Chilean animal welfare group—contacted the Global Elephant Sanctuary (GSE) to help rescue Ramba from her abusive circus owners.
After years of neglect, Ecopolis had successfully petitioned the Chilean government to confiscate Ramba, which officially ended the practice of performing circus elephants throughout Chile.
Thanks to internationally renowned elephant experts Scott Blais and Kat Blais, Ramba was successfully transported to a roadside zoo in Chile as a temporary facility pending eventual relocation to an elephant sanctuary—because with no elephant sanctuary in all of South America, one had to be built for her.
With more than 6,000 captive elephants around the globe, fewer than 250 have been offered life in sanctuaries.
However, there is a swell of support growing in the United States and abroad from individuals who care deeply about the long-term health and welfare of captive elephants. In South America, 5 countries passed national bans to prohibit the use of performing elephants. While these progressive efforts are commendable, without an appropriate alternative, elephants have been left to live out a life of neglect and minimal care in rural farms or in improvised, small enclosures in zoos with little or no expertise with elephants.
South America is not alone in this struggle to find progressive alternatives for elephant care, as several independent efforts around the globe to establish elephant sanctuaries have stagnated at the conceptual phase, while elephants continue to endure unintended neglect.
According to GSE president Scott Blais, “We know that sanctuary life can make a profound difference to the health and well-being of captive elephants. Our objective is to develop an international collaboration to ensure a safe, secure and humane future for captive elephants through the creation of spacious, holistic, natural habitat elephant sanctuaries.”
Ramba has lived in isolation for most of her life. Upon entering Sanctuary she will be greeted by Rana, who arrived last December after years in isolation, and Maia, who arrived in October 2016 with her friend Guida. Maia and Guida were also confiscated from the circus and lived for 5 years in chains on a private farm waiting for sanctuary.
Now after years of struggles, we received word that Ramba’s transport permits were approved. Thanks to dozens of caring individuals working tirelessly for years, and hundreds of donors who supported her care, after 7 years, the pieces have finally fallen into place.
“Ramba needs a quiet place, one where she feels safe and is not on display, where she is surrounded by others of her kind who truly understand her and can help her to open her heart fully—she needs sanctuary,” says Blais.
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It’s always exciting for a young child to be visited by the Tooth Fairy—so when this Wisconsin elementary school student lost one of his loosened front teeth amidst the chaos of a playground game, he was distraught.
The first grader from Gillett Elementary had been playing a game called “ga-ga ball” with his classmates earlier this month when he suddenly found that his loose tooth had disappeared.
The youngster may have swallowed the wiggly tooth; or it may have simply fallen out onto the ground. Regardless, parents and teachers alike rallied together to scour the playground in hopes of finding the boy’s lost tooth—but to no avail.
The boy then approached Principal Curt Angeli for help. Upon listening to the boy’s story, Angeli knew just what to do: he wrote a letter to the Tooth Fairy as an official pardon for the tooth’s disappearance.
The note read: “Dear Tooth Fairy: Today, [my student] lost a tooth while playing outside at recess. Unfortunately, it was lost in our ga-ga pit, and despite the valiant efforts of an intrepid search team, we were unable to recover the tooth.
“As a trained principal and hobby dentist, I can verify that there is definitely a gap in [the student’s] teeth that was not there this morning when he came in. Please accept this letter as official verification of a lost tooth and provide the standard monetary exchange rate you normally use for a real tooth.”
Angeli then concluded the letter with an amusing note to the fairy, saying: “P.S. I am still waiting for the money for my wisdom teeth from 1987. Please remit as soon as possible.”
Since a photo of the letter was published by a Gillett Elementary School teacher, it has been shared hundreds of times by social media users praising the principal for going above and beyond the call of duty to comfort a distressed child.
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Humans have been walking out in space for half a century—but this historic mission marked the first time that women have embarked on a spacewalk without the assistance of a male crewmate.
NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir were the two women behind the world’s first all-female spacewalk crew after they headed out into space to repair a broken battery charger on the ISS’s power network this week.
“We have the right people doing the right job at the right time,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine as he watched the mission unfold from the NASA headquarters in Washington DC. “They are an inspiration to people all over the world including me. And we’re very excited to get this mission underway.”
The expedition took place 35 years after Soviet astronaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to participate in a spacewalk on July 25th, 1984. It is also 35 years after Kathy Sullivan became the first American woman to walk out into space several months after Savitskaya on October 11th.
The world’s first all-female spacewalk was originally scheduled to take place back in March, although NASA was forced to replace one of the female crewmates after they found that they only had one medium-sized spacesuit for the team.
NASA representatives now hope that all-female missions will quickly become commonplace.
“We’ve got qualified women running the control, running space centers, commanding the station, commanding spaceships and doing spacewalks,” Sullivan told The Associated Press. “And golly, gee whiz, every now and then there’s more than one woman in the same place.”
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This paralyzed little boy was unable to return home from the hospital because his house was not wheelchair-accessible—so basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal simply bought the boy and his family a brand new home.
12-year-old Isaiah Payton was leaving a high school football game in Atlanta, Georgia back in August when gunfire broke out near the field and a stray bullet hit the youngster in the spine, paralyzing him from the neck down.
O’Neal was just one of the community residents who was particularly heartbroken by the incident—so when he saw an opportunity to help the family, he immediately stepped up to the plate.
Isaiah has spent the last two months in the hospital healing from the incident—but even after recovering from the injury, he was unable to return to his family’s one-bedroom home because it wasn’t wheelchair accessible.
O’Neal then purchased a brand new house for the family in the College Park neighborhood. Not only that, the athlete says that he will be paying the family’s rent for the next year with a little help from Papa John’s CEO Rob Lynch.
“[It’s a] nice area,” O’Neal told reporters from WXIA Atlanta. “We’re going to give her some furniture, TVs and pay her rent off for a year and help her get on her feet.”
Photo by Atlanta Police Department (left) and Airman 1st Class Justin T. Armstrong / US Air Force (right)
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A disabled dog can now run and fetch a ball with ease after a volunteer at an animal rescue group fashioned her a wheelchair made of LEGOS.
When little Gracie was only six weeks old, she was dumped at a vet and needed emergency treatment for 2 different wounds, which were full of worms.
Thanks to a loving family that runs an animal rescue group near Atlanta, Georgia, she was rehabilitated one year ago and given a forever home by the Turleys themselves.
Best of all, she is now enjoying an ingenious adaptation of LEGOS fashioned into a canine wheelchair by 12-year-old Dylan, a volunteer at the Turley family facility called Mostly Mutts Animal Rescue in Kennesaw.
Gracie gets around fine without a chair, but the cushioned device that lifts her up helps keep her chest and spine safe.
The cheerful pup can now run, and even go up and down stairs using the big wheels—and the wheelchair can grow with her by simply adding LEGOS.
Many different materials can be used in the construction of wheelchairs for dogs—steel, aluminum, PVC tubes, canvas, and 3D plastic, but LEGO bricks glued together seems like an ingenious DIY way to make use of materials at hand—using a skill Dylan might have learned in childhood, with a loving pup like ‘Amazing Gracie’ at his side.
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This animal shelter’s Facebook post is proof that the holidays aren’t just for humans.
For the last four years, Richmond Animal Care and Control (RACC) has asked local Virginia residents to host unadopted shelter pups at their homes for Thanksgiving week.
Fostering animals is an invaluable resource for rescue shelters – it gives dogs a break from being in shelter cages all day long and it gives foster parents and shelters a chance to learn more about the pup’s personality, which may help encourage a family’s decision to adopt in the future. If shelters know whether a dog likes to play or be around children, they can then help connect the pups with prospective pet owners who might be more drawn to those traits.
The program gives the pups a chance to relax, spend time with some loving humans, get out of the cage, and maybe join in on the feasting as well.
Plus, they will be exposed to a whole new group of people who might feel compelled to adopt them into loving homes.
The first year that the RACC posted their Thanksgiving plea, 35 pets were whisked home by holiday revelers – and over half of those animals ended up being adopted by the hosts.
“It’s a fun twist to a traditional fostering situation for people who might’ve never done it before,” Peters told The Dodo. “The shelter provides the supplies you need, such as food, medication and a crate, and the following Wednesday after Thanksgiving the pet comes back. But a lot of the times, the pets never have to come back to the shelter. We try to make it really easy for people to say yes and keep that pet forever.”
Other animal shelters have launched similar programs across the country, but thanks to the success of this year’s RACC initiative, the shelter was able to find temporary holiday homes for all 92 of their animals.
“Thank you to our incredible staff and volunteers for working extra hours helping to process so many foster applications, to our network of supporters for helping to spread the word about this program and to the wonderful families that opened up their heart and home to a homeless RACC pet,” wrote the shelter. “We are walking through empty, quiet kennels, thanking all of you from the bottom of our hearts.”
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If you’re a creative, introverted morning person, then odds are you prefer coffee over tea.
A new poll of 2,000 Americans examined the personality differences between people based on their first morning cup: coffee or tea?
With over 75 percent of respondents drinking their first cup of coffee or tea before 8 a.m., people are looking to fuel their life on the go.
You’d expect coffee fans to be the buzzy, loud ones—up at all hours. However, the results found that tea drinkers are more likely to be extroverted, adventurous night owls.
The survey, conducted by OnePoll on behalf of the Chinet brand, revealed that the average coffee drinker typically downs 3.4 cups a day, while tea fans sip through 2.7 cups.
Over half (57 percent) of tea drinkers were self-described “average” sleepers, but if your beverage of choice is coffee, you were more more likely to be a “light” sleeper.
If coffee drinkers are light sleepers, that might be what’s helping them awaken with their first alarm in the morning and to be more punctual. Coffee fans are more likely to say they’re “always” on time.
The coffee versus tea debate even carried over into entertainment. Tea drinkers were more likely to enjoy The Walking Dead, Friends, and The Big Bang Theory on TV, while coffee fans preferred Grey’s Anatomy, The Office, and Seinfeld.
Musical tastes were different between the two groups as well. Respondents that go for coffee said they liked listening to punk, rock, blues and jazz. Fans of tea preferred classical, country, pop, or hip-hop/rap.
When it comes to what goes in the hot drink of choice, coffee lovers are a whopping 96 percent more likely than tea drinkers to enjoy their brew straight.
Tea fans had more of a sweet tooth—35 percent more likely to add sugar or honey to their drinks.
Caffeine was the main reason for people moving away from coffee toward tea, with 37 percent saying “too much caffeine” was the coffee turnoff. 41 percent of coffee drinkers said the caffeine was the main reason they choose the java.
A cup of tea just doesn’t do it for coffee connoisseurs as over a third find it to be “too boring.”
MORE COFFEE DRINKER STATS:
Average daily cups: 3.39
More likely to be introverts
More likely to be morning people
More likely to prefer dogs
More likely to self-identify as “messy”
More likely to have five or more close friends than tea drinkers
More likely to be single
MORE TEA DRINKER STATS:
Average daily cups: 2.69
More likely to be extroverts
More likely to be ambiverts than coffee drinkers
More likely to be considered night people
More likely to prefer cats over coffee people
More likely to be “tidy” or “perfectly clean”
More likely to be “average” sleepers (57 percent)
More likely to be in a relationship
More likely to describe themselves as “Quiet” in the morning
Now you can grab that public bathroom door handle without fear—a solution to the conundrum of how to gracefully exit after washing your hands is finally here.
The two student inventors are among 20 finalists selected for the international James Dyson Award for their “illuminating” solution to bacteria-ridden doorhandles.
Despite the use of sanitizers and routine cleaning of public areas, the bathroom door handle presents a unique challenge. University of Hong Kong graduates Sum Ming Wong and Kin Pong Li set out to design a solution that was self-powered and avoided the chemical cleansers that are sometimes harmful to human health.
“Nowadays, people use chemical cleaning materials to clean up public areas, but it is both easy to wipe off and harmful to the human body,” said the inventors. “Our design has high durability and [is] effective.”
By using materials that cost only $13 per door handle, they combined titanium dioxide powder and ultraviolet LED lights to effectively develop a door handle that cleans itself.
Not only that, they also engineered a small gear box and generator to be hooked up to the door itself, making it self-powered. The kinetic energy generated from opening and closing the door provides enough electricity to keep the handle lit and functional.
The handle kills bacteria by the action of a thin titanium dioxide film on the outside of the clear handle. The chemical is known to be a photo-catalyst, so when the UV lights activate the coating, it reacts to water or oxygen to create hydroxyl radicals that decompose the bacteria. It killed 99.8% of bacteria in lab tests.
After winning tech awards and monetary prizes around the world for the design, the duo became national winners of the Dyson Award, which recognizes the best in design and engineering—and this week were named as a finalist for the Dyson international prize, the winner of which will be announced in November.
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This Montana family had been out on their boat for a fishing trip earlier this week when they made the catch of a lifetime.
The Herefords had already motored far away from the shore of Flathead Lake when they spotted something adrift on the surface. Upon approaching the figure in the water, they said they were shocked to see it was a young bobcat struggling to stay afloat.
As Brett Hereford grabbed a fishing net to save the critter, his father Bob pulled out his phone to film the astonishing rescue mission.
The bobcat, shivering and exhausted, was able to get a quick respite from inside of Brett’s net before the family traveled back to shore to set it free on dry land.
According to Cindy Benson, a fishing expert who had spoken to the Hereford family after the rescue, the young feline might not have survived the chilly lake waters, had it not been for the fishing family.
“They believed that if they didn’t net it, it was going to drown,” Benson told the Missoulian. “It looked really tired.”
Though Bob has not been reached for further comments on the story, he wrote in a Facebook post that it was a “great day” that he would “never forget”.
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It has been decades since Coy Featherson last saw his friends from high school—yet they’re all now rallying together to rescue him from homelessness.
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Back in 1971, Featherson was a very popular student. Voted “Best All Around Guy” in his high school yearbook, he was also a skilled football and baseball player. After he got into college on a football scholarship, he moved on to do 15 years of stage work for rock and roll legend Frank Zappa.
Unfortunately, Featherson ended up on the streets after he fell on hard times 20 years ago. In addition to his brother being killed, he was laid off from his job and lost his apartment—and he’s been homeless ever since.
His luck took a turn last month, however, after a photo of him and his grocery cart of belongings ended up on the front page of the American-Statesman for an article on homeless camping in Austin, Texas.
Leea Mechling, who was a friend of Featherson’s in high school, was just one of his former classmates who was shocked to see his photo featured in the article. She immediately hopped into her car and took off for Austin in hopes of tracking down her old friend.
After four days of searching, she finally found Featherson feeding some pigeons outside of a local church. She embraced Featherson, invited him into her truck, and packed up his belongings.
Don Vanderburg, another old friend from their high school in Corpus Christi, Texas, welcomed Featherson into his home so he could sleep on a mattress for the first time in 20 years. His friends have gotten him new clothes and shoes; they’re helping him to sign up for social security benefits; and they launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for more permanent housing—and the page has already raised more than $13,000.
“Coy is a smart guy with a real gift for art and music,” wrote Patrick Judd who set up the GoFundMe page. “What were doing here is to show him he’s still deep in our heart of hearts… always.”
When reporters from the American-Statesman asked Featherson about the photo that has now turned his luck around, he simply said: “I kind of had a feeling it would do something. It’s been good for me.”
(WATCH the news coverage below) – Photo by Don Vanderburg
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