Very nice - and not the direction I thought that story was going. 
Loves me some baby cheetahs:
I love it!
Good news for the Ohio woods:
I am astonished 
Australian medical history – the heart donor who still walks the earth 20 years later
There was a story on CBC Radio a few days ago that really stuck with me. A young Toronto woman with a rare liver disease was told that she would die without a liver transplant. Patients on the transplant waiting list are prioritized according to a set of criteria called Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) that’s based on blood tests, and those tests gave the woman, Stephanie, a very low score. She was told she’d probably never be able to receive a liver transplant from a deceased donor.
She had one other option – a real long shot. That was to campaign for a live donor – someone willing to donate part of their liver. It turns out that, in healthy individuals, both donor and recipient regrow the liver to eventual normal size. But who would be willing to risk their life to do this?
A pretty young woman (and a mother) from Portland, Oregon named Trisha Beard would. She was a complete stranger to Stephanie, and Stephanie had a hard time believing that this was real. For a while it wasn’t – authorities told Trisha that as an American she didn’t qualify. Undeterred, Trisha sent her paperwork directly to the hospital caring for Stephanie. The hospital agreed to take her for the necessary testing, with the Ontario health care system paying her travel expenses.
Long story short, Trisha was deemed suitable, and the surgeries were scheduled. Trisha admits to being scared, but that she never once thought about changing her mind. Both surgeries were successful. Stephanie is now well and back to her teaching job at the University of Toronto, and needless to say, the two women are the kinds of close friends that only a sacrifice like this can engender. It still brings tears to my eyes that someone was willing to risk their life and undergo major surgery just to help a total stranger who wasn’t even in the same country.
That link led to this. How about just summarizing the story (or copy/pasting text from wherever you read it)?
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Wow, quite a story!
(8-minute news item)
I love how this arose as an explicit “fuck you” to Trumpism.
Warning: have a Kleenex handy.
A Star Wars flash mob at the Maul, er, mall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfpyfoJr38
Heck yeah!
Just watched Season 48 of Survivor and there is a truly inspiring autistic finalist on there that had Jeff in tears for the first time in nearly fifty seasons.
Her story is fantastic as were the reactions of her fellow finalists as to what her actual accomplishments were …just insanely talented but what she overcame is incredibly inspiring.
She got her revenge in the end …what disgraceful behavior
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/porter-airlines-deaf-service-dog-1.7363838
We’ve just booked a few days away in Bristol (the one in England). The significance of this is that we had a must see list of three destinations, and this was the last one (the others being Prague and Alsace - now we can make a new list!)
You would think that Bristol would be the easiest to do, being a few hours drive away, but things just seemed to get in the way. Why Bristol? Well…
First, I’ve never been. Second, it has a reputation for being a cool place. Thirdly, there was that Edward Colston thing, and I really don’t know how well that is known outside the UK, so I’ll recap. Back in the day, the city elders erected a statue of Edward Colston, noted philanthropist and - uh - slave trader. Yeah, for a while Bristol was a real big player in the slave trade. However, as you might have imagined, in more recent times there has been a degree of hostility towards the statue. Bristol has an extremely diverse population, which was annoyed (read: furious) that the city council was basically sitting on their hands over the matter. So that when Black Lives Matter erupted, a crowd neatly resolved the situation by tearing the statue down and throwing in the harbor.
Four people were identified and prosecuted (“The Colston Four”). And here’s the thing: despite the fact that they very obviously did it (something they didn’t even deny - though they did seek to justify it) the jury refused to find them guilty.
So now I’m have my chance to make a visit to the plinth on which the statue stood, and pay my respects to the good people of Bristol and the fine jury which put human decency above the letter of the law.
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Beware the tool using cows… 
That was a very moooving story.
Udderly inspiring.
Gary Larson called it first!