A Little Good News

Dog repeatedly escapes Up North shelter, sneaks into nursing home

BELLAIRE — He’d had enough of being at the animal shelter, so Scout the dog climbed over one tall fence and then another, crossed a busy highway in the darkness, entered the automatic doors of a nursing home down the road, walked unnoticed into the lobby, hopped onto a couch, curled into a ball and quietly went to sleep for the night.

An astonished nurse there found him the next morning. She called Antrim County Animal Control, whose shelter happens to be just down the road. And they discovered that he’d escaped from there the night before.

h/t DS

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Kirk Cameron and Brave Books rally thousands in library event across 46 states: ‘Absolutely incredible’

Thousands of children and their families attended Kirk Cameron’s “See You at the Library” event held at hundreds of libraries across multiple states.

On Saturday, families rallied at story hours in libraries participating in Cameron’s “See You at the Library” event, held in coordination with his faith-based children’s book publisher Brave Books.

This is the emotional moment four Colombian children who were missing for six weeks alone in the Amazon after a plane crash were airlifted out of the jungle.

The siblings, Lesly, 13, Soleiny, nine, Tien Noriel, four, and baby Cristin who had his first birthday while lost in the rainforest, had been travelling in a light aircraft on May 1 when it crashed. The accident killed everyone else on board, the children’s mother Magdalena Mucutui Valencia, the pilot and an indigenous leader.

But when the wreckage of the plane was found after weeks of hunting not only were the children not found dead alongside the adults, there was part-eaten fruit that suggested they had all survived.

Soon to be a Disney movie, but the children will be Junior Drag Queens on their way to a pageant who manage to convert the tribe of cannibals who capture them and stage a Jungle Drag Show!

One of the UK’s pioneers of generating animal tissue for human consumption is threatening to pack up its bioreactor and walk. Ivy Farms Technologies — it’s a pun on in vitro — has sounded the alarm.

The Dublin Declaration emphasizes the vital nutritional content of animal foods that cannot easily be replaced through sole reliance on plant-based foods… 

And …

Where’s the beef? Here’s why the fake meat fad sizzled out.

Longtime CNN anchor Don Lemon announced Monday he was fired by the network in a move that left him “stunned,” which came less than an hour after Fox News said it had parted ways with host Tucker Carlson in another massive shakeup to the cable news landscape.

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— Don Lemon (@donlemon) April 24, 2023

Don Lemon fired from CNN, ‘stunned’ by how he found out

Update

Don Lemon’s statement about this morning’s events is inaccurate. He was offered an opportunity to meet with management but instead released a statement on Twitter.

— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) April 24, 2023

The societal and dietary importance of meat was highlighted at a conference of the Animal Task Force in Brussels Wednesday, April 12th, hosted by the University Foundation. A coalition of scientists and academics challenged moves to scale down meat production, as part of the green transition, and addressed the climate change-related arguments put forward against the industry.

The gathering was a follow-up to the 2022 Dublin Declaration, a document signed by 921 experts, which argued in favour of meat as an essential part of a balanced diet and a net positive for the environment .

Caught a break. I chipped a front tooth on the weekend, well actually it was more like the tooth decided it had enough of this world and was slowly offing itself.

A filling fell out late last year, a chunk at the back fell out last month and on Saturday a big chunk at the side decided to separate. The cosmetics were awful.

The tooth is very thin and that was the cause of my concern. Much had been excavated at the back. Felt real weird.

I spent the weekend researching possible fixes and given that my default setting is ‘catastrophic thinking’ I was easily able to convince myself that a tooth implant was the only possible solution or maybe if God smiled upon me I could get away with a veneer.

After a few phone calls it was off to the Emergency Dentist.

Thankfully the Doc said neither a veneer nor an implant would be required.

The bonding process used, assuming a reasonable standard of hygiene, should last many years.

Yay! And Yay also to having Toronto’s only 24 hour Emergency Dentist a couple of blocks away.

Bettie Page, a ‘50s model and Playboy centerfold who helped set the stage for the sexual revolution of the ‘60s, is finally getting recognized in Nashville.

The Tennessee native, nicknamed the “Queen of Pinups,” is set to receive a historical marker in downtown Nashville. The marker will be placed near Hume-Fogg High School, where Page graduated second in her class in 1940.

About time.