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Whoa, momma! Great dane gives birth to 21 puppies

Posted on March 31, 2023 | 3 comments

The momma, Namine, was hit by a truck last and eventually recovered. Sadly, two pups from the litter did not survive. 🙁

But Namine still set a world record!

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A happy ending: Blossom and Frankie find love!

Posted on March 20, 2023 | 3 comments

Love this story!

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March 28, grab your binoculars: Five planets visible in night sky

Posted on March 15, 2023 | 6 comments

This should be a pretty incredible sight!

From Daily Mail:

“Stargazers are in for a treat later this month as five planets of the solar system will be visible from Earth as part of a rare planetary alignment. On March 28, Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars and Venus are expected to line up together in a small section of the sky shortly after sunset.

Two of the brighter planets – Mercury and Jupiter – will be noticeable near the horizon, while Venus is expected to shine higher in the sky. Although binoculars will be needed to spot Uranus, Mars should be viewable in the alignment near to the first quarter of the moon.

While it is not unusual to see two or three planets in the sky, an alignment of five is less common. It happened last year, and in both 2020 and 2016 prior to that. 

To easily identify the planets this month, the educational astronomy application Star Walk recommends using the app Sky Tonight, which can be pointed at the night sky to give a live display of what is going on. 

The planets are expected to be aligned in a 50-degree sky sector, which means that they will appear closer together from Earth in a small area above.

Beth Biller, of the University of Edinburgh, told MailOnline that some planets would be much easier to see than others. She said: ‘Venus and Jupiter are both very bright and easy to pick out and you may have already seen them close together over the past few weeks. (We saw them both, it was pretty ccool.)

‘Mars is a bit fainter, but still easily observed with the naked eye. Mercury starts getting tricky – you need to be at a dark site with a clear view of the horizon if you want to see Mercury. ‘Uranus is the faintest and hardest to see – you’ll need binoculars or a telescope to see Uranus.’

Senior contributing editor at Sky & Telescope, Rick Fienberg, also stressed that seeing all five planets at the same time on March 28 may be difficult and will depend on a person’s location. 

‘Unless you have a clear sky and a nearly flat western horizon free of obstructions such as trees or buildings, you won’t see Jupiter and Mercury,’ he said of those in the US while speaking to FOX 35.

While specialist equipment may be needed to spot Uranus, Mr Fienberg claimed that the five planets should be viewable with binoculars.”

Read the whole story here.

If you are interested, visit Astronomy for all things related to the stars and planets.

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We need a smile: Baby takes his first steps straight to his dog

Posted on March 14, 2023 | 1 comment

I don’t know about you, but I can brealy handle reading/watching the news most days. Seems everything (Russia, banking sector, economy in general) is so disturbing and distressing.

So let’s take a break! Watch this wonderful story of Boxer Vito meeting and growing up with his human “brother.”

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NFL player saves man from burning car

Posted on March 9, 2023 | 1 comment

I know nothing of this NFL player, KJ Osborn, other than that he was in the right place at the right time…and did the right thing!

KJ risked his life to save a man from a burning car in Austin, Texas. Read all the details here about KJ (and his Uber driver) coming to the rescue!

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Retired NYC fireman puts out fire on Spirit Airlines flight

Posted on March 2, 2023 | 4 comments

Another hero saves the day!

Retired fireman Rocco Chierichella

Some idiot left their vapor smoking device in their carry-on, attached to a battery so it could charge. Good grief!

Retired NYC fireman Rocco Chierichella sprung into action to extinguish the fire. Good man to have on your next flight!

Watch the story in the video below or read the details here.

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Retired Florida Marine finds missing toddler after frantic 24-hour search

Posted on February 27, 2023 | 4 comments

Hoorah!

Photo from Hernando County Sheriff’s Office

From NY Post:

“A retired Florida Marine who miraculously found a missing toddler in dense woods Friday after hearing his faint whimpers is being hailed as the Sunshine State’s “man of the year.”

Joshua “JJ” Rowland, 2, vanished Thursday after wandering away from his home in Brooksville, setting off a frantic search involving law enforcement, canines, drones, and hundreds of volunteers.

Roy Link, 62, a retired parks department worker in Hernando County, was preparing to go fishing when he heard of JJ’s disappearance and joined the desperate effort as hopes began to fade.

“Something told me no, gotta do this.” Link later told reporters.

After 24 hours passed with no sign of the tot, Link said, he was combing through a wooded area several miles from JJ’s home and strained his ears for any unusual sounds.

“I listened good,” he said. “I heard like a whimpering kind of noise and at that point, I was like, there’s no kids here, it’s gotta be JJ. And sure enough, I went in the woods, 100 feet from where I was at.”

The frightened boy reached out to Link and began calling for his mother.

“We were just talking and both of us were getting a little emotional,” Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis said alongside the local hero in a video posted to Facebook. “Little JJ climbed onto him and didn’t let go. He was so excited to see him.”

Read the whole story here.

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Score one for the 2A: 67-year-old woman shoots & kills armed intruder

Posted on February 20, 2023 | 6 comments

She saved herself and her 90-year-old mom. You go, girl!

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Ever seen a “reverse” waterfall?

Posted on January 27, 2023 | 4 comments

Pretty cool!

Read more about it here.

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A happy ending: Florida diver rescued by family

Posted on January 24, 2023 | 1 comment

Dylan had an Angel watching over him!

From Daily Mail:

“A  21-year-old free diver was miraculously rescued by his family after he was swept away by the Gulf Stream while diving more than five miles from the Florida Keys.

Diver and spear fisherman Dylan Gartenmayer described the moment he heard the hum of his grandfather’s boat as he hopelessly lay watching the sun set over shark-infested waters.

Hours earlier on Thursday afternoon, he had been with two friends as he descended for his final dive of the day around the West Sambo Reef.

Beneath the surface he was caught in a current that drew him 150 feet below the surface and spat him out around a mile away.

His friends notified both the US Coast Guard and his family, who began a desperate search, racing against the setting sun.

After emerging he swam around a mile back towards the reef, where he cut free mooring buoys which he tied together to form a makeshift raft. ‘I was watching the sun drop pretty quickly,’ said Gartenmayer in a video posted to social media.

Fishing bait started washing up around him, attracting the attention of sharks.  I’d just seen a reef shark swam past me,’ he said. ‘I had a bunch of bait start blowing up around, I could see mackerel skyrocketing.’

As the temperature began to drop and a chill set in, the diver described how he used the buoys to keep his body as far out of the water as possible. ‘I was starting to shiver at that point and my hands were starting to feel a little numb, so were my toes, so I knew this was starting to get serious,’ he said.

A rescue mission involving coast guard boats and aircraft was underway, but they were unable to spot him.  ‘I had a small plane fly above but they didn’t see me,’ he said. ‘About 30 minutes later they flew back again, still didn’t see me.’

‘Shortly after that the sun had disappeared past the horizon. Looking to the east it was pitch black, looking to the west you could see the remnants of the sunset. As I saw the sun disappear I knew things were starting to get a little more dire,’ he said.

But then the amateur search party led by his family struck gold. ‘By some miracle my parents and everybody else on board my grandfather’s boat ended up driving and basically landing right on top of me,’ he said.

‘I could hear the engines running and I knew from there that was actually my grandfather’s boat.’

Read the whole story here.

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