The Feelgood Thread!

[surreptitious57]

Cure For Cervical Cancer Finally Discovered After 20 Years

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/ ... 63031.html

[Macdoc]

Bit of devil in the details eh ....oncologists rarely use the term "cure"

Read more at Speciality Medical Dialogues: Breakthrough- Mexican scientist discovers therapy for 100% elimination of HPV, cause of cervical cancer

100% elimination for HPV

Those with cancer are not cured 100%

Better info

A Cure for HPV? Not So Fast…
Can photodynamic therapy eliminate the virus that causes cervical, anal and oral cancer?
February 10, 2019 • By Liz Highleyman

https://www.cancerhealth.com/article/cure-hpv-fast

It's still good news in a variety of areas but not what the title implies,

[Macdoc]

A Texas teacher came up with a creative way to stop her students from teasing a classmate. She chopped off her hair.

When Shannon Grimm noticed that a 5-year-old girl in her kindergarten class was "really sad and depressed at school because friends think that she looks like a boy," she wanted to cheer the student up by showing solidarity.
Classmates were teasing the girl, Prisilla, who had begun wearing a hat to school to cover her hair, according to CNN affiliate KTRK.
"I would cry because I would think school was not fun," the girl told the affiliate.
So Grimm chopped her waist-length brown hair into a pixie cut, like Prisilla's.
"What better way to show them that you can look any way and still be true to yourself and that you can be whoever you want -- it doesn't matter what you look like -- than to cut my own hair?" the teacher said in a Facebook live stream about the episode.

Prisilla gave her teacher a hug in appreciation.
Grimm even purchased matching hair bows for her and Prisilla to wear, said the Willis Independent School District north of Houston, where Grimm works.
At a school board meeting last week, the little girl presented Grimm with a medal for being her hero during a difficult time. Grimm had also nominated Prisilla for the district student of the month award for being brave.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/18/us/teach ... 1550523435

[Macdoc]

Good deed and small world n'all

Twenty years after doing a good deed, he got a life-changing reward
When J.K. Rowling was a struggling single mum, a stranger treated her with kindness. Now, that man is directing her Harry Potter stage show.

https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment ... 50x6t.html

[Macdoc]

and https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/ ... index.html

'Extinct' Galapagos tortoise found after 100 years
Alex Stambaugh, CNN • Updated 22nd February 2019

[Tortured_Genius]

BBC News - Estonians rescue wild wolf from ice thinking it was a dog

[The_Piper]

The Ghost of Mr Woodchuckles gives thanks to those who help his furry, feathered, shelled, scaled, or exoskeleton-ed friends. Plus all the other categories. They will be rewarded with a place in The Great Green Lawn in the Sky.

[Macdoc]

cool

Tokyo 2020: Medals to be made from recycled waste
From the sectionOlympics

All the medals at the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo will be made from recycled electronic waste, say organisers.

A project was started in 2017 to collect enough electronic waste, including old smartphones and laptops, to implement the scheme.

The aim was to collect 30.3kg of gold, 4,100kg of silver and 2,700kg of bronze.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/47168035

[Ironclad]

We had the mid term scan today, and it's going to be a girl. I was hoping so, though the wife really wanted a boy.. she's over the moon of course. Join me in a celebration.

[The_Piper]

[aban57]

We had the mid term scan today, and it's going to be a girl. I was hoping so, though the wife really wanted a boy.. she's over the moon of course. Join me in a celebration.

You're right. Boys suck.

[Macdoc]

[Macdoc]

Impressive

UK teen who lost bike in Australia completes round the world cycle
Charlie Condell, 18, claims title of youngest person to achieve feat unassisted

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... orld-cycle

Despite the lowlifes in Townsville

[willhud9]

https://www.virginiamercury.com/blog-va ... mP0YdrcpG8

Metalheads counter protest Westboro Baptist outside Virginia’s capitol

[Keep It Real]

How chess in Nigeria's slums is changing young lives

Professional chess player and coach Babatunde Onakoya says chess saved him.

Now he's using the game to educate children in Nigerian slum communities, with some even winning scholarships to study as a result.

Video inside

[Macdoc]

Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for climate activism

[Mike_L]

Man saves boy trapped by flash flood...



He also saved the boy (temporarily, at least) from his parents...

Cosa not only brought the young boy safely to the riverbank, but went on to talk his parents out of punishing the child...

[aliihsanasl]

[Ironclad]

Has anyone traveled between Lido and Venice recently? I'm curious about water taxi costs and whether to book the Lido hotel or seek other places. Cheers.
I assume water taxi is the only way to get around.

[Macdoc]

The red dot indicates where Jared Smith and Hannah Stephan encountered the stranded dog on Brilliant Bluffs near Castlegar, B.C. (Submitted by Marissa Balahura, Jared Smith)

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A dog that was missing for more than three weeks has been rescued from a B.C. cliff thanks to a pair of climbers with an Ikea bag.

Jared Smith and Hannah Stephan encountered the dog more than 200 metres above the ground as they scaled Brilliant Bluffs, a rocky cliff face near Castlegar, B.C., on April 2.

"We'd just switched over from me lead climbing to her [Hannah] lead climbing," Smith told As it Happens host Carol Off. "She got maybe about halfway to the pitch and then she yells down, 'There's a dog.'"

The emaciated animal showed signs of exhaustion and starvation, he said.

"Definitely no energy — very tired and very, very skinny," Smith said. "You could see every rib. You could see the hip bones and her spine and stuff."

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/do ... -1.5090675

quite the survivor.