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April 4, 2019

tRump had this plaque made

April 4, 2019

woman explains her vote against equal pay bill

https://twitter.com/VABVOX/status/1113509497518030854

April 4, 2019

This Woman Bought Out A Closing Payless Store To Give Shoes To Nebraska Flood Victims

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When 25-year-old Addy Tritt paid a visit to her local Payless in Hays, Kansas, last week, she didn’t intend to walk out with the last of the store’s inventory.

Tritt went to the now-out-of-business shoe store after seeing an ad on its Facebook page promoting its slashed prices. When the last 204 pairs of footwear dropped to $1 each, she figured she could buy some and donate them to a shelter or church.

“My pile just kept growing bigger and bigger,” Tritt, who recently earned her master’s degree in human resources, told HuffPost on Wednesday. “I finally went up to the sales associate and was like, ‘Hey, weird question. Can you get me a deal on all of these shoes?’ She was like, ‘Are you serious?’”

It took just a little over two hours and a few phone calls to the Payless corporate office and Tritt was in possession of all the remaining shoes ― which were valued at approximately $6,000, according to the Associated Press. She purchased them for about $100.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/addy-tritt-nebraska-floods-payless-shoes_n_5ca4e149e4b0ed0d780ff543

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April 4, 2019

Epic, hours-long battle over a parking space in Los Angeles

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These parkers are petty and proud of it.

It’s the epic battle of wills now known as “Team Black Car vs. Team Silver Car” — in which a pair of strong-willed drivers in Koreatown, California, faced off for nearly two long hours over a parking spot.

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It all starts at 6:20 p.m. Monday, when Mariah spots what appears to be a minor vehicular standoff. She doesn’t start documenting the “action” until 10 solid minutes later.

By 6:40 p.m., Black Car and Silver Car are still refusing to budge an inch. At least they turn their flashers on — but don’t mistake this as an act of courtesy, Mariah says. Because by 6:46 p.m., “petty level 6000 [is] unlocked.”

The awkward half-in, half-out parking job quickly results in what’s known in the automotive world as a “bottleneck” situation. It’s “dangerous,” Mariah reports.

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After nearly 90 minutes, she starts getting a little antsy and appeals to us, the viewer, to help her out of this traffic jam. “Should I go talk to them? [Maybe] just a knock on the window to tell them I love their work?,” she asks her second poll of the evening.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! “SILVER takes the gold,” Mariah raves as she ups her cellphone video game with special effects.

https://nypost.com/2019/04/03/epic-hours-long-battle-over-a-parking-space-unfolds-on-twitter/

April 4, 2019

An infant did not have any hospital visitors for five months. So this nurse adopted her.

Two years ago, Liz Smith, director of nursing at Franciscan Children’s hospital in Brighton, Mass., was headed toward the elevator at work when she saw her: a tiny girl with bright blue eyes and a single soft brown curl swept across her forehead.

“Who’s this beautiful angel?” Smith asked the nurse who was wheeling the infant down the hall. “Her name is Gisele,” the nurse told her. The infant, a ward of the state, had been at the hospital for five months, but Smith had never seen her before.

Smith learned that Gisele, then 8 months old, had been born premature at another hospital in July 2016, weighing just under 2 pounds. She had neonatal abstinence syndrome — a result of her birth mother using heroin, cocaine and methadone during pregnancy.

The state of Massachusetts took custody of Gisele when she was 3 months old and transferred her to Franciscan Children’s because her lungs needed specialized care, and she had a feeding tube. The baby did not have a single visitor in her five months at the hospital.

Social service workers were trying to place her in foster care.

"Gisele,” Smith told herself all the way home that evening. “Gisele.” It was at that moment, said Smith, that she knew: “I'm going to foster this baby. I'm going to be her mother.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/04/03/tiny-baby-did-not-have-any-hospital-visitors-five-months-so-nurse-adopted-her/?utm_term=.2c14eda5b57b

April 3, 2019