June 12, 2024
Innovative Haptic Kits for Deaf Soccer Fans
Johnny Mac shares five heartwarming good news stories. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth graduates received cash gifts with a charitable twist from Robert Hale Jr. Melinda French Gates commits $1 billion to women's causes and gender equity. Newcastle United introduces haptic kits for deaf fans to feel the match atmosphere. Sunset View residents Cindy and Abby raise funds for turtle crossing signs to protect turtles. Kathy Strong's 38-year tribute to fallen soldier Sgt. James Moreland culminates in dedicated memorial bricks across the U.S. Enjoy these uplifting stories and learn how to support the show.
00:17 Graduation Surprise at UMass Dartmouth
01:06 Melinda Gates' Billion-Dollar Commitment
01:51 Innovative Haptic Kits for Deaf Fans
02:25 Turtle Crossing Initiative
03:02 Kathy Strong's Tribute to a Fallen Soldier
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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
shutting back outside once again with five good
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00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:15.160
news stories. Hope you're enjoying the
summer. I'm clearly trying to. It's
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00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:19.239
awesome out here today and good news. If you just graduated from the University
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00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:24.559
of Massachusetts Dartmouth, you got more
than a degree. Granite Telecommunications founder and
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00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:29.480
CEO Robert Hale Junior. He attended
the ceremony. He's worth an estimated five
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00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:33.079
point four million dollars. He told
the students, we want to give you
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00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:36.359
two gifts. The first is our
gift to you. The second is the
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00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:40.240
gift of giving. He pointed off
stage and said, there are three thousand
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00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.920
customized and full envelopes in that truck
over there. Each of you is getting
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00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.719
one thousand dollars cash right now.
As you can imagine. That got a
11
00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:51.719
lot of applause, but he said
there's a stipulation. The first five hundred
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00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:55.000
dollars is our gift to you.
The second five hundred dollars is for you
13
00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.679
to give somebody else or another organization
that could use it more than you.
14
00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:02.240
Held's all the grads, our community
and our world need are helped more than
15
00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:04.680
ever. The greatest joys we've had
in our life. That's awesome. Good
16
00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:10.560
week for the billionaires. Melinda French
Gates announced that she's committing one billion dollars
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00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:14.120
over the next two years to women's
causes and gender equity around the world.
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00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:18.280
About two hundred million of that will
go to organizations fighting for gender and reproductive
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00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:21.680
rights in the US. Melinda roat
in The New York Times as shocking as
20
00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:23.560
it is to contemplate, my one
year old granddaughter may grow up with fewer
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00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:27.239
rights than I had. One grant
recipient is the Center for Reproductive Rights,
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00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:33.400
which advocates for abortion rights and currently
represents fifty women in lawsuits challenging abortion restrictions
23
00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:38.239
and other reproductive health measures in several
states. Other recipients include Moms Rising and
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00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.920
Organization as Bort Women's Economic Security,
the National Women's Law Center, which focuses
25
00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:46.239
on law as a means to improve
gender equity, and The Nineteenth, which
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00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:51.040
is a nonprofit media outlet dedicated to
gender and policy news. This is pretty
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00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:53.840
cool. Newcastle, United fans who
were DAF will be able to participate in
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00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:59.359
the atmosphere at Saint James Park through
haptic kits. These are shirts which use
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00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:04.319
censors which vibrate when actions take place
on the pitch. Supporters Ryan and David
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00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.120
It's told BBC Radio Newcastle through an
interpreter that it would be really good to
31
00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.240
feel connected as part of the match. We see the atmosphere, but to
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00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:14.439
actually feel the atmosphere and the jumping
of the crowd, that'd be really great.
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00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:19.039
These kits were created with a partnership
between Newcastle United's kit sponsor, SILA
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00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:23.280
and the Royal National Institute for the
Deaf. All this part of an initiative
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00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:28.719
called Unsilenced the Crowd. Good news
for the turtles in Lily Lake Sunset View
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residents Cindy and Abbey are tired of
seeing turtles get run over by cars.
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00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:37.080
They've taken matters into their own hands
by raising money to install turtle crossing signs.
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00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:39.680
A bunch of turtles have moved into
the retention ponds on either side of
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00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:44.080
East Sunset Views drive between Twilight and
Autumn Lanes, you know the place,
40
00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:46.879
and the turtles cross the road to
get from one pond to the other.
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00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.400
It sounds like a joke, it
is not, Abby says. We just
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want to help the little guys because
they can't help themselves. It's so sad.
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It just breaks our hearts seeing them
get run over. Any additional funds
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00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:59.000
raised over the cost of the turtle
crossing signs will be donated to the Kane
45
00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:04.560
Forest Preserve Foundations Adopt a Turtle program. Nice job by Kathy Strong. For
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00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:07.039
thirty eight years she wore a bracelet
and tribute to a young soldier she had
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00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:12.159
never met and promised to never forget. The bracelet was buried thirteen years ago
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with the body of Special Forces Sergeant
first Class James Morland. Kathy recently visited
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00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:21.479
Arlington Heights for the village's Memorial Day
ceremony. There she helped dedicate a brick
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00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:23.840
in the town's Memorial Park in honor
of Moreland, a twenty two year old
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US Army green Beret who disappeared in
nineteen sixty eight when his unit came under
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00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:34.240
attack during the Battle of Langvai in
South Vietnam. Back in Christmas seventy two,
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00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:38.800
a then twelve year old Strong opened
her Christmas stocking and found a bracelet
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00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:42.400
with his name on it. It
had been produced by an organization called Voices
55
00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.599
in Vital America. The bracelets back
at that time were a popular tribute to
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00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:49.199
service members missing or captured in Vietnam. Strong said, I promised to wear
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00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:52.719
until he came home. Two years
later, she still had the bracelet.
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00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:55.439
She received a photo of Moorland in
his green beret uniform through voices in Vital
59
00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.599
America, along with a short biography
of the missing soldier. She said,
60
00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:01.360
that was a first information I'd ever
received about him. There was a picture.
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00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:03.520
He was a green beret with a
very intense look in his eyes.
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00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:06.560
It was as if his eyes reached
into my soul and said, please don't
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00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:11.360
forget about me. That submitted my
commitment. Moreland was presumed to have died
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00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.800
in battle in nineteen sixty eight.
He spent the next forty three years listed
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00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:18.680
as MIA. In twenty eleven,
DNA testing determined that Moreland's remains had been
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00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:23.399
found in nineteen ninety five near the
battlefield. His remains were brought home to
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00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:27.480
his native Alabama. Strong placed the
bracelet on the left sleeve of his dress
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00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.519
uniform. She said, because I'd
always got on my left wrist. Since
69
00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:34.720
then, Strong has traveled the country
dedicating bricks engraved with Moreland's name at memorials.
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Her goal is to dedicate one brick
in every state. By honoring this
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00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:42.839
one soldier, I feel like I'm
honoring all the soldiers who served at Vietnam.
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Wow. Powerful stuff. And those
are your five good news stories for
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00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:48.920
today. I hope you're having a
good day. If you'd like this program
74
00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.839
ad free, you can listen to
the permoll. It's probably gonna run next
75
00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:55.399
door. In the show notes,
you'll see it. It says a Caliroga
76
00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:59.160
dot supportingcast dot FM, and for
four ninety nine a month you can get
77
00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:01.560
this program commercial free, as well
as a bunch of others on the network.
78
00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.360
You have an awesome day. Great
job, Kathy Strong,
1
00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:11.759
Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
shutting back outside once again with five good
2
00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:15.160
news stories. Hope you're enjoying the
summer. I'm clearly trying to. It's
3
00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:19.239
awesome out here today and good news. If you just graduated from the University
4
00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:24.559
of Massachusetts Dartmouth, you got more
than a degree. Granite Telecommunications founder and
5
00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:29.480
CEO Robert Hale Junior. He attended
the ceremony. He's worth an estimated five
6
00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:33.079
point four million dollars. He told
the students, we want to give you
7
00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:36.359
two gifts. The first is our
gift to you. The second is the
8
00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:40.240
gift of giving. He pointed off
stage and said, there are three thousand
9
00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.920
customized and full envelopes in that truck
over there. Each of you is getting
10
00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.719
one thousand dollars cash right now.
As you can imagine. That got a
11
00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:51.719
lot of applause, but he said
there's a stipulation. The first five hundred
12
00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:55.000
dollars is our gift to you.
The second five hundred dollars is for you
13
00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.679
to give somebody else or another organization
that could use it more than you.
14
00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:02.240
Held's all the grads, our community
and our world need are helped more than
15
00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:04.680
ever. The greatest joys we've had
in our life. That's awesome. Good
16
00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:10.560
week for the billionaires. Melinda French
Gates announced that she's committing one billion dollars
17
00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:14.120
over the next two years to women's
causes and gender equity around the world.
18
00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:18.280
About two hundred million of that will
go to organizations fighting for gender and reproductive
19
00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:21.680
rights in the US. Melinda roat
in The New York Times as shocking as
20
00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:23.560
it is to contemplate, my one
year old granddaughter may grow up with fewer
21
00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:27.239
rights than I had. One grant
recipient is the Center for Reproductive Rights,
22
00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:33.400
which advocates for abortion rights and currently
represents fifty women in lawsuits challenging abortion restrictions
23
00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:38.239
and other reproductive health measures in several
states. Other recipients include Moms Rising and
24
00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.920
Organization as Bort Women's Economic Security,
the National Women's Law Center, which focuses
25
00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:46.239
on law as a means to improve
gender equity, and The Nineteenth, which
26
00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:51.040
is a nonprofit media outlet dedicated to
gender and policy news. This is pretty
27
00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:53.840
cool. Newcastle, United fans who
were DAF will be able to participate in
28
00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:59.359
the atmosphere at Saint James Park through
haptic kits. These are shirts which use
29
00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:04.319
censors which vibrate when actions take place
on the pitch. Supporters Ryan and David
30
00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.120
It's told BBC Radio Newcastle through an
interpreter that it would be really good to
31
00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.240
feel connected as part of the match. We see the atmosphere, but to
32
00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:14.439
actually feel the atmosphere and the jumping
of the crowd, that'd be really great.
33
00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:19.039
These kits were created with a partnership
between Newcastle United's kit sponsor, SILA
34
00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:23.280
and the Royal National Institute for the
Deaf. All this part of an initiative
35
00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:28.719
called Unsilenced the Crowd. Good news
for the turtles in Lily Lake Sunset View
36
00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:31.319
residents Cindy and Abbey are tired of
seeing turtles get run over by cars.
37
00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:37.080
They've taken matters into their own hands
by raising money to install turtle crossing signs.
38
00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:39.680
A bunch of turtles have moved into
the retention ponds on either side of
39
00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:44.080
East Sunset Views drive between Twilight and
Autumn Lanes, you know the place,
40
00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:46.879
and the turtles cross the road to
get from one pond to the other.
41
00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.400
It sounds like a joke, it
is not, Abby says. We just
42
00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:52.240
want to help the little guys because
they can't help themselves. It's so sad.
43
00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.520
It just breaks our hearts seeing them
get run over. Any additional funds
44
00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:59.000
raised over the cost of the turtle
crossing signs will be donated to the Kane
45
00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:04.560
Forest Preserve Foundations Adopt a Turtle program. Nice job by Kathy Strong. For
46
00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:07.039
thirty eight years she wore a bracelet
and tribute to a young soldier she had
47
00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:12.159
never met and promised to never forget. The bracelet was buried thirteen years ago
48
00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:15.800
with the body of Special Forces Sergeant
first Class James Morland. Kathy recently visited
49
00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:21.479
Arlington Heights for the village's Memorial Day
ceremony. There she helped dedicate a brick
50
00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:23.840
in the town's Memorial Park in honor
of Moreland, a twenty two year old
51
00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:29.199
US Army green Beret who disappeared in
nineteen sixty eight when his unit came under
52
00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:34.240
attack during the Battle of Langvai in
South Vietnam. Back in Christmas seventy two,
53
00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:38.800
a then twelve year old Strong opened
her Christmas stocking and found a bracelet
54
00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:42.400
with his name on it. It
had been produced by an organization called Voices
55
00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.599
in Vital America. The bracelets back
at that time were a popular tribute to
56
00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:49.199
service members missing or captured in Vietnam. Strong said, I promised to wear
57
00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:52.719
until he came home. Two years
later, she still had the bracelet.
58
00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:55.439
She received a photo of Moorland in
his green beret uniform through voices in Vital
59
00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.599
America, along with a short biography
of the missing soldier. She said,
60
00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:01.360
that was a first information I'd ever
received about him. There was a picture.
61
00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:03.520
He was a green beret with a
very intense look in his eyes.
62
00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:06.560
It was as if his eyes reached
into my soul and said, please don't
63
00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:11.360
forget about me. That submitted my
commitment. Moreland was presumed to have died
64
00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.800
in battle in nineteen sixty eight.
He spent the next forty three years listed
65
00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:18.680
as MIA. In twenty eleven,
DNA testing determined that Moreland's remains had been
66
00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:23.399
found in nineteen ninety five near the
battlefield. His remains were brought home to
67
00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:27.480
his native Alabama. Strong placed the
bracelet on the left sleeve of his dress
68
00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.519
uniform. She said, because I'd
always got on my left wrist. Since
69
00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:34.720
then, Strong has traveled the country
dedicating bricks engraved with Moreland's name at memorials.
70
00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:39.399
Her goal is to dedicate one brick
in every state. By honoring this
71
00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:42.839
one soldier, I feel like I'm
honoring all the soldiers who served at Vietnam.
72
00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:46.759
Wow. Powerful stuff. And those
are your five good news stories for
73
00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:48.920
today. I hope you're having a
good day. If you'd like this program
74
00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.839
ad free, you can listen to
the permoll. It's probably gonna run next
75
00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:55.399
door. In the show notes,
you'll see it. It says a Caliroga
76
00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:59.160
dot supportingcast dot FM, and for
four ninety nine a month you can get
77
00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:01.560
this program commercial free, as well
as a bunch of others on the network.
78
00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.360
You have an awesome day. Great
job, Kathy Strong,