Innovative Haptic Kits for Deaf Soccer Fans

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm shutting back outside once again with five good news stories. Hope you're enjoying the summer. I'm clearly trying to. It's awesome out here today and good news. If you just graduated from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, you got more than a degree. Granite Telecommunications founder and CEO Robert Hale Junior. He attended the ceremony. He's worth an estimated five point four million dollars. He told the students, we want to give you two gifts. The first is our gift to you. The second is the gift of giving. He pointed off stage and said, there are three thousand customized and full envelopes in that truck over there. Each of you is getting one thousand dollars cash right now. As you can imagine. That got a lot of applause, but he said there's a stipulation. The first five hundred dollars is our gift to you. The second five hundred dollars is for you to give somebody else or another organization that could use it more than you.

0:59 Held's all the grads, our community and our world need are helped more than ever. The greatest joys we've had in our life. That's awesome. Good week for the billionaires. Melinda French Gates announced that she's committing one billion dollars over the next two years to women's causes and gender equity around the world. About two hundred million of that will go to organizations fighting for gender and reproductive rights in the US. Melinda roat in The New York Times as shocking as it is to contemplate, my one year old granddaughter may grow up with fewer rights than I had. One grant recipient is the Center for Reproductive Rights, which advocates for abortion rights and currently represents fifty women in lawsuits challenging abortion restrictions and other reproductive health measures in several states. Other recipients include Moms Rising and Organization as Bort Women's Economic Security, the National Women's Law Center, which focuses on law as a means to improve gender equity, and The Nineteenth, which is a nonprofit media outlet dedicated to gender and policy news. This is pretty cool. Newcastle, United fans who were DAF will be able to participate in the atmosphere at Saint James Park through haptic kits. These are shirts which use censors which vibrate when actions take place on the pitch. Supporters Ryan and David It's told BBC Radio Newcastle through an interpreter that it would be really good to feel connected as part of the match. We see the atmosphere, but to actually feel the atmosphere and the jumping of the crowd, that'd be really great.

2:14 These kits were created with a partnership between Newcastle United's kit sponsor, SILA and the Royal National Institute for the Deaf. All this part of an initiative called Unsilenced the Crowd. Good news for the turtles in Lily Lake Sunset View residents Cindy and Abbey are tired of seeing turtles get run over by cars. They've taken matters into their own hands by raising money to install turtle crossing signs. A bunch of turtles have moved into the retention ponds on either side of East Sunset Views drive between Twilight and Autumn Lanes, you know the place, and the turtles cross the road to get from one pond to the other. It sounds like a joke, it is not, Abby says. We just want to help the little guys because they can't help themselves. It's so sad. It just breaks our hearts seeing them get run over. Any additional funds raised over the cost of the turtle crossing signs will be donated to the Kane Forest Preserve Foundations Adopt a Turtle program. Nice job by Kathy Strong. For thirty eight years she wore a bracelet and tribute to a young soldier she had never met and promised to never forget. The bracelet was buried thirteen years ago with the body of Special Forces Sergeant first Class James Morland. Kathy recently visited Arlington Heights for the village's Memorial Day ceremony. There she helped dedicate a brick in the town's Memorial Park in honor of Moreland, a twenty two year old US Army green Beret who disappeared in nineteen sixty eight when his unit came under attack during the Battle of Langvai in South Vietnam. Back in Christmas seventy two, a then twelve year old Strong opened her Christmas stocking and found a bracelet with his name on it. It had been produced by an organization called Voices in Vital America. The bracelets back at that time were a popular tribute to

3:45 service members missing or captured in Vietnam. Strong said, I promised to wear until he came home. Two years later, she still had the bracelet. She received a photo of Moorland in his green beret uniform through voices in Vital America, along with a short biography of the missing soldier. She said, that was a first information I'd ever received about him. There was a picture. He was a green beret with a very intense look in his eyes. It was as if his eyes reached into my soul and said, please don't forget about me. That submitted my commitment. Moreland was presumed to have died in battle in nineteen sixty eight. He spent the next forty three years listed as MIA. In twenty eleven, DNA testing determined that Moreland's remains had been found in nineteen ninety five near the battlefield. His remains were brought home to his native Alabama. Strong placed the bracelet on the left sleeve of his dress uniform. She said, because I'd always got on my left wrist. Since then, Strong has traveled the country dedicating bricks engraved with Moreland's name at memorials.

4:34 Her goal is to dedicate one brick in every state. By honoring this one soldier, I feel like I'm honoring all the soldiers who served at Vietnam. Wow. Powerful stuff. And those are your five good news stories for today. I hope you're having a good day. If you'd like this program ad free, you can listen to the permoll. It's probably gonna run next door. In the show notes, you'll see it. It says a Caliroga dot supportingcast dot FM, and for four ninety nine a month you can get this program commercial free, as well as a bunch of others on the network. You have an awesome day. Great job, Kathy Strong,