Marooned sailors spell out HELP and it worked - PLUS what to do if attacked by a cow

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnnie Mack with five good news stories.

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Now. Last week I had the
pleasure of going up to Burlington, Vermont

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and witnessing the total eclipse. It
was amazing. If you want to hear

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my adventure there, check out the
podcast Travel Is Back and look up the

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Burlington episode and you'll hear me looking
at the eclipse at Ohio Town had a

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big eclipse palooza. They had a
big party that saw one hundred and thirty

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couples get married or renew their vals
in the three minute fifty four seconds that

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the moon covered the Sun. Officials
hosted the free event. It was called

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Elope at the Eclipse. They were
hoping to get about twenty five couples.

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Instead, one hundred and fifty registered. There was a judge, live singer,

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goodie bags as you would want at
your eclipse wedding, a reception hall

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for dancing, beverages for the first
toast, a photographer, and personalized wedding

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cakes. To register and participants,
all you had to do was show up

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with the proper paper work and your
guests. People did show up, They

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had lawn chairs, t shirts.
Some people wore a traditional white wedding dress.

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One couple told the Detroit Free Press
they thought of everything, It's a

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once in a lifetime for us,
and it pushed out positive energy. This

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is amazing. This next story is
straight out of Gilligan's Island. Did you

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see this? Three men who were
stranded on a remote Pacific island for more

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than a week. They spelled out
help using palm leaves like you see in

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movies and specifically Gilligan's Islands episodes.
It actually worked. The men were found

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on pike Lot, an uninhabited island
about one hundred miles northwest of their home.

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They had set sail from an island
that's part of the Federated States of

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Micronesia. Their boat a twenty foot
open skiff powered by an outboard motor.

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The search began when a woman set
out a distress called to the coastguard reporting

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that her three uncles hadn't come home
after almost a week away. The coast

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guard embarked on a search. Pike
Lot is a tiny dot. It's described

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as in the Pacific Ocean, covered
in palm trees and bus is, measuring

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less than two thousand feet in length. Lieutenant Chelsea Garcia coordinated the search and

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said in a remarkable testament to their
will to be found, the mariners spelled

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out help on the beach, using
palm leaves, a crucial factor in their

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discovery. The aircraft crew sent survival
packages to help them in before the coast

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Guard drop them or radio a day
later. Guess it takes a minute to

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get there. Eventually, the usc
GC Oliver Henry arrived at the island and

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picked up the men to bring them
home. The commander of the Oliver Henry,

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Lieutenant Ray Serato, said, it's
incredibly rewarding to see the faces of

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those we've helped. Looks like good
news here on the cancer front. I

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was reading about this in the Washington
Post. There's a new blood test called

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galeri This new type of test analyzes
substances in the blood that might indicate cancer.

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The test may be especially useful in
finding silent cancers, such as pancreatic

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or ovarian cancer, which often don't
cause symptoms until the disease is advanced and

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more difficult to treat. Eric Klein, as a scientist at the company that

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developed Galerian, says it opens up
a whole new world. It's the unmet

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need we face in cancer. The
new blood test measure cancer signals, which

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are biological substances shed by cancers,
such as fragments of tumor DNA. Some

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can even identify the organ or tissue
involved. Wow. Now, to be

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clear, the tests don't diagnose cancer. A positive result will probably lead to

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you getting more tests for biopsies.
Nor are the tests yet ready to replace

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standard screening tests like a colonoscopy or
a mimography, but are meant to compliment

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them anyway. This is super cool
good news for a Labrador retriever. He

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had failed to become a drug sniffing
dog why he was too friendly and playful.

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While he's won hearts across Taiwan for
his detection work. In the aftermath

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of the recent seven point four magnitude
earthquake, Roger the dog was helping to

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locate some people he and his handlers
ventured into the Shakadang trail of the heavily

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damaged Torocco National Park. Roger was
born into a training center for drug sniffing

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dogs, but his love for fun, food and people got the better of

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him, distracting his ability to pay
its. But that made him a better

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candidate to be a rescue dog.
Chen Chi's son is captain of the rescue

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dog unit, and said, I'm
not saying he wasn't good or he didn't

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get along with others, but the
requirement for narcotic detection dogs is they can't

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be too restless and independent. But
that's what we want in rescue dogs.

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But as great as Roger is as
being a rescue dog, he's going to

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retire soon. Rescue dogs retire at
age nine. Good news if you're ever

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attacked by a cow. Andrew Childs
wrote a funny piece in The Guardian explaining

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what to do. Charles tells us. One expert suggested it's important to work

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out whether the advancing cow is angry. We're merely curious. It's here as

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being a ten to two or an
indication of the former, meaning the cow

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is angry. And I don't know
about this advice. Chiles says, if

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he's ever attacked by a cow,
he'll whip his coat off, wave it

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about and start yelling out in Spanish, and if that doesn't work, he'll

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just acknowledge it's his unlucky day.
Those are your five good news stories for

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today. I'm choking because i laughed
there at the end. You enjoy the

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host another podcast called Daily Comedy News. We're talking about stand up comedy seven

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days a week. That show is
fun in a different way. All right,

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have a great day.