Article 1
Dog rescues
abandoned newborn
A farm dog in Ghana has attained hero status after spending
a night protecting an abandoned newborn human. Authorities say the dog, along
with its two-week-old charge, was found under a bridge in Winkongo (which is
near Bolgatanga, the Upper East Regional Capital of Ghana), near the farm where
he lives – with the tiny baby snuggled against him.
A search party had been convened to look for the dog, not
the baby, when the pooch's worried owner got concerned that her pet hadn't
returned home in the evening. Searchers spent most of the night tracking the
hound through nearby fields and woods, and came upon the unlikely pair quite
some time later; finally locating him under the bridge near the farm he calls
home, they were surprised to find the dog curled around a human infant.
Madam Rosemary Azure, Director of Health for the
Talensi-Nabdam District, shared the remarkable story with the Ghana News Agency
at a ceremony for a different occasion entirely – the launch of two vaccines
that will help prevent diarrhea and pneumonia – although it's not impossible
that officials will find themselves presiding over a medal presentation to
"Hairy Poppins" sometime soon.
The baby himself is in relatively fine fettle after his
adventure. His umbilical cord had not been cut, and had gotten infected, but
the little one was otherwise unharmed; he's had all his vaccinations, and is
currently in the custody of a local health directorate until new, non-bridge
arrangements can be made for him. Azure noted that she couldn't say what had
led to the baby's desertion by his mother, but speculated that the parents were
teenagers, and took the opportunity to caution locals against unprotected sex.
Police are investigating.
Comment :
From the above article tells the story of a dog and
help keep an infant in its cradle andthrown away by her parents. Sometimes
people are not responsible for any action he has done. As was discussed in the
article above there is a baby who had been thrown by his parents and turns of
human action is no better than a dog. Although he was a dog he has a conscience
for the help and keep the baby under the bridge Winkongo and the dog was kept
with the baby until the baby finally someone found it to be saved. We should be
able to take a lesson from the dog that lives of all living things it is worth
it.
Article 2
Drastic measures as China
students sit exams
More than 9 million students sat China's notoriously tough
college entrance exams on Thursday, with "high-flyer" rooms, nannies
and even intravenous drips among the tools being employed for success.
With just 6.85 million university spots on offer this year,
competition for the top institutions is intense, and attempts to cheat are rife
-- 1,500 people have been arrested on suspicion of selling transmitters and
hard-to-detect ear pieces.
Parents and students this year are also resorting to some
outlandish but legal methods to ensure nothing goes wrong in the make-or-break
two-day exam.
Students have reportedly been given pre-exam injections and
intravenous drips designed to boost energy levels, while girls have resorted to
hormone injections and birth control pills to delay menstruation.
"There are situations where girls take pills to delay
their periods until after the exams," a gynaecologist at Beijing's
Chaoyang Hospital, who declined to give his name, told AFP.
Some of the more affluent parents have rented houses close
to the 7,300 exam venues across the country, while so-called "high-flyer
rooms" are being offered in the northern port city of Tianjin, according
to the state-run China Daily newspaper.
The special hotel rooms -- which cost up to 800 yuan ($126)
more than an ordinary room -- are billed as having previously been rented out
to someone who scored high points in the exams.
Rooms with lucky numbers such as six -- which symbolises
success in Chinese culture, or eight -- which represents wealth -- are also
favourites.
"Every year the house rental market heats up ahead of
gaokao (the Chinese name for the exam)," Jin Guangze, a teacher from the
Beijing Experimental High School told the China Daily.
The exam has also given rise to a new and lucrative industry
-- the gaokao baomu -- or "exam nannies" -- who are tasked to look
after students during the exam period.
"The nannies are well-qualified with at least a
college-level degree," said Jennifer Liu, marketing manager at Coleclub --
an agency that provides household help and has offered the service since 2009.
"They are there to help the students -- cook meals,
wash clothes, tutor the students and offer support for their mental
well-being," she told AFP.
Liu declined to disclose how much it cost to hire a nanny,
but media reports say the service costs an average 4,000 yuan over a 10-day
period.
Comment :
China's population is very dense and in many
countries and China is very difficult to get a lot of work just to be working
alone but for the citizens of China's education is very important because if
the higher education the opportunity to get a better job will be greater. That
is a factor increasing interest in China students are racing to take exams and
get into leading universities in the country and in every way by their parents
to nurture their children and provide motivation before the test to be ready to
take the exam in order not to stress is a test entry for competitors in the
entrance examination the country very much.
Article 3
97-year-old gets high school
diploma
Here's one
graduate who may feel a little more senior than most: Ann Colagiovanni, 97
years old, is finally receiving her high school diploma.
The
Depression-era student quit school at the age of 17, back in 1930s, to work in
her father's market.
The Ohio
resident never returned to finish her education but instead became a student of
life. She worked at the family store until the 1960s when it closed. She got
married and has two daughters and 11 grandchildren.
Daughter
Emilia Colagiovanni Vinci told Fox 8
Cleveland, "When I told her she was getting a diploma, she sobbed as
if a pain had been relieved from her heart," adding, "I never knew
what it meant to her. She wanted this."
Emilia noted
that during the Depression, work was more important than an education.
But
receiving a diploma certainly seemed important to the nonagenarian. The oldest
member of the class of 2012 appears in the news video in a white cap and gown, at a special ceremony
at Shaker Heights High School, which presented her with an honorary diploma--in
her name--dated June 1934. "Finally, I'm going to be a graduate," she
says.
Grandma
isn't the only graduate this year: Her grandson, Thomas Vinci, will also
receive a diploma from the suburban Cleveland high school one day after his
grandmother.
Emilia
Colagiovanni Vinci said, "She did what her father wanted her to do, even
though she wanted to graduate. She put her father, her family, before
herself."
Seventy-eight
years later, Ann Colagiovanni finally put herself first.
Comment :
In the article above about a grandmother who finally
get his high school diploma at the age of 97 years. This proves that age is not
to limit people in getting education as has been done by the grandmother Ann
Colagiovanni, although the school was stopped but he was still fighting for
diplomas until the old age so she could finally get what he wants and all this
at the time of receiving a diploma the long-delayed high school he was very
happy to shed tears. We should be able to take lessons from Ann's grandmother
and learn well, and that education is very important.
Article 4
World War I veteran’s missing
medal turns up on eBay
The grandson of a decorated World War I veteran had searched in
vain for years for his late grandfather's missing war medals. One of them
finally turned up, a Victory Medal being auctioned for less than $2 on eBay.
"I sent
a message to the seller straight away. I suppose I should have bid for it
because the starting price was only 99 (pence)," Martin Robson Riley, 45,
told the BBC. "The
seller replied and said he would send me the medal because I had more right to
it than anyone else. I didn't pay for it. I'm so grateful."
Riley said
several medals awarded to his grandfather, Private Henry Riley, disappeared in
the years after his death in 1927. Martin Riley's father discovered
the medals were missing when he went
to clean out his parents' house in 1981, sometime after his mother had died.
The Victory
Medal was awarded to British men and women who served in a combat theater at
the conclusion of World War I.
The eBay
seller told Riley that he had made a bulk purchase of war medals during an
auction in Cornwall. The Victory Medal belonging to Private Riley was just one
of many included in the original auction.
Riley, who
works for the National Library of Wales, said he occasionally would put his
grandfather's name and service number into search engines, which is how he
stumbled across the eBay listing.
"Every
now and then I'd join the Great War forum and type hid name into an internet
search, half hoping that his medals might turn up one day," Riley told Wales
Online. "With there being six million issued, I suppose I thought
the odds were very slim."
And while
his grandfather's British War Medal remains unaccounted for, Riley said he's
just grateful to have found at least one of the missing medals.
"'We
don't know if they were stolen, sold or given away, but after 30 years I cannot
explain how wonderful it is to hold it," he said.
Comment :
In the article above to tell someone named Martin
Robson Riley is looking for his grandfather's medals and medals are eventually
found in an online sales site. Eachperson must have some very valuable to him
as happened to Martin Robson Rileyeventually finds medal veteran in World War I
his grandfather's long-gone and bought iton a site online selling on Ebay and
bought it for $ 2 and he did not feel the loss with what has been issued to
recover his grandfather's medals yangt has long since disappearedand it is to
keep him happy at all.
Article 5
Police Wrongly Tell Woman Her
Husband Died in Motorcycle Collision
When officers told Melody Halls, 31, that her husband died early Tuesday
morning in a motorcycle accident, she went immediately to the first
stage of grief: denial.
And she was
right.
Two Alberta, Canada, police officers and a grief counselor arrived at Halls's Medicine Hat,
Canada, home and told her to sit down. Once they asked whether her
husband had tattoos, they told her he'd been killed in a 1 a.m. collision,
Halls told ABC News.
"As
soon as he said that, I knew something was wrong. ... I'd seen my husband at 7
a.m.," Halls said. "It was instant disbelief because it's the worst
thing that anyone can ever say to you -- that your husband has been killed this
morning."
Halls'
husband has tattoos on his forearm and calf, but the officers told her the
accident victim had tattoos on his stomach and back, strengthening Halls'
conviction that her husband was alive.
Halls led
the officers out to the garage.
"Sure
enough, the door to our shed was open and the lock was missing off of it,"
she said.
The
motorcycle and helmet were gone.
Police
determined the motorcycle had been stolen, and the thief -- whom police have
not yet named, but Halls said was a neighbor -- died in the accident.
"Although
efforts were made to identify the victim of the collision based on the
information available at the time, the Medicine Hat Police Service sincerely apologizes for the distress
that was caused to the family of the motorcycle owner, when they were
incorrectly notified," Medicine Hat Police Service Deputy Chief Richard
Wigle said in a news release.
The service
will be reviewing its next-of-kin notification practices, according to the
police statement.
With
officers in and out all day, Halls had to tell her 9- and 10-year-old children
about the mix-up. They were mostly shocked at the thought of losing their
father, she said.
As for her
husband?
"He's
really upset about his motorcycle being stolen more than anything," she
said. "And that somebody died crashing it."
Halls said
she isn't mad about what happened to her, but she wishes the police asked about
the last time she'd seen her husband before doing anything else. She said she
accepted the police chief's apology on one condition: "as long as this
never happens again."
Comment :
The article above tells police mistakes in giving
information to the families of victims of accidents and misunderstandings that
lead to human fatal.Terkadang enough to do something wrong. Actually the police
are only trying to help provide information tofamilies who are suspected of
families of accident victims and the police may seek andobtain information such
motorcycle owners to find information about the accident victimwho turns the
bike had been stolen and the thief motor accident resulting in
incorrectinformation from the police to the family of the owner of the motor.
The police should beexamined further information from the accident so that no
misinformation
