Re: What is happening around you, around the world? Thread #2

[Linds911]

I am a mommy! Baby Hazel born 10/26/16

Congrats!

[casjacknick]

@Diana I don't know how I missed this but Congrats!!! I wish you happiness and sleep.

[GuardianAngel]

It's time, my Canadian friends. Don't forget to support our Veterans.



Wiki

[GuardianAngel]

Enjoying the beauty of fall before the white stuff starts flying around. Would much rather have leaves flying around.



Taken with my phone.

[GuardianAngel]

Makes me sad to read about the tornado in Italy and earthquake Oklahoma. I hope everyone is safe.

[GuardianAngel]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792

What a voice, great memories listening to his music.

RIP Leonard Cohen

[GuardianAngel]

askides.com



kidzworld.com

[GuardianAngel]

Happy Thanksgiving to all our American members and guests. Enjoy your day with family and friends giving thanks for all that we are grateful for! If you're travelling, be safe!

[Junequilts]

A message I got today from my cousin, whose daughter has been fighting cancer for most of her 7 years. He is still giving thanks'

"
Unfortunately we did not receive the news we were hoping for. Doctor Maude notified us early in the evening to let us know that Katie's Humanized T-cell therapy with the added drug pembrolizumab did not remove Katie's leukemia. Katie has always tested CD 19 positive and it has now mutated to CD 22 Positive. Our options are drastically disappearing. Anne and I are left with basically 2 options left. Try a Cart 22 trial at CHOP or NIH in Maryland, which has had limited success if any, or return to Sick kids and try a drug called immtuzamab to try and get her back into remission for another transplant at Sick kids. Some very difficult decisions for us. Either way, we are coming home early on Saturday. Katie just wants home and there is no need for us to stay any longer in Philadelphia. Once we arrive home, we will be heading to Sick kids to meet with the Oncology team and possibly the transplant team to discuss our options. Katie will also require chemo to keep her Lukemia under control until some decisions are finalized. Feeling very deflated and heartbroken, but as we celebrate Thanksgiving in the USA today, we are thankful for the Doctors and Nurses who have provided anazing care for our little girl and we give thanks to all our family, friends and people we have met along our journey who have supported us emotionly, spirituality and financially. We are most thankful that we are still able to celebrate Thanksgiving with our little girl at the table. One thing for sure, Katie is a fighter and mommy and daddy will stop at nothing and will exhaust all options to save our daughter from this terrible disease called cancer. With Anne Hodgkinson"

[GuardianAngel]

@Junequilts I just saw your post. I'm so sorry to hear the struggles the young girl has had to endure. Prayers for good news.


This is one of the reasons that makes me be proud to be Canadian.

Black rights activist Viola Desmond, who was jailed for defiantly sitting in the "whites only" section of a Nova Scotia film house, will be the first Canadian woman to be featured on the country's $10 bill.


Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz announced the selection of the groundbreaking beautician and businesswoman during an announcement today at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que.

Desmond's image will replace that of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, on the purple banknote beginning in 2018.
Desmond is often referred to as "Canada's Rosa Parks," though her historic act of defiance occurred nine years before Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala.


'It's a really big day to have my big sister on a banknote.'

- Wanda Robson, 89

At age 32, Desmond decided to go to the Roseland Theatre to see a movie while her car was getting fixed on Nov. 8, 1946, but she was thrown out of the "whites only" section and sent to jail. Black people could only sit in the balcony of the theatre.

The next morning, Desmond was convicted of defrauding the province of a one penny tax, the difference in tax between a downstairs and upstairs ticket, even though Desmond had asked to pay the one cent difference.

Desmond was released after paying a $20 fine and $6 in court costs. She appealed her conviction but lost.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-banknote-woman-1.3885844

[hdman]

It's finally warmed up today, it's only -33, this morning..

[GuardianAngel]

Yikes! No disrespect but I hope it stays there! We are suppose to get 5-10cm of snow on Sunday night. That will be our first snowfall. Pretty good considering it's December. I hope they are wrong and we can be scott free for December. I doubt it though.

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