Rescuing

Hilary Swank is looking back at the time when she helped rescue beloved pets amid the aftermath of 9/11. The Oscar-winning actress, who has been open about her love of animals, recently recalled that she volunteered with the ASPCA during the 2001 tragedy. “People would go over to the piers over on West Street, and they would say, ‘My dog Simpson, or my goldfish or my rabbit,’ or whatever it is, and they’d say, ‘This is my address, this is my apartment,’ and I’d get these cards and we’d go down,”…

On the wall of an unassuming second- floor room in Newcastle University sits a map, Blu-Tacked, unframed. At first glance it looks like any other map of China. But on closer inspection, the cities labelled on the map are not just the major urban centres. They are the places that have hosted important film festivals over the years, the details of which are annotated in colour-coded text.Covering the final years of the so-called golden era of the scene, the map shows dozens of film festivals that used to be active across…

Rescuers looking for the OceanGate submersible lost off the coast of Cape Cod are waiting on a French robot capable of diving 20,000 feet deep. The salvage system is supposed to arrive sometime Wednesday evening, though there’s still no hint that rescuers have pinpointed the exact location of the missing Titanic tourist sub.Can the Government Change Social Media? | Gizmodo InterviewRescuers have been scouring the area where tourism company OceanGate last lost contact with the $250,000-per-person carbon fiber submersible.…

For most of us, this would be a nightmare.Imagine being curled up inside a 90 centimeter (36 inch) fabric sphere with a small window and a small air tank while dangling from the Canadarm.As your tiny sphere shifts, you'd see Earth out your tiny window, then the Space Shuttle, damaged by some accident or other that caused you to need rescuing, then Earth again. Panic would set in pretty quickly.But that's where Space Shuttle astronauts in an emergency could've found themselves if NASA's Personal Rescue Enclosure (PRE) had…

ZURICH—The chairman of Switzerland’s largest bank received an urgent call last week. On the other end were three top Swiss officials who delivered an ultimatum dressed up as a proposal. UBS Group AG UBS -3.09% needed to rescue its failing rival, Credit Suisse CS -5.48% Group AG.For any country, it would be a financial emergency. For Switzerland, the stakes verged on existential. Its economic model and national…

A vase of hydrangeas sits among a crop of the latest releases, including What Writers Read and Blake Morrison’s Two Sisters. There is a cosy rug and a bright window display. It looks like a lovely bookshop. What there aren’t, however, are any customers. “Winter is killing us, it’s soo quiet,” tweeted Sapphire Bates, the co-owner of Book Bodega in Ramsgate, Kent, on Saturday afternoon. “We need to make £800 by Tuesday to pay our bills.”Her tweet has since been viewed 6m times and retweeted nearly 12,000 times. She has had…

The woman clung to a tree in pitch darkness. Nearby, her gray pickup was submerged in murky, brown water.She was trapped along a fair-weather bridge, a causeway built over Coyote Creek just north of Ventura. The creek had overflowed and flooded the crossing after a powerful storm barreled into the area Monday.About 100 feet away, voices called out over the rushing water. Hold tight, they told her. A rescue swimmer is coming.The job of getting the stranded, soaking-wet woman to safety fell to the Ventura County Fire…

The first time Silvano D’Auria watched the film La Mano Lunga del Padrino (The Long Arm of the Godfather) was at the Teatro dei Filarmonici in his hometown of Ascoli Piceno, Italy, in 1972, the year of its release. The multi-instrumentalist had composed all the music for the low-budget crime flick, its title an obvious attempt to forge artificial links to Hollywood hit The Godfather, and the theatre was packed with an audience there to support a son of the city.D’Auria had been recruited by the movie’s director, Nardo…

Off-roading is an adventure activity that lets people explore the off-road capabilities of their 4×4 SUVs. We have mentioned it several times that if not done properly, accidents can happen during off-roading. This is why, it is always recommended to take advice from experts to such events. Vehicle getting stuck at an obstacle is part of off-roading there are often back up vehicles which help in the recovery of such vehicles. Here we have a video that shows, how not to recover a stuck vehicle. The video has been…

Hollywood loves few things more than retailing myths and legends about itself. Few of these yarns have had a longer life than what happened at the 1973 Academy Awards involving Marlon Brando, John Wayne and a Native American activist named Sacheen Littlefeather.Movie aficionados generally remember that Brando sent Littlefeather up to the stage to decline his Oscar as best actor for “The Godfather.” Littlefeather, wearing buckskin and moccasins, read a brief statement of less than a minute, politely stating on Brando’s…