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Paws Up!Our Salute to the Awesome!
From Solid Cat: 50 - Podcasting while Driving Harrison Okene After two days trapped in freezing cold water and breathing from an air bubble in an upturned tugboat under the ocean, Harrison Okene was sure he was going to die, until two South African divers eventually rescued him. Find out more at The Huffington Post here. To the Harrison Okene, for staying resilient in the face of certain death, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: 49 - with Special Guests Matrice and Josiah Philadelphia Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra members surprise airplane passengers with impromptu concert, as they were stuck on the tarmac for three hours. Two violinists, a cellist and a viola player busted out their instruments and played a selection from Antonin Dvorak's "American" String Quartet. Find out more at New York Daily News here. To the Philadelphia Orchestra, for always being show-ready, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: 48 - Gnomes and Beavers Dean Hordal The Alberta, Canada, man grabbed a cougar by the tail in attempt to rescue his dog, a schnauzer, from the wild cat's jaws. He says he was acting on instinct and adrenaline. Find out more at CBC News here. To Dean Hordal, for being a man's man, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: 47 - Let's Talk About Drums Name of the Year What do Taco B.M. Monster, Nohjay Nimpson, Barkevious Mingo, Jerome Fruithandler, Princess Nocandy, and Vanilla Dong have in common? They are the names of real people who have been featured on the website, Name of the Year, and have won the award. Name of the Year was founded in 1983 on an Ivy League campus. Its mission has remained unchanged: to discover, verify, nominate, elect and disseminate great names. All names included here are, to the best of our knowledge, real. No malice is intended. Find out more at the Name of the Year website here. To Name of the Year, for making people famous, while entertaining us immensely, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: 46 - Barky Mingo Commander Chris Hadfield Our first 2-Time Paws Up Award Recipient, Commander Chris Hadfield returned to Earth this week after serving as commander of the International Space Station. Finding himself in the limelight after a positive Twitter exchange with William Shatner, Hadfield went on to have a strong social media presence, especially showing various experiments to schoolchildren around the world. Chris Hadfield made the space program cool again. AND THEN, he created the first music video in space, as he sung David Bowie's "Space Oddity" in orbit (the thing that looks like the Earth in the background... ya, not a prop). See the video it at YouTube here. To Commander Hadfield, for going from rock star astronaut, to astronaut rock star, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: 45 - Mr. Balls Associacao de Assistencia as Pessoas com Cancer A Brazilian non-profit that helps people with cancer, has the most amazing mascot. The mascot goes by the "Mr. Balls," and he works to raise awareness about testicular cancer. According to the AAPEC website and courtesy of some Google-translating, "Both children and adults loved taking pictures with the mascot, that's in the shape of testicles." Read more about it at Gawker here. To the AAPEC, for having the "balls" to come up and use this mascot, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: 44 - Crack Open A Book Portland Timbers FC After missing his team's final soccer match last season because of cancer treatment, 8-year-old Atticus Lane-Dupre made sure his teammates were in on his wish to scrimmage against the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer. The Timbers and Make-A-Wish Oregon treated Atticus' team, the Green Machine, to a game at Jeld-Wen Field. More than 3,000 fans came out to lend their support. Read more about it at ESPN here. To the Portland Timbers, for representing the community of Soccer City, USA, so brilliantly, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: 43 - Food Heavy Danny Cipriani Rugby star, Danny Cipriani, tweeted that, "I feel like I've been hit by a bus." Which is funny because he was ACTUALLY hit by a bus, a double-decker to be exact. And he walked out of the hospital the next day. Read more about it at The Sun here. To Danny Cipriani, for being the butchest man alive, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: 42 - Mr. Rogers Paris, France Paris City Hall installed a small flock of sheep to mow the lawn at the city's gardens, replacing gas-guzzling lawnmowers. The ovine-operation follows a successful stint last year by two goats that were hired privately by the Louvre to mow the lawn at Tuileries, central Paris' grand 17th-century gardens. A similar experiment in a park outside Paris even found that sheep droppings were a benefit. Read more about it at The Mainichi here. To Paris, France, for coming up with a fresh idea, especially with Earth Day right around the corner, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: 41 - Slippery Dick Olivia Peters Olivia Peters wrote a letter to Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts calling for the preservation of a local forest. Her efforts helped save a large patch of trees from being razed due to construction. The fact that she's 12 years old makes her story all the more impressive. Read about it at CBC News here. To Olivia Peters, for helping to save the world, one little bit at a time, we salute you. PAWS UP!
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