Food, Fitness and Feminism
Astrophysics student. 23. Lefty. Vegan.
My first time cooking tofu! (I’ve been vegan almost a year) it was yummy!
8-years ago, CHP Officer Kevin Briggs talked this young man out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.
That young man’s name is Kevin Berthia.
Today he is 30 years old and married with 2 children.
This week he presented Officer Briggs with an award on behalf of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
The story of how Officer Briggs talked Kevin down is remarkable.
As you can see in the picture, Kevin is literally one step away from jumping to his death. But for more than hour, the officer listened to Kevin pour his heart out about his troubles and told him, “I know you think things are bad, but they can get better.”
Kevin says, “Officer Briggs never made me feel guilty for the situation I was in. He made feel like, I understand why you are here, but there are alternatives”
Kevin is just one of countless lives Briggs has saved over his 23 year career.
Briggs, who was promoted to Sergeant five years ago, is humble about what he does. He says, ”they make the decision, when they step back over that rail it takes a tremendous amount of courage”
I salute Sergeant Briggs!
Photo: The San Francisco Chronicle, John Storey
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Seen in Cambridge today :D
Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.
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UK grading system
75-100 A+
70-74 A
64-69 A-
60-63 B+
55-59 B
50-54 B-
46-49 C+
43-45 C
38-42 C-
35-37 D
0-34Time to move to the UK
Dude I would kill for that grading scale
wait, so what is it in america then?
100 A+
95 A
90 A-
86-89 B+
85 B
80 B-
76-79 C+
75 C
70 C-
65-69 D
Anything below that is an F
is that real??
yup
Yup.
I’m confused, we don’t even have minus or plus grades… And at A level you need 80 for an A.
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ITS A GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPY WITH THE EEVEELUTIONS
IT’S A GOLDEN RETREEVEE.
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True facts about sloths [x]
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Liquid is the classical state of matter with a definite volume but no fixed shape.
cats are liquid
How the fuck do cats work.
FUN FACT: I read in the books about cats that i have, and as long as their heads fit through a space, they can manuveur the rest of their bodies to fit as well.
Isn’t that what their whiskers are for? To judge if their head/body will fit?
Yep. It’s also why they generally don’t like being wet, their fur and whiskers cling to their body and it’s like being touched all over/losing your sense of space.
kitty science
fucking cats.
