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An 11-year-old from New Jersey had his dreams come true when he got the opportunity to help deliver the weather forecast on live TV.
On April 12, Ryland Mishura from Mullica Hill appeared on an 11 a.m. Weather Channel segment with meteorologists Jim Cantore, Maria LaRosa and Alex Wallace.
The opportunity came courtesy of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Ryland has a severe case of isovaleric acidemia, a metabolic disorder that has life-threatening complications for the fifth grader.
Ryland’s wish involved taking a tour of the Weather Channel studio and meeting his on-camera heroes. “I’m very interested in the weather, and it really inspires me,” he told The Huffington Post, adding that the studio tour was particularly exciting.
“It was like a dream because I never saw it before, and it looked so unreal,” he said.
Ryland sat down with a producer for about five minutes to look at the technology and learn how to deliver the forecast before going live. The 11-year-old said it wasn’t too difficult to get a hang of it, and he felt comfortable on camera.
“I felt very excited because this is a very good chance for me to do my future job,” said Ryland.
The experience was also very exciting for his mom, Jennifer Mishura.
“When Ryland was born, fear took over my life. There were too many things that could go wrong, too much to worry about,” she told HuffPost. “It was not until his first birthday that I looked into his eyes and made the decision to let go of fear and just love this kid. Love and trusting that he would be OK.”
She added, “I encouraged him with a positive attitude at all times, in every situation. Ever since then, he has grown and amazed his doctors. Today, if I start to worry, Ryland reminds me that everything will be OK.”
Jennifer and her husband felt very proud watching their son on The Weather Channel and even became a bit emotional. “It was a truly magical moment unfolding before our eyes,” she said.
The mom hopes people are inspired by Ryland’s story. “I hope people can feel his love and passion from the video and follow their hearts to fulfill their dreams,” she said.
The Mishuras expressed their gratitude to the Make-A-Wish foundation for making their son’s dream come true.
“We have always believed that wishes are limited only by a child’s imagination,” President and Chief Executive Officer of Make-A-Wish New Jersey, Tom Weatherall, said in a statement. “Ryland’s wish is just one example of the unique experiences our wish kids dream of. It is the ongoing efforts made day in and day out by our chapter staff, our volunteers, other Make-A-Wish chapters, our national office and our countless partners that allow kids like Ryland to choose a wish of this nature and see it come to fruition.”
He added, “And of course, none of this would have been possible without our friends at The Weather Channel. They embraced every aspect of Ryland’s interests and truly made him feel like a star!”
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It was April 1997 when doctors told Austin Prario’s parents that their newborn son might not live to see his first birthday.
Nearly 20 years later, the Rhode Island native has not only proven that prediction wrong ― he’s completed the 121st Boston Marathon.
Prario made his way across the finish line of the race on Monday as cheers erupted from the crowd. His doctors believe he may be the first person with his type of heart condition to complete the famously challenging 26.2-mile race, which he finished in just over 6 hours and 14 minutes.
Prario was born with a rare congenital heart defect that prevents the muscle’s fourth chamber from functioning properly, meaning his heart might operate at 75 percent of its capacity or less under stress.
“[Doctors] told us that with surgery, Austin could lead a normal life, but that he would never be a varsity athlete or be able to finish something like the Boston Marathon,” Prario’s dad, Dave Prario, told Runner’s World earlier last week.
That message didn’t sit well with him. He was determined to have his son cross the Boston Marathon finish line one way or another.
In 1998, Dave Prario ran the Boston Marathon to raise money for the Boston Children’s Hospital, which had diagnosed his son just one year earlier. He carried the 1-year-old boy across the finish line while wearing a shirt that read “You gotta have heart!”
Austin Prario had a difficult first 18 months of life, undergoing three open heart surgeries that left him with a scar running the length of his chest.
Nevertheless, he defied his doctors’ predictions for his life and became an avid athlete and sports fanatic. He ran cross-country in elementary school ― despite losing every race ― and went on to play a few sports in high school. Today, he’s a sophomore at Community College of Rhode Island and an assistant track coach at a local high school.
Prario made the decision to follow in his father’s footsteps last summer. His cardiologist OK’d the ambitious endeavor, recommending at least two years of training to prepare. But he didn’t want to wait any longer.
Less than a year of training later, Austin has defied all odds. He completed the course by early Monday afternoon before taking another finish line photo next to his dad, who ran the race as a guide for mobility impaired runners.
Prario also raised more than $17,000 for Boston Children’s Hospital to honor the doctors who saved his life ― and was 90 percent toward his $20,000 goal as of Monday afternoon.
“This is for all the people that said I could do it and for all the people that said I couldn’t,” he told Runner’s World last week. “I only have one life and doctors fixed it to the best of their ability. Why not show them everything I can do with it?”
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President Donald Trump’s top advisers will meet on Tuesday to discuss whether to recommend that he withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, a White House official said on Monday.
The accord, agreed upon by nearly 200 countries in Paris in 2015, aims to limit planetary warming in part by slashing carbon dioxide and other emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. As part of the deal, the United States committed to reducing its emissions by between 26 and 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.
Trump in the past has said the United States should “cancel” the deal but he has been mostly quiet on the issue since he was elected.
A White House official said Trump’s aides would “discuss the options, with the goal of providing a recommendation to the president about the path forward.”
White House officials, led by the National Economic Council, have recently been asking publicly-traded energy companies for advice on whether to stay in the agreement.
Major publicly traded coal companies such as Cloud Peak Energy and Peabody Energy confirmed to Reuters that they have told White House advisers it is in their interests for the United States to remain in the Paris agreement to ensure there was a global role for high-efficiency coal plants.
“By remaining in the Paris Agreement, albeit with a much different pledge on emissions, you can help shape a more rational international approach to climate policy,” Cloud Peak CEO Colin Marshall wrote in the letter dated April 6.
The advisers expected to attend Tuesday’s meeting included Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Perry, a former Texas governor, at his confirmation hearings in January softened a previous position that the science behind climate change was “phony.”
Last week, Pruitt, a former Oklahoma Attorney General, said the United States should “exit” the agreement because it was a “bad deal” for the country.
The meeting comes ahead of a summit of the Group of Seven wealthy nations in late May, which White House spokesman Sean Spicer said was the deadline for the decision.
Politico on Friday first reported a possible meeting of Trump advisers.
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Whether you binge-watched the Netflix series produced by Selena Gomez or read the book by Jay Asher, “13 Reasons Why” is one of the most gripping tales of teenage suicide.
If you haven’t watched the show or read the book, be warned there are spoilers below.
“13 Reasons Why” follows the story of a high school student, Hannah Baker, who kills herself and leaves behind cassette tapes for her classmates that chronicle her life leading up to her death.
The ending that’s familiar to fans of the show and book concludes with Hannah’s death, but it turns out there was an alternate version of her story. Originally, Asher had Hannah survive her attempted suicide, largely because a family member of his own had experienced a similar scenario. However, Asher ultimately decided that having Hannah survive would detract from the seriousness of the subject matter.
Watch the video above to learn more about the alternate ending.
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