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Tias posted:

Thank you comrade Goat

Karia posted:

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Dammit, you quoted it before I improved it!

wizzardstaff posted:

the kids are all right I stole this

Zeroisanumber posted:

Only thing that would've been better is if the goat had taken a poo poo in the car.

quote:

Health authorities have declared Africa free of the wild polio virus after decades of efforts, a major step in the campaign to eradicate the crippling viral disease worldwide.

Tuesday's historic announcement by the African Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication during a World Health Organization (WHO) event came four years after the continent's last case was reported in northern Nigeria.

The commission, an independent body, confirmed that all 47 countries in the WHO's Africa region have eradicated the disease that attacks the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis within hours.

quote:

That book is "Fauja Singh Keeps Going," published Tuesday by Penguin Random House. It tells the real-life story of Fauja Singh, a British Sikh centenarian who in 2011 became the oldest person believed to have run a marathon.
It's the first children's picture book by a major publisher to center on a Sikh story, according to the author, and was produced by an all-South Asian team.

[...]

The story begins in the humble village in Punjab, India, where Fauja Singh was born and raised in the early 1900s. Color illustrations by UK-based artist Baljinder Kaur help bring the story to life.
The book chronicles the challenges Fauja Singh faced as a young child, from the birth defect that prevented him from walking until age 5 to how his disability hindered him from getting an education to his persistent efforts to build up his own strength.

[...]

"I'm now 108 years old, which means I'm probably more than 100 years older than you. Can you believe that?" the message from Fauja Singh reads.
Though Fauja Singh does not know how to read and does not speak English, Simran Jeet Singh said he played a role in shaping the story. Singh and his team communicated with the centenarian through his running coach Harmander Singh, who would translate the text for him into Punjabi.

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As the coronavirus pandemic continues, a growing share of Americans say they are regularly wearing a mask or face covering in stores and other businesses. More than eight-in-ten U.S. adults (85%) say they have done so all or most of the time over the past month, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted Aug. 3 to 16. When asked the same question in early June, 65% of Americans said they had been regularly wearing masks.

Tunicate posted:

GOAT right there

quote:

Charles “Chuck” Feeney, 89, who cofounded airport retailer Duty Free Shoppers with Robert Miller in 1960, amassed billions while living a life of monklike frugality. As a philanthropist, he pioneered the idea of Giving While Living—spending most of your fortune on big, hands-on charity bets instead of funding a foundation upon death. Since you can't take it with you—why not give it all away, have control of where it goes and see the results with your own eyes?
...
Over the last four decades, Feeney has donated more than $8 billion to charities, universities and foundations worldwide through his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies. When I first met him in 2012, he estimated he had set aside about $2 million for his and his wife's retirement.
...
While his philanthropy is out of business, its influence reverberates worldwide thanks to its big bets on health, science, education and social action. Where did $8 billion go? Feeney gave $3.7 billion to education, including nearly $1 billion to his alma mater, Cornell, which he attended on the G.I. Bill. More than $870 million went to human rights and social change, like $62 million in grants to abolish the death penalty in the U.S. and $76 million for grassroots campaigns supporting the passage of Obamacare. He gave more than $700 million in gifts to health ranging from a $270 million grant to improve public healthcare in Vietnam to a $176 million gift to the Global Brain Health Institute at the University of California, San Francisco.

Noblesse Obliged posted:

posting West rear end Pussy in the happy thread

Kitfox88 posted:

Yeah, cats enjoy doing stuff with the 'family' a lot of the time so if everyone's sitting on a rug and looking in a certain direction for a little bit, it's not odd for kitty to want to join in, hence kitty prayer rugs.

Tias posted:

Obligatory Happy Islam Cat Fable Time!

Once Muezza (or Muʿizza; Arabic: معزة‎) was the prophet Muhammad's favorite cat. Muhammad awoke one day to the sounds of the adhan. Preparing to attend prayer, he began to dress himself; however, he soon discovered his cat Muezza sleeping on the sleeve of his prayer robe. Rather than wake her, he used a pair of scissors to cut the sleeve off, leaving the cat undisturbed. Petting it nine times, he gave the blessing to all it's children that they would have nine lives and always land on their feet

Bust Rodd posted:

holy cow is that where the 9 lives thing comes from originally? or does 9 lives predate their holy texts and it gets worked into other ancient histories?

very cool!

Tias posted:

Obligatory Happy Islam Cat Fable Time!

Once Muezza (or Muʿizza; Arabic: معزة‎) was the prophet Muhammad's favorite cat. Muhammad awoke one day to the sounds of the adhan. Preparing to attend prayer, he began to dress himself; however, he soon discovered his cat Muezza sleeping on the sleeve of his prayer robe. Rather than wake her, he used a pair of scissors to cut the sleeve off, leaving the cat undisturbed. Petting it nine times, he gave the blessing to all it's children that they would have nine lives and always land on their feet

Tias posted:

Obligatory Happy Islam Cat Fable Time!

Once Muezza (or Muʿizza; Arabic: معزة‎) was the prophet Muhammad's favorite cat. Muhammad awoke one day to the sounds of the adhan. Preparing to attend prayer, he began to dress himself; however, he soon discovered his cat Muezza sleeping on the sleeve of his prayer robe. Rather than wake her, he used a pair of scissors to cut the sleeve off, leaving the cat undisturbed. Petting it nine times, he gave the blessing to all it's children that they would have nine lives and always land on their feet

Karia posted:

I've heard that extended to say that that's why cats have M-shaped patterns on their forehead fur, in honor of Muhammad. Then again, there's also the exact same story about a Chinese emperor and his favorite male concubine, so it's probably apocryphal.

Kitfox88 posted:

Dawwww

Also this happened last night and it's pretty banger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srZdDAJbHfc

Megillah Gorilla posted:

That's a 3 hour video.

Was there any particular part that was blessed?

An insane mind posted:

What if being snarky makes them happy?

Normy posted:

They clearly like the concert as a whole no need to be snarky in the happy thread.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Not actually being snarky, just asking because "this happened last night" suggested a specific event and I wasn't sure if the OP had just forgotten to add a timestamp.

Kitfox88 posted:

Dawwww

Also this happened last night and it's pretty banger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srZdDAJbHfc

al-azad posted:

My boy announced on his Facebook in 2016 that he would do ICE cases pro bono and last year he purposefully missed every deadline with a client who was trying to evict a man with four kids on Christmas until she was forced to fire him and threaten a bar complaint but it was enough time to give the guy a chance to find a new place and like... there are good people in the world.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Not actually being snarky, just asking because "this happened last night" suggested a specific event and I wasn't sure if the OP had just forgotten to add a timestamp.