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  • Catseye3C Offline
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    Scottish Sportscaster Gives Play by Play Commentary of a Battle of Wills Between His Dogs Over a Chew Toy

    https://laughingsquid.com/commentary-of-dogs-battling-over-toy/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=laughing_squid_blog_posts_2020_04_10&utm_term=2020-04-12

    Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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    • Catseye3C Catseye3

      Scottish Sportscaster Gives Play by Play Commentary of a Battle of Wills Between His Dogs Over a Chew Toy

      https://laughingsquid.com/commentary-of-dogs-battling-over-toy/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=laughing_squid_blog_posts_2020_04_10&utm_term=2020-04-12

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      George K
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      @Catseye3

      "No mercy!" LOL.

      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        https://laughingsquid.com/police-officers-escort-lost-ducklings/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=laughing_squid_blog_posts_2020_04_13&utm_term=2020-04-13

        Two Houston Police Officers Escort Lost Ducklings Back to Their Mother While Monitoring Closed Parks

        Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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        • Catseye3C Catseye3

          https://laughingsquid.com/police-officers-escort-lost-ducklings/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=laughing_squid_blog_posts_2020_04_13&utm_term=2020-04-13

          Two Houston Police Officers Escort Lost Ducklings Back to Their Mother While Monitoring Closed Parks

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          @Catseye3 Too funny!

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          • George KG Offline
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            Austin school district deployed over 100 school buses equipped with WiFi for students without internet access

            https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/us/austin-wifi-busses-independent-school-district-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3S0uOHb0eTvS06_m561M5VYdmZCD_J7ZmaJzL0Vd9x_fJKuOVZrAWMyM4

            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              For Mik:

              https://laughingsquid.com/staircase-that-stores-wine-bottles/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=laughing_squid_blog_posts_2020_04_15&utm_term=2020-04-15

              Cleverly Designed Staircase That Uses Dead Space Under the Steps to Safely Store 156 Bottles of Wine

              Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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              • MikM Offline
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                More that 700 Bald Eagle nests reported in Ohio. This is great.

                https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/04/23/bald-eagles-ohio-more-than-700-nests-recorded-2020-census/3010247001/

                "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                • MikM Mik

                  More that 700 Bald Eagle nests reported in Ohio. This is great.

                  https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/04/23/bald-eagles-ohio-more-than-700-nests-recorded-2020-census/3010247001/

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                  @Mik
                  I absolutely love having bald eagles in my area. I'm not superstitious or prone to seeing omens, but whenever one flies over my truck or my house, it feels like a good day.

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                  • jon-nycJ Online
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                    Born during the 1918 flu pandemic, she beat this one.

                    Look how youthful her face is.

                    https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/woman-101-beat-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

                    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                      Born during the 1918 flu pandemic, she beat this one.

                      Look how youthful her face is.

                      https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/woman-101-beat-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

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                      @jon-nyc said in Positive News Thread:

                      Born during the 1918 flu pandemic, she beat this one.

                      Look how youthful her face is.

                      https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/woman-101-beat-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

                      https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/coronavirus-103-year-old-woman-becomes-oldest-person-to-beat-disease/ar-BB113Qy7

                      https://newyork-cbslocal-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/04/11/102-year-old-woman-recovers-from-coronavirus/amp/?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASDAAQE%3D#aoh=15881722143061&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fnewyork.cbslocal.com%2F2020%2F04%2F11%2F102-year-old-woman-recovers-from-coronavirus%2F

                      https://www-goodmorningamerica-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.goodmorningamerica.com/amp/wellness/story/102-year-woman-beat-covid-19-70329256?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASDAAQE%3D#aoh=15881722143061&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodmorningamerica.com%2Fwellness%2Fstory%2F102-year-woman-beat-covid-19-70329256

                      https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/grandfather-101-becomes-the-oldest-person-in-the-country-to-beat-coronavirus-after-a-two-week-battle-with-the-deadly-illness/ar-BB12pw0d

                      Live to 100. That seems to be the ticket. Once you've passed the century mark, you're golden!

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                        https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-york-hospitals-ppe-rhonda-roland-shearer/2020/05/05/d8e4bc16-8bb6-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html

                        Amazing, generous woman tapped $600k of home equity line of credit to provide free PPE to NYC healthcare workers and now turning her attention to the homeless. And this ain’t her first rodeo either. Shi did similar things right after 9/11, having personally funded, sourced, and distributed aid to the first responders and the needy at the time as well.

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                          https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/05/maryland-couple-schmidt-baking-company-virginia-i-95/9110543002/

                          A couple stuck on an interstate highway due to the recent snowstorm saw a bakery truck also stranded, so they picked up the phone and asked the baking company whether they can distribute the baked goods from the truck. The baking company’s owner got back to them in 20 minutes and instructed the truck driver to open the truck and distribute food to other stranded travelers.

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                            https://www.npr.org/2023/11/27/1214197904/millions-of-u-s-apples-were-almost-left-to-rot-now-theyll-go-to-hungry-families

                            Millions of U.S. apples were almost left to rot. Now, they'll go to hungry families

                            A relief program in West Virginia donated its surplus apples to hunger-fighting charities
                            .
                            This apple relief program, covered under Section 32 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1935, purchased $10 million worth of apples from a dozen West Virginia growers. Those apples were then donated to hunger-fighting charities across the country from South Carolina and Michigan all the way out to The Navajo Nation.
                            .
                            A nonprofit called The Farmlink Project took care of more than half the state's surplus – 10 million pounds of apples filling nearly 300 trucks.
                            ...
                            "People in need got nutritious food out of this program. And that's the most important thing" ...

                            I quite believe that the USA as a nation produce more than enough food to feed everyone in the nation, that some go hungry only because of distribution problems. This article shows what results we can get when some distribution problems are worked out.

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                              Aqua Letifer
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                              For WV, a big problem is the mountains. Everything from food distribution to wifi and cellular connections. There are huge sections of the state in which it's effectively still 1985.

                              Please love yourself.

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                                Had a friend who owned two pieces of property in WV. The first parcel was 180 acres on a mountain and the second parcel was 40 acres in a valley 25 miles away...That took almost an hour to drive...

                                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                  For WV, a big problem is the mountains. Everything from food distribution to wifi and cellular connections. There are huge sections of the state in which it's effectively still 1985.

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                                  @Aqua-Letifer said in Positive News Thread:

                                  For WV, a big problem is the mountains. Everything from food distribution to wifi and cellular connections. There are huge sections of the state in which it's effectively still 1985.1885.

                                  FIFY

                                  "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                                  • MikM Mik

                                    @Aqua-Letifer said in Positive News Thread:

                                    For WV, a big problem is the mountains. Everything from food distribution to wifi and cellular connections. There are huge sections of the state in which it's effectively still 1985.1885.

                                    FIFY

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                                    Aqua Letifer
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                                    @Mik said in Positive News Thread:

                                    @Aqua-Letifer said in Positive News Thread:

                                    For WV, a big problem is the mountains. Everything from food distribution to wifi and cellular connections. There are huge sections of the state in which it's effectively still 1985.1885.

                                    FIFY

                                    Yes and they both work I suppose since not much changed there in that time exactly.

                                    Please love yourself.

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                                      We drove up to a ski resort in WV last year. I was struck by all the cattle ranches halfway up the mountain, and the huge stocks of firewood all over the place.

                                      Education is extremely important.

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