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Soldier feeding a kitty. (Image credits: imgur.com)

Two Norwegian guys rescuing a baby lamb drowning in the ocean. (Image credits: imgur.com)

A man carries puppies back inside their house as other dogs stay on the roof at a flooded area in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines (Image credits: news.nationalpost.com)

A villager carries kittens on a basket towards dry land as he wades through floodwaters, followed by the mother of the kittens. (Image credits: newshopper.sulekha.com)

Free Meals for the Homeless. (Image credits: reddit.com)

Lily Robinson’s letter to Sainsbury’s asking why tiger bread wasn’t called giraffe bread and witty and friendly reply from Customer Manager Chris King.  (Image credits: dailymail.co.uk)

Afghan man offers tea to thirsty fighting American soldiers. Notice the second cup in his hand and another soldier in the background. (Image credits: imgur.com)

Dry Cleaners Offers Unemployed Assistance. (Image credits: quipster.wordpress.com)

At 40 degrees Celsius in Australia, it was so hot for a week that Koalas were asking people for water.  (Image credits:panoramio.com)

Track Star’s Team Effort
After winning the state title for the 1600 meter race, Ohio track star Meghan Vogel intentionally finished in last place in the 3200 meter race by carrying an injured competitor over the finish line.

Neighbor’s Lemonade Fundraiser
When 8-year-old Johnny Karlinchak saw his neighbor’s house crushed by a 60-foot-oak, he ran to his piggy bank and emptied its contents into his neighbor’s hands. Unfortunately, the $1.25 would not cover Elissa Myers’ $500 deductible so Johnny took to what he knew best â€" selling lemonade â€" to cover the deficit.

French Fry Brother’s Kind Offering
While in China, Jason Loose, who is now known as “French Fry Brother,” sat down to chat with a homeless woman and offered her some of his fries. Loose’s random act of kindness, caught on camera by a passerby, made waves among Chinese microblogging sites for his altruism.

tingali naay tawo sa pinas nga mas swerte kay sa tawo sa merika kay layo sa paranoia ang dia diri.

And he didn't think much of it, either. Anaya told El Pais:

"I didn't deserve to win it. I did what I had to do. He was the rightful winner. He created a gap that I couldn't have closed if he hadn't made a mistake. As soon as I saw he was stopping, I knew I wasn't going to pass him."

His actions may not have won him the match, or the approval of his coach, but they did get him a few new fans.

On Facebook, more than 500 friend requests have come in since the generous act, Anaya wrote on his blog.


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Ivan Fernandez Anaya, Spanish Runner, Intentionally Loses Race So Opponent Can Win

03/01/2013

A Spanish runner has shown the world that sometimes, just sometimes, winning isn't everything.

Last month, Spanish athlete Ivan Fernandez Anaya impressed the world by giving up victory to do the right thing. According to El Pais, it happened as the 24-year-old raced a cross-country event in Burlada, Navarre on Dec. 2.

In second place to Abel Mutai, the Kenyan athlete who won a bronze medal in the London Olympics, Anaya suddenly had a chance to surge ahead. According to El Pais, Mutai mistakenly thought the end of the race came about 10 meters sooner than it did, and stopped running.

Then, he “looked back and saw the people telling him to keep going," Anaya told CNA. "But since he doesn't speak Spanish he didn't realize it."

So Anaya slowed, guiding Mutai to the actual finish line.

before then, mantinir lang usa ta ug athlete's foot dinhi sa tb.

would that some bickering grown men (in the words of cujo) here at tb would know how to blink first and be the nobler for it, much like this real great athlete. 

the greatest athlete i've come to know!  viva, IVAN FERNANDEZ ANAYA!

in the end, this is just a clash of egos.  with an unwilling audience.  whoever said that this story has fans?  tsk, tsk.

http://www.dailydawdle.com/

right, those cats are patient.  but they're holding the laptop hostage.

don't stop at pity, botoy.  go on to charity.  and keep quiet.

the problem with having kids when you're older is people mistake you for a grandfather.  it's not much of a problem really, this grandfather thing.  it's just that it may unfairly show because you can no longer carry kids like they're sacks of rice because you already have gout.

da, tagam lagi.

pormang magbaha na pod diay ni sa inyo sa españa, bai tigs.  arang dag-oma gyod sa kalangitan dinhi sa manila karon.  i expect the fury of santi's tail this weekend.

auf wiedersehen, adieu!

i hereby swear that henceforth i will refuse temptation to think of other animals in this weather report thread.    good girl na ko, okay?

boy, oh boy.  is he good, good, good.  heavenly.  i'm swooning with pride.  and do i love figure skating.  solo or pairs, it's the only competition i watch. 

Sept. 13, 2013: A man balances on a wire during the International Highline Meeting on Monte Piana near Misurina, Italy, on Sept. 10. The second edition of the Slackline festival runs until Sept. 14.

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Sept. 13, 2013: An alms offering was organized for 10,000 monks in Bangkok for helping disaster victims & relieving suffering in Thailand’s southern provinces. The event was organised by the office of National Buddhism, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, police & other organisations.

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Sept. 13, 2013: An Indian Hindu devotee carries an image of the elephant-headed god Ganesha for immersion in the holy river of Ganges during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Kolkata, India, on Sept. 11.

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Sept. 13, 2013: Pilgrims travel through Podlasie, Poland, on Sept. 10. The group came from Bialystok in the eastern part of the country. During these pilgrimages, young girls always carry the big wooden cross.

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Sept. 13, 2013: A man shaves outside his hut in a slum inhabited by a Roma community in the Craica neighborhood of Baia Mare, Romania, on Sept. 5. The local government plans to demolish the Craica slum & move hundreds of residents to a new housing estate of 500 modular homes to be set up on the outskirts of the city.

Given Francis' wry sense of humor and willingness to regularly ditch speeches prepared for him, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said he wants the faithful to know the difference between a pontifical joke and an encyclical, a clever quip in a homily and infallible teaching.

"There are different genres of expression, some are magisterial and official, others are more pastoral," Lombardi told The Associated Press. "They have a different doctrinal value."


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Pope Francis wears an indigenous headdress given to him by Ubirai Matos from the Pataxo tribe. (AP Photo/L’Osservatore Romano)

â€"Francis was asked June 7 why he chose to live in the Vatican hotel rather than the fancier Apostolic Palace where his predecessors lived. "If I was living alone, isolated, it wouldn't be good for me," he told students of Jesuit schools. "A professor asked me the same question, 'Why don't you go and live there (in the papal apartments)'? And I replied: 'Listen to me professor, it is for psychiatric reasons.'"

â€"The pope has urged nuns and sisters to be like joyful mothers to the church, caring for its flock, and not act like they're "old maids." ''It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful," he lamented during his Oct. 4 visit to a cloistered convent in Assisi. "They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!"

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

THE VICAR OF CHRIST SAID WHAT?

Sometimes, Francis' one-liners don't warrant Vatican clarification, but they're worth repeating simply because they came from the lips of the Successor of Peter, Vicar of Christ, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church:

â€" Francis urged the church to "strip" itself of its worldy attachment to wealth during his Oct. 4 trip to Assisi and focus instead on the basics of Christ's teachings. "You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?'" he asked rhetorically. "In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians."

"The church isn't an NGO, it's a story of love," Francis told the bank's staff in the pews. "But there are the IOR folks here, excuse me, OK? Everything is necessary, offices are necessary, OK, but they're only necessary up to a certain point: as a help to this story of love. But when the organization loses this primary place, when the love is gone, the poor church becomes an NGO. And this isn't the way to go."

Archbishop Angelo Becciu, under secretary of the Vatican secretariat of state, told the Vatican newspaper a few days later that Francis was by no means hinting that he might shut down the Vatican bank.

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SHOULD THE VATICAN BANK BE SAVED?

On April 24, Francis invited members of the Vatican bank to join him for Mass in the hotel. The Institute for Religious Works, as the bank is known, has been plagued by scandals â€" most recently over the arrest of a Vatican monsignor on charges he tried to smuggle some 20 million euro ($26 million) into Italy from Switzerland without declaring it at customs.

Given the scandals, the arrival of a reform-minded, non-nonsense pope has prompted a flurry of speculation that Francis might shut the bank down. So imagine the headlines that followed his April 24 homily, when he lamented how the church can sometimes become too bureaucratic, too much like an aid group, and that bureaucracies are necessary up to a point.

Rosica issued a lengthy "explanatory note" a few days later after being inundated with questions about whether Francis was changing church doctrine on salvation. He noted that church teaching also holds that "those who through no fault of their own" don't know about Jesus but seek God and try to do his will can also attain eternal salvation.

"Always keep in mind the audience and context of Pope Francis' homilies," Rosica cautioned. "His words are not spoken in the context of a theological faculty or academy nor in interreligious dialogue or debate. He speaks in the context of Mass."

CAN ATHEISTS BE SAVED?

One of the novelties introduced by Francis has been his daily 7 a.m. Mass in the Vatican hotel, to which groups and individuals are invited. Francis delivers homilies each day, the contents of which are summarized by Vatican Radio. On May 22, he caused no shortage of confusion when he suggested that even atheists could find salvation.

According to church teaching, the Catholic Church holds the "fullness of the means of salvation" â€" a message that has long been taken to mean that only Catholics can find salvation. But in his homily, Francis said: "The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!"

But the Rev. Thomas Rosica, who helps with Vatican media relations, later said the interview didn't reflect Francis' real words. He said Scalfari neither recorded the conversation nor took notes, reconstructing the conversation from memory and printing it as a verbatim interview. The Vatican doesn't dispute the overall thrust of the interview, which Scalfari said he submitted to Francis for review and which the Vatican newspaper reprinted verbatim. But Rosica said the purported "mystical" experience recounted by Repubblica after the election didn't happen, though Francis himself has said previously and in public that "I didn't want to be pope."

DID FRANCIS REALLY CONSIDER TURNING DOWN THE JOB?

In an interview with the Rome daily La Repubblica, editor Eugenio Scalfari quoted the pope as saying he was "seized by a great anxiety" moments after his election and asked the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel to give him a few minutes time to think things over.

"To make it go away and relax, I closed my eyes and made every thought disappear, even the thought of refusing to accept the position, as the liturgical procedure allows," he was quoted as saying. "At a certain point I was filled with a great light. It lasted a moment, but to me it seemed very long. Then the light faded, I got up suddenly and walked into the room where the cardinals were waiting." The pope was quoted as saying he signed the acceptance form and went out on the balcony to be introduced to the world as Pope Francis.

Casual pope puts Vatican on alert with quips

Associated Press
NICOLE WINFIELD
09 October 2013


AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" Pope Francis has grabbed headlines with his off-the-cuff homilies, crowd-pleasing one-liners and lengthy interviews during which he has pontificated on everything from the church's "obsession" with rules to how he won't judge gays. But his chattiness has gotten him into some trouble, and the Vatican has gone into damage-control mode to clarify, correct or put his comments into context. Here's a look at some of Francis' more eyebrow-raising comments, and the efforts by the Vatican's spin doctors to address them.

sad, sad, sad.

a quarter to seven pm here in manila, and the thunderstorm and heavy rains have begun.

eeekkk.  asa man ta order ani?  naay congressman akong tagaan as christmas gift...

tushie?  what animal species is that?

hehehe, what you perceive as blue is actually violet, and brown for you is actually green.  conclusion: you have technicolor balls.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 10, 2013, 05:25:31 PM
So these here blue balls are actually green? I'm color-blind, you know.

in which case, you must be looking at tennis balls instead of monkey balls.

what do they feed those?

aha!  methinks that's a photoshopped photo.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 10, 2013, 05:13:29 PM
Don't be coy with me, CJ. You know your pastels, don't you?

oh, yes, i'm a pastels expert.  try mint cream, honeydew, misty rose, peach puff and blanched almond.  coy?  that's coy soy green.

square dance.  how stateside.