I went to Fred Meyer for milk and found udi's on clearance. I bought 2 packages of hot dog buns and cinnamon rolls. Grapes were on sale, as were organic pears and broccoli. I also got some lunchmeat on clearance. I spent $35.69.
Wednesday morning I ran into QFC for corndogs & fries since I was spending the day with a friend and providing lunch for the dozen kids between us! I setn $8.97 on those things.
Friday DD2 and I shopped at QFC for birthday food. We bought lemonade, chips, strawberries, licorice, jack cheese, and pretzels for the party. I bought cucumbers, bananas, mlk, apples & potatoes for regular use. I also found silk yogurt and pita bread on clearance and had a coupon for Brookside treats. I also bought a turkey for thanksgiving. I spent $51.49.
I was back at QFC Saturday to pick up birthday cupcakes and I found some clearance potatoes, almond milk yogurt, and bell peppers. I also bought puffs for DS since we're on our last container. I also bought apple juice, a veggie tray, and those cupcakes (not pictured). I spent $20.43.
Finally, we stopped at Grocery Outlet for an emergency potty stop Sunday. I found 6-packs of organic fruit roll-up for $0.99 so I bought a case of 12. I also found organic chicken thighs for $2.49/lb! I bought 3 packages. I spent $28.56 altogether.
A good week! I'm kicking myself though. I should have bought every package of the organic chicken thighs for that price. Oh well. My freezer is so frosted over I just didn't want to deal with finding space for it.


Is there a waitlist? How long? How do I get on it?
Why does the center use mixed age grouping in the preschool classrooms?
What is the center's child illness policy?
What holidays does the center observe/close?
Can I have directions to the center?
Do you accept WPA or POC vouchers? Do you have any subsidy programs?
Do you accept community enrollment?
Does the center take children on field trips?
What is the center's policy on discipline?
There is currently a waitlist for all age groups.
The average wait time varies depending on the age of your child, center priority, when you are looking for care and when you registered. We recommend that you call the center directly to discuss specific wait times. An estimate for Infants is usually 12-18 months, 6-12 months for toddlers, and 6-9 months for twos and preschool. These are just average waits and again, may be different when weighing variables discussed above.
To get on the waitlist we recommend that you come to the center for a tour first. You would then fill out a Pre-Enrollment Registration Form (which can be found in the documents section) and turn that in with a check for $150. This fee is non-refundable.
Bright Horizons beleives in the benefits of mixed age groupings. Mixed age groups allow children to experience a family style setting of which every one is not the same age. There are numerous social as well as cognitive benefits of the mix, including learning from or teaching peers.
1. In the event of inclement weather the center will be closed if the Federal Government/NOAA is closed.
2. If the Federal Government/NOAA observes a Liberal Leave Policy or Unscheduled Leave, the center will open 1 hour late. If the Federal Government observes Liberal Leave but Montgomery County Government is closed, the center will be closed.
3. If the Federal Government/NOAA is opening late, we will similarly open late.
4. If the Federal Government/NOAA closes early, we will close 1 hour after.
Bright Horizons' policy on child illness is based on the Model Health Care Policies developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Mild illness is common among children. Children spread infections before showing any symptomes, therefore there is no purpose in exclusion if the child can be kept comfortable and participate in daily activities. Exclusion from the center is sometimes necessary to reduce the transmission of illness or because we are not adequately able to meet the needs of a sick child (to see specific circumstances, view the child illness policy in full in the documents section).
If your child is sent home ill, you will have 90 minutes to arrange for pick-up. Your child may not return to the center until they are symptom free for 24 hours or cleared from a physicain with written notice.
The center closes when the Federal Government is closed. In addition, we close for four Professional Development Days a year.
From the Metro: The NOAA center is located on the red line at the Silver Spring stop. Once exiting the metro make a left and walk under the metro over pass. Make a left onto the path directly after the end of the overpass and follow it between the two buildings. When the path ends at East West Highway make a left and walk up East West Highway until you reach a large sculpture of a hand. That is our building. Enter the building and take the elevator to floor number 1. Get off the elevator and look for glass doors to the terrace. Go out the doors and walk to the right until you reach the center.
From North of Silver Spring: Take 95 to 495 towards Silver Spring. Get off at the exit for Colesville Rd (Rt 29) towards Silver Spring. Follow Colesville Rd for approximately 3 miles. When you pass the Silver Spring Metro Station East West Highway will be at the next light. Make a left onto East West Highway. You will see four large office buildings on your left this is the NOAA complex. We are in building three; there is a large hand sculpture in front of our building. The garage entrance is just beyond the hand. Turn in find a space with a parking meter (some spaces are metered and some are permit only), these spaces are primarily located on G2, G3, and G4. Take the elevator to floor number 1. Get off the elevator and look for glass doors to the terrace. Go out the doors and walk to the right until you reach the center.
From 270: Take 270 to 495 towards Silver Spring. Get on 495. Get off at the exit for Georgia Ave towards Silver Spring. Follow Georgia for approximately 1/2 mile. Make a right on 16th street. Follow 16th Street until you get to the light for East West Highway (about ½ mile). Make a left onto East West Highway. Follow East West through one light you will see four large office buildings on your left this is the NOAA complex. We are in building three; there is a large hand sculpture in front of our building. The garage entrance is just beyond the hand. Turn in find a space with a parking meter (some spaces are metered and some are permit only), these spaces are primarily located on G2, G3, and G4. Take the elevator to floor number 1. Get off the elevator and look for glass doors to the terrace. Go out the doors and walk to the right until you reach the center.
The center charges tuition on a monthly basis. Payment is due in advance of service on the 25th of the prior month.
We do not accept credit cards, only check or money order. We also offer automatic deduction from a checking or savings account using an ACH account (EasyDraft).
We do not offer Part day care, but we do offer part week. This option is called Share Care.
A share care arrangement is one full-time enrollment spot, which is shared by two children who attend on different days of the week, in one room, to equal the full time spot. Shared care is offered in a 2/3 or a 1/4-day split. Each family pays a prorated tuition fee along with a tuition surcharge. Shared Care is the only part-time enrollment arrangement Little Explorers at NOAA offers.
We currently offer a discount if you have three children enrolled in the program. The discount would be applied to the oldest child's tuition and would be 10%.
No, we do not accept vouchers of any kind.
Our Board offers some tuition assistance. This assistance is provided based on the amount of money the board has received from fundraising and based on family need.
Yes we do. We have a priority system in place.
1. Siblings of children who have been enrolled in the program for 6 months or more.
We do occassionally plan field trips for preschool age children. These trips are usually in the surrounding area where the children can walk or take public transportation, for example, the Zoo. If a field trip is planned all families must sign off on permission slips. Adult to child ratios also change to 1:2, requiring parent volunteers.
We prefer to have vendors come into the center for all age groups as oppossed to planning field trips. For example, we usually have the Baltimore Zoo, the Baltimore Aquarium and Blue Sky Puppet Theater come to do shows at the center at least twice a year.
Finally, we have found it more organized and fun for families to sponsor "Family Days" at a location, such as the Pumpkin Farm, as oppossed to taking a field trip there, that way the whole family can enjoy the event together and get to know other families.
Bright Horizons' policy consistently emphasizes basic respect for the individual child. Young children are striving for understanding, independance, and self-control. Children learn exploring, experimenting and testing limits of their environment and expereinceing the consequences of their behavior. In this way, they begin to understand how the world works, their own limits, and appropriate assertiveness. Children learn self-control and how the world works in a relaxed, positive atmosphere of support and understanding that recognizes the child's struggle. Adults should view discipline as an important aspect of teaching and learning, but accept children as they are. Development is viewed as a growth process, with each age and stage having its own characteristics, its own challenges and needs. Through positive guidance of behavior and modeling, the faculty helps children to feel good about themselves and to behave in responsible ways.
*Provide realistic expectations for children's behavior.
The center is open for 12 hours daily (6:30 A.M. -6:30 P.M.). There are two care options, 10 hours of care daily and 12 hours of care daily. Each family chooses an option and each option cost a different rate. If you choose the 10 hour option, your family will choose 10 hours a day of which you will be able to use the center (for example 8-6-we will not staff for your child to be at the center any earlier then 8 or any later then 6, though the center is still open). If you choose the 12-hour option, you will be contracted for the full day (6:30a-6:30p).
Yes. There is a garage located directly underneath the building. If you are using the garage for drop-off and/or pick-up there are four, free spaces in the Garage on level G2. These spaces are 20 minute parking only. If you are coming to the center for a tour or a parent conference/event, we recommend parking in a paid space to ensure that you are not ticketed. There are numbered spaces in the garage. Remember your number and pay at the pay kiosks or using the parking app. The payment is $1 per hour.


For the Viennese Squash Rackets Federation, the Wiener Squash Rackets Verband, WSRV we are visiting all squash courts in Vienna. It's called the WSRV – Squash World Tour – Vienna Edition. We are playing matches there and rating the clubs in 5 categories: booking, reachability, facilities, court, price.
With only three more squash venues in Vienna to go, we want to finish hard! We will play 3 matches within one week starting at the Country & Sports Club Wien Nord in Floridsdorf. Arriving at the address, #teamorange was already there, not sure if Google Maps had fooled us. But behind an unappealing metal door, the huge sports club revealed.
Entering the venue, the squash court is on the right hand side. We turned on the lights as we were instructed by the friendly bar keeper and the flaws of the court where immediately exposed – we will address them later. But for now you need to know that it was incredibly slippery and that the side walls were totally slick.
In our warm up game we had great fun sliding around the court. Unfortunately we brought our Eye Rackets shoes instead of our ice skates… I wondered: Does my-squash.com sell those for courts like these as well?
The floor was my biggest issue. I had no grip at all! I couldn't make even one controlled shot. I was permanently sliding. My #teamyellow shoes were terribly dirty after the first few points, covered with dust. #teamorange on the other hand adapted well. He moved much better than me and managed to kinda control the rallies. He took the first game 11-7.
The slick side walls made it almost impossible for me to play a decent boast. If a boast made it to the front wall, it was rather much too high or in the middle of the court. Easily #teamorange advanced to a comfortable 2-0-lead taking game 2 11-4.
I knew that I recently turned a match around after being down 0-2 (notably the game results were exactly the same as in Alt Erlaa). But this time it was different. I was just a passenger on the ice ring. Game 3 went in the same direction: 6-1 for #teamorange was too big of a lead. Garbage behind the court in combination with the poor lighting make the ball disappear when it hits the back wall on the backhand side. Nevertheless I managed to get to 6-5. At 10-8 Joel took his chance and made his second match point to claim his second win on the WSRV Squash World Tour Vienna Edition – on the probably worst court I ever played on!
I still lead 7-2 on the Vienna Edition in total and I'm looking forward to play at my home club C19 this Thursday!
Reachability: Final stop of the U6 Floridsdorf. Then two stops with a bus 28A or 29A. Adding 7 minutes walk. 2/5 stars.
Facilities: The venue is nice and spacious. There is a Restaurant, even a small library. The locker room is clean, as well as the shower. A plant in the shower creates a slight rainforest feeling. 3,5/5 stars.
Court: The huge holes in the wooden side walls and the rusty nails the walls have been fixed with make a bad first impression. The vastly damaged front wall, the slippery floor, the cobwebby ceiling do not improve that impression. The slick side walls make it hard to play boasts. The lighting also could be better – one halogen lamp is missing. On the pro side there is a glass back wall and a small nick (#teamorange awarded 5/5 for the nick). The floor structure seems to be okay as well. 2,5/5 stars .
Price: 20 Euro for one hour of squash is too much for that court. 2,5/5 stars.
2,5 stars for Country & Sports Club Wien Nord!
The Eye Rackets S-Line Squash Shoes are very popular among squash players all over the globe. Many Pros use them like Karim Abdel Gawad, Paul Coll, Diego Elias, Declan James, Greg Marche, Miguel Rodriguez and many others.
Late in 2018 the popular shoes were introduced on the Squash World Tour. Our partner my-squash.com provided matching shoes for #teamorange and #teamyellow.
Obviously neon yellow and atomic peach are perfect fits for #teamyellow and #teamorange. The broad color line is a big plus for the shoe. Currently models in lightning blue, electric purple, ice white, night storm navy, black carbon and hot pink are available as well.
The shoe should be ordered one size bigger than usual, as it comes a bit small. The cut is a good fit for players with a wide forefoot. While #teamyellow is satisfied with the stability, #teamorange sometimes feels unstable in the Eye Rackets S-Line Squash Shoes.
After 3 months on the Squash World Tour the Eye Rackets S-Line Squash Shoes do not show any signs of breaking.
We are cooperating with the Viennese Squash Federation, the Wiener Squash Rackets Verband, WSRV. We are testing all the courts in Vienna on the WSRV – Squash World Tour – Vienna Edition. As we want to provide value, we are rating all the clubs in five categories: booking, reachability, facilities, court, price.
I needed only 3 more games to secure the first yellow triumph of 2019. I didn't want to leave something to chance, so I was there half an hour early. I took the time to become acclimatized and warmed up properly. At 7:30 I started hitting balls – #teamorange still wasn't in sight.
I agreed to extend to play a whole warmup game instead of only 10 points. As I played for the first time in years without my knee bandage, I thought it would help me too. Joel won and earned the right to serve.
Right from the beginning I was able to take a comfortable 8:3 lead, but #teamorange managed to equalize the score. It was pitched battle until the end – which was better for #teamyellow: 13-11. In game 2 I was able to take the lead and not lose it once: 11-9. The quality of our match wasn't as high as in Erdberg, but we had some decent rallies.
Now the table was set! I knew I needed only one more game to secure the overall win on the Vienna Edition. After the break I came back on court and played some of my best shots right away. For #teamorange on the other hand nothing seemed to work as planed… I secured game 3 with 11-8 and raised my fist to celebrate.
Personally I'm happy about the victory – and the result of 3-0. #teamyellow is now the Squash World Tour Champion of Vienna! Even more satisfying than the result is the fact that I did not wear my knee bandage.
Of course we will play all the remaining courts in Vienna as well to find out and tell you what they are like!
Booking: Only possible via phone. On the website it isn't even promoted that there are squash courts. 1 of 5 stars.
Reachability: Coming there by public transport is a bit tricky and it takes about 10 minutes walk from the U-Bahn station Spittelau or from the tram station Rampengasse. 3 of 5 stars.
Facilities: On several floors there is a well equipped fitness center, there are great wellness facilities and they even have sponsored hygiene products. There is a shop, a bar and extremely friendly stuff. The obvious result: 5 of 5 stars.
Court: 3 of their 6 courts have been renovated recently, so there are no bumps or holes. We played on one of the renovated courts. But unfortunately the walls stained the ball – we never experienced that before. The nick is also quite big. The lighting is good and the court is clean and generally speaking in good condition. But for the price we would expect an even better experience. 4 of 5 stars.
Price: 40 Euro is by far the highest price for one hour of squash in Vienna. 1 of 5 stars.
3 stars for Manhattan Fitness Nord!
The sixth WSRV – Squash World Tour – Vienna Edition match took place at Postsportverein Wien in the 17th district of Vienna. We both were curious about the venue because it's close to our homes. Even though I played tennis at a club right around the corner of the squash hall in my junior years, I have never checked out the squash courts. For both of us it was unknown territory.
Anyways – our game began and because our 10 warmup points did not do the trick warming us up, we started a bit rusty. The low ball bounce and the slippery floor favored playing drop shots – and thats how I won the big points in game 1 and 2 to take a 2-0 lead (11-8, 12-10). #teamorange was desperate as every drop I played seemed to work out just the way I anticipated.
In game 3 #teamorange several times caught me on the wrong foot. And he seemed to have adapted his footwork as my drops where not as effective anymore. Joel won the game 11-8 – a flattering result for #teamyellow as I could not keep up in this one. After a short break I went back on court – focussed again. I played 4 huge points in a row finishing all of them with beautiful drop shots. "Even Aqeel Rehman couldn't get to them", Joel concluded. I was on fire, everything I tried worked out: 11-4!
It's my fifth win in the sixth Vienna Edition encounter and #teamyellow is now 5-1 in the lead! As there are only 5 squash courts (we know about) left to play in Vienna, #teamyellow needs only one more victory to win the Wiener Squash Rackets Verband – Squash World Tour – Vienna Edition!
Booking: Booking is available via phone and mail. On weekdays during opening hours requests via a contact form are answered as well. The stuff wrote back fast and polite. But there is no information about the availability. 2,5 of 5 stars.
Reachability: We live close to the venue – for both of us it takes about 15 minutes to get there. Considering that you have to take the tram 43 (stop Rosensteingasse) to get there, we award 3 of 5 stars.
Facilities: The dressing room was covered with clay and a bit outdated. A restaurant is close (Saunastüberl) and the name of the Restaurant suggests that there is a sauna as well. 2,5 of 5 stars.
Court: One of the two court has a glass back wall, the second has 2/3 of a glass back wall. The lighting is good. The plastered walls are peeling. The floor is slippery and hard, we think that there is no substructure underneath the wooden panels. But the nick is small. One issue only #teamyellow had: the temperature was way too low! Our compromise ranking as our impressions varie: 3 of 5 stars.
Price: 16 Euro for one hour of squash is the best deal you can get in Vienna! 5 of 5 stars!
3 stars for Postsportverein Wien!
Today we are testing a tool to refurbish used squash balls: echo/2XP. We want to thank echosquash.com for providing the product for the test.
The echo/2XP is a tool to buff worn squash balls to extend the ball's lifespan. Basically you are rubbing off a very small layer of the surface to bring back the grip to the ball. Generally speaking we like the concept of repairing things over just buying new ones – that's why we gave it a try! The second version of the product, made in USA, is now available in Europe for about €45,-.
We think the echo/2XP is a useful tool to refurbish squash balls. It definitely extends the playability of squash balls by removing the slick surface of used balls! Theoretically the process can be repeated multiple times, but keep in mind that the product only improves the outer shell of the ball.
We are starting the new year 2019 with a brand new section: product tests! Thanks to our partnership with the squash shop of our trust, my-squash.com we are able to test different products and share our experience with you! First we wanted to do a squash ball test!
We tested 5 balls (yellow double dot) of different brands: Dunlop, Karakal, Prince, Tecnifibre, Victor. We played one game with each ball and ranked the balls afterwards.
Recently Joel #teamorange and myself #teamyellow could host our first event for friends and fans of the Squash World Tour. Via social media many sports enthusiasts applied, thanks to Eversports and Tennis Point Vienna we had the chance to invite over a dozen people to play squash!
We could attract a group of squash-rookies for our squash event at Tennis Point Vienna in Erdberg, where the club provided two squash courts for two hours. Splitting up the group was easy, as the majority of our followers wore their orange or yellow shirt! After explaining the rules, we grabbed our rackets and started with some easy exercises.
Our favorite exercise for beginners: Start about 1,5 meters away from the front wall. Use your racket to play the ball against the front wall – gently! Move back step by step without stopping the ball until you reach the service box. If there are more players on one court, split up the court in the middle, let two players begin simultaneously and when the first player reaches the service box, another player starts at the front wall. For variation change sides after reaching the service box on one site.
The choice of the right squash ball is fundamental! A squash ball is made of two pieces of rubber compound, with a drop of liquid gas inside. Squash balls must be hit some dozens of times to warm them up. Cold balls have a low bounce. There are different types of balls, all marked with dots on each ball: blue, red, yellow, double yellow. The fastest ball is the blue ball (blue dot). It has the highest bounce and therefore is easiest to hit. The blue ball is best suited for beginners and juniors. We however recommend to start with the red ball! When your level of play improves, the blue ball can be hard to control. The red ball is a good choice if you want to use your ball for some time, while the blue ball is not as enjoyable after some hours already. When your level of play improves, change to yellow and later to yellow double dot balls. Just that you know: Yellow double dot balls have the lowest bounce and require a higher skill set.
We tested yellow double dot balls of 5 different brands – find out which one we liked best!
After a bit of practice, we were ready to roll! Our fans formed teams of two to face us on court: Their goal was to score combined 11 points against us in two games. Player 1 of each team played game 1 against #teamorange, player 2 played game 2 against #teamyellow. Player 2 started the game 2 with all the points, player 1 had made earlier in game 1. For example: Player 1 scored 3 points against #teamorange in game 1; player 2 started game 2 with a 3-0 lead against #teamyellow. 12 teams gave it all, but our routine paid off: None of the 12 teams could win the challenge… But that wasn't what the evening was about! It was our goal to spread the enthusiasm for our sport and to motivate people to play squash! And that's what we accomplished!
Thanks to our friends from Eversports, who made this public event possible, we also had the chance to play against one of the best squash players in Austria: Lukas Windischberger!
Find out how that played out for us!
Joel #teamorange and myself #teamyellow are squash buddies for about 10 years now. In 2017 we started our Squash World Tour – the venues change, but the opponent remains the same. We thought it's time for a new experience and invited Austria's number 5 ranked squash player Lukas Windischberger to play an exhibition against us! We would play games against Lukas – while he remains on court, we change for each game and try to score as many points as possible.
Read about our WSRV – Squash World Tour – Vienna Edition match at the City & Country Club Wienerberg!
And we have some great memories: In 2017 we played our first match on an all-glass show-court at the City & Country Club!
Read about our match 2017 in Vienna!
We did not know exactly what to expect, because we never faced an opponent of Lukas' quality. Joel #teamorange was – contrary to his usual habit – 30 minutes early at the venue. In comparison: On our trip to Břeclav he jumped in 30 seconds before the train to the Czech Republic left. Even earlier Lukas arrived at the City & Country Club where he did some footwork exercises.
We could start right on time. And the Squash World Tour started in the best possible way: #teamorange won the first point with a nick-shot and could even double his point balance during the game. That gave me confidence! #teamyellow as on, and thanks to 2 stroke balls I rushed to a 3-1 lead and a respectable 6-11 game.
After such a start, we were hungry for more! But our hopes that Lukas would get tired, did not come true. Instead we became more tired and less concentrated with every game. I hardly sipped some water after a game and had to go right back in! #teamorange felt the same. Games 9 and 10 we lost 11-1 and 11-0. For the statistic freaks all the results: 11-2, 11-6, 11-3, 11:3, 11:4, 11:2, 11:3, 11:4, 11:1, 11:0.
After that we somehow managed it to get to the sauna to give our tired bodies some rest!
It felt like Lukas was just standing while we ran around in circles on the court. We are not used to this level of intensity! With a lot of effort we could sometimes stay in the rally, but Lukas took advantage of each mistake.
We want to thank Lukas for taking the time playing with us! Thank you as well to Eversports and to the City & Country Club for making this event possible by providing the court for our exhibition!
Your project is helping squash to gain popularity – I like that! But in terms of your skillset there is still a lot to improve. You fight for each point – great! But you have to improve the efficiency of your footwork. Focus on your footwork – you can move much more efficient! Your level of play will improve – gaining the level of the whole Squash World Tour. That could help you gain popularity among better players!


The Knysna Motor Show is recognised as the premium motor show in South Africa.
This year you'll be spoiled with a rare selection of 400 personally selected unique high quality cars and motorcycles. Special focus is placed on Bentley, Morgan and Mini that are celebrating their 100th, 110th and 60th anniversaries.
It is a fare for the whole family, with a scrumptious food court and beer garden.


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UK's oldest Christmas tree bought during Spanish flu put up for 101st year by same Sheffield family
Each year Kay Ashton, 67, faithfully decorates and erects the two-foot tall tree which has endured three monarchs, a world war and now two global pandemics
Ashley Pemberton
Joe PagnelliSenior reporter
Kay Ashton, 67, of Sheffield with her 101 year old Christmas tree (Image: SWNS)
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Britain's oldest Christmas tree which was bought when the world was still in the midst of the Spanish flu pandemic has been erected by the same family for the 101th year.
Each year Kay Ashton, 67, faithfully decorates and erects the two-foot tall tree which has endured three monarchs, a world war and now two global pandemics.
The artificial spruce, thought to be the oldest in the country, was bought from Woolworths for a sixpence by Kay's grandmother Elizabeth Naylor in 1920.
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The tree survived Hitler's bombs during the second world war and has remained in the family for three generations and eight house moves.
And now - lovingly decorated in bells from Kay's childhood - it takes pride of place in her kitchen in Sheffield.
Kay said: "Year after year it gets more fragile, it's been bashed in over the years.
Britain's oldest Christmas tree (Image: SWNS)
"I try not to handle it too much. I put it in the kitchen because if it was in the living room and the door opens, the slightest gust of wind will blow it off.
"People ask me why I don't ever fix it, but I wouldn't want to get it repaired, it would take away from its story and history.
"It's become a joke really, every year it comes out and it looks a bit dodgy, but it makes people smile and even laugh out loud."
Kay, a grandmother-of-three, says her own grandmother would be "absolutely flabbergasted" to hear it was still going strong.
Elizabeth called it "William's tree" to mark her new-born son's first Christmas that year.
Each year Kay Ashton, 67, faithfully decorates and erects the two-foot tall tree (Image: SWNS)
William sadly died prematurely in 1940 aged 19 and the tree became a treasured family memorial to him.
Elizabeth - known as Nanan - died in 1981 aged 80 and the tree was inherited by her daughter, Joyce Ashton.
When Joyce died in 2012, Kay became the third generation to own it.
Kay added: "It's not a cherished tree. People laugh because I say it's ugly. But I'm fond of it because it's so bloody ugly.
"It has seen generations of my family and the social history of working class people and how they have changed over the years from 1920.
Elizabeth Naylor, aged 19 (Image: Kay Ashton / SWNS)
"The most recent of the decorations on it are from the 1960s, I wouldn't want to spoil it with anything more modern than that.
"It's special that it has made it so long I don't now how because it was never really cared for, it was just always there.
"When my mum died, it was passed down to me. I was discussing what to do with it with my sister and I said 'I'll take it and I'll put it up'. I couldn't see it thrown in the bin.
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"It's amazing it survived my mother to be honest, she was notorious for throwing things away.
"She threw my dad's medals away from world war two, so it did well to survive her throwing it in the bin."
The artificial spruce, thought to be the oldest in the country, was bought from Woolworths for sixpence by Kay's grandmother Elizabeth Naylor in 1920 (Image: Kay Ashton / SWNS)
The tree incredibly survived a blitz of Sheffield's steelworks in December 1940 when the city was bombarded by the Luftwaffe for three consecutive nights.
Elizabeth kept the tree in the kitchen, but the impact of a bomb blast was so much that it blew it into the living room.
It was hit by shrapnel and sticky tape was used to repair it, which is still holding it together.
In keeping with tradition, Kay has this week retrieved the festive favourite from the attic and put the tree up to accompany her other decorations.
The tree was bought when the world was still in the midst of the Spanish flu pandemic (Image: SWNS)
Kay added: "My sister says to me every year 'have you got that twig out yet?' and I say 'yep'.
"She says 'does it look any better' and I go 'nope'.
"I couldn't imagine not putting it up, it just brings back memories of Christmas and loved ones that we've lost.
"For me it's not about the tree itself, but about the history and its story.
"It was never the main tree, it still isn't. I have a bigger tree. But I always put this up.
The tree survived Hitler's bombs during the second world war and has remained in the family for three generations and eight house moves (Image: SWNS)
"The only bells on it are from the 1920s or 50s, they're bells I remember from my childhood. It's like a link to the past, it is nice.
"My nanan would be absolutely flabbergasted to know it was still going."
Kay, who retired from work last year, said her grandmother didn't speak much of the Spanish Flu pandemic, which ran from 1918 to 1920.
She added: "It's like it was the forgotten pandemic, its only recently people have been thinking about it with this pandemic that it is happening.
"My nanan had Bronchial Asthma, so she did well to survive it."
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Thomas de Grenier de Fonblanque, , (26 January 1793 – 1861) – diplomat, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul General and  Consul-General to Serbia.

Family
Thomas de Grenier de Fonblanque, descended from a French Huguenot family. He was born in London. His grandfather, John de Grenier Fonblanque, had been a banker naturalised in England under the name Fonblanque; his son, John Anthony Fonblanque, was Thomas's father. Thomas's mother, Frances Caroline Fitzgerald, was a granddaughter of Colonel Samuel Martin of Antigua, West Indies and niece of Samuel Martin. Her brother was the poet William Thomas Fitzgerald.
Thomas had two brothers, Albany Fonblanque, a celebrated journalist, and John Samuel Martin Fonblanque, legal writer and  Commissioner of Bankruptcy.

Thomas de Grenier de Fonblanque married Jane Catherine Barrington, of Dublin, daughter of Sir Jonah Barrington, a judge known for his popular and amusing memoirs. They had five children. Among them was  Edward Barrington de Fonblanque (1821-1895), former British military officer, writer and historian. Through his eldest daughter, Jane Catherine, who married Major Pennefather, de Fonblanque is the grandfather of Sir John Pennefather. Another of his daughter, Adelaide Arabella de Grenier de Fonblanque (1822-1856), married count Otto von Schlippenbach, and died in Basedow, Germany.

See also
List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Serbia

References

 Edward Barrington de Fonblanque (ed.): The life and labours of Albany Fonblanque, R. Bentley and son London 1874, 546 s.

1793 births
1861 deaths
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19th century in Serbia
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Q: Email Alerts when service or server automatically comes up I am working on a bash script that helps to ping and get the network interface level status of the host machines and services.
This script will send a email alerts in case of failure.
#!/bin/bash
HOSTS="192.168.8.200"
COUNT=4
for myHost in $HOSTS
do
  count=$(ping -c $COUNT $myHost | grep 'received' | awk -F',' '{ print $2 }' | awk '{ print $1 }')
  if [ $count -eq 0 ]; then
    # 100% failed
    echo -e "HOST:$myHost is down (ping failed) at $(date)" | mailx -A gmail    -s "Mail       subject" anymail@anydomain.com

  fi
done

This works fine.
But need help to get a one single email alert when host automatically comes up (ping success).

A: You need to save the state of the host (up/down) during the calls of your script.
if the host is "up" and the former state was "down" then you need to send an email.
You can just write the result of the "check command" to a file in /tmp/
if the check returns that the server is up you read the content of the file. if the state is "down" in the file, then send an email an write "up" to the file.
on the next check if the server is up, there will be no additional email sent, because the server was also "up" before.
#!/bin/bash
HOSTS="192.168.8.200 192.168.8.201 192.168.122.1"
COUNT=4
STATE="/tmp/ping_state.txt"

for myHost in $HOSTS
do
  count=$(ping -c $COUNT $myHost | grep 'received' | awk -F',' '{ print $2 }' | awk '{ print $1 }')
  if [ $count -eq 0 ]; then
    # 100% failed
    #echo -e "HOST:$myHost is down (ping failed) at $(date)" | mailx -A gmail    -s "Mail       subject" anymail@anydomain.com
     echo "host $myHost down"
    #delete all previous entries of that ip
    sed -i "/$myHost/d" $STATE
    #mark host as down
    echo "$myHost - down" >> $STATE
  else
    CHECK=`grep "$myHost" $STATE | grep -o "down"`
    if [ "$CHECK" = "down" ]; then
      echo "host $myHost up again"
      #insert email for host up here
    fi

    #delete all previous entries of that ip
    sed -i "/$myHost/d" $STATE
    echo "$myHost - up" >> $STATE
  fi
done

for simple testing I just used an echo statement instead of sending an email.

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Will Trump be 'transformative' president?
President Obama is going to be replaced by the kind of Republican he's always said he wanted.
Will Trump be 'transformative' president? President Obama is going to be replaced by the kind of Republican he's always said he wanted. Check out this story on gosanangelo.com: http://www.gosanangelo.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/12/21/trump-transformative-president/95657616/
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It's one of the greatest examples of "careful what you wish for" in political history: President Obama is going to be replaced by the kind of Republican he's always said he wanted.
For the entirety of his presidency, Obama has insisted that he is a pragmatist, not an ideologue. Indeed, he seems to think that ideology is a dirty word. "What is required," Obama declared the day before his first inauguration, "is a new declaration of independence, not just in our nation, but in our own lives — from ideology and small thinking, prejudice and bigotry — an appeal not to our easy instincts but to our better angels."
As a confessed ideologue, I've always taken offense at the suggestion that ideology — i.e., a fixed set of principles — deserves to be listed alongside prejudice, bigotry and small thinking. Moreover, as a conservative, I've always found laughable the idea that Obama is not an ideologue.
But when Donald Trump says he's a pragmatist, it's no laughing matter. Not since Richard Nixon have we had a president (or president-elect) less committed, or beholden, to a fixed ideological program.
Going into the GOP primaries, the conventional wisdom held that the winner of the contest would be the candidate who displayed the most ideological purity. Instead the brass ring went to the contender with the least.
"No, it's not going to be the Trump doctrine," Trump said in April. "Because in life, you have to be flexible. You have to have flexibility. You have to change. You know, you may say one thing and then the following year you want to change it, because circumstances are different."
A few days later, he told his supporters in California, "Folks, I'm a conservative, but at this point, who cares? We got to straighten out the country."
His surrogates echoed the sentiment. Investor Carl Icahn assured voters that "Donald is a pragmatist. He's going to do what's needed for this economy."
Hedge fund mogul Anthony Scaramucci wrote in The Wall Street Journal: "What elitists misinterpret as uneven principles, entrepreneurs understand as adaptability. ... Mr. Trump would be the greatest pragmatist and deal maker Washington has ever seen."
The closest Trump comes to a rigid set of political principles is on the issue of trade. He has been making the same protectionist arguments about trade for more than 30 years. And despite the fact that the GOP has, at least rhetorically, been a party of free trade since Ronald Reagan, Trump seems to have won that argument in a rout. No doubt there are Republicans who disagree with Trump on trade, but for the most part they're keeping their opposition to themselves.
Obama came into office wanting to be a transformative president. He almost certainly failed — many of his prize accomplishments likely won't survive the next GOP Congress. And even as he argued against partisanship, and advanced the idea that a president can, nay must, decide every issue on a case-by-case basis, he always pushed a liberal agenda.
Trump, though, really might try the case-by-case approach, which we'll soon find is more disorienting than refreshing. His "flexibility" on numerous issues — infrastructure, entitlements, industrial policy, day care and who knows what else in the years to come — means we won't know what to expect.
For good or ill, then, Trump could be the "transformative" president Obama always wanted to be — the president who gets us past partisan ideology by doing away with principle.
One can already hear the ideological supports of both parties groaning under the weight of Trump's pragmatism. If one party collapses as a result, both will likely topple over. What replaces them is anyone's guess, but no one will deny that a transformation took place.
Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review. Contact him at goldbergcolumn@gmail.com.
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Knicks' damage control is now Jeff Hornacek's job
Steve Popper
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When Phil Jackson's press conference was over Friday afternoon there were plenty of broken pieces to put back together.
Carmelo Anthony, still part of the organization, still holding the no-trade clause card, was perturbed by Jackson's efforts to push him out. Kristaps Porzingis was troubled enough by the direction and dysfunction of the organization that he skipped out on his scheduled sit-down with Jackson.
Add to it Anthony's reported separation from his wife and the Knicks' loss even in the ping-pong prelude to the draft lottery and the organization finds itself desperately in need of a win - and calm.
When camp begins that will be left to Jeff Hornacek. It may be all he has on his plate.
"Jeff has a good basketball mind," Jackson said. "I think he is amenable to players. He is a young coach, he has only coached, what's this, two and a half seasons? It is not like he has got a menu of 10 years of coaching. I think he listens. We have good communication going back and forth. I think there is some disconnect at times with this team and I think there is some rebelliousness in this team that created some of the discord during the year and I think that has to stop and that will stop."
Hornacek certainly won't be orchestrating his own strategies on the court. His hopes of bringing what he learned at his father's side as a child, from Johnny Orr during his college days at Iowa State and from the NBA coaches he played for and assisted, including Hall of Famer Jerry Sloan have faded. That much Jackson made as clear as his efforts to rid the Knicks of Anthony.
There are few sure things left from Jackson's first three seasons atop the Knicks organization. But that they will play his way, his style - the triangle offense above all else.
Jackson will venture into practice more often. Kurt Rambis, Jackson's long-time friend and assistant - put in place as interim coach when Jackson fired Derek Fisher - is still the voice that Jackson trusts.
A year ago Jackson talked about what he was looking for in a coach and he stressed the need for it to be someone he knew, someone from his coaching tree, who shared his philosophies. But after putting Fisher in place and then attempting to hand the reins to Rambis, he met with Hornacek and surprisingly went to a coach he hardly knew.
The season began with promises of a blended system. Hornacek would utilize some of the things he had put in place in his two-and-a-half year tenure in Phoenix, pushing a fast-paced system that led to 48 wins in the first season. He would hang on to some of what he would refer to as, "triangle aspects."
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The players quickly rebelled, even if the record showed some promise early. There was less triangle, more freedom for Anthony and Derrick Rose, who had missed nearly the entire preseason. And then the season went south. Jackson and Anthony began bickering. The trade deadline approached with the team's stars on the block. And when the team headed to the All-Star break in February, Jackson had seen enough and was going to have it done his way.
"Kurt Rambis is an assistant, associate head coach and has all the knowledge that I have and I thought as a combo they could fit in pretty well," Jackson said. "Without Derrick here the first month, and then to start and blend us in together with something as quite simple was not an easy task and I understand that.
"So we kind of let it roll until things didn't roll well, until end of February before we say, 'Looks like we need some more fundamentals, more function out there towards the end of a game and a little more skills and we should start doing some things to create that.'"
And who did Jackson trust to do that? Well, there is only one person in the organization with 11 championship rings as a coach. Asked what he had learned so far, Jackson said he needed to be better at mentoring - at all levels.
"I think that one of the things that I like about this job is that (vice president of basketball operations) Jamie Matthews and (general manager) Steve Mills do a lot of the paper work – the back and forth with the NBA headquarters and my issue is about talking to coaches, finding out the game plan, and I think that I kind of left them alone to see how they were going to perform this year in a way.
"I took some time on the West Coast during the holidays when I think things really kind of fell down over New Year's and the subsequent week after New Year's – the sixth loss in a row right there which changed us from being a positive to a minus. So I think I've got to do a little bit more on scene, on target mentoring."
For Hornacek, that has meant stepping aside when Jackson comes off the sideline at a practice to fine-tune a point or watching as Jackson holds a triangle clinic with players. His role, like last season as Jackson stayed silent, is to be the face and voice, explaining away losses or chaos.
Someday Hornacek may wonder, as he did after Phoenix, if he should have pushed to do things his way - win or lose knowing that he did what he believed was best.
For now though, it is Jackson who is taking that approach and Hornacek is along for the ride.
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Bandit the cat had obviously had enough. At 2 1/2-years-old, he'd already been through a couple of Michigan winters and decided to get out. So he went "missing" in October. Two months later, thanks to his implanted microchip, Bandit's owner, Judy, got a call from an animal hospital in Tampa saying he was there.
According to UpNorthLive.com, Bandit had gone 1000 miles south in two months. Did Bandit climb into the cargo hold of a Learjet? Hop a freight and ride the rails? Or was he so motivated to get down to the Pickleball courts, that he ran all the way?
We may never know. But he's being flown back up here this week. Just in time for the rest of winter. If he had opposable thumbs he might have been able to ditch that microchip and stayed down there.
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Finding the time to do anything when you're a parent is possibly the most stressful thing you can do but when you have children the realisation that you need to make time for yourself for your own sanity and the wellbeing of everybody hits you like a bus.
No matter how little time it is or how irregularly you need to have time for yourself and having hobbies and projects are so essential. I've always loved having something to strive towards to keep me motivated and whenever I have had nothing on the books I find that I'm less motivated in everything else that I do. That's why blogging has always been so important to me. Here are a few tips that I've found have helped me stay consistent in my writing.
This is the most important tip that I have learned to stay consistent. I upload content every other day at 9.30am and that's what I've found works best for me. On the day I'm not uploading, I'll usually write for an hour or so when Leo is napping, then create the visuals when he is playing later on in the day then I'll put it all together and schedule it for the next day and have a day off. If I have a bit of spare time then I might line up two or three posts at once and have a week off.
This is a new thing that I've started doing. I keep an empty notebook around the place and when I have an idea I just grab it off of whatever side it's laying on and write it down. Sometimes I also write my posts by hand and then copy them much later when leo is drawing with his crayola. He loves scribbling away and loves it even more when he thinks that he's doing something the same as mummy and it's so much easier than trying to open my laptop all of the time, especially with a one year old who loves pressing the buttons.
I have found a number of the time in the last year that I didn't find blogging fun anymore and it was really getting me down and I gave myself a week or two off. I could continue to write when I wasn't feeling it but my content was suffering and I just had no motivation. Having that break just gave me the time to realise that writing was what I loved and to have a change of scenery. I've said from day one that writing is something that I love to do and the reason to do it is to make me happy and when that changes then I'll stop.
Now, interacting with other beauty and parenting bloggers is something which I really didn't do for a long time and something which I didn't think would be very useful for me when in reality it's a wonderful wonderful thing for me as a parent and as a blogger. I have the access to a great network now and there are so many people who are in the same place with great advice. And everybody is so so friendly. The main social medias that I have signed up for are bloglovin' which is great at pinpointing specific genres of bloggers, twitter which if you use the hashtag bbloggers you can find other bloggers and pr opportunities at the click of a button and facebook which is really very good for advice. There are nationwide and local groups for different bloggers but everyone is always so friendly.
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Love this post 🙂 I have a 6 month old and it's a nightmare fitting in blogging amongst all the other chores during the day – thank god for nap time! Totally agree with the taking advantage of social media, the blogging community on twitter is amazing.
This is brilliant advice I completely agree with stepping back and taking a break once in a while. I have lots of notebooks I find it easier to plan on paper.
Great advice. It can be so difficult to create the perfect blog post in a timely manner with a clingy baby.


AT&T objected to 10Mbps requirement, but will expand "broadband" in 18 states.
AT&T has struck a deal with the US government to get nearly $428 million per year to bring 10Mbps Internet service to parts of rural America after protesting that it shouldn't have to provide speeds that fast.
The money comes from the Connect America Fund, which draws from surcharges on Americans' phone bills to pay for rural Internet service. AT&T accepted the money even though it argued last year that rural customers don't need Internet service better than the old standard of 4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream. The FCC ignored AT&T's protests in December, raising the Connect America Fund download standard to 10Mbps while leaving the 1Mbps requirement unchanged.
Eight months later, AT&T is now willing to provide at least 10Mbps/1Mbps service to 1.1 million rural homes and businesses in 18 states in exchange for "$427,706,650 in annual, ongoing support from the Connect America Fund," yesterday's FCC announcement said. The FCC said this will bring broadband to 2.2 million customers, apparently assuming an average of two people for each home and business.
AT&T will get the money over six years with an option for a seventh, potentially bringing the total to about $3 billion, according to Multichannel News. AT&T and other carriers getting Connect America funding have to deploy Internet service to 40 percent of funded locations by the end of 2017, 60 percent by the end of 2018, 80 percent by the end of 2019, and to 100 percent of locations by the end of 2020, the article said.
10Mbps/1Mbps is still lower than the definition of broadband, which the FCC raised to 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up.
The 18 states where AT&T will use the money are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
AT&T has had wireline operations in 22 states since it bought BellSouth in 2006. In exchange for getting that merger approved, AT&T promised home Internet service of at least 200kbps (meeting the definition of broadband at the time) to 100 percent of residences by the end of 2007.
AT&T claimed it met the requirement but has let its network fall into disrepair in the years since, leaving millions with slow Internet service or none at all. AT&T promised to expand broadband deployment in exchange for the FCC's recent approval of its purchase of DirecTV, but not in the areas where it will use Connect America funding. The Connect America funding is for "rural service areas where the cost of broadband deployment might otherwise be prohibitive," the FCC said.
AT&T wasn't the only company to get Connect America Fund money yesterday. CenturyLink accepted $506 million annually to get 10Mbps Internet to nearly 1.2 million rural homes and businesses in 33 states.
Overall, ten carriers accepted $1.5 billion in annual support to serve 3.6 million homes and businesses under the latest Connect America Fund awards, another FCC announcement said.
The others include Cincinnati Bell, Consolidated Telecom, Fairpoint, Frontier, Hawaiian Telcom, Micronesian Telecom, and Windstream.
The tenth carrier is Verizon, though that case is a bit complicated. Verizon conditionally accepted $48.6 million a year to serve rural areas in Texas and California, subject to regulatory approval of a sale that will transfer Verizon's systems in those states to Frontier. Verizon, which also objected to the new 10Mbps requirement, did not accept any funding in states where it's keeping its wireline facilities.
There's still $175 million left to be doled out, due to carriers not accepting the entire amount. "In states where carriers have declined support, the subsidies will be awarded by a competitive bidding process," the FCC said.


While it is of course still possible that the UK will reach an agreement with the EU this summer that will include a transition agreement (till December 2020), continued membership for Northern Ireland of the Customs Union and the Internal Market, and some sort of promise of a near-Norway solution for Great Britain starting in 2021, it's by no means certain.
Summer 2018: Talks break down, possibly because of the status of Northern Ireland.
September 2018: Talks restart, but break down again soon afterwards because of Theresa May's red lines.
October 2018: The EU say that this is the last chance to ratify any agreement, so they give the UK an agreement to sign, but that doesn't happen. This means there will be a cliff-edge Brexit in March 2019 without any transition agreement. Companies and individuals start leaving in great numbers, and the Pound Sterling falls like a stone.
November 2018: A general election gets called due to pro-EU Tories expressing no confidence in Theresa May.
December 2018: General election: Labour win.
January 2019: Labour try to resume negotiations with the EU, but they say that there is no time left – not even for signing the document they produced in October. A lot of MPs say that Brexit must get cancelled, but Corbyn won't do it. Parliament votes for a No Confidence motion.
February 2019: General election. An impromptu Remain-in-the-EU coalition of Remainers from many parties wins.
March 2019: The new government tries to cancel Article 50 in order to Remain. Will the EU accept it?
Of course this isn't very likely – it's actually very unlikely that there would be two general elections so close together, and for Remainer MPs to form an electoral alliance so quickly is almost impossible.
My point is that there might never be a point when Scotland can calmly assess the situation and choose the best way forward. There will always be uncertainties – there will always be hopes that it'll all end well and worries that it'll be a total disaster.
It reminds me of the Danish involvement in the Yugoslav wars: The Danish army had at that point not seen action for 130 years (Denmark was neutral in WWI and didn't resist when Germany invaded in WWII). As a result, some Danish officers turned out to be unable to do anything while being shot at – they basically hid under their tables when their plans turned out not to work. Of course, they quickly got replaced by people who were good at thinking on their feet in a battle.
Brexit is almost like a non-military battle: There's a lack of reliable information, a lot of misleading stories, and yet time is short, and it's important to act soon.
If we wait till everything is clear, we'll put ourselves in the worst position possible – we'll effectively have been hiding under our desk while others were waging a war. That will not be a good starting point for a campaign.
Hopefully the Brexit power grab – and the fact that Labour and the Lib Dems now seem to agree that it's unacceptable – will provide an opportunity for doing something soon.
It dDoesn't matter – public opinion hasn't swung in favour of independence, and a campaign, in an environment of uncertainty as to what will be the outcome of voting either way, is unlikely to swing it. If we see a change in public opinion then a referendum might start to make sense.
– there might never be a time when 2+2=5, so we just need to take the chance when we can, to add 2+2 and see if it comes to 5.


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On the NYTimes' Saturday Profile Sierra Leone's one time Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Health, Zainab Bangura explains how her past experiences at home inform her current role as UN Special Envoy for Sexual Violence in Conflict.
HER FATHER wanted to marry her off by the time she was 12. Her mother most definitely did not, and for this conviction, she paid dearly.
Zainab Bangura's father walked out on the family, leaving her mother to make ends meet by selling whatever she could in the market — firewood, food, fabric to make dresses.
"She decided: 'It doesn't matter how much it costs. I will send this girl to school,' " Ms. Bangura recalled.
Education radically changed her destiny, eventually landing her one of the most unnerving jobs within the United Nations.
As the secretary general's special envoy for sexual violence in conflict, Ms. Bangura documents abuses against women — the wars within the wars for power and riches. Then she goads the men who lead those wars to do something about it.
The daughter of an imam from Sierra Leone and a onetime refugee from war herself, Ms. Bangura, 55, is certainly no stranger to stories of despair and survival.
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Егинды (, до 2018 г. — Майоровка) — село в Нуринском районе Карагандинской области Казахстана. Административный центр сельского округа Егинды. Находится западнее реки Нура, примерно в 36 км к северо-северо-западу (NNW) от посёлка Нура, административного центра района, на высоте 375 метров над уровнем моря. Код КАТО — 355257100.

История
Село основано в 1909 году на переселенческом участке Улькенталдысай немецкими переселенцами с Поволжья. Было названо Майоровка в честь инициатора переселения — Карла Андреевича Майора. В 1961 году на базе колхоза имени Кирова был организован совхоз «Урожайный».

Население
В 1999 году численность населения села составляла 1758 человек (869 мужчин и 889 женщин). По данным переписи 2009 года в селе проживало 1189 человек (579 мужчин и 610 женщин).

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Community Based Children's Health Care Center—a designated site that provides nursing care, clinical support services, and therapies for a period of one to 14 days for short-term respite care stays and one to 120 days to facilitate transitions to home or other appropriate settings for medically fragile children, technology dependent children, and children with special health care needs who are deemed clinically stable by a physician and are younger than 22 years of age. This care is to be provided in a home-like environment that serves no more than 12 children at a time.
Community Based Residential Rehabilitation Center—a designated site that provides rehabilitation or support, or both, for persons who have experienced severe brain injury, who are medically stable, and who no longer require acute rehabilitation care or intense medical or nursing services.
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On the 5th of January 2011, students from Malaysia were organizing their 2nd medical symposium or seminar in aiming for generating and producing more and more professional future-to-be doctors. This medical symposium was previously done on the year 2010 and it was a blast due to many useful inputs towards the students. This seminar involved Malaysian students from 1st to 6th courses who were now studying in Volgograd State Medical University.
The first slot was a sharing about the methods on protecting human life especially for the doctors. This methods includes the protection of the patient`s religion, life, mind/intellect, progeny and their properties. It was the responsibilities of the doctors to apply these methods for each patient they will be facing during the real-time as a doctor. There was also a sharing about the medicines we used nowadays which were necessarily had many harmful effects towards patients. The correct usage of nitrates, nebuliser, IV drip, porcine based medicine were also being shared by the speaker. Issues like the application of euthanasia, organ donation, urine catheter and stoma bag were also being discussed as to give a crystal clear view to all the medical students.
Close relation with the Creator of life.
Be inspired by having a role-model.
Get alert with the academic performance.
Know the correct way of practicing medicine.
Learn the culture and attitude of human beings.
Know and learn as many languages.
Good time and stress managements.
Have a "support system" such as friends.
Close and good relation with peers.
Close to family members especially to father and mother.
Keep on doing special interest or hobby without neglecting study.
Have more networks with others.
Good management of financial status.
Practising a good, healthy lifestyles.
"Living Life as Medical Doctor in Malaysia" was the last theme for the last slot of this seminar. The speaker shared about the "future journey and track" in medicine which will be experienced by all the medical students near future. This slot giving an input in which students can plan and focus for themselves on being what kind of medical specialists, consultants and others in the future. There were a lot of branches in medicine itself and students must know their own interest and capability while choosing their speciality.
As the last word, we would like to thanks all the hardwork from the organizer, the speaker and not to forget ,our university and deans for giving us an opportunity to conducted such an impacted-event especially to all the students. Hope we can organize such event again for the next time.


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Join us for our weekly Toddler Time! Each week features a new theme that will include 3 short books and several movement activities to keep your little one engaged and learning new literacy skills.
Members of FPL's Teen Advisory Board will guide workshop participants in making a stained glass suncatcher.


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That white shag rug that looks like a soccer team trampled all over it.
Your car trunk, which is probably hiding five pairs of mysteriously vanished shoes.
There's a lot on your spring cleaning list right now. While we don't want to play favorites (and, seriously, you really do need to do something about that shag rug), we'd like to suggest you push a little something to the top priority spot: your skin.
Now that the sun's over its winter blues and officially out and about—and your skin isn't getting any younger—there's no time like the present to reevaluate your beauty routine. Clean out that bathroom cabinet with some of these fresh products that we'll be stocking up on this year, from sunscreens and cleansers to washes and soaps.
I guess we do want some scrubs after all.
1. The brand Lush nails the all-natural beauty game again with its wonderfully sensitive, fabulously fresh-feeling Angels on Bare Skin cleanser, which is reputedly based off a medieval recipe. $13.95, Lush, Ala Moana Center.
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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial likely to resume in 2022
An anxious Ben Roberts-Smith will have to wait for his defamation trial to resume after a judge said this reason would cause problems for witnesses.
Heath Parkes-Hupton
@heath_parkes
NCA NewsWire
Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation trial against former Fairfax newspapers and journalists will likely not resume this year as uncertainty remains about where it will be held.
The Victoria Cross recipient is suing publications The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times over stories alleging he committed war crimes while deployed as an SAS soldier in the Middle East.
Mr Roberts-Smith denies the allegations, which include him committing or being complicit in the murder of Afghan civilians, and refutes claims he assaulted a woman with whom he was allegedly having an affair.
The publications are defending the reports from 2018 as true.
Ben Roberts-Smith has called the newspaper reports 'false' and 'baseless'. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nikki Short
The blockbuster trial before the Federal Court in Sydney began in June but was abandoned in August after NSW's disastrous outbreak of the Delta strain of Covid-19.
Trial judge Justice Anthony Besanko on Friday vacated a November 1 date that had been set for the hearing to resume and announced a new trial date is due to be fixed following a hearing on December 3.
Justice Besanko also chose not to order the trial to move to Adelaide, as argued by Mr Roberts-Smith's lawyers, or decide whether it would continue in Sydney.
In his judgment Justice Besanko said there was considerable uncertainty about the restrictions likely to be in place for witnesses and parties travelling interstate to attend court.
The former SAS corporal was awarded a Victoria Cross in 2011.
Of the remaining witnesses, 12 would travel from Western Australia, which remains closed off to NSW.
"That might depend on what happens between now and then in terms of border restrictions between South Australia and NSW and between South Australia and Western Australia," he said.
"I would only make an order for relocation of the trial if I was satisfied that there was a reasonably clear and certain benefit in doing so. In the circumstances, I was not satisfied that that was the case."
Justice Besanko said he noted that Mr Roberts-Smith was "anxious" for the trial to restart as soon as possible.
He wrote that the trial could resume in early 2022 and raised a prospective trial date of January 17.
The court was told Roberts-Smith was anxious for the trial to resume. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nikki Short
"However, circumstances were too uncertain to suggest that that date should be fixed," he said.
"I make the point, obvious though it may be, that in the rapidly changing circumstances assumptions made at one point in time may not be appropriate at a later point in time."
Earlier this month, Mr Roberts-Smith's lawyers filed an application for the trial to resume in Sydney on November 8 to hear from six witnesses before being moved to Adelaide in December.
Under their plan it would have run from December 6 to 22 and then break until January 24, 2022.
Newspaper lawyers opposed the application and asked the trial be adjourned until February 28.


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Today is Saturday, June 20, 2009. Today's theme for the 2009 Challenge is EATING.
You can have some fun with today's challenge. This subject is great for a candid street shot, or a portrait. You could even shoot animals for this theme. Let's see what you can do for eating!
Once you're ready to submit your work to Flickr, you've got to do two important things. First, make sure you tag your photos correctly; "2009challenge″ and "2009challenge171". Also, if you haven't already, join the PhotoChallenge group on Flickr. Then, submit each day's photo to the group's pool.


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Interview: Jon Padgett
First off, congratulations on the new collection! How does it feel having your own book to be able to put on the bookshelf?
Thanks, Scott. It's still a bit hard to believe, frankly. Mostly, right now, I'm feeling grateful—especially to Dunhams Manor Press and my supportive and perceptive readers.
It seems that most of the stories in The Secret of Ventriloquism take place in the same smog filled old mill town. Was it intentional to have the stories take place in a shared world? Or was that a decision to link these stories later on? Do you plan on writing more stories in the old mill town setting?
The shared world of the collection took some time to develop and was an organic, rather than a planned, process.
Back in 2002, I heard a piece on NPR called "The Killer Fog of '52" about London's horrific environmental disaster, which likely took the lives of some 12,000 people in the course of a few days. "Roads were littered with abandoned cars. Midday concerts were canceled due to total darkness. Archivists at the British Museum found smog lurking in the book stacks. Cattle in the city's Smithfield market were killed and thrown away before they could be slaughtered and sold — their lungs were black." That story and its horrific impact came to haunt "20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism" and "The Secret of Ventriloquism" as I was writing them. My research deepened and focused on temperature inversion—a meteorological condition described in the aforementioned NPR piece and a 1950 New Yorker article called "The Fog," which describes another environmental catastrophe, this time in a Pennsylvania mill town called Donora. What's the connection with the stories in my collection? Well, my research into the gastromantic forbears of ventriloquists kept leading me back to the Oracle at Delphi, which was guarded by a monster called The Python. The Oracle herself was high off toxic fumes from a geologic fault line under the temple. Maybe those fumes and this Python were one and the same, I mused. And perhaps this Python was the motivating power that spoke through the Delphic animal-dummies down through the ages. Thus the Black Fog was born into my work. The idea of smoggy Dunnstown (aka Foyle) itself came to me while writing "The Infusorium," which was conceived as a kind of sequel to "20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism." I grew up in just such a mill town, which was plagued with smelly "paper mill days." In fact, I have often visited that surreal south Alabama cityscape in my own dreams and nightmares, complete with awful ranch-style houses and paper mill stench. After I wrote about half of the pieces in the collection, I began strengthening the common elements of setting and character between them, though most of that process was an automatic one and existed almost immediately in my first story drafts.
I honestly don't know if Dunnstown and its environs will continue to haunt my work in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
Some of your most effective stories, such as The Mindfulness of Horror Practice and 20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism utilize a meta-technique of presenting fiction as if it were nonfiction, to extremely disturbing effect. It reminds me of Ligotti's Notes on the Writing of Horror and some of Jorge Luis Borges's writing. Is Borges an influence on your writing? What inspired the meta approach?
Thanks, Scott. That's good to hear.
"20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism" took me almost twenty years to write. Originally, I meant it as an ode to Ligotti's work, and the first draft of the story—"The Eyes of the Master"—was an embarrassingly terrible Poe/Ligotti hybrid pastiche. I rewrote that story from scratch close to a dozen times over the years, without success. Later drafts of the story were written in the form of a memoir, drawn from my past theater experiences, with the narrator reminiscing about his fear of dolls and dummies. When I was a child, my first ventriloquist dummy came with a pamphlet entitled "7 SIMPLE STEPS TO VENTRILOQUISM," and this manual began making an appearance in my writing attempts. In 2004, I had an epiphany, scrapped my latest draft and rewrote the thing from scratch, using that pamphlet from my childhood as a template but expanding beyond it.
In the years that followed, the tale became the combination guidebook-confession of a character named Joseph Snavely. The "final" version of the tale (then entitled "The Secret of Ventriloquism"), was over 14,000 words long. In 2011, I was invited by Joe Pulver to submit my story to his Ligotti anthology, The Grimscribe's Puppets. I sent him the long version, but he had a 5,000 word cut off. That's when I reimagined the story, stripping out both character and plot—all extraneous to the manual itself. What was left? A 4,500 version of my story, which I entitled "20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism." So it was out of sheer necessity that the "author" of the manual was removed, leaving the story lean and honed and even more purely metafictional in nature.
The Ligotti influence is probably mostly due to the fact that between 2005 and 2009 I read and made notes on upwards of a dozen drafts of Thomas Ligotti's book long philosophical argument, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. There's no doubt that Ligotti's masterful and profoundly disturbing treatise rubbed off on my humble story—the student unconsciously acting as dummy for the master-mentor ventriloquist. If I was influenced by Borges, it was an oblique influence. Consciously, the final version of "20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism" was inspired by Ligotti's vignette, "10 Steps to Thin Mountain" and the philosophical writings of Eckhart Tolle. "The Mindfulness of Horror Practice" was inspired and informed by Bodhipaksa's recorded Mindfulness of Breathing, my mindfulness practice of choice for the last ten years or so.
On a personal level, I love successful works of metafiction—either comprehensively or selectively produced by the author. I was one of those teenagers who half-believed, for instance, that Lovecraft's Necronomicon and all the associated mythology were based on fact. Ligotti himself once called "20 Simple Steps" "a kind of Necronomicon for ventriloquists," so perhaps things have come full circle for me.
The stories in "The Secret of Ventriloquism" seem to utilize a kind of Ligottian mythos in the same way Leiber and Campbell used a kind of Lovecraftian mythos. What does Ligotti's writings mean to you as an author and reader?
Ligotti is my favorite prose writer, living or dead—the one fiction author, more than any other before or since, that speaks to and for me. His fiction nearly always transports my imagination and—paradoxically
considering the subject matter—produces a great sense of well-being, relief and calm in me. To quote Ligotti's "The Cocoons," when I read Tom's stories I feel a "...great sense of escape from the poles of fear and madness ...as if I could exist serenely outside the grotesque ultimatums of creation, an entranced spectator casting a clinical gaze at the chaotic tumult both around and within him." I invariably leave those tales feeling calm and aware and even ecstatic. Ligotti's stories are like Transcendental Meditation for me, which probably explains at least in part my obsession with the horror of compulsive thinking and its cure via a Ligottian shattering of identity.
In The Secret to Ventriloquism, I've concentrated on what Ligotti has called a "salvation by way of meticulous derangement." I'm interested in the idea of redemption/epiphany through horror. In my collection, anyway, that's the flavor of choice. I have no idea if this element will remain in my future work or if the writing of The Secret of Ventriloquism has exorcised it from my imagination.
Being the main entity behind Thomas Ligotti Online, you have been involved with the horror community for a long time, what are your views on where the horror fiction scene is right now?
It's humbling and frankly hard to believe that we're about to move into the nineteenth year of Thomas Ligotti Online's existence. What began as a simple fan site I created in 1998 has transformed into a robust online community with thousands of members. That never would've happened without my co-conspirator and fellow administrator, Brian Poe.
In terms of the horror fiction scene… There are remarkable works of horror fiction being produced by authors such as the magnificently original Livia Llewellyn, the incredible prose craftsmen, Laird Barron and John Langan, the bizarre and wonderful Jordan Krall, and Ligottian standouts Nicole Cushing and Mark Samuels. There are, of course, many other exceptional horror authors, but these are some of the very best. My favorite of the exceptional new crop of horror authors is Christopher Slatsky, whose debut collection, Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales, knocked me off my feet and who continues to write some of the most affecting and powerful weird tales in the business.
All that stated, I believe it's all too easy (and inaccurate) to claim that we're in any kind of creative Golden Age. Mainstream horror continues to be too generic, too easy, and—honestly—too lazy. The weird and speculative small press world is consistently outclassing most of the big bestselling publishers, but plenty of mediocre writing and cut corners are present there as well.
In a sense, though, it's the same as it ever was. Exceptional, well-crafted writing is never the norm in the publishing world.
Reading your stories in The Secret of Ventriloquism, I must say most of them leave the reader with the same feeling as if they had just ingested some bad hallucinogens, what do you feel the role of delirium and unease are in horror?
I'd say that the production of unease is key to effective horror, and delirium is an effective (though optional) element in that production. The more authentic the distillation of unease, the more powerful the horror story. That's why Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann" and Ligotti's "The Red Tower" always rank high when assessing both writers' oeuvre. Derangement of what we consider "the natural order of
things" awakens the reader to an alternate reality behind the compulsive day to day thought-creations that we call normal living. Unease and delirium in an effective horror story leads to lingering awareness—the more troubling, the better. For me, as a reader, it's equivalent to our subconscious minds working out waking world troubles via surreal, dread-filled nightmares. Mindfully experienced, these can be transformative experiences.
The Halloween season is upon us, do you have any go to favorite horror films that you watch this time of year?
I honestly don't watch horror films on a seasonal basis—I watch them all year round as the mood strikes me. I'll dispense with the usual list of horror film favorites and speak only of a couple of less popular and more unusual ones. Carpenter's Prince of Darkness is an unsung Lovecraftian classic that gets too little respect. And one of the best horror films I've ever seen (speaking of an atmosphere of unease) is the magnificently filmed and written Session 9.
What are some horror fiction collections that inspired you to try your hand at creating one?
Christopher Slatsky's aforementioned collection, Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales, was a tremendous inspiration. It gave me confidence that a newer writer on the scene could produce truly strange and memorable and distinctive work. Ligotti's Grimscribe influenced me most. Specifically, those stories (and the characters within them) are closely linked to one another and seem to exist in the same dread-filled and oneiric world. The publisher wanted a novel from Ligotti, and these stories were Tom's solution—the closest thing to a novel he was interested in writing at the time. Grimscribe gave me permission to write my collection my own way.
I was hoping to produce both the weird, fragment derangement of a horror collection along with some measure of novelistic world-immersion.
What's next from Jon Padgett? Any new work coming you can talk about? And where do you want to go with your writing?
I wrote the final story for The Secret of Ventriloquism literally three weeks ago, so I'm still kind of lost in the collection.
I'm a professional voiceover artist as well as a writer (and ventriloquist), so the next step is to produce an audio version of the book. I hope to have it complete and ready for purchase alongside the hardcopy and digital versions by mid-November.
Where do I go from here as an author? I'm honestly leaving concerns about that to my future self. But I have no doubt that more stories will come. And this time they won't take twenty years for me to write.
Posted by Scott Dwyer at 6:54 PM
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Southern Baptist Convention. Woman's Missionary Union.
The meeting, in the basement of the Broad Street Methodist Church in Richmond, Virginia on May 11, 1888 was held for the purpose of organizing a national woman's mission organization as auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention. The original name of the organization as defined in its constitution presented May 18, 1888 was Executive Committee of the Woman's Mission Societies (Auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention). By 1890 the name had changed to Woman's Missionary Union, auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention. See Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, 1958, v.2.