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11-02-2021, 01:35 AM - 2 Likes   #106
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A small spark of joy in a pretty gloomy world.

Appeal after trick-or-treaters bring Newcastle grandma gifts - BBC News

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on way home to UK - BBC News
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I have some good news!! Oldest son just graduated with a Master’s of Library Science from UNC Greensboro!!! Yes!!

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Cheers Paul!

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Far too much bad news in the world presently and little positive to break the monotony.So hears a heart-warming story from the past:

https://www.loudersound.com/news/freddie-mercury-once-hired-a-limo-to-bring-...shi-restaurant
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This could be a big one!

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Over 50 dead in the Northeast US from a severe winter storm, but Sha'Kyra Aughtry & others (wish I had all their names) managed to save one man...


"BUFFALO, NY -- As a powerful storm battered western New York with blinding blizzard conditions in the early hours of Christmas Eve, a Buffalo woman jumped into action when she saw a man who was caught in the storm.
Sha'Kyra Aughtry said she was home when she heard someone screaming on her street. When she looked out her window, she saw a man calling for help in the frigid cold.
Aughtry's boyfriend carried the man, 64-year-old Joe White, into the house, and she used a blow dryer to melt the ice off his red and blistered hands and used a "grass cutter" to take his rings off, she said in a Facebook livestream.
When the Buffalo woman tried to call emergency responders for help, no one came, she said. And without a background in medical care, Aughtry said she became worried for his safety."


Buffalo woman saves 64-year-old stranger with severe frostbite by getting him out of blinding blizzard conditions in New York - ABC7 Chicago
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An innovative way to beat spiralling energy costs


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QuoteOriginally posted by que es tu Quote
I have some good news!! Oldest son just graduated with a Master’s of Library Science from UNC Greensboro!!! Yes!!
That’s a great achievement, my daughter is considering entering that program in 2023.
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That’s a great achievement, my daughter is considering entering that program in 2023.
It is a good fit for him. I tease him a little and say he just sits around all day getting paid to read books!! But seriously, I have been surprised at how much librarians do, and, as an avid reader myself, pleased that libraries have remained relevant in a “plugged in” world!
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A very niche/selfish one.Today my football (soccer) team got promotion after four miserable years languishing in the third tier of the English Leagues.

Ipswich Town 6-0 Exeter City: Tractor Boys promoted to Championship with win - BBC Sport

And they did it in style!!
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My niche news is in April's electric bill period, my solar panels generated 497 kWh more than I used. That went back into the grid, so my neighbors got some cleaner electric power, equal to not burning about 250kg of coal.
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