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PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF DEHISCENCE OF ANASTOMOSE SUTURES IN PATIENTS WITH ONCOPATHOLOGY
It should be recognized that the creation of optimal conditions for healing of intestinal sutures is the main reserve for improving the results of surgical intervention on the organs of the gastrointestinal tract. The urgent issues of pathophysiology associated with oncopathology remain the inability of seams of anastomosis and stomaty. The purpose of the work is to determine the pathophysiological mechanisms and criterion-significant indicators of inability to sew anastomosis. In the study of this issue, an analysis of the immediate results of treatment of 74 patients, which was a test group, which operative treatment was performed in a radical volume. Patients were divided into two groups according to the anastomosis failure: Group Іa - patients who had been operated on for gastric cancer and who had anastomosis failure - 16 patients, II group 58 patients - who had been surgically inoperative and had not been diagnosed insolvency The patients of each group were divided into four subgroups, depending on the presence of instability of microsatellites in the locuses of the VAT-25, VAT-26. The presence of Streptococcus Bovis stomach cancer patients may be an early marker of disease progression. The leading metabolic profile of microbiocenosis in the development of stomach cancer is the significant accumulation of biogenic amines. The analysis of the results of the study shows that the failure of anastomosis in patients with gastric cancer is accompanied by profound disorders of the metabolism of connective tissue and is confirmed by increased activity of elastase, collagenolithic activity of blood serum and its content of glycosaminoglycans. The activity of elastase and glycosaminoglycans may be a prognostic criterion for insufficiency of seams in the course of treatment.
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An authentic Batmobile from Batman Returns will go to the highest bidder at the 38th annual Kruse International auction in Indiana over the Labor Day weekend.
The prop vehicle from Tim Burton's 1992 Batman movie is helping generate heat for this year's sale, which is expected to draw 175,000, according to a Kruse representative who said "this will be the largest Auburn Fall Collector Car Auction in the history of Kruse."
Similar, but less valuable, Batmobiles have drawn as much as $550,000, according to the auction house.
The Dark Knight-inspired Joker mania probably isn't hurting anything either.
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- Was prohibition a failure?
- Why was Prohibition seen as a failure?
- What was the problem with prohibition?
- What did prohibition do to society during the 1920s?
- Who was president when Prohibition started?
- Who was responsible for Prohibition?
- What started prohibition?
- Did prohibition Cause the Great Depression?
- What are three reasons Prohibition failed?
- Why was the 18th Amendment repealed?
- Did people vote Prohibition?
- What were the final results of prohibition?
- Why was prohibition a failure quizlet?
- Why did prohibition fail and why was it repealed?
- Why was the 18th Amendment created?
- What was positive about Prohibition?
Was prohibition a failure?
The policy was a political failure, leading to its repeal in 1933 through the 21st Amendment.
There’s also a widespread belief that Prohibition failed at even reducing drinking and led to an increase in violence as criminal groups took advantage of a large black market for booze..
Why was Prohibition seen as a failure?
Prohibition ultimately failed because at least half the adult population wanted to carry on drinking, policing of the Volstead Act was riddled with contradictions, biases and corruption, and the lack of a specific ban on consumption hopelessly muddied the legal waters.
What was the problem with prohibition?
Nationally, the homicide rate per 100,000 people rose almost two-thirds during Prohibition. Prohibition created more crime. It destroyed legal jobs and created a black market over which criminals violently fought. It also diverting money from the enforcement of other laws.
What did prohibition do to society during the 1920s?
Prohibition was a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933. … Prohibition led directly to the rise of organized crime. The Twenty-first Amendment, ratified in December 1933, repealed Prohibition.
Who was president when Prohibition started?
President Woodrow WilsonPassage of the Prohibition Amendment In 1917, after the United States entered World War I, President Woodrow Wilson instituted a temporary wartime prohibition in order to save grain for producing food.
Who was responsible for Prohibition?
President Woodrow WilsonOn October 28, 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act, the popular name for the National Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto. The act established the legal definition of intoxicating liquors as well as penalties for producing them.
What started prohibition?
Prohibition was the attempt to outlaw the production and consumption of alcohol in the United States. The call for prohibition began primarily as a religious movement in the early 19th century – the state of Maine passed the first state prohibition law in 1846, and the Prohibition Party was established in 1869.
Did prohibition Cause the Great Depression?
As we mentioned, Prohibition created a vast illegal market for the production, trafficking and sale of alcohol. In turn, the economy took a major hit, thanks to lost tax revenue and legal jobs. … The start of the Great Depression (1929-1939) caused a huge change in American opinion about Prohibition.
What are three reasons Prohibition failed?
Why Prohibition Failed. Prohibition opened the door for organized crime involving the smuggling and boot-legging of alcohol into the country. Speakeasies became very common, and bribery of law officials became very common. … To make up for this deficit, Prohibition was repealed so alcohol could be taxed.
Why was the 18th Amendment repealed?
The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on December 5, 1933. … The Eighteenth Amendment was the product of decades of efforts by the temperance movement, which held that a ban on the sale of alcohol would ameliorate poverty and other societal issues.
Did people vote Prohibition?
After a significant Prohibition movement that had lasted for almost a century, the US government voted on the issue in 1917….ForAgainstSenate – Republican78.4%21.6%Senate – Democrat75%25%House of Representatives – Republican69%31%House of Representatives – Democrat68.8%31.2%Jan 16, 2020
What were the final results of prohibition?
The Greatest Consequence The effects of Prohibition on law enforcement were also negative. … The growth of the illegal liquor trade under Prohibition made criminals of millions of Americans. As the decade progressed, court rooms and jails overflowed, and the legal system failed to keep up.
Why was prohibition a failure quizlet?
There were not enough officers to enforce it; the law enforcement was corrupted by organised crime and there were too many Americans who wanted to drink alcohol. … The US border with Canada was 6,416 km. Its border with Mexico was 3,141 km. You just studied 11 terms!
Why did prohibition fail and why was it repealed?
Tens of thousands of people died because of prohibition-related violence and drinking unregulated booze. The big experiment came to an end in 1933 when the Twenty-first Amendment was ratified by 36 of the 48 states. … One of the main reasons Prohibition was repealed was because it was an unenforceable policy.
Why was the 18th Amendment created?
The Eighteenth Amendment emerged from the organized efforts of the temperance movement and Anti-Saloon League, which attributed to alcohol virtually all of society’s ills and led campaigns at the local, state, and national levels to combat its manufacture, sale, distribution, and consumption.
What was positive about Prohibition?
Reduced public drunkenness. Families had a little more money (workers not “drinking their paycheck). Led to more money spent on consumer goods. Alcohol use by young people rose sharply.

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If there’s one thing that Owen Finegan has learned during his time as chief executive of The Kids’ Cancer Project, it’s that cancer doesn’t discriminate.
The former Brumby and international rugby union star speaks to families dealing with disease constantly through his work, but hearing about each new case never gets easier. “In June this year, one of my son's classmates at school was diagnosed with cancer,” he says.
“He's in my son's club rugby team here, the Coogee Seahorses, he's in my son's school, I went to school with his father. It's indiscriminate.”
But since the news of the 12-year-old’s plight has rippled through the local community, there has already been a community head-shave, raising $55,000.
"That was local club rugby, and then because I coach at Randwick, first grade, the under-20s team all decided to shave their heads. I'd be surprised if over the juniors and seniors, over 100 people didn't get their head shaved."
There is a note of awe in his voice: for all his stature on the field, Finegan is constantly inspired by the types of people he’s met as a matter of course throughout his post-playing career.
Nicknamed “Melon” because of the size of his head, he played 90 Super 12 matches for the Brumbies, and led Australia to victory in the 1999 Rugby World Cup.
He retired from playing in 2007, and three years later became chief executive of Snowy Hydro Southcare, the aero-rescue helicopter based in Canberra. It’s a job he “stumbled into” because by then, he had a business background. “I had a facility management business in Canberra, and playing in the Brumbies I had the chance to do a degree and two master's, and educate myself while I was playing with a bit of business experience,” he says.
But while he always had an eye to the future, he had no inkling that he would one day be so closely embedded in the local community. It’s the same community he has always been a part of, but instead of the sporting greats, the champions for him are children with leukaemia, neuroblastoma and around a dozen other childhood cancers.
They are also the parents and siblings battling alongside their sick kids, and, in many cases, the families left behind after their children have died.
"You actually see the plight of these families, and it's really heart-wrenching to see these people continuing to do something,” he says.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, with a focus on the 20 per cent of children diagnosed who don't make it; it's a statistic Finegan quotes often, to hammer home the fact that cancer is the biggest killer of Australian children by disease. More than 100 young people will die of it this year alone.
By the time Finegan took on the role at The Kids’ Cancer Project, leaving Canberra after 20 years - he considered himself a Canberran by then - he was already familiar with the terrifying affect childhood cancer can have. Fellow Brumby David Giffen’s two-year-old son Joseph was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer, in 2004.
“He wasn't sleeping well at night,” says Finegan of Joseph.
“It was a few GP visits, and then they finally went to Canberra Hospital and got diagnosed with neuroblastoma, stage 4, which is fairly significant, means it's fairly well developed, and the treatment started.”
Joseph is a now a teenager - he survived the cancer, but it took many years of treatment and several near-death experiences before he was declared cancer-free. At one stage, the Canberra-based family lived in Finegan’s sister’s house in Sydney to be closer to Joseph in the hospital.
It’s these cases, and many others that are diagnosed every year in Australia, that The Kids Cancer Project has been set up to tackle. Founded in 1993 by tour bus driver Col Reynolds, the charity’s mission is to support scientific research that targets childhood cancer treatments, with the goal of one day having a 100 per cent survival rate for children with cancer, as well as eliminating the harmful impact of cancer treatments.
Finegan loves to tell Reynolds’ story, that one day, while driving his bus, he drove past the children’s hospital in Camperdown and saw two bald kids holding hands. After parking his bus and going inside to investigate, he decided to start taking these kids on day trips - to the zoo, the circus - as a way of brightening their days. He also, over the years, attended dozens of funerals, until, after one of the services, an oncologist showed him an empty, unfunded research laboratory, and urged him to focus on fundraising to help stop the children dying in the first place.
The Kids’ Cancer Project was founded with a focus on cutting edge scientific research, and over the last 14 years has contributed $40 million to scientific research.
"Our tagline is ‘science, solutions, survival’. When you look at the care side, there's Camp Quality, Make A Wish, Starlight - our niche is cancer research, specifically childhood cancer,” Finegan says.
“Last financial year, we had 33 research projects across 17 institutions in Australia that we're funding. And they're amazing scientists.”
Read more: Research projects currently funded by The Kids' Cancer Project.
He says the thought of Reynolds stopping his bus all those years ago has inspired him in his current role, to use his sporting profile and considerable networks to raise money and awareness.
“It gets tough asking people for money all the time,” he says. “I found it harder when I was in Canberra and the money was going to my business, whereas I know I'm asking for money and I'm not getting it, it's going instead to a really good cause. It's kids and it's cancer and people are happy to support it.”
He talks about the family of six-year-old Evie Weir, who died just before Christmas (2017) of neuroblastoma. Her parents are still running events, and raising money each September for (Childhood) Cancer Awareness Month. Meanwhile, the Kane family, whose eight-year-old son Declan died in May (2017), are about to ride 600 kilometres from Bridgetown to Perth on motorised scooters dressed as superheroes, on a special fundraising mission.
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"These are people that have lost their kids within two years, but they're still passionate, and they don't want to see other families going through the same thing that they went through,” Finegan says. “When you see that, you get inspired about what you're doing."
The Kids’ Cancer Project thank Sally Pryor, reporter at The Canberra Times, for writing this article and Fairfax Media’s permission to republish it. Read the original article.

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"Excessive" charges applying to savers accessing their retirement savings will be banned under new plans by City watchdogs to impose a 1pc cap on fees when over 55s withdraw their money.
Following a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigation which found that at least six British pension firms applied charges to customers' pensions without telling them, as many as two million savers could have eye-watering exit fees of up to 40pc of their retirement funds waived.
For future contracts early exit fees, which typically apply if someone tries to withdraw their pension between the ages of 55 and 65, on pension funds will be banned all together.
The move is a major victory for the Telegraph which has campaigned for years on the issue of early exit charges on pensions. This newspaper was the first to point out that the penalties - costing savers huge chunks of their pension pot - made a mockery of the Government's proposed "pension freedoms".
In a detailed proposal published today, the FCA said new personal pensions and work pensions should not be allowed to apply any penalties to savers who want to access the money in their pension pot after age 55.
Such exit penalties were written into millions of pension and other policies sold in the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties. Insurance companies included the clause to ensure they could recoup the cost of generous commissions paid to salesmen.
The FCA said penalties for existing savers with older pension plans should be capped at 1pc of the pension pot's value.
This will be a blow for pension providers, but welcome news for savers wanting to withdraw cash from their pensions under the Government's new freedoms.
This swept away the need for many to buy costly and unpopular annuities.
It also meant that many savers wanted to bring forward the point at which they accessed their pension cash.
But as Telegraph Money immediately pointed out, many people were prevented from doing so by hefty charges levied by their provider. This led to our campaign "Make Pension Freedoms Work".
The hefty charges mostly applied to old-style personal pensions sold by large insurance companies in the Eighties and Nineties.
Capping the exit fees at 1pc was seen as only a partial victory by some commentators.
Tom McPhail, pension expert at broker Hargreaves Lansdown, said: “Exit penalties have no place in the modern pension savings system. But this cap does not go far enough.
"The fee should be capped at 0pc and this would benefit a further 150,000 investors.
"A 1pc cap is something of a victory for corporate vested interests."
At insurer LV, which operates some pension plans were penalties apply, director John Perks said: “Clamping down on excessive exit fees is the right thing to do.
"We only have exit fees for a limited number of legacy pensions."
Alex Neill of Which?, the consumer lobby group, said: "People shouldn't be unfairly penalised for accessing their money.
"This announcement is a good first step and the regulator must now turn its attention to other charges people face when trying to make the most of the pension freedoms."

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|Dina Bennett (right) shows the girls (Maddie, left) evidence of a squirrel's recent visit.|
|Maddie: Flag bearer of the day.|
I pretty much know what the middle school girls are doing because Maddie and I did a day of it last summer. This, of course, is more intensive and is specifically for young girls. The camp was my friend Dina Bennett's idea. She and her husband Reggie run the camp and are experts in the outdoors (Reggie has long been considered one of the nation's premier outdoorsmen).
It is a skill, confidence, assertiveness and self-esteem builder for these girls. It is also a lot of work and, one would hope, a great deal of fun.
Here is a bit of what they were doing today.
|Dina fills a small pool in order to do a water test. There was no standing water.|
|Dina explains the kind of wood to look for when starting a fire.|
|Hiking up a steep hill to the camp atop the mountain.|
|A good piece of firewood has been found.|
|Don't eat the mushrooms. Just enjoy their pretty colors.|
|Hiking around a big puddle. The camp is at the top.|
|This is the outdoor classroom, beneath a parachute.|
|This is a shelter the girls built Tuesday.|
|An introduction to fire, Dina at the blackboard.|
|The girls find a leaf bug on one of their pup tents.|
|Pup tents do a lot, including catching rainwater if all the knots are tied properly.|
|Inside is a leaf-filled sleeping bag, home-made.|
|Gathered around the fireplace to learn how to build a good one. Dina's cutting wood.|
|Split the wood.|
|'Tweens in class.|
|A guarded class.|
|Dina's fire-starter kit.|
|Maddie's super-hero cape: Animal Whisperer. Each of the kids made one and ID'd herself as a super hero.|

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text: I first saw Dave Alvin perform in the mid-90s and found deep inspiration in his writing and playing. At least once a year I would see him perform live and the inspiration would be rejuvenated. When I got the call to play this particular gig I was surprised and thrilled. It was a real honor to be on stage with him and the wonderful Christy McWilson for City Winery Chicago’s musical opening night, not to mention being there with the incredible Robbie Fulks and Rob Gjersoe. The Chicago Tribune published a review of the show.

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Arttu Ollikainen is finishing his studies at the Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki with his teachers Hui-Ying Liu-Tawaststjerna and Teppo Koivisto. In 2020-2021 Ollikainen studied at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts with professor Jan Jiracek von Arnim. Ollikainen is a versatile musician and has performed solo recitals, chamber music and as an orchestra soloist in Finland and in Europe. In 2022 he was selected to participate in the Maj Lind International Piano Competition as one of the only two Finnish pianists.
For a couple of years (2013-2015) before university-level studies Ollikainen participated in the Youth Piano Academy program, which acted as an important motivator towards a career in music.


text: Prolific director John Carpenter takes on the vampire genre in his action-horror film VAMPIRES. Bitter, tough-as-nails vampire hunter Jack Crow (James Woods) leads a specialized team, funded by no less than the Vatican, that is dedicated to destroying the race of vampires that inhabit the earth. The team is successful, and becomes lazy in its success, eventually falling victim to an elaborate ambush set up by a powerful master vampire. Crow and two others of his team are the only survivors, and are determined to get revenge for the massacre. Carpenter takes the genre to new heights with powerful action scenes, nifty vampire-killing weapons and great special effects. James Woods is wonderfully over the top as the head vampire hunter who has no love for the Vatican and a mysterious past that is never far behind him. VAMPIRES is based on the book by John Steakley, adapted for the screen by Don Jakoby. The score is creepy and powerful, a typical characteristic for a Carpenter film.

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ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) – A researcher killed in an apparent murder-suicide was close to “making very significant findings” related to the coronavirus, his department at the University of Pittsburgh said.
Two shootings that happened over the weekend in Ross Township appear to be a murder-suicide, according to police.
On May 2, police said 37-year-old Dr. Bing Liu was found dead in his home on Elm Court from apparent gunshot wounds to his head, neck and torso. Investigators say they now believe his death is a homicide.
A second man, later identified as Hao Gu, was also found dead in his car on Charlemagne Circle, near Elm Court. Police say it appears he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
According to police, the two victims knew each other. Investigators say they believe the male found in his car shot and killed the man in the Elm Court home before coming back to his car and taking his own life.
Ross Township detectives are continuing to investigate the circumstances and motives for the crime. They said Tuesday that there appears to be no indication the researcher’s death had any connection to his work.
Coronavirus In Pittsburgh: Researcher Killed In Apparent Murder-Suicide Was Close To 'Making Very Significant Findings' Related To COVID-19, Pitt Says
A researcher killed in an apparent murder-suicide was close to "making very significant findings" related to the coronavirus, his department said.


Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also said that although the campaign will formally begin from October 18, people should start switching off their engines at the signals right away.
With pollution levels rising in the national capital once again, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday said the ‘Red Light On, Gaadi Off’ campaign launched last year to encourage people to turn off their engines at signals will be reintroduced from October 18 this year.
The CM also said that although the campaign will formally begin from October 18, people should start switching off their engines at the signals right away.
Over the past three to four days, pollution in Delhi has increased, Kejriwal said. “Delhi’s own pollution is within the safe limit all year. But at this time of the year, the levels increase. The governments of the neighbouring states have not helped their farmers and they are forced to burn stubble. NASA satellite data shows that stubble burning has begun and pollution in Delhi has increased,” he said.
In the past seven to eight years, PM10 and PM2.5 levels have reduced by 25% in Delhi, Kejriwal claimed, adding, “We need to try and reduce our own pollution further to prevent the pollution from outside from affecting our health.”
The Chief Minister made appeals to the public to try and reduce pollution. “At least once a week, people must try to avoid using their own vehicles. They can use public transport or try carpooling,” he said. He also said experts have said this method will help reduce pollution levels and also save fuel.
“People must also become the government’s eyes and ears and report instances of pollution, whether of garbage burning or industrial pollution, on the Green Delhi mobile app,” Kejriwal said.
The government had recently launched a 10-point Winter Action Plan to deal with pollution during the season. The plan includes measures to mitigate dust pollution and prevent stubble burning.
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Parslow wraps up career at Sage
ALBANY — Caitlin Corbett scored a game high 23 points with four assists to lead Hartwick College to a 67-58 women’s basketball victory over The Sage Colleges at Kahl Gym Monday night. It was the final regular-season game for both teams.
With the victory, the Hawks (21-4, 14-2 in the Empire 8) clinched the top seed in the upcoming Empire 8 Tournament. Nazareth, St. John Fisher and Stevens will join the Hawks in the league playoffs. Sage completed the season 12-13 overall and 7-9 in the Empire 8.
Sage was led by senior guard Emily Parslow (Fonda-Fultonville), who scored 18 points, including five made three pointers, and also added eight rebounds. Parslow, who is Sage’s all-time three-point leader, finishes her illustrious career with 256 and broke the single-season three-point record as well this month as she had 86 this year. Parslow wraps up her Gator career ranked third all-time in scoring with her 1,370 points.
The contest marked the conclusion of four Sage women’s basketball seniors, Parslow, Macie Holmes (Mekeel Christian), Lauren Cross (Moriah), and Danielle Stannard (Hoosic Valley). This foursome helped the Gators to a league regular-season crown as rookies, a conference championship and an NCAA bid as sophomores, while earning a spot in the 2017-2018 Empire tournament in their first year in the new conference, while combining for over 2,200 points while combining for a 71-36 record during their time in a Sage uniform.


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'We're all just Pittsfielders': Working Cities Pittsfield celebrates two years
PITTSFIELD — Hop on any local online comment board and you'll find no shortage of people bashing the city of Pittsfield.
For these people, Alisa Costa has a message: Come to Working Cities Wednesdays.
Every fourth Wednesday, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., community members gather to brainstorm solutions to city problems and ways to realize them. Tearing down Pittsfield on Facebook isn't the best way to fix things, Costa said.
"We're not communicating in ways that are productive for the city," she said. "Everyone has gifts to give. We all care about the places we live."
Working Cities Pittsfield is a platform for community aspirations, said Costa, the initiative's director. It's geared to bolstering Pittsfield, especially the West Side and Morningside neighborhoods, with money from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The initiative celebrated its two-year anniversary Wednesday.
Costa said the grant program stems from research suggesting that of postindustrial cities across the country, the ones that most successfully "bounced back" were those with stronger community connections.
Costa said residents participating in Working Cities have created several projects, such as a Pittsfield bike-ride program, a Berkshire flash mob and a group working together to tackle street safety issues in West Side.
The initiative also launched a program called Getting Ahead, an eight-week course on financial literacy and understanding how certain systems perpetuate the cycle of poverty.
Sherrie McGregor said the program changed the way she thought about her finances.
"I just wanted to find a way to get myself back on track again," she said. "I learned how to budget. I got more creative with my finances. It helped me a lot."
McGregor said she learned how stay on top of her finances, and has since been able to improve her credit. She said she learned "I didn't have to be stuck in my situation." She said she had gotten sick, and her finances went into a downward spiral.
"I had gotten into such a rut," she said.
Now, McGregor is working for Working Cities as a community navigator.
Costa said the idea behind Working Cities is to break down barriers for people, and connect those in the city who have needs with resources that are in place to help them.
"Poverty can be isolating," she said. "When you don't have enough resources, you need a lot more people in your sphere."
Carolyn Valli, executive director of Central Berkshire Habitat for Humanity, said the initial grant for Working Cities Pittsfield was for $480,000 over three years, which the initiative has used to hire community navigators like McGregor and to support residents in their pursuit of a better quality of life. She said Working Cities just landed an additional $280,000 from Habitat for Humanity International to continue the work.
She said the community navigators are going door to door and asking neighbors what they'd like to see, and helping them connect with resources.
"There's a whole lot of things happening in the Berkshires," Valli said. "Not everybody knows about it."
Valli said her organization is in no way leading this effort, but rather providing peripheral support.
"It's really important that the community owns this work and not any agency," she said.
People from all types of organizations and walks of life participate in the monthly brainstorming sessions, but Costa said there are no titles allowed.
Here, she said, "we're all just Pittsfielders."
Amanda Drane can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.org, @amandadrane on Twitter,and 413-496-6296.
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UPDATE: Woman, 35, charged with murder of man, 41, in Allerton
Police investigating the death of a man in Bradford last night charged a woman with murder.
The 41-year-old man, named locally as Scott Dunne, died at a block of flats in Allerton after reports of a “disturbance” in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Late last night Alexia Heckles, 35, was charged with murder and is due to appear at Bradford Magistrates Court this morning.


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Yesterday we had the fifth Tunisian blogger meetup in Kelibia.
The meetups keep getting longer and longer; yesterday’s meetup started at 10AM, when we met in the Abou Nawas Hotel parking, and went on to midnight.
By the time, we got home, we just headed straight to bed. There was no way we could blog about it, lol…
It was a really great meetup and so much fun. The best one up to now.
Kelibia is so beautiful and El Mansourah restaurant, the place we met, had lunch and swam in, is just breathtakingly amazing.
10 people made it to this meetup, which is pretty good considering that Kelibia is 100Kms away. We could have taken more people with us if they came to the Abou Nawas hotel parking as I suggested, as we actually left with place for 3 to 4 more bloggers.
The blogs represented in this meetup were: Adib, Evil Drako, Blogeuse, Marouen, Mouse Hunter, La Guilde, AquaCool, Subzero Blue.
We had 2 non-bloggers with us, who we are pushing to start blogs of their own soon 😉
We really missed all the people who couldn’t make it to the meetup. I hope we get to see you all very soon 🙂
We talked about a lot of stuff as usual, but this is maybe the meetup in which we talked the least about blogging, lol.
I guess we were too relaxed and loving the place to talk about technology and internet stuff.
So, what did we do?
We went to El Mansourah restaurant, where our dear Adib reserved a table for us right next to the water. We went down and started swimming as the other bloggers arrived.
When everyone was there, we ordered the food and then went back swimming.
We had our quite expensive lunch, then dived back into the water.
Then we had our desserts, paid and headed to the Kelibia fortress, a historical site overlooking all of Kelibia, that was built back in the Punic era. It’s huge, and it was really nice visiting it, it added a cultural side to our meetup.
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Kidnapped son of former Janta Dal (United) leader found murdered
A 14-year-old boy’s captors allegedly killed him by slitting his throat hours after kidnapping him from Bihar’s Siwan for ransom on Wednesday to recover money lost to betting on the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches, police said.
Siwan superintendent of police (SP) Navin Chandra Jha said Rahul Kumar, a class 7 student at a local Kendriya Vidyalaya, was killed as his kidnappers feared they would be caught as police were on their trail.
Rahul Kumar’s father, Surendra Patel, who was a Janata Dal (United) leader, too, was murdered in 2006. Kumar’s mother, Sangita Patel, is a councillor.
Jha said the police were informed about the kidnapping around 8.44 pm on Wednesday minutes after the boy’s family received a ransom call. He added the family suspected involvement of Vicky Kumar, 24, a neighbour of theirs. “Vicky Kumar was detained from his house in Bangali-Pakdi around 9.30 pm. He named his cousin, Pappu Kumar, 32, who was also detained soon after.”
The two led the police to Rahul Kumar’s body, which was recovered around 2.30 am on Thursday from an agricultural filed, about three kilometers from the minor’s residence. A mobile phone used to make the ransom call, a blood-soaked trouser and a knife with blood stains were also recovered from Vicky Kumar’s house, according to the Siwan SP
Inspector general N H Khan said Vicky Kumar called Rahul Kumar to his place and then abducted him. “A forensic team has been sent to the crime scene to gather more evidence. I have also directed the authorities to zero in on those involved with the IPL betting racket in the area.”
SP Jha said two more accused, Abhishek Kumar, 19, and Abhinav Kumar Singh, 23, were also arrested on Wednesday night.
All the four accused have confessed to the crime during interrogation, according to Jha. They told their interrogators that the IPL betting prompted them to kidnap Rahul Kumar. The Siwan SP said Abhishek Kumar and Singh had lost “big money” to the betting.
According to the police complaint lodged in the case, Rahul Kumar’s uncle, Nagendra Patel, received the ransom call demanding 50 lakh for the boy’s release around 8.30 pm. Rahul Kumar had earlier on Wednesday gone missing after leaving for school.
Kumar cousin, Rajeev Ranjan, reported the kidnapping to the police even as the ransom caller had threatened the family with dire consequences if they informed the cops, the complaint said.
Police said the kidnappers slit Kumar’s throat and injured his right eye with a knife.


Hopkins recorded the piano instrumental in just one take.
The new track follows the electronic artist’s 2018 LP Singularity.
It’s their first time working together.
The Cure, The National, Bon Iver, Vampire Weekend, Chemical Brothers, Iggy Pop, and Ms. Lauryn Hill set for Madrid mega festival.
Other notable acts include Miley Cyrus, Vampire Weekend, Chemical Brothers, Liam Gallagher, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Janelle Monáe, Wu-Tang Clan, and more.
Chemical Brothers, Christine and the Queens, Bon Iver, James Blake, Hot Chip, and Spiritualized also set to play London festival.
The lineup also boasts Rosalía, Kaytranada, Modeselektor, DJ Koze, Jon Hopkins, and more.
Last-minute inclusions Ariana Grande and Tame Impala feel like a buzzer-beating shot.
The lineup also promises Solange, Janelle Monáe, Billie Eilish, The 1975, Kid Cudi, and many more.
Plus: Smashing Pumpkins, Noel Gallagher, The 1975, Greta Van Fleet, The Hives, Tash Sultana, Mogwai, and more.
Nick Cave, Björk, Lorde, Hinds, and more bring magic to the Spanish shore.
Durham, NC’s boutique festival thrives on uncompromising voices and unifying representation.


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The latest member of the state Air Resources Board, a low-key cardiologist from Fresno, won't be at today's board meeting to vote on a much-debated plan to reduce tiny particulate matter in the Valley's air.
But his influence will be felt all the same.
John Telles, recently appointed by the governor to serve on both the state board and the Valley's regional air-quality board, opposed the plan when it came before the local panel last month.
He joined Fresno City Council Member Henry T. Perea and Arvin Council Member Raji Brar in saying it was not aggressive enough. While the board approved the plan 8-3, longtime observers of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District said the number of dissenting votes signaled a significant shift in the board's attitude.
Telles, who was attending his first meeting of the local board, asked district staff pointed questions while thumbing through his obviously well-studied packet of information regarding regulations aimed at reducing PM-2.5 -- specks of debris so small that 30 of them could fit across the width of a human hair. They can pass through the lungs into the bloodstream, triggering asthma attacks and heart problems. They are known to cause early death.
Today in Fresno, the state air board will vote on the same plan. But Telles will be on the East Coast attending his son's graduation -- a conflict he told the Governor's Office about when he was appointed.
"My air board obligations are of the highest priority. I will not be attending the upcoming meeting in Fresno only because of something of even higher priority -- family," he e-mailed The Bee.
No 'rubber stamp process'
But even with the absence of Telles -- who represents the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District on the state board -- there likely will be questions exploring whether the air-cleaning plan goes as far as it could.
"This isn't a rubber-stamp process," said Leo Kay, spokesman for the California Air Resources Board. "No one is going to blame Dr. Telles for going to his kid's graduation. But it did happen to fall on a critical day for the San Joaquin Valley. Other board members are very aware of the heightened interest in the Valley about air quality. I expect they will ask questions he might have asked."
Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the state board, said she is well informed of Telles' opposition to passing the plan as-is.
"We know what he said, and we're going to be asking tough questions and listening to the public," she said.
"The plan meets tough legal requirements," Nichols said. "But, if there's a way to . . . make it tougher, we're going to be looking for ways to do that."
Point of agreement
Valley politics in something as complex as air pollution are not easily summed up. The one thing most agree on: The air is unhealthy.
On one end of the spectrum are environmentalists who believe the air can and must be cleaned up. They believe the health effects have reached a crisis point and that it's time for sweeping change and strong regulations.
"It's a question of who pays for the bad air. Is it the children and the old people who can't breathe? Do we pay through medical bills and quality of life, or do we start holding industry accountable?" asks Kathryn Phillips, manager of the Environmental Defense's Clean Air for Life campaign.
On the other side are those who say regulations already have helped improve air quality. They say oil, farming and other industries are expected to pay more than $20 billion over the next six years for new equipment and technologies.
They say the changes activists want made to the proposed plan -- such as no-farm days, converting diesel-fired irrigation pumps to electricity and early implementation of smog controls on trucks and farm equipment -- would cost farmers and others millions of dollars and result in negligible air improvement.
An attack on agriculture?
"An attack on the plan is an attack on agriculture," said Roger Isom, spokesman for the California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association.
"One big frustration is the idea that the ag community doesn't care about air quality. Nothing could be further from the truth," said Isom, who once worked for the air district. "But we're never going to get there in the time frame the environmentalists want. We aren't going to be able to breathe and we're not going to have jobs, if they get the things they want."
Traditionally, the Valley's air board has been sensitive to agricultural concerns.
Environmentalists complained for years that they were steamrolled at regional air board meetings. They said clean-air regulations were dead on arrival due to the influence of development, oil and agriculture on a board comprised of elected county supervisors.
Fresno County Supervisor Judy Case, who sits on the regional board and once held Telles' seat on the state board, said supervisors represent voters and were always looking for the right balance.
"It's a matter of degrees. How fast can we get, not just cleaner air -- but healthful air -- without harming our economy?" she said.
Hoping to break the power bloc of supervisors, activists lobbied successfully to expand the regional board by four positions, from 11 to 15, with two medical experts appointed by the governor -- the latter being a key goal of public health advocates. Telles is the first appointee.
After the state Senate rejected Case during the confirmation process for the state board, Gov. Schwarzenegger asked Telles also to fill that role.
A former president of the Fresno Madera Medical Society, Telles had spoken before to the regional air board on the health costs of dirty air. But he also grew up on a west-side farm, which some believed would make him familiar with ag issues.
Board-watchers say he was not a political animal and not the first choice of either environmentalists or industry interests. He was an unknown quantity at his first regional meeting.
Brent Newell, a lawyer with the Center for Race, Poverty and the Environment, a group that lobbied to create the new regional board positions, was floored by Telles' performance.
"I've been going to these meetings since 2001, and I had never seen anything like it. He challenged staff and asked specific questions fleshing out the plan. It felt really unusual.
"I'm sure those who represent the interests of oil, ag and development still feel a great deal of comfort about their position with the board. But there was a distinct shift at that meeting. Now, there are other strong voices that are going to be heard."
Isom, the cotton growers' representative, was bothered by some of Telles' questions.
In a report on his organization's Web site titled "Environmentalists Attack Agriculture at PM-2.5 Hearing," Isom wrote: "Dr. Telles, who was raised on a westside farm, even questioned the district on why mandatory electrification of ag pumps" was not feasible, as farmers contend.
State Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter, who led the opposition to Case's confirmation to the state board and sits on the legislative committee that will decide whether to confirm Telles' appointment to the state air board, was dismayed to learn that the cardiologist won't be at today's meeting.
Said Florez: "I think Dr. Telles, as a dissenter, as someone who opposed the district's plan and found it inadequate, can provide great insight. It's disappointing, to say the least, that he isn't able to participate."


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A wonderful new enterprise from the innovative Sirius Chamber Ensemble is their ‘Meet the Composer’ series. Christine Draeger and Paul Smith were the two featured composers in the 2014 project. It is rare now for an unfunded music group to be able to promote a concert wholly of new Australian works and for this alone Sirius is to be commended. Indeed, there was much to pleased about in this concert with excellent performances from the soloists and the ensemble.
Featured composer: Christine Draeger
Christine Draeger is one of the most important flute players in Australia having been a member for 25 years of the Seymour Group (later named the Sonic Art Ensemble) and having performed with several of our major orchestras. In this concert we heard works that were a bit flute biased but that is to be expected. Melissa Coleman expertly performed the most substantial of these, the Two Fires Suite (2005) for solo flute, inspired by 5 poems from the pen of Judith Wright. Exploring a wide range of emotions and styles Draeger allowed the texts to influence her music and for one who knows the whole kit and caboodle of contemporary woodwind techniques this work, as with her other compositions, was free of gimmicks and had an immediate appeal to the listener.
Aubade (2011) for flute and piano was a fine choice to open the concert with its hints of Aaron Copland and a spaciousness in its expression. Into Forever (2013) for oboe and piano was over so fast and I am sure it warrants an expansion as I felt it has much to offer. Lovely playing from oboist Alex Fontaine and pianist Claire Howard Race.
Banana (1996) for wind quintet was comic and short and I felt it could have easily been a soundtrack to a black and white TV cartoon from the ‘fifties. Fun!
For me the work from Draeger with the most intrigue was the Variations on a Patriotic Love Song (2014) commissioned by Melissa Coleman for the Sirius Chamber Ensemble and receiving its premiere. Based on a theme by her great, great uncle Carl Wilhelm Draeger, the modern day Draeger does homage with a finely crafted a set of variations for wind quintet, my personal favourites being the one with the bird-song racket and the hymn tune like finale with its hints of Brahmsian flavours.
Christine Draeger is a composer who obviously enjoys the process of writing music accessible to the widest audience and she does so with a thorough understanding of her chosen instruments.
Featured composer: Paul Smith
I Dream of Purple Lakes (2012) and Chasing Cherry Blossoms (2013) by Paul Smith brought a major tone colour change to the concert as both works had voice and in these performances the composer was most fortunate to have strong performances from soprano Taryn Srhoj and mezzo Jermaine Chau.
In I Dream of Purple Lakes Smith uses the Schubert Shepherd on the Rock instrument group of soprano, clarinet and piano. Though only quite short this work delivered at a leisurely pace becoming dramatic and here the performers, Srhoj, clarinettist Ian Sykes and pianist Claire Howard Race were fine interpreters.
The two singers were beautifully matched and appropriately powerful in Chasing Cherry Blossoms. It is a delight to hear such young singers taking on new works with such enthusiasm and expressiveness. Again quite short at about 5 minutes, Smith delivers music that is slightly affected by the American minimalist school with hints of Bizet in the vocal writing.
The major work by duration and scope was Smith’s The Death of Baldr (2014) and commissioned by Ian Sykes for the Sirius Chamber Ensemble. In 7 distinct sections this is a modern day tone poem based on Norse mythology. Again minimalism takes front and centre in much of the ensemble writing but in the second movement it was put to good use invoking the sounds of a speeding train entering and exiting a long tunnel. I know this is seriously outside Norse mythological times but that is what I summoned up in my imagination as it was unfolding. This music was a delight and I only wished that it would be developed to be about three times longer.
For me the most successful movement of this work was the flute solo where the composer displayed a commanding sense of shape and direction and again it was beautifully played by Melissa Coleman. And I must mention the polished solo playing of Ian Sykes, clarinet and pianist Claire Howard Race.
Mention must also be made of the other ensemble instrumentalists for their committed playing, hornist Julia Zeltzer, bassoonist Alison Evans and cellist Ezmi Pepper.
A theme in this concert from both composers was activism, with ecological, social and equality issues, but for the listener the music must stand on its own and the response from the good-sized audience was testament that the composers had succeeded.
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In 2007, Jones Valley Teaching Farm found its home on a 3-acre city block in the Central City neighborhood of downtown Birmingham. Jones Valley Teaching Farm established a new community garden and a farm center, broke ground on our first fields, and began to scale up our food- and farm-centered programming.
In 2016, with an established history of field trip programming and collaboration, Jones Valley Teaching Farm pursued John Herbert Phillips Academy as our newest partner school. We hired an instructor fully dedicated to designing and delivering programs to the school’s 900-plus pre-K–8th grade students, using the Downtown Farm Campus as a Teaching Farm and learning laboratory.
The southwest corner of the downtown campus hosts our farm stand and community garden. The community garden is utilized by our Good Community Food Fellowship and the farm stand is open to the public April-November.
Established: Spring 2013
Located in the Southside area of Birmingham, the Glen Iris Elementary School Teaching Farm was the first site constructed by Jones Valley Teaching Farm on a Birmingham City Schools campus. Principal Dr. Michael Wilson invited Jones Valley Teaching Farm to imagine bringing our Downtown Farm Campus experience to the playground and courtyard of his school. Today the playground is lined by raised beds brimming with produce. Muscadine arbors shade the sidewalks of the courtyard, blackberries climb the gym walls, and a teaching pavilion appears to float in the middle of a pond inhabited by fish and curious turtles.
In 2017, the site was enriched by the construction of a sheltered outdoor kitchen, with student seating and space to wash harvested vegetables and prepare snacks with student-grown produce.
Glen Iris Elementary serves more than 800 pre-K–5th grade students each year.
Established: Spring 2014
Located in the Oak Ridge Park neighborhood, the Teaching Farm at Henry J. Oliver Elementary is situated in the rear of the school in view of playgrounds and a well-loved basketball court. A raised mound is inset with an amphitheater that features tiers of student seating. Three storage structures house education, culinary, and farm supplies and are adjacent to a harvest washing station, constructed as an Eagle Scout service project. Fruit trees, both familiar and exotic, span from the school’s back door across the driveway, surrounding instruction and play spaces. The planting field has 30 beds for annual vegetable production, four steel-constructed raised beds that are home to sensory gardens, and many additional planting spaces where perennial herbs and flowers bring year-round interest. A shallow pond featuring a bridge, aquatic vegetation, and a small population of fish attracts students and the occasional great blue heron.
Henry J. Oliver Elementary serves more than 500 pre-K–5th grade students each year, and is a part of the Woodlawn High School pipeline.
Established: Fall 2014
Located high on a hilltop in the Forest Park neighborhood, the Teaching Farm at Avondale Elementary offers a wide view of the Birmingham skyline. Open to the field and playground on the school’s west side, a pollinator garden and long muscadine arbor leads students into the site, which features uniquely designed H-shaped raised beds that facilitate lesson delivery by allowing more students to get a closer view. A sheltered teaching space was added in 2015 through a Girl Scout Gold Award project. Two roll-top doors reveal education, culinary, and farm supplies in easy reach for Instructors and students. The Teaching Farm structure is bordered by a shaded pond and a “peace garden,” and the fence along back edge of the site is a mural of colorful food and farm-themed panels painted by students.
Avondale Elementary serves more than 500 pre-K–5th grade students each year, and is a part of the Woodlawn High School pipeline.
Established: Spring 2015
Located in the Eastwood neighborhood of Birmingham, the Teaching Farm at W.E. Putnam Middle School is an unexpected oasis tucked behind the school. As visitors approach the site, fish dart below aquatic plants in a clear pond as birds forage for seed on a sloped living, green roof that covers the outdoor classroom. The classroom contains tiers of wooden seating and a long work table that regularly accommodates culinary, science, and art experiments. Twenty-five raised vegetable beds fan out around a tennis court. Beyond the vegetables, flowering vines, towering sunflowers, and sprawling strawberries, evidence of project-based learning is everywhere from vermicomposting stations to an impressive student-designed greenhouse.
W.E. Putnam Middle School serves more than 250 6th–8th grade students each year, and is a part of the Woodlawn High School pipeline.
Established: Summer 2015
Located in the North Avondale neighborhood, Hayes K–8 School is built on the site of the former Hayes High School. The large half-acre Teaching Farm is located between the school and the sports field. During the school day, students filter through the site on their way to and from recess. In the afternoon, a carpool line encircles the Teaching Farm, offering an easy view of the produce that will be used for programming. This site has a deep pond with catfish and flowering lotus, more than 35 raised vegetable beds, and a large assortment of fruit plantings, including mature fig trees and a 100-foot-long blackberry trellis. There are shade arbors at each end of the site and a central pavilion that opens to reveal culinary, education, and farm supplies.
Hayes K-8 serves more than 1,100 pre-K–8th grade students each year, and is a part of the Woodlawn High School pipeline.
Established: Spring 2016 Woodlawn High School Teaching Farm is a 2-acre site located on the northwest corner of the school’s campus. The centerpiece of the site is a 1,500-square-foot state-of-the-art greenhouse, which provides our staff the space needed to produce more than 35,000 seedlings each year for all of our partner school sites. The ability to grow seedlings in a controlled environment means that we are able to extend our school year growing season—helping us to get a jump on early spring crops for culinary lessons and ensuring we have a robust fall season with vegetables ready to supply our markets and programming. This site is similar in scale and production potential to our Downtown Farm Campus and is run with the support of our Woodlawn High School paid Internship. Each afternoon, students in the Internship program head to the farm and prepare to care for crops and tend to the space. You can learn more about the program here. A grant from the Nature Conservancy and a partnership with Petals from the Past in Jemison allowed students an opportunity to study, plan, and execute the installation of an orchard that includes pear, apple, peach, Asian persimmon, and fig trees. The site features produce processing and storage facilities, office space, restrooms, a tool and equipment barn, and an airy teaching pavilion that floats above a large pond and bioswale.

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This thought provoking article on innovation in law firms came out recently in the Australasian Law Management Journal:
There are some great points made in this article. I particularly liked the emphasis on using new innovations and technology to better and more efficiently serve the firm’s clients. I’d like to add that technology and innovative thinking is probably even more valuable when applied to business development. The expectations of the client, particularly in terms of where and how they expect to find a lawyer, are changing much more quickly than the profession. It’s important for lawyers to adapt and embrace technology if they want to keep attracting future generations of clients.
Today’s future clients are online and looking for legal information. The lawyers that provide this information where the clients are looking are the lawyers they’ll be hiring. Have you tried answering questions on AdviceScene? Your future clients are looking for you there. http://legal.advicescene.com/


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Whether you’re interested in designing your own house, getting the latest accessories and furnishings, or simply making your house a cozy retreat for your loved ones, the interior design blogs has plenty of ideas to help you.
Interior Design Blogs
Here, we’ve put together the 10 best blogs that should be parked permanently in your browser’s Favorites folder.
1. Style by Emily Henderson
Hardly a person can claim to be an interior design enthusiast and not have heard of Emily Henderson. This uber-talented and successful stylist and designer offers her very own design tips and tricks on her blog Style. You’ll get to know about the best stores for home décor shopping as well as the latest styles and trends currently in vogue.
2. Lark & Linen
Another Canada-based interior designer blog, Toronto to be precise, Jacquelyn Clark features her most recent works on her blog Lark & Linen. It is an excellent resource for DIY enthusiasts because it offers a treasure trove of ideas and simple tutorials to make fancy, creative beddings for your bedroom. As a much-desired bonus, you also get lots of mouthwatering recipes and a sneak peek into the designer’s daily life.
3. Coco Kelley
Popular blogger Cassandra LaValle owns the blog Coco Kelley where she treats visitors to features and articles on the latest happenings in food, travel and interior design. If you’re looking to revamp your home interiors with a new look, then stopping over at Coco Kelley is a must. There are tons of refreshing ideas and images on how you can give your interiors a whole new feel. Even if you haven’t got anything planned yet, this blog will give you loads of ideas to get those wheels turning.
4. Amber Interiors
This blog is owned by Amber Lewis, a designer based in Los Angeles where she owns her own studio. This is an excellent blog to check up on the latest trends from the interior design industry. Her style offers a strong focus on textiles and bohemian vibes. So if you want to design your house with a lot of fabric-themed accessories such as cushions, curtains, rugs, etc. this is one blog you definitely should not miss.
This one is for those who love to invite guests over and give them a good time. The most important aspect of being a good host is to set a good table that makes for efficient and relaxed dining. Athena Calderone, who owns Eye-Swoon, is a creative genius at coming up with new ideas for table setting and also for new recipes. Whether you’re a novice or an expert, this blog will give you plenty of breathtaking ideas to make your dining table presentable.
6. Savvy Home
Montreal-based designer Gabrielle Savoie is the brainchild behind the popular blog Savvy Home. This blog features everything a home décor lover is looking for. The blog features regular shopping hauls and home tours where you can get loads of ideas for making your own house trendy and beautiful. The blog also features tutorials to help you get the same professional look at a fraction of the cost.
7. Old Brand New
An ace photographer, professional art director and graphic designer rolled into one, Dabito is a blogger not to be missed. Old Brand New is his blog where he features all of his latest creative works, giving you tons of ideas for your own designing. When you visit his blog, remember to go through his DIY projects that will give you major DIY goals of your own.
8. Wit + Delight
A highly successful interior consultant, Kate Arends is a popular blogger with her own blog Wit + Delight. Her trademark style features elegance and comfort so that even regular people can get inspired from her style to make their own creations. On this blog, you’ll get frequent roundups of the most current design and home décor trends in the market, the latest products to shop for, as well as ideas for interior decoration.
9. Coco Lapine Design
Sarah Van Peteghem is a successful designer whose blog Coco Lapine Design has become a bit of a sensation, to say the least. Her personal design style is minimalistic and contemporary which makes it practical and simple for regular people. On her blog, she takes you through tours of homes that she has designed or even those that inspire her. Follow her on these tours for an equally inspiring experience.
10. Apartment 34
Apartment 34 is a blog made by Erin Hiemstra and it seems to be a one-stop site for all your homemaking needs. Whether you want ideas and tips for home décor, shopping, beauty, fashion or travel, you can be sure of finding something useful or inspirational at Apartment 34. A big advantage of visiting this blog regularly is that you get the opportunity to refine your own taste and approach to design by viewing the creations of an evolved aesthete.
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KOALA SURVEY WITHIN PEL 238, October/November 2016 and assessment of significance of impact:
Ethical Ecology was engaged by Lock the Gate to undertake a review of data concerning the current status of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) within the PEL 238 (Santos), to conduct a survey within the PEL 238 and to undertake an assessment of the significance of impact from the proposed Narrabri Project production field would have on the koala.
Currently, the existing gas infrastructure is restricted to privately held land and state forest, though Pilliga East State Conservation Area is located to the south of the current project area on the eastern side of the Newell Highway and the Pilliga National Park is located to the west of the PEL.
The project area covers a substantial area of known koala habitat and the koala was identified by the Commonwealth as Matter of National Environmental Significance (MNES) affected by the Narrabri Project in their Referral Decision (EPBC 2103/6918). In addition, the Critically Endangered Ecological Community (CEEC) ‘Yellow Box – White Box – Blakely’s Red Gum Woodland and Derived Grassland’, preferred Koala habitat, found in the project area, was also identified as another reason the referral was ‘called in’. Of note is that neither was identified in the Referral by Santos as being MNES affected by their action.koala survey report_DP_2016_reduced
PILLIGA EAST STATE FOREST KOALA SURVEY Prepared by OWAD Environment for Western Woodlands Alliance
OWAD Environment was engaged by Western Woodlands Alliance (WWA) to conduct a one-day survey of Koala Phascolarctos cinereus in Pilliga East State Forest, New South Wales, using Taz the professional Koala scat detection dog. The purpose of this study was to gain an initial understanding of current presence/absence of Koalas across the areas assessed, based on presence/absence of the marsupial’s characteristic scats (faecal pellets). This report presents the findings of this study.OWAD-report-Pilliga-East-SF-Koala-survey-v2


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Our Jami Education team provide a programme of workshops, seminars and other learning opportunities to schools, synagogues and organisations, to increase peoples’ mental health literacy.
Our transformative work in the wider community aims to build awareness and increase understanding of mental health, and to put an end to stigma and discrimination.
We have courses for the whole community.
We are accredited providers of Adult and Youth Mental Health First Aid courses – the gold standard in equipping you with a ‘first aid response’ to help people in distress.
Monthly Get Together discussions; Youth Mental Health First Aid Course and Mindfulness and Milkshake groups, for people aged 14-18.
Learn new skills, empower your volunteering and consider your own mental health when giving to others.
Regular support groups to learn more about how to support the people you care for and meet like-minded people who understand what you’re going through.
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) seminars for people who work or volunteer in mental health. Suicide First Aid; Panic and Anxiety; or learn more about Jami and IROC (Individual Recovery Outcome Measure).
Discussion groups and events taking place at Head Room Café.
Invite the Head Room education team into your synagogue, school or organisation to provide interactive training or workshops.
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On February 18, 1878 rancher John Henry Tunstall was murdered on his ranch at Lincoln County, New Mexico by gunman William Morton, a deputy sheriff.
Tunstall moved to the United States with thoughts of becoming a sheep rancher. He arrived in Santa Fe, where he met a Lincoln County lawyer and cattle rancher named Alexander McSween. After talking to McSween, Tunstall was convinced that there were profits to be made from lucrative beef contracts in Lincoln County and soon began ranching in 1876.
The area was monopolized by two men by the names of Lawrence Murphy and James Dolan, who owned the only store in Lincoln County — Murphy & Dolan Mercantile and Banking. Murphy and Dolan virtually controlled the trade of the county. The Englishman and McSween soon set up a rival business called H.H. Tunstall & Company near the Murphy & Dolan Mercantile, known as “The House.” Murphy & Dolan attempted to put the pair out of business, harassing them legally and when that did not work, Dolan tried goad Tunstall into a gunfight.
Dolan and Murphy obtained a court order to seize some of Tunstall’s horses as payment for an outstanding debt. When Tunstall refused to surrender the horses, Lincoln County Sheriff, William Brady, formed a posse led by Deputy William Morton to seize them. After protesting the presence of the posse on his land, Morton drew his gun andTunstall was shot in the head. It was rumored that Tunstall had been murdered on the orders of Dolan and Murphy.
One of the witnesses of this murder was Tunstall’s hired hand, an orphand teenager, William Bonney, a.k.a. William Antrim, a.k.a. Billy the Kid.
Just what Billy the Kid’s relationship withTunstall is not clear. Tunstall was a young man at age 24; the story that he was a father figure sounds improbable. He must have provided some environment and influence that gave Billy stability and a sense belonging in his tumultuous life. Tunstall was not a simply an employer but a friend and Billy the Kid had a deep loyalty for him.
He was deeply affected by the murder. At Tunstall’s funeral Billy swore: “I’ll get every son-of-a-bitch who helped kill John if it’s the last thing I do.”
He immediately began a vendetta of violence against The House and its allies. Lincoln County became a war zone, and both sides began a spree of vicious killings. Billy the Kid rode into Western history and legend that still fascinates historians, novelists, and Hollywood movie makers.
As far as historians can surmise, Billy the Kid never lived to his 21st birthday and killed or was involved in the killing of 9 men in his short life. 5 of these men were involved in the Lincoln County War or involved in the murder of Tunstall. William Morton was one of them.
The Lincoln County War would continue to erupt sporadically until 1884 and The House finally regained full control of Lincoln County. By that time, Billy the Kid had already been dead for three years, gunned down by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett.
John Tunstall is buried near the McSween store at Fort Sumner, New Mexico; near Alexander McSween who was also a victim of the feud in July 1878. The exact locations of the remains are unknown; the crosses and grave stones are at an approximation.

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Prep roundup: Lady Hawks dispatch Poplar Bluff, Scott City passes Saxony
BENTON -- Led by seven solid innings from starting pitcher Kristi Brucker, the Kelly Lady Hawks defeated Poplar Bluff on Tuesday, 9-2.
Scoring a pair of runs in the first inning, Kelly was able to take the early lead before putting together a four-run rally in the third to go up 6-0.
Poplar Bluff rebounded by plating two runs in the top of the fourth, but four more Lady Hawks runs in the bottom of the frame prevented a comeback.
Earning the win, Brucker allowed seven hits and two unearned run while striking out three.
With 11 hits on the contest, Kelly was led by McKynlee Neumeyer, who went 3 for 4 with a two-run home run and three runs driven in. Stephanie Worth went 2 for 4 on the contest with a pair of doubles and a run driven in.
Sydney Vinyard and Jade Rampley each had two hits in the contest, including a double by Vinyard. Jessica Worth had a double and two runs driven in.
Now at 17-4 on the season, Kelly will travel to Oran today to play the Lady Eagles at 4 p.m.
Scott City 7,
Saxony Lutheran 2
JACKSON -- In pounding out 12 hits on Tuesday the Scott City Lady Rams picked up a 7-2 win over the hosting Saxony Lutheran Lady Crusaders.
Leading the Lady Ram's 12 hit effort, Lindsey Rendleman, Julie Holder and Alicia Kern had three hits each with Rendleman and Kern driving and two runs each. Shelby Rhymer went 2 for 4 with a triple.
Pitching the first five innings, Alexis Spriggs earned the win. She allowed one run four hits while walking four and striking out four.
Becky Burger closed things out with two innings one hit ball, allowing two walks and fanning two.
Scott City is now 7-10 on the season.
DEXTER -- The Dexter Lady Bearcats lost their second match in a row Tuesday against Leopold in three sets, 25-20, 21-25 and 25-21.
Paige Patterson led Dexter with 10 kills while Hannah Noe added nine. Ashley Brown had eight digs while both Noe and Shyann Jines had seven digs apiece. Alyssa Spear had 16 assists.
Dexter will host Sikeston on Thursday at the Bearcat Event Center in Dexter at 6 p.m.


The U.S. needs to be prepared for the next pandemic, and it can’t be under the current for-profit system, says Eagan Kemp, author of the Public Citizen report.
The United States’ fragmented for-profit healthcare system hampered the nation’s coronavirus response “at every turn,” resulting in millions of Covid-19 infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths that likely would have been prevented under a Medicare for All system, finds consumer advocacy group Public Citizen in a study released Tuesday.
Titled Unprepared for Covid-19: How the Pandemic Makes the Case for Medicare for All, the white paper builds off a recent analysis showing that around 40 percent of U.S. Covid-19 infections and 33 percent of virus deaths are associated with uninsurance, which was high before the pandemic and soared last year as mass layoffs threw millions off their employer-provided coverage. The growing uninsured rate has hit frontline workers particularly hard.
“The reality is that our for-profit healthcare system put the U.S. at a dangerous disadvantage and hindered rapid response,” Public Citizen’s new report reads. “It has also meant millions of Americans have contracted Covid-19 unnecessarily and hundreds of thousands of deaths could have been prevented.”
“Under Medicare for All, everyone would have consistent coverage regardless of their employment status or employer,” the report continues. “And because Americans would have their choice of providers, instead of facing the narrow networks their employers choose for them, they would face fewer challenges getting care, especially during a pandemic where some hospitals and providers are overwhelmed by demand.”
Finally Addressing Health Disparities
If the U.S. had in place a single-payer system that provided everyone in the country with comprehensive healthcare for free at the point of service — as proposed by supporters of Medicare for All — “the U.S. would finally be able to ensure sufficient funding for public health, including future pandemics,” and “the nation could finally begin addressing massive health disparities in a comprehensive way,” the paper argues.
“As the pandemic has shown, everyone depends on the healthcare system throughout their lives,” the paper adds. “Whether we face a public health emergency like a global pandemic or simply need to meet routine medical needs, Medicare for All would ensure necessary treatments are available to everyone regardless of their ability to pay.”
Eagan Kemp, Public Citizen’s healthcare policy advocate and the author of the report, said in a statement that the “pandemic has shown how wide the gaps in our healthcare system remain and how easy it is for families to fall through them.”
“We need to be prepared for the next pandemic, and we can’t be under the current for-profit system. The time has come for a healthcare system that guarantees healthcare for everyone in the U.S.,” Kemp said. “The time has come for Medicare for All.”
Medicare for All Act of 2021
Public Citizen’s white paper came a day before Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) are set to introduce the Medicare for All Act of 2021, which is expected to broadly resemble single-payer legislation that the Washington Democrat sponsored in 2019.
That bill, as Common Dreams reported at the time, proposed a two-year transition to a Medicare for All system that would provide dental, vision, reproductive health, mental health, long-term care, and other services with no out-of-pocket costs attached.
“The state of our healthcare system is absolutely atrocious,” Jayapal told reporters on the eve of the bill’s release just over two years ago. “How is it possible that the United States, the richest country in the world, is the only major country that does not guarantee healthcare to our residents?”
The case for Medicare for All, as Public Citizen argues in its new report, has only grown stronger since 2019, with the coronavirus pandemic further exposing the private system’s fundamental and deadly flaws as well as the rapacity of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
“The Covid-19 pandemic showed just how greedy private insurers are, as they were reporting record profits because they were paying out far less in claims due to millions of Americans delaying care,” Kemp writes. “This disparity highlights just how little value insurers are bringing to the healthcare system despite how much they cost consumers and the healthcare system in general.”
While Congress recently approved a significant expansion of Affordable Care Act subsidies with the goal of helping more people afford insurance in the marketplace, Kemp contends that “the scope of the reforms are limited and so Americans will continue to struggle without a comprehensive solution like Medicare for All.”
“Under Medicare for All,” Kemp concludes, “our healthcare system would focus on health and wellbeing instead of generating profit and revenue for wealthy insurers.”
This article is from Common Dreams.
The problem with health care in the U.S. is not the cost of health insurance, it’s the cost of health care services. The per capita cost of health care in the U.S. in $11,000. The annual per capita cost in Germany is $6,000 with universal access.
Medicare 4 All with is simply moving the “who pays” food around the plate with little reduction in the actual cost of health care services. Under an M4A regime health care costs will still eventually bankrupt the U.S.
For real reform, the Big Health Care cartels (Big Doctor, Big Hospital, Big Pharma, Big Insurance) have to be lined up for haircuts. But nobody in Washington has the guts to do it.
The USA could be described as a death cult. If a non-ruling class resident of the country hasn’t the ability to pay for something, they go into extortionate debt or do without it, even if that includes vital health care. There is little sympathy in the media or in the political class for people who are unable to pay their own way. This is not a new problem for society. Why else do the major religions forbid the lending out of money at interest? Why did Jesus, supposedly, say that the love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil? Money is more important in the USA than even life itself.
Medicare for all will never happen as long as the ruling class controls the most important politician scums. Maybe a younger generation could get there but my guess is the big war machine will continue to get all the money until we have economic collapse or a nuclear war. The first president I remember is Dwight Eisenhower and I have watched the whole unfettered capitalist sickness grow out of control. It’s over until further notice.
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There is more to fix in the US healthcare system, than just this aspect. We have closing down hospitals instead of building new ones, and haven’t the capacity to deal with emergencies, as was exposed during the past year, Nonetheless, it is a start and this issue should have been put on the table long ago, not as a mandate as Sanders and Warren insisted, but as a public option. Apparently however, Sanders, et. al., have found a new obsession, not with stopping regime change wars, but with raising the minimum wage. Could the Democrats’ silence on this be because Biden opposes MfA and continues to support the insurance scam known as “Obamacare?’ Now, having control of both houses and the presidency, and with no other proposals under debate, it is time to put up or shut up.
The pandemic was not better in EU countries with one-payer systems, so these system CAN make things better but do not have to. Perhaps one aspect is that these countries are affected, like USA, with the quick rise in healthcare costs, and prone to savings of similar kind, closing “unnecessary hospitals” etc. Reopening the closed hospitals was a huge issue, who should pay, how much, compare to China building a temporary mega-hospital in Wuhan in two weeks, no going back and forth if Wuhan city should pay, or Hubei province or the central government.
And I guess the same happened with the quarantine of the international travelers in the first weeks and months of the pandemic. Handling the international travel and early cases made a difference between Far East countries with a variety of social systems like Japan and Vietnam, and USA and EU. Properly done, it is finding place for hundreds of thousands, with properly disinfected transport, services like supplies and food, and so on. Since the travel was interrupted, probably there was enough of hotels that could be mobilized, but who can order it, who should pay, there is no system to organize it. Hence 40 thousands of travelers from China with no clear procedure for them.
Squabbling about costs was most amazing. It is easier to decide on trillions for the quantitative easing or “federal relief program” and on billions that were necessary at the early stage of the pandemic.
As is becoming abundantly clear here in the UK where Covid-19 deaths are the worst in the world, neoliberal policies of small government, supported by the Tories and now the Labour opposition leadership, are lethal and utterly unable to cope with the realities of running a society for the good of its members. Yet we keep electing them. The Conservative party is the most successful political party in history. Even mildly socialist Labour parties always fail to get elected. Why?


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It’s not Oregon related, specifically, but interesting that the Pac-10 released a statement backing officials in the wake of the ASU-USC game in which USC coach Tim Floyd was ejected.
The statement is below.
PAC-10 OFFICIATING CREW SUPPORTED BY COMMISSIONER
WALNUT CREEK, Calif.—Pac-10 Conference Commissioner Tom Hansen today announced support for game officials David Hall, Randy McCall and Dick Cartmell for their work in last Sunday’s (February 15) USC-Arizona State game.
Several media outlets incorrectly reported on the officiating mechanics on a play in the final minute of the game.
Officials David Hall and Randy McCall simultaneously whistled a foul with :47.9 seconds remaining in the contest. Hall called a charge on USC’s Daniel Hackett. McCall did not signal a block call nor indicate a basket had been made as has been erroneously reported.
“The play was correctly officiated and the proper mechanics were used on the call,” Hansen said. “Video confirms that Mr. McCall did not make any signal other than raising his right arm to indicate he had seen a foul. He then checked with Mr. Hall, and upon seeing he had called a charging foul, pointed at Hall to confirm he agreed with the call.
“It is puzzling how anyone who observed the play could have imagined that Mr. McCall signaled any specific type of foul,” he added. “He definitely did not.”


Guitarist Doc Watson died on Tuesday at the age of 89. Hailing from Deep Gap, NC, his impressive flat-picking, deep baritone voice and gift for storytelling captivated audiences around the world. Although he didn’t begin his professional musical career until the age of 40, Watson grew up playing a variety of styles and instruments. His willingness and ability to embrace and interweave a broad spectrum of genres earned him many prestigious accolades, as well as a long list of collaborators and fans.
We look back on Doc Watson’s legacy with a podcast featuring his performance with Jack Lawrence at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival’s Old Marble Stage.
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The 4-hour chart showed that, on the first trading day the euro started with a growth. Later it left the maximum levels and gave up on its positions in favour of the dollar. On the way up, the buyers met a strong resistance at 1.1370 and the price dropped. The analysts from Fort Financial Services said that the bears dominated the pair.
The bulls will regain the leadership if they break through the resistance at 1.1370. Their target will be 1.1450 and 1.1530.
The bears will maintain the initiative if they break through the support at 1.1300. Their target will be 1.1250 and 1.1200.
The sterling pound was traded upwards and overpassed the level 1.4670 on the 4-hour chart. The bulls continued to trade actively and strengthen the pair positions. The pair GBP/USD exited the critical overbought level.
The bulls will maintain the leadership if they break through the resistance at 1.4760. Their target will be 1.4800.
The bears will regain the initiative if they break through the support at 1.4670. Their target will be 1.4560 and 1.4480.
The 4-hour time-frame showed that the currency instrument was traded in a narrow range remaining at minimums. The sellers kept the pair below resistance at 104.50. The analysts from FortFS said that the pair USD/JPY was traded downwards.
The bulls will regain the leadership if they break through the resistance at 104.50. Their target will be 105.30 and 106.00.
The bears will maintain the initiative if they break through the support at 103.50. Their target will be 102.50.
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“I don’t pay tithes, religion is Nigeria’s greatest problem” – Broda Shaggi & Skiibii
According to singer, Skiibii, throughout his entire life, he has never paid tithes and he certainly doesn’t see himself doing it in the future.
While popular Instagram star, Broda Shaggi during the interview, highlighted the greatest problem in Nigeria which he says is Religion.
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Interpreting Dreams: Monoprint
How would you describe the colors in your dreams? Pale, neon, vivid, or soft? The experimental forms of the exhibited artworks demonstrate how contemporary artists take on the ink tradition and add to its wealth. In this workshop, we express our imagination by applying acrylic paints through fingers or tiny sticks and adopt the monoprint technique. With this technique that generates unique works, we use visual and physical attention and improve concentration while creating patterns.
Related Exhibition: Out of Ink Interpretations from Chinese Contemporary Art
Capacity: 10 participants
Duration: 2 hours
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The painfully obvious plotline makes this an overly long medical thriller with no thrill. All that's left is some spewed-out medical terms, a sappy love story, and a few million bucks worth of military surplus jeeps and tanks. Luckily, Dustin and Co. are able to put this stuff to fairly good work, with strong performances by Hoffman and Russo saving the day, and the eerie feeling that all this military goofiness is just a bit too real.
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Corgan took to Instagram to confirm rumours of new Pumpkins material, saying the first songs could arrive as early as May.


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FEMA is offering financial aid to storm victims in Fayette and surrounding counties.
Laird Beshoar says FEMA is able to offer rental assistance, loans and grants for repairs.
Mary Kenady and Jan Davis were among those who came out to take advantage of the help. Help that has brought hope for those who say they really need it.
The FEMA mobile center will be stationed at The Campbell House until Saturday.
Storm victims can reach FEMA at 800-621-3362 or visit them on the web at www.fema.gov