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The stories behind three vacant buildings chart Strokestown’s recent history
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The stories behind three vacant buildings chart Strokestown’s recent history
Before he died responding to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the World Trade Center, Brian McAleese, a New York City firefighter and father of four, often shopped at the Key Food supermarket in Brooklyn where Artie Bentley worked for nearly 40 years.
Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent by the Australian government on a new arms race that includes long-range missiles that can reach China. This is money that should be better spent on health, welfare education, justice for First Nations people and addressing the climate emergency instead of on handouts to corporate arms dealers. At the same time, but a little more under the radar, is Australia’s participation in the 50th anniversary of the Five Power Defence Arrangements which includes provocative military exercises with Britain, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand this month, ...
The list of Lightfoot failures continues to grow. And now that COPA has done illegal investigations (which isn’t new; Second City Cop reported this angle a long time ago), this means every COPA “investigation” and “finding” is null and void. Wait for the lawsuits to follow on this. More incompetence, and it isn’t CPD’s nor the officer’s fault. As for the turnover in Lightfoot appointees, it proves the point that she is a terrible leader when her appointees are bailing on her. If your patron won’t listen to you and makes you look foolish with terrible decisions and poor acum...
Experts debate on the true incidence and overdiagnosis of PTSD May 6 2021 Some clinicians are concerned that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis has risen throughout Western society since the late 1980s. Is this correct? And if so, has the true incidence of PTSD really spiraled out of control, or has it simply become overdiagnosed? Experts debate the issue in The BMJ this week. PTSD is a serious and uncommon condition resulting from severe trauma, but it has unhelpfully become an umbrella term incorporating other disorders and normal reactions to stress, argue John Tully at the Un...