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By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM New Hampshire Sunday News

They are anonymous no more.

Hundreds gathered on the State House lawn Saturday to celebrate their recovery from substance abuse. Young and old, they stood together to remember those lost, honor those saved and pledge to fight for better treatment and prevention programs.

The state's first We Believe in Recovery Rally had a festive air, with dozens of purple and white balloons and upbeat music blaring form loudspeakers.

Those who have been in recovery for 10 years or more donned purple sashes to form a special "honor guard," and there were plenty of hugs to go around.

But there was also a sense of shared grief when Susan Markievitz of Windham, who introduced herself as "the addict's mom," talked of her son Chad's struggles with addiction and recovery.

She read from his last journal entry: "I'm going in full force this time. I'm going to fight this demon ... I'm going in with a lot of rage, guilt and shame. I hope to come out with a little courage, hope and faith."

Instead, on July 28, four days after her son's 25th birthday, Markievitz called upstairs to awaken him and got no answer. "I walked up those stairs with heavy feet thinking, "Oh my God," and yes, I found my son, gone to heroin."

"He had a lot of hope, he had a lot of courage but not enough courage to kick that habit," she said. "It took just one little dose of heroin to take my son's life."

Donna M., founder of the support group Families Sharing Without Shame, spoke of New Hampshire parents sending their teen-aged children to out-of-state treatment facilities because there are none available here.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa Steve Ford has joined Stanley Consultants as a senior landscape architect. Based in the companys Iowa City office, Ford serves as the local design professional for Stanley Consultants Denver-based Urban Design team.

Ford has worked in the Iowa City Corridor and eastern Iowa area for more than 30 years.

Fords design and planning expertise includes park/site master planning, trail design, campus master plan design, streetscape design, landscape planting plans and sports fields. In this new position, he will continue to working with existing clients while reaching out to new clients throughout Cedar Rapids, the Corridor and eastern Iowa.

Founded in 1913 in Muscatine, Stanley Consultants is a global consulting engineering firm that provides program management, planning, engineering, environmental, and construction services worldwide.

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Oil painting was taken by thief who stuffed the frame in a toilet cubicle Landscape At Llanaelhaearn was on show at the Royal Festival Hall, London Artist Sir Kyffin Williams' works often fetch tens of thousands of pounds

By Daily Mail Reporter

Published: 06:57 EST, 17 October 2014 | Updated: 06:35 EST, 18 October 2014

An oil painting by a famous Welsh artist was stolen from the Royal Festival Hall but nobody noticed for more than a week.

Sir Kyffin Williams' work, Landscape At Llanaelhaearn, vanished from a secure room at the London venue at the end of September.

It was not reported missing until October 6 when a member of staff found its smashed frame in a toilet cubicle.

Stolen: Landscape at Llanaelhaearn by Sir Kyffin Williams, whose works now fetch up to 50,000

Sir Kyffin, pronounced Cuffin, completed the 20in by 24in piece in 1947.

He was renowned for his subtle use of pastel greens and greys to recreate the Welsh countryside. Nowadays many of his works fetch up to 50,000.

The painting, which depicts a figure looking out at a dark and rugged landscape, had been on display since November 2013, and was on loan from the Arts Council Collection.

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Pittsburgh has had a number of urban-planning disappointments and a few outright disasters over the years.

But it's good to report that the recently released Pittsburgh Penguins' plans to redevelop the Lower Hill District are a clear winner. The Penguins' group has come up with a highly sophisticated preliminary plan that incorporates values that can be important to all of us.

The plans cover a 28-acre tract of empty land next to Consol Energy Center that used to be occupied by the demolished Civic Arena and its seemingly endless parking lots. They take an appropriately conservative approach to a redevelopment that will likely stretch out over a decade or more and will require participation by what may well turn out to be a large number of private developers.

The plans create, in effect, a concept that will guide what the planners are calling the form, the density and the character of what developers may do in the Lower Hill, without specifying precisely who will do exactly what or exactly where.

Areas are specified as to the height of buildings, how they will relate to the streets and other factors, but, within those allowances, developers will have considerable flexibility. The development is likely to contain a mix of high-rise and low-rise office and apartment buildings, shops, restaurants, hotels and townhouses.

There are still issues of concern to the nearby communities in the Hill and Uptown such as the proportion of low-cost housing to be provided, the use of minority contractors and exactly what the height allowances might be for certain important parcels. But after those are settled, the city should move ahead with this plan and resolve to scrupulously maintain it over the years as development proceeds.

Provisions for the buildings themselves, for traffic management and parking, for street and sidewalk design, pedestrian spaces, public amenities and parks all are exemplary.

The plan even takes into account the views the vista that residents, pedestrians and motorists will encounter as they look from the Hill toward Downtown. This is no small matter. Think of how the experience of a baseball game at PNC Park is enhanced by the view of Downtown. There's an even more dramatic view from the streets of the Hill. To preserve it, the plan envisions clustering high-rise buildings to two sides of the funnel-shaped development and low-rise to the middle streets.

Another key feature of the plan is a re-creation of the urban street grid on the site. It provides for reconnection to the streets of the upper Hill at the top of the plan and to the Golden Triangle at the bottom, integrating people and businesses. The plan recommends building a broad park that will bridge-over part of the Crosstown Expressway (Interstate 579). This may well be an expensive undertaking, but it should not be slighted.

Reconnecting to the Downtown will improve development prospects for offices and stores considerably at the new site, and reconnecting to the existing upper Hill grid should have positive spin-off effects for that long-beleaguered neighborhood, too.

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Farmers in NSW say native vegetation costs certain farms around $156,000 a year. Photo: Jessica Shapiro

Laws forbidding farmers from uprooting bush on their land have a scant economic effect, a leading think tank has found, undercutting claims that measures to protect threatened species damage farm productivity.

But NSW farmers has strongly rejected the finding, saying native vegetation costs farms in some parts of the state about $156,000 a year.

The report by the left-leaning think tank, The Australia Institute, will add to the debate over a review of NSW's biodiversity legislation. Senior Nationals MPs have been heavily criticised for linking land-clearing laws to the death of NSW environment compliance officerGlenTurner, who was killed on the job near Moree in July.

NSW Farmers President Fiona Simson said land-clearing laws are a "burden" for farmers. Photo: Dallas Kilponen

The report claimed that native vegetation regulations have a minimal economic effect on agriculture in NSW, which produces up to $16 billion in output each year.

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It cited research by the Australian Bureau of Resource and Agricultural Economics that found weather and commodity prices largely determined productivity, and vegetation density had the lowest influence of the factors measured.

The report said land clearing legislation affected only a small minority of properties, and suggested the "private benefits" of loosening the laws may be outweighed by negative environmental and community effects.

Native vegetation reduces the land area that can be farmed and can obstruct farming machinery. But it also reduces erosion and improves water quality and biodiversity.

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