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GreenThumb Kendal helps raise 20,000 for Sport Relief
10:00am Saturday 29th March 2014 in News
A KENDAL lawn business is having a dual celebration this week after scooping a company award and helping to raise more than 20,000 for Sport Relief.
GreenThumb Kendal beat off more than 200 other branches of the lawn treatment specialists to win its Franchisee Award 2013.
Husband and wife team Gary and Karen Cothliff took over the local branch in 2010.
This year saw them achieve a 25 per cent increase in turnover.
Gary said To be awarded GreenThumbs Franchisee of the Year is a real accolade and a tribute to our staff and customers, especially as the majority of our new customers come to us through recommendation.
Great customer service has always been at the forefront of our working practises and it is great to see this paying off.
As well as winning Franchisee of the year, Gary and Karen have also contributed to GreenThumbs ongoing fundraising total of more than 20,000 for Sport Relief.
GreenThumb have raised money by donating 5 for every new customer that take up their service, and existing customers that upgrade to a lawn care programme.
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Pregnant Irma Lopez, 29, and her husband - both ethnic Mazatec - walked October 2 to clinic in Oaxaca, but were turned away by nurses Photo of grimacing Lopez kneeling on patch of grass outside clinic with her newborn son still attached by umbilical cord set off firestorm online Clinic director Dr Adrian Cruz was suspended pending state and federal investigations Nurses at health clinic blamed 'misunderstanding' on language barrier and being short-staffed Lopez and her baby, Sabino, made full recoveries Her story has inspired women's health advocates to push for reforms that will prevent this sort of thing from happening again Advocates say it is common for pregnant women to be turned away from medical clinics in Mexico
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The woman featured in a photograph that shocked the world last year - that shows her giving birth on the lawn of a medical clinic after she was refused treatment by health officials - has made a full recovery and is in perfect health, as is her five-month-old son, Sabino.
Additionally, the attention her shocking photo received has inspired women's rights activists across the globe to end what they call a pattern of poor indigenous Mexican women being turned away from hospitals while in labor, forcing them to give birth on lawns, patios or parking lots.
The shocking image, taken in October by a passerby, shows 29-year-old Irma Lopez , who is of Mazatec ethnicity, squatting after giving birth, her face contorted in pain and her tiny newborn son still bound by the umbilical cord and lying on the ground.
Healthy: Irma Lopez and her son Sabino went through labor on the lawn of a medical clinic that turned her away
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A flatbed tractor-trailer carrying hundreds of bags of top soil rolled over off Route 213 late Wednesday morning.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CECIL COUNTY FIRE BLOG
A tractor-trailer overturned south of Elkton spilling its contents Wednesday morning.
CECIL WHIG PHOTO BY ADELMA GREGORY-BUNNELL
A tractor-trailer hauling lawn care products collided with a minivan, causing the flatbed to overturn, on Wednesday morning.
CECIL WHIG PHOTO BY ADELMA GREGORY-BUNNELL
A tractor-trailer hauling lawn care products collided with a minivan, causing the flatbed to overturn, on Wednesday morning. Both drivers refused treatment, police said.
CECIL WHIG PHOTO BY ADELMA GREGORY-BUNNELL
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Brothers, Calen Finch, 10, and Kieram Finch, 6, from left, hold up signs Sunday at the Hamilton County Courthouse to advocate getting funds from the county commission for a new building for the Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts.
Dana Cleckler, Evelyn Cleckler, 10, Emory Brandon, 4, and Elizabeth Cleckler, 7, from left, make signs on the lawn of the Hamilton County Courthouse to protest the lack of funding CSLA has received from the county.
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Distraught supporters of Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts who feel they have no representatives on the county commission have set up camp to advocate on their own behalf.
Literally.
As the sun set on downtown Chattanooga Sunday, dozens of CSLA parents, students and supporters established headquarters on the front lawn of the county courthouse to protest Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger's school building proposal that, if approved Wednesday, will omit the $40 million needed to construct a new building for CSLA.
"We don't have a voice inside that courthouse," said Dana Cleckler, who has three children at CSLA. "We're not a big enough entity in any one district to make noise and threaten a candidacy."
The parents acknowledged commissioner Tim Boyd as an ally, but they're at a loss for how to persuade other officials on the immediate needs at their National Blue Ribbon School at 6579 East Brainerd Road.
Children held signs supporting CSLA and shouted and waved to cars as they passed by.
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A robbery gone bad is how Cheltenham Lt. John Frye described the events that unfolded March 24 in Cheltenham Township and left two men hospitalized.
Cheltenham police responded to the area of Cottman and Central avenues at approximately 4:30 p.m. for the report of a male running down the street with a handgun, Frye said at a press briefing.
At the scene, police observed a man lying on the lawn in front of 22 Central Ave. with a head injury, he said.
This male jumped out of a second-floor window of the house and suffered the injury as a result of the fall, Frye said.
Inside the residence, police located a second male with a gunshot wound to the knee, he said.
The men were transported to Abington Memorial Hospital for treatment, he said. The man with the gunshot wound to the knee is believed to be OK.
He walked out of the house on his own, Frye said.
The condition of the man with the head injury is unknown, he said.
Police believe only one shot was fired, Frye said.
It turns out this was some kind of robbery, but were still investigating to determine exactly what happened, Frye said. We are still in the early stages. Continued...
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Scientists of the KIT and the University of Kiev have produced an antibiotic, whose biological activity can be controlled with light. Thanks to the robust diarylethene photoswitch, the antimicrobial effect of the peptide mimetic can be applied in a spatially and temporally specific manner. This might open up new options for the treatment of local infections, as side effects are reduced. The researchers present their photoactivable antibiotic with the new photomodule in a "Very Important Paper" of the journal "Angewandte Chemie".
Photoswitchable molecules modify their structure and properties when exposed to light of an adequate wavelength. Among the photoswitches known are diarylethenes. By reversible photoisomerization, i.e. a reversible light-induced internal relocation of the molecule, the open form is turned into a closed form. Such photoswitch-able molecules are applied in molecular electronics and many other areas. Particularly interesting opportunities result from the insertion of photoswitches into biomolecules to control their activity by light. Interest focuses on so-called peptide mimetics, compounds whose major structural elements emulate a peptide, i.e. a small protein.
For the first time now, a group of researchers headed by Professor Anne S. Ulrich, Director of the Institute for Biological Interfaces 2 (IBG2) and holder of the Chair for Biochemistry at the Institute of Organic Chemistry (IOC) of KIT, has produced a photoswitchable peptide mimetic based on a diarylethene scaffold that can be photoisomerized reversibly. The scientists modified this building block into an amino acid analog and incorporated it directly into the backbone of the annular peptide antibiotic Gramicidin S. Biological activity of the resulting peptide mimetic can be controlled spatially and temporally with the help of UV and visible light. To demonstrate this, the scientists treated a bacterial film with the inactivated antibiotic and exposed it to light via a mask. As a result, the photoswitchable diarylethene was converted from a closed into an open form. Due to the structural modification induced, the entire substance molecule had a much higher antimicrobial effect. "In the future, such photoactivable antibiotics might be used as smart therapeutic agents against local bacterial infections," Professor Anne S. Ulrich explains. "Usual side effects can also be minimized by switching." Based on this strategy, new peptide-based agents against cancer might be feasible, as the newly developed photoactivable building block can also be applied in other peptide sequences.
The editors of the journal "Angewandte Chemie", in which the researchers of KIT and the University of Kiev present their photo-activable antibiotic and their photoswitch, have rated this publication a "VIP Very Important Paper".
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Oleg Babii, Sergii Afonin, Marina Berditsch, Sabine Reier, Pavel K. Mykhailiuk, Vladimir S. Kubyshkin, Thomas Steinbrecher, Anne S. Ulrich, and Igor V. Komarov: Controlling Biological Activity with Light: Diarylethene-Containing Cyclic Peptidomimetics. Angewandte Chemie (2014). DOI: 10.1002/ange.201310019
A rain garden can capture rain that would otherwise flow down your lawn and driveway into streets and storm sewers, and use it to make your property more beautiful. It does this if it is located where rain can be directed into it, built so that it can temporarily hold the water (a rain garden is not a pond), and planted with appropriate plants to add beauty and attract birds, bees and butterflies. While a handy homeowner can create a nice rain garden, assistance of a landscape professional with experience in rain gardens can be very helpful.
As in real estate, the first three things are location, location and location. The rain garden should be at least 10 feet from buildings. If one of your downspouts drains into your lawn, perhaps you already know where your rain garden should go. If it instead drains onto the driveway, could it be redirected toward a section of the yard?
Does the soil in that section drain readily? Dig a wide hole 6 inches deep and fill it with water. Wait 24 hours. If the water disappears within that time, the location is suitable for a rain garden.
Can you carve out a large enough space to handle the amount of rain you will get during downpours? Rain gardens range from 100-300 square feet and can usually handle rain from hard surfaces (roof, driveway) three times their size. More than one rain garden may be needed to handle rain from larger areas. Use a hose or rope to outline a curved shape for the proposed garden and move it around until you are satisfied with its placement. Unless it is located in a depression, you will have to excavate between 4-10 inches to form the level bowl of the rain garden. If the site is not level, use some of the excavated soil to make a berm on the downslope side to further prevent overflow. You may also wish to add a border.
Next comes the fun part planting. Rain gardens can be located in sun or part shade. They have distinct planting areas: the bowl and the upper part and a transition zone between them. The bowl area will need plants such as spiderwort and blue flag that can handle wet feet. Plants for the entire rain garden should also handle dry conditions. Native plants are often preferred for that reason. You can use perennials, shrubs or even small trees in a rain garden. Dont forget mulch. Choose wood chips made from hardwoods that will not float away. River rock can be used for the inlet.
Mulch will help keep down weeds but you will have to weed, especially the first season. You will have to water your rain garden in dry seasons. The final result is a beautiful garden that captures rain that would otherwise overburden storm sewers and water treatment plants. Step-by-step instructions are at: http://learningstore.uwex.edu/assets/pdfs/GWQ037.pdf
The Anoka County Master Gardeners invite you to visit our web page http://anokamastergardeners.org/. Click on hot topics for information about the Home Landscaping and Garden Fair, April 12, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Bunker Hills Activities Center, 550 Bunker Lake Blvd. NW, Andover. There also is information on our plant sale (hundreds of plants at reasonable prices) and the plant diagnostic clinic, which offers expert help with your landscape and garden problems.
Lynda Ellis is an Anoka County Master Gardener.
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