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The miracle of birth is so incredibly beautiful to behold. Do you know the only thing that could make it better? Percussion. Nothing calms one’s stress and eases the pain of delivering a baby than a little boy standing nearby absolutely shredding on his drum. That’s why it’s so lucky that I just so happened to be passing by this barn, where I discovered a woman having a baby. What better audience?

Now, to be fair, I did ask permission before I started drumming. And she nodded—at least I thought it was a nod; she could have just been recoiling or looking down to make sure the donkeys weren’t in the baby’s landing zone. Nonetheless, I took that as a go-ahead to play my drum throughout the labor and delivery. Newborns love loud banging, right?

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In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: John Schneider/President Biden, Interview with the Vampire, Doctor Who, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and more!

Acceptance that the UK’s housing system is in crisis, if not a state of outright emergency, is increasingly widespread. Rents have spiralled out of control, with private tenants now paying on average a third of their earnings to a landlord, with around a third of renters paying more than half their income in rent. Insecurity is […]

How ordinary things turned extraordinary during a two-day blackout in Toronto, painting the city as a strange, wondrous place

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For Rachel Bespaloff, philosophy was a sensual activity shaped by the rhythm of history, embodied in an instant of freedom

- by Isabel Jacobs

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Underpaid, overworked, and struggling to hold up a health service in collapse, junior doctors have had enough. Since 2008, they have faced a 26 percent cut in real terms to their pay packet. Junior doctors have told Tribune about having nightmares about work, how patients are dying in under-resourced hospitals and how every bone in […]

Developing a stronger sense of Englishness cannot merely be looked at through a political lens – our identities are personal and multiple, conflicting and shifting, writes Hardeep Matharu

Maintaining the illusory story of what Britain was is integral to the illusion of what Britain is – and the maintenance of political and economic hegemony, writes MP Clive Lewis

At the heart of our political crisis is how England, in particular, has struggled to find its way in the modern world, writes MP Caroline Lucas

Anthony Barnett explores why a recent conference in Edinburgh aimed to initiate a conversation about an 'England' distinct from 'Britain'

John Mitchinson explores the attributes of the character that long pre-dates 'Santa Claus’

COLLABORATION between Coffs Harbour’s SGL Charitable Organisation Australia and the Coffs Harbour Netball Association (CHNA) brought an impactful cancer awareness and blood donation drive event to the Vost Park netball courts in Coffs Harbour on Saturday 25 November. Support by Red Cross Australia and the Cancer Institution of NSW underscored the community’s commitment to fighting...

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FAMILIAR and fresh, the 104th Sawtell Super Fun Day on New Year’s Day 2024 is set to feature beloved activities from previous years and a range of new names on the music stage. The day kicks off around 8am with a Fun Run through Sawtell, organised by Little Athletics. Advertise with News of The Area...

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ONCE a year, Santa makes a special appearance to the Sawtell Nippers. He was first spotted at the south end of the beach, riding a wild rubber duckie, clutching a huge bag of lollies which were gone in minutes once he hit shore in front of the Sawtell Surf Life Saving Club. Advertise with News...

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ALMOST $5,000 was raised for Pete’s Place in Coffs Harbour by Coastal Claymakers at their annual Empty Bowls event. With members of the Coastal Claymakers group working hard to create numerous bowls in myriad designs, there was something to appeal to everyone. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....

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In the days Biden spent blocking a U.N. resolution on Gaza, Israel killed scores of Palestinians.

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Episode 8 in our new Manga series – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money – is now available. Have a bit of fun with it and circulate it to those who you think will benefit … The Smith Family are a middle-class family living in a city somewhere in the world. The second-generation…

Anti-abortion zealots aren’t going to adopt them, that’s for sure We know they don’t care about babies once they’re out of the womb. Why would they want to adopt them? Reminder: Sixty percent of kids who have lost Medicaid coverage this year came from just nine states, all of which are Republican-led, according to new data from the Biden administration. And the 10 states refusing the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults have disenrolled more kids than all of the expansion states combined, the administration also reported… Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Dakota and Texas Some of those states (I’m looking at you Texas and Florida) among those states with the most draconian abortion bans in the nation. This should be embarrassingly hypocritical to these people but they are shameless. After all, these are the same clinic harassers who whine that the man “harassing” them about adoption is being rude. I highly recommend reading this piece in In These Times about what happens to people who are forced to have more children than they can afford.

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Trump showed the GOP they can be as racist as they want to be They don’t care about no woke criticism. They’re just going for it: Donald Trump is getting headlines for saying immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” But for months the GOP race for president has been shadowed by xenophobia, as some candidates or those backing them have embraced racist and white nationalist themes. It’s partly a reflection of how Trump has moved Republican politics toward the harder-edged, “us vs. them” view that now dominates the GOP’s base and is reshaping its membership in Congress. This is from Axios. It’s nice that they’ve noticed it’s not just Trump. It’s very important to report this because there may be a handful of people who have always voted Republican who are not exactly on board with the crudeness of this.