Multimillion-dollar price hopes for notable Moonee Ponds mansion, Stanhope at 56 Holmes Rd | Hospital Privacy Curtain

The researchers examined contamination levels of privacy curtains surrounding ten separate hospital beds over a 21-day period. Eight of the beds were patient-occupied with hospital staff frequently opening and closing the curtains. The two control beds were not being used by patients. While none of the patients occupying the rooms had the MRSA bacteria, after being left unwashed for over 14 days, the privacy curtains in over half of the occupied patient rooms tested positive for MRSA.

It is my first shift volunteering as part of the Mail’s Join The Hospital Helpforce campaign. Before we began our initiative, Helpforce at Chelsea and Westminster had 503 volunteers. They hope to reach 900 — one for every bed in the hospital.

Even the pediatrics department was scanty, few patients were found in the wards unlike before now, where bed spaces were lobbied for just to put patients on emergency. Any one who falls sick now would even have the choice to choose whichever bed he/she wants to lie on.

The study, published recently in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, includes wide-ranging interviews with 10 female academic hospitalists from institutions around the country. They were asked about their experiences during pregnancy, parental leave and the challenges of returning to work including barriers to breastfeeding and diminished career opportunities.

His wife had filed for divorce months earlier. The day before the shooting, she refused to give into his pleas for reconciliation, the Associated Press reported at the time.

Bush’s years of Washington experience were never more valuable than in 1986 and 1987, as he mixed strategic deception with carefully timed leaks and well-crafted spin to white-knuckle his way through the scandal. He pronounced himself “out of the loop” on the arms trade (not true) and said he knew nothing of the Contra diversion (true enough). In the end, he arguably was saved by Reagan, who delivered a primetime address, carried by all major television networks, in which the popular President put the best possible face on the administration’s motives and apologized for the deception.

One of the film’s most genuine scares is its simplest. Miss Giddens sits near the pond with Flora on the grand estate. Flora hums an entrancing tune with eerie focus as Miss Giddens peers across the lake and sees a woman dressed all in black sitting on its serene surface. It’s a chilling moment, bolstered by cinematographer Freddie Francis’s excellent use of deep focus and minimal lighting, which creates an eerie elegance to the film that has rarely been matched elsewhere. Capote was brought onboard for a rewrite and added a psychological richness that lends a sense of ambiguity as to whether what Miss Giddens is witnessing is real or the result of her unraveling mind. You can see its brand of eerie, supernatural horror in its descendants, including The Others, Crimson Peak, and Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House. —AJB

For a film featuring a psychologically manipulative cannibal, the fact that the scariest moment in The Silence of the Lambs is a subtle, first-person night-vision stalking from Buffalo Bill’s point of view is a shining example of the film’s brilliance. Shot over the course of 22 hours and originally in light with a night-vision filter placed over it in post, this scene is one of the best examples of expertly built tension. Detective Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) stumbles around in the dark, a gun shaking in hand, with absolutely no idea of her surroundings. Meanwhile, Buffalo Bill patiently hunts his prey, toying with her, always just a half-step behind. What makes this moment so horrific is the setup of impending danger. As we view Clarice’s movements from Buffalo Bill’s perspective, we are acutely aware of how close she is, with every step, to meeting her demise. Silence of the Lambs perfectly walks the line between true crime inspired by real-life killers and the horror-film formula, something that would inspire films like Se7en, featuring another brilliant serial killer, and the lengths to which people will go to bring them to justice, even if it means becoming part of the horror themselves. —BJC

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Eleven years after redefining zombies from voodoo slaves to active flesh-eaters in the black-and-white Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero brought them back to “life” in color for Dawn of the Dead. Teaming with makeup effects maestro Tom Savini, Romero sought to take horror to heretofore unseen heights of visceral impact, and signaled his intentions with an early gore gag. During a raid on a ghoul-infested tenement, as an unwitting woman approaches her dead-and-resurrected husband, he goes for her throat. That’s where, in past films, there would be a cutaway. Not this time: The zombie takes a big, bloody chomp out of her flesh, startling viewers to attention — this fright flick was not going to play by the old rules. Dawn ushered in a new breed of undead cinema and demonstrated, once its four survivors hole up in a temple of consumerism (e.g., a shopping mall), that such movies could have deeper satirical levels. It also opened up a new dialogue about screen violence and how it should be rated. Rejecting an X that would have branded Dawn as porn, Romero and United Film Distribution instead sent it out with a self-imposed “No one under 17 will be admitted” tag. Many subsequent gorefests followed suit. —MG

A Rochester man is charged in a “horrific” sex assault involving two girls over six years is in custody. Heriberto Natividad Campos, 36, faces two counts each of first- and second-degree criminal sexual conduct. Campos posted $75,000 bond then is picked up by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. … A pet turtle made a quick getaway. Mackenzie Carter is offering a $200 reward for the return of Tortellini, her Russian tortoise, who has a brown and tan shell and is a picky eater. He was found about a month and a half later, partially burrowed in a garden about three blocks away.

There are a ton of cute swaddle blankets out there. I love the Aden & Anais ones and the Copper Pearl ones! I was also a huge fan of the Halo Sleep Sacks for my little girl as they are super user friendly!