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Carl has been carp fishing for over 30 years, starting at Newbury specimen club waters before switching to syndicate waters from his mid-20s. Carl has never chosen venues purely on the size of the fish alone. Instead, always based on the level of intimacy and friendliness, but most of all they must be challenging and have cared for and special looking carp. From 7 acre very low stock waters, to large unknown 300 acre pits. He always focuses on one or two venues at a time, usually staying for 2-3 years. Carl thrives on that cycle of starting from scratch and building up knowledge, until such time you know it’s time to move on.
To catch carp from a 300 acre boating lake between 2007 and 2009 was special, as the effort pre-baiting and walking was off the scale. But Carl still regards catching 18 of the 27 carp over a 9 month period from a very tricky and weedy 7 acre pit in 2006 as an angling highlight. At that time, Carl was lucky to have that pond almost to himself, as he did when he moved onto a lake on the Wasing Estate in 2010-12 which ended with similar results.
On most venues, Carl gets amongst the larger residents in the end. He puts that down to the approach to build on that cycle of knowledge, while trying not to let historic results pre-determine and influence swim choice.
2020 will see Carl bouncing between two large but very different 35+ acre pits. One in the Cotswolds and the other on the Wasing Estates.
Maintaining a healthy work/lifestyle balance, always important. Carl has two young boys, Ellis and Zach and a very supportive girlfriend, Maxine.
Name: Carl Udry
Location: Thatcham, West Berkshire (UK)
Date of Birth: 29/09/73
Favourite Venues: Wellington Country Park
PB’s (lb): 54lb Mirror (UK), 51lb Common (UK)


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Free Spirit is thrilled to invite you to relax and unwind in our Sound Therapy and Guided Meditation session. Experience deep relaxation with Tibetan & Crystal Singing Bowls, Chimes, Ocean Drum, Gongs, Shamanic Drum and Rain Sticks surrounded by your fellow Free Spirits.
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Zines & Zine-Related Books My Week In Catcalls: A Diary of Douchebags by Molly B. $1.50 Tales from the Concrete Highway $10.00 - The ninth issue in the Workers Write! literary journal series. This issue contains stories and poems from the driver's point of view. Edited by David LaBounty with …
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Both a behind-the-scenes account of the XXX drudgery of the porn writing and a breast cancer memoir, Sharon Lintz's Pornhounds puts it in the flesh. Art from Nicholas Breutzman, Shounak Jog, Chandler Wood, Emanuele Simonelli, Nathan Schreiber, Joan Reilly, Ellen Lindner, Ed Piskor, Edwin Vazquez, Mack White and Danny Hellman.

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‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’:The first verdicts are out
The wait is (almost) over
It has been five years since we saw Harry Potter and the Wizarding World on screen. For a while, it seemed that that could be the last we see of the most famous boy wizard in literature (other than the numerous self-played reruns at home). Then came the most wonderful news to all Harry Potter fans in June last year: Rowling announced that Harry will be making his West End theatre debut in an untold part of the story. Titled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the play is a sequel to the seven Harry Potter novels, and a handful of lucky theatregoers (tickets are sold out till May 2017) was at London’s Palace Theatre yesterday for the very first preview of the long-awaited production.
While the Special Rehearsal Edition script of the play is set to be released only on 31 July 2016, we can’t help but look for a taste of what’s to come—here are some of the reviews on the preview (the first of the two-part production) last night. Don’t worry, no spoilers included:
Joe Utichi, Deadline
“Designer Christine Jones’ (Old Times, Hands on a Hardbody) set conjures King’s Cross and the many rooms of Hogwarts, turning on a dime. And a wide variety of ingenious stage trickery illuminates the tale, which picks things up where they were left in Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows epilogue. Those tricks are often simple and age-old—like stagehands in shadows, clever light projection and pyrotechnic flashes. But the particular alchemy employed here is like nothing the West End has ever seen, and there are many ‘wow’ moments for even the greatest skeptics.”
“One swish of a wizard’s cape was all it took to transport a theatre full of muggles into the magical world of Harry Potter. Spells and hexes combined with laughs and drama mean Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be every bit the hit everyone expects. JK Rowling has begged fans not to give away the secrets of the plot and spoil it for others but suffice to say, the extraordinary world she brought to life in the best selling books and hit films is evident in every scene on stage too.“
Hannah Furness, The Telegraph
“The storyline, a hymn to friendship and teenage misfits, contains enough twists to please the most knowledgable of fans, who remained resolutely tight-lipped about the plot as they spilled onto the pavement in raptures afterwards. Any fears that the world of Hogwarts on stage would struggle to compete with the multi-million dollar special effects of film were quickly kicked into touch.”
“It is jarring and exciting to be seeing characters who seemed to be put to rest, suspended forever in place and time, suddenly reanimated. At the same time, the three main characters remained true to their younger selves. Ron still provides comic relief, Hermione remains cerebral and slightly bossy and Harry tries as hard as he can but doesn’t quite live up to his own expectations.”
Cursed Child intermission quick review: VERY impressive magic happening on stage. Funny script. The story.. Where it’s heading… BIG things.
— Andrew Sims (@sims) June 7, 2016
— Shama Hussain (@shama_ny) June 7, 2016
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 8, 2016
‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ officially opens on 30 July 2016 at the Palace Theatre, London. The Special Rehearsal Edition script book will be released on 31 July 2016.
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Changi Airport Group recognises top airline partners for contributions to the Singapore air hub
SINGAPORE, 28 April 2016 – Changi Airport Group (CAG) celebrated a year of close partnerships and joint successes with its top airline partners today, at the 2016 Changi Airline Awards. At the annual event, which is into its 11th year, 25 awards were presented across six categories to airlines that have contributed most significantly to the growth of the Singapore air hub in 2015.
These included Top Airlines By Passenger Carriage and Cargo Carriage, Top Airlines By Absolute Growth in Passenger Carriage, Top Airlines by Absolute Cargo Growth, Best Airline Marketing, and the Partner of the Year award. A list of all the award winners can be found in Annex A.
Partner of the Year
The overall Partner of the Year award was presented to Xiamen Airlines, for its substantial contribution to the development of Changi Airport. Among Chinese carriers operating at Changi, Xiamen Airlines is the third largest in terms of passenger carriage and the one with the widest Singapore-China network, through its connectivity to seven Chinese cities.
In 2015, the airline deepened its collaboration with CAG through the inking of a three-year Memorandum of Collaboration (MoC) to jointly grow traffic and connectivity between Singapore and China, as well as to pursue commercial collaborations. On the back of this MoC, Xiamen Airlines added its fourth daily service (Xi’an-Hangzhou-Singapore) in March 2015, doubling the capacity on the Singapore-Hangzhou route. The carrier also partnered CAG in a series of market development initiatives, such as travel trade seminars in Xi’an, Zhengzhou and Johor Bahru to help to grow travel demand.
In 2015, Xiamen Airlines carried more than 370,000 passengers to and from Changi, an outstanding 30% increase year-on-year. Over the years, it has been CAG’s steadfast partner in growing the China market, registering a compounded annual growth rate of 11% in passenger traffic since 2011. Please refer to Annex B for more information on the Partner of the Year award.
Xiamen Airlines’ Chairman and CEO, Mr Che Shanglun, said, “Singapore has always been a strategic point in Xiamen Airlines’ Southeast Asian network. Changi Airport, being one of the world’s best airports, is also one of Xiamen Airlines’ closest partners. We look forward to continuing our strong collaboration with CAG to further the aviation development between Singapore and China, and to continue to provide high quality services to our passengers across the world.”
Celebrating growth and partnerships
In terms of passenger carriage, the top five airlines operating at Changi Airport in 2015 were Singapore Airlines, Tigerair, SilkAir, Jetstar Asia and, AirAsia. On the cargo front, Singapore Airlines Cargo continued to top the list of carriers with highest cargo volume, with FedEx Express, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines and Air Hong Kong following. New award winners, Air France and Tri-MG Intra-Asia Airlines were among the strongest growing airlines for passenger and cargo carriage respectively.
2015 was a year of resilience and recovery for Changi Airport, which saw a turnaround in passenger traffic in the second half of the year, following a weaker showing of flat growth in the first half. Led by the recovery in intra-Asian travel, Changi welcomed eight new scheduled airlines and 10 new city links – capping the year with a commendable passenger traffic growth of 2.5% to 55.4 million passengers, an all-time high.
CAG’s CEO, Mr Lee Seow Hiang, said, “The growth momentum has extended into 2016. We achieved growth of 10% in the first quarter of this year, on the back of strong travel
demand across all our major markets. Among Changi’s top five country markets, traffic to and from China, Malaysia and Thailand all enjoyed double-digit growth.
“In the coming months, we look forward to the launch of Singapore Airlines’ new services to Dusseldorf, Canberra and Wellington. We are also excited to welcome in June, United Airlines’ non-stop service between Singapore and San Francisco. An improvement in global economic activity, stable oil prices and the delivery of longer range aircraft will present new growth opportunities for the industry.”
 Dalian, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Xi’an, Xiamen, Zhengzhou
Annex A – List of Changi Airline Awards 2016 Recipients
Annex B - Citation for Partner of the Year Award
About Changi Airport Group
Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd (CAG) (www.changiairportgroup.com) was formed on 16 June 2009 and the corporatisation of Singapore Changi Airport (IATA: SIN, ICAO: WSSS) followed on 1 July 2009. As the company managing Changi Airport, CAG undertakes key functions focusing on airport operations and management, air hub development, commercial activities and airport emergency services. CAG also manages Seletar Airport (IATA: XSP, ICAO: WSSL) and through its subsidiary Changi Airports International, invests in and manages foreign airports.
Changi Airport is the world's sixth busiest airport for international traffic. It served a record 55.4 million passengers from around the globe in 2015. More than 360 retail stores and 140 F&B outlets are situated across three terminals to cater to passengers and visitors. With over 100 airlines providing connectivity to 320 cities worldwide, Changi Airport handles about 6,800 flights every week, or about one every 90 seconds.

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“I think it’s great,” said Marc Lasry, the CEO of investment firm Avenue Capital Group. “She’s going to help Joe immensely. He picked the perfect partner.” Lasry is also a part owner of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks.
Blair Effron, the co-founder of Centerview Partners, texted “GREAT CHOICE” to CNBC. Citigroup’s Ray McGuire sent a similar message.
When she ran for president last year, Harris saw contributions from executives in a wide range of industries, including film, TV, real estate and finance, according to data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Her campaign finished raising close to $40 million…
Financial advisory firm Signum Global is already telling its clients that the choice of Harris reinforces the notion that the Democratic ticket is more moderate than progressive.

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The Book Itself: I like the space-y background! I’m just not always a fan of the use of pretty models to sell YA books. Kind of forces you to imagine the characters this way, when this is not how I would choose to see them. I think the cover would be awesome were it just the watercolor stained space landscape.
My Review: Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met.
Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet’s rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents.
Rebellion is in Flynn’s blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to make the inhospitable planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion.
Desperate for any advantage in a bloody and unrelentingly war, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: he returns to base with her as prisoner. But as his fellow rebels prepare to execute this tough-talking girl with nerves of steel, Flynn makes another choice that will change him forever. He and Lee escape the rebel base together, caught between two sides of a senseless war.
Ah, the sequel. I said just a few weeks ago that Golden Son (review here) was one of the best sequels in a series that I’d read. And if you remember, I looooved this series’ first book, These Broken Stars (review here). Unfortunately, This Shattered World did not fare so well.
Give me a moment to gripe about a character name. Jubilee. Jubilee. The fact that she’s just sixteen and somehow deemed mature enough to be a captain in a branch of the military in this fictional world (which she proves she’s not…she falls in love with a fugitive, after all…), but that name is 1: annoying. Any time Flynn says her name in a bout of wistfullness or luuurve, I cringe. Just say it out loud. JUBILEE. Ick. and 2: is inappropriate? Is that the word I want? The definition of the word jubilee is “a special anniversary of an event, especially one celebrating twenty-five or fifty years of a reign or activity” (thank you Dictionary.com). So…why is that her name? Why can’t she have a regular name, what is the point of naming her after a celebration, when nowhere in the book is the tone one of celebration?
Okay, sorry. The name really distracted me at times. So…Jubilee, who I will refuse to call that, and will from now on call “Lee,” meets Flynn at a bar where actually much of the story takes place. They flirt, he turns out to be in disguise (although later he needs to change his entire appearance – skin tone AND hair color, in order to walk onto the base…so how did he just walk on before in a soldier’s uniform? Does he or does he not need to look completely different to go unrecognized?), he takes her hostage and takes her back to the rebel base, deep in this swampy marshland supposedly difficult for the soldiers on the base to navigate (although at several points in the book, they make it to key places just fine…). There’s a rebel who is trying to usurp Flynn and use violence to solve the problems between them and the soldiers. Underneath all this, a sickness of a sort called the Fury tends to take over only the soldiers, and not the rebels. It takes over their mind and causes them to kill anyone around them, regardless of them being allies or enemies. Victims of the Fury are simply shipped off the base for a desk job. Everyone stationed at Avon (the swamp planet we find our story on) eventually succumbs to the Fury. The goal? Find out what the Fury is, and why Flynn seems to think an entire base slips in and out of existence on some faraway island.
It’s a meandering story path. Characters die, Lilac and Tarver (why do the girls in this series get stupid names?!) from the first book play a big role, but honestly, it feels a little like the same story as its first installment.
I don’t want to spoil things. But what originally seemed like a completely separate story turns out to merely be a lackluster continuation. Lilac and Tarver play a bigger role, it seems, than Lee and Flynn. The same powers are at play, similar culprits, similar stakes. I wished it would be more unique than this.
This book is also more romance than action/sci-fi in tone. There are a lot of sweeping declarations, a lot of aching to touch each other, conflicted feelings because of the opposite sides of the battle they supposedly fight. And yet….not a lot of romance truly happens. They make out a couple of times. But even at the end of the book, there’s no conclusion with them. Are they in luuurve? Lee is so standoffish throughout the whole book (because of that whole being a teenage officer thing), that you don’t even know if she wants to be with him! It’s all sexual tension and teenage hormones, and nothing really real. In These Broken Stars, at least the teenage characters had to grow up fast because of that whole stranded-on-a-deserted-planet thing. They seemed more mature, even though they were roughly the same age.
Overall, it’s unsatisfactory, as sequels go. Unfortunately, if you want to read the whole series, you’ll need to read this one to make sense of the events. But this one really feels like it’s merely a bridge to the final chapter. Maybe the last one will go back to Lilac and Tarver. They seemed to have just as much, if not more spark than the main characters in this one.
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Bill Bachrach is one of the most recognized “names” in the Financial Services industry and was named “one of the four most influential people in the Financial Services industry” by Financial Planning Magazine. As the “father” of the Values-Based Financial Planning™ philosophy and the Trusted Advisor concept, Bill’s work has had a profound impact on how Financial Professionals conduct business, and he has stood at the forefront of the movement to transform the Financial Services industry into a true profession.
Bill Bachrach is the author of four of the industry’s most definitive works, including Values-Based Financial Planning and High-Trust Leadership (co-authored with Norman Levine), and he has delivered well over 1000 presentations worldwide including presentations for:
Financial Planning Association’s Success Forum (seven times)
Million Dollar Round Table (four times)
Top of the Table (three times)
Court of the Table
Virtually every major firm within the Financial Services industry
On a personal note, Bill Bachrach successfully completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon in 1998. The 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and 26.2 mile marathon run held annually under difficult conditions is considered to be the toughest single-day athletic event in the world. He uses this and other unique life experiences to captivate the audiences at his speaking engagements.

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The prolonged closure of movie theatres during the covid-19 pandemic has robbed the box office of collections of around Rs. 580 crore from the release of 26 Hindi films directly on video streaming platforms since March 2020, according to a recent report by media consulting firm Ormax.
These figures have been arrived at after entertainment tax deduction. Originally conceived as theatrical releases, the films that had no option but to premiere on OTT (over-the-top) streaming services included titles such as Gulabo Sitabo, Laxmii, Coolie No.1, Ludo, Gunjan Saxena- The Kargil Girl and several others. Ten of these titles, including Salman Khan’s Radhe- Your Most Wanted Bhai, Akshay Kumar’s Laxmii, Varun Dhawan’s Coolie No.1 and Alia Bhatt’s Sadak 2, are estimated to have contributed 76% to the Rs. 580 crore loss calculated.
Ormax used its own methodology to arrive at this figure based on how such genre of films performed earlier keeping in mind extraneous variables such as clash with other releases, holidays and even the Indian Premier League. They used benchmarks data of films similar in terms of themes and star cast etc.
Presuming 50% of the entire Rs. 580 crore would go to exhibitors, from the producers’ perspective, the estimated loss at the domestic box office stands at about Rs. 290 crore, Ormax said with an additional loss of about Rs. 40 crore having been considered from what could have been overseas box office collections. This does not not account for Radhe, which did manage release in certain overseas territories. That takes the total estimated box office loss at the producer end to Rs. 330 crore.
Ormax, however, estimates that while exhibitors have been severely hit, most producers were paid a huge premium by streaming platforms, eager to churn out content featuring popular actors, and their gains from those sales can be pegged at Rs. 350 crore.
Shailesh Kapoor, CEO and founder of Ormax who has penned the report along with two other writers mentions so far, it’s been a win-win situation for both producers and streaming platforms.
“The exhibitors have suffered, of course, and their losses don’t have corresponding gains to show. As we prepare for theatres to re-open, hopefully sooner than later, the pandemic has given a genuinely lucrative model for small films, which often struggle to even recover their marketing costs. But for the likes of Sooryavanshi, ’83, Laal Singh Chaddha and KGF: Chapter 2, the big screen still beckons,” they said in the report.
“The films that were released (directly on digital) would have loved to have come on the big screen. They were all mostly made for that format. However, all producers will have their own individual situations to manage which would have led them to their decisions,” said Rahul Puri, managing director, Mukta Arts and Mukta A2 Cinemas.
Puri said a title like Coolie No 1 would be a perfect theatre film where people don’t judge movies as minutely as they do on OTT.
“I can understand why it went to digital but I think its theatre performance is a missed opportunity,” Puri added.
Given that large TV screens are far from being affordable for a majority of the population in India and OTT is still seen primarily as an urban, personal medium of consumption, there is a significant market for theatrical releases, said film producer, trade and exhibition expert Girish Johar. “People want to go out for that community viewing and the theatrical churn will be huge, at least for the next decade,” Johar said.
People don’t watch movies, they experience cinema, Anant Roongta, managing director at production and distribution house Famous Studios said. “Once the pandemic eases out, cinemas will be the prime avenue for producers and studios to unleash their creativity,” Roongta said. Prominent Hollywood Studios such as MGM and Paramount have pushed the release dates of several film as OTT would not do justice to their cinematic experience, he added.
“Filmmakers who will have wherewithal to wait for a theatrical release for their films would prefer to wait as can be seen in case of Akshay Kumar-starrer Sooryavanshi. The only thing that may happen is the gap between theatrical release for a film and its subsequent availability on OTT platform may go down significantly,” said Shashank Singh, founder and CEO at Flyx, a social media network that allows people to curate content lists and give recommendations. Live Mint


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The profitability of wind farms rest upon reducing uncertainty associated with wind resource assessment and wind turbine optimization. Leosphere Group has the unique product range in the industry that allow remote and accurate short range, long range wind measurements either from the ground or from the nacelle.
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For future offshore wind farms, the Windcube 100S/200S/400S is the right choice by mapping the wind from the shore. For wind farms located further away, the Windcube allows to measure accurately the wind on stable platforms located several kilometers from the shore. In case of absence of platform, the measurement with an Offshore Lidar installed on a buoy is the most effective way of performing a cost effective wind resource assessment.
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"She's trying to move on," Coker's father tells The Daily Mail."She won't want to talk about it." PHOTOS: See the Harry Potter cast, then and now Pre-split, the British couple had been living together in Radcliffe's $4.3 million apartment in New York City's West Village neighborhood.After that, he did 8 films as Harry Potter and soon rose to prominence. In 1999, David Copperfield, a film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel, was released in which Daniel did the role as Young David Copperfield.This movie was shown in 2 parts on 25 and December 26, 1999 on BBC. He himself does his exercises and want to get a body like Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese soccer player.So, he regularly visits the gym, does circuit training, many crunches and sit-ups. He eats GI (Glycemic Index) diet and avoids junk food like pizza, chocolates, which includes his favorite food as well. As he is not very tall, so a little bit of fat would reflect more from his body.For, this purpose, he has also left drinking beer, to avoid the intake of as many calories as possible.star described as his “girlfriend at the moment, who I am very much in love with.” Only as late as Thursday, just as photos of her and Radcliffe strolling hand-in-hand together in New York surfaced, the young woman’s identity remained a mystery. RELATED: Daniel Radcliffe ‘Very Much in Love’ Coker is a painter and the daughter of a decorator, reports London’s .• They’ve dated for a year, and she divides her time between her family’s $660,000 family home in Surrey, England, and Radcliffe’s luxury Manhattan pad.
So you know, we’ll see where that goes.’ Radcliffe has only gone public with one girlfriend since starring in the first Harry Potter film in 2001.
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(A note from Julie: I specialize in crisis coaching that eventually becomes a management plan for the whole family. My work is extremely discrete. I never share my client list and offer help even when change feels impossible. You are not alone. Coaching works. Over 50% of my coaching clients come to me for help with a loved one who is using marijuana and having mood swings.)
Over six years ago, I started coaching partners and family members of people with bipolar disorder as an addition to my writing career.
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Here are some ideas: 1.Know you are not alone. I have spent many lonely holidays simply from not planning ahead. 2. Remove yourself from the idea of what this day SHOULD be like and focus on what you can make happen from this moment forward. Holidays are stressful because even though they are simply a day on the calendar, society puts enormous stress on what we should be doing on that day. Step out of this and create something of your own. 3. If there is time, plan something now. Call a person you think might be available. It you were invited to a party and said no because you were depressed, call and say you’re coming. If, and this is [ Read More ]
Julie A. Fast talks with her 14 year old nephew David about bipolar disorder. She started the conversations when he was four.
A note from Julie: It amazes me how easily David and I can talk about such a serious illness. I started off by educating him on my own depression, mania, anxiety and psychosis symptoms so that he could better understand my behavior. Now he is one of the greatest minds I know on the topic! He has so much insight. We can teach young people how to talk about and manage this illness. David doesn’t currently have bipolar disorder, but we have talked about the genetics of having it in the family. I hope you enjoy our discussion on how to talk about bipolar disorder in an open and relaxed way.
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From Bp Magazine. Here is one of the best posts I have read in a LONG time. By Demitri Papolos, MD who wrote The Bipolar Child. A very common symptom of bipolar disorder— hypersexuality — is one that particularly affects and disturbs the families of children who have the illness, and yet is rarely talked about.
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Hypersexuality in children is rarely openly discussed for two reasons: one is that sexuality in children (bipolar or not) is simply not spoken about in public; and the other, sadly, is that parents of hypersexual children are afraid to mention the subject. They are petrified that child protective service agencies will [ Read More ]
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Just answered this great question from reader and advocate Judy Fryer on my live chat with Martin Baker and Fran Houston for the launch of their new book High Tide, Low Tide: The Caring Friend’s Guide to Bipolar Disorder. (I often do live question and answer sessions on my Julie A. Fast Facebook account.)
Julie, In the UK, the drs are very reluctant to diagnose children with a mental illness. It is very difficult to discern if a child is displaying signs of mental illness or being ‘naughty’. The danger is, we put their ‘ bad’ behaviour down to puberty and we miss the signs. Any pointers as what to look out for?”
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, said on Facebook, in a personal statement what many in Silicon Valley have been thinking: “Trump's actions are hurting Netflix employees around the world, and are so un-American it pains us all. Worse, these actions will make America less safe (through hatred and loss of allies) rather than more safe.”
The US tech investor Sam Altman called on tech leaders to do more to oppose Trump. While there are plenty of actions Trump has already taken that are worth opposing, Altman said yesterday’s executive order on immigration ‘is tantamount to a Muslim ban and requires objection.’”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already posted on the subject saying: “Like many of you, I’m concerned about the impact of the recent executive orders signed by President Trump. We need to keep this country safe, but we should do that by focusing on people who actually pose a threat. We should also keep our doors open to refugees and those who need help.”
While US Unified communications CEO Michael Tessler (see below) has come out publicly against the ban, there has not been any official comment from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon. The reasons may be simple – each one of them needs to stay on side of Trump since they all need favours in the future from him.
Sprint and T-Mobile are likely to be looking for approval for some form of merger. AT&T is in the middle of attempting to buy Time Warner. Verizon, which has already made several deals, is seen as a potential buyer of a cable company and has a number of other deals up its sleeves, all of which will require regulatory approval.
All four also want to see the Federal Communications Commission reign in general regulation, including the most forceful parts of net neutrality. The telecos have generally praised the Trump administration, especially for its choice of Ajit Pai as chairman of the FCC.
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure and T-Mobile CEO John Legere have toned down their opposition to Trump since the election. Legere had a few huge battles with Trump, while Claure was a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton. However, the day after Trump’s victory, Legere tweeted his congratulations to Trump while Claure told Sprint employees that he was going to give Trump “a fair shot.”
“I pray that he unites our country and continues to make it an even better place for all Americans regardless of their race, their national origin or their religion,” Claure said in an email after the election. All four companies declined to make any comment.
However, Michael Tessler, BroadSoft CEO, has just posted this excoriating message on the company’s blog: “Today, I am frustrated to be an American. The recent executive order from our new president is an outrageous attack against the values of this country.
As many of you know I am the CEO of BroadSoft, a US-based global technology company. We are an American success story and have grown to have employees and customers across the globe. We take our global citizenship very seriously.
I also recently became an American citizen after living in the US for many years. I grew up in Canada; both my parents and my friends' parents were immigrants. I grew up with friends from all nationalities and who spoke different languages. This was just the way it was. We all respected other cultures and learned from each other.
I had the opportunity to move to the USA many years ago to pursue my career. When Scott and I decided to move and make the DC area our home, it was the multicultural aspect of this neighborhood that reminded me of home. My kids have grown up not even realizing that they are going to school with kids that have grown up around the world, with unique culture and languages. When the elementary school had a potluck dinner, it was an amazing diversity of food and culture. I always felt fortunate that my children could grow up with this diversity.
After many years, I decided to become an American citizen and felt equally proud of both my home country of Canada and my adopted home, the USA. However, the last couple of weeks has me worried about the direction that this country is going. With the administration’s current immigration position, we believe that some of our most important values – freedom, openness, diversity and hope – are being challenged.
I am also proud that we serve so many great organizations in so many countries. By visiting with members of the BroadSoft ecosystem, I have learned a lot about your cultures, business practices, and thinking. I want to reassure you that the administration’s recent actions and its tone do not represent the values of BroadSoft or the values of most Americans.
We are publically communicating our perspective and I am optimistic that our concerns will be recognized and addressed in a more constructive manner moving forward.”

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Five finalists for the job to head the City and County of Honolulu’s mass-transit system were scheduled to arrive in Hawaii this week for two days of in-person interviews and to tour the elevated rail system’s proposed route.
Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation officials were not disclosing the names of the finalists for HART executive director as PBN went to press Wednesday. Keslie Hui, the HART board member who is heading the search committee, said the candidates’ identities are being kept confidential because some applicants expressed concern about their employers finding out they were applying for the position.
The person selected for the job will oversee the $5.1 billion rail project through its design, engineering and construction phases and when it begins operating.
HART officials say the hiring process for the new executive director is costing an estimated $150,000, which includes the City and County of Honolulu’s contract with search firm Krauthamer & Associates Inc., based in Chevy Chase, Md.
“Overall it was a very strong field of candidates,” Hui said. “We had a very good group to pick from.”
The search attracted applicants from as far away as the Middle East, Europe and Canada, but most of them were American, Hui said.
Applicants reportedly included Toru Hamayasu, HART’s interim executive director. However, Hui would not disclose whether Hamayasu was in the running for the job and Hamayasu declined to comment for this story.
HART spokesman Scott Ishikawa said in an email that Krauthamer & Associates contacted more than 150 people as part of the recruitment process. He said the position will pay between $175,000 and $450,000, depending on the person’s experience. The job was advertised in nine publications that primarily targeted the mass-transit industry.
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The rate of enzyme reaction is affected by temperature, substrate concentration, pH, and presence of inhibitors and cofactors. The equilibrium model describes the effect of temperature on enzymes. In this model, enzymes lose activity at high temperatures and low and at low temperatures (Peterson, Daniel, Danson, & Eisenthal, 2007).
The main hypothesis is to find out the effect of temperature on the rate of reaction and absorbance of enzyme catechol. To test the hypothesis, a solution of potato extract and deionized water was heated to four different temperatures and the rate of reaction and the absorbance was determined.
It was found out that when the solution of the potato extract and deionized water and catechol was heated at room temperature, the measure of absorbance increased until at 40 °C. The absorbance value then reduced when the solution was heated at 60 °C to 100 °C.
In enzymatic reactions, increase in temperature leads to increase in the rate of reaction due to the additional heat that increases random molecular movement. The activation energy of the reaction is thereby affected due to stress in the molecular bonds caused by the movement. From the findings, absorbance increased from room temperature to 40°C –the optimum temperature. Most enzymes have an optimum temperature between 35 °C and 40 °C. At room temperature, the hydrophobic interactions and the hydrogen bonds were not flexible enough to induce fit that was optimum for catalysis. At 60 °C, the forces are too weak to maintain the enzymes shape against the increased random movement of the atoms in the enzyme. At boiling temperatures the enzyme denatures and does not take part in chemical reactions effectively. This is in consistent with findings by (Daniel, et al., 2009)
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U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy encouraged higher education leaders and policymakers to increase support and resources for mental health at an event hosted by ACE in Washington, DC last month.
ACE’s Pulse Point surveys have consistently shown that more college and university presidents identify student mental health among their top concerns than any other issue on campus. Mental health is now one of the top reasons many college students are considering dropping out of college, according to a recently released report by Gallup and Lumina Foundation. Murthy pointed out during his “fireside chat” with Lumina President and CEO Jamie Merisotis that this crisis is not new. In December, Murthy issued a Surgeon General’s Advisory on Protecting Youth Mental Health, warning of the mental health crisis for young people across the country, who were already struggling before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Lumina Foundation sponsored the all-day event, hosted at ACE’s headquarters, which was attended by higher education leaders, organizations, foundations, and representatives. The goal was to develop opportunities and strategies to address the mental health crisis on college campuses.
Murthy said he wants to continue efforts to destigmatize mental health struggles, speaking candidly about his own experiences with bullying and loneliness. “Mental health is not just a side subject we need to address. It’s foundational. It is our fuel. It takes a toll and affects whether we show up or build healthy relationships,” he said. He encouraged institutions to establish programs where students can help each other cope and emphasized the importance of collecting data to see which students on campus are using mental health resources.
Several speakers at the event acknowledged that the mental health crisis cannot be addressed by campus counseling centers alone. ACE President Ted Mitchell spoke about how resources to address this issue on campuses can be limited, especially with all the competing demands. Some institutions don’t have counseling centers or only offer a very limited amount of hours to serve student needs, and those who do have counseling centers find that even with increased capacity they cannot meet demand.
Zainab Okolo, strategy officer at Lumina Foundation, said she imagines a more inclusive and healthier higher education landscape will rest in the willingness of our society and our institutions’ ability to understand the real trauma and hardships experienced by students these last few years and giving them the support they need. “This crisis comes with so much opportunity,” she said.
Hollie Chessman, ACE’s director of research and practice, led the subsequent breakout roundtable sessions, which included representatives from groups like the American College Health Association, Active Minds, Action Network for Equitable Wellbeing, the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors, the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State University, the Healthy Minds Network, Inseparable, The JED Foundation, the Mary Christie Institute, NASPA–Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation, the Steve Fund, among others.
“My hope is that everyone in this room will leave at the end of our time together energized by future possibilities because they will have established new relationships and networks to inform, disseminate, and fund their work on mental health,” Chessman said.


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Feminism brought women into academics, the professional world and other male-dominated arenas, but has yet to transform the world of executive leadership. Of the Fortune 500 CEOs, only 21 are women.
The Harvard Business Review recently ran a piece that spotlights the new wave of feminism, led by Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg and Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, targeting the highest reaches of the corporate world.
Though women make up more than half of college graduates, they still represent a small fraction of industry’s top brass.
“For a while it looked like this problem would fix itself, but at this point we’ve being waiting for top-level women to emerge from the pipeline for 40 years,” the article reads. “Waiting isn’t working. Women earn more college degrees than men, make up about 46 percent of the labor force, and hold more than half of managerial and professional positions. But men still run the world. (Literally — women make up 18 percent of the United States Congress, and about 20 world leaders out of 193 United Nations recognized states.)”
For reasons we can all probably guess (read: childcare, maternity leave, greater domestic responsibilities), women drop out or fall behind mid-career. They’re well-represented at the college level, but are less likely to rise to the top at the same pace and frequency as men.
“Women leak out of the pipeline well before they reach the top,” the Harvard write-up reads. “To take one example, women’s law school enrollment peaked in 1993, at 50.4 percent. Twenty years later, when these women should be reaching the peaks of their careers, they make up barely 15 percent of law firm equity partners.”
Sandberg’s Lean In brand of feminism focuses on positions of authority, but not by encouraging women to distance themselves from each other, per some outdated shades of female ambition. Executive feminism is about networking amongst professional women, encouraging the solidarity it takes to achieve high levels of success.
“Research shows that women who succeed in jobs dominated by men, not surprisingly, often do so by distancing themselves from other women,” the article continues. “What’s impressive is that Sandberg, Slaughter, and [journalist Mika] Brzezinski aren’t following that conventional wisdom. They are embracing change with the argument that maybe executive feminism is just what we need to jump-start the stalled gender revolution.”
A jump-start is exactly what the professional feminist revolution needs, considering it would take 300 years at this pace before women share equal executive representation with men. In the meantime, men literally rule the world, holding most positions of power and affecting public policy. Even given the small share of leadership women now hold, their influence is nothing short of profound.
“More women in power might well lead to greater success in other arenas: Note that every female GOP senator voted for the recent reauthorization of the Violence Again Women Act,” the author writes. “The people in power are the people who shape policy, whether in business or in politics or in the neighborhood garden club. It’s as simple as that.”
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FIFA will take no action in relation to Neymar's complaint over a £23million bonus he feels he should be paid by former club Barcelona.
The world governing body has closed an investigation after legal action was taken elsewhere over the same complaint.
The 25-year-old, who completed a world record transfer to Paris Saint-Germain last summer, demanded Barca be expelled from the Champions League after the club refused to pay the bonus to Neymar's father.
A FIFA spokesperson told Sky Sports News: "After having been made aware that, apparently, the same matter had been submitted in parallel before different jurisdictions, by the same party, the FIFA administration informed the parties to the dispute that, based on the long-standing and well-established jurisprudence of FIFA's deciding bodies, it did not seem to be in a position to continue with the investigation of the affair.
"The proceedings were therefore closed for formal reasons."
Barcelona spokesman Josep Vives previously said earlier this month: "The club will not pay the bonus to Neymar's father. There were three conditions: the player must not negotiate his departure from the club during the month before the bonus became payable, he must demonstrate his desire to fulfil his contract, and that we would not pay out the bonus before September 1, to ensure the transfer window was closed.
"Now that we know that none of these three conditions were met, we will not honour that bonus."
UEFA announced last September that it was opening an investigation into PSG's summer spending to establish whether or not the French club had complied with Financial Fair Play regulations.


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2021 Volkswagen Arteon four-door coupe unveiled with new looks, hybrid versions
After several spy photos and leaks, thenew 2021 Volkswagen Arteon has finally been unveiled.The sedan facelift gets a mid-cycle update that has plug-in hybrid variant and the R sport option as well.
The first change that is noticeable is the headlamps that are now practically linked with a new thin strip of LED light running through the revamped grille on which the Volkswagen badge sits. The bumper has also changed.At the rear, the most notable change is undoubtedly the new taillight cluster. The Arteon will be offered with both 18-inch and 20-inch alloy wheel options.
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There are new faux leather surfaces with embossed accent stitching and more options are offered in choosing insert materials.There are from real wood to metal sconces.For the music lovers, there is a Harman Kardon sound system specifically configured for this model and, combined with the ambient lighting system, will allow you to enjoy trips on board the Arteon.
The 2021 Volkswagen Arteon is aconnected car.It wears aVolkswagen Digital Cockpit Prodigital instrument clusterto a9.2-inch touch screento operate the Discover Pro infotainment system that allows access to all kinds of online digital services.Also, there is a wireless charger for compatible mobile phones.
The new Arteon's engine range has been revised and improved.Volkswagen will offer a selection ofgasoline, diesel mechanics and a plug-in hybrid version.The diesel engine features an AdBlue double-dose SCR catalytic reduction system to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 80%.
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This update to theArteon rangecomes at a crucial time, as the market is in the midst of a transition to sustainable mobility.That is why some of the upgrades in the new Arteon are related to electrification.


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The Vaccines' singer Justin Young has said he wanted fans to "sway" to 'Melody Calling' rather than head bang like they would to earlier tracks
The Vaccines wanted their new track to have people swaying.
The band's singer, Justin Young, said the intention of the floaty sound in 'Melody Calling' was to have fans subtly moving along to the single rather than encourage them to head bang because they wanted it to have a different vibe from their previous up-tempo releases.
He told NME: "I wrote this at Christmas. I'd built loads of vocal stuff around the main chorus vocal, and then ended up muting the main part so all that's left is the harmonies - that's why they're all falsetto.
"It moves in a different way. It's not one you bang your head to; maybe you sway a bit more."
Justin has previously said he had a "kick of creative desire" when writing the new single and he managed to come up with a number of songs for the extended play collection.
Drummer, Pete Robertson, said previously: "Justin had a kick of creative desire and he suddenly had a bunch of songs.
" 'Melody Calling' really stuck out as something that was really exciting for all of us. It's not for any particular grand design, no great purpose, just for the desire of being creative."


Hearts advanced to a William Hill Scottish Cup semi-final against holders Celtic with a 2-0 quarter-final replay victory at St Mirren.
Saints' Graham Carey had a 13th-minute penalty well saved by Jamie MacDonald before Jamie Hamill, who earlier hit the post, fired Hearts in front after 31 minutes.
Rudi Skacel made certain of victory after 86 minutes, converting Andrew Driver's cross, as Hearts progressed to the last four, where they will meet Clydesdale Bank Premier League leaders Celtic on April 15.
After Skacel shot wide in the opening minute, the Buddies went on the attack, with Carey's left foot a potent weapon. MacDonald palmed away one Carey cross with Nigel Hasselbaink and Steven Thompson poised to pounce before the goalkeeper saved after Jim Goodwin failed to strike the ball cleanly after another cross from the left-back.
Saints were awarded a penalty by referee Stevie O'Reilly after 12 minutes, although they were unfortunate not to go ahead. Marius Zaliukas was adjudged to have handled while challenging Thompson in the air and Hasselbaink found the net with the rebound, but the whistle had already gone. Carey's resulting spot-kick was well struck but MacDonald made the save.
Craig Samson was beaten in the 23rd minute, but Hamill's shot from 25 yards hit the upright as Saints survived.
Saints were pressing Hearts across the field, but were punished for a lapse in concentration as Marc McAusland only half cleared a cross from Danny Grainger and Hamill's shot from the edge of the area went into the bottom corner.
The visitors had the majority of possession in the opening stages of the second half, without threatening Samson's goal.
Skacel fired a warning shot from the edge of the box, forcing Samson to concede a corner, from which Zaliukas headed wide.
With four minutes remaining, good work by Driver down the left found Skacel, who tucked the ball beyond Samson to seal victory and a place in the semi-finals.


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The meaning of the word POLYP is an abnormal mass of tissue that may look like a small, flat bump or mushroom-like growth. Most polyps are small and less than half an inch wide.
What prompts you to get yourself examined for polyps? And what are the symptoms which may be suggestive of uterine polyps?
If you are suffering from:
1. Heavy bleeding
2. Intermenstrual bleeding
3. Recurrent vaginal discharge
4. Prolonged spotting
5. Spotting or bleeding after sexual intercourse
6. Spotting after menopause
Dr. Dimple Doshi at Vardaan Hospital; believes prevention is better than cure, and thus apart from the precise treatment guidelines; preventive measures are an essential part of our consultations with the patients who have either had it or want to know more about it.
Uterine polyps may be present in 24% women, but its incidence is much higher in postmenopausal women as compared to premenopausal women. The chance of these uterine polyps turning cancerous ranges from 0.5 to 4.8% in young and menstruating women and from 2 to 10% in menopausal women
Uterine polyps are more likely to develop in older women than in younger women. Uterine polyps can occur mostly when a woman s age is between 40 to 50 and they can develop even after menopause but rarely occur in women under 20 years old.
Your chances of developing uterine polyps increase if you have hypertension or high blood pressure; are overweight or obese, or are taking tablets like tamoxifen, a drug that is used to treat breast cancer
Endometrial polyp: This type of polyps is present inside your womb. They may not be visible but can be picked up by sonography.
Cervical polyp: These types of polyps are present on your cervix and are visible to your gynecologist during your routine gynecological examination.
Some of the cervical polyps show no symptoms; and the symptoms if present; may be as follows:
1. Heavy menstrual bleeding
2. Prolonged spotting
3. Spotting after sexual intercourse
4. Recurrent vaginal infections or thick white discharge which may be recurrent.
5. Spotting after menopause
6. Intermenstrual bleeding or bleeding between 2 menstrual cycles.
1. Watchful waiting. Small polyps without symptoms might resolve on their own. Treatment of small polyps is unnecessary unless you’re at risk of uterine cancer.
2. Medication. Certain hormonal medications, including progestins and gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists, may lessen symptoms of the polyp. But taking such medications is usually a short-term solution at best — symptoms typically recur once you stop taking the medicine.
3. Surgical removal.
Polypectomy is the word which is used to describe surgical removal of uterine polyp.
Inner uterine polyps can be surgically removed using curettage and preferably with hysteroscopy. The ideal way to remove a uterine polyp is through hysteroscopy. Hysteroscopy involves directly visualizing the inner uterine cavity and polyp with a camera attached to the hysteroscopy. Uterine polyp removal under hysteroscopic guidance ensures complete removal and reduces chances of recurrence.
The removed polyp sent to a lab for microscopic examination.
If a uterine polyp contains cancerous cells, your doctor will talk with you about the next steps in evaluation and treatment.
Rarely, uterine polyps can recur. If they do, you might need more treatment.
Obvious outside cervical polyp can be directly removed by using a special forceps and then tying a string qround the polyp .The base of the cervical polyp may be treated using laser or electrocautery. It is an OPD procedure and you can be discharged on the same day.

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'Standing Snake Delftsblue': Is an artobject made out of resin out of the collection of Niloc Pagen. It has the shape of snake that is standing, it has a knot in its neck. The snake is painted with a Delftsblue print on it, which is a typical dutch print. The head of the snake is gold. It is a real eye-catcher for in your interior. It is also a beautiful and very original present to give to family or friends.
Available in different sizes: small, medium and large. Also available in different color combinations.
Dimensions: 30 x 12 x 16 cm.
Note: When it states 'in stock', it does not guarantee that this item is in stock at our gallery in Maastricht.


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Or consider 'Here Without You' by 3 Doors Down, or almost any song by the group Maroon 5. Those bands are so featureless that critics and listeners created a new music category-'bath rock'-to describe their tepid sounds. Yet whenever they came on the radio, almost no one changed the station.
Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.
The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the near bank... The sun, westering, heavy, and hazy, was in those great final throes of energy before the sky whitens and clears, and evening comes. I stood and watched it. That immense body, dying trillions of feet away from me, still warming my face with its steady insensate chemistries.
Let us help." "You already did." My voice didn't betray anything. "Both of you helped plan this. You lent me this car. Aubrey put up the funds." He raised his brow. "Lending you this car doesn't count as helping. It was more like public service. If you drove your car, the noise would wake up all of Haverleau." "It's not that bad -" "Yeah, if you want to be as obvious as a rhinoceros." I gave a pointed look at his lime-green coat and bright maroon sweater. Talk about burning my retinas. "Pot calling kettle." He glanced at himself. "It's seasonal. I look Christmasy.
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place-books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood in knee-high piles on the floor, books were crammed sideways and right side up in a narrow bookcase that rose higher than my head and leaned dangerously from the wall, books sat in stacks on top of a dingy dresser. The closet door was propped open by a pile of books, and from beneath the bed a book stuck out beside the toe of a maroon slipper.
Her feet moved into the vast space, but all she could see was Cyrus. He strode through the room the way a captain commands his ship. Was it possible his maroon bruise made him more dashing? He was a fine sight in a black broadcloth coat. Her salacious gaze dropped to a brass button lower on his waistcoat. The metal glimmered, winking at her with flirtatious intent very near the tuft of hair she remembered so well at his navel. The corner of Cyrus's mouth crooked. If she looked ready to devour him, he read the message on her face, no words required. 'Claire.' He said her name like a treasured sound. Then, her landlord bent low over her hand, kissing her knuckles and keeping her fingers in a tender hold. Her flesh sung a merry tune recalling how she'd gripped those broad shoulders of his in a fit of passion. Was that only two nights ago? Her cheeks turned hot at the memory. Cyrus rose to his full height, holding her hand. He planted a kiss on her forehead. 'Mmmm... ' he hummed approvingly. 'You smell of almonds.' His lips lingered on her hairline, giving her another soft kiss. 'And vanilla, I think. Something you cooked?' He breathed in her scent, standing close yet not intimidating in the least. His own smell was clean and starched with a hint of coffee. She reached high, touching his face like a woman with every right to partake of the feast he offered. 'It's face powder.' One finger stroked the smooth square of his jaw, her voice curving with amusement. 'Today I join the ranks of ladies who meet for luncheon, and I can't be sure if I've been lured here or goaded by one very challenging man put on earth to harass my senses.' She caressed his jaw, the grain of his skin smooth to the touch. He must've shaved in the last hour. His mouth quirked sideways, pressing the maroon bruise higher up his cheek. 'Something tells me you're the perfect woman to soothe such a man or put him in his place.' His pewter stare flicked over her exposed skin, settling on her cleavage. 'As to your senses, I shall treat them with the utmost care.
In North Carolina, I stopped to gas up at a Humble Oil station, then walked around the corner to use the toilet. There were two doors and three signs. MEN was neatly stenciled over one door, LADIES over the other. The third sign was an arrow on a stick. It pointed toward the brush-covered slope behind the station. It said COLORED. Curious, I walked down the path, being careful to sidle at a couple of points where the oily, green-shading-to-maroon leaves of poison ivy were unmistakable... There was no facility. What I found at the end of the path was a narrow stream with a board laid across it on a couple of crumbling concrete posts... If I ever give you the idea that 1958's all Andy-n-Opie, remember the path, okay? The one lined with poison ivy. And the board over the stream.
My mom believed that you make your own luck. Over the stove she had hung these old, maroon painted letters that spell out, 'MANIFEST.' The idea being if you thought and dreamed about the way you wanted your life to be - if you just envisioned it long enough, it would come into being. But as hard as I had manifested Astrid Heyman with her hand in mine, her blue eyes gazing into mine, her lips whispering something wild and funny and outrageous in my ear, she had remained totally unaware of my existence. Truly, to even dream of dreaming about Astrid, for a guy like me, in my relatively low position on the social ladder of Cheyenne Mountain High, was idiotic. And with her a senior and me a junior? Forget it. Astrid was just lit up with beauty: shining blonde ringlets, June sky blue eyes, slightly furrowed brow, always biting back a smile, champion diver on the swim team. Olympic level. Hell, Astrid was Olympic level in every possible way.
When he pursed his lips and dropped a hand into his coat pocket, the last thing Nur expected him to pull out was a cricket ball. "I'd hoped for a disruptor at least, " she muttered reprovingly. The Doctor slipped three fingers around the ball and hefted it experimentally. "I thought we'd try something a little less excessive." He breathed gently on to the maroon leather and polished it on his leg as the Sontaran finally tossed the Kshatriya aside and stopped to pick up its fallen weapon. He stepped around the corner, sighting along his free arm as the Sontaran straightened, its back fully turned. The cricket ball flashed down the length of the corridor in the blink of an eye, punching into the back of the Sontaran's collar and ricocheting away. To Nur's astonishment, the alien spasmed and crashed to the floor like a falling tree. "Out for a duck, " the Doctor commented, blowing across his fingertips. "I've never seen anything killed by a cricket ball before." "You haven't yet. He'll wake up in a few minutes.
David A. McIntee
As we strolled into the hospital, I couldn't help thinking about Maroon 5's 'Harder to Breathe' because I was having a difficult time staying calm. I had been kidnapped and beaten senseless by an agent of Lucifer, and yet the white coats the doctors wore scared me just as badly. The men who had taken me from my mother wore those same damned lab coats. Every time I saw one, it awakened a dormant fear inside me-fear that I'd be dragged away from someone I loved again, fear that I'd be placed into the waiting hands of another horrible person. It would never truly go away. Michael's shoulder bumped mine, which shook me out of my thoughts. I glanced at him. 'What?' 'You're frowning.' 'Am I supposed to be smiling right now?' He faced forward, looking at our reflection in the elevator doors. 'No, but you look like you're about to bolt at any second.' I watched the digital numbers change one by one as we rose up to the right floor, fiddling with the rosary in the pocket of my leather jacket. Somehow, the beads had a calming effect on me. 'I'm fine.' 'Hard ass.' A tiny smirk touched my lips. 'Stop thinking about my butt. You're an archangel.' He grinned, but didn't reply.


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McDonald’s has kicked 2021 off with a bang with the announcement that it is finally adding onion rings to its menu.
That’s right, McDonald’s will be serving individual onion rings, as well as two new burgers featuring the tasty treat.
From Wednesday, January 20th, fast-food fans can chow down on both the Crispy BBQ McOz and the Aussie Angus burgers.
“For the first time ever, we’ll be serving-up golden onion rings at restaurants across the country. Made from Australian onions, this new addition to our menu will be accompanied by a Southern BBQ Sauce,” McDonald’s Australian marketing manager Amanda Nakad said in a statement (via news.com.au).
“Our onion rings will also be served on the all-new Aussie Angus burger, combined with 100 per cent Australian Angus beef and bacon as well as cheese to create a delicious burger we know our customers will enjoy,” she said.
Meanwhile, the OG McOz burger – which typically includes beef, egg, beetroot, tomato, lettuce, cheese and onions – will now feature crispy onions, southern BBQ sauce and beetroot.
Although it is not yet known exactly how long the latest additions will be sticking around, Nakad confirmed they will only be available for a “limited time”.
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The new arrivals seem to be serving as a replacement for the McRib and El Maco burgers, which were resurrected back in December.
While the two burgers have once again left the menu as of Tuesday, January 19th, we certainly expect the new onion rings range will help fill the void.
On top of that, Macca’s latest limited-time dessert, the mini Nutella hotcakes, will remain available until Tuesday, February 16th.
As always, I will continue to live in hope that McDonald’s will one day bring back Mozzarella sticks.

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NNPC refutes experiences of bribe to NANS, funding of vote buying in Ondo •Considers lawful action in opposition to Sahara Newshounds, Nairaland
The Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Company has refuted experiences in a share of the media alleging that it paid bribe to the Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students (NANS) and equipped funds for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to pick votes in the merely concluded Ondo Command gubernatorial election.
In a assertion by the Community General Manager, Community Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, the Company described the experiences as playful and contrived allegations, with none substance in actual fact, ostensibly designed to wait on the selfish ends of their sponsors to bring NNPC to disrepute and tarnish the Company’s portray.
On the alleged bribe or Covid-19 palliative to NANS printed by Saharareporters, NNPC confirmed that it bought a letter dated April 22, 2020, from NANS signed by one Comrade Danielson Akpan, inquiring for for monetary toughen to enable the association present palliatives to students who were stranded at diversified colleges all around the lockdown, a request the Company couldn’t honour because of the the routine conditions and monetary constraints thrown up by the worldwide oil market meltdown.
Relating to the allegation of providing funds to toughen a political occasion, the All Progressives Congress (APC), in buying votes all around the Ondo Command gubernatorial election printed by Nairaland, the Company explained that the NNPC is owned by the Federation and indeed, all Nigerians, hence, it is non-partisan and does no longer earn in sponsorship of political occasions or causes.
NNPC known as on Saharareporters and Nairaland to buy the experiences failing which it might maybe be compelled to look lawful redress as appropriate.
It also urged individuals of the public to discountenance the experiences, stressing that they were a crass portray of unprofessionalism with predetermined conclusions aimed at serving the selfish functions of their sponsors.
Dr. Kennie Obateru
Community General Manager
Community Public Affairs Division
Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Company
NNPC Towers, Abuja.
16th October, 2020.


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Silverton Mortgage Specialists wants to open a Triad branch
Silverton Mortgage Specialists Inc., an Atlanta-based direct mortgage lender that last year landed on the Inc. 5000 list, wants to open a branch in the Triad.
The firm, which offers purchasing, refinancing, conventional, government and jumbo loans, notched 2012 revenues of $17.6 million and had 135 employees.
Silverton operates 12 branches, including one in Asheville that opened in the past few months, and is looking to the Triad to open a production branch that would handle both mortgage origination and processing, said company President Josh Moffitt.
Moffitt, a Greensboro native and N.C. State University graduate, said he’s looking for a team of licensed mortgage loan officers with at least 5 years of industry experience.
“I know the area really well. When you’re a correspondent lender, I think that’s important, because we’re making our own underwriting decisions, and knowing the area is an important part of that,” Moffitt said.
Moffitt said Silverton has been actively recruiting lenders in the Triad.
“We generally don’t go after a location, like ‘we want to be on Market Street,’ or something like that,” Moffitt said. “We generally look for folks that are in the market to try to form a branch around them.”
An average branch has five employees, though some of Silverton’s largest branches have up to 25 or 30, Moffitt said. Silverton aims to have the location opened by the end of the year.
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Janet Fleming Simpson
Janet Fleming Simpson was born on 13 Jun 1911 at Youngs Land, Thorniewood, Lanarkshire, Scotland ,
Janet Fleming Simpson
at 11.15 PM
Parents: William Simpson, Coal Miner & Mary Simpson MS Laird.
Married: 24 June 1891, Uddingston
William Simpson, Father, was present when Janet was born.1,2
She was the daughter of William Simpson and Mary Laird.
Janet Fleming Simpson was also known as Jenny Simpson.
Jenny posed for a photo.
Janet Fleming Simpson married Allister Richardson on 4 Jul 1930 at The Manse, Aitkenhead, Lanarkshire, Scotland ,
After Publication according to the Forms of the Church of Scotland
Allister Richardson, Pithead worker, (Bachelor) aged 23
Usual Res: 84 West Avenue, View park
Parents: Thomas Richardson, Colliery Engine Keeper & Alice Richardson MS Harper
Janet Fleming Simpson, Domestic Servant, (Spinster) aged 19
Usual Res: 295 Old Edinburgh Road, Tannochside
Parents: William Simpson, Coal Miner (Brusher) & Mary Simpson MS Laird
Witnesses: William Simpson, 21 Greenway St, Uddingston & Ellen Simpson, 6 Donaldson Place, Tannochside Uddingston.1,3
As of 4 Jul 1930,her married name was Richardson.
Janet and Allister were divorced on 6 Dec 1947 Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland ,
divorce between Allister Richardson of 12 Millar Place, Harthill, Lanark and Janet Fleming Simpson or Richardson, care of Innes, 124 Nelson Street, Largs.1,4
Janet Fleming Simpson married George Walker in 1948 at Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland .5
As of 1948,her married name was Walker.
Janet Fleming Simpson was also known as Jenny Walker.
Jenny was in the photo with Tom Simpson taken c 1955.
Janet was in the photo with Margaret Stewart Gartshore taken in 1955;
Photo taken at Bill and Kate's Wedding.6
Jenny was in the photo with Meg Gartshore taken in 1977.
Janet died in 1981 at Largs, Ayrshire, Ayrshire, at age 69 years
Family: Janet Fleming Simpson and Allister Richardson
Family: Janet Fleming Simpson and George Walker
|Father||William Simpson (17 Aug 1870 - 21 Jan 1953)|
|Mother||Mary Laird (6 Sep 1870 - 2 Jan 1940)|
- [S1] Certificate held on file, Held by Ailsa Corlett, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Hereinafter cited as Certificate held on file.
- [S11] Scottish Record Office BDM Indexes, online www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, 1911 Bothwell Lanark, 625/01 0311. Hereinafter cited as Scottish Record Office BDM Indexes.
- [S11] Scottish Record Office BDM Indexes, online www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, 1930 Bothwell, Lanark, 625/01 0045.
- [S11] Scottish Record Office BDM Indexes, online www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, 1930 Marriage RCE 625/01 0045 Bothwell, Lanark.
- [S11] Scottish Record Office BDM Indexes, online www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, 1948 Largs Ayr, 602/01 0004.
- [S194] Letter or email from Alexander Lees (Scotland) to Ailsa Corlett, Various letters or emails; Held by Ailsa Corlett (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) email family photos March 2014.
- [S11] Scottish Record Office BDM Indexes, online www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, 1981 Largs North Ayrshire, 660/00 0006 - other surnames: Richardson & Simpson - aged 69.

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