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Staying Happy and Stress Free at Christmas: A Guide to Enjoying the Festive Season
The holiday season is a time of joy, love, and togetherness, but it can also be a source of stress and anxiety for many. With Christmas fast approaching, it’s essential to find ways to stay happy and stress-free during this festive period. Let’s explore some practical tips and strategies to help you make the most of the holiday season without succumbing to stress.
The Magic of Christmas: Setting the Stage
Before diving into the nitty-gritty of staying stress free at Christmas, it’s important to remember the magic that surrounds this time of year. The holiday season is not just about gifts and decorations; it’s about creating special memories with loved ones and cherishing the traditions that make this season unique. Embracing this perspective is the first step towards a stress-free Christmas.
Plan and Prioritize
One of the leading causes of holiday stress is the feeling of being overwhelmed. To combat this, start by planning and prioritizing your holiday activities. Make a to-do list and arrange your tasks by importance. This will help you focus on what truly matters and avoid unnecessary stress.
Set a Realistic Budget
Finances can often add to the stress during the holiday season. To stay happy and stress free, set a realistic budget for your Christmas spending. Decide how much you can afford to spend on gifts, decorations, and other holiday-related expenses. Sticking to your budget will help you enjoy the season without worrying about financial burdens.
During the holidays, it’s easy to overcommit to social events, parties, and gatherings. While it’s essential to spend time with loved ones, avoid saying ‘yes’ to every invitation. Be selective and choose events that truly matter to you. Overcommitting can lead to exhaustion and stress.
Embrace the Spirit of Giving
One of the most beautiful aspects of Christmas is the act of giving. Instead of stressing over finding the perfect gift, focus on the joy of giving. It’s not about the price tag; it’s about the sentiment and thoughtfulness behind the gift. Handmade gifts or heartfelt cards can often mean more than expensive presents.
You don’t have to do everything by yourself. Delegate tasks and responsibilities to family members or friends. Whether it’s decorating the house, preparing the holiday meal, or wrapping gifts, sharing the load can significantly reduce stress.
Amid all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, don’t forget to take care of yourself. Schedule moments of self-care, such as taking a long bath, going for a walk, or simply reading a book. These small moments of relaxation can do wonders for your mental and emotional well-being.
Exercise is a natural stress reliever. Don’t let your fitness routine slip during the holiday season. Even a short daily workout or a brisk walk can help reduce stress and boost your mood.
With a plethora of delicious treats and feasts around, it’s easy to overindulge during Christmas. While enjoying festive foods is part of the fun, practice mindful eating. Pay attention to your body’s signals and savor your food. This will help you maintain a balance and avoid feeling sluggish and stressed.
Sometimes, our expectations for the holiday season can be unrealistic. Remember that things may not go perfectly, and that’s okay. Embrace the imperfections and focus on the joy of spending time with loved ones.
Traditions are an integral part of Christmas. They bring a sense of continuity and nostalgia. Embrace and create your own family traditions, whether it’s decorating the tree, baking cookies, or watching a classic holiday movie together. These rituals can create lasting memories and foster a sense of togetherness.
Reach Out for Support
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, don’t hesitate to reach out for support. Talk to a friend or a family member about your feelings. Sometimes, sharing your concerns can be incredibly comforting, and you may find that others have experienced similar emotions.
Gratitude is a powerful tool for reducing stress and increasing happiness. Take a moment each day to reflect on the things you’re grateful for. It can be as simple as a warm home, good health, or the love of your family.
Unplug and Disconnect
In the digital age, it’s easy to get caught up in the constant stream of information and notifications. During the holidays, consider taking a break from your devices and social media. This will help you be more present and focused on the people around you.
One of the best ways to find joy and reduce stress during the Christmas season is by helping others. Volunteer your time at a local charity, donate to a food bank, or assist a neighbor in need. Acts of kindness can bring a profound sense of fulfillment and happiness.
Relax and Enjoy
Finally, remember to relax and enjoy the moment. The holiday season passes quickly, and you don’t want to look back and regret being too stressed to appreciate it. Cherish the laughter, the warmth, and the love that surrounds you.
Staying happy and stress-free at Christmas is all about perspective and balance. By planning, prioritizing, and focusing on what truly matters, you can create a memorable and enjoyable holiday season. Embrace the magic of Christmas, and let it fill your heart with happiness and love.

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Albe in Malga - At dawn in a mountain dairy - Malga Sasso PiattoAlbe in Malga - At dawn in a mountain dairy - Malga Sasso Piatto
Category: Excursions/Trips/Guided Tours Area: In Val di Fassa from to all day long - Resort: Campitello di Fassa Place: Sasso Piatto Refuge and Dairy Dinner, overnight in a mountain hut, activities at dawn, bountiful breakfast with typical products at Sasso Piatto mountain dairy and hike with mountain guide
Wake up bright and early when the sun is yet to rise. Meet the owners of an authentic mountain dairy, listen to their stories and go with them to milk the cows. Enjoy the fresh milk’s flavor, attend to the traditional cheese making and, why not, taste the curd! Let’s discover how they transform the cream in butter. Go up to the pasture and learn how to distinguish the wild grasses’ spouts. Start your day with cows and animals up at a mountain dairy. How about that?
After the great success of the past editions, #albeinmalga is back again. The initiative, sponsored by Trentino Marketing in collaboration with the Tourist Boards of the province and the "Strade del Vino e dei Sapori del Trentino", gives its participants the chance to experience the authentic life of a mountain dairy. #albeinmalga will take place in Val di Fassa on July 5 and 6 at Malga Jumela, on July 19 and 20 at Malga Sasso Piatto, on August 9 and 10 at Malga Contrin. Limited places. Booking compulsory.
Alba in Malga - Malga Sasso Piatto Programme
Friday, August 17
4.00 p.m. - Meeting point in Campitello at the Col Rodella cable car.
4.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. - Walk with our expert mountain guide along the easy and panoramic path Friedrich August (no. 557-4; about 2.30 hours) up to the Sasso Piatto - Langkofelhütte Refuge (2,300 m).
7.30 p.m. - Dinner with traditional products and overnight stay at the refuge.
Saturday, August 18
5.00a.m. - Wake up!
5.30 a.m. - Led by Karl, the dairyman, and his family we will gather the cattle (about fifteen heads) of the diary then we’ll move to the near hut for a light breakfast (coffee, milk, bread and butter) and finally, let’s milk the cows together!
6.30 a.m. - Participants will be divided into small groups and will play an active role both during the milking and the dairy activities such as bread, cheese (fresh, taleggio, spreadable with herbs, seasoned crust etc.) and butter making.
9.00 a.m. - After this hard work, we’ll enjoy a well-deserved break with a tasty breakfast made of milk, fruit and elder juice, jam, home-made traditional cakes and sweets, fritters, eggs, butter, cheese, speck and many other kinds of cured meats and fresh bread.
10/10.30 a.m. - Leaving the mountain dairy, guided by our expert mountain guide, we’ll start the excursion to Campitello. Packed lunch, to be asked at the dairy.
Participation: € 75,00 (children up to 12 years old € 55,00). It includes: lift ticket, dinner and overnight stay at the refuge (maximum 24 beds), activities at dawn, breakfast, excursion with the mountain guide. Booking compulsory.
We suggest adequate clothing: participants will spend the morning in the barn and will start an easy excursion on the Dolomites. Children from 5 years, well-trained. Minimum 15 participants. The event will be cancelled in case of bad weather.
from 5 Juli 2019 to 10 August 2019 all day long Resort: Canazei - Campitello di Fassa - Sèn Jan di Fassa Place: Malga Contrin, Malga Sasso Piatto, Malga Jumela Dinner, overnight in a mountain hut, activities at dawn, bountiful breakfast with typical products at mountain dairy and hike with a mountain guide
from 5 Juli 2019 to 6 Juli 2019 all day long Resort: Sèn Jan di Fassa Place: Baita Cuz Refuge and Malga Jumela - Buffaure Dinner, overnight by the Baita Cuz mountain hut, activities at dawn, bountiful breakfast with typical products at Malga Jumela mountain dairy and hike with mountain guide
from 9 August 2019 to 10 August 2019 all the day long Resort: Canazei Place: Contrin Refuge - Val Contrin (Alba di Canazei) Dinner, overnight in mountain refuge, activities at dawn, bountiful breakfast with typical products at Contrin Refuge, hike with Alpine guide
Albe in Malga - At dawn in a mountain dairy - Malga Sasso Piatto Sasso Piatto Refuge and Dairy

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Most widely held works about Mary O'Malley
Most widely held works by Mary O'Malley
The Year's best fantasy and horror : ninth annual collection ( Book )
1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 193 libraries worldwide
A collection forty-six horror and fantasy fiction stories from the year 1995 from a wide selection of well-known genre authors.
Three Irish poets : an anthology ( Book )
3 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 130 libraries worldwide
Threshold ( Serial )
in English and held by 87 libraries worldwide
Writing for television ( Visual )
3 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 70 libraries worldwide
Interviews with four television and screen writers at the 1988 Year of the writer conference held at the AFTRS. Discusses various topics connected with writing for TV.
Look out--here comes trouble by Mary O'Malley ( Book )
1 edition published in 1979 in English and held by 54 libraries worldwide
A consideration of silk by Mary O'Malley ( Book )
1 edition published in 1990 in English and held by 46 libraries worldwide
Plays of the year. vol 47, 1979 ( Book )
1 edition published in 1979 in English and held by 41 libraries worldwide
Never shake hands with the devil by Mary O'Malley ( Book )
1 edition published in 1990 in English and held by 38 libraries worldwide
Three Irish poets : an anthology : Paula Meehan, Mary O'Malley, Eavan Boland ( Book )
1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide
Three Irish poets by Eavan Boland ( Book )
1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 11 libraries worldwide
Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley ( Book )
7 editions published between 1977 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 8 libraries worldwide
A Needle's eye : [the Lyric Players Theatre, Belfast 1979 ( Book )
1 edition published in 1979 in English and held by 8 libraries worldwide
Tracks of the hunter ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2002 and 2009 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide
Follows the experiences of Larry Gray, a white man who spends some time with Datjing Burarrwanga in the Arnhem Land in north eastern Australia. They travel to the ancestral homeland of Datjing where Larry is introduced to their ancestral survival methods of hunting, cooking and traditions.
Memories of Jimmy Cook ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2000 and 2005 in English and held by 5 libraries worldwide
"Most Australians associate Sydney's Botany Bay area with the arrival of Captain James Cook. The Tharawal people recall that fellow too, from stories handed down over generations. But their take on the history of the area is very different to the one most Australians have gleaned from books. This is the story of their living history and culture"--Container.
Three Irish poets : an anthology by Paula Meehan ( Book )
1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 5 libraries worldwide
Healing and being healed by our compulsions by Mary O'Malley ( Book )
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 5 libraries worldwide
Chasing the midnight sun ( Visual )
3 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide
"In 1930-31 the British Arctic Air Route (BAAR) expedition, set out to investigate the possibility of an air route to North America via Iceland, Greenland. Plans to fly across the Greenland icecap were abandoned after their Gypsy Moth aircrafts suffered considerable damage. They then set out on a gruelling and remarkable overland expedition negotiating streams, lakes and fjords between the icecap and the sea. This program documents the incredible journey of three adventurers as they retrace the steps of the 1930-31 expedition, from the East Coast to the West Coast, across the icy labyrinth that is Greenland. Replacing Eskimo sleds, seal skin kayaks and dog teams with modern day equipment of lightweight skies polyethylene river kayaks and quadrifoil kites as their dog team, the adventurers - Eric Philips, Ben Galbraith and Wade Fairley - rediscover and conquer this harsh and spectacular environment. This documentary captures the fatal beauty of Greenland's glacial icebergs; the extreme conditions of negotiating the freezing cold lakes and white water rapids, bottomless crevasses and ten metre ice walls; and the compelling account of the inner personal journey that each adventurer experiences during the month long expedition across the icecap." -- Container.
Journey between worlds ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide
With a small bamboo raft as their floating home two adventurers embark on a journey of discovery into the wilderness of Australia's Northern Territory. Here they find the most hidden, traditional and vibrant parts of aboriginal Australia known as Arnhem Land. Their travels take them into the remote and sacred land of the Yolngu people where they are adopted into an Aboriginal family, enabling them to share the music, stories and traditions. Behind the personalities and the humour of the people, this program shows how two strong and separate cultures manage to co-exist despite their different ways of looking at the world.
Sweatshop : a woman's guide to self-employment by Mary O'Malley ( Book )
1 edition published in 1983 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide
Osteoporosis in rheumatoid arthritis by Mary O'Malley ( Book )
1 edition published in 1987 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
Aboriginal Australians Actors Australia Biography Compulsive behavior Cook, James,--1728-1779 Criticism, interpretation, etc. Didjeridu English drama English literature--Irish authors English poetry English poetry--Irish authors English poetry--Women authors Ethnology Fantasy fiction Folklore Friendship Gray, Larry Greenland History Horror tales Interviews Ireland Irish literature Knight, Andrew Lifesaving Lyric Players Theatre (Belfast, Northern Ireland) Music New South Wales--Sydney Northern Ireland Northern Ireland--Belfast Northern Territory--Arnhem Land O'Malley, Mary Ocean currents Ocean waves Outdoor education--Study and teaching (Secondary) Periodicals Phillips, Eric Plater, Alan,--1935-2010 Self-actualization (Psychology) Short stories Swimming--Safety measures Television authorship Television writers Theater Theatrical producers and directors Travel United States Yolngu (Australian people)--Funeral customs and rites Yolngu (Australian people)--Social life and customs

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The etiology of early age onset substance use disorder (SUD), an Axis I psychiatric illness, is examined from the perspective of the multifactorial model of complex disorders. Beginning at conception, genetic and environment interactions produce a sequence of biobehavioral phenotypes during development which bias the ontogenetic pathway toward SUD. One pathway to SUD is theorized to emanate from a deviation in somatic and neurological maturation, which, in the context of adverse environments, predisposes to affective and behavioral dysregulation as the cardinal SUD liability-contributing phenotype. Dysregulation progresses via epigenesis from difficult temperament in infancy to conduct problems in childhood to substance use by early adolescence and to severe SUD by young adulthood.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health


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UK small caps finish 0.6 percent higher, lagging gains of 1.4 percent on the mid-caps and 1.2 percent on the blue chips.
Restaurant group Prezzo gains 3.6 percent after reporting a 17 percent rise in 2012 revenue and an 11 percent increase in adjusted pre-tax profit, which enabled it to hike dividends.
"Results came in ahead of expectations, driven by strong post-Olympics trading," Nick Batram, analyst at Peel Hunt, says in a note, raising his target price on the stock to 98 pence from 90 pence.
"With a solid balance sheet and growing confidence in Chimichanga, we expect Prezzo to continue to deliver impressive growth."
Halfords rises 5.4 percent after the bicycles-to-car-parts group maintains its profit guidance, reaassuring investors.
"This update confirms that the UK retail profitability has stabilised," Cantor analyst Kate Calvert writes in a research note, keeping a "buy" rating on the stock.
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This post, written by Co-Founder Harry Leibowitz, originally appeared on Huffington Post Impact on January 15, 2016
I was recently at a cocktail party where the issue of child trafficking in the United States came up in the course of conversation.
“It’s not a problem in our community,” said one person.
“If it is really a problem, the police and the FBI will take care of it,” said another.
“It’s not really a problem here in the US,” said a third.
As evidenced by the tone of a single cocktail party, these types of opinions are widespread. Sadly, they are completely misinformed.
In spite of what many Americans believe, slavery did not end in this country in 1865. So-called “modern slavery” is not something that exists only in other countries; it is a thriving industry here in the United States as well.
In some ways, I can’t blame the folks at the cocktail party for their ignorance. Try googling to find statistics about child trafficking, sex trafficking, victims of child pornography, or related topics. You’ll find nothing but “guesstimates” for the last decade or so – that is, if you can find any numbers at all.
After some digging, you might find a 2008 article by the National Council of Jewish Women that quotes Ernie Allen, former president of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children in Alexandria Virginia, as claiming that “up to 300,000 Americans under age 18 are lured into the commercial sex trade each year.” The article further cites a Central Intelligence Agency, report that says “more than 10,000 foreign children are brought here annually as sex slaves or indentured laborers.”
You might find the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report issued by the U.S. Department of State, which usually takes hundreds of pages to deliver very few hard numbers, if there are any at all. What the 2013 TIP Report can tell us is that an “estimated” 27 million persons are victims of trafficking at any moment, while only 40,000 (a mere .14%) were successfully identified globally in 2013. 99.86% of trafficking victims remain silent and invisible not only to society, but also to governments and law enforcement agencies around the globe.
Even Yuriy Fedotov, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime admitted in his preface to the 2012 UN report on Trafficking in Persons that “gaps in knowledge remain.” Fedotov appealed to Member States to do more. He wrote, “We need comprehensive data about offenders and victims in order to assist in the development of sound policies and appropriate criminal justice responses.”
The numbers presented above, whether “guesstimates,” estimates, or confirmed data, only represent trafficking, as defined by the UN’s Palermo Protocol. This says nothing about the huge number of children currently being exploited through child pornography and other types of abuse that don’t fit the definition of trafficking. These numbers are equally hard to quantify and, unfortunately, only seem to be growing.
The current growth in child exploitation seems in large part due to the anonymity new technologies provide for perpetrators, as well as the unprecedented accessibility of exploitative content.
In spite of heroic efforts by dozens/hundreds of NGO’s and local authorities, “The level of paedophilia is unprecedented right now,” Joseph Campbell of the FBI’s Criminal Investigation Division shared in a June 2015 Time article. “Child pornography and child exploitation is a problem almost at an epidemic level.
The anonymity of the web and the ease of posting, sharing, and selling both acts of prostitution and pornography on line have opened a virtual “Pandora’s Box” for those who live and work in the shadows. With the proliferation of the internet and technology, the “shadows” have become much bigger and easier to access.
A Broken System
Intersecting with the rise of technology that facilitates these illegal activities is a child welfare system that is severely broken in this country. Too many children have family members who are complicit in their initial abuse and subsequent trafficking or exploitation. The influx – covered so widely in recent news as merely an “immigration” issue – of unaccompanied minors into this country, is actually a child protection issue. Unaccompanied minors have no safety net and no one to advocate for them. They are vulnerable to the worst kinds of abuse. These children can all too easily become invisible in a system that fails to recognize their needs.
Further, laws that continue to criminalize victims and justice systems that seem to work against the goals of prevention, detection, and prosecution prevent many of them from coming forward. Though there is progress being made, some state laws in the US still make arrest, rather than identification and rehabilitation, a likely outcome for minors caught “working” in the sex trade. Even when perpetrators are prosecuted rather than their victims, criminal proceedings often require testimony by severely traumatized victims, a further trauma some simply cannot face.
And finally, perhaps the most broken part of the system – child exploitation is an incredibly lucrative business. It continues to line pockets, not only of so-called thugs and pimps but of corrupt law enforcement officials and even politicians around the world.
Occasionally all of the stars align and there is a successful – and usually much touted – raid, bust, or sting operation. In October 2014, the press was filled with reports of a “successful” FBI sting that netted 153 pimps and “rescued” 149 of the children they were trafficking.
Three things stand out to me from this case:
1) The ratio of pimps to children. How is it possible that there were more pimps than children? We know that pimps generally manage multiple women or children at a time, but in this case there was less than one reported victim per pimp. Did anyone else at the time think this was odd?
2) Since the initial news frenzy, there has been virtually no coverage of what happened to those arrested. A Google search shows no reports of successful prosecutions to date. Sadly, this is not uncommon. The 2010 TIP report states that the ratio of convicted offenders to victims identified in that year was a mere 8.5 convictions per 100 victims detected.
3) It is a wonderful thing to bust 153 pimps and (hopefully) prevent them from further abusing children. But if these 153 had just 149 children and there are as many as 300,000 children in sex slavery in the United States, then the ratio suggests that there have to be tens of thousands of pimps operating with virtual impunity in the US at any given time. How is that possible? How can we, as a society, accept that number?
With domestic and international terrorism, refugee crises around the world, and a Presidential race filled with ugly diatribe dominating the news cycles, it seems there is no place for an issue like child exploitation in the news. And when we don’t hear about it in the news, so many of us assume it must not be a pressing issue. It is non-existent in the US or it is “not our problem.”
This type of attitude is exactly what allows this problem to survive and thrive in our country. It is time to bring this “dirty laundry” out of the closet and have a broad open and frank discussion about what we, as civilized and caring society can and should do to mitigate this epidemic. The press can help by pushing forward stories of trials and prosecutions. Individuals can help by becoming more informed and raising awareness among others. They can also push for legislation at local, state, and federal levels that will help mend our broken system. We could even have a national “summit” on Child Trafficking and Pornography and bring together all of those who are working at the NGO and governmental levels so that efforts might be coordinated, focused and more productive.
Whatever it is that each of us decides to do, we must do something. “It’s not my problem” is no longer an acceptable attitude and inaction is no longer an option.
Take your first step in becoming a child advocate by sharing one of our messages for Human Trafficking Awareness Month via social media.
Learn more about the issue and how you can help fight it here.


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PPP Leader Expresses Lack Of Trust In LHC
A member of PPP central executive committee Ch. Manzoor Ahmad on Monday showed lack of trust in the Lahore High Court, saying he had no hope of justice from the institution.
Ch. Manzoor appeared before an election tribunal in connection with an election petition he had filed against PML-N MNA Waseem Akhter Sheikh, from NA-139, Kasur. The case is being heard by a tribunal comprising Justice Sh. Azmat Saeed.
A large number of PPP affiliated lawyers gathered in the court when Manzoor said to the judge that he had no hope of justice from the Lahore High Court as long as Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif was its chief justice.
However, he did not doubt the integrity of Justice Azmat Saeed, saying, “Sir, I have no objection to you but the Lahore High Court has become prejudiced due to its chief justice Khawaja Sharif.”
Manzoor requested the tribunal to adjourn the hearing of his petition until the chief justice was retired, or send it back to the Election Commission of Pakistan to fix it before the High Court of any other province.
Justice Azmat turned down this plea, saying he could not put off the hearing more than three days under the election laws. The judge asked him to file an application before the election commission on his own for transfer of his petition before some other High Court. Ch. Manzoor had lost his election against MNA Waseem Akhter and filed a petition for the latter’s disqualification, accusing the MNA of committing rigging on the day of polling.

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Sen. Bill Frist is expected to be in Springfield within the next half hour to stump for Sen. Jim Talent's re-election campaign. We'll be there.
Tonight, the Democrats are bringing in Attorney General Jay Nixon to boost some of their legislative candidates. According to a release, Nixon will stump for Rep. Charlie Dake of the 132nd District in Lawrence County. Nixon will campaign for Dake from 5-7 p.m. at the Aurora Community Center in Aurora. The public is invited to attend. Republican Don Ruzicka is challenging Dake for his seat in one week.
I'm told Nixon will then head to Willard for an event with #139th district Democratic candidate Jamie Schoolcraft. Schoolcraft is battling Republican Shane Schoeller for Rep. Brad Roark's open seat.


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Slow as a neighbour’s plant
Slow as a ripple static
An oblong wax melting away,
slow as raindrop stuck on a tree
As a splash of colour unable to blend
a monologue twirling inside my stomach
a song so old
with cough drops all around the drawers
Once a melody
now only an arm
now only a forehead
nothing at all
A nightmare in blue
It knows nothing now
only a flat desperation of air
The feet knows the crevices of life.
A small dot and a fanned breath of a leaf.
I do not need a bowl of salvation
for i see people dying each day
the walls of fragile mind
Florals of weak mind abstain from blooming
as it was never a state of peace.
As I write this poetry
I weep thinking of my existence
of the silences that creates a hue of colourless Sun.
thinking about the old moments
where conversations were simple
conversations made of pink wool
of memories and hands.
These days i imagine a single strand of grass
infused into the tunnel of my thin skin
to sit and spread a smell that wipes
things so small
things full of cold elements.
The body is driven mad
by the sight of people now
failing to comprehend the existence of things so bright.
I have a body now
that refuses to walk
a body so cold
a lifeless abstract piece of art.
(written after all that is happening around the world. I feel terrible.)
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A frequent dancing step of memory
so unique and feverish,
an operation of melodious thunderstorms
circulating/ watching a gluey stare
What is that white noise?
A stare, a semantic of laughter.
A cacophony of strange chemicals.
The molten rhythm of steroid heart.
I am blue today, dark blue.
nothing that remains inside excites me,
I am too numb,
with a shred of melted saint touch still wobbling,
Nothing that sits here stays.
A nullified happening of life.
I want to quieten my mind
and each day I would count ways to do that.
Popping pills backward / gazing at the starlight
until dawn slaps me all over again.
A memory of death fidgets with my tectonic body.
I become so slow.
slow like degrading with the earth.
I count ways to quiet my mind while writing this poem.
There is a drop of water on my palm which freezes my hand,
like a singular stem of the numb horizon.
Hush, hush, hush.
I see my reflections
dying in the soiled air that slips upon my lips.
Violet and brown.
A colourless dream often.
I want to rest quietly,
with no connections any more
I could stare a small spot on the ceiling
like a moth
trying to endure a lie.
My words are epileptic today
just like me, all wobbly.
I stand here in a sitting position like a lotus,
and my organs defy my breath.
This poem is a bizarre,
try not to comprehend anymore.
a prayer so soft
I mumble each time
There is a method I perform my chants
like sticking to the table,
thumping my wrist against my forehead.
I wish to sneeze while praying
to eject sins,
a horror bowl that rests between my toes,
twirling softly and eating me bite by bite.
My prayers are often lullabies.
you scavenge while dreaming.
to sniff a piece of hope.
I do speak in four voices
that swirls my lock of hair.
I repeat my prayers when I am a shadow of a fallen sky
a bird that refuses to watch me.
nature has its way to corner from the human.
Without a shard of primrose,
A scourge of shaved earth.
And I change places
till I see a circumference of white powder
there, inside my mind
blooming the entire prayer
in colors of myth and violet rain.
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I have a picture
punctured and ironed inside,
a tale of twin sisters,
rising above your waist
with a pastel grey voice of mind.
The coherence of mute environment,
is like a prayer to me now.
A green straw up in the sky sucking
the chambers to drink nectar of white life.
I have arrived here,
here in the painted head of open mouths.
mouths that utter olive seas.
Here, I gather & loose myself,
a percolating fly doused in a tea stain.
Too many arms now
up in the sky
breaking a blurb of dark howl,
A new slippery existence
a new machanism of conjunction of elements.
My hands leak blue crooked blood.
I tried suicide today.
Walked like a ghost/ a melancholy boiler.
a house that leaks.
wax statues going bizarre.
Bizarre like dissolving inside my hollow stomach.
i am here.
i am there.
A loop of curve, falling on the equinox.
burn this society inside my mouth
i wish death today.
I wish pain to kill my pain today.
blue, blue, this body.
tiptoeing through bones of fumes.
A zebra. A succulent spiral canvas.
Paint it dead.
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Like i wished for a moon today,
this dirt of rocks life throws at me is amazing
amazing to watch the disgusting melting person in bed,
i do nor design this body of mine,
the sleekness, tenderness, whiteness.
At times, i feel i am hollow.
Hollow like a coconut’s head.
i want to stop my brain.
Potboiler. Frequent attacks. Time slapping me again and again.
i want to stop it all.
“That stale air you think of
is heaviness surrounding the numb teeth.”
It’s dark, It’s the night.
we slumber with mouths open trying to please.
trying to pick lotus with our heavy lips.
I stare into this earth which holds me like a baby,
and then the flashback of pills and heartaches.
that moment of a swiveled cloud of tears.
It’s done now,
Circling around life needs a solid heart,
a solid tongue to lick,
lick, the translucent powder of fever.
Yesterday was the hardest if i must say
with amniotic sheets of lost air dripping my bare chest
and extraction of arms,
making my mouth dry, loss of homes could be seen.
Missing phone booth’s of lavender drops of deads,
and hunters, hunters, hunters,
yes, you have visited the I.C.U of my mouth
with palpitating halogens, demarcating a cleft of my chin-my knee
the knuckles bleed, towards the Polaris of numb soil,
if that’s a place, so, i am flowing.
i am flowing, doped and surreal
in hands of hours
clocks mocking my body, the six-inch pits of pits.
i sit and hum a vintage song here,
a dainty varicose nerve revolving now,
i am being operated in the midnight,
among the lamps, the shades, the silhouette
i am being deluged in occurrences half meadow,
my home is the plain stench of the sun.
it sits somewhere inside my hair, city of maps.
it’s late and i am under-observation still.


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AUGUST 19, 2023
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Bath writer and astrologer Mary English has reached the end of writing her 12 book Zodiac series starting with How to Survive a Pisces http://amzn.to/NsicYY, which sold out and had to be re-printed.
Her book How to Win the Trust of a Scorpio http://amzn.to/NJ3eBZ received a glowing endorsement from USA-based astrologer Bil Tierney:
“Mary shines a bright light on some of Scorpio’s inner motives and secret strategies, in ways that can help loved ones to better understand these complex individuals.”
‘This is one of my more helpful books’ says Mary ‘as it helps people truly understand this most misunderstood sign. Scorpios have suffered from years of misrepresentation and ridicule and I wanted to redress the balance.’
With twelve books now published, she was been kept busy writing the series.
Her greatest joy was when a Brazilian publisher bought the rights to the series from her publisher O-Books. http://www.o-books.com/authors/mary-english&i=1
‘I was so thrilled when I received the email to tell me they had bought the rights and they were going to be translated into Portuguese. I was on a high for days’ says Mary.
The publisher http://www.pensamento-cultrix.com.br/authordetail.aspx?idAuthor=2399 specialises in Spiritual, Self Help and Esoteric writing.
‘I have really enjoyed writing the series’ says Mary ‘I got to interview all sorts of interesting people and find their true motives. Astrology is far more than Sun sign columns, even though I write one myself for Pukka Bath. Each one of my books explains how to make a birth chart easily using free on-line resources and are filled with top tips and helpful hints.’
Mary’s books are regularly in the Amazon astrology best sellers lists and are available on-line and in all good bookshops. How to Win the Trust of a Scorpio is her second most bought title.
‘When I started work on my penultimate book ‘How to Satisfy a Taurus’ I knew the end was in sight. I went backwards through the Zodiac, which proved a bit of a headache but seeing your work, in print is the most wonderful feeling’ she says ‘I am lucky that my publisher was prepared to take a chance with my writing, as astrology is such a niche subject. There are plenty of people that want to understand their own sign however, hence the good sales.’
Here is an excerpt from the book:
As I got into writing the book I had one of those funny/weird Astrological moments. There I was bashing at the keyboard, having promised myself to get to a certain word-count that week and my brother-in-law (who is a Scorpio) phoned up to speak to my husband about my lovely mother-in-law who had recently died. He’d been sleepless that night wondering what to do about clearing their mother’s house and when to ‘sort-out’ her ashes and he rang to say he’d decided what to do and when….so I looked at my Ephemeris and the days they’d decided to meet were when the Sun, the Moon, Mercury AND Venus were all going to be in the sign of Scorpio.
I had a little chuckle to myself.
I must point out my brother-in-law does not follow Astrology at all.
Then I thought: ‘I wonder what the rising sign was when he called?’, so I rang 1471 (which gives you a recorded message of when the call was made) and the rising sign or Ascendant was Scorpio…and the Sun had just gone into Scorpio (about 35 mins not even a degree).
Brother-in-law doesn’t usually ring in the morning, but this was an important phone call, for him, as it was about death (ashes), and as he has Moon in Capricorn practical things (the clearing of the house).
So what were the chances of a Scorpio ringing our house (I picked up the call) just when the Sun had reached Scorpio and the Ascendant was Scorpio and wanting to arrange something to do with death when the Sun, Moon, Mercury AND Venus were going to be in his sign?
I Love Astrology!
The title of this book was suggested to me by a lovely Pisces when I was grappling with the wording and she suggested How to Win the Trust of a Scorpio, when the original working title was How to Trust a Scorpio, which sort of implied that Scorpios aren’t to be trusted….which is so far from the truth it’s almost laughable.
Trust me, you can trust a Scorpio…

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NATO Allies Must Pay Fair Share for Defense Costs: Trump
US President Donald Trump asserted on Friday that the NATO allies must pay their fair share for the cost of defense, even as he reaffirmed his "strong support" for the military alliance.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on as US President Donald Trump gestures during their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (Image: Reuters)
Washington: US President Donald Trump asserted on Friday that the NATO allies must pay their fair share for the cost of defense, even as he reaffirmed his "strong support" for the military alliance.
"I reiterated to (German) Chancellor (Angela) Merkel my strong support for NATO, as well as the need for our NATO allies to pay their fair share for the cost of defence," Trump told a White House news conference along with the German leader.
"Many nations owe vast sums of money from past years and it is very unfair to the United States. These nations must pay what they owe," he said soon after the two leaders met at the Oval Office of the White House.
"This has come at a significant cost, including the lives of over 50 German soldiers whose sacrifice we greatly honour.
I also appreciate Chancellor Merkel's leadership, along with the French president, to resolve the conflict in Ukraine where we ideally seek a peaceful solution," he said.
The United States and Germany, Trump said, must continue to work together to protect people from radical Islamic terrorism and to defeat ISIS.
"I applaud Chancellor Merkel for Germany's contributions, both civilian and military, as a counter-ISIS coalition member. We also recognise that immigration security is national security," he said.
"We must protect our citizens from those who seek to spread terrorism, extremism and violence inside our borders.
Appreciating Trump's views on NATO, Merkel said its member countries including Germany need to expand their expenditure.
"We committed to this two percent goal until 2024 -- last year we increased our defence spending by eight percent, and we're going to work again and again on this. And we said that, obviously, defence and security has a lot of different assets and facets to it," she said.
She said Germany is going to continue its role in Afghanistan and against ISIS in the Middle East.
"Together, we fight against Islamist terrorism," she said.
"Germany is going to step up its work and is going to continue its work in Afghanistan. Also in Syria, we're going to monitor the situation there very closely. We're going to work on political solutions in Syria but also in Libya -- what we talked about," Merkel said.
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If one sight could be said to sum up Ladakh, it would have to be LAMAYURU gompa, 130km west of Leh and 107km east of Kargil. Hemmed in by a moonscape of scree-covered mountains, the whitewashed medieval monastery towers above a scruffy cluster of tumbledown mud-brick houses from the top of a near-vertical, weirdly eroded cliff. A major landmark on the old silk route, the gompa numbers among the 108 (a spiritually significant number) founded by the Rinchen Zangpo in the tenth and eleventh centuries. However, its craggy seat, believed to have sheltered Milarepa during his religious odyssey across the Himalayas, was probably sacred long before the advent of Buddhism, when local people followed the shamanistic Bon cult. Just thirty lamas of the Brigungpa branch of the Kagyu school are now left, as opposed to the four hundred that lived here a century or so ago. Nor does Lamayuru harbour much in the way of art treasures. The main reason visitors make a stop on this section of the Srinagar–Leh road is to photograph the gompa from the valley floor, or to pick up the trail to the Prikiti La pass – gateway to Zanskar – that begins here.
The steep footpath from the highway above town brings you out near the main entrance to the monastery, where you should be able to find the lama responsible for issuing entrance tickets (Rs50) and unlocking the door to the Du-khang. Lamayuru’s newly renovated prayer-hall houses little of note other than a cave where Naropa, Milarepa’s teacher, is said to have meditated, and a collection of colourful yak-butter sculptures. If you’re lucky, you’ll be shown through the tangle of narrow lanes below the gompa to a tiny chapel, whose badly damaged murals of mandalas and the Tathagata Buddhas date from the same period as those at Alchi.


FORT SMITH, Ark. (KFSM) — For the past several months the Fort Smith Catholic Schools have been trying to develop a strategic growth plan.
The schools have been facing an uphill battle, challenges such as financial dependence on church parishes and tuition, falling enrollment numbers and competition from public schools.
"When they (Fort Smith Public Schools) decided to change their dynamic that got all of the Catholic school together thinking, are we going to have to change with that?" said St. Boniface Principal Rebecca Kaelin.
Monday (June 3) night's convocation allowed families and individuals to give feedback with the goal to narrow down a list of priorities from 21 to 11 for the strategic plan that has yet to be finalized.
"Parents do like the parish idea. They really don`t want to see that changing but at the same time we want to see the Catholic community growing," Kaelin said.
One idea that has been floated around is consolidating the four Catholic schools in Fort Smith under one roof. School officials say right now that's just a rumor.
"We want to see what this ISPD tells us in their final report and see where we go from there. That can be an option but that doesn`t mean that`s going to happen. There are so many options where to go," said Pastor Juan Guido with Christ the King.
No matter what comes from the meeting, officials say the mission remains the same.
"We want to build the Catholic faith and we want it to grow and so we want that dynamic unity among our Catholic schools and we also want to make sure we`re meeting the needs of our parish," Kaelin said.
No decisions were made at Monday's meeting.
Church and school leaders will take those ideas from the community and help them come up with a final strategic plan that will be presented to the Catholic School's superintendent first and then the bishop in Little Rock.
Catholic Schools officials hope to have something finalized by the fall of 2019.


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ITZY: JYP’s Top Girl Group In The Making, To Test US Market With English Album
JYP Entertainment's ITZY is set to test the waters on the global stage after it was confirmed that the two-year-old girl group would release their first-ever English album this January.
Surprise to MIDZYs
On December 25th, ITZY surprised fans with a poster through their official SNS pages. Through the poster, the quintet from JYP announced that they would release the album "Not Shy (English Version)" for the world to witness at 2 PM (KST) on January 22nd next year.
ITZY's upcoming album will include the English version of their four previously-released title songs since debut: "Dalla Dalla," "ICY," "WANNABE" their latest "NOT SHY."
The "Monster" Rookie
Since debut, ITZY has become one of the fast-rising K-Pop group in the industry. The five girls have set records after records since their debut. It is worth noting that their sizzling hot debut release with "Dalla Dalla" earned them the 3rd spot in Billboard's "World Digital Song Sales Chart." Moreover, "Dalla Dalla" was also able to sell 2,000 downloads in the U.S. the first week after its successful release.
The "monster" girl group from JYP became the fastest girl group to grab a music show win, having achieved the amazing feat only nine days after their debut. Not only that but at just 23 days after their debut, they have broken a record that was previously set 22 years ago by the legendary K-Pop girl group S.E.S. by having the most music show wins for a debut song. In total, ITZY's "Dalla Dalla" made history by winning 8 music show trophies and even taking home their first-ever triple crown on SBS's "Inkigayo."
The "Ultimate K-pop Girl Group" in the making
With almost two years since its debut, ITZY is steadily showing its impressive power as an "all-rounder girl group" that will soon dominate the fourth generation of the Korean pop industry.
After their record-breaking release of "Dalla Dalla," ITZY has become nothing but consistent in showcasing their leveled-up charisma and star quality every time they perform on stage. Known as one of the most sought-after groups of K-Pop's fourth-generation slate, ITZY has visited a total of 11 cities across Asia and North America last year for their showcase tour entitled, "ITZY PREMIERE SHOWCASE TOUR ITZY?ITZY!" Meanwhile, their first comeback with "ICY" earned the gorgeous quintet 12 additional music show wins. They were also awarded as the "Female Rookie Idol of the Year" and "Best New Artist" for 2019 by numerous award-giving bodies in South Korea.
This year, ITZY's third title song, "WANNABE," was recently selected as one of Spotify's "Global Top Streamed K-Pop Song." Time Magazine has also listed "NOT SHY" as one of "2020 K-Pop Song & Album of the Year."
With their amazing accolades in their two years in the industry as well as the hot response of both the Korean and International audiences to their past releases, ITZY is planning to expand their horizons on the Western market with their upcoming English album release.
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The banner on the homepage of the Alice Paul Institute website says it all: “You have a voice. Thank Alice.” As a national leader of the effort to gain women’s suffrage with an amendment to the United States Constitution, and as founder of the National Women’s Party, Alice Paul dedicated her life’s work to one issue: equality for women. Even after passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Paul continued her relentless advocacy for women’s rights. A Connecticut resident during some of the last years of her life, Paul fought valiantly for women’s suffrage and her vision of full equality under the law.
Alice Stokes was born in Mount Laurel Township, N.J., to an affluent Quaker family. She was educated at Swarthmore College and later earned graduate degrees in sociology and economics at the University of Pennsylvania. While doing graduate work in England, Paul was exposed to the Pankhurst sisters, militant British suffragists who were employing dramatic and controversial tactics, including hunger strikes and rock throwing, to raise public awareness and win the right to vote. Paul herself was arrested seven times, jailed three times and force-fed in prison when she refused to eat.
Paul introduced these tactics to the American suffrage movement upon her return to the United States. Initially, Paul joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and re-located to Washington. D.C. to organize the Congressional Committee whose goal was a federal amendment. The home she inhabited in Washington is now the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum and is dedicated to the celebration of women’s quest for equal rights. Ultimately, Paul and other suffragists, including Lucy Burns and Connecticut’s own Elsie Hill, broke away from NAWSA, whose leaders advocated a more conciliatory, state-by-state approach. Forming the National Women’s Party (NWP) in 1917, Paul and her colleagues took to the streets to demand suffrage, and during World War I, picketed the White House against a government that promised to make the world safe for democracy while denying half of its citizens the right to vote.
The picketers became known as “silent sentinels,” wearing white dresses and carrying signs that said “Kaiser Wilson” and “Mr. President, How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?” They were accused of a lack of patriotism during wartime, attacked by angry mobs and ultimately arrested and sent to jail. During her incarceration, Paul went on a hunger strike and prison officials force-fed her, leading to sympathetic press coverage that put pressure on President Wilson. Finally, in 1919, the amendment won passage in Congress. The following year, Tennessee ratified the amendment, becoming the last vote needed for the 19th Amendment to be added to the Constitution, and women were granted the right to vote. That “was the most useful thing I ever did,” Paul said shortly before her death.
But the vote was not enough to guarantee women's equal rights, in Paul's opinion. By 1921, she had decided to concentrate her efforts on a constitutional amendment that would guarantee women equal rights, and she never swerved from the course she set for herself and her group. First introduced in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment finally passed Congress in 1972, although it failed to win ratification. Paul worked tirelessly for the amendment until her death in 1977. Her work exemplified the active commitment of many Connecticut women to improving their world and the condition of women's lives.
The Alice Paul Institute was founded in 1984 and exists to honor Paul’s legacy and preserve her childhood home in Paulsdale, N.J., as it continues to work for women’s equality and encourage the future leaders of America. The annual Alice Paul Awards honor individuals who capture the spirit of Alice Paul. The award-winning 2004 HBO film, Iron-Jawed Angels, dramatized the story of Paul and her colleagues. Paul was also inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2010, ironically in the same class of Inductees as President Woodrow Wilson whom she had fought so fiercely.
During This Time
1921 - 1945: Prosperity, Depression, & War
Industrial growth, economic expansion, and plenty of consumer goods gave women more purchasing power and pleasure in the 1920s. Women gained political office, but after achieving the right to vote the Women’s Movement fractured over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The percentage of married women in the workforce doubled, though in menial jobs, while women of color had few opportunities. The media’s message about the home was ambivalent. For daughters, the young flapper was glamorized in movies starring Clara Bow who had It (sex appeal). But the modern mother, equipped with widely-advertised appliances, was expected to keep house and raise children with new efficiency.
The prosperity of the twenties contrasted with the hardships of the 1930s following the 1929 stock market crash. Farm families in the Dust Bowl, suffering from drought and crop failures, fled to California where they worked as migratory laborers. As impoverished families across America struggled, desertion rose (but not divorce, which was expensive), and family size grew smaller. Women’s jobs were largely confined to low-paying domestic labor, garment factories, and food-processing plants, all further segregated by race and ethnicity.
In the midst of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt, helped by wife Eleanor, brought strong leadership toward recovery with the New Deal. Professional women were included in federal projects, and work relief programs gave help to poor women. The Social Security Act of 1935 owed much to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in the Cabinet. African-American Mary McLeod Bethune, using her executive position in the National Youth Administration, pressured the administration to provide equal pay for blacks in all programs.
World War II deeply influenced women’s lives. Sex-segregated labor diminished, as symbolized in the poster of “Rosie the Riveter.” Women were accepted into the military, though the public was concerned about the loss of femininity. Defense industries were reluctant to admit women, but as men were drafted, the resistance eroded. Older, married women provided the largest number of new workers. Black, Mexican, and Chinese women had new opportunities, but Japanese women suffered internment in camps. With demobilization, women were laid off, but many were soon back on the job. Their role still was defined in the home, but the war had increased women’s activities in the workplace.
Special thanks to Barbara E. Lacey, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of History, St. Joseph's College (Hartford, CT) for preparing these historical summaries.

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Motown founder Berry Gordy formed special bonds which each popular artist he has worked with and signed to his successful label. The record producer knew he was in the presence of great talent when he met Michael Jackson. Their bond first started when he signed The Jackson 5 to Motown in 1969.
Berry found early success with his label in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s after working with legendary artists like Jackie Wilson and Smokey Robinson. The Jackson 5 auditioned for Motown during a showcase in 1968, performing an iconic version of “Who’s Loving You” written by Smokey. Initially, Berry expressed hesitancy to sign another kids group to the label. However, seeing Michael’s talent was enough to change his mind instantly.
“Once I saw them, I rushed out with my video camera to start taping them because I knew that they were something so special, mainly because of the lead singer, 9-year-old Michael Jackson,” the Michigan native told NPR in June 2009. “And it was just so obvious to me that he was a star.”
After he was impressed by the group’s talent, Berry moved The Jackson 5 from Indiana to Los Angeles to work on their first four songs. All four of the songs, “I Want You Back,” “ABC,” “The Love You Save” and “I’ll Be There” ended up going to No. 1, proving that the band was truly unlike anyone else out there. Dozens of Top 40 hits followed for the group with Motown.
Along with his decades-long friendship with Berry, Michael also forged a great bond with Diana Ross. The Golden Globe winner was also signed to Motown at the beginning of her career. She is credited for introducing The Jackson 5 to the world on television in 1969.
In 1971, the King of Pop recorded his debut solo single with Motown, “Got to Be There.” He released four albums from 1972 to 1975 before signing with Epic Records. Still, his friendship with Berry continued up until his death in 2009. Though Berry sold Motown in 1988, he will forever be known for launching the careers of some of the world’s biggest artists with his music expertise.
“It [Motown] allowed people to experiment creatively and gave them the courage not to be afraid to make mistakes,” he told Billboard in June 2017. “And it was the process that we loved, the togetherness, the camaraderie, and the honest competition. That helped keep everyone energized, and all that was topped by the love and respect we had for each other — and the fun. At Motown we always had fun.”
Keep scrolling to see some of Berry’s best quotes about working with his late friend.
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Jonathan Durrant, 53 is fromWarwickshire. He’s owned 26 bikes
" When I first started work at 16 there was a chap I worked with who was an avid motorcyclist. I was earning very little money, only £3 a week when I started, and he helped me find a bike. We put our earnings together bought an old Ariel single, cadged a damaged sidecar from a local bike shop and put it all together. We finally got it running properly, taxed, MoT’d and insured it and he was going to bring it round to my house on the Sunday for me to ride. He didn’t turn up and when I saw him the next day he said the head gasket blew halfway to my house and he’d left it in a farm gateway. We borrowed the work’s van to go and tow it in the next morning and it had gone. The police said, ‘We know where it is. Some lads pushed it in the river’. I had to pay a £6 fee for a garage to get it out of the river and tow it into town. I was still only earning £3 a week. I left it around the back of work because it was full of water and the next night someone set fire to it, so I never even got to ride my first bike. "
Despite this nightmare start to his biking life Jonathan persevered and saved up for another bike. His troubles weren’t over though. " I got a very nice Ariel and sidecar. My parents were avidly against me having a bike, because my uncle had been killed on one in 1939. So I rode about all day on this Ariel because I daredn’t go home. When I eventually did all hell broke loose. But a week later I was taking my mum shopping in the sidecar and all was well.
" Back then I was very naïve and when the Ariel started giving me problems I had a back street company give it a rebore. After that I could never get it to right run again, " Jonathan ended up selling the bike and bought a Bown moped made in Tonypandy, Wales, a centre of motorcycle engineering excellence only rivalled by Hammamatsu and Milwaukee.
An NSU Quickly that only did 20mph followed and then an ex-police Velocette LE. " That’s the one they call the Noddy bike. I bought it from a local scrap merchant for £1.50. It’s all I could afford at the time. I had it a long time, but it was the most embarrassing bike I ever owned. I went to Technical college on it which was terrible. I used to set off early and park it right at the bottom of the bike sheds so no one would see me. "
Jonathan progressed until he got a sporty Triumph T100 Tiger. " That was the bike to have, even though it was ten years old. In the late-Sixties I was heavily involved with a local bike club and we used to go all over the place. We’d ride a 190-mile round trip just for a coffee at the Ace Café. "
Jonathan kept the Tiger and added more cheap and cheerful Brit bikes to his collection. Then a couple of mundane Honda plodders were bought, commuted on for years and sold. Before he knew it Jonathan was 51 and purchasing his very first brand new bike, a Suzuki 600 Bandit. " It was wonderful, but I scared myself to death on it. It was just so quick and totally different to anything I’d been used to. The handling was out of this world, so much more precise and everything happened so quickly. "
When his beloved Bandit got mashed by a learner driver who crashed into it when it was parked, Jonathan bought a Suzuki VZ800 Marauder; a cruiser his wife was keener to travel on the back of. The cruiser bug bit; Virago, Intruder and V-Max folllowed, but Jonathan still had to have his classics and bought another brace of Brits.
" Recently I wanted moped to go to the allotment on, but then I saw a Yamaha XS850 triple for sale at the same money so I bought that instead. The days are numbered for the XS and the 1400 Intruder that I currently own, because I’m going to buy a brand new V-Max. The V-Max was the best bike I’d ever ridden. It’s comfortable, it has so much power it’s unbelievable and the looks are great.
" My tastes haven’t changed that much over the years because I still like the old bikes. I like their simplicity and the fact you can ride them slowly and potter on a sunny Sunday or summer evening. Modern bikes aren’t made for going slow. In ten years time, I’ll still be riding hopefully. I’ll definitely have a classic and I think I’ll have a modern bike, but it won’t be a sportsbike, it’ll probably be a retro.
Jonathon’s Old Bikes
2x Ariel VB 600
Bown 98cc moped
NSU Quickly moped
2x BSA C12
Sunbeam high cam 250
Norton 350cc Model 50
2x Suzuki 600 Bandit
Suzuki VZ800 Marauder
Yamaha 1100 Virago
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One of the most popular pixie hairstyles is worn by Victoria Beckham. Victoria Beckham’s pixie haircut is a sexy short hair. The timeless pixie haircut is for the girl who wants to get noticed.
Victoria Beckham with her children Brooklyn, Cruz, Romeo seen leaving Claridges after spending three hours having lunch at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant. As usual, she is wearing her stylish short pixie hairstyle.
I love her short pixie hairstyle very much.


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WHINCUP RATES PRO GEARBOX DRIVE UP THERE WITH F1 Dual V8 Supercar Champion Jamie Whincup has rated his drive of a six-speed Pro Gearbox kart in Ipswich (Queensland) today right up there alongside his drive of a Formula One car from earlier in...
WHINCUP RATES PRO GEARBOX DRIVE UP THERE WITH F1
Dual V8 Supercar Champion Jamie Whincup has rated his drive of a six-speed Pro Gearbox kart in Ipswich (Queensland) today right up there alongside his drive of a Formula One car from earlier in the year.
Whincup, a two-time Champion in the CIK Stars of Karting Series, drove the Vodafone-backed Tony Kart Gearbox machine regularly piloted by Chris Hays for the first time this morning.
After reaching speeds in excess of 120 km/h and completing over 24 gear changes per lap around the 1080-metre circuit, Whincup said today's drive reminded him of his time behind the wheel of the McLaren Mercedes Formula One car in March.
"In some ways driving a Pro Gearbox kart reminds me of when I drove a Formula one car earlier this year. Things are just happening so fast, there's no time to think and the braking distances are really short," said Whincup.
"This kart makes driving a V8 Supercar feel like a breeze as everything happens a lot slower in my TeamVodafone Commodore and it is all about the flow.
"I started karting when I was seven years old when Dad bought me a go-kart, we got the bug and went around Victoria, and then Australia, racing -- pretty much like most of the guys in V8 Supercars did.
"We all started in karts and have raced against each other for years, myself, Mark Winterbottom, Will Davison, we've all been at it for years and when we are out in a V8 we're all driving the same. Davo is still pulling off his shifty moves, Frosty still drives with the same style, the only difference is that the cars are just bigger, more expensive and the crowds are bigger but really we just feel like we are in our go-karts."
Whincup was joined on the circuit by fellow V8 Supercar driver Tim Slade of Wilson Security Racing, who was the champion in the Pro Junior category in the series 2002.
Like Whincup, Slade was impressed by the power provided by the 125cc gearbox kart and indicated that karting is a lot more physically demanding than driving a V8 Supercar.
"We only did ten or so laps out there but it feels like I've done 100 -- it is definitely a workout," said Slade.
"I'd forgotten how tough it is to drive a kart, especially a six-speed gearbox kart. Everything happens about 100 times faster in a gearbox kart, than what it does in a V8 Supercar. The grip level is amazing becasue you are so close to the ground it feels so fast.
"You're constantly doing something, there's no time to rest and it is very good fitness training. I think you could chuck all of the cycling and running out of the window and do this everyday -- it would certainly be a lot more fun training."
The two V8 Supercar racers kicked off proceedings for this weekends second round of the CIK Stars of Karting Series where the Pro Gearbox (KZ2) class will feature prominently with some of country's top drivers going wheel to wheel at over 120 km/h.
Heading into this weekend's round Victorian Matthew Wall, who previously competed against Whincup during his karting days, is leading the championship ahead of Bundaberg's Kel Treseder and Hays.
Also being contested this weekend will be the Pro Light (KF1) and Pro Junior (KF3) categories where Cian Fothergill from Gladstone and Sydney's Pierce Lehane lead the way after their victories at round one in Newcastle.
Practice is being held throughout the day with qualifying and heat races being contested tomorrow ahead of the Finals on Sunday.
Competitors in the Pro Light category will use the 125cc IAME KF specification engine, as used in the 2009 championship that was won by Newcastle driver Hayden McBride. The Pro Gearbox drivers will take to the track powered by a six-speed 125cc gearbox machine while the Pro Junior drivers will use a 125cc Vortex KF3 specification engine.
Approximately 100 drivers are set to take to the Ipswich Kart circuit for the second round of competition across the six categories being contested. In addition to the three Pro categories the up and coming competitors will contest the opening round of the East Coast Title for Clubman and Junior National while local competitors will battle it out in the Formula 100 category.
The Ipswich Kart Track is located on Champions Way, Willowbank (just outside of Ipswich), admission for spectators is free.
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Ten years ago, Brazil enacted its Access to Information Law, which implements the constitutional guarantee of the right to information. Under the law, certain government data must be proactively disclosed, and other information must be provided upon the request of a member of the public, without the requester needing to show any special reason or justification. This law was supplemented with the enactment, last March, of the Digital Government Law, which streamlines the procedures for information requests, clarifies the government’s obligations to provide information in an open format that fulfills completeness, quality, and integrity requirements, and includes a non-exhaustive list of data that must be disclosed.
These laws, like other freedom of information laws, are intended to make government more responsive and accountable and to help fight corruption by making it easier for citizens, journalists, advocacy groups, and prosecutors to scrutinize and analyze government information for evidence of suspicious activity. But while the laws are very detailed about the rules for disclosing information upon request, the law’s provisions on proactive disclosure are not sufficiently specific or effective. And proactive disclosure is quite important. After all, while the right to request information is helpful to those who want to investigate a specific event, the proactive disclosure of data—for example, with respect to public expenditure, public procurement processes, and public contracts—may raise “red flags” that can spur more in-depth investigations.
There are three deficiencies in particular that should be remedied, so that Brazil’s freedom of information laws can be effective in ensuring the sorts of proactive information disclosure that can foster transparency and detect or deter corruption:


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by Ethel S. Person, M.D. Arlington, Va., American Psychiatric Publishing, 2007, 405 pp., $31.50.
If, as it has been said, love is the gift of oneself, then Dr. Person has given much of herself indeed. A affiliationd psychoanalyst, whose extensive writings in the fields of gender, sexuality, and erotic attachment were published together in The Sexual Century (1999), Dr. Person now offers a reissue of her 1988 work, Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters. This is a great book, one that puts a rich understanding of the narratives of love that lead so many patients to our doors into clear and accessible language, unburdened by psychiatric jargon.
Dr. Person writes in her introduction, “love has been one of the most profound interests of my life since I was no more than twelve.” While I suspect she is not alone in this, I soon join her, curled up on the couch in pleasure, as she weaves an abundance of classic love stories from film and fiction into her illustrations of the dynamics of love. Her book is organized in five sections, describing in sequence the experience, aims, struggles, gender differences, and fates of love. This is a panoramic description of human love; it takes our clichés and explains them, moving skillfully from easily recognized types of love, such as love that develops on the rebound or with separation, to offering multiple clinical and theoretical windows into such phenomena.
Dr. Person takes particular care to describe the liberating, transcending, and creative aspects of love, giving inspiring examples of relationships that allowed the participants to triumph over psychic limitations and pain. Yet, she in no way minimizes the problems clinicians and subjects face in dealing with love, including the risks of merging, submission, and the hostility that lies below its surface. Her chapter on self-surrender is particularly strong, especially in its insightful discussion of the type of surrender to love which enhances the self, versus the type which masochistically degrades it, and the dynamics of autonomy, dependency, and narcissism which underlie neurotic problems of this type. These dynamics lead her naturally into a chapter on the power in love. Here she covers the precariousness and the subtle but inevitable teeter-totter of power that exists in seduction, possession, idealization, caretaking, and other elements of the love relationship. She also helps the reader to see how traces of guilt, coercion, sadism, and contempt can tip these elements towards the pathologic.
In Chapter 9, “Triangles,” the classical Oedipal situation serves as a launching point for an innovative exploration of other triangular arrangements in couples. Distinguishing “rivalrous triangles,” in which one competes for the lover, from “split object triangles,” in which one divides one’s attention between two love objects, Dr. Person deftly shows how defensive moves such as arranging to be desired by two rivals rather than competing with a rival for another can be seen in our love stories. Chapter 11, entitled “Modes of Self-Realization,” also provides a wealth of innovative psychoanalytic ideas, many departing from classical theory, to help the reader understand such commonalities as a woman’s relatively greater fear of rejection in love. Here the clinical reader will be particularly helped by insights into possible patient dynamics.
Reprinted essentially without modification, this is not the right book for those seeking a contemporary update in gender studies or biological research on sexuality. A few statements, such as “the quest for an ideal love relationship...is the only quest readily available to most women except for motherhood,” may seem anachronistic to the modern reader. But, as a clinician who struggled alongside her female patients as their desires for a committed relationship were met by male flight, despite advances in feminism, and as someone who recognizes with Dr. Person the importance of “the passionate quest as…the central theme of our lives,” I know of no more encyclopedic or enriching entry into this field.
Book review accepted for publication January 2008 (doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08010152).


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Laugfs Holdings chairman W.K.H. Wegapitiya, bought more than 27 million shares or an approximately 6 percent stake in Pan Asia Banking Corporation PLC. The value of the deal is over Rs.500 million.
‘The shares were bought via the Softlogic stock brokering firm, sources said.
The seller of the majority of the shares was Nimal Perera, the former chairman of Pan Asia Bank and one-time de facto fund manager of leading businessman Dhammika Perera, the single biggest shareholder of Pan Asia Bank.
Laugfs had a small financial company it bought from Softlogic in the past before the Central Bank policies forced small companies to merge.
The duo acquired a number of top listed and privately held business houses in the country riding on the post-war economic boom, before they decided to officially part ways this March, amid speculation of a massive fall-out.
Nimal Perera said that he sold about 25 million Pan Asia Bank shares at Rs.20 .As at December 31, 2016, Nimal Perera held about 15 million Pan Asia Bank shares accounting for little over 5 percent of the issued shares of the company.
However, the bank recently raised Rs.2.1 billion through a 1 for 2 rights issue priced at Rs.14 per share, which Nimal Perera had subscribed to. Subsequent to the rights, Pan Asia Bank had 442.6 million shares in issue. Pan Asia Bank shares yesterday closed at Rs.19.80.
Pan Asia was required to enhance its core capital to Rs.7.5 billion by March 31, 2017 and reach Rs.10 billion in minimum capital by January 1, 2018 as per the revised time frame approve by the CBSL.

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This chain of vulnerabilities is critical and has a cumulative CVSS score is 8.3/10.
Eclypsium security researchers have discovered four major security vulnerabilities in Dell SupportAssist’s BIOSConnect feature. In their report, researchers revealed that the bugs could allow attackers to carry out remote code execution within the BIOS of affected devices. The cumulative CVSS score given to the bugs was 8.3/10.
Researchers wrote that the flaws could be exploited to target the BIOS/UEFI level by impersonating Dell.com. The attacker can target around 129 models of Dell laptops, desktops, and tablets, including those having Secure Boot, enabled, or Secured-core PCs, and control the device’s boot process and undermine the OS level security controls.
Nearly 30 million Dell devices are vulnerable to exploitation.
According to Eclypsium researchers, one bug leads to an insecure TLS connection from BIOS to Dell, whereas three are overflow vulnerabilities, classified as CVE-2021-21571, CVE-2021-21572, CVE-2021-21573, and CVE-2021-21574, respectively.
The first issue occurs when BIOSConnect connects to Dell’s back-end HTTP server. It accepts any valid wildcard certificate, letting an attacker deliver attacker-controlled content to the victim device under Dell’s guise.
Moreover, the researchers discovered HTTPS Boot configurations using the same verification code, which rendered them exploitable.
“When attempting to connect to the backend Dell HTTP server, the TLS connection from BIOSConnect will accept any valid wildcard certificate. This allows an attacker with a privileged network position to impersonate Dell and deliver attacker-controlled content back to the victim device,” says the report.
Regarding the three other independent vulnerabilities, which researchers described as overflow bugs, one impacts the OS recovery process, and the third was found in the firmware update mechanism. These vulnerabilities can allow a privileged network attacker to get arbitrary code execution within the machines’ BIOS.
The technical details of these bugs weren’t disclosed as the company stated it would reveal them at the upcoming DEFCON in August.
Dell states that the SupportAssist software comes preinstalled on a majority of Dell devices running Windows OS. The BIOSConnect feature facilitates remote firmware updates and OS recovery, troubleshooting features. To do so, it connects to Dell’s cloud infrastructure to get the requested quote transferred to the device.
Update BIOS Immediately
Dell has provided BIOS/UEFI updates for affected models. Eclypsium researchers wrote that users need to update their system to BIOS/UEFI and avoid using SupportAssist’s BIOSConnect feature until it is updated.
No additional action is required for CVE-2021-21573 and CVE-2021-21574 since the company already addressed them from the server side in May 2021. For CVE-2021-21571 and CVE-2021-21572, updating the system is mandatory.


12 March 2012Neale Muston has won a thrilling first round of the 2012 Radical Australia Cup presented by MPA Projects at Eastern Creek Raceway at the weekend.
The Excalibur Racing driver won both heat races on Saturday however it was a thrilling 50-minute feature race held on Sunday afternoon that quickly became the biggest talking point of perhaps the entire Shannons Nationals round.
Muston and defending series winner Ed Singleton fiercely battled for the lead in the final 10-minutes of the 50-minute mini-enduro, crossing the line with just 0.1 seconds between the pair.
It was a dramatic conclusion to an outstanding weekend of racing that saw 23 cars take the starter, in the first of 7 rounds to be staged around Australia this year.
"It is probably the best race I have ever been involved in," Muston said.
"I had a gearshift issue throughout the second half of the race that made things interesting - but you can make these cars pretty wide so I did what I needed to do to keep Ed behind me. It was great fun and thanks to the Corse Motorsport team for their efforts.
"It’s a great start to our season!"
Singleton was similarly enthusiastic, pleased with his run to second place in the race after a day of drama.
The MPA Projects driver was involved in a mid-race spin as he diced for position with the then-second placed Glyn Edis and other lapped vehicles at the new turn 6-7 complex.
He quickly recovered from the incident and a lengthy mid-race safety car allowed him to remain in contention and into a position to challenge for the win.
"I gave it everything and was so close to Neale I didn't even see the checkered flag at the end," Singleton said.
"It’s one of the better races I have been involved in and makes for a really good start to our season. I almost had him on what turned out to be the final lap - I might have had a bigger go if I actually knew the race was about to finish!"
Whilst Singleton was second in the race - he was beaten to the overall round podium by DEPUTY.COM driver Steve Shelley, who scored consistently in Saturday's two sprint races and scored a strong third in the feature to score three more points than the defending series winner.
It marked the first time that Shelley had stood on a Radical Australia Cup podium, having had several near misses in the 2011 season.
Greg Smith took his Radical Australia, chrome and orange SR3 to the Masters Class win and a strong top six finish overall in the feature race, just behind fourth-placed Peter Johnston (PJS Air Radical SR3) and fifth placed tie Simon Haggarty and Glyn Edis.
Andrew Macpherson, Tony Palmer, Nick Kelly followed in seventh, eighth and ninth spots. With a tie completing the top ten, Nathan Brumby with co-driver Daniel Reinhardt, Richard Kimber and Tony Haggarty.
Radical Events supported driver Tony Palmer was perhaps the unlucky story of the round, having performed strongly in the sprint races and the early stages of the mini enduro before mechanical gremlins forced him out, having run fourth for a majority of the first half of the race.
His stranded car brought out the safety car for an extended period, right in the middle of the compulsory 10-minute Pitstop window - forcing the Radical Australia pit lane team to work extra hard to service 23 cars almost all at once.
Earlier in the weekend Neale Muston had won both sprint races, Tony Palmer and Glyn Edis filling the podium on both occasions.
The next round of the Radical Australia Cup presented by MPA Projects will be staged at the stunning Phillip Island Grand Prix circuit, on April 28-29.
Action from Eastern Creek will be broadcast on SBS Speedweek on March 25th and on SPEED TV Australia on Friday, April 4th.
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“Mention that you are going off the app or the site that you’re on, and just make it a statement and get their reaction to that statement,” says the author of “Love at First Click: The Ultimate Guide to Online Dating.” House, nicknamed “the man whisperer,” advises her clients to be prepared for all possible outcomes during this conversation.
“You have to be okay with them saying they’re not there yet,” she says. It doesn’t mean that they don’t like you.” It also doesn’t mean you have to stop seeing other people: “If someone else comes in, you’ll welcome them in,” says House.
“Every single dater has a different experience-based perspective,” says House.
“There are a lot of daters out there who feel like, ‘I like you and you like me enough to go on a date and possibly a second, and therefore, let’s dedicate time to see if this develops.
We have endless words to indicate various levels of physical contact with someone. Boyfriend/Girlfriend: this is a committed relationship where they have said "lets not see other people, lets just date each other".
(Again, don't assume this means they are having sex. No.) There would be words spoken to indicated exclusive commitment.
Saying what you want is more powerful than asking them what they want.” Don’t assume you’re in a relationship without talking about it (people do this) “What’s really interesting about the relationship talk is that a lot of people these days, especially online and app daters, don’t feel that they need to do it,” says Laurel House, a dating coach who worked with celebrities on E!
’s “Famously Single.” “That leads to a lot of confusion.” At least partly to blame, says House, are online dating apps, which have created a more casual dynamic riddled with guesswork.
She cites clients who assumed they were in a committed monogamous relationship for months or even years, only to find out their partner was still dating other people.
Dating: this is when people go places and spend time together to get to know one another. Ideally, they will go somewhere where they can talk and also do activities that they both enjoy.
You can often see young kids going on "daddy-daughter dates" or "mother-son dates".

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