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The Playmaker (Nelson High Raiders Book 1)
by Jordan Ford
The first book in a young adult romance series about a small town football team and the girls who win their hearts.This is it—Tori Lomax's senior year.Her last chance to leave Nelson High without a bucketload of regrets. Number one priority—get Colt Burgess to fall in love with her. So what if he's the Raider's number one playmaker? So what if he's so far out of her league, the idea of them together would rupture the school's social order?She has to try, before it's too late.She's come up with the perfect set of plays. All Colt has to do now is buy into them.Colt Burgess wants one thing: to play football after high school. But his grades are tanking and his dreams of playing college ball are fading…fast. He shouldn't waste time on Tori Lomax. However, she was a friend...
Genre: Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction, Romance
Faete (The Blood Moon Series Book 1)
by Oswald Sellars, Aimee
Fates, family secrets and magic collide in a dark and twisting tale of love, lies, loss and obsession. They say your life can turn on a dime. In my case, it was a book. An ancient Celtic book of magic to be precise. While most of my classmates are worried about filling out college applications, I've got bigger concerns about the future. Like trying to unravel some pretty dark and disturbing family secrets I unearthed in the old springhouse. And then there's the little matter of the side effects caused by dabbling in magic under a Blood Moon. When seventeen-year-old- Renny McGuire agrees to close her mother's bookshop one night, her life is irrevocably changed. She inadvertently opens the gateway between the mundane world and that of...
Genre: Literature & Fiction, Horror, Occult, Romance, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal
Secret Heart (Oak Bluffs High Book 1)
by Danielle Dreger
Avery Jennings is a punk-rock guitarist with a secret weakness for rom-coms and Taylor Swift. Her band, Detonate the Gazelle is ready to move to Austin after graduation, but Avery is having second thoughts. She's fallen hard for Madison Shea, student council president with a douchebag boyfriend, after their orbits collide at Oak Bluff High's inaugural Gay-Straight Alliance meeting. Even though it goes against her rules about crushing on straight girls, Avery relentlessly pursues Madison. Their chemistry is too magnetic to deny and soon they are making out in car washes and school bathrooms and holding hands under tables. Avery wants to take their relationship public but Madison is afraid of her conservative family's reaction and that it'll ruin her chances as Prom Queen. Their sec...
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by Alice Brady
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Scandalous Series Starter Set: Books 1-3
by R. Linda
Start R. Linda's bestselling series with the first three full-length, standalone novels…Bailey's heart is broken, and romance is the last thing on her mind when she offers the bad boy a deal he can't refuse. Then there's Indie who has been crushing over her brother's best friend for as long as she can remember. But she's painfully aware of the fact that he'll never feel the same about her…or will he? And Harper finds herself in a tricky situation after a one night stand turns into a fiery hot, secret affair.Three friends, three different stories, all in one box set…And it's deliciously Scandalous....
Genre: Genre Fiction, Teen & Young Adult, Romance, Coming of Age
Mary, Mary: (Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary) (Once Upon a Rhyme Series Book 1)
by Elizabeth Rose
Golden Palm Contest Finalist!
Book 1 of the Gnarled Nursery Rhymes Series.
Raven Birchfield moves into her dead eccentric aunt's home with her mother and younger brother not realizing her life is about to change in ways she's never imagined. The house backs up to a small graveyard. When she goes to plant a flower in her new yard for her horticulture class, strange things happen.
She digs up an old nursery rhyme book as well as a quartz crystal on a necklace. A raven keeps following her around and she keeps hearing an eerie voice calling out the name Mary on the breeze. To make matters worse, at her new high school she starts to be bullied by one of the popular, pretty girls who happens to have a boyfriend that Raven wishes was hers.
Genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Occult, Mythology & Folk Tales, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult, Social Issues, Romance, Coming of Age, Family Life
Gifted Magic - White Dragon Tower - Book 1: (Young Adult Paranormal Romance Knights, Dragons, and Magic Series)
by Kya Lind
This is a full length novel.
Captain Traven is having the worst luck. First some kid steals his horse, and then he is accused of treason. Then a lady he meets in his sleep convinces him to abandon his post and take the kid to the dangerous Shadow Mountains. As he drags the kid across the country by day with everybody and his brother trying to kill him, and stealing kisses from his DreamLady at night, Traven prays that she is real and not just a figment of his imagination....
Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult, Paranormal
April Fools' Joke (Holiday High Series Book 3)
by Kellie McAllen
KC wants payback for Jake's cruel prank, but is she getting revenge or falling in love?KC can't wait for a chance to start over in a new school, until Jake Matthews humiliates her in front of everyone with an epic April Fools' joke.KC soon learns she isn't the first person to suffer from one of Jake's notorious pranks, and she won't be the last. Jake's already lined up his next cruel stunt—a bet between the popular boys with enough intended victims to turn the entire school upside down.When KC attempts to exact her own revenge by creating an online persona set on winning Jake's heart—just so she can tear it apart—she never expected to actually fall for him.But what happens when Jake finds out the girl he's in love with is also his sworn enemy?This story is the thir...
Genre: Teen & Young Adult, Social Issues, Romance
Locket full of Secrets
by Dana Burkey
After over 4 years, Olena comes rocketing back into Claire's life, changing everything for the worse. Picking up the shattered pieces, Claire is not sure who to believe. Is Olena who she says she is, or is she a killer to stay away from? Leaning on her new boyfriend Steven for support, Claire is faced with the choice on who to trust: a friend she barley knows, or a history lesson she barely remembers. Together, the three will begin a journey that will take Claire from the safety of her home to the last place she thought she would ever be: The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. With the wreckage of rector four looming behind her, Claire will have to see Olena's plan through until the end if she wants any chance of making it out alive....
Genre: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure, Teen & Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Mysteries & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Atoma and the Blockchain
by Gerard O'Neill
I've always suspected I was different, but never like this...When my school's air-shuttle crashes, the miracle of modern AI saves me. But it also discovers a deadly secret my mother has been hiding from everyone my entire life. I'm not legally human, and in this society, that means I have no rights and no citizenship. I'm a Zero.I run, but it doesn't take long for government forces to hunt me down. They give me a choice. They will send me to a slaving camp on the frozen tundra, or to a secretive facility to train for a high-risk expedition with other Zeroes. If I take my chances on a suicide mission, I'll probably die. If I don't, my life will be short and hard. That's some choice they're offering me, right? It's a good thing there are a few flaws in their plans, and one of them is me...�...
Genre: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, Teen & Young Adult, Romance, Genre Fiction, Coming of Age
He's All That
by Matt Horton
Following in the style of 90's teen comedy, "She's All That", our story centers around Greyson (a former bullied kid who left high school after freshman year for two years of "fat camp") and Emma (cheerleader and now the ex-girlfriend of star high school quarterback, Tyson). When a mischievous plan sets a bet in place by her best friend, Emma agrees to take on the challenge, saying that she can transform any guy into becoming the Homecoming king. What she didn't plan on was for Greyson to come back. She remembers him from a junior high group pairing as being kind and sweet, and doesn't want to take the bet on him but her friends insist so she finally accepts it, knowing that there's no chance she could possibly fall for him (even though he's lost the weight). He remembe...
Genre: Teen & Young Adult, Romance
by Lily Yu
Anna Ko is a sophomore in high school. She studies hard to get good grades and divides her free time amongst her family and her two best friends, Mimi Lee and Ollie (a.k.a. Lex) Diaz. Anna has her hands full taking care of her little brother, keeping Mimi from going boy crazy, and helping Ollie graduate high school. Her life is further complicated by the fact that her cousin, Kenny Chang, and Ollie are in rival gangs and she has to help the two boys find a way to keep the two sides from fighting. This year a new guy, Viktor Irving, starts school. Every girl is drooling over him and of course Mimi starts dating him immediately even though Anna has her misgivings about him. As Anna tries to settle into the school year, Kaden Takayama walks into her life. He is calm, controlled, confid...
Kiss the Fire: Book One of the Unbroken Romance Series.
by Rose Brooker
From author Rose Brooker comes an exciting and heartbreaking novel about discovering secrets, discovering the self and discovering Love. Eve Rowley's heart is as wild and untamable as the outback sun, and she has no power over where it leads her. So when she finds herself falling in love with the dark and mysterious Byron, the half-native outcast and rogue who has a knack for saving her life, she knows that she must endure whatever comes—including the consequences of their forbidden love.Set in the wild western style frontier of Australia during the 19th century, "Kiss the Fire" tells the story of one woman's desperation to find the strength to defy her family, her society, and even her own self-doubt, as well as the tale of one man's quest to find his place in a world determi...
Whisper Bay: The Self Portrait (The Whisper Bay YA Romance Collection Book 2)
by Sybil Shae
Genre: Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction, Romance, Collections & Anthologies, Inspirational
A Court for Thieves (A Throne for Sisters—Book Two)
by Morgan Rice
"Morgan Rice's imagination is limitless. In another series that promises to be as entertaining as the previous ones, A THRONE OF SISTERS presents us with the tale of two sisters (Sophia and Kate), orphans, fighting to survive in a cruel and demanding world of an orphanage. An instant success. I can hardly wait to put my hands on the second and third books!"--Books and Movie Reviews (Roberto Mattos)From #1 Bestseller Morgan Rice comes an unforgettable new fantasy series. In A COURT FOR THIEVES (A Throne for Sisters—Book Two), Sophia, 17, finds her world upside down as she is cast from the romantic world of aristocracy and back to the horrors of the orphanage. This time the nuns seem intent on killing her. Yet that doesn't pain her as much as her broken heart. Will Sebastian realize ...
Genre: Children's eBooks, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Scary Stories, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult, Romance
A Queen's Spy: A Medieval Military Historical Fiction Novel - Mercenary For Hire Book 1
by Sam Burnell
Based on actual historical events, an epic tale of a young Tudor nobleman's courage as he tries to keep his future Queen safe in one of England's most turbulent eras.Richard Fitzwarren, a Tudor nobleman with a dubious past takes risks for a living.As a younger man he had been attached to Thomas Seymour's household, working with Seymour's spy and intelligence network. Seymoure, married to Henry VIII's widow, Catherine Parr, was as close to the power at Court as he could get. Through his wife he became guardian of the young princess Elizabeth, and so Richard Fitzwarren became a close childhood friend of Elizabeth Tudor. So close that Seymoure was readily believed when he blamed Richard for the liberties he himself had taken with the young princess. Banished from his father's hous...
Genre: Children's eBooks, Literature & Fiction, Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction, World Literature, British, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Romance, Historical Romance, Series, Teen & Young Adult, Mystery & Suspense, Men's Adventure, War & Military, Historical
When Quiet Comes to Call (A Mark of the Least Short)
by Kendra Merritt
Rogue magic and runaway mice were not what Brynn had in mind for a quiet life running a shop…Everyone seems to have an opinion about what Brynn should be doing with her life. Her father wants her to go on grand adventures while her best friend believes that a wealthy fiancé will solve all her problems. But all Brynn wants is a quiet life, a well-run shop, and maybe someone to share it all with. Too bad the boy she has a crush on is even more shy than she is. However, when Brynn's placid routine is disrupted by knick-knacks come to life and some unexplained magic, she enlists the help of the boy next door and finally gets the chance to see what's under his bashfulness. Now if only they can get the knick-knacks to stop trying to escape....
Bad Prince
by KM Pyne
Rules are for fools!Jake rebelled one too many times and has been sent away from his native Sweden to military school in Alaska. No one knows the real him as he was forced to change his name and start over. All he can think about is escaping his prison and his mundane life. Until he sees her.Ellie has been sent to boarding school to get her away from the conflict in her country. She has been there for three years and hates every day more than the previous one. When she is given an opportunity to take part in the Olympiad tournament she jumps at the chance to get out of the school. All she wants is to run away from her life, which is full of rules and obligations. Until she sees him.They are brought together in their braininess, their quick wit and their passion for escaping their mundane w...
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by Mel Brooks
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My (Not So) Boring Life: Clean YA Romance (Believe in Us Book 1)
by Meg Danale
Firm Resolve
by Licia Flynn
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Heroes of Englandom (Young Adult Dystopian Series)
by Erik Jacobs
FINALLY, A YOUNG GAY MAN AS THE HERO OF A YA-DYSTOPIAN NOVEL.From «Patriot» of the nation to «Hero» of the resistance, all he seeks is his family's safety—and the freedom to love.Nineteen-year-old Derin Dark becomes an officer of Englandom, the totalitarian state on the island formerly known as Great Britain, where society is segregated according to the degree of loyalty to the fatherland. Derin, his parents, and his siblings ascend to a higher caste. Their future will be safe at last.But a spectacular rebel attack disrupts his life most unjustly and cruelly: his brother is accused of being a traitor to the nation. Derin and his entire family will be tried in a grotesque TV show, in which a horrifying death inside the regime's sadistic torture machines seems inevitable.Just as th...
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Me, Shakespeare and the Anti-Love Club (Pacifica Academy Drama Series Book 1)
by Christine Miles
Kassidy Pashen didn't expect to start her junior year with a broken heart. It was supposed to be her dream year—the year she landed the coveted role of Juliet. Everything was going to be perfect! Perfect role. Perfect boyfriend…Except Justin dumped her for Sloane—and now Sloane has the guy and wants the role of Juliet! Could things get much worse? Yes. While Kassidy lands the role of Juliet, Sloane is cast as Lady Capulet and Justin as Mercutio. What!? She can't be onstage with the guy who ditched her. What's a girl to do? Lean on her friends, that's what. Together, they start the Anti-Love Club for everyone who's been dumped, and with their support, Kassidy decides she will get through the play—despite the conflicts during rehearsals with Sloane. Kassidy just never expec...
Love Found A Way
by Morris Fenris
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Herald (A War of Black Feathers Book 1)
by J.Edwards Stone
Wednesday Riders (Island Series Book 2)
by Tudor Robins
The island.Meg can't wait to get back. She's excited to see her new mare kick up her heels in Salem's old paddock. She's impatient to run on country roads between breeze-blown hayfields.Mostly, Meg longs to be back with Jared again.It's going to be the perfect summer.But can real life live up to Meg's huge expectations?When Jared makes a heart-wrenching confession, Meg has to re-evaluate everything. If perfection's not possible, can Meg find a way to build happiness for herself?Fans of Appaloosa Summer will welcome the return to familiar places and characters, with the chance to be captivated by more of the beauty, romance, and dreaminess of Meg's summer island life....
Lost: The Love and Loss Series Prequel Novella
by Anna Bloom
Rebecca Walters is lost.Hanging with the wrong crowd and taking her steps of rebellion too far, Rebecca is on a self destruct mission that's sure to implode. But with her best friend at her side she still has the chance to redeem herself and find her way back to safety from the dark places she choses to live in.Joshua Adams is complete.In love and happy with his place in the world, Joshua is ready to take the next step and make his lifestyle a permanent fixture with the woman he loves at his side. Until one cold February night changes the lives of Rebecca and Joshua forever leading them to meet on a beach six months later.Before Gone was the night they got Lost.Lost is a prequel novella and can be read either before or after Gone....
Michelle and Tyler: Christmas Holiday Romance 2019 (Cathedral Hills Book 2)
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Tyler Jameson had made his living riding bulls for the Pro Bull Riders association and he's been very successful at it. Sure, he's had some injuries, and he's even watched some of his fellow riders sustain life-altering injuries. When he runs into Michelle Cottrell at the Denver Coliseum during a rodeo, he wonders if the attraction they had felt for each other before leaving Cathedral Hills was still there.
Michelle had finished her social work degree in Wyoming and was interning with the State of Colorado when she ran into Tyler once again. She was moving to Denver, and Tyler was based out of Colorado Springs. Her high school crush was alive and well, but their lives were going in such different directions, she was fine with...
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The Elect: A Young Adult Dystopian
by Laura Wadsworth Carter
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Flightless Bird: Teen Paranormal Romance (The Caged Series Book 1)
They're powerless without her; she's powerless to resist. The list of reasons why Lexus Wren is the last girl any guy would be interested in is mercilessly long:Her dad's in prison for murder, her mom drowns her sorrows every night at Dave's Dive, and Lexus is just trying to survive the cruelties of high school as a painfully shy bookworm with a bad wardrobe and a collection of nervous habits. Never in a million years did Lexus expect to draw the eyes of two hunky transfer students, Phoenix and Griffin Easton.The troubled brothers are haunted by their own demons and don't seem bothered by Lexus' tarnished reputation. They're too busy trying to figure out why touching her makes them feel like electricity is frying their insides and why they're compelled to obey her every command...
Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction, Social Issues, Paranormal


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The dyptich is a bitter sweet view of two cultures through my experience as a tattoo artist here on Maui, in Europe, and on the Mainland.
The Hawaiian looks you in the eye. His tattoos represent integrity with nature and his ancestors, and pride in belonging to himself and his a'ina.
Even the western lettering on his arm is rooted in his heritage, a combination of missionary influence and family pride.
His landscape is the same it was a thousand years ago, only the pickup truck and the modern fishing pole refer to the western world and our present time.
The Haole looks out, beyond the frame. His tattoos represent pride in his god and country as active forces, and yet reveal his rebellious attitude..
Reminders of personal moments , like lost love, and silly irrelevant whims become expressions of his individuality. His landscape is industrial, man made, for the purpose of expansion.


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Six Short Stories Published:
CHRYSLER was published in Lullwater Review (Vol. XVIII No. II, Fall 2008). In this story, a man is torn between his infatuation with the Chrysler Building and his rocky relationship with his girlfriend--not to mention his indecision about whether to become a writer after all.
DUMMY COPY was published in Argestes (Collen Tree Press, Fall-Winter 2008). In this story, a graphic designer and her editor have a much bigger problem than their disagreement over the function of dummy copy. This story was inspired by Claudia Carlson, fellow member of the River Writers Group of Manhattan, who has had to deal with similarly intrusive editors in her work as a graphic designer.
LINCOLN TOWERS was published in The Chariton Review (Volume 31; Issue 1: Spring 2008). LINCOLN TOWERS is about a resident of this city-within-a-city housing complex on the Upper West Side of Manhattan whose life is beginning to feel surreal.
SNAP was published in Wisconsin Review (Volume 43; Issue 1: Fall 2008). In this story, a 42-year-old woman skips work to sit on a bench in Central Park and reflect on her checkered romantic history after being dumped by her latest boyfriend.
METASTORY was published in Soundings East (Volume 30/Number 1: Spring/Summer 2008). In this story, a writer argues with himself as he tries to compose a short story about writing a short story. (Think of this as what the show [Title of Show] might be if it were a short story.)
THE CROSS COUNTY was published in Buffalo Carp: Quad Cities Arts' Journal (Volume 5, published March 14, 2008). In this story, a new neighbor causes friction between 5-year-old Bobby Farrand's parents, but he's too distracted by all the new technological marvels around him in 1955 to understand what's happening.
COUPLE OF THE CENTURY Presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre
COUPLE OF THE CENTURY, a full-length play, played to a sold-out house at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. This festival was one of the cultural events established after 911 to help attract people back to Lower Manhattan. The plays presented in the festival reflected the diverse urban populations that make up the mosaic that is New York City. (My one-act play, THE DAKOTA, won a Best Short Play Award at DUTF in June 2005.) COUPLE OF THE CENTURY, is an expanded version of my one-act play, THE SESSION (finalist at the Strawberry One-Act Festival Winter 2005). In this expanded, full-length version, the scenes progress backwards to show us the events leading up to the therapy session that opens the play.
Reading at Cornelia Street Cafe
I read my short story, WALLPAPER, at the Cornelia Street Cafe on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village on Monday, May 12, 2008. (This is the same story I read at the Mercantile Library in May 2006 and at my class reunion at Yale in May 2007.) The reading was part of a monthly variety event called Serial Underground, which Time Out NY refers to as "the subversive nightclub series" and which features the latest in experimental music.
Synopsis: Peter Payne--Sports Illustrated insert card writer by day, aspiring fiction writer by night--puts his rejection letters to good practical use.
Reading of THE GERMAN LESSON Presented at the Dramatists Guild.
A reading of my new play, THE GERMAN LESSON, was presented at the Dramatists Guild in New York April 18, 2008 as part of their Friday Night Footlights series. The reading was directed by Wendy Peace and included the following cast:
Trevor Hudson (age 48)………………………...……….…..NIC TYLER*
Jerry Hobart (50)/Ira Klopnick ('30s)..…………….…..GREG HORTON*
Chuck Blazer (19)/Louie Allemano ('40s)………..…AARON HEISLER
Margaret Allen ('50s)/Dr. Vivian Sedler (74)……...ELOWYN CASTLE*
Sarah Schwalbe ('40s)/German instructor……….ROXANN KRAEMER*
Beth Hudson ('40s)…………………………….…...DONNA NIEMANN
Stage directions read by ASHTON CROSBY*
Synopsis: Trevor is a PR man with a special talent for putting the best face on things whose life is spinning out of control, but whose German lesson is part of a plan to free him from his past.
THE GERMAN LESSON Named Runner-up
THE GERMAN LESSON, a play in two acts, was named among the runner-ups for the 2008 Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwrighting Excellence. (The winner was Keeping Faith by Mark Scharf.) This award was established in 1984 and is given annually by the Coldwater Community Theatre in Coldwater, Michigan.
THE SESSION published
The January 2007 issue of the literary journal, The Distillery, was published January 2008 (go figure) and includes my one-act play, THE SESSION. This play was a finalist at the Strawberry One-Act Festival Winter 2005 in Manhattan. This short (18-minute) play was the basis for my full-length play, COUPLE OF THE CENTURY, a Comedy in Two Acts (semifinalist in the Open Book's 8th National Readers Theatre Playwriting Competition).
Synopsis: A man finally tells his therapist what's really on his mind.

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I feel like if I call childline right away then that means I'm an attention seeker. What should I do? When should I call?
ChildLine would never feel you are being an attention seeker. Our counsellors are here to listen no matter how big or small you feel your problem is. If something matters to you, then it also matters to ChildLine. It's not attention seeking to talk about how you feel.
I understand that a lot of people find it difficult to talk, especially on the phone. It might help to know a bit more about what would happen when you ring.
The first person you hear is usually the switchboard. They are there to make sure you know someone is there. They'll then be able to direct your call into the counselling queue. The wait time for a counsellor can vary, but it's usually no more than a couple of minutes, and someone will always answer if you wait.
When it's your turn the counsellor will answer and they might ask you how you're feeling or if there is something you want to talk about. What you say next is up to you, but remember that the counsellors are friendly and they are there for you, so just take your time. If you're nervous it's okay to tell them so they can try to make you feel more at ease.
You can call ChildLine any time you like. Counsellors are there 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. However, overnight there is a more limited service running and only emergency calls are taken after 1am.
You can call on 0800 1111. This number is free from more or less all phones and won't show up on most phone bills. You can also send an email from your ChildLine inbox and a counsellor will reply to it, or you can have an online 1-2-1 chat.


Many of Maryland's politicial leaders, from Gov. Martin O'Malley to members of the state legislature, will be in attendance at Pimlico on Saturday, and they undoubtedly will be taking credit for actions that "saved" the Preakness Stakes and thoroughbred racing in the state.
When track owners wanted to cut the 2011 racing schedule to the bone, triggering a bitter fight with horsemen, O'Malley brokered a deal that subsidizes the industry this year. The governor said it would "keep Maryland's historic Preakness Stakes where it belongs." The legislature last month extended the subsidy for two more years while telling the industry it had to devise a business plan to become self-sufficient.
Perhaps this is possible. Unfortunately, the Maryland tracks' dysfunctional owners and its short-sighted horsemen have little chance of agreeing on anything.
The Maryland Jockey Club, which operates Pimlico and Laurel Park, fought for years to get slot machines but failed to obtain them when owner Frank Stronach's management made a disastrous mistake in the bidding process. Without slots, the tracks' prospects seem almost hopelesss. Laurel has been losing millions of dollars a year and Pimlico is viable only because of the Preakness.
Stronach had sold a 49 percent interest in the tracks to Penn National Gaming Inc. — a company that is primarily interested in slot machines and does not share Stronach's willingness to lose money on racetrack investments. "From the tracks' perspective," said Tom Chuckas, president of the Maryland Jockey Club," the only way to get to profitability requires consolidation." Thus did the MJC propose cutting the state's racing schedule from 146 to 47 dates, consolidating most of the racing schedule around a short meeting at Pimlico. When horsemen opposed the plan vehemently, the tracks appeared on the verge of shutting down until O'Malley brokered a solution.
Under the terms of Maryland's slot-machine legislation, a percentage of all slot revenue in the state is earmarked for the racing industry — some for purse money, some for capital improvements at the tracks. The O'Malley deal diverted the capital-improvement money — up to $6 million a year — to the operating expenses for the Maryland Jockey Club so that it could afford to continue conducting 146 days of racing during the year.
Because of the Preakness's importance to the state, subsidizing the spring Pimlico meeting serves a public interest. But Maryland taxpayers might reasonably ask why the state should spend millions of dollars so that its racetracks can offer 146 days of racing to which most fans are indifferent. The beneficiaries are the state's horsemen, who cry that cutting the racing schedule would cause economic havoc, but they have plenty of options to run for ample purses in West Virginia, Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The Maryland horsemen's insistence on a virtual year-round racing schedule flies in the face of the sport's current realities. America's successful racetracks are mostly ones that conduct shorter "boutique" meetings. Because of an ever-worsening national horse shortage, even healthy racetracks are reducing their schedules so that the races they offer will have fields large enough to appeal to bettors. The effects of the dwindling thoroughbred population are especially acute in the mid-Atlantic region, where as many as six tracks may operate simultaneously. Even with purses swelled by slot money, the former Philadelphia Park — now named Parx — offers an unappealing product. Delaware Park, despite its slot money, canceled its card last Tuesday because it didn't have enough horses. Until Sunday's sixth race, Pimlico hadn't mustered a field with more than nine starters since May 1.
There is only one way to deal with the horse shortage: run fewer races. Because the mid-Atlantic tracks draw their entrants from the same regional thoroughbred population, they have to cooperate to reduce the quantity of racing in the region.
Thoughtful people within the region understand this — even the ones on opposite sides of the racing wars in Maryland. "Our biggest challenge is that we need to look at the product regionally," said Alan Foreman, general counsel of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association. "I think it's something we have to look at seriously," Chuckas said.
— Pimlico runs a two-month meeting from mid-March through the Preakness.
— Monmouth (N.J.) opens after the Preakness and runs through Labor Day.
— Maryland resumes racing in September and October. (Ideally this racing would be on Laurel's excellent turf course, but if it's unfeasible to keep two tracks in operation, the site would have to be Pimlico).
— Parx conducts a winter meeting from November to March.
— Colonial Downs (Va.) and Delaware divide the period between April and September, running concurrently with Maryland and New Jersey, the only time when two major tracks would operate simultaneously.
A solution along these lines is the only answer for restoring the health of the sport in Maryland and the region, yet it's unlikely to happen, partly because the industry has no strong leadership and partly because horsemen will resist. Horsemen who compete for purses subsidized by slot money want as many racing opportunities as they can get. They have no economic incentive to care about the quality of the product. If fans don't watch or bet the races, the slot money is still there.
The pitfall of such thinking is that hard-pressed state governments are already starting to ask why they should spend millions of dollars to support a moribund sport. In Annapolis's discussions of the Maryland subsidy, Foreman said, many legislators "expressed their disgust with our business." Track owners and horsemen can't count on the support of politicians indefinitely. They had better start cooperating and finding a way to save horse racing without public subsidies.


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2098 Zyskin eller 1972 QE är en asteroid i huvudbältet som upptäcktes den 18 augusti 1972 av den sovjetisk-ryska astronomen Ljudmila Zjuravljova vid Krims astrofysiska observatorium på Krim. Den har fått sitt namn efter Lev Zyskin.

Asteroiden har en diameter på ungefär 12 kilometer.

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Astronomiska upptäckter av L Zjuravljova
Astronomiska upptäckter 1972

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HollySys Participated in the Thomson-East Coast Line Stage 1 Opening
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22 Jan HollySys Participated in the Thomson-East Coast Line Stage 1 Opening
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On 11 January 2020, HollySys participated in the official opening of the Thomson-East Coast Line Stage 1 that consists of Woodlands North, Woodlands and Woodlands South stations. Officiating the ceremony was Singapore Minister for Transport Khaw Boon Wan.
HollySys is proud to be cordially invited with our CEO-Dr. Tan Yong Tsong, representing the company for the occasion.
HollySys CEO Dr.Tan (left) greeting Minister for Transport Mr. Khaw Boon Wan (right)
Invitees took a tour of the three new stations in Woodlands, Singapore
HollySys SCADA system in operation at Woodlands station multi-function terminal.
The Thomson-East Coast Line
The Thomson-East Coast Line will be Singapore's sixth and newest MRT line with 31 underground stations over a distance of 43KM, the longest in the island state. The line will be equipped with HollySys's MACS-SCADA V4 that controls the Central Management System, Depot Control System, Station Management System, Communications Network System, Plant Management System and Training & Development System.


As a Coordinator on the Credit Bureau Operations team, you will be responsible for reviewing customer accounts and determining the validity of a wide variety of consumer credit reporting disputes and inquiries. In this role, you must maintain a high degree of knowledge of consumer lending rules and regulations and be particularly well versed with the FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act). You will work with management to identify and resolve any issues found during QA processes or consumer disputes.


Tiddlywinks is a social group for parents /carers and toddlers run by members of Hawkwell Parish Church at Emmanuel.
Tiddlywinks is a fun, safe place where pre-school children can play with toys, relate to other children and learn through a variety of creative play experiences.
In each session the craft and story are based on a Christian theme. We believe that knowing Jesus' love in our lives is important at every age and stage of life. Refreshments for Moms and children are included.
There are places available in both sessions beginning in January.
For the up to date programme and notices click here.
Once a term we have a special session usually at Christmas and Easter which is more structured but packed full of fun, and various learning experiences for parents and children to do together. It is based on a Bible theme which is expanded using visual aids, drama, games, craft and toys.
This has been a very popular session for parents and children alike.


Donald Trump remains television-ratings gold, even for his detractors. During the 2016-2017 broadcast season, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert pulled ahead of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in total viewers-- CBS 's first win in late night since 1995. Both funny men build their opening monologues around political zingers, but Colbert regularly adds more partisan bite.
Whether or not CBS shareholders are laughing they're certainly profiting. CBS looks likely to end so-called upfront advertising talks with higher dollar commitments than last year, according to reports in Variety and other show business publications. The results, which buck investor fears of a slowdown, appear to come from gains in late night and CBS This Morning, with a flat performance in primetime.
In a cover story last fall, we argued that CBS stock (ticker: CBS) could advance 30% in a year without a rumored merger with Viacom (VIAB), whereas Viacom is more dependent on a deal (see "Will CBS Buy Viacom?"). Merger talks went nowhere. CBS has gained 23% since our story, versus 13% for the Standard & Poor's 500 and a 3% decline for Viacom, not counting dividends. But shares actually peaked in early April at around $70 before declining to a recent $62.55. That's a fresh buying opportunity.
Investors seem worried that traditional television faces an existential crisis. Our thesis on CBS was that it holds a strong hand in a turbulent market. Cable television is leaking subscribers to over-the-top services like Netflix (NFLX), and cable companies are responding with so-called skinny bundles, which offer fewer channels for less money. That's a key risk for expensive or little-watched channels. CBS, however, has dominated primetime ratings for years, and its programming sells cheaply to cable companies relative to the number of viewers it attracts.
CBS also has over-the-top offerings of its own: CBS All Access and Showtime Anytime, which cable-dodgers can pay to watch over the internet. So CBS looks likely to benefit from rising fees from cable companies and a growing pool of direct subscription revenue. Plus, all those streaming services need popular shows to buy, and CBS has plenty to sell.
So far, so good. Around the time CBS stock peaked in April, the company was expected to earn $4.38 a share this year. As the stock price has moved lower, the earnings consensus has crept higher, to a recent $4.42 a share. As we enter the second half of the year, CBS has some promising opportunities. One is another Trump-related cash-in, but for different reasons. Last fall, TV viewers were so mesmerized by the Make America Great Again candidate that they did something Americans rarely do: watched less football. This year, CBS faces easy ratings comparisons for games. Likewise, with no Olympics to go up against this August, viewership should compare favorably.
UBS analyst Doug Mitchelson pointed out in a note this week that the launch of a new Star Trek series in September could give a boost to CBS All Access subscriptions; the show will be exclusive to the streaming service. He sees shares hitting $78 in a year, for 24% more upside. Michael Morris at Guggenheim Securities, who calls CBS the best-positioned media company, notes that it has three popular shows to shop for syndication--Madam Secretary, NCIS: New Orleans and Scorpion--with almost 200 episodes altogether. Morris predicts two will sell this year and one next year. He, too, sees shares hitting $78. Meanwhile, the recent advertising lift seems to have caught analysts by surprise.
Shares still seem attractively priced at 14 times this year's earnings estimates, especially because earnings are seen growing at a mid-teens rate through the end of the decade.
Donald Trump remains television-ratings gold, even for his detractors.


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Tallahassee, FL - Today, the Florida House voted 77-40 to ban transgender girls from playing sports alongside their peers. The vote comes just hours after transgender students and advocates held a press conference in the Florida Capitol highlighting the disparate impacts of discrimination on the transgender community and underscoring how these bills threaten the state's economic recovery from COVID-19. Despite fierce bipartisan opposition from lawmakers across the country, professional and collegiate sporting organizations including the Miami HEAT and Misfits Gaming Group, world-renowned athletes, faith leaders, legal scholars, medical professionals, over 65 major corporations, and the very experts that bill sponsors cite as justification, the ban now heads to the Senate where its companion (SB 2012) has one remaining committee stop.
"All eyes are on the Florida Senate to stop this cruel legislation and protect the transgender youth this bill vilifies," said Jon Harris Maurer, Public Policy Director for Equality Florida. "If this bill passes, it would be the first anti-LGBTQ bill to pass the Florida Legislature in 23 years and could send shockwaves through an economic recovery dependent on conventions, events, sports, and tourism. We know this is a nationally-coordinated attack fueled by far right anti-LGBTQ organizations, and the Florida House has taken the bait. The Florida Senate must hear the voices of transgender kids and reject this state-sanctioned discrimination."
"This legislation has no basis in facts, and legislators across the country have neglected to name any examples of the sky falling based on transgender athletes' participation in youth sports," said Human Rights Campaign State Legislative Director and Senior Counsel Cathryn Oakley. "That's because those examples simply don't exist, and athletic organizations have welcomed transgender athletes' participation for years without incident. Anti-equality legislators should realize that while there is no problem here, there are serious issues that need addressing in Florida, like the pandemic and its economic impact. They should focus on addressing the challenges that are actually facing Florida and leave transgender kids alone."
House Democrats, led by LGBTQ members State Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith (HD-49) and Representative Michele Rayner-Goolsby (HD-70), waged a heroic, hours-long effort on Tuesday to illustrate the inevitable damage of this bill, filing 19 amendments to the bill during its second reading. Proposed amendments ranged from codifying the current policies for transgender athlete inclusion from the NCAA and Florida High School Athletics Association, eliminating forced genital inspections of school-age children, allowing for birth certificates as proof of gender identity, and blocking the use of public funds to cover an inevitable legal challenge should the bill pass. All were defeated, largely along party lines.
On Monday, the NCAA released a statement in support of transgender athletes and affirming its position that "when determining where championships are held, NCAA policy directs that only locations where hosts can commit to providing an environment that is safe, healthy and free of discrimination should be selected." This policy threatens to strip Florida of its 50 scheduled championship events, with expected revenue of at least $75million, over the next five years should a ban on transgender athletes become law in the state.
"We know the consequences when states pass anti-LGBTQ laws and signal that they aren't open for all. States like North Carolina, Texas and Georgia have lost billions in revenue from lost conventions, canceled tournaments and boycotts," added Maurer. "This is deeply harmful to trans youth and threatens our economy. We hope the Senate is listening."


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DI Nick Dixon: Book #6
By: Damien Boyd
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
The highly anticipated sixth book in the bestselling DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.
The body of an elderly man is found in an abandoned World War Two pillbox beside the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. With no obvious motive and no credible suspect, DI Nick Dixon starts digging into the victim's past.
The more he digs, the deeper Dixon is drawn into a case that takes him from the cave systems beneath rural Somerset to the heart of government, and threatens to expose a military cover-up at the highest level.
Blocked by a wall of silence, Dixon must unravel a dangerous conspiracy before the killer strikes again.
DI Nick Dixon Series
As the Crow Flies
Damien Boyd
Rock climbers can't afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon's former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge seconds before Jake fell.
The more Dixon learns about Jake's life,... Read more »
Head in the Sand
The discovery of a severed head in a golf course bunker triggers a frantic race to find a serial killer that brings the town of Burnham-on-Sea to a standstill.
A connection is made with a series of unsolved murders harking back to the 1970s, and Detective Inspector Nick Dixon finds himself caught in a race against time that takes him the length... Read more »
A trainee jockey has been kicked to death by an aggressive stallion at the local stables. Deemed an accidental death, the case is closed. But when the jockey's brother returns from active service, he sparks an armed siege, demanding the investigation be re-opened and the truth uncovered.
Still recovering from the physical and mental scars of his... Read more »
Swansong
Isobel Swan, a sixth form student, has been murdered. First, her ring finger is severed, then her throat is cut.
With the investigation going nowhere fast, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is sent undercover as a trainee teacher into Isobel's boarding school.
But to find the killer, he must first confront his inner demons and lay to rest the ghosts... Read more »
In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the wife of parliamentary candidate Tom Perry is brutally murdered in an apparent burglary gone wrong.
With the by-election campaign about to start in earnest, and the festive season in full swing, torrential rain brings with it flood warnings on the Somerset Levels.
Suspended on full pay and transferred to the... Read more »
The more he digs, the deeper Dixon is drawn into a... Read more »
The highly anticipated seventh novel in the bestselling DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.
A man has been mutilated and left to drown on the incoming tide, handcuffed in his van. With the murder bearing a striking resemblance to a string of sadistic killings carried out with surgical precision in 1990s gangland Manchester, it can mean only one thing:... Read more »
Dead Lock
Early on a cold Somerset morning, ten year old Alesha Daniels is reported missing by her father, a violent alcoholic. Her mother, a known drug addict, is found unconscious, but it's her mother's boyfriend the police are keen to trace.
As the hunt for Alesha gathers pace, a second local girl is taken, plunging another family into the depths of... Read more »
DI Nick Dixon is on the hunt for a vicious serial killer, following a trail of fingerprints and DNA across west Somerset.
When the body of a young woman is found on the building site of a nuclear power station, work grinds to a halt. The body bears all the hallmarks of yet another random murder at the hands of the escaped killer. Then Dixon finds... Read more »
Author Damien Boyd
Narrator Napoleon Ryan
Publication date October 4, 2016
Genre rank #12,631 in Mystery & Thriller


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Mironid Announces Additional Non-Dilutive Funding Through an Early Stage Award from Innovate UK's Biomedical Catalyst 2016
Glasgow, Scotland, 30th January 2017: Mironid® Limited, a leader in cell signalling-directed drug discovery, is delighted to start the New Year by initiating a £606K programme to expand its repertoire of proprietary LoAc® molecules. The work will be 70% funded by the UK's innovation agency,…
Sirakoss Announces Two New Patents Granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, January 10, 2017 – SIRAKOSS Ltd., a UK-based medical device company developing innovative bone grafting solutions for the $3 billion global orthopaedic market, has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted two patents for its bone graft…
Eternygen GmbH Closes € 8.0 million (US$ 8.3m) Series A Financing Led by Epidarex Capital
Berlin, Germany, 09 January 2017 – Eternygen GmbH, a privately owned Berlin-based metabolic diseases company, today announced the completion of its € 8.0 (approx. US$ 8.3) million Series A funding round. Epidarex Capital led the round, and Evotec AG participated together with a consortium of investors…
Mironid is Delighted to Announce that Dr. George Muller Has Joined Our Scientific Advisory Board
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O Aeroporto de Monte Verde é um aeroporto no município de Camanducaia, em Minas Gerais. É considerado o de maior altitude no Brasil. Em geral, a pista 09 é utilizada para pousos e a 27 para decolagens, devido a grande diferença de altitudes entre as cabeceiras.

O aeroporto é considerado de Categoria 4 e não há empresas aéreas operando voos regulares.

O NOTAM específico pode ser consultado no site do Serviço de Informação Aeronáutica do Departamento de Controle do Espaço Aéreo através do NOF: SBBR / SERIE: F / NUMERAÇÃO: 2229 / ANO:2014.

O aeródromo privado de Monte Verde (SNEJ) foi excluído do cadastro de aeródromos pela portaria ANAC Nº 3037/SIA, fechando-o ao tráfego aéreo a partir de 5 de março de 2015.

Dados do aeroporto
Coordenadas: 22 51 34S/046 02 14W
Altitude : 1555m (5102 pés)
Pista: terra com 1100m x 30m
Frequência de coordenação: 123.45 MHz
Distância do centro da cidade: 500m
Cabeceiras: 09 /27

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Newest Medal of Honor recipient eliminated 11 threats during 'house of nightmares' mission, saved his unit from massacre
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Corey Dickstein Stars and Stripes Pinned down inside a pitch-black, insurgent-filled house in the early days of the second battle of Fallujah, Staff Sgt....
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Pinned down inside a pitch-black, insurgent-filled house in the early days of the second battle of Fallujah, Staff Sgt. David Bellavia grabbed a heavy M249 automatic machine gun from another soldier and charged forward into oncoming fire from enemy fighters hunkered down in a stairwell.
The enemy fighters froze, ducking away from Bellavia's fire just long enough for his squad to escape the building and regroup outside. Moments later, with his fellow soldiers outside, the infantryman from Buffalo, N.Y, burst back into the building — eventually killing four insurgents and gravely wounding another.
Nearly 15 years later, Bellavia stood stoically Tuesday as President Donald Trump placed the Medal of Honor around his neck for his actions that night — Nov. 10, 2004, his 29th birthday. The former infantryman who left the Army in 2005 never cracked a smile during the White House ceremony, sharing only telling nods with more than a dozen of the men with whom he served. Along with his family, the men joined him on the East Room stage and a packed audience roared and applauded.
Many of those men would not have made it to the White House on Tuesday if it were not for Bellavia and his "exceptional courage to protect his men and defend our nation," against an enemy "that would have killed them all had it not been for David," Trump said.
After the ceremony, Bellavia described the experience as "overwhelming."
"I served with some of the greatest men I have ever met in my entire life" in Iraq, he told reporters at the White House. "I am proud to be an Iraq War veteran … This entire thing — I can't even comprehend it."
Bellavia is the first living American to receive the Medal of Honor for actions in the Iraq War. The honor is an upgrade of the Silver Star that Bellavia initially received for his actions that day. He is only the sixth servicemember to receive the nation's highest military honor for actions in Iraq.
For Bellavia, that day of the brutal house-to-house battle that would stretch into December does not especially stick out in his mind. He has better recall of other skirmishes during the battle when his unit felt outnumbered, when there were so many enemy fighters that it was difficult to choose where to point his M-16 rifle. He recalls the days that he lost his fellow soldiers — Command Sgt. Maj. Steven Faulkenburg who died one day before his solo charge into the building and Capt. Sean Sims, 1st Lt. Edward Iwan and Sgt. James Matteson who were killed three days later.
"It's the weirdest thing," Bellavia said Monday. "I never in a million years thought I would be talking about this day for the rest of my life."
Soldiers who fought alongside him that day tell a different story. That fight is firmly entrenched in the minds of Maj. Joaquin Meno and retired Sgt. 1st Class Colin Fitts, who credit Bellavia's actions with saving the lives of much of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company that day.
"Definitely heroic," Meno, at the time a first lieutenant and 3rd Platoon's leader, said of Bellavia. He added the soldier's action that day live on "in the hearts of everyone" in the 1st Infantry Division who talk about them often.
"If it were not for David Bellavia, I would not be sitting here today," Fitts said. "I am certain of that. I am extremely humbled and appreciative of him."
Just days into the second battle to retake the key city of Fallujah back from al-Qaida militants, Bellavia's unit was tasked with a pre-dawn mission to clear a block of 12 buildings, a task meant to support other soldiers fighting door-to-door nearby.
"It was a very dangerous operation," Trump said, describing the events.
Bellavia anticipated a firefight. Intelligence showed at least six — if not more — enemy fighters were holed up in the buildings. They cleared the first nine structures without incident. But within moments of entering the 10th building, heavy machine gun fire let loose.
It was an ambush.
"Guys were inside trying to take cover," Meno recalled. "Rounds were coming from inside, and from outside [a] window, breaking glass. It's chaos. It's almost pitch-black."
One soldier was wounded when a round grazed his face. Two others suffered minor lacerations as glass shattered around them, according to Army documents.
Bellavia took it upon himself to act. He grabbed the M249, moved forward and squeezed the belt-fed, automatic weapon's trigger until it would not fire anymore.
After he and the others exited, Bellavia re-entered the building without any other soldiers — tailed only by Michael Ware, an embedded journalist who followed the soldier into the "darkened nightmare of a house," where he encountered insurgents loading a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, according to his award citation. Bellavia rushed forward, killing the insurgent and wounding another.
Bellavia moved into a second room, eventually killing the wounded insurgent before moving toward a stairway where another militant was firing at him. After taking out the third enemy fighter, Bellavia eventually moved up the stairs to the house's second floor where a fourth fighter was killed with a hand grenade.
Upon learning that Bellavia had re-entered the structure, Fitts recalled thinking his friend had made a crazy decision.
"I did not know he was going to do that. If I had known he was going to do that, I would have asked him not to," the retired soldier said. "Which is why he is such a hero. Because nobody should be in that position or put themselves in that position, and that's what sets him apart."
In the weeks after Bellavia's actions, Meno and then-Capt. Douglas Walter, their company commander, huddled to begin gathering evidence to submit Bellavia for the Medal of Honor.
"This was different than anything I had seen," Walter, now a colonel, said of his decision to submit his soldier for the nation's highest military honor. "It stood out. The more I went through it, the more I was convinced that he had saved the lives of a squad."
Walter said he was not sure why the award was eventually downgraded to a Silver Star, but he felt "a little bit of vindication" when he learned in December of the upgrade, a product of a Pentagon review ordered in 2016 of all high-level, post-9/11 valor awards.
"It's a little overwhelming, a little surreal," the colonel said. "We worked hard on it, and I thought he was deserving."
Helping the Army
For Bellavia, the recognition and the publicity that surrounds the Medal of Honor mean his life is about to change.
Being singled out, he said, is "awkward." Bellavia chooses to focus on the friends he lost fighting in Iraq and the families those men left behind.
For him, the awards also means a career change, which will include an assignment back with the Army "for however long they will take me."
The 43-year-old father of three has spent recent years as a conservative talk radio host in his native Buffalo. A Republican, he has sought office, running unsuccessfully in 2012 for New York's 27th Congressional District. Local reports indicate he was considered a likely candidate for the same seat in 2020.
But, for now, Bellavia said Monday, those ambitions and his talk radio show will be set aside as he uses his new recognition to benefit the Army with a focus on reaching out to young Americans to convince them being a soldier is a good option that gave him "purpose and direction."
"I'm forever grateful to the United States Army," he said. "I want to be of service to my Army. I want to bring as many young men and women to join the military as possible."
Instead of politics, Bellavia wants to focus on bringing people together.
"When you look at a dog tag, there's basic information that you put on there, and political party isn't part of it," he said. "All throughout our history, we have had people that have dissented, that have disagreed, and we've found ways to put everything aside and focus on what's best for this nation, what's best for mission success."
For now, he said Tuesday, he is grateful for the Medal of Honor because it has allowed him to reconnect with some of the men he served with 15 years earlier, and with the families whose servicemembers never made it home from that long deployment in Iraq.
"I never thought I would see love on a battlefield," Bellavia said. "It's horrible, it's ghastly, and it's ghoulish. But you see people doing these things for each other that they would never, ever do in any other circumstance — it's a sight to see."
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J.J.Rousseau would highly appreciate the idea of this secluded and lofted forest home designed by HSWSG, suspended amongst the tree canopy.
However, the execution is an exercise of modern technological virtuosity, with the wood and metal box supported by thin metal stilts with diagonal tension rods.
A long and nauseating ascension on a steel staircase leads to the lower deck, see-through from beneath since it is plastered with thin and staggered wood elements – a vast empty space consisting of just structure and the influence of the sights and forces of nature, suitable for meditation, as appropriate for a Japanese home.
The actual home is wrapped in a corrugated steel cage, completely furnished with wood in a relaxing hue, equipped with bathroom, bedroom, kitchen and living rooms with broad views of the forest.


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Counting Down Trump's Litany of Lies
Lori Hanes
Donald Trump gave quite the press conference following election results Tuesday night.
Instead of focusing on the election, Trump spent an exorbitant amount of time and energy defending a bunch of past business ventures and products with his name on them. The problem? They don't exist. You won't find any Trump Steaks, Trump Water, Trump Magazine or Trump Vodka — they're all failed products, no longer available for purchase.
"It's really crazy," Glenn said on radio Wednesday. "You're going to be president of the United States and you're lying about your fake meat products?"
It might seem impossible to keep up with Trump's litany of lies, but Glenn managed to identify at least ten from Tuesday's press conference alone. He laid them out on his TV show Wednesday night.
Lie #1: Trump Beats Hillary in the Polls
Donald: "If I win and if I get to go against Hillary, polls are showing that I beat her."
Wrong. Trump is the only candidate actually losing in polls against Hillary. Cruz beats her. Rubio beats her. Even Kasich destroys Hillary. There are only two polls out of dozens we found that show Trump ahead.
Lies #2 and #3: Mitt Romney Said Trump Water in His Speech / Trump Water Exists
Donald: "And Mitt got up, and he really shouldn't have done it . . . and he talked about the water company, well there's the water company, and we sell water and we have water and it's a very successful, you know, it's a private little water company and I supply the water for all my places . . . and it's good, but it's very good."
First of all, Romney never mentioned a Trump water company in his speech. Secondly, Trump Water doesn't exist. The bottles displayed at Trump's press conference were produced by the Village Springs Corporation, which private labels water for clients. Having another water company place your label on their product is not the same thing as owning your own water company.
Lie #4: Trump Steaks Exists
Donald: "We have Trump Steaks."
Trump Steaks once sold products at the Sharper Image, but they've been discontinued. Trump Steaks are not available to purchase because they don't exist. The steaks displayed at Trump's press conference had the Bush Brothers label on them. Trump didn't even bother to have his staff remove the other company's label.
Lie #5: Trump Magazine Exists
Donald: "We have Trump Magazine . . . He said Trump Magazine is out, and I said, 'It is? I thought I read one two days ago.'"
Trump Magazine closed shop in 2009. Donald Trump pays another company to publish an annual edition every year that is placed in his hotels. It is not his business. He doesn't own it. Additionally, the publication held up at Trump's press conference — The Jewel of Palm Beach — is not a magazine, it's a thick brochure like you'd find in a hotel room.
Lie #6: Trump Airlines Was Sold in a Great Deal
Donald: "The airline, by the way, I sold the airline, you know, he said 'Trump Airline,' well I sold the airline, and I actually made a great deal, complicated, and in really terrible times, the economy was horrible, and I made a phenomenal deal."
Trump Airlines wasn't sold in a "complicated way." It was quite simple. The bank essentially "repossessed" the company because Trump defaulted on payments. He lost over a hundred million dollars.
Lie #7: Three People Love Trump University
Donald: "Three people were saying, 'Oh, it was so terrible.' The reason I didn't settle, everyone of these people . . . we sent their letters out, their report cards, their report cards were all excellent, beautiful statements. 'We love it.' You can't settle cases when the person suing you has given you letters, and in some cases tapes, saying how great it is."
Trump recently took to his website to bully three people filing suit against Trump University, naming them each online. One of the three has left the lawsuit because she doesn't want to be a part of the media circus — she's afraid of Donald Trump. He tries to make the case that their positive reviews make them look like hypocrites or even liars, just out to make a buck. But here's what he won't tell you. Those "report cards" were filled out at the beginning of their classes, when Trump University was free. After the awesome "free" part, they had to pay $7,000 and then $35,000 to keep going. At that point, they realized Trump University was a total scam.
Trump also claims the university is "on hold" until the lawsuits are over, but the state of New York prefers the words "cease and desist." They sent Trump University a cease and desist letter when they found out he was using the term "university" without a license — which is illegal. The multiple state investigations and class action lawsuits should help keep Trump University "on hold."
Lie #8: Trump Doesn't Settle Lawsuits
Donald: "I don't settle lawsuits — very rare — because once you settle lawsuits everybody sues you."
This one took some serious research to disprove. Staff members spent several minutes on Google to learn that Trump settled out of court with a New Hampshire man that sued him over age discrimination against older contestants who wanted to be on The Apprentice. Frivolous, to be sure, but Trump did settle out of court. American Dream Festival also filed a lawsuit for breach of contract and sexual harassment regarding a beauty contest that was to be held in one of his hotels. Rather than fight it, Trump settled out of court.
Lie #9: Trump Vodka Exists
Donald: "[Romney] mentioned Trump Vodka."
Instead of talking about vodka, Trump talked about the water and the wine that Mitt Romney never mentioned. Trump Vodka was started in 2008 and died less than two years later — it just wasn't selling. But there is still one client that has Trump Vodka available to its customers — and that's any Trump hotel. There were boxes and boxes of Trump Vodka when the company went under, so he sold it to himself.
Lie #10: Trump's Great Company Has No Debt
Donald: "I built a great, great company. I have very low debt. I have assets like this (hands spread wide). This is owned 100 percent by me with no debt."
He's talking about Doral in Florida. Now we can't verify most of these claims until he releases his tax returns (which will never happen because he's in trouble), but we were able to check into one claim. He implied that Doral was among his debt-free properties. In truth, he actually has two very large mortgages on Doral. His filings with the FEC shows he owes $265 million in debt. We'll only know for sure when and if he releases his taxes.
Then there were two "unofficial lies" Glenn highlighted.
(Unofficial) Lie #11: Never Have so Many Horrible Things Been Said of Trump in One Week
Donald: "I don't think I've ever had so many horrible, horrible things said about me in one week."
Since that's subjective — only Donald Trump knows Donald Trump's worst week — it doesn't make the official count. However, arguably, there have been other weeks one might consider contenders:
• The week in 1990 when Vanity Fair destroyed him about an affair with a Penthouse Pet
• The week that he filed for bankruptcy in 1991
But let's not get nit picky here.
Finally, (Unofficial) Lie #12: Trump Is a Very Good Christian
Donald: "I'm a very good Christian."
"I'm going to try to cover this in the most loving way possible," Glenn said. "Because I don't think it's a lie per se, I just don't think he understands Christianity at all."
Only Donald Trump knows what's on his heart, so it's not our place to judge. And there's this other guy – God – that typically is the one that judges people.
What does stands out about Donald Trump's comments, though, is when he says he's going to be the best thing that's ever happened to Christians. The whole point of Christianity is that no one is perfect – no one. Only Jesus is perfect, and he died on the cross for our sins. It's called the Good News. That is the best thing that's ever happened to Christians. And no person could ever top that.
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I am at the top of the list in the Fan Writer category on both of them.
My work on Appendix N is singled out in the Best Related Work category on both lists.
The Castalia House blog is recommended for Best Fanzine, Morgan (Castalia House's resident scholar of all things pulp) is put forward for Best Fan Writer, and Castalia House columnist Daniel Eness made Best Related Work, all on Rabid Puppies.
Finally, there are now many gamers and game blogs on both lists. Zenopus Archives is on the Rabid Puppies Fan Writer list. Winchell Chung (the artist that created the iconic look for Steve Jackson's Ogre Mark V) is down for Best Related Work on Sad Puppies. Ron Edwards and Charles Akins are both down for Best Fan Writer on Sad Puppies. Traveller creator Marc Miller is down for Best Novel on Rabid Puppies. And as I pointed out when I reviewed Ctrl Alt Revolt, Nick Cole is something of a gamer's gamer; he is down for Best Novella on Rabid Puppies.
You know, I have to say… making the Puppies lists for Best Related Work was a real shock for me. That's just not something that ever even occurred to me as being a possibility. Maybe it's a bit ironic, but it's actually humbling to have even a modest number of people think that well of me. I honestly don't know what else to say, but "thank you." So: thank you!
Earlier this year on the Superversive Livestream, L. Jagi Lamplighter wondered what it must have been like for me to be writing about Appendix N and then have it blow up as much as it has. ("Imagine that you were Jeffro…!" Heh.) Now, how it's blown up has been very surprising– not to mention entertaining as wall. But to tell you the truth, I never had any doubt that this was a really significant story that would be of interest to all kinds of people outside of the game blogging scene.
I just thought it was crazy that so little had been written about the topic. (Though to be fair, James Maliszewski had written rather more than I was aware of at the start.) It seemed obvious that there needed to be a book on the subject for the sort of people that would read Jon Peterson's Playing at The World, Lewis Pulsipher's Game Design, and/or James Lowder's Hobby Games: The 100 Best. And the further along I got in the process, the more surprised I was that no one had taken the time to do it before.
While I had no idea where exactly the series would ultimately lead me, I was certain that a great deal of the best sff writing on the internet was being done by game masters digging into the origins of vintage rpgs. The fact that people in the sff scene were largely unaware of it looked like a golden opportunity. I thought that if someone could take what they were doing, buckle down and put together a book length work on the topic that non-gamers could conceivably read, then… well… something would happen.
And here we are. My supersized gameblog posts have (incredibly to me) inspired the creation of Cirsova, a new semi-pro sff 'zine dedicated to creating new fiction of the sort that I have spent the past year and a half rediscovering. I am (as of January) blog editor over at Castalia House. And people kibitzing about the Hugos right now are talking about the literary antecedents for the Dual Brain mutation in Gamma World. For a guy that set out merely to share his love of Car Wars with the rest of world, this is a real trip.
As to the controversy surrounding the Hugos, I get that a lot of people want to talk about that but really, I just don't have too much to say that hasn't already been said on the topic. Several people have suggested that we would better off writing about the books we love rather than fussing and fighting so much. And while I have a small stockpile of popcorn laid back for the coming months, I will say that I'm fairly well in agreement with that sentiment. Certainly, that attitude motivated me to write as many books reviews and game session reports as I did the past couple of years.
But there is far more going on than I or even the rest of the Castalia House bloggers can keep up with. We really could use some help! Whether you are interested in delving into the history of science fiction and fantasy or whether you have a review of a book or game that nobody's talking about but which people should be discussing… we want to see what you can do. So if you've got something along the lines of Penny Kenny's take on Legend of the Galactic Heroes or Warren Abox's piece on En Garde! or even Misha Burnett's ambitious Appendix X series… please talk to me about doing a guest post.
Because that's another thing I've heard critics of the Puppies saying: that it's a shame that the Sad Puppies process only ran for a few months; it should be a year round thing… and it should go beyond a mere recommendation with a handful of "amens"! Well, the Castalia House blog can be something like that– for the sort of people that are more interested in books than they are in the fandom wars. As a reader or a writer, I invite you to join us as we dig into the works people are going to be talking about next year. I think it's going to be a lot of fun.
In a real way, Appendix N led to Violent Resolution, as well.
Well, we all know how that is gonna turn out. Not the rpg design book that I wanted, but rather… total rpg heresy! I may never get over it….
If this is a post about puppies then why is there a picture of an alien at the top?
It's a Kree disguised as a pug!
Congrats on your nominations…well deserved brother.
Thanks and congratulations to you as well…!


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Bollywood's mid-year report card: 10 promising directors of 2013
Movies | IBNlive | July 4, 2013, 2:43 pm
Debutant director Mrighdeep Singh Lamba brought alive a lower middle class locality of West Delhi on screen in 'Fukrey'. Even though the film did not feature any major star, it managed to strike a chord with the audience. Simplistic approach and hilarious story made 'Fukrey' a surprise hit this year.
Subhash Kapoor's 'Jolly LLB' had its humour intact, even though the film dealt with some grave issues plaguing our society. A satire on the Indian Judiciary, the film gave an all round perspective to how things go horribly wrong in our country and how everyone is equally at fault for the breakdown of the system.
The biggest credit of filmmaker Anand L Rai is that he knew eaxctly which actor to cast in which character for 'Raanjhanaa' and that made the film work brilliantly. South superstar Dhanush's debut hindi film made people believe in love all over again. Rai also managed to make the audience romanticize about Benares.
A hilarious film about a missing maruti and the boisterous Punjabis made 'Mere Dad Ki Maruti' a surprise hit of the year. Director Ashima Chibber was able to capture the Punjabi culture to the hilt and managed to put a smile on the viewers face.
From new age zombie films, to quintessential love story, directors gave an interesting palate of films this year. Here is a look at the top 10 directors who showed promise.
One of those rare films, where audience felt the film was better than the book. Director Abhishek Kapoor had already proved his mettle with 'Rock On' and 'Kai Po Che', which is based on Chetan Bhagat's 'The 3 Mistakes Of My Life', reaffirmed the fact that Kapoor was a gifted storyteller. Shot in real locations of Gujarat with backdrop of the riots that took place in 2002 in the state, the film narrated the story of friendship, religion and politics.
When a rank newcomer Neeraj Pandey made 'A Wednesday', critics and audiences alike got and took notice of this talented filmmaker. Expectations were high when his second film 'Special 26' starring Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpai and Anupam Kher released and Pandey did not disappoint one bit. A heist film, 'Special 26' was based on real life incidents that took place in 1980s in India. Brilliant performances, tight script and racy narrative made Pandey second film a wonderful watch.
'Ek Thi Dayan' may have received mix response at the Box Office, but its director Kanan Iyer, who made his debut as a filmmaker was duly noted for his work. The first half was brilliantly executed but it was the second half that marred the otherwise good film.
Who would have thought a intense story about love and loss would strike a chord with the young generation? But Mohit Suri managed to make the youth believe and fall in love deeper with 'Ashiqui 2'. The director who has earlier directed thrillers for the Bhatt, managed to deliver a 100 crore film with rank newcomers, which in itself is a feat to achieve.
Even though the second half of 'Go Goa Gone' faltered, the witty one liners made this film a winner. Director duo DK and Raj gave the Zombies a funny twist and Saif a blonde look. End result: A hilarious film about rave parties, drugs and disoriented youth of the country.
27 year old Ayan Mukherjee's first film 'Wake Up Sid' was a coming of age film which struck a chord with cine lovers even though it did not really fall into the bracket of a commecial cinema. His second film, 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani' was a typical Hindi film love story which had all the ingredients that are needed to make a film a blockbuster. And it was just that. Having earned Rs 182 crore at the Box Office, YJHD is bone of the biggest blockbuster of all time. And yes, Mukerji has clearly shown that he knows what it takes to make a film a hit.
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Bollywood Stars Party With World's Richest Man, Jeff Bezos
Railway Union Protests in Ahmedabad Ahead of Tejas Express Flag-off; 30 Detained
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Steve Kornacki: This Is 'the Best Run of Polls Democrats Have Had in These Key Races'
'It's the best run of polls Democrats have had in these key races'
SCARBOROUGH: "The old politician in me, I'd always tell everybody that worked for me, I'd say, 'Don't look at the numbers, look at the trends, all that matter are the trends.' And it is. All those upshot polls, I have noticed a slight Democratic trend over the past four or five days."
KORNACKI: "And I think it might even be more than slight. If I was just looking at those polls —"
SCARBOROUGH: "I'm sort of — I'm trying to —"
KORNACKI: "I think I'm having the same reaction as you. Because if I just looked at those polls, that is the best run of polls. They've been doing this for more than a month now, it's the best run of polls Democrats have had in these key races. There was one in particular, a Trump district, exurban Illinois, Randy Hultgren, Republican incumbent, falling six points behind in their poll. That's a district Republicans thought they were going to win."
Bloomberg: 'Questionable' Hillary's Benghazi Emails Were to Personal Accounts
Thune on Pompeo Obstruction: 'The Democrats Have Taken It To a Whole New Level'
RNC Chair: 'It's Just So Politically Calculating What the Democrats Have Done' To Kavanaugh
Rep. Comstock: Billionaire Mike Bloomberg Is Helping Fund My Dem Opponent to Raises Taxes on the Middle Class
Schumer: 'We Democrats Have Serious, Principled Concerns About Judge Gorsuch'


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Labor party volunteers listen to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten at a rally in Sydney.
Patients waiting for urgent elective surgery will go under the knife faster if Labor wins the federal election.
Bill Shorten's $250 million waiting list blitz will target elective surgery lists in public hospitals around the country.
"Procedures such as knee and hip replacements or cataract surgeries aren't elective - they are essential," the Labor leader said.
Between 2013/14 and 2017/18, the average waiting time nationally across all public hospitals has increased from 36 days to 40 days.
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Mr Shorten is campaigning in southeast Melbourne on Monday, after three days touring Liberal-held seats in NSW.
The Labor leader has targeted Reid in NSW, held by retiring Liberal MP Craig Laundy, and is expected to travel to Liberal MP Jason Wood's seat of La Trobe on Monday.
On Sunday Mr Shorten spoke at a volunteer rally that effectively doubled as a campaign launch, telling Labor members he won't let Australians down.
He told the party faithful he had ripped up the rule book for being in opposition and led from the front with policy decisions.
"We decided we couldn't just sit back and wait for the other side to trip over their own shoe laces," he told the crowd in Sydney on Sunday.
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