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Bird photographer of the year

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Canadian Photographer Patricia Homonylo scooped “The Bird Photographer of the Year Award” for her image titles When Worlds Collide, taken in Toronto which beat more than 23, 000 entries. The photograph showing  more than 4, 000 birds that died colliding with windows and other reflective surfaces in the city. Homonylo said “ Each year more than one billion birds die in North America alone due to collisions with windows. I’m a conservation photojournalist and have been working with the Fatal Light Awareness Program, where we save window-collision survivors in Toronto. Sadly most of the birds we find are already de3ad. … Continue reading Bird photographer of the year

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US banks made $1tn windfall from Fed’s higher rates

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US banks made $1tn windfall profit by failing to pass on to savers the higher interest rates that were kept in place by the Federal Reserve for the past two and half years. Lenders earned higher yields for their deposits at the Fed but kept rates lower for many savers, according the review of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation data. The boost to the country’s in excess of 4, 000 banks has helped increase their profit margin. While rates on some savings accounts were raised in line with the Fed’s target of more than 5 per cent, the majority of depositors, … Continue reading US banks made $1tn windfall from Fed’s higher rates

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Humanity’s deepest desires, fears and hopes

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MacCulloch notes that for the vast majority of people throughout this history, marriage was a “contract between two men” that is between two fathers. And  that “When church weddings did start appearing, patchily, in the fourth century, the Church did not offer them to all the faithful”. Three categories of marriage emerged: the “Glorious ( imperial elite) , the “middle” ( imperial officers), and the “vile” (everyone else), with the vast majority of unions in the last category having no involvement from the Church at all. He rebukes contemporary Christians for asserting that there is a “Christian understanding of marriage” … Continue reading Humanity’s deepest desires, fears and hopes

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Wild Goose

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“ WILD GOOSE” – A NEW NOVEL BY VERY ESTABLISHED WRITER ANDPOET – SALLY EVANS Sally is a poet working in long and formal styles. She was editor of PoetryScotland broadsheet 1997-2018, and hosted the popular Callander Poetry Weekends that ran for nearly 20 years. She has published poetry widely in magazines and books, translated Gaelic poetry, and been a poetry editor of the Scots Language Centre’s website. At Diehard Press, she has edited and published books by many other poets.Sally has read and performed poetry at StAnza, in all the Scottish cities and throughout England, especially the North. She has led workshops … Continue reading Wild Goose

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Harness our inner power

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The Japanese phenomenon that reaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness. How to free yourself, Change your life and achieve real happiness. “Your life is not something that someone gives you, but something you choose yourself. You are the one who decides how you live.” The Courage to Be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of the 19th-century psychology alongside Freud … Continue reading Harness our inner power

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TGI Friday’s UK operator Hostmore, has gone into administration risking 4, 500 jobs

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87 of the chain’s restaurants have been put up for sale as owner Hostmore, a hospitality company, struggles with debt and heavy losses, and hopes to complete the sale by the end of September which would keep the brand running  and help to secure jobs. Hostmore said the American-inspired chain “ continues to operate normally and all existing stores remain open. The sale process remains ongoing, with no decisions having been made  to close any existing stores”. Hostmore also said it had attempted to buy the US operator of TGI Fridays for £177m but that the deal collapsed. PwC the Accountants found … Continue reading TGI Friday’s UK operator Hostmore, has gone into administration risking 4, 500 jobs

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Do you make critical decisions after intuitive and rational thinking?

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Why do we make critical decisions we do? Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, the godfather of behavioural science, whose work on prospect  theory won him a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002, an award he acknowledges he would have shared with collaborator Amos Tversky, had Tversky lived.  Prospect theory means that investors value gains and losses differently, placing more weight on perceived gains than perceived losses. His research come to a conclusion that women make better investors than men because they hold on to their investment  where as men panic and sell when the market dips, thereby missing out on upswings. Kahneman … Continue reading Do you make critical decisions after intuitive and rational thinking?

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Pipeline explosion in Texas

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Firefighters are battling a pipeline explosion which caused pillar of fire in La Porte, near Houston, Texas. The blaze shooting a pillar of fire tens of feet into the sky, igniting adjacent park and power poles. Residents have been urged to evacuate, according to city spokesperson Lee Woodward. The cause of fire remains under investigation. Authorities have said no injuries have been reported as a result of the fire. Continue reading Pipeline explosion in Texas

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Know what Women Want

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Who do you fantasise about when the light are off, when you think about sex, what do you really really want? When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. Sexual fantasies of women from around the world, are all extraordinary, full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and ultimately liberation.  From dreaming about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who … Continue reading Know what Women Want

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Starmer’s wife had £5, 000 worth designer clothes paid for by donor

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EM Foster’s Animal Farm quotes about democracy ” All people are equal but some are more equal than others. A Labour donor has bought  more than £5, 000 worth of  designer clothes for Sir Keir Starmer’s wife Victoria, over the past four months in an arrangement that breaches parliamentary rules.  Prime Minister Starmer faces an investigation after failing to disclose that Lord Alli, a Labour peer worth more than £200 million covered the cost of a personal shopper and clothes for Lady Starmer. Alli, former chairman of the online fashion retailer Asos, has also given the Labour leader £18, 685 … Continue reading Starmer’s wife had £5, 000 worth designer clothes paid for by donor