![]() ![]() Current year results benefited from the contributions associated with recent acquisitions and organic growth across our base business, which were offset by mark-to-market losses on commodity contracts and one-time transaction costs associated with the acquisition of HomeServe and the European telecom tower portfolio, which are expensed on acquisition.įunds from operations (FFO) for the first quarter was $554 million, increasing 12% relative to the comparable period. US$ millions (except per unit amounts), unaudited 1īrookfield Infrastructure reported net income of $23 million for the three-month period ended Macompared to net income of $70 million in the prior year. “Our diversified portfolio of high-quality infrastructure assets are well positioned to deliver resilient results during all market conditions.” ![]() ![]() “We are pleased to report a strong start to 2023 for Brookfield Infrastructure, with future growth secured from several successful capital deployment initiatives,” said Sam Pollock, Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield Infrastructure. (Brookfield Infrastructure, BIP, or the Partnership) (NYSE: BIP TSX: BIP.UN) today announced its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023. BROOKFIELD, NEWS, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller, and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback (Harper Torch, 2006) and trade paperback (Harper Paperbacks, 2006). The first of these children's books, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal. To date there are a total of 36 books in the Discworld series, of which four (so far) are written for children. In 1987 he turned to writing full time, and has not looked back since. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was fifteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They want anarchy? They haven’t seen anything yet.Īnarchy is book TWO of FOUR in the Hades series. They have no idea the lengths I’ll go to protect what is mine. Stabbing at me in the dark.īut this last attack has taken it one step too far. Several characters cross over to the Madison Kate series but it is not necessary to read MKs story. Peddling their poison and breaking my rules. Anarchy is the SECOND in a new Shadow Grove series. Now a ghost from my past is threatening my position. The strategy has been all along, to destabilize the US by creating chaos, confusion, division& anarchy. Kept us out of the public eye, and kept us safe. James Tate on Twitter: 'That is exactly what the republican leadership wants then blame Biden. Anarchy 4.55 (17,237 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback English By (author) Tate James US24.76 Free delivery worldwide Available. Done whatever it took to take care of my people. Since then, I’ve wielded that power with an iron fist. I protected myself, and I seized control of the Tri-state Timberwolves. I protected the single most important person in my world, my little sister. HADES is a contemporary new adult reverse harem series, which means the leading lady has several love interests and never has to choose in order to find her HEA.įive years ago, I made a choice that I haven’t regretted a day since. Anarchy by Tate James 11,774 ratings, 4.60 average rating, 1,054 reviews Open Preview Anarchy Quotes Showing 1-17 of 17 you had your chance, Cassiel. Several characters cross over to the Madison Kate series but it is not necessary to read MK's story first. Anarchy is the SECOND in a new Shadow Grove series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ravi and the sitar were excuses although they were a very important part of it, it was a search for a spiritual connection.” It occurred to me only much later that I had been lifted into the mountains on the last gasp of the same cultural tide, upstairs in my suburban bedroom in the early 1980s, listening to old Bob Dylan records and reading stories of my climbing heroes high in the faraway, mythical Himalaya. ![]() That was part of the reason I went to India. “After I had taken LSD,” George Harrison recalled, “a lingering thought stayed with me, and the thought was “the yogis of the Himalayas”. . . The Beatles studied transcendental meditation here in 1968 with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, turning on millions of young Westerners to eastern spiritual practices. ![]() It was still raining as we drove north in a bus, stopping for a night in Rishikesh on the banks of the swollen Ganges. The monsoon was still strong and in those days, a quarter of a century ago, parts of Delhi flooded more readily many lower-lying streets were submerged in brown water. In the late summer of 1995 I flew to India for my first experience of climbing in the Himalaya. We three gods as mountains will reside in the earth for the benefit of mankind.” The Earth asked Vishnu, “Why do you come in the form of mountains and not in your own form?” Vishnu replied: “The pleasure that exists in mountains is greater than that of animate beings, for they feel no heat, nor cold, nor pain, nor anger, nor fear, nor pleasure. ![]() ![]() Enter Niall Kishtainy, who in A Little History of Economics has condensed 2000 years of thought down to 250 highly readable pages. "Economic theories count among the principal ideas that defined the modern world, yet the origins of the market forces that govern our lives can all too often seem distant and opaque. ![]() The result is a uniquely enjoyable volume that succeeds in illuminating the economic ideas and forces that shape our world. He recounts the contributions of key thinkers including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and others, while examining topics ranging from the invention of money and the rise of agrarianism to the Great Depression, entrepreneurship, environmental destruction, inequality, and behavioral economics. Economic historian Niall Kishtainy organizes short, chronological chapters that center on big ideas and events. ![]() This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young readers new to economics and for all readers who seek a better understanding of the full sweep of economic history and ideas. ![]() A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, yet the unfamiliar jargon and math of economics can seem daunting. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the late 1990s, Spicer worked for Congressman Mike Pappas (R-NJ), Congressman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL), and Congressman Clay Shaw (R-FL). As of December 2016, he is assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff's naval reserve contingent in Washington, D.C. In 2012, he received a master's degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. ![]() Navy Reserve as a public affairs officer he currently holds the rank of Commander. From 2000 to 2001 he was the communications director on the House Government Reform Committee, and from 2001 to 2002 he was director of incumbent retention at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2015, Adams became the editor-at-large of John Joseph Adams Books in partnership with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The Fantasy Magazine staff was also absorbed into Lightspeed. With the January 2012 issue, the first published under Adams's ownership, the content of both magazines was combined under the Lightspeed masthead, and Fantasy Magazine was discontinued as an entity. In November 2011 Adams purchased Lightspeed and Fantasy Magazine from Sean Wallace of Prime Books. Originally the co-publisher and editor-in-chief, Adams now serves as publisher.Īdditionally, Adams is a writer whose genre essays, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including Amazing Stories, Kirkus Reviews, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Locus Magazine, Novel & Short Story Writer's Market, Publishers Weekly, SCI FI Wire, Science Fiction Weekly, Shimmer Magazine, Strange Horizons, Subterranean Magazine, and Tor.com. In June 2012, Adams and Creeping Hemlock Press successfully closed a $7,500 Kickstarter campaign for funding Nightmare Magazine, the first issue of which released October 2012. ![]() In March 2011 he took charge of its sister magazine, Fantasy Magazine. In January 2010 he left F&SF to edit Lightspeed Magazine, an online science fiction magazine which launched June 1, 2010. Adams worked as Assistant Editor at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction from May 2001 to December 2009. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The pathologist says her death was an accident. AK Turner is a New York Times bestselling humorist and author of the Vagabonding with Kids book series, in which she demonstrates with no-holds-barred humor and stranger-than-fiction stories that a working family can take to the road for extended travel, keeping marriage, children, and sanity intact along the way. She's eviscerated thousands of bodies, but never someone she knew, someone who meant a lot to her - until now. Cassie Raven is used to people thinking her job is strange - why would anyone want to cut up dead bodies for a living? But they don't know what she knows: that the dead want to tell us what happened to them. I LOVED IT' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'LIKE SILENT WITNESS BUT MUCH MORE BELIEVABLE' SUSI HOLLIDAY **DON'T MISS CASSIE RAVEN'S NEXT MYSTERY, CASE SENSITIVE, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW!** Mortuary technician Cassie Raven believes the dead can talk. Turner (9781838770044) from Boomerang Books, Australias Online Independent. 'SPELLBINDING STORYTELLING' VAL MCDERMID 'A FIRST-RATE CRIME NOVEL. Buy Body Language: The must-read forensic mystery set in Camden Town by A. ![]() For fans of Tess Gerritsen and Kathy Reichs comes a gripping debut thriller introducing Camden's most exciting new forensic investigator. ![]() ![]() ![]() A collection of Lautman’s strips from 2017. ![]() ![]() “Explores the possibilities of a not-so-distant future where fashion can be intergenerational, Asian American, divine feminine, environmentally conscious, community building, ancestor worshipping, and possibly bring you closer to enlightenment.” “A moving meditation on music, memory, and identity.” Many of these artists have been featured on Broken Frontier over the years including Becca Tobin, Sara Lautman, Laura Lannes, Liam Cobb, Pat Aulisio and Warren Craghead III. The who and what: The fifth Retrofit subscription crowdfunder features twelve graphic novels from international indie talent. We haven’t run one of these for a few weeks but this is such an important Kickstarter that could really do with some help in its last few days that we’re squeezing in an extra push for it on our schedule this week. Usually we look to push a few worthwhile projects your way in this Crowdfunding Corner section but every so often we spot something so deserving of your time that we run a Crowdfunding Corner Extra edition. These are comics that both fit the Broken Frontier coverage ethos and that we think deserve your support and backing! ![]() Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF every week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and daring uses of the form that we spot, along with some interesting campaigns we’ve found ourselves. ![]() ![]() You’d look down on sun-glistening brown and black wings, a six-foot spread of them, tilting as the bird banked on a curve. The house being on a hill, hawks, eagles, birds of prey that lay spiralling on air currents over the bush were often at eye level, sometimes below it. No other writer conveys so truthfully the real interdependence of humans and cats or convinces us with such stunning recognition of the reasons why cats really matter. And she tells the story of herself in relation to cats: the way animals affect her and she them, and the communication that grows possible between them-a language of gesture and mood and desire as eloquent as the spoken word. ![]() ![]() She tells their stories-their exploits, rivalries, terrors, affections, ancient gestures, and learned behaviors-with vivid simplicity. On Cats is a celebrated classic, a memoir in which we meet the cats that have slunk and bullied and charmed their way into Doris Lessing's life. Her fascination with the handsome, domesticated creatures that have shared her flats and her life in London remained undiminished, and grew into real love with the awkwardly lovable El Magnifico, the last cat to share her home. Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semiferal creatures on the African farm where she grew up. ![]() |