SINGER Barry Manilow has said publicly that he is gay after keeping his sexuality secret for decades for fear of “disappointing his fans.” The music veteran Byron Buxton Jersey , whose hits include “Looks Like We Made It” and “Copacabana,” also confirmed that he has been in a relationship with a man for 39 years. It is the first time he has spoken openly about his sexuality.
Manilow married Garry Kief at their home in Palm Springs in 2014, but never publicly confirmed the news because he was unsure how fans would react, he told People magazine. The 73-year-old told the publication: “I’m so private. I always have been.”
Rumors of a marriage between Manilow and Kief surfaced two years ago, but the pair never commented on the reports. The singer said the speculation had been a “blessing and a curse.”
The news has been welcomed by fans and celebrities, with Manilow trending on Twitter and Facebook as many made puns and wondered how their mums were coping.
Manilow was briefly married to his high school sweetheart Brian Dozier Jersey , Susan Deixler, while he was studying at the New York College of Music. The singer has said he was in love with her but was “not ready for marriage.”
He later described her as “adorable, small with great legs and a voluptuous figure.”
Manilow did not explain why he had chosen this moment to come out publicly, but his 29th studio album, “This Is My Town,” is due to be released April 21.
LONDON Bert Blyleven Jersey , Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- The British manufacturing sector continued its run of robust growth in October, benefiting from improved economic conditions globally.
The MarkitCIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI) for October rose from September's 56.0 to 56.3, continuing an unbroken 15-month run of growth.
Markets and experts had expected a slight decline to 55.9, and the PMI figure released on Wednesday is above the long-term trend for this set of data.
Production and new order volumes continued to rise at robust rates, as companies benefited from rising inflows of new export business and strong domestic market conditions. The new orders index rose to 57.7 from 56.6 in September.
The domestic market was the prime source of new contract wins, although new export business also continued its history of growth.
Samuel Tombs Minnesota Twins Hats , chief UK economist with data analysis firm Pantheon Macroeconomics, told Xinhua: "Developed economies are seeing a rebound in global trade flows and the UK is benefiting from that, being quite an open economy."
Companies saw improved intakes of new work from clients in the USA, mainland Europe, South America and Australia, in some cases aided by the sterling exchange rate.
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"Sterling has weakened a lot in the last couple of years and that has now filtered through to the manufacturing sector," said Tombs.
However, the figures reveal a mixed benefit, with the sector growing because of global conditions but still lagging the growth of other developed economies.
Tombs said: "If you look at the UK's manufacturing sector compared to the eurozone, it is lagging behind, because of a slowdown in UK economic growth."
With few exceptions Minnesota Twins Hoodie , the Olympic Games feature events rarely followed by mainstream sports fans. So why do so many people tune in to watch the Olympics? Largely because of the human interest stories they reveal.
Olympic athletes spend most of their lives preparing for events that occur once every four years; therefore, their high stakes, hit-or-miss performances create incredible drama. And when viewers learn the personal stories behind these athletes, the drama only intensifies.
Some of the things we learn about these athletes are unpleasant. On August 14, a jackass American swimmer whose name doesn't deserve to be mentioned in this space behaved like a drunken fool, made up a public lie to cover his tracks Customized Twins Jersey , then fled the country and left his teammates to fend for themselves.
But other stories are heartwarming, exemplifying the human spirit in a way that perhaps the original Olympic Games intended. One of these stories revolves around a Polish discus thrower named Piotr Malachowski.
After winning a silver medal at the Games in Rio, Malachowski decided to auction off that medal to help pay for surgery for a 3-year-old boy who is suffering from a rare form of eye cancer. After public bidding reached $19,000, Malachowski announced that two Polish -billionaires had decided to -purchase the medal, paying whatever amount of money needed for the necessary surgery.
It's hard not to think about money at a time like this. On one hand Cheap Twins Jersey , a drunken swimmer lost all of his major sponsors due to his selfish, immature behavior. On the other, a noble track and field athlete gave up tangible proof of his greatest accomplishment to raise tens of thousands of dollars for -another human being.
As flawed as the Olympic Games is - beginning with the notoriously corrupt International Olympic Committee - it's easy to view them through a jaded lens. But one young Polish boy has now seen the best that Olympic athletes have to offer. Pending successful surgery, he'll soon be able to see a lot more.
MANILA, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Benigno Aquino III expressed optimism on Monday that the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest Muslim rebel group in the country Twins Tony Oliva Jersey , could complete four annexes of the framework agreement within the year.
Aquino told reporters in an interview that so far Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Deles informed him that dialogues with the MILF on the two remaining annexes -- power- sharing and normalization -- were ongoing.