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'Instant' bridge aims to make a dangerous crossing safer for thousands of students
UPDATE: The FIU pedestrian bridge collapsed, less than a week after installation.
Instant bridge? Not quite, but in a single morning Florida International University dropped a new elevated pedestrian span into place over the Tamiami Trail to provide students a safe route over the perilous roadway for the first time.
Once it's finished in early 2019, the new pedestrian bridge will link FIU's Modesto A. Maidique Campus directly to the small suburban city of Sweetwater, where the university estimates 4,000 of its students live.
The rapid span installation was the result of months of preparation. The bridge's main 174-foot span was assembled by the side of the Trail while support towers were built at either end.
The 950-ton span was then picked up, moved and lowered into place by special gantry cranes at the intersection of Southwest 109th Avenue in an operation that lasted several hours Saturday morning. A section of the Trail, also designated as Southwest Eighth Street, was closed to traffic Friday evening for the bridge installation, and will remain shut until 5 a.m. Monday.
The innovative installation method significantly reduced risks to workers, pedestrians and motorists and minimized traffic disruptions, FIU said. The architecturally distinctive, cable-supported bridge is the product of a collaboration between MCM Construction and FIGG Bridge Design, the firm responsible for the iconic Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay.
Students and faculty have long been clamoring for a bridge at the 109th Street crossing, where students on foot have to get across seven lanes of jam-packed traffic that divide the campus from Sweetwater. Though FIU provides shuttles, many students prefer to walk. In August, FIU undergraduate Alexis Dale was hit and killed by a motorist while crossing the intersection.
The $14.2 million bridge, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, also includes new sidewalks and a plaza. The project will also boast benches, tables, shade and even Wi-Fi. It's all part of a broader FIU-led "prosperity" project that aims to curb traffic congestion in the area and help Sweetwater improve its downtown, which sits just north of the bridge.
Under that plan, private developers are building a cluster of apartment towers that cater to FIU students, all to be linked to campus by the new pedestrian bridge. The 109 Tower and 4th Street Commons are already open.
A third, the 866-unit University Bridge Apartments, is scheduled to break ground in June. The new bridge will lead directly to its doorstep.
Here is infomation on this weekend's detours:
▪ Westbound traffic will be rerouted via southbound Southwest 107th Avenue, westbound Southwest 24th Street (Coral Way) and northbound Southwest 117th Avenue.
▪ Eastbound traffic will detour via southbound Southwest 117th Avenue, eastbound Southwest 24th Street (Coral Way) and northbound 107th Avenue.


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Welcome to the world of Arkovia, from the steaming jungle ruins of Azteca to the far-reaching heights of the sky city of Kathebon. Enter a world of forgotten Alchemy, powerful sorcery, and barbarism.
Meet strange and unusual people, battle freakish monsters and explore the forgotten realm of Arkovia as you seek to unlock the mystery of how you came to this place and find your destined path on an epic journey of discovery.
Is a world designed to be used with the Pathfinder game system, interested players can go here https://www.commonroomgames.com/PF_char_sheet-fillable_3_pgs.pdf and use the fillable character sheet to create their character. I am using the point buy system and 30 points due to the nature of the campaign, players will also start with 5000 gp to purchase weapons and gear with.
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Broadway Upstate bills monthly instead of by semester. We take the total for all classes and split into even monthly payments. Your bill will be emailed at least 2 weeks prior to due date. All bills are due on the 10th of each month except for the first month which is due when you register. Bills that are paid after that you will incur a late fee of $5 per day that your bill is late unless other arrangements have been made ahead of time. There are no refunds for classes you don't attend. Classes will be made up if cancelled for bad weather.
Class Rates
- 45 minute class: $12/class
- 60 Minute Class: $15/class
- 75 Minute Class: $18/class
- 90 Minute Class: $21/Class
If the same student takes a 2nd class that class is discounted 10%
If the same student takes a 3rd class that class is discounted 15%
If the same student takes a 4th class that class is discounted 20%
If the same student take a 5th class that class is discounted 25%
Gabriella takes ballet and tap (2-60 minute classes)
1 st Billing Date Sept 10
1st Class $52.50/month 2nd Class $47.25/month
Monthly Fee:$99.75/month
Registration Fee of $25 (per family) is due at the start of class year when you sign up. This is a one time yearly fee.
Performance fee (per student) $25 is due January 14th, 2019.
The class year is split into 3 Semesters.
- September 10 – December 21 2018 (14 Week Session)
- January 14 – June 14, 2019 (20 Weeks)
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It is the first of May and the sun is shining........for a little while, at least.
We have had rain, rain, rain and everything is mud and pot-holey roads.
The kitten is highly entertaining and growing fast! No surprisingly, for such a tiny thing, she eats like a horse!
We have lots of family birthdays this month so it should be fun.
As you can see, I have done a little scrap-booking during the wet weekends!
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This is my DT challenge for this month. 'Scrap the Everyday'. The challenge criteria can be found at http://homeandscrapped.ning.com/forum/topics/may-challenge-angie?page=1&commentId=3450741%3AComment%3A127138&x=1#345
Happy Day
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a couple more cards while I was in the mood!
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40mm+ deep potholes
Reported in the Potholes category by Luke House at 14:58, Saturday 19 January 2019
Sent to Doncaster Borough Council 2 minutes later
I have been driving regularly on this road for three years and these potholes have gotten progressively worse. I am usually able to avoid the potholes, however at approximately 5.30am on Friday the 18th of january, 2019, I was unable to avoid them due to an oncoming vehicle and my car suffered serious damage to the nearside front tyre, resulting in a huge gash in the sidewall. I had to replace my tyre due to the damage.
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Portraits by Jonny Scull, an artist based in Huntsville, AL. Now accepting commissions for military, institutional, and family portraits.
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Visiting French castles
Liv and I were super bummed to find that we missed this year's Fêtes Galantes (which is a fancy dress up event) at Versailles so I started researching castles nearby to visit. I decided it would be fun to play tourists and booked a day tour with Viator. We took a luxurious air conditioned coach […]Read More


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Step into a strange, ornamental world where the closer you look the more detail you see – and the stranger things become. The glass art of Amber Cowan creates worlds in miniature, featuring sometimes mysterious pairings of images – princesses, urns, leaves, snails – all swirling in intensely intricate clusters of coloured glass.
Until 15 years ago she worked in ceramics, but once she turned to glass she knew she'd found her natural medium. Cowan's work is created by using fragments of vintage pressed glass, dating from the 1940 to the 1980s, put into a new artistic context, often arranged by colour. Pressed glass is created when molten glass is forced into a mould, and was used to mass-produce ornaments, including sentimental figurines. The pieces of glass and moulds that Cowan uses as her raw materials are often salvaged from glass factories in the US, now a near-defunct industry. "I rework objects currently relegated to the aesthetic dustbin of history," she explains in her artist's statement. "I reincarnate them into ornate abstractions that pay homage to the glass itself but with a reminiscent sentimentality for times past."
The nostalgia in her glass art pieces is there on the surface, with some of the stock forms (swans, flowers, ladies' hands) she draws on verging on kitsch. But her careful layering of these images creates something more multi-faceted and complex, and in some pieces even unsettling.
At the same time, by using vintage glass, she is capturing lost colours that are disappearing along with the factories that created them. These colourways – once well known to glass figurine collectors – are documented in her work, and often appear as part of the naming of pieces. Shell, blue Burmese, Rosaline, yellow Burmese – evocative names from a lost industry that have a poetic sound all their own.
All images by Amber Cowan. See more of Amber Cowan's glass art at her website, or her Instagram.


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If you've picked up the Early Access copy of Die Young from developers IndieGala, you may have been wondering how some of the things work, such as how to craft, how to stay hydrated, how to get water, and how to navigate. This beginner's walkthrough will help you with a few of those things.
At the start of the game you'll gain a map. Once you climb out of the hole you can save the game for the first time by lighting the camp fire. Just outside the hole there are some flowers and other items you can grab and eat to replenish small amounts of your health.
When you start off, you'll only have a small amount of inventory space, so don't fill it up with useless things. You'll likely want to make some healing powder, which can be down using several herbs known as "Mom's Favorite". You can pick them up from nearby, mostly located within the plants just outside the hole.
Follow the pathways until you get to a ruined cottage area where there is some water in a well.
You'll be able to save your game and learn a bit more about the island.
Your next goal is to find the coastal tower. However, if you reach the cottage area you can climb up on the roofs and hop inside where there's a wrench and a few supplies.
Eat frequently to restore your hydration. With the bindings you find inside the house and the wrench handy, you'll be able to repair the water pump, as indicated in the video below from MediaGamesGuide.
You can craft items by simply opening your inventory screen and switching over to the crafting tab. If you have the necessary items to craft something from the list, it will be highlighted and you can simply click the crafting button to make the item. If you don't have the item then you will have to scavenge for the items.
If you move past the manor ruins you'll make your way to the temple ruins where there's a body strung up on the tree. There's a crowbar nearby the body. Take the crowbar.
One thing to keep in mind is that there are hunters roaming the countryside. They will be alerted by your presence if you make too much noise, such as causing birds to fly away, or if you get spotted in their direct line of sight.
You can scale and climb around in the environment using the various platforms. Much like Mirror's Edge, once you get close to the platform you'll be able to climb up a ledge or platform.
Another thing to keep in mind is that there are some small crawlspaces you can move through. You'll find the crawlspaces sometimes near buildings or houses.
Also, the wrench and crowbar and other items you collect or use as weapons will degrade over time as you use them more and more. So be sure to use them sparingly to avoid them breaking on you.
If you find yourself through the crawlspace leading into the cave under the manor, you'll need to complete a jumping puzzle in order to make your way back up and out of the cave.
Once you get through the manor with the ancient alchemy books, you'll need to climb up the wall in order to get around the locked door.
Head down and into the area with the girl's dead body and the letter.
You'll need to platform your way through the maze-like house, avoiding the dogs and other hazards along the way. The path is actually quite linear as it leads you up, around, through, down and over into the manor's farm area. You'll find plenty of new herbs and supplies to make stuff with if you didn't already have an inventory full of gear.


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Getting to Know You: Nate Anderson
Resilience, curiosity, bravery, service, care, and teamwork are just some of the characteristics that define every member of our WHOSAY team.
Previously, you've had the chance to meet nine WHOSAYers who embody these qualities; Katina Kontarakis, West Coast Account Director, Mike Swart, Head of Shopping Marketing, Lisa Bryant, Marketing Manager, Sam Jones, Master Storyteller, Kay Blair, Digital Media Buyer, Joel Ponce, Account Director, Caitlin Curry, Account Manager, Josh Venkataraman, Campaign Activation Coordinator and Jenna Sereni, VP Marketing & Creative Services.
Founded in 2010, WHOSAY is built from the best of entertainment, technology, and advertising. The people that power WHOSAY are an incredible blend of advertising, technology and media professionals that foster a wonderful spirit of creativity, innovation, and commitment. Today you will get to know another one of our team's members; Nate Anderson, Creative Lead.
WHOSAY: What's the first thing you do as soon as you arrive in the office?
Nate Anderson: First: Look for an office dog to pat. Second: Emails.
WS: What's a typical day at WHOSAY like?
NA: Get into brainstorms about topics from Sour Patch Kids to dad bods (usually in the same meeting) go deep in an RFP and watch Sam Jones do headstands.
WS: What is your role at WHOSAY?
NA: Creative Lead. I think that's shorthand for Fire Content Writer/Wrangler.
WS: What was your job before coming to WHOSAY?
NA: Cheesemonger.
WS: Share your advice with aspiring young people who want to break into your industry.
NA: Work really hard. I mean really, really hard. Travel the world. Crack is whack.
WS: What are your favorite books or quotes?
NA: Love is in the details -- Oprah
WS: What is the best advice you have ever received?
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Mallory Pearson
i want to be the smallest kind of small
that i can be. i recently learned
about the things a poltergeist can do to the body
and i'm afraid to close my eyes at night,
the lights left on in the hallway so i can imagine
someone is waiting up to keep me safe from the dark.
i want to crush my body up
until it runs red, then clear, make my bones
the sweetest kind of sweet that they can be.
i want to fall asleep to the sound of the rain.
if i think about it in reverse, maybe
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Mallory Pearson is a 21-year-old painter, jeweller, and poet currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She has a great interest in spirituality, sexuality, and femininity, and spends most of her time quickly getting bored of new hobbies.


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Banbury Central beat Thame 73-49 in the first round of the Oxford Bowls League Cup.
Keith McNeil's rink of Stuart Boyd, Jim Gow and Andy Wilkin roared away to a 19-4 lead but then dropped a seven to give the Thame four some hope. It was quickly dashed on the next end with Central picking up a six and they ran out 29-14 winners.
Nigel Galletly's rink of Ian Gilbert, Bob Joiner and Nick Spencer won 13 of the 18 ends in a very tight game which was 4-4 after six ends and neither side scoring more than a two on any end in the match. Central then put a run of good ends together and won comfortably 17-7.
Les Campion's rink of Dave Green, Michael Andrew and Ian Whelpton was also tightly contested, 5-5 after six ends, but winning 12 of the 18 ends saw then run out 15-10 victors.
The only loss was Will Campion's rink of Alan Carter, Luke Gilbert and Graham Morbey, who won nine of the ends but dropped a few larger scores and lost 12-18.
Central now travel to Watlington in the last eight of the competition.
Banbury Central started their campaign to try to retain the OWBA League crown with a trip to Oxford City & County.
After a keenly fought match, Central lost 50-46, despite winning on two rinks.
Caroline Campion, Helen Young, Jane Williams and Melody Sykes won 18-17 while Carole Galletly, Pam Shepherd, Sue Winter and Eloise Jones won 21-9 but Mo Cox, Sue Waring, June Bone and Jenny Williams lost 7-24.


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OSSGA Shows Support of Minister Yakabuski's Announcement on Aggregate Reform September 26, 2019
Axle Weight Pilot Project Finished August 26, 2019
The objective of the pilot project was to develop a database that will help standardize the way allowable gross weights and axle weights are collected, stored and used for compliance.
Calling all Speakers! July 9, 2019
Bill 108 on its Way to a Vote! June 6, 2019
Ontario Aggregate Summit April 1, 2019
TEMPLATE Letter for Members to Use to Submit Responses to ERO Posting on Growth Plan February 13, 2019
The government has submitted a proposal to make Modifications to O. Reg. 311/06 (Transitional Matters - Growth Plans) made under the Places to Grow Act, 2005 to implement the Proposed Amendment to the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, 2017. OSSGA has made the point to the government that the current policy framework is not working. Approvals for new mineral aggregate operations in Southern Ontario are taking up to 10 years to complete the process. There are too many overlapping policies and inconsistent approaches between the Provincial Plans, Regional Official Plans, Local Official Plans and Conservation Authority policies regarding the management of this essential non-renewable resource.
Specification Alert February 6, 2019
Please be advised that there have been changes made to Aggregate Specifications for OPSS 1002, April 2018. This revised specification has been included in several MTO tender documents recently, most notably MTO Contract #2018-2024, Hwy 400 & Hwy 89 Interchange, Closing Feb. 14, 2019 and has raised concerns with many suppliers.
Avenues Winter 2019 Issue Now Available! February 5, 2019
The newest Winter 2019 issue of Avenues Magazine is now available online!
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7th Annual Ontario Mine Reclamation Symposium and Field Trip
April 21, 2014
First Announcement and Call for Abstracts
7th ANNUAL ONTARIO MINE RECLAMATION SYMPOSIUM AND FIELD TRIP
June 17 - 18, 2014
Peterborough, Ontario
The Canadian Land Reclamation Association (CLRA) and the Ontario Mining Association (OMA) are pleased to announce the Seventh Annual
Ontario Mine Reclamation Symposium and Field Trip.
- One day symposium highlighting the history and current status of mining in southern Ontario, current research and rehabilitation practices, and reclamation project updates
- Symposium reception and banquet
- One day field tour of mine and aggregate sites in the Peterborough/Bancroft area
- Presentation of the Tom Peters Memorial Mine Reclamation Awards (note: further information is available from and nominations may be submitted to Bryan Tisch until May 16th, 2014)
The organizing committee is seeking mine reclamation abstracts for presentations at the symposium on June 17, 2014. If you are interested, please forward abstracts by April 30, 2014 in Word or PDF format via email to Bryan Tisch (email address below). Note that a technical paper is NOT required. The presentations will be published on CD as the symposium proceedings.
In an effort to keep costs low, the organizing committee is also seeking sponsorships, typically at a value of $250. Your logo will be prominently displayed and your company fully acknowledged.
Further details will be distributed soon, including venue, hotel information and symposium program.
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The American public now has a comprehensive set of scores for each member of Congress regarding their positions on Internet surveillance reform, thanks to a website launched today as a joint project between nonprofit activist groups Restore the Fourth and Fight for the Future.
The Political Scoreboard takes into account critical legislative votes that have taken place during the 114th United States Congress' time in office, bearing in mind each member's action, how they voted, and which, if any, legislation they decided to sponsor.
This is the second such scoreboard produced. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, with support from numerous organizations, launched Stand Against Spying in 2014.
According to Alex Marthews, National Chair of Restore the Fourth, there was a need to provide an updated version because the information stops before the 2014 elections.
Marthews cites a lack of information available for EFF's Stand Against Spying.
"There wasn't enough data to go on to rank a lot of the members, particularly Senators," he said, "so, a lot of the Senators had question marks by them. There just wasn't enough tangible voting information to see where they stood."
The Political Scoreboard, uses the EFF's effort, "but then massively expands and updates it," according to Marthews.
Since Edward Snowden leaked classified documents regarding surveillance programs funded by the National Security Agency, truths have been revealed to the American public about how their digital lives are tracked. They've read stories about bulk data collection of metadata, texts, e-mails, and an overall broad range of their daily activities.
It's a subject that has all sides of the political spectrum talking. Privacy and freedom are guaranteed to all citizens through the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Digital privacy advocates like the EFF and Fight for the Future argue that because so much of our lives and our interactions are supported by the digital devices we have in our backpacks or pockets, that they're really extensions of our home, in a 21st Century sense.
Therefore, if we care about our constitutional rights, it would be good if the politicians we vote for are those who recognize that our privacy rights extend to our data. The Political Scoreboard is an easy-to-use way to identify your legislators and see how they've voted in the past.
The website itself is extremely user-friendly. When it loads, the scoreboard is automatically set to identify which state you're in. The headshots of your Congresswomen and men have large letter grades beside their faces. Clicking on them will bring up a box with their actions on surveillance reform, along with links to learn more about the individual pieces of legislation.
"Partly as a result of Edward Snowden," Marthews notes, "there has been a very comprehensive set of votes in Congress indicating how members stand on surveillance reform."
The website takes these votes into account.
Congress has tried to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which gave power to intelligence agencies, 54 times since the Snowden revelations. During the George W. Bush administration, an act was passed by Congress which amended FISA. This, as Marthews wrote in 2012, "retroactively immunized telecommunications companies from liability relating to their blatant disregard of laws intended to keep Americans' phone calls secret. It allowed the executive branch to spy on Americans' communications and retain their content, provided that the intent was to capture the content of communications with foreign nationals relating to terrorism."
Another vote taken into account regarded "a provision of the Patriot act called Section 215, that authorized the phone metadata dragnet," according to Marthews, who said it was set to expire on May 30.
"As a result of that sunset that was coming up, there was a huge rush by Congress to try and reauthorize something — to maybe reform the surveillance state a little, but mostly to authorize surveillance powers and that was bodied forth in an act called the USA Freedom Act," he said.
On the site, politicians are sorted into two columns: "Team Internet," and "Team Surveillance." Some, however, who have received a "C" grade, remain in the "Undecided" box.
Take for example Dianne Feinstein, Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. She voted against extending and reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act, but also sponsored the FISA Improvements Act, which was an attempt to codify the legality of NSA surveillance programs. Feinstein's bill was called a "fake fix" by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in an opposition letter. The negative points she gets for her support of this bill and of others are balanced with the points she gained for other votes, thus giving her a neutral score.


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Recent efforts in reconstructing historical sea level change have led to a range of published estimates for the global mean sea level trend over the last century. Disagreement in these estimates can be attributed to two factors: (1) differences in analysis and/or reconstruction techniques and (2) differences in tide gauge selection and quality control of the data. Here the impact of tide gauge selection is explored by calculating global mean trends using three different tide gauge data sets that have been utilized in recent reconstruction studies. The inclusion of tide gauge records that are affected by unresolved internal variability and/or unaccounted for vertical land motion are found to significantly impact the estimates of the long-term trend in global mean sea level. In conclusion, several guidelines are presented regarding the selection of tide gauges for use in historical reconstructions focused on estimating the 20th century global mean sea level trend.
Figure. Twenty-year trends in global mean sea level (mm/yr) from 1900 to 2013 estimated by simple averaging of tide gauge data sets from Ray and Douglas (2011) (blue), Church and White (2011) (red), and Hay et al. (2015) (black). (a) The trends using all of the available gauges. (b) The trends after removing the tide gauges at latitudes higher than 65°. This results in curves for RD2011 and CW2011 that are the same in both Figures 3a and 3b. Simply averaging the tide gauge data qualitatively reproduces differences between the sophisticated reconstructions performed in each study (e.g., substantially lower rates of change earlier in the century from Hay et al.). This suggests that a substantial fraction of the differences between the reconstructions may be due to the particular set of gauges used in each case.
Hamlington, B. D., and P. R. Thompson (2015), Considerations for estimating the 20th century trend in global mean sea level. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 4102–4109. doi: 10.1002/2015GL064177.


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Habitat for Humanity's ReStore is a nonprofit home improvement and donation center located near downtown Honolulu. Join us in the warehouse helping organize items dropped off, and in the store with customer concerns. Funds raised support Habitat for Humanity's mission of eliminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide, to make adequate, affordable shelter a matter of consciousness and action. This is your opportunity to be part of a cause to help families in need of owning simple, decent, affordable housing, while bringing our community together to build hope.
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Billy Preston (September 2, 1946 - June 6, 2006) was a singer, songwriter, and keyboardist who rose to fame during the early 1970s. A child prodigy who got a very early start in music, he was playing the organ professionally by age 10, backing such top artists as Mahalia Jackson. He played the role of young Will Handy in the 1958 movie, "St. Louis Blues," and he also made many other TV and movie appearances over the years.
Preston made his debut in 1969 on the Pop/Rock charts with the gospel-styled "That's The Way God Planned It." His long string of hits on both the R&B and Pop/Rock charts also included "Outa-Space" (1972), "Will It Go Round In Circles" (1973), "Space Race" (1973), "Nothing From Nothing" (1974), "Struttin'" (1974), and "With You I'm Born Again" (1979, with Syreeta Wright). "Outa-Space," which topped the R&B charts, won Preston a Grammy in 1972 for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. He also co-wrote "You Are So Beautiful" which became a smash hit for Joe Cocker in 1975.
Throughout his long music career, Preston was also a prolific and highly sought-after session musician whose numerous recording credits included "Get Back" and "Don't Let Me Down" with The Beatles. He also performed and/or recorded with many other top bands and artists including Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, King Curtis, Sly & The Family Stone, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.
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Sony not too long ago released its newly enhanced console, beefing the standard PS4 to the PS4 Pro. The new device stands as a 1.5 device that bolsters the previous named console's specs but at slightly higher intervals to allow for an enhanced "experience". Well, where does this put the PS5? President and CEO of Sony interactive Entertainment of America, Shawn Layden, has the answer.
As many gamers and fans of Sony and Microsoft should know, a pair of 1.5 consoles hit the market known as the PS4 Pro and the Xbox One S. The former console had some people wondering if Sony shot itself in the foot and would see the PS5 casting a giant shadow on the current PS4 Pro console. Well, that doesn't seem to be the case according to Sony interactive Entertainment of America, Shawn Layden, who told publication site Golem.de that the PS5 won't be seen for "some time".
In other words, the PS4 Pro will still have time to move units without cannibalization stepping in due to the PS5 hitting store shelves and e-tailers early.
The topic of the PS5 releasing sometime soon comes in part of the publication site inquiring Layden whether or not fans should expect any games releasing exclusively for the PS4 Pro, which in turn prompted the President and CEO of SEI America to say "That will never happen!" This has a lot of fans saying that the PS5 will carry on the exclusive game tradition like this current era, with Layden stating that, "Yes. It will probably be some time."
As it stands now, there is no telling when Sony could actually drop a new PS console. Yes, Sony could wait another year or maybe two, but as it stands now they could pull out all kinds of tricks with the actual device releasing shortly after an announcement or much later. Reading a lot of comments around various forum boards sees many wanting Sony to wait and release the PS5 (or whatever its moniker may be) later rather than anytime soon.
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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY: Groups Boost Efforts to Increase Healthy Families Enrollment
On the heels of a successful pilot program last year, officials in Contra Costa County will announce on Oct. 23 a $1 million expansion of their outreach program for Healthy Families, the Contra Costa Times reports. Last fall, Contra Costa County spent $30,000 to send information about Healthy Families, the state's CHIP, and the state's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to parents whose children participate in the federal free- and reduced-cost lunch program. The effort led to the enrollment of "nearly 4,000 children" in Medi-Cal and Healthy Families. The Contra Costa Times reports that as part of the yearlong expanded effort, the county will establish "Health Assistance Centers" in the western, eastern and central parts of the county "to follow up with families and help ensure that those who sign on with Medi-Cal or Healthy Families take advantage of the benefit." County officials hope to enroll an additional 10,000 children in Medi-Cal or Healthy Families. The county and state will provide funds for about two-thirds of the program's cost, and "private foundations" will pay the remainder (Sharpe, Contra Costa Times, 10/18).
L.A. County Initiatives
In Los Angeles County, L.A. Care Health Plan has announced that it will run a series of public forums in South Los Angeles, Compton and Inglewood to investigate why African-American enrollment in Healthy Families is low. Fourteen percent of African-American children in Los Angeles County lack health insurance, and only 2.8% of the county's Healthy Families enrollees are African-American. Saying the figures "shocked" her, L.A. Care community advisory board Chair Thelma Bennett said, "We knew we had to do something and we wanted to make sure the community was involved." In June, L.A. Care convened similar advisory committees in East Los Angeles and Southeast Los Angeles (L.A. Care release, 10/17). According to L.A. Care's Web site, www.lacare.org, the organization is a "non-profit, community accountable" HMO that serves more than 500,000 Los Angeles County residents in Medi-Cal and Healthy Families.


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Authorities searching for inmate who walked away from Oklahoma correctional center
ATOKA COUNTY, Okla. – Authorities are looking for a minimum-security inmate who walked away from an Oklahoma correctional center Monday morning.
According to officials with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, a correctional security officer noticed 35-year-old Alvaro Rodriguez was missing around 8 a.m. at the Mack Alford Correctional Center.
Rodriguez was serving Tulsa County sentences for possession of stolen vehicle, possession of a sawed-off shotgun/rifle, drug possession, and committing a felony with a firearm that had its serial number removed.
Authorities are continuing search efforts Monday afternoon for Rodriguez.
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The other night I was with a group of people, gathered to talk about soul ties, more specifically, cutting unhealthy ones. It was a fascinating discussion going far beyond what I would normally think of as soul ties, which would be, for example, with a spouse. The conversation was focused on soul ties with a variety of people in our lives that hold us back and how to separate from them. They can also keep us in a cycle, repeating the same behaviors with the same person even when we've learned the lesson we were intended to learn.
I kept thinking about that idea throughout the week, extending it in my head (as I do – much more fun that way) to the idea of the agreements we make in relationships. Primarily the subconscious ones. We may not like to think about them as agreements, but they are. And usually, they're of the unhealthy variety. Ways that we show up with each other, and not the ones we take selfies of. The "if you then I," variety. It's likely you don't like it, are not happy about the pattern, but you either don't recognize it or recognize it and don't know how to step out of it. The third alternative is that you know it's there, you don't care, it's not you it's them.
So how healthy is that? I'm going to hazard a guess…not very.
The more complicated pattern is when you have those agreements and maybe end the relationship you're in, romantic, friendship, otherwise…but then you move on and recreate the same pattern. The same exact pattern that lead you down the slippery or rough road before. What's up with that??
Yes, it's the behavior you know, but you also have a choice. Think about a behavior you have, say, when stressed, and you are aware it's not the most fruitful. Not causing gains in your relationships. You're repeating it over and over. One…you're not learning the lesson. Your taking the lesson you were maybe intended to learn with the first person and because you didn't learn it, or didn't recognize it, you moved on to someone else and are doing it all over again! Two…it's possible you're preventing the current person you're in a relationship with from learning the lessons they need to learn – for which they were drawn to you. Over time, it can create a big, muddled, hot mess.
If you can end that agreement, take the lesson and shift to a new phase in your relationship, and if that person comes along with you, it can change everything. In order to do that, you need to take time to really look at your part in what's happening. What are the patterns that repeat, where do you feel yourself getting sucked in to unhealthy behavior? Sit in that. Brene Brown calls that "rumbling" in her book Rising Strong. Realizing you're down and sitting in that space for a minute, long enough to see what's really going on. When you do, you have a choice to make. Either you keep the agreement and "wash, rinse, repeat," or you make a choice to behave, respond, different – create a new agreement.
What helps when you're in that space?
Don't take it personally…the other person's reaction, their response, it's about them, not you. It's their stuff.
Own your own stuff…Yep, you're there for a reason. Take a minute to look at your own behavior.
Have you seen this episode before? If so, if this isn't your first rodeo with this argument, this circumstance, take note. You're likely repeating agreements.
Make a choice…You can either respond like you have in the past…how that work out for you? Or you can make a different choice.
There are times when the eventual choice is to end an agreement, cut the soul tie so that you, and maybe the other person, can move forward. I believe these times call for authenticity. Showing up as your true self, without your masks and letting the other person experience the raw you. Honest, vulnerable, leaving defensiveness and self-preservation at the door. Aka…the brave choice.
Whether it's time to cut the soul tie, end the agreement…or time to be authentic, be brave (and those may be the same thing at times) …just do it. If what you're doing in a relationship isn't working, and that's any relationship – friend, spouse, child, parent, sibling, co-worker – you have a choice to make. Today, I hope you'll make the one that leads to a more authentic, healthy you.


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I am writing a book and building a yoga and craniosacral business. which is kind of insane. either one of those two things are plenty for a person to do. building and launching them at the same time is just plain nuts.
and, of course, almost ironically, I'm having a hard time taking my own advice about living and working. it's hard to keep up with yoga and writing. I'm also trying to get the very basics of my life back in place after being on the road almost all year.
one of my favorite books of all time is called The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield. this passage always reminds me what I'm about, gets me fired up, and helps me get my shit together to do my work.
the unlived life
"most of us have two lives. the life we live and the unlived life within us. between the two stands Resistance.
have you ever brought home a treadmill and let it gather dust in the attic? ever quit a diet, a course of yoga, a meditation practice? have you ever bailed out on a call to embark upon a spiritual practice, dedicate yourself to a humanitarian calling, commit your life to the service of others? have you ever wanted to be a mother, a doctor, an advocate for the weak and helpless; to run for office, crusade for the planet, campaign for world peace, or to preserve the environment? late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? then you know what Resistance is.
Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet. It is the root of more unhappiness than poverty, disease, and erectile dysfunction. to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. it stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. if you believe in God (and I do) you must declare Resistance evil, for it prevents us from achieving the life God intended when He endowed each of us with our own unique genius. Genius is a Latin word; the Romans used it to denote a holy spirit, holy and inviolable, which watches over us, guiding us to our calling.
a writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center. it is our soul's seat, the vessel that holds our being in potential, our star's beacon and Polaris.
every sun casts a shadow, and a genius's shadow is Resistance. as powerful as is our soul's call to realization, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. Resistance is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, harder to kick than crack cocaine. we're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us. and here's the biggest bitch: we don't even know what hit us. I never did. from age twenty-four to thirty-two, Resistance kicked my ass from east coast to west and back again thirteen times and I never knew it existed. I looked everywhere for the enemy and failed to see it right in front of my face.
have you heard this story: woman learns she has cancer, six months to live. within days she quits her job, resumes the dream of writing Tex-Mex songs she gave up to raise a family (or starts studying classical greek, or moves to the inner city and devotes herself to tending babies with AIDS). woman's friends think she's crazy; she herself has never before been happier. there's a post-script. woman's cancer goes into remission.
is that what it takes? do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up an confront Resistance? does Resistance have to cripple and disfigure our lives before we wake up to its existence? how many of us have become drunks and drug addicts , developed tumors and neuroses, succumbed to to painkillers, gossip, and compulsive cell-phone use, simply because we don't do that thing our hearts, our inner genius, is calling us to? Resistance defeats us. if tomorrow morning by some stroke of magic every dazed and benighted soul woke up with the power to take the first step toward pursuing his or her dreams, every shrink in the dictionary would be out of business. prisons would stand empty. the alcohol and tobacco industries would collapse along with junk food, cosmetic surgery, and infotainment businesses, not to mention pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and the medical profession from top to bottom. domestic abuse would become extinct. as would addiction, obesity, migraine headaches, road rage, and dandruff.
look in your own heart.
unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times, the calling that is yours and yours alone. you know it. no one has to tell you. and unless I'm crazy, you're no closer to taking action on it than you were yesterday or will be tomorrow.
you think Resistance isn't real? Resistance will bury you.
you know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. at eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to vienna to live and study. he applied to the academy of fine arts and later to she school of architecture. ever see one of his paintings? neither have I. Resistance beat him. call it an overstatement, but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas."


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Here you'll find a listing of the books that I have reviewed on this blog. The list is divided by year. Links point to my review. If you are looking for a specific author or book, use the A-Z Authors or A-Z Reviews tab, above. Enjoy!
2019 Reviews
- Stretched Too Thin by Jessica Turner
- An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
- Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The New Me by Halle Butler
- White Elephant by Julie Langsdorf
- The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
- A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
- Tomorrow There Will Be Sun by Dana Reinhardt
- There There by Tommy Orange
- Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Henry, Himself by Stewart O'Nan
- The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
- Letters to the Church by Francis Chan
- The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
- No Exit by Taylor Adams
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- I'll Be Gone In the Dark by Michelle McNamara
- The Summer Demands by Deborah Shapiro
- The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
- The Friends We Keep by Jane Green
- Judas by Amos Oz
- The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Hearing connects us to each other, allowing us to communicate long before we can form sentences or send offensive text messages. A screaming baby is telling you everything you need to know without using a single word (and it's probably nappy-based). But months before your birth your hearing is already up and running – gathering useful information in the womb on significant people and events outside.
Before you're born, you'll have learnt to recognise the language your mother speaks and even the theme tune of her favourite TV shows.
In Wonderful You VR, watch the complex structure of your inner year growing after just 8 weeks in the womb – and experience the barrage of sounds and voices which reach you as you develop and grow. These are sounds that will shape your musical choices and echo in your dreams.


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Is your trading capital a determinant as to whether your trades will be winners? Absolutely not. I always hear people say I don't make money or I don't win trades because my capital is too small. The fact is trading capital is not the reason why your trades are losers, you are your biggest problem. It is worthy of note that all trading decisions are entirely based on knowledge accumulated whether negative or positive, so however, your trading outcomes are from your knowledge. If the knowledge you have makes you lose money in the market, then acquire a new one.
While in forex trading you can make money with either an uptrend or downtrend, in Bitcoin trading you only make money when you buy low and sell high. The truth about trading Bitcoin is that, the higher your trading capital, the higher your risk which means you are prone to losing higher amount if you happen to take a wrong trade.
Why do we lose money while trading bitcoins?
There are a lot of factors that contribute to our losing trades below are some.
- Knowledge
- Greed
- Lack of patience
- Knowledge: The knowledge you have acquired has a great effect on your overall performance in trading if it works then it is positive. However, you have to remember that you cannot have 100 percent winning trades which implies that there is no perfect system. Just consuming anything you see online is not the best way to acquire trading knowledge it will only confuse you. How do you get this knowledge?
On the internet, there are experienced traders who have track records of success; you can research them and read up their materials. For example, Nial Fuller is a great forex trading teacher and a successful trader. You can go to his site and get educated with the right knowledge. Other examples are Mark Douglas etc.
NOTE: The knowledge you acquire from others is just a boost to get you started. So, it will be very good if you develop your own strategy from experience as well.
- Greed: Greed kills very fast in crypto trading. How does greed affect your trading? Assuming you place a trade with a certain amount and it eventually enters the profit side, ideally what you should do is close the trade and take the profit, but greed will tell you to hold on the profit will increase then eventually it crosses to the negative side. This phenomenon triggers what we call emotional trading which results in more errors and consequently loss of capital. There are three types of market seasons, the bear season, the bull season and the consolidation season. The bear season is prevalent when the overall market condition is a downtrend, the market making lower highs. While the bull season is when the overall market condition is an uptrend, the market making higher lows. Consolidation season when the market is moving sideways. Greed affects us more in bear seasons.
Bull Season
Bear Season
- Lack of patience: Patience is a very important virtue of having as a trader, without it, trading mistakes are inevitable. "Don't chase the market, wait for it to get to you" this statement is always true. Most traders who chase the market ends up wiping there trading account. In trading cryptocurrency or any form of trading, you need to have a working strategy, "a winning strategy" which you are disciplined enough to abide by. Only trade when your edge or setups are in place. Trade like a sniper, place trades only when your target is visible, consequently, before placing a trade make sure you have a predetermined/planned exit, if you don't have a planned exit, you might get stuck.
Acquire knowledge, tame your greed, be patient and you will be fine. For any question, use the comment section. And remember to share.


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The Publisher / Author/ Book Tour Company has provided this book club with a copy of this book for review or we have purchased the book with our own funds. The opinions shared about the story are those of the book club or the individual reviewer and not influenced by The Publisher / Author/ Book Tour Company if received for review.All I Ever Wanted by Katrina Mills
Published by City Owl Press on May 3rd 2016
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 350
You Can't Go Home Again…Except For Summer Love.
Eat a stick of butter or return to her hometown? School teacher, Kinsley Bailey, would rather risk the caloric overload. Staunton, Virginia is laced in bad memories of a mentally ill mother, an estranged father, and the first boy who broke her heart. Yet the news of her father's death has forced her return to the nightmare. Now in the heat of the summer, Kinsley's left unraveling the mysteries surrounding a house, an antique gun collection, a flabby basset hound, and a safety deposit box that no one in the family wants to discuss.
After a series of tough breaks, army soldier, Bastian Harris, desires the serenity of small town life in Staunton. Even with women signing up for his shooting courses and emphasizing their desires for a different kind of target practice, he keeps his nose down and his gun in his holster. Yet when a certain auburn-haired blast from the past comes blazing into his shop to sell her dead father's antique gun collection, he might have to reconsider the tranquil life and take up arms for the one woman he never could forget.
Impressions really ranged on this book. One frustration was that it felt more like a woman's fiction than a contemporary romance. Around 75% it started to feel more like a romance, but it felt very insta-romance. The story centers a lot around the difficult relationship the heroine had with her father before his death and then later with his family. Several readers really enjoyed side relationship of father and aunt, how they talked about death. There was also an old basset hound that several readers loved. A few felt it ended very suddenly and then there's a very happy epilogue with all problems solved.


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A series on the athletes in your neighbourhood
STORY BY Darryl Webster
PHOTOS BY Eric Patrick Hong
Jodi McCutcheon, High Park's curling champ
Burrowing into a quiet residential street just a few hundreds yards north of the Gardiner Expressway, and insulated from the din of rush hour by trees older than the city sits one of the West End's crown jewels, the High Park Club.
Inside this hundred-year-old hideaway on Indian Road, five sheets of pristine ice are covered in weeknight curlers. To the left of the ice, there's a fireside bar decorated with beer taps and spirit bottles and crowded with High Parkers.
Here, by the fire, I catch up with the skip from High Park, who has just returned from leading her rink to bronze at the Travelers Nationals, the annual amateur Club Championship, held this year in Kingston.
"They made us feel like rock stars," she says of the hosting rink, the Cataraqui Golf and Country Club. "On the first night, they presented us with our Team Ontario jackets. That was a pretty special moment."
But it's the High Park jacket, the one their club gave them after a fundraiser to help her team on its way in Kingston, that they're proudest of. McCutcheon, along with Third Kris Wannan, Second Kelly Williams and Lead Susan Chen, wore it on all the stops during the tournament in Kingston (which included a scavenger hunt downtown and a karaoke night).
"Competitive curling can be both physically and mentally demanding – except maybe for the skip," McCutcheon says jokingly, quick to downplay her role.
"At the end of the day, it was nice to sit around with other women from across the country and talk about our lives, how we started curling and about our families."
Hers is full of curlers. Jody, a third-generation curler from Red Rock, Ont., met her husband at the University of Waterloo while the two were both curling Varsity. After graduating, they moved to Toronto, her husband's hometown – where his mother and grandfather attended Humberside Collegiate, just north of the High Park Club – and raised two daughters and a son, all of whom are avid curlers. Her son John, a fourth-generation Humbersider, is on the school team.
In addition to its bronze at the Nationals, Team McCutcheon brought home $5,000 for High Park's youth curling program, as the event's top fundraising team.
"We're a five-sheet club and we always fill them with at least five or six kids per sheet for junior drills. And we have a little rock program with more kids involved."
When asked what the club means to her, she needs a moment.
"The club" – her voice breaks noticeably on the word – "feels like home." She takes another moment to compose herself, before continuing,
"Yeah, it's home. And it means a lot."
Her love for the club, and her team, pushes her. McCutcheon isn't satisfied with the bronze she just brought home from the Nationals, or the silver Team McCutcheon won at the 2011 Nationals, losing to rivals Manitoba.
"This club is so hard to get out of. We didn't even win the club championship last year; Kelly Cochrane's rink won. But Kelly couldn't make it to Kingston in November, so the club sent us to Provincials," held in Niagara Falls in October, where they beat Halifax with a last-shot draw.
It's worth mentioning that Cochrane's rink brought gold home for High Park from the 2009 Nationals.
McCutcheon wants one, too.
"I want to get back to Provincials and with these girls. And if we could just beat Manitoba."
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"The Band of Tomorrow ping-pongs between genres and weaves together harmonic sections in a way no other band would dare to. In the same way, their pre-written lyrics don't shy away from any subject, nor does any special guest find it challenging to make a Band of Tomorrow song their own. This Band structures its mission around an unpredictable and transformative experience - always high energy, always premium quality, based often in familiar melodies and intellectual lyrics, but exploring improvised ideas with every new layer.
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Author: Chealsea Hunt
Sweet Simple Things by Minden is a smooth, relaxing album. It's easy to listen to. Maybe a little too easy, in fact.
The opening number, "Real Sugar," is a calming synth mixed with the gentle strumming of a guitar. Combine that with mellow, almost one note vocals and this easy going, lulling track becomes background music to whatever else is going on.
It's not a bad song, and the band has talent. It's just really missing that hook somewhere towards the end to liven things up.
For the opening number of an album, meant to reel listeners in, "Real Sugar" is a little too relaxed.
Unfortunately, the album never really picks up the pace. It's all too mellow.
The songs, while differing in sound from one another, sound flat in and of themselves. There's very little variation in pitch or tone throughout each track.
Considering there are two vocalists in the band (Casey Burge and Lia Gist), there's plenty of possibilities for the group to shake things up. Their voices are strong, and they each show a broad range across the album as a whole. I just wish they'd provide a little more variety within the individual songs.
Because as it is, each song starts off great. They get my attention – at first. But then when things remain so 'one note', they lose it.
Minden is a talented group; that has to be said. But it's like they're just barely hinting at something. They're on the verge of being great, but for whatever reason, they don't push the boundaries and take it that last step.
Many of the songs on this record, including "Love is Bad" and "Artist Statement" feature 80s style synths, but lack that 80s flare.
Minden has something. They really do. But right now it feels like they're being cautious. They have my attention – for now.
I'll be keeping an eye out for future projects in the hopes that they change things up enough to keep my attention in the long run.


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Rock royalty U2 delivered a massive musical moment last night.
In the first of two Perth concerts, supported by hip-hop and music heavyweight Jay-Z, the unique stage set-up, a back catalogue of huge hits and Bono's charismatic rock star status combined to provide the around 60,000 fans who packed the stadium to the brim with an unforgettable night.
The world class performance and huge "claw", which combined masses of speakers and a mesmerising video screen facing 360 degrees, though was juxtaposed with the almost third world conditions of Perth's biggest stadium, with fans having to wait in mammoth lines if they wanted to enjoy a drink during the concert
he concert drew a crowd that was ready to party from the minute U2 strutted oh-so-cooly onto the stage. Older, young, it was a case of even those in the reserved seating areas spending most of the night on their feet dancing to classic rock tunes like Pride (In the Name of Love), Mysterious Ways, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Walk On.
UK rock band Muse – playing in Bassendean tonight – were there to rock on, as was politician Julie Bishop, all glammed up for the occasion, Dennis Lillee and Adam Gilchrist – who got a mention from Bono as the rock star compared his band to the cricketing champions in town for the Ashes.
After Jay-Z had revved up the crowd with his bouncing hits, the crowd entertained itself by starting a huge wave that eventually roared right around the venue, over and over after those sitting on the western side realised just what was going on.
U2 kicked things off with a rendition of Beautiful Day, on this beautiful warm night with the moon glowing overhead.
When Bono lead the crowd in any manner of audience participation, whether it be hands in the air or a mega-singalong, everyone obeyed.
U2's 360 tour will go down as the biggest ever, and this was the biggest, and most impressive concert Perth has seen. It was visually epic, with Bono at one stage wearing a laser jacket and many cameras hidden all over the alien-like claw capturing every moment while he and The Edge strutted a range of catwalks allowing the masses to get up close and personal with the stars.
One lucky lady, who told the crowd her name was Emily, will never forget her close encounter with Bono, after being pulled up onto the stage only to have him lay in her lap as he sang the romantic In A Little While. While she looked suitably stunned, he slow danced with her, only to leave her with a kiss on the back of the hand.
Bono threatened to end the night's festivities multiple times, but kept coming back for more before the band left in true rock star style, leaving behind a very satisfied audience.


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Wesley So vs. Levon Aronian, Sinquefield Cup 2015, 0-1
A brilliant attacking game by GM Levon Aronian who also won the Sinquefield Cup in the end. GM Wesley So neglected development especially castling. One mistake and Aronian caught So's king in the middle, offered a "free" Knight for the crushing attack, and opened up lines to bring remaining forces to the attack.
So, develop your pieces. Park your king to a nice spot! See what I did there? (¬‿¬)
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When talking to the wife of an ex-CEO and trying to explain why you haven't been back to bring them a new modem, it is best to not use the phrase, "Up to our elbows in alligators". The reason is that your mouth will automatically turn the word elbows into assholes. If the brain isn't paying attention, the mouth will snicker after the word escapes.
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I bet Hillary is happy
Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, will announce Wednesday that he won't make a run for the White House in 2008, FOX News has learned.
The Massachusetts senator will make his announcement on the Senate floor Wednesday and is taping a message to e-mail supporters to thank them for their support.
The Boston Globe reported that Kerry chose not to enter the crowded presidential field so that he can re-dedicate himself to getting his head out of his ass or getting the United States out of Iraq, whichever is easier.
On a side note – Yesterday, I happened to catch a few minutes of Diane Sawyer's interview with Hillary. Diane mentioned former President Clinton several times and each time she did, Hillary referred to the man as "him". As in, "I've spoken with him" or "I mentioned it to him", etc. She never ever used his name. I find that interesting to say the least.


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This is for the truly grown and sexy. If you live in NYC, you know the cost to live here is out of this world. The 12,000 dollars I pay in rent (and believe me that is not the average cost of rent here) in 5 years could pay for half of my mortgage (more actually). Believe me, I think I am going to move LOL. Now that is going to be a long drive home every weekend (cause I wouldn't be going home everyday… that's too crazy).
Move my sister and my Mom in the house, get some renters (maybe college students – and their parents pay the rent – to live there), or maybe start a day care. Got plans man, hope you do too.h
Link: National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index: Most Affordable Housing Markets


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- 2013 - 2016: PhD at SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies (advisors: Prof. G. Dal Maso and Prof. R. Toader)
- V. Crismale, G. Orlando. A Reshetnyak-type lower semicontinuity result for linearised elasto-plasticity coupled with damage in W1,n. NoDEA Nonlinear Differential Equations Appl. 25:16 (2018). [preprint]
- V. Crismale, G. Lazzaroni, G. Orlando. Cohesive fracture with irreversibility: quasistatic evolution for a model subject to fatigue. Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., to appear. [preprint]
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UK, September 10, 2014: Archaeologists of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, led by the University of Birmingham in conjunction with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, have unveiled the most detailed map ever produced of the earth beneath Stonehenge and its surrounding area.
Remote sensing techniques and geophysical surveys have discovered hundreds of new features which now form part of the most detailed archaeological digital map of the Stonehenge landscape ever produced. The startling results of the survey include 17 previously unknown ritual monuments dating to the period when Stonehenge achieved its iconic shape.
Dozens of burial mounds have been mapped in minute detail, including a long barrow (a burial mound dating to before Stonehenge) which revealed a massive timber building, probably used for the ritual inhumation of the dead following a complicated sequence of exposure and excarnation (defleshing), and which was finally covered by an earthen mound.
For the survey, in addition to near-surface geophysical prospection technologies, the archaeologists used three remote sensing methods: aerial photography, laser scanning and airborne imaging spectroscopy. They combined different instruments to scan the area to a depth of three metres, with unprecedented resolution.


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- With Paul Millsap sidelined 2-3 months, the Nuggets' promising season could take a turn for the worst. While Denver has depth, it's not going to be easy to replace their star's production.
Denver's Plan A was a good one: Invest big in Paul Millsap, pair the versatile power forward with franchise center Nikola Jokic, and hope that the unselfish, intriguing frontcourt duo could lead the rising Nuggets back to the postseason for the first time since 2013. Unfortunately, those playoff aspirations may now hinge on Plan B.
The 32-year-old Millsap will reportedly undergo surgery after tearing a ligament in his left wrist during a loss to the Lakers on Sunday. He is expected to miss 2–3 months, placing his projected return sometime between mid-January and the end of the All-Star break. With that timeline, the four-time All-Star is expected to miss between 29 and 41 games.
This injury represents unchartered territory for Millsap, who has long boasted an Ironman reputation. During his 11-plus year career, Millsap has appeared in 94% of his team's games and, until last season, he had never missed more than 10 games in a season. While Millsap has many virtues—basketball intelligence, mobility, two-way play—his reliability and consistency were surely major factors in the Nuggets' willingness to offer him a three-year, $90 million contract last summer. After multiple coaching changes in recent years and assorted reports of locker-room friction in 2016-17, Millsap was and is the ultimate known quantity: skilled enough to handle heavy lifting, determined enough to do the little things, and mature enough to keep the drama at zero.
The Nuggets (10–7) haven't been perfect to start the season—they've suffered three unsightly blowout losses on the road—but they have looked promising. Denver has gotten back to its long-lost habit of smoking teams on its high-elevation home-court, with its only Pepsi Center losses coming against the Warriors and Wizards. The quintet of Jamal Murray, Gary Harris, Wilson Chandler, Millsap and Jokic has posted a stellar +12 net rating while logging the third-most minutes of any lineup in the NBA to date. Millsap filled an obvious defensive hole from last year's group, and his team-first approach on offense has made him a natural fit in a group that features five genuine scoring threats.
Through Tuesday, Denver held the West's sixth-best point differential with a comfortable margin above numerous teams with similar records. If given near-perfect health for its starters, the Nuggets' combination of a top-five offense, an average defense, and a strong home-court advantage looked like a bankable playoff formula.
Instead, the Nuggets could be without their stabilizer for half the season. The good news: Tim Connelly's unusual proclivity for stockpiling players at the same position leaves Malone with multiple Millsap replacement options. The bad news: Denver has fallen from a +4.5 net rating with Millsap on the court to a break-even 0 when he's on the bench this season. In other words, there are healthy bodies to choose from, but all will likely prove to be steep downgrades.
Kenneth Faried, Denver's starter for years, will likely see the greatest uptick in playing time, given that Millsap's arrival forced him to the bench, where he's logged a career-low 10.7 MPG. The aesthetic transition from Millsap will be stark on both ends. Offensively, Faried has no floor-stretching ability and he's not a capable playmaker for others. Even so, he was able to play effectively off of Jokic last season, as the duo posted an eye-popping 121 offensive rating in nearly 500 shared minutes. Defensively, Faried lags badly behind Millsap, who is more comfortable switching through multiple positions, far more aware, and better at utilizing his strength/quickness combination. Playing Jokic/Faried together defensively will inevitably lead to easy buckets and some confused finger-pointing.
The schedule won't really do Denver any favors here. Over the next two months, they are set to play at least 15 games against aspiring playoff teams in the West. That looks particularly foreboding given that just three games separated the West's seventh, eighth and ninth seeds last season, and that at least 11 West teams can currently harbor playoff hopes. Uneven slow-starters like the Thunder and Grizzlies stand to benefit during Millsap's absence, as do the Jazz and Clippers, who have been sidetracked by injury issues of their own. Meanwhile, the Pelicans, gutting admirably through their major depth concerns, need every break that they can get. Suddenly, Denver's decision to release Jameer Nelson, who immediately stepped into major rotation minutes in New Orleans, looks like it could really come back to bite them.
Throughout his career, Millsap's impact has far surpassed his acclaim. While a 2013 move to the East opened the All-Star gates and set him up for a trip to the conference finals with the Hawks, he never broke through as a household name even though his advanced stats consistently suggested he was one of the NBA's most underappreciated players. Ironically, Millsap's absence could wind up providing the cleanest measure of his value. After all, Atlanta went 40-29 with him last year and just 3-10 when he was out injured.
The Nuggets are surely better equipped now than the Hawks were to get by without him, but Millsap is exactly the type of guy who isn't truly appreciated until he's gone.


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