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Bound By Blood And Sand by Becky Allen (Bound By Blood And Sand #1)
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Summary: Jae is a slave in a dying desert world.
Once verdant with water from a magical Well, the land is drying up, and no one remembers the magic needed to keep the water flowing. If a new source isn’t found soon, the people will perish. Jae doesn’t mind, in a way. By law, she is bound by a curse to obey every order given her, no matter how vile. At least in death, she’ll be free.
Elan’s family rules the fading realm. He comes to the estate where Jae works, searching for the hidden magic needed to replenish the Well, but it’s Jae who finds it, and she who must wield it. Desperate to save his realm, Elan begs her to use it to locate the Well.
But why would a slave—abused, beaten, and treated as less than human—want to save the system that shackles her? Jae would rather see the world burn.
Though revenge clouds her vision, she agrees to help if the realm’s slaves are freed. Then Elan’s father arrives. The ruler’s cruelty knows no limits. He is determined that the class system will not change—and that Jae will remain a slave forever.
My Thoughts: Allen delivers a character-driven fantasy that shows a dark and oppressive world, but the bravery and lengths characters will go to bring change!
The best part of this novel was definitely the characters. Allen created her characters with such complexity and wasn’t afraid to show their dark and flawed sides. In doing so, Jae,Tal, Shirrad, and Elan go through immense character development and really come to life on the page.
Additionally there was no romance! Which was definitely a plus for me. With that, more development and focus is given to the characters and plot.
Jae is a slave living in a fantasy desert world. She lives in a house with other slaves (Closests) called Aredann where she among others are forced by their Curse to follow orders by the owner of the property Lady Shirrad to care for it and have minimal freedoms.
From page 1 Jae, is out for vengeance to free herself and her twin brother Tal from the awful Curse and escape after years of oppression.
She discovers there is magic on the property and figures that will be the only way she can bring water back to the land and free herself and other Closests just like her.
A prince from a neighboring land comes to inspect and reveals that the minimal water will leave Shirrad no choice but to vacate.
As the novel progresses prince Elan discovers Jae’s magic and wants to use her to find a magical Well which can bring water back. However, Jae who has been seen as less by Elan’s people (the Highest) is skeptical of his motives and doesn’t trust him.
As Jae learns more about her magic, she discovers there is more to her world’s history than she is lead to believe and that she may be the only one who can bring back the water and free herself once and for all.
However there were 2 issues that prevented this from being a full 5!
1.Pacing: A majority of this novel moved extremely slowly for me personally and that really took me out of the story at times.
I will admit, for me it definitely picks up around the ~70-80% mark and I was hooked to the very end.
2.Elements of world-building:
I felt the world-building (in terms of background history + magic) was quite under-developed. Flashbacks were the general bulk of the historical aspect of the world building and b/c of that I felt the world didn’t feel as rich and developed.
However I applaud the author with her writing style because I could really picture the setting and the characters and overall the plot itself is very unique!!
There were definitely many heart-breaking and emotional moments in this book! Allen weaves in and discusses many topics in this novel such as abuse/assault and social class.
I felt so connected to the main characters Jae, Tal and Elan and could definitely understand their differing points of view + individual struggles over the course of this story!
Bound By Blood And Sand is filled with rich and captivating characters that definitely drive this story and an intriguing world/plot that shows promise for the next installment!


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If you are just starting your journey to buy a tankless water heater, you are likely asking yourself, “What size tankless water heater do I need?” It is probably the most important question when choosing a tankless water heater. People are used to thinking in terms of capacity. Like, a hot water tank for 5 people will require at least a 60-gallon tank. But since … [Read more...] about How to Size A Tankless Water Heater | [2021 Buying Guide]
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Happiness at work is a big topic these days. I spoke to a packed room at the Medford Rotary about it just last week. Even with unemployment still looming large, most people are carrying 150% or more of the workload they were hired for. Companies are cutting their workforce without lowering the expected output. Someone needs to pick up the slack. How can employees stay positive and how can a company justify investing in workforce engagement programs?
How can they not?
The billboard you see above is posted all over the San Francisco Bay area. There are many terrific books on happiness at work, and more and more articles continue to be published as the research continues. Just Google “happiness at work” and you will find articles in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, etc. There is even a great LinkedIn group that I belong to called ‘Happy at Work.’ Check it out!
According to one of my favorite happiness gurus, Shawn Achor, “Nearly every company in the world gives lip service to the idea that ‘our people are our greatest asset’. Yet when the Conference Board Survey came out last year, employees were the unhappiest they have been in their 22 years of tracking job satisfaction rates. Around the same time, CNNMoney reported a survey that indicated 84% of Americans are unhappy with their current job. Mercer’s “What’s Working” survey found that one in three US employees are serious about leaving their current jobs.”
Why is this lack of happiness at work important? Job satisfaction is not only the key predictor of turnover rates. In The Happiness Advantage, former Harvard University professor Achor makes the research case for the fact that the single greatest advantage in the modern economy is a happy and engaged workforce. A decade of research proves that happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: raising sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and accuracy on tasks by 19%, as well as a myriad of health and quality of life improvements. Yet even those companies that do take leadership training seriously still ignore the role that happiness plays in leadership effectiveness.
So the secret is out! Happiness, job satisfaction and fulfillment, and employee engagement are WIN-WIN situations for employees and employers. How does your company invest in yours?
(Photo credit to: Anne Espiritu – Google+ http://bit.ly/pElTPu.)
Great column Chris. As someone who works as a contract employee, happiness for me is the next contract/article/assignment. It’s tough sledding out there. I think anyone who has a full-time job with decent benefits ought to be happy just having that job. Obviously that’s myopic thinking.
It’s a different marketplace for our generation, has been for 10-15+ years. Employers don’t have the same incentive to keep people happy, and the word loyalty doesn’t mean the same thing it did in our parents’ generation on both sides. We’re not as content to work at the same place for 30 years – we tend to job hop.
It’d be nice to work at a job that was exciting, challenging, and rewarded you for hard work. I guess that’s what anyone wants.
Great article, Chris. May I link it to Lightarted Living?
To me it is such a ‘no brainer’ to engage your workforce in challenging and creative work. Satisfied and engaged workers bring so much more to the workplace. It’s unfortunate when employees’ contributions are squashed instead of acknowledged. Our people ARE our greatest assets! Engage them and you unlock the keys to a successful business.
Keep up the good work. Spread the word, Chris!
Good comments, Sue — I would be honored for you to link this to your wonderful blog. Thanks!

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WindyGrid is a real-time situational awareness platform that allows Chicago to break-down data silos and view activity in their city in street operations, licensing, and public safety. Recently launched as an open source project which can be adopted by others for internal operations or improvements to open data portals. Initial versions of WindyGrid in the spring of 2012 only existed as a complicated database that combined a handful of data sources: 911 calls, crimes, and bus locations. Later iterations grew the number of data sources, but was not usable beyond trained database administrators. Ahead of hosting a NATO conference that would require significant work from dozens of city agencies, the City of Chicago developed a user-friendly, map-based interface. For less than $100,000, the city was able to develop an application that allowed for a central query of public safety, licensing, transportation, social media, and weather data. Equivalent systems sold by large vendors are typically much more expensive and longer implementation cycles that the city likely could not afford or install ahead of the NATO summit. In the spring of 2013, the city rolled-out WindyGrid to other departments and continued to make improvements to the application. More departments used WindyGrid to aid in their operations, extending beyond the original scope around public safety. In turn, the city implemented new feature requests to help these teams. In 2015, the City created WindyGrid 2.0--a significant rewrite that was entirely comprised of open source solutions and introduced compatibility with mobile phones and tablets. At the same time, the City launched OpenGrid, which is the open source core that drives WindyGrid. Whereas WindyGrid is used internally, OpenGrid is open source and can be adopted by other cities and used for situational awareness. OpenGrid was also designed to be compatible with the rising number of open data portals. Whereas WindyGrid focused on internal city operations, OpenGrid provides the same ability to explore data for the public. The OpenGrid platform is free, whether used for internal situational awareness or navigating open data.


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The Fall 2015 issue of NO TOFU Magazine features a Chanel Beauty editorial spread that includes new art objects by Dylan Egon. Model Enly Tamella is accessorized in a helmet, headpiece and storm trooper armor created by Egon, all of which fit his aesthetic of merging art and design, as well as highlight his commitment to fine craftsmenship. Below is also an image of his piece IGNI FERROQUE (‘brass knuckle’) shot by Tuukka Koski for a forthcoming book about motocycles. All of these one of a kind objects will be featured in Egon’s next solo exhibition.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- The search is on for a man visiting New York City from Ecuador who went missing on Friday.
As CBS 2's Hazel Sanchez reported, the family of 26-year-old Geovanny Gonzalez stood in the chilly fall air on Sunday passing out fliers with his picture, hoping their efforts will lead to his safe return.
Gonzalez's mother, Estela Luna, said she, her husband and son are in New York for a 10 day vacation visiting family in Brooklyn.
The family said they arrived on Friday morning and a few hours later Gonzalez had vanished.
"We're very, very, very scared for him," said Gonzalez's cousin Robinson Almache.
Almache said the young man is on medication for epileptic seizures, and although he's in his 20s, he has the mind of a 10-year-old.
On the day of his disappearance, Almache said Gonzalez was very eager to see the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. When he was told he had to wait, he took off down Wycoff Avenue near Grove Avenue in Brooklyn, Sanchez reported.
"He went at such a fast pace when my aunt and uncle went to look for him, they saw him a few blocks away," Almache said. "It was too late. By the time they got there he just vanished."
Gonzalez is 6 feet tall and about 180 pounds with black hair and brown eyes, Sanchez reported. He was last seen wearing a brown and grey striped polo shirt, grey pants and black shoes.
His family said he doesn't speak any English, and doesn't have money or his medication.
"We're asking New York just to look up out of our busy day lives. Look up to see Geovanny, to see if he's there. Each one of us, if we're able to do that, might be able to save him," Almache said.
Police K-9 units have been aiding in the search for Gonzalez. Police said his scent was picked up at a nearby subway station, so police believe Gonzalez could be anywhere in the city, or possibly Long Island.
Gonzalez's family said he takes three different medications, two times a day. Because he's not had them, he will likely appear disoriented and weak.
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Some friends of mine have a yellow lab that used to be the sweetest dog. When visitors would come to the door, he would be there to greet them with a lick. He was clearly a very happy and people-loving dog. He was also very good with my friends' two kids. It didn't matter what was going on or what the kids were doing, the dog would kind of just "know" what the right thing to do was, whether that was play fetch if the kids wanted to do that or whether that was hang out elsewhere, as in if the kids were rowdy.
Everything was all well and good until my friends's kids started school (previously there were home all day with a nanny). As soon as the kids were off for 1/2-3/4 day (we're talking 5 yr olds) the dog's behavior changed dramatically. What was once a happy friendly dog is now acting very aggressive and is scaring people. When people come over, the dog barks and growls at the visitors. When I hang out with my friends the dog does antics like run into the kids bedroom, which he knows he is not supposed to do, and grabs their toys and then comes into the room where everyone else is and then proceeds to shred the toy. If you try to take the toy away the bog barks and bares his teeth at you.
The nanny who is helping out with the kids is scared of the dog and doesn't dare get close to him.
Why the sudden change? Since it's not my dog, not my house, it's not really my business, so I'm asking mainly out of curiosity so I can understand my own pets better and why they do or don't do certain things.
Yeah, it could very well be a dog that has had a lot of leeway granted where behavior is concerned and has decided that anything goes. Add to that a dog that has never been trained, and isn't given adequate exercise and this is what you end up with.
I know with my chosen breed, 2-3 years old is still considered adolescence. And I can guarantee that your friend's dog didn't "just seem to know what the right thing to do was". The dog was doing his own thing then, too, but his thing looked enough like the right thing that all was good. As far as he is concerned, the rules are still up to him to decide.
Yes, I think he's "acting out" due to being alone for long periods of time. I think Victoria Stillwell needs to be called...
Truthfully, please tell your friends to get a great, gentle trainer as this dog is probably super smart & is trying to tell them something. Please tell them not to "rehome" him as so many do these days.
Do you think it has something to do with being left alone for longer periods of time because the kids are in school? That's the only major thing I can think of that has changed.
yes I do. Dogs are social, gregarious animals and s/he was used to having people around. Now, when everyone gets home s/he is probably uber excited but the people probably aren't. Bad combination that.
Truly....some treats and a clicker will go a LONG way to helping this dog understand what the people want, if they want to fix the issue.
I agree that it sounds like attention seeking behavior. My young BC mix (13 months) steals illegal items and chews them up ONLY when we are at home. If she were just a destructive chewer, she'd be doing it when we're not home and there was no one to stop her. She wants someone to chase her to get it, tell her "no" or substitute something else for the thing that is "not hers". All of that is attention for her and, as with kids, negative attention is better than no attention.
The kids starting school probably means she is alone more and isn't being played with on and off all day like she was.
For our young dog the solution is EXERCISE and LOTS OF IT. If we can get her out for at least 45 minutes to an hour of: true running, involving going to off leash areas, a lot of swimming, or a good hard wrestle/chase session with a similarly energetic doggie friend (a leash walk will not do it for her), twice a day, the attention seeking behavior is minimal and she's quite easy to get along with.
A 2-3 year old Lab is going to be similar, needing plenty of exercise. If the nanny isn't willing to take the dog out for some good, hard, fun while the kids are at school, maybe they can hire a dog walker to do so? Then another walk/play session with the kids when they get home?
Lab? 2-3 years old? Take ball-thrower, take ball, insert into ball-thrower, throw, take ball off dog (treats help), repeat. Add river/pond/stream - throw ball into water, lab swims out, retrieves, repeat.
Issue is a lack of exercise, a lack of training and a lack of boundaries! Labs actually need the same level of exercise as a Border Collie - and they love it!

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Just what the doctor ordered.
As the Omicron wave of COVID-19 subsides, non-emergency surgeries, including cancer and heart procedures, are resuming, says Health Minister Christine Elliott.
“We are currently tracking towards the best-case projections thanks to the sacrifices of Ontarians and unwavering efforts of our health-care workers,” Elliott said at a Kitchener Walmart store.
Mindful that thousands of procedures were halted by government directive early last month in order to free up hospital beds for COVID patients, many of whom are unvaccinated, the minister said the prognosis is good.
“We intend to lift directive two in the coming days and begin a gradual and cautious resumption of surgeries and procedures,” she said Wednesday.
“The Ministry of Health and Ontario Health are finalizing the details on a phased approach to resuming this care for patients across the province.”
The move came as Ontario announced COVID-19 rapid antigen tests would be available as of Wednesday at more than 2,300 supermarkets, pharmacies, and other retailers.
Some 44 million free tests will be distributed over the next two months.
Elliott emphasized there are no plans to expedite Ontario’s reopening noting additional restrictions will be lifted on Feb. 21 to allow full indoor capacity for restaurants and bars which are currently limited to 50 per cent.
“As we continue to carefully ease public health measures, rapid tests are providing another layer of protection and offer the public an additional tool to confidently do the things they love, like visiting family or dining at their favourite local restaurant,” she said.
“In addition to the millions of rapid tests deployed each week to support priority settings, including hospitals, long-term care homes and schools, working with our retail and community partners we are increasing access to at-home rapid tests.”
There will be a limit of one box of five tests per household per visit to a retailer.
A list of participating outlets can be found at: www.ontario.ca/page/rapid-testing-home-use.
Elliott said high-priority neighbourhoods will also be given additional rapid tests through community centres, places of worship and food banks.
“Providing expanded access to testing for Ontarians will support the province’s cautious approach to easing public health measures,” said Dr. Kieran Moore, the chief medical officer of health.
“While testing is a critical component in our response to COVID-19, vaccination remains the best defence against the virus and its variants.”
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said she was “relieved for the Ontarians who will finally be able to access free rapid tests when they have COVID-19 symptoms or an exposure.”
“Doug Ford should have made free rapid tests widely available in places like grocery stores months ago, instead of cutting access to PCR testing and creating a Hunger Games for rapid tests,” said Horwath, pointing to the test shortages at LCBO outlets before Christmas.
“We have to get rapid tests right this time — which means making sure all Ontarians can access these kits, no matter where they live.”


text: My 4 yr old has bad dreams, hits staff, throws objects, screams, pinches, bites. I'm very worried and concerned that they will no longer watch him. We are living in a transitional living program. My three children and I come for a life time of violence, though I never wanted to admit that was true. Their father never hit me, just never provided therefore, we lived with his mother, who did hit me, throw things, throw my children and me out often. I finally was more scare to stay than to go. But, how do I now help my children? I feel that I have felled to protect them in the past and that I'm felling them now because I don't know how to change the mark this has had on all of my children's lives.

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ROAD safety concerns from police have prompted council bosses to review planned traffic arrangements outside Rotherham’s planned new Tesco.
South Yorkshire Police fear the proposed highway layout will not do enough to stop drivers leaving the £40 million store from turning left onto Drummond Street.
Rotherham Borough Council has agreed to look again at the junction — but insists the right-turn-only exit is needed to prevent congestion from Centenary Way.
A council spokesman said: “Following the approval of proposals by Tesco, it is necessary to amend existing traffic orders to accommodate changes to the surrounding highway network and thereby maintain the safe and free flow of traffic.
“The proposals will also require the construction of a new junction connecting Drummond Street to Centenary Way.
“The changes necessary to accommodate this will need the reversal of the one-way system around Water Street and Effingham Square.”
Rotherham Hackney Carriage Association complained that splitting the taxi rank in two would be confusing for customers.
Its request for all ten spaces to be kept on one side of the road was agreed by councillors.
The spokesman said: “The scheme layout has been revised so all spaces can be accommodated on the north-west side of Effingham Square.
All proposed highway alterations will be financed and constructed by Tesco.


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Vladimir Mayakovsky's Intimate Life — inside the Russian Poet's Love Triangle with Osip & Lilya Brik
The Russian poet was known for pushing boundaries in literature and understanding marriage and love. He formed part of a ménage à trois with a married couple.
Vladimir Mayakovsky was a Russian poet who is remembered for more than just his demanding style of poetry. The Russian native's public love triangle also caused some raised eyebrows.
It was love at first sight for the married couple Osip and Lilya Brik when they set eyes on Mayakovsky at a poetry reading in 1915. Both Osip and Lilya invited the poet into their house and relationship.
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Mayakovsky found a limitless source of inspiration for his poetry as he entered into a polyamorous relationship with Osip and Lilya. Both wife and husband were head over heels for the poet, with Lilya being the first to sleep with him.
Upon hearing of his wife's extramarital affair with Mayakovsky, Osip wasn't in the least taken aback but responded in an unexpected manner which showed the extent of his feelings for the poet. Osip reportedly responded:
"How could you refuse anything to that man?"
NOT ALWAYS HEALTHY
Although filled with passion and emotion, the love triangle wasn't always a healthy situation for the three parties involved. Mayakovsky and the married pair all had other partners, which led to a neverending cycle of jealousy.
The Russian poet's jealousy and insatiable need for love was cause for turbulent relationships with his lovers, bad gambling addiction, and hypochondria did not relieve the tension but rather added to it.
ALWAYS FULL ON
Mayakovsky was known for doing everything to the full and nothing in moderation, which was reflected not only in his approach to love but also in his poetry. His diary speaks to his extreme perspective on love as he wrote:
"Love is life, love is the main thing. My poetry, my actions, everything else stems from it. Love is the heart of everything.”
He is known as one of the first poets to make poetry an art form more relatable to the general public, not only literature for an elite few. Mayakovsky's work was read with an unknown eagerness across the world.
A TRAGIC DEATH
As a forerunner poet part of the Russian Futurism movement which stood for development through technology and withstood traditional approaches, Mayakovsky's romantic explorations were not a surprise.
Mayakovsky tragically ended his own life by shooting himself in April 1930. Only 36-years-old, the poet left Osip and Lilya in shreds and they divorced within the same year.
The Russian poet's unique love that he shared especially with Lilya has gone down as one of the most iconic relationships known in world literature, despite the strange circumstances and sad ending.
A book has been released which contains the correspondence between Mayakovsky and Lilya showing their turbulent and passionate relationship and attesting to the stormy nature of their 15-year-long love.

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A nationwide competition has started in Japan with the support of the authorities, which should popularize alcohol among young people, the Financial Times reported.
As part of the competition, the Japanese should also propose ideas that will arouse the interest of the younger generation in alcoholic products, including sake, Japanese whiskey, beer, wine, liqueurs, etc.
The contest is called Sake Viva!, citizens from 20 to 39 years old can take part in it. It will last until September 9, 2022.
Competitive applications also welcome the bias in artificial intelligence technology and the implementation of the concept of the so-called metaverse in the context of the sale of alcoholic products.


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He is as an expert in energy markets and geopolitics, with a focus on oil market balance evaluation, OPEC analysis, and national energy policies. He is a frequent public speaker on energy issues, is regularly quoted and seen in the press, and has testified multiple times to both houses of the US Congress.
Previously Jamie was a vice president at IHS, where he led the oil markets team.
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After WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum announced he was leaving Facebook Inc. in late April, he has continued showing up at least monthly at the social-media giant’s headquarters.in Menlo Park, Calif., His incentive for making the appearances: about $450 million in stock awards, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Koum’s unusual arrangement with Facebook is one of the more lucrative examples of a Silicon Valley practice sometimes called “rest and vest,” in which the holders of stock grants are allowed to stick around until they qualify to collect a sizable portion of their shares.
Facebook purchased the WhatsApp messaging service in 2014 for $22 billion, and Mr. Koum became a board member shortly after the sale. He decided to leave Facebook earlier this year after a long-simmering dispute with chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandbergover placing ads in the messenger service, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
Mr. Koum stepped back from running WhatsApp day-to-day soon after he announced his departure in a Facebook post on April 30 and said goodbye to employees in an internal meeting the next day, according to people familiar with the matter. The last time Mr. Koum made one of his periodic visits to the office was in mid-July, those people say.
A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment on Mr. Koum’s schedule, but said he remains employed at the company, working on “various projects and helping transition WhatsApp leadership.”
As part of selling WhatsApp to Facebook, Mr. Koum earned about 24.85 million restricted shares, according to his offer letter filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission at the time. The stock has vested in quarterly increments, with the final period taking place in mid-November of this year.
In mid-May, Mr. Koum collected 2.5 million shares worth about $458 million at the time, according to a securities filing. In mid-August, he is set to collect another 2.5 million shares, or about $450 million at Facebook’s stock price of $181 at Tuesday’s close.
The stock awards have been contingent on Mr. Koum being employed at Facebook during that time, or “subject to continued service to us through each vesting date,” according to one Facebook securities filing. Mr. Koum fulfilled that requirement by showing up at Facebook headquarters about once a month, according to two people familiar with the matter. It is unclear what he did on his days in the office or how long he stayed.
If Mr. Koum formally leaves this month, he will forfeit about 2.1 million shares that were set to vest in November 2018, his last vesting date, according to these people. That would have netted him an additional $375 million at Tuesday’s stock price, according to securities filings.
Facebook compensated at least one other executive, Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of its virtual-reality business Oculus VR, who rarely came to the office in the months before he left Oculus in March 2017, according to people familiar with the matter. It isn’t known if Mr. Luckey needed to make appearances at the office to vest his stock awards
Mr. Luckey declined to comment through a spokesperson. Mr. Koum didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Facebook has been dealing with a slew of problems with its platform, including its recent disclosure that fake accounts were being used to spread misinformation ahead of the U.S. midterm elections—and its suspension of a third party firm, Crimson Hexagon, that Facebook said had shared its user data with Russian non-profit with ties to the Kremlin and U.S. government agencies.
Earlier this year, Facebook suspended research firm Cambridge Analytica—saying it improperly accessed the information of millions of users, which sparked governmental hearings on two continents.
Restricted stock awards, or RSUs, are a typical form of compensation for employees and executives, particularly in Silicon Valley where a large number of companies are private. Less common are arrangements where employees collect shares and compensation during a period when they are rarely working, according to executive compensation experts.
WhatsApp’s sale to Facebook made Mr. Koum and his co-founder Brian Acton billionaires. Mr. Koum is worth about $9 billion, and Mr. Acton $3 billion, The Journal reported in June.
Both men staunchly opposed placing advertising in the messaging service and began to disagree with Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg, who wanted to find ways to wring revenue from WhatsApp’s 1.5 billion users.
Mr. Acton resigned in September 2017, leaving behind $900 million in unvested shares, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Koum said he would leave the company about six months later.
Messrs. Koum and Acton had an unusual clause in their contracts that allowed them to collect unvested stock awards if Facebook insisted on making any “additional monetization initiatives” such as advertising in the app, so long as they remained employed at the company, according to a nonpublic portion of the companies’ merger agreement reviewed by The Journal and people familiar with the matter.
Earlier this month, WhatsApp detailed plans to sell advertisements in the messaging service next year and charge companies to interact with customers.
Mr. Luckey, the co-founder of Oculus, also left Facebook under contentious circumstances.
Mr. Luckey sparked anger within the virtual-reality community in September 2016 for donating money to a pro-Donald Trump group that paid for advertising mocking Hillary Clinton.
He apologized, but was sidelined during a major reshuffle of Oculus’ executives in December 2016 and people familiar with the matter say he was rarely seen in the office over the next several months.


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"diamondlil" wrote:I wen tto the library and picked up a load of books tonight! I also then needed to figure out how to create a slideshow to put on my sister's craft blog, so I did a slideshow of the book covers. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working here, so I will have to just list them!
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom DVD
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
Tomorrow when the War Began by John Marsden (audio book)
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Boat by Nam Le
I've seen your slideshow Marg, it looks fabulous ! Well done !


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This is one of my favorite go to recipes! Quick prep time and amazing flavor!
2 Eggs (beaten)
1 cup Round crackers
1 tbsp Garlic Salt
Dash of Black Pepper
2 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts (Halfed)
1/2 cup butter
1. Preheat oven to 400 Degrees
2. Beat Eggs in Bowl #1, Mix Smashed crackers, Garlic Salt, and Pepper in Bowl #2.
3. Cut Chicken breasts in half long, making two tenders.
4. Soak Chicken in Bowl #1, and Than cover in contents of Bowl #2.
5. Place in pan, surround the chicken with chunks of butter.
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A New Progress in Surface Raman Spectroscopy of Platinum Electrode Surfaces
B. Ren, J. L. Yao, X.Q. Li,
W.B. Cai, B.W. Mao and Z.Q. Tian*
State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces,
Institute of Physical Chemistry and Department of Chemistry,
Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
|By using a confocal microprobe Raman spectroscopy in conjunction with a unique electrochemical surface pretreatment procedure for platinum (Pt) electrodes, we are able to extend the detailed surface Raman studies, for the first time, to the adsorption behavior at bare Pt electrodes in a wide potential region. The surface Raman spectra of pyridine, halide ions (Cl– and Br–), redox couple (Fe(CN)63-/4-), have been obtained in the present study.|
Vibrational spectroscopy is a particularly valuable tool for investigating electrochemical surfaces because, with careful experimental design, information is to be had about the species present in the electrochemical double layer. Of the methods available, Raman spectroscopy looks particularly attractive because one can use near UV, visible or nir sources, the electrolyte and the cell containing it are transparent, and relatively conventional electrochemical cells can be used inside the spectrometer sample area. Further, electrochemical stimuli can be applied in situ. On the other hand, Raman spectroscopy is an insensitive technique and hence the method has made little impact on the surface chemical field. In the absence of some form of resonance or surface enhancement assistance, the differential Raman cross-section (d/d)NRS is less than 10-29cm2sr-1 whence a monolayer of an adsorbate will produce less than one photon per second of Raman scatter in a fairly conventional Raman instrument .
The discovery of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) changed the situation for Raman spectroscopy. SERS was first observed by Fleischmann, Hendra and co-workers in 1974 .
Later, two groups (Jeanmair and van Duyne, and Albrecht and Creighton) [3,4] showed that Raman intensities for pyridine adsorbed to electrochemically roughened Ag electrodes were six orders of magnitude larger than those expected from the known differential Raman cross section for pyridine in solution and hence an approximately 106-fold surface enhancement of Raman scattering was being observed. These findings stimulated worldwide experimental and theoretical research into SERS. Several mechanisms to explain the effect have been proposed. Among various propositions, two kinds of models have appeared, classified as “electromagnetic” (EM) and “chemical” or “charge transfer” (CT) enhancement. These have been widely accepted as the two main contributions to the giant surface enhancement [5-8]. In the past two decades, with its relative simplicity and considerable sensitivity, SERS has provided a wealth of information on our understanding of solid/liquid and solid/gas interfacial structures, but its application has been restricted very largely to noble metals such as Ag, Au and Cu. This is unfortunate because so much electrochemical research concentrates on platinum and other transition element surfaces which are of value as electrocatalysts. Further, conducting polymers are of vital interest. As a consequence, considerable effort has been expended on extending the range of metals accessible to SERS [9-18]. Of all the efforts, perhaps that centred on the Pt electrode is of the utmost importance, in view of its high electrocatalytical activity, its wide polarizable potential window in practical applications, and its value in fundamental studies of interfacial structures and reactions. Historically, one way to extend Raman spectroscopy to the study of the adsorption at Pt electrodes is to coat the metal onto SERS active Au electrodes as an ultrathin film using underpotential deposition (upd) , or alternatively electroplating silver islands onto a Pt substrate . Now the EM enhancement created at gold or silver surfaces is relatively long in range hence weak but observable and hence relatively weak SER spectra of adsorbates on Pt have been obtained.
However, it is very difficult in this complex and demanding method to eliminate entirely the possibility that adsorbate bound to the exposed parts of the gold (Ag) or at the boundary between the platinum and gold (Ag) does not contribute to the resultant spectra. The most appropriate, but unfortunately the most difficult, approach would be to obtain surface Raman spectra directly from the bare metal surface without the complexity of the sandwich configuration (adsorbate/transition metal/SERS active metal). This important goal has attracted many groups since the earliest days of surface Raman spectroscopy. In 1977 Cooney et al. observed the C-O stretching band of very low intensity from the system CO adsorbed onto a platinized Pt electrode . After more than ten years, Bilmes et al. reported an interesting approach. They obtained weak SERS signals from pyridine at electrodispersed Pt electrodes by using a unique roughening procedure to obtain a high surface area . Furthermore, with the recent advances in Raman technique using interferometric (FT-Raman) or dispersive instrumentation, including CCD cameras, three groups have attempted to make a relatively straightforward observations of normal (or resonance) Raman signals from organic molecular layers over smooth mechanically polished Pt electrodes. These have included Pettinger et al. , Fleischmann et al. , and Pemberton et al. . In all of these reports on bare platinum electrodes [14-18] the surface spectra had to be obtained under absolutely optimized conditions or by some sort of difference spectrum method, due to the insufficiency of signal intensity. Unfortunately, in all these cases, the signals were too weak to be investigated as a function of electrode potential. As a consequence, there have been no new reports on work at bare platinum electrodes in the past four years, indicating the extreme difficulty of investigation of the adsorption behaviour of this metal.
Very recently, taking advantage of a confocal Raman microprobe , and especially a unique electrochemical oxidation-reduction (ORC) procedure to get an electrochemically activated platinum electrode surface , we have been able to extend, for the first time, the detailed surface Raman studies to bare platinum electrodes over a wide potential region (e.g. -1.0 V to +1.4 V vs SCE) and to more general adsorbates such as SCN, CO and hydrogen, where the Raman scattering cross section [20,21] is small.
In this paper we will show, first that the advance in Raman instrumentation, and the pretreatment of electrode surfaces, are both necessary if one is to obtain good quality surface Raman signals. We will do so by comparing the surface spectra for pyridine adsorption on smooth and over roughened Pt electrodes. Then, the spectra of chloride and bromide anion adsorption on Pt will be presented to demonstrate that surface Raman spectroscopy can be successfully applied to detect the adsorbate-metal interaction in the very low frequency region (< 300 cm-1). Finally, we will demonstrate spectra of the redox couple, Fe(CN)63-/4- which serves as an example to illustrate the feasibility of this technique to monitor electrochemical reduction-oxidation processes in general.
Raman spectra were obtained using a confocal microprobe Raman system (LabRam I). The microscope attachment is based on an Olympus BX40 system and uses a 50x long working-length objective (8mm) so that the objective need not be immersed in the electrolyte. A holographic notch filter is incorporated to filter the exciting line and two selected holographic gratings (1800 g/mm and 300 g/mm) were employed. A CCD was used as the detector. The exciting wavelength was 514.5 nm from an Ar+ laser with a power of 30 mW and a spot of ca.3 m on the surface. The slit and pinhole in the experiments were 100 m and 600 m respectively. With the 1800 g/mm holographic grating, the spectral resolution is 1.5 – 3.0 cm-1 varying with the spectral region. A PAR 173 potentiostat was employed for potential control.
A polycrystalline Pt rod was embedded in a Teflon sheath and used as the working electrode with a geometric surface area of 0.1 cm2. Since proper surface treatment is essential if one is to obtain good quality surface Raman spectra, a roughening procedure was applied to raise the surface Raman signal by increasing the number of adsorptive sites. It was reported by Arvia and co-workers that Pt electrodes of a relatively large surface area can be obtained in acidic electrolytes via the electroreduction of a previously formed thick hydrous Pt oxide layer by applying a repetitive periodic potential [23,24]. In the present study, the Pt electrode was first mechanically polished with 0.3 and then 0.05 m alumina powder to a mirror finish, followed by ultrasonic cleaning with triply distilled water. The working electrode was then roughened by a procedure similar to that reported by Arvia et al. . In our case, a mild modification was made to obtain a better surface Raman signal, e.g. a square wave of 2 kHz with upper and lower potential of 2.4 V and -0.2 V was applied to the electrode in 0.5 M H2SO4 for 5s to 10 min, depending on the purpose of the study. The potential was then held at -0.2 V until the electroreduction of the surface was completed. The electrode was then subjected to potential cycles between -0.25 V and +1.2 V at 0.5 V/s until all unstable atoms or clusters were removed and a reproducible hydrogen adsorption/desorption peak was obtained, as shown in Fig.1. The surface area can be estimated by the charge quantities of hydrogen adsorption/desorption in the cyclic voltammogram. In most cases, the roughening time was about 10 min, the real surface area is ca. 400 times larger than that of the single crystal. Finally, the electrode was rinsed thoroughly and transferred to the spectroelectrochemical cell for measurement. A large platinum ring served as the counter electrode. All the potentials quoted are versus the saturated calomel electrode (SCE). All the chemicals used were of analytical reagent grade and solutions were prepared using triply distilled water.
1. Pyridine adsorption at smooth and roughened Pt electrodes
Figure 1: Cyclic voltammogram of a roughened platinum electrode in 0.5 mol l-1 H2SO4.
Fig. 2(a) shows a set of potential dependent Raman spectra of pyridine adsorbed at the smooth Pt electrode. The measurements were carried out in steps, starting from the negative extremity of the potential toward more positive ones, with a spectral acquisition time of 900s for each spectrum. The present result appears to be the first report of potential dependent Raman spectra from smooth Pt electrodes. The experiment has succeeded because of the sensitivity of the confocal microscope – spectrograph – CCD combination. Furthermore, since the confocal microscope has a very good vertical spatial resolution, only a very small amount of the solution is sampled. Therefore, interference from strong Raman signals arising from the bulk solution phase can be effectively eliminated and the different spectrum method for the in-situ IR measurement is unnecessary. In the present study the electrolyte layer is about 1mm thick. However, it can be seen from Fig. 2(a) that a weak band due to the ring breathing mode located at 1004 cm-1 from pyridine in solution, and the broad band due to the HOH bending vibration mode from bulk water do not obstruct the appearance of the surface Raman signal of the adsorbed pyridine at potentials more negative than -0.8V.
Figure 2: Potential dependent surface Raman spectra of pyridine adsorbed at smooth (a), roughened (b), platinized (c) platinum electrodes.
Solution: 0.01 mol l-1 pyridine + 0.1 mol l-1 KCl.
It should be pointed out that acquisition of the above spectra is really time-consuming. Although it took 900s to obtain each spectrum in Fig. 2(a), a relatively long accumulation time in this type of spectroscopy, the S/N (signal to noise) ratio is still not good enough for practical applications. Obviously, one would wish to persist with smooth surfaces but we decided to try roughened ones, because roughening should enhance the spectral intensity. Using a platinum electrode roughened as described above, we were able to obtain much more intense potential dependent surface Raman spectra of pyridine as shown in Fig. 2(b). Good quality Raman spectra from adsorbed pyridine adsorption could also be obtained from a platinized Pt electrode Fig. 2(c), but plating metallic platinum from a solution containing PtCl42- or even Pb2+ ion may introduce some impurities to the platinized electrodes. One striking difference between Fig. 2(a), Fig. 2(b) and Fig. 2(c) is that the strong pyridine bands over a smooth platinum surface can be observed at -1.0V, but gave extremely weak signals over the roughened surface. Moreover, their potential dependence is also different. These suggest different interactions are occurring between the pyridine and smooth vs roughened surfaces, a point which will be discussed in detail elsewhere . By comparing the surface Raman signal intensity of pyridine over a smooth with that from a roughened metal surface, an enhancement factor of 10-100 was estimated . We emphasize that the platinum electrodes were found to be surprisingly better than Ag, Cu and Au in terms of their stability and reversibility for spectroelectricochemical measurements. The Raman signal could be entirely recovered upon returning to more positive values after a highly negative potential excursion. Moreover, the electrode can be re-used repetitively, provided that the electrode is electrochemically cleaned by cycling in a H2SO4 solution prior to each new experiment. This strongly suggests that the vibrational properties of the adsorbate are reasonably representative of the entire surface, not of some anomaly, an essential requirement for surface Raman spectroscopy to become a general and reliable technique for a wide range of practical applications.
Unfortunately, without the roughening procedure, it is time consuming work to obtain potential dependent surface Raman spectra even for molecules possessing a large Raman cross section and it is obviously impossible to obtain a surface Raman signal from other less favourable molecules. Many of these are of importance and significance, but their small Raman cross section eliminates them from this type of study. It is clear that both the roughening procedure and the advance in Raman instrumentation have contributed to the success of our present work. The following sections are here to demonstrate the applicability of surface Raman spectroscopy to other fundamental or practical systems.
2. Specific adsorption of halide ions on Pt surfaces
The adsorption of halide and pseudohalide ions is one of the most extensively studied systems due to their fundamental importance in surface electrochemistry . They can specifically adsorb on many metals and thus play a significant role in determining the electrode process, such as underpotential deposition (upd) . The vibrational spectroscopic study of their adsorption behaviour has been limited to the SERS-active electrodes , because the only accessible vibrational modes of these systems are the bending and stretching of X-M and X-X in the low frequency region, where both the IR and SFG techniques are extremely difficult to operate. Using our newly developed Raman methods, we have successfully obtained vibrational information of metal adsorbate interactions in the low frequency region; lower than 300 cm-1 shift.
Fig. 3 shows the first Raman spectra obtained over Pt electrode showing the vibration mode of Pt-X. It can be seen from Fig. 3(a) and (b) that, in Cl– and Br– systems, the vibrational bands of Pt-Cl (289 cm-1) and Pt-Br (193 cm-1) are markedly increased in intensity and frequency when positive potentials are used. Significant changes in the frequency and intensity could be detected at the potentials where platinum oxidation occurs,(a band located at ca. 554 cm-1 is attributed to the vibration of Pt-O). For chloride ion, the changes may be due to special interactions between the platinum and the anion, but for bromide ion change is more dramatic. The emergence of bands positioned at 334 cm-1 and at 203 cm-1 and 173 cm-1 may well correspond to the stretching and bending vibration modes of Br-Br and Br3- respectively . The band at 243 cm-1 is probably due to the stretching vibration of Pt-Br influenced by the adsorbed Br2. By comparing Fig. 3(a) and (b), it can be found that the Pt-Br vibrational band can be discerned at -0.4V, whilst in the chloride ion system, Pt-Cl started to appear at -0.2V. On the other hand, the oxidation of Pt was postponed to +0.8V in the bromide system, while in chloride, the potential was -0.5 V.
From the above comparison, one can conclude that the adsorbability of bromine is stronger than that of chlorine.
Raman spectroscopy has been used in the past not only for detecting adsorption/desorption processes, but also for monitoring the reduction/oxidation (redox) processes occurring at electrode interfaces, thus revealing something of the electrode kinetics. The Fe(CN)63-/4- redox couple is often considered as a model system for electrode kinetics studies [30-32]. In-situ spectroscopic studies of this couple can provide molecular level information for kinetic studies. There have been some IR studies on this process , but the Raman ones have been restricted to Au [34,35] using SERS. No serious surface Raman study at platinum electrodes has been attempted. Recently, we obtained the Raman spectra of Fe(CN)63-/4- during the redox process over roughened platinum electrodes for the first time. In Fig. 4(a) surface Raman spectra illustrate the oxidation process of the Fe(CN)64- ion. It can be seen that two bands positioned near 2054 cm-1 and another at 2110 cm-1 could be detected at potentials from 0 to 100 mV, and due to the stretching vibrations of the CN- ligand correlated to Fe(CN)64-. Further, moving the electrode potential to 200 mV leads to a decrease in intensity of these two ones and they are replaced by two new bands at 2134 cm-1 and near 2155 cm-1 corresponding to the vibrational bands of Fe(CN)63-. This ion produces higher frequencies of vibration than in Fe(CN)64-. The reason is that the -bond of the CN ligand in Fe(CN)63- is much stronger than that in Fe(CN)64-. Accordingly, one can reliably assume that at potentials positive of 0.2 volts, Fe(CN)64- is oxidized to Fe(CN)63-. Fig. 4(b) presents Raman spectra obtained from the reduction process of Fe(CN)63- and arises by scanning potentials from 0.6 to 0V. It seems that Fe(CN)63- is adsorbed strongly at the electrode at 0.6V with two bands near 2134 and 2155 cm-1. Moving the electrode potential positively leads to a decrease in intensity of the two bands which are in turn replaced by features close to 2061 and 2110 cm-1, corresponding to vibrational bands of Fe(CN)64-. These appear at potentials positive of 0.2V.
The SERS technique, although of immense value, has always been restricted to the copper, silver and gold surfaces. As a result there has been a tendency to use the method for low level analysis, the amount of electrochemical information has been relatively sparse.
By using a unique surface pretreatment procedure in combination with the confocal microscope Raman system, a wealth of information has now been obtained on molecules adsorbed to Pt electrodes, e.g. for pyridine, Cl–, Br– and Fe(CN)63-/4-. Although the structural information discerned from the present results is incomplete and rather qualitative in nature, it clearly demonstrates the virtues of surface Raman spectroscopy in yielding information on surface bonding relating it to the surface coverage, coadsorbates, electrolyte ions and electrolyte potential. It should also be emphasized that the stable and reproducible dispersed Pt surface used in our Raman measurements also offers high electrocatalytic activity and negligible redistribution of the active properties close to those of catalytic materials . Therefore, it must be promising to extend our studies on surface Raman spectroscopy to ultrahigh vacuum environments and to gas/metal interfaces. The progress reported in this article provides a good reason to be optimistic that surface Raman spectroscopy will eventually be used as widely as surface infrared absorption for the study of metals of great practical importance.
Furthermore, we assume with confidence from our results that surface Raman spectroscopy can be extended to investigate adsorption to semiconductors and dielectric films, especially when further improvements in surface pretreatment appear and Raman instrumentation gains sensitivity.
This work is financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China and the State Education Committee of China.
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Some experts on the media say that entertainment can be more successful than news at providing insights into certain institutions, medicine being a good example. US television series that feature physicians as the central characters have been immensely popular. In the early series, dating back to the 1952 debut of City Hospital, the physician was an all-powerful hero working in a sparkling centre of healing, with medicine portrayed as a resource freely available to all. The programmes began to change in the 1970s. Plots centred more around the physicians' personal problems than on the patients, but economic and health-policy issues were still rarely discussed adequately. In the end, what viewers come away with may lead them towards false expectations, and they may increasingly blame doctors for decisions that others make and enforce.
Turow, J. (1996). Television Entertainment and the US Health-Care Debate. Lancet, 347 (9010), 1240-1243. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(96)90747-3
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TALLAHASSEE -- Want the real reason Florida State won't schedule South Florida in baseball? The Bulls aren't any fun to play.
Trying to repeat a scene all too familiar to Florida State, fifth- seeded USF took the Seminoles to the nerve-wracking brink at Dick Howser Stadium before falling 4-2 Thursday night after a seventh-inning collapse in the first round of the NCAA's East Regional.
Second-seeded FSU finally solved Bulls pitcher David Hutchison -- and even got some help from him -- to avoid slipping into a regional losers' brack- et for the second year in a row.
"For us to get in the losers' bracket the first day and to think we have a chance -- a real good chance -- to win this thing would be very, very difficult," said relieved FSU coach Mike Martin. "It's still critical that we win (today), but it's less critical."
Arguably, it's no less difficult.
The Seminoles (45-17) won the right to face fourth-seeded Notre Dame (44-14), champions of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, tonight at 7.
South Florida (40-18) plays an 11 a.m. elimination game against the University of Central Florida, a 11-6 loser to top-seeded Long Beach State.
Notre Dame stunned Mississippi State 15-1, which ties a Bulldogs' school record for their worst loss.
Regardless of what hitting challenges the Fighting Irish present, FSU breathed easier late Thursday knowing they'd escaped a would-be rival.
They eclipsed a two-run deficit with three runs in USF's mistake- filled seventh inning, then padded a one-run lead with a single run in the eighth.
After inheriting a 2-0 count with one out and a runner on second in the seventh, John Nedeau won his third game in six decisions with two innings of relief of starter John Wasdin.
"Coach Martin came out after the game and congratulated us and said, 'We were lucky,"' USF coach Eddie Cardieri said. "I said, 'No, coach, you were better.' It was a good game. It could have gone either way, but FSU was just a run or two better when our defense broke down."
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Melanie Roche and Chrissy Oliver combined on a three-hitter as Oklahoma State beat Florida State 5-2 in the opening round of the College Softball World Series.
Roche (31-4) allowed one hit and struck out seven in four innings. Oklahoma State (49-7) scored three runs in the fourth and two in the fifth against the Seminoles (52-8).
FSU plays an elimination game Saturday against Connecticut.


And Bruce Springsteen E-Street Band Return to Ireland 2023As part of a new world tour.
A new world tour
Bruce Springsteen fans around the world could not contain their excitement The boss An international tour is set to begin next year.
The “Bone in the USA” singer and e-street band will arrive in Dublin on May 5 and 7, 2023 for two concerts at the RDS Arena.
Commenting on the tour, Springsteen said, “Six years later, I can not wait to see our amazing and loyal fans next year.
“I can not wait to share the stage with the legend again E-Street Band. See you there next year and beyond. “
Two evenings at RDS mark seven years after Springsteen’s first gig in Ireland River Tour And performances in Croke Park, Dublin in May 2016.
Tickets are on sale this Friday!
Springsteen is famous for its nearly three-hour concert that spans 50 years!
Ireland has previously hosted legendary Springsteen concerts, including a two-hour show. Point Theater (at this time 3 ArenaIn 2006, it was released as a live album Lives in Dublin.
Tickets for the tour will go on sale this Friday (May 27) at 8 p.m. Ticket Master.
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In order to check possible novel neutron detectors based on composite semiconductor detectors containing nuclides with large cross sections for neutron, we tested their response to alpha particles. In the present paper we describe results obtained with composite samples made of hexagonal Boron Nitride particles bound with Polystyrene or Nylon-6. The samples were tested under 5.5 MeV alpha particle radiation emitted from 241Am source and 4.8MeV alpha particle of 226Ra source. Some of the responses of these composite detectors to thermal neutrons were already reported and here we shall show some newer results obtained with thermal neutrons, from a low intensity 241Am - 9Be and also from a medium intensity 252Cf source, which were thermalized using 10 cm thick paraffin. The Alpha detection experiments show that all the tested samples, regardless of the binder, show a well-defined peak around the 270 energy channel. There was very little polarization of the alpha radiation, since the amplitude of the alpha peak is reduced after ∼ 2min from start of the irradiation, from 100% to 95% and it stayed stable at this level for another 10 minutes. The alpha spectrum detected from a PbI2 single crystal is also shown for comparison. The neutron spectrum obtained by the composite BN samples showed an apparent peak around the 150 energy channel. The Signal to noise ratio for neutron detection from radionuclide shown here is about 2 only, whereas recent results to be published later, obtained with our composite BN detectors from a neutron beam of about 107 sec-1cm-2 is ∼2 5 The 1.4 and 1.7 MeV alpha peaks resulting from the nuclear reaction of thermal neutrons with 10B of the boron nitride detector are not buried in the noise range. The capacitance noise requires small contact areas, therefore for large area detectors it is necessary to produce an electronic read-out device which can add up a multitude of small (less than 10sq.mm) pixilated contacts.


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Dawson Ranks High For His Speed
March 31, 2011
FORT WORTH, Texas -- TCU wide receiver Skye Dawson has been ranked by ESPN.com as the sixth-fastest player in the nation.
A junior from Mesquite, Texas, Dawson won the 60 meters at the 2010 Mountain West Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 6.69. He was also part of a Horned Frog 4x100 meter outdoor relay team that won the MWC title and ranked in the top five in the nation.
As a senior at Dallas Christian School, Dawson ran a 10.43 to win the Texas Relays 100-meter dash. He also won the state title in the 100, 4x100 and long jump.
Dawson placed sixth on the Horned Frogs last season with 12 receptions for 170 yards (14.2 average). He had at least one catch in nine games, including a season-best four receptions for 69 yards in a 30-21 victory over Oregon State.


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Generally, I cook with leftovers in mind.
My kids could eat Asian food 7 days a week, 3 meals a day.
There are many nights where I will make this salad
Loaves make great gifts. Especially mini loaves.
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In addition to the problems on the Underground from Liverpool Street, rail services in and out of Liverpool Street main line station were disrupted due to an overhead wire problem between Elsenham and Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex.
This is affecting travellers on services run by the Greater Anglia and CrossCountry train companies.
More top news
Laura Schwartz, former White House aide to Bill Clinton, tells ITV News about the importance of the inauguration.
The council blames Westminster for cutting funding and say the rise is crucial to be able to afford social care.
Tom Bradby will present an ITV News special programme live from Washington DC as Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th American President.


Authorities in Mauritius were battling a huge oil spill from a Japanese vessel off the coast of the popular tourist island on Friday.
Photographs from the air showed the oil slick spreading through the turquoise waters off the island. Other images in local L’Express newspaper showed blackened beaches and dead marine life.
Greenpeace said the spill would have devastating consequences.
“The Japanese oil tanker MV Wakashio ran aground around July 25 and is now leaking tons of diesel and oil into the ocean,” said Happy Khambule, Greenpeace Africa climate and energy campaign manager.
“Thousands of species around the pristine lagoons of Blue Bay, Pointe d’Esny and Mahebourg are at risk of drowning in a sea of pollution, with dire consequences for Mauritius’ economy, food security and health.”
Deborah de Chazal, executive director of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, which is working with the government to address the disaster, told dpa the boat was carrying 4,000 tons of oil.
“Booms have been installed to collect the oil near the wreck and others to protect some key sites including Blue Bay Marine Park,” she said.
“Help and equipment is being brought in from abroad as Mauritius has limited equipment in the country to address the oil spill. I understand there are discussions to see if the remaining oil can be pumped from the wreck.”
The crew of the Panamanian-flagged ship the Wakashio, which ran aground, are in quarantine on the island – which is located off the east African coast – local media reported.
The freighter, owned by Nagashiki Shipping in Okayama, Japan, was en route to Brazil from Singapore.
“In order to prevent an adverse environmental impact as much as possible, we have put up a fence and started recovering the oil,” a company official said.


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S&P Dow Jones Launches 5 More Crypto Indexes; One Tracks 240 Coins
S&P Dow Jones launches new cryptocurrency index
It’s the first major expansion of S&P’s crypto benchmarking tools since entering the market in May.
Cryptocurrency Unlimited believes this is one of the first steps in cryptocurrency becoming standard.
S&P’s website said the “index is meant to reflect a broad investable universe.” S&P’s crypto data partner Lukka did not immediately respond to CoinDesk. HXRO is the 240th-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, according to CoinGecko, though it’s unclear if S&P’s selection criteria is based on size.
This is great news for bitcoin & cryptocurrency.
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"The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight" by Jennifer E. Smith
Age Group: Young Adult
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. She's stuck at JFK, late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon to be step-mother that Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's in seat 18B. Hadley's in 18A.
Twists of fate and quirks of timing play out in this thoughtful novel about family connections, second chances and first loves. Set over a 24-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it.
That title is a mouthful and it's one of my favorite parts of the book. It's the first thing that got me interested in reading this book and I love how the author ties it into the story. The story takes place over the course of one day and it's amazing how realisticly everything develops with our characters in such a short time. It's a story about love, family and figuring yourself out.
We start off with Hadley rushing to make her flight to London, so she will get there in time for her father's wedding. She barely misses the flight and ends up on a later one. This is where Oliver comes in, because he is also on her new flight and takes an interest in Hadley while they are waiting to board. I loved both Hadley and Oliver. They were real characters with real issues they were dealing with, but at the same time they were
both just two teenagers trying to get to know each other. A good share of the story takes part with the two of them on the plane and the conversations range from serious to down right funny. It's amazing how much you are willing to open up to a stranger when you are couped up in a small space for hours. Once they make it to London Hadley and Oliver have to go their seperate ways and we get to go with Hadley to her fathers wedding. Even though I missed Oliver, I really liked this part, because we got to see a little deeper into Hadley and where her resentment stems from. The story here shows that life is complicated and confusing, and sometimes it doesn't turn out the way we want it to.
I love the way the story wraps up, it truly was a perfect ending for this particular journey and I'm so glad I got to go on it with these characters. I can't wait for everyone to be able to read it and fall in love with Hadley and Oliver, too :0)
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The first Cage event attracted a prize pool of $330,000.
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Dubai bank provides $41m for Meliá hotel within Zaha Hadid's The Opus
Omniyat secured financing from Mashreq Bank for fit-out work of ME Dubai Hotel within Zaha Hadid-designed project
Dubai real estate developer Omniyat has secured funding worth $40.8m (AED150m) from the UAE’s oldest privately-owned bank, Mashreq, to implement fit-out works for a hotel within the Zaha Hadid-designed Opus in Downtown Dubai.
The funds will help complete the fit-out of ME by Meliá Dubai, which is due to launch in December 2019.
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NOT-NS-18-080 The NINDS, with other NIH Institutes and Centers participating in the HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative, intends to publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit applications to discover and validate novel nonaddictive pain targets.
The focus of this FOA will be on the basic science discovery of targets in the peripheral nervous system, central nervous system, immune system or other tissues in the body that can be used to develop pain therapeutics that have minimal side effects and little to no abuse/addiction liability. Research that will be supported by this FOA must include rigorous validation studies to demonstrate the robustness of the target as a pain treatment target. These studies should have the goal of definitively determining the utility of a potential target for future therapeutic and/or device development.
This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop meaningful collaborations and responsive projects.
This FOA is expected to be published in October 2018 with an expected application due date in November 2018.


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According to the most recent numbers released by Kelley Blue Book, Hyundai now has the strongest brand loyalty among its customers. Over the past year Hyundai owners looking to purchase another Hyundai went up 10.4 percent to a total of 56.4 percent, outranking long-time first-place brand Toyota. Honda, meanwhile, continues to hold on to the second place position.
KBB lists the reason for the jump as both the result of exciting new products from Hyundai like the Sonata and Tucson as well as the Korean automaker benefiting from other factors. Included in those are the Toyota's recent recall woes and relatively stale products by Honda.
Hyundai has also finally entered onto KBB's Top 10 Most-Researched New Vehicles list, with the new 2011 Hyundai Sonata now ranking fifth in February, surppassed only by such industry mainstays as the Accord, Civic, Camry and CR-V.
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A Hymn To Venus And Cupid - Poem by Robert Herrick
Sea-born goddess, let me be
By thy son thus graced, and thee,
That whene'er I woo, I find
Virgins coy, but not unkind.
Let me, when I kiss a maid,
Taste her lips, so overlaid
With love's sirop, that I may
In your temple, when I pray,
Kiss the altar, and confess
There's in love no bitterness.
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Defense attorneys contended the sting violated state law because of Dateline 's involvement with Perverted-Justice and petitioned to have related videos, statements and photos suppressed.
They'll have stared at girl after girl, umming and ahhing over their chest sizes, until they found just the right one.
Once the hook is baited, the fish jump and run with it like you wouldn't believe." 28 In contrast, Montopoli contends that this alone may render Predator -related cases vulnerable to the defense of entrapment.
The court reasoned that in a drug sting the target is being invited to make a snap decision but, in contrast, driving to a remote meeting location afforded the defendants plenty of time to change their minds prior to reaching the destination where they planned.Most of them were also put on sex offender probation."Chris Hansen will be catching predators on 'Crime Watch Daily.Bail is usually set between 30,000 and 50,000 per suspect.The investigation was covered soundtrack frau2 missbruk lyckligt slut by sex kontakter paderborn Dateline NBC for a two-show edition of To Catch a Predator that aired on July 18 and July 25, 2007.She replied that she would do so on the condition that he would strip naked after entering the house.33 It was suggested that this payment created a potential conflict of interest for Perverted-Justice, an organization run largely on the efforts of volunteers, and furthermore, that for Dateline to pay this fee would be tantamount to paying news sources, a practice widely frowned upon.Volunteers never initiate contact with the person, all communication begins with the offender, and contributors never instigate lewd conversations or talks of sexual meetings.He had heard Chris Hansen on the Opie and Anthony radio talk show.9 Long Beach, California edit In September 2006, Perverted-Justice and Dateline once again worked with law enforcement in California, this time in Long Beach at 5278 E Mezzanine Way, to arrest 38 men over three days.42 In the summer of 2016, Hansen became the host of the syndicated television news magazine Crime Watch Daily, with Hansen.Lee DeBrabander: He's already demonstrated that he's not going to listen to the orders of the police officers.Hansen also had to go look for a bottle of water for the man when he asked for one in which case Hansen made one of his typical humorous comments: "running around naked probably dried you." Before the man went outside the house.Love and Weiss also claimed that Conradt's death was shrugged off by many in Murphy's police force, and the two of them left the department in disgust.This installment of To Catch a Predator featured a man who became so ill while being interviewed by Chris Hansen that he passed out and crashed head-first into the bottom section of a counter.Nonetheless, this segment aired on January 30 and February 6, 2007.The operation was done in a house at 1252 Caloosa Drive in Fort Myers, Florida and saw 24 men arrested in three days."Ethics of NBC's Sting Show 'To Catch a Predator, Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, January 16, 2007 When Smith tries to run from the deputies, he's shot by a Taser and knocked to the ground.Boom!" in which a killer lures child predators to his home by pretending to be an underage girl online, he then proceeds to torture and kill them.Like the first one, Hansen gave him a towel to cover himself with.In some jurisdictions, online solicitation with the belief that the other person is below the age of consent is a crime, regardless of whether the other person actually.
This second location was also rigged with cameras and microphones and had police hiding in a bunker below the deck.
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