What has 94 bands, temperatures in the upper 90s (if your lucky), and about 120,000 people?
I'll give you a hint: it's seven years old, lives in the California desert and its friends call it "Coachella," although you might want to call it the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Concert promoter Goldenvoice once again managed to assemble a five-stage mix of what's going on in music today: Kanye, Madonna, Daft Punk, Scissor Sisters, Matisyahu, Massive Attack, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, to drop some of the big names.
The first of my two-days of soaking in music in the desert began with ... a forgotten ticket. Just as my friend and I approached the parking lot, I noticed a scalper with a sign and, UGGGHH, my stomach turned inside out as I realized I had just added a three-hour round trip to my day and pushed my first concert back to 4 p.m. Sorry, Walkmen. Too bad, Wolfmother. Next time, Hybrid featuring Perry Farrell.
OK, so there weren't too many bands I was crazy about in those first few hours. But I would have much rather checked out some new-to-me acts then aggressively passed seniors in Cadillacs as I made my way back to my friend's place in Palm Springs and back to Indio.
My day began with Animal Collective, the Brooklyn foursome whose online samples promised a mix of genre-defying sounds and ambient-leaning songs — some of which might rock. In reality, the foursome was a screaming mess. Maybe they thought they had to make an impression at the Outdoor theater. But at one point their singer yelled something that sounded like "This is torture!" repeatedly while storming around.
Rapper Common picked up the slack over at the Coachella stage, the largest venue. Common (aka Chicago's Rasheed Lynn) worked the very-white crowd as best he could, at one point inviting "H.G." a bikini-topped audience member to be his on-stage girl for a song. Common break danced (or is it broke danced?) in a hoodie, an act of courage in the Indio heat, offered songs from Be, his latest (including "Faithful"). DJ Dummy cut the hell out of "It Takes Two," the classic Hip Hop song. In all, Common distinguished himself.
But he was no match for Kanye West, a last-minute addition who ended up with just 35 minutes sandwiched between Common and Sigur Ros. To be fair to Common, Kanye simply had better ammunition. He tossed out "Diamonds from Sierra Leone," "Heard 'Em Say" and "Touch the Sky," all with the help of a small string section, the violin player of which danced as hard as anyone else on stage.
West delivered the quote of the day in the middle of "Gold Digger": "White people, this is your only chance to say 'nigga.' Take advantage of it." Kanye also played and danced to snippets from a few of his favorite songs: Al Green's "Still In Love With You," Michael Jackson's "Rock With You" and a-ha's "Take On Me." "Don't be surprised," West said before dancing just like lead singer Morten Harket in the 1985 video. Unlike most of the other artists, West never asked the crowd to put its hands in the air. He didn't have to.
Crowds this large force difficult decisions. Get to your stage early, or risk watching your favorite artist with a telescope. So I suffered through the last several songs of Ladytron's passionless '80s Technopop to get a good look at how Cat Power was doing. Apparently quite well, despite canceling her U.S. tour.
Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) has a reputation for being the most fragile female singer-songwriter out there. However, her Mojave tent performance, if repeated often enough, could put that to rest for good. Backed by a full band and then some (including two backup singers), Marshall sauntered through songs from The Greatest, which is a lot warmer and more Country than her somber breakthrough, You Are Free. Marshall, in white sneakers, moon-walked, swayed and kicked though her set, showing only hints of the lack of confidence that oozed from her during a 2003 South By SouthWest set.
Freed from her piano and most of her guitar duties and buoyed by shouts from the crowd, such as "We love you Chan!," Marshall even made her older material sound less barren. Marshall repaid the love by tossing a (costume?) pearl necklace and other jewelry into the crowd at the end of her set.
Meanwhile, my friend, a local reporter, was at the simultaneous show by the Eagles of Death Metal, featuring local hero Josh Homme (Mr. Queens of the Stone Age). She gave them high marks. And while she would soon wander into the Depeche Mode crowd at the Coachella stage for 90 minutes of mostly new songs, I snuck my way to the front of the Sahara stage to see a rare 80-minute set by Daft Punk.
For that privilege I suffered through at least 30 minutes of Britain's Audio Bullys, who rivaled Animal Collective in pointlessness. I lost track of how many times Simon Franks asked the crowd, "Are you ready for the bass?," before launching into mediocre Techno. Their best song sampled Nancy Sinatra's "Shot You Down." I wonder where they got the idea for that mix.
But it was all worth it when the French duo took the stage for their simple but conceptually-perfect show. It was like this: two guys dressed like robots sat atop a pyramid made of video screens surrounded by lots of other triangle-shaped lighting, and flat-out rocked the house with mixes of their best songs from Homework, Discovery and Human After All. It all began with indistinguishable beats that slowly morphed into two alternating words: "human ... robot ... human ... robot."
Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo didn't move much, except for regular head-bobbing and manipulating the controls of what seemed like several machines atop their pyramid.
The duo's eye candy started slowly, using one piece of lighting to build on the next until late in the set during "One More Time," when most of the stage was a rainbow of colors exploding to the beat. The pyramid began projecting solid colors, moved to Tron-like line drawings, and finished with full-color realistic pictures, all coordinated with the rest of the stage. Can't picture it? Buy Coachella's DVD next year. It's worth seeing. Or fly to Europe or Japan for their six-date summer tour.
After a nearly three-hour ride back to Palm Springs Saturday night, neither my friend nor I were eager to be the last ones out on Sunday. Further motivating us were closing sets by Tool, the Scissor Sisters and others we couldn't imagine sticking around to see. Sorry, fans.
Earlier in the day was another matter. While I had to see Amadou & Mariam on the Gobi stage, my friend headed for Ted Leo and the Pharmacists at the Outdoor theater (Leo took a moment to noodle Daft Punk's "One More Time" on his guitar and ask his crowd if they saw them last night). My friend also praised Tel Leo's set.
I'm not the kind of guy to get emotional, but I couldn't help being a little choked up while watching a blind couple from Mali perform in front of thousands of people in the Gobi tent. What are the odds of that kind of success? Amadou & Mariam, who met at the Institute for Young Blind People in 1977 in Bamako, Mali, delivered a perfect 45-minute sample of African Pop from their latest album, Dimance a Bamako. Their songs, which alternate between the bright and dark, Pop and Soul, often revolve around their relationship. But others call for the unity of all people, or call out the problems innate in politics.
In Europe the album has done even better than in the U.S., going as high as No. 2 in France last summer. Their show was also one of the few places in the Coachella Valley where you were more likely to hear French than Spanish.
Manu Chau, the album's producer, probably left too many fingerprints on Dimanche. They couldn't do the album's signature song, "Senegal Fast Food," because Manu Chau also sang lead on it. But honestly, he wasn't missed; Amadou & Mariam filled in the gaps quite nicely.
Afterwards, a quick walk to the Coachella stage and a loosely-packed crowd allowed me to get a good position to catch almost all of The Magic Numbers' 50-minutes of sensitive, hooky, harmonious Guitar Pop. I've been hooked on their self-titled album steadily since I first heard it last fall. For a guy who sings so much about love in his high-pitched, breathy voice, I thought Romeo Stodart would look a little less like Meat Loaf. They sounded great, though, like all the bands on that stage, Stodart could have laid off the audience participation request in the upper 90s heat of the mid-afternoon. (Fan note: The Magic Numbers were to begin recording their follow-up two days after their Coachella performance.)
In the late afternoon, with Matisyahu comparing Jews wandering the desert during biblical times to the atmosphere in Indio, I caught the last bit of Metric's set and saw the best recovery of the weekend. Josh Winstead, with his bass failing him in mid-finale, tried another one, then another, before falling backwards, hands in the air in frustration, before getting the third bass to work, to huge cheers from the crowd. It all happened in less than 30 seconds. That's composure under pressure.
Then it was time for the show with perhaps the most buzz: the first public-advertised performance of Gnarls Barkley. The Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Pop/Soul collaboration has already hit number one in the U.K. with the single "Crazy," based only on the number of downloads (a first). They hit the Gobi tent in the late afternoon with a 14-piece band in Wizard of Oz costumes. In all, the band consisted of two Dorothy and two Scarecrow backup singers, four witches on bass, guitar, drums and keyboards, a four-flying-monkey string quartet, Cee-Lo as the Cowardly Lion and Danger Mouse as the Tin Man.
Gnarls Barkley couldn't be here today, Cee-Lo announced. So instead here was "Big Ol Lion and the Hearts."
They proceeded to perform songs from their forthcoming debut, St. Elsewhere, including the Motown-channeling "Smiling Faces." Perhaps no other crowd was as universally excited to be in front of a band all weekend as the Barkley fans were. As Cee-Lo gradually stripped the makeshift robe/wig lion costume and his T-shirt down to a tank top, the band tore through "Gone Daddy Gone," the Violent Femmes classic, their own "Crazy," and others. While Cee-Lo worked the crowd, Danger Mouse manned the keyboards in his Tin Man outfit.
Cee-Lo asked if everything was OK. "We want it to be absolutely perfect," he said, which it wasn't. Feedback blemished some of the Gobi tent shows, including a couple of Barkley's songs. But it was still a hell of a lot of fun. Their brand of old-school Soul, Rock and cheekiness is going to be something to watch once they get some shows under their belt. (Their first public gig was a secret show the night before in L.A., to iron out any kinks.)
That might have been the last peak. After the sun set, Madonna would perform a five-song set of mostly newer songs complete with dancers to a huge crowd; ultra serious Massive Attack would play perfect versions of "Karmacoma," "Future Proof," and other hits on the main stage, while at one point updating the total number of dead in the Iraq War. The Editors would put out a smooth, clean, collection of Modern Rock, as if Coldplay and Radiohead met in the middle. And Britain's The Go! Team would have a hell of a lot of fun on stage building music with roots in every possible genre, turning it into a cheer for standing up for yourself and global awareness.
But for my money, no one was going to touch the freshness of Gnarls Barkley, the irresistibility of Daft Punk's hooks or the charm of Amadou & Mariam.
Besides music, there was a wealth of local sculpture and other art and the usual assortment of local vendors of T-shirts, sunglasses, and more. Cyclecide/Bike Rodeo offered a two-person ferris wheel and four-person carousel, both pedal-powered. Several small-tented domes gave the chance to dance like a maniac to breakbeats, watch a combination of Cirque de Soleil-style acrobatics by LucEnT dOsSieR Vaudeville Cirque or chill out among fake fall foliage in the Leaf Rake Tree Dome. Also, Lucent was kind enough to provide a mist tent that my friend repeatedly enjoyed.
I could bitch about the sometimes 50-foot lines just to have your ID checked, much less to get a beer (which cost $7). Or the audacity behind confiscating bottles of water then charging $2 for 17 ounces inside as the thermometer edged toward 100. Or the $8 cheeseburgers.
But those were details, really. Parking was free. The weather was perfect — not even that hot, for a desert. And the mix of talent was impressive. Where else could I have spent a weekend among African Pop, French techno, British and American Rock ... and who knows what else that I couldn't get to?
Note: My partner in music, Maggie Downs, contributed to this story and to me being able to be at Coachella in the first damn place. iTunes and artist Web sites also helped me get my spellings straight.


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This Startup Founder Is Creating His Third New Dating App
All of Huie's apps - Let's Meet, Sway, and his new one, Tryst - use a similar anonymous matching interface in which couples can only find out more about each other if they both agree to do so.
Sway just partnered with Bravo TV and its new show "Online Dating Rituals of the American Male." Sway specifically created a new dating app called Tryst for the show.
With the Sway app, daters anonymously share an interest in each other. If there's a match, Sway lets you chat.
Tryst supposedly makes it even easier to "meet the right people quickly."
Here's an email Sway sent to its users last night:
We've noticed you've been busy doing other things besides using Sway...Well, we've been busy too! We've partnered with Bravo TV and their new show 'Online Dating Rituals of the American Male'. For the show, we created a new app called TRYST, which helps you meet the right people (even more) quickly. As an exclusive to Sway users, we are releasing the app the cast used ahead of Tonights premiere. Use this link now to download TRYST For free.
Tryst is now at least the fourth dating app Huie has been involved with.
Well, as it turns out, Huie left Let's Date for Sway, he informed Business Insider via email last month. In fact, Sway is essentially Let's Date with a different name and a slightly tweaked user interface.
When we opened up Let's Date, we received a notification that the Let's Date experience is ending soon. The app encouraged us to download Sway.
Whether Sway will eventually fold into Tryst remains to be seen. Business Insider has reached out to Huie to figure out just exactly what is going on.
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Discussion in 'Trumpet Discussion' started by chsbulldog2012, Nov 18, 2009.
Is there any possible way to play lower than a low F#?
If so, what what is the fingering?
Pedal tones continue downward using the same fingerings from first space F down to the low F#. Do a search for "Pedal Tones" for more information.
Yeah, he's right when he says pedal tones.
Also, you can go about an octave (and a half?) lower than middle C by just putting your top lip in the mouthpiece and buzzing loosely. No valves needed.
Printing this and writing it on my calendar!
It depends on what you call "play".
The way trumpets are built, low F# is the lowest "practical" tone with reasonable intonation. There is a "pedal tone" which would normally be a low C when not depressing any valves, but due to the size and shape of the bell, that pedal tone is about one whole tone flat when played "centered".
There is an advanced technique to bend those notes up to the right pitch. Still a LOT of practice is needed before we can use them for anything - and there is still a gap between the low F# and that pedal tone.
A flugelhorn has a different bell size and shape and can play those pedal tones in tune with much less work. If you get a 4 valved flugel horn you can play cleanly more than an octave lower - that lets you chase trombone players if you want!
Some horns are built so that hte third valve slide can be thrown almost all the way out and play a useable low F. On my Bach Bb, I made an extra long stop rod thing so that if I need to, I can move the little stopper things out farther than normal and throw the slide just where I need it.
I don't know if Pedals are ever used musically - I've not seen them used, but that doesn't mean it's not so. They can be, and are used for development in certain curriculum, however.
But, here is what Claude Gordan had to say about pedal tones:
"However, if you do not know how and therefore do not practice the pedals correctly, it would be better not to use them at all."
"The pedals are not a cure-all, but are a vital part of development and practiced correctly they force the entire machine to work correctly." (Brass Playing is no Harder than Deep Breathing, pages 19-20)
I can't see any reasonable reason to chase the paper clip guys
with my flugel, cornet or trumpet at all
On my trumpet is nearer to a half tone...


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The first underwater farm in the world, i.e. the Nemo’s Garden, has started producing fruits and veggies again after a long break.
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Manchester based singer songwriter Tom Walker has announced a run of UK and Ireland dates including a gig at Night and Day. The gigs mark his biggest tour to date.
The announcement of seven UK and Ireland shows comes in the midst of a highly successful year for the Glasgow born artist. His song Just You and I has gone top 30 in the USA, he played an acoustic version of Blessings on BBC2’s Saturday night Glastonbury coverage and has been added to the Radio 1 Brits List.
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Tom Walker headlines at Manchester’s Night and Day on 23 November. The gig is one of seven UK and Ireland tour dates:
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23 November – Manchester, Night and Day
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Croatia celebrated its accession to the EU on July 1, 2013, to the sounds of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and fireworks in the presence of the country’s leaders and EU officials. The latest EU enlargement, however, raises a number of questions not only about the future of Croatia but also about the EU in general.
The performance of SEE’s TOP 100 insurers in 2012 is something of a feat. Judging by the overall figures, insurance companies may have finally glimpsed the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel given expectations for a return to GDP growth (albeit very modest) in the region.
In 2011 the IT sector in Southeast Europe suffered from the instability of the national economies but managed to achieve growth in most of the countries in the region.
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The economies of Southeast Europe set out on a hard and long road to recovery last year, trying to beat the challenge of sluggish demand for their exports in the eurozone, their main trading partner.
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IATSE Local 80 has filed grievances against ABC Studios for the recent firing of several crew members on Grey’s Anatomy. The Local’s business manager Tom Davis filed the papers for the union. (UPDATE: Because of the nature of the complaints, Grey’s creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes and her Shondaland production company were not filed against.) The long-term crew members were allegedly fired after speaking with Disney Human Resources about the “hostile work environment” they felt was created last season by director of photography Herbert Davis. A source tells Deadline that the grip crew, gaffer and both the A-camera and B-camera assistant cameramen were replaced. The parties are expected to meet on the matter sometime in the near future as a first step in the process. Charges of wrongful dismissal and firing in retaliation for a protected activity are being filed with both California and Federal labor departments against ABC Studios.
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Milunovich, the No. 1 seed, beat third-seeded Maria Mateas of Braintree, MA in the championship match. Milunovich is ranked first in her division in New England and will be recognized with the other sectional winners in conjunction with the Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships (pro tennis event) on Tuesday, July 10 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI.
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Council members will decide the fate of a Master Plan Amendment for the Bunn Gourley East tract to change the current land use designation from Cross Timbers Conservation Development District to Medium Density Residential and Retail.
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- With shelters here in the Valley overcrowded and experiencing the same effects of Phoenix’s “kitten season,” AHS has not only held adoption specials to help open up space, but has also decided to branch out across state lines to partner with the SPCA of Texas to provide them with adoptable felines! 50 cats have been relocated to Dallas where there aren’t enough kittens to supply interested adopters.
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Defense lawyers say Hasan seeks death penalty
FORT HOOD — One of the biggest capital murder trials in U.S. military history came to an abrupt halt on its second day as Maj. Nidal Hasan's standby counsel team asked that its role in the proceeding be modified.
Lawyers on the team said Hasan is intentionally seeking the death penalty in his court-martial.
The military judge, Col. Tara Osborn, cleared the court Wednesday morning so she could conduct a closed hearing on the matter. The trial in the 2009 shooting that left 13 people dead and 31 wounded is scheduled to resume Thursday morning.
It remains to be seen how the motion filed by Lt. Col Kris Poppe and two other lawyers on Hasan's standby counsel will impact the high-profile trial. Poppe, Hasan's former lead defense attorney, has long expressed misgivings about the role of his team since Hasan sought to represent himself earlier this year.
In a discussion outside the jury's presence, Poppe told the judge it became clear when testimony began Tuesday that Hasan was attempting to remove obstacles to the death penalty — something the standby defense team found “repugnant.”
He said Hasan, who has seldom raised objections or questioned witnesses or prospective jury members, has been “engaging to working toward the death penalty.”
That statement drew a defiant reaction from Hasan, who is serving as his own attorney, with the standby counsel team present.
“Your honor, I object. That's a twist of the facts,” Hasan said.
Poppe said the jury selection process was “wholly inadequate.” But Hasan denied that he's trying to improve the prosecution's chances of having a conviction and death sentence unanimously approved by the jury.
“Your honor, Col. Poppe has made an assertion that is inaccurate,” he said. “It's inaccurate, and I'd like to clarify that.”
The judge then cleared the courtroom. She later recessed court until Thursday.
Osborn, who had said she intended to begin testimony on time and keep the trial moving forward, said she received the motion “late last night” and has also received four attachments, including an unspecified “Fox News media report.”
Col. Michael Mulligan, lead attorney for the government, said he was “concerned with the body of the motion.” The judge ordered the motion and its attachments sealed.
Osborn said she was “confused” by the motion and its intent. She asked Poppe if he and the other members of the standby counsel, Lt. Col. Christopher E. Martin and Maj. Joseph T. Marcee, wanted to continue to be involved in the case at all.
“The motion seems to be at war with itself, Col. Poppe,” she said.
Poppe said he, Martin and Marcee are willing to assist Hasan “if he's ready to fight the death penalty,” but does not want to be forced to participate in a trial spectacle that is “repugnant to defense counsel.”
Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the worst shooting of its kind on a U.S. military base. The attempted premeditated murder charges relate to 31 people who were wounded and a contract police officer, Mark Todd, who came under fire by the shooter.
Hasan, if convicted, could get the death penalty or life in prison.
Texas Tech University law school professor Richard Rosen, a retired Army colonel, said it wasn't clear what Poppe was seeking. Defense attorneys in the role of standby counsel conduct research for the accused, and may or may not provide legal advice. They also can return as full-fledged defense attorneys at the defendant's request.
Rosen said it was clear that Poppe and his team are wrestling with a supreme ethical dilemma.
"I think he's concerned about the fact that his client wants the death penalty, at least that's what I understood form what I heard," said Rosen, a former Army lawyer who is sitting in on the proceedings here. "And he thinks it's ethically improper for him to serve as a standby counsel for someone who's seeking the death penalty when his role should be to ensure that he does not get the death penalty," said Rosen, a former deputy legal counsel to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Asked if the issue had been a problem in past military trials, Rosen said, "I've never seen anything like this in 26 years on active duty."
Media organizations covering the trial at Fort Hood are operating under strictly enforced “access and ground rules” approved by the military judge.
Reporters are not allowed to use recording devices in the courtroom, or in a remote location where a live, closed-circuit television feed provides audio of the testimony and courtroom discussion, and visual images of the military judge and witnesses who testify.
Eleven seats are set aside in the courtroom gallery for credentialed media under a “pool” system that provides access for news wire and local, regional and national print, radio and television journalists.
Osborn, noting a full gallery Tuesday that included victims' family members, said before the jury entered the courtroom that in spite of the powerful emotions of the trial, outward expressions of joy, sadness, anger or other feelings would not be tolerated in court.
“Spectators will remain silent during all proceedings,” Osborn said. “We're going to carry on in a calm, quiet and dignified manner.”
Thomas Rheinlander, Fort Hood public affairs officer, said the media ground rules are aimed at achieving a delicate balance between access to the trial and security concerns. Osborn has approved rules that give the media access to report the proceedings to the public, while ensuring public safety and the integrity of the legal process, Rheinlander told reporters just before the trial began Tuesday.
“She gave it to us, but she can take it away,” he said. “It's that critical for force protection issues.”
Fort Hood officials said 102 media personnel representing 41 agencies converged on the post for the first day of the trial on Tuesday. That has leveled off to 68 journalists from 26 media organizations today.


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A former manager of rapper Sarkodie and media personality Sammy Forson has explained a practical situation that demonstrated the love Nigerians have for Sarkodie.
Making the comment on the Daybreak Hitz Show on Hitz FM as the host, he said Ghanaians do not appreciate their artistes.
Sammy Forson buttressed the impression by stating that there are other nationals who wished some Ghanaian artistes were from their country.
He gave an example of when he was managing Sarkodie. According to him, some Nigerians visited him to pay respect to the craft and talent of Sarkodie.
Sammy Forson added that these Nigerians said they wished Sarkodie was their national and they would have given him the best of support, unlike Ghanaians.
“Back when I was managing Sarkodie, a few Nigerians came up to me to say they wish Sark was a Nigerian. They would have supported him wholeheartedly,” he said.


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January can bring a potpourri of weather to Denver and the Front Range and this week in weather history is no exception.
A man claims he was shot by police before he had a chance to react, and now he’s filed a lawsuit.
Gov. John Hickenlooper says the state needs wider interstate highways but can’t wait on the federal government for help.
Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper told lawmakers Colorado faces fiscal challenges in the coming years, but he stopped short of directing them to go to voters to allow the state to keep budget surpluses that must be refunded.
A driver who Denver police said stole a car is facing vehicular homicide charges after he crashed into a pillar underneath Interstate 70 on Tuesday, killing his female passenger.
A planned construction project on Interstate 70 near Idaho Springs is finally getting underway.
A woman convicted in a road rage incident will begin a 30-day jail sentence on Friday.
The Colorado Department of Transportation is kicking off a new bus service for passengers along the Interstate 25 and Interstate 70 corridors later this spring.
A crash involving several vehicles forced the closure of a stretch of Interstate 70 in Aurora Monday afternoon.
One mountain town has an idea to help ease Interstate 70 traffic with a goal to keep drivers entertained rather than frustrated while on the road.


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Round three of the NRL season, and more importantly the resumption of the 2020 campaign has seen the fans tune in in droves.
Just shy of 4.5 million people tuned in to the return of Rugby League, making for the fifth-largest TV audience in a regular-season weekend in NRL history.
Come Saturday night the combined ratings of broadcasters Channel Nine and Fox Sports had already surpassed the corresponding round last years.
By the conclusion of round three, a total of 4,490,336 viewers were recorded across eight games, the largest audience in which three games have been broadcast on free-to-air since the record set in round one of 2013.
Rugby Leagues resumption last weekend made Fox Sports a hot spot for the eyes of sports fans, they attracted approximately 2,276,000 fans as it broadcast the entire week’s action.
Channel Nine’s three free-to-air matches drew a combined audience of 2,214,336. it marked Fox Sports’ second largest cumulative audience for a regular season round with 2,276,000 viewers and the network’s largest ever regional viewership for a regular season round.
Channel Nine (20%) and Fox Sports (19.1%) enjoying significant audience increases on last year’s round-three ratings, with Thursday’s Brisbane-Parramatta clash attracting a combined 1.3 million viewers – the largest single game audience outside of finals and Origin since 2014.
Melbourne’s Saturday night clash with Canberra ranking as their second highest TV audience (behind only Cameron Smith’s 400th game last season).
These figures do not take into consideration the New Zealand based viewers of the New Zealand Warriors vs St George fixture, which is believed to be quite substantial.
Due to the Warriors’ sacrifice in moving across the Tasman indefinitely, broadcaster Sky Sports offered its streaming service for free to all New Zealanders for 24 hours on Saturday.
Thursday’s Broncos-Eels game shockingly also set viewership records in New Zealand despite not kicking off until around 10pm in the Kiwi time zone.
The broadcast figures do not take in streaming audiences across Kayo or Telstra Live Pass on the official NRL app.
The NRL also had three live games carried by Sky Sports in the UK and Fox Sports 1 in the United States, According to Forbes magazine, a soft signal from US network Fox was that round three’s fixtures were also tracking for a record in overseas viewers.


The e-petition on the government’s ban on “military-style assault rifles” is now the most-signed electronic petition in Canadian history.
E-Petition 2341 (Democratic Process) was launched on Dec. 17, 2019 by Alberta MP Glen Motz. It calls on the government to “put any new firearms laws, bans, buyback programs or changes to licensing before the House of Commons to be debated.”
E-2341 passed 140,000 signatures in late January, making it the most-signed e-petition in Canadian history. It was launched after Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said the Liberals would resort to Orders in Council – a process where legislative changes are passed through Cabinet, but don’t go before the House of Commons – to pass gun legislation.
More work ahead
“I am grateful to the more than 137,000 Canadians who have signed the petition, and honoured to help bring their voices to Ottawa,” Motz said. “But there is still a lot more work ahead in bringing some common sense to tackling crime issues, as well as having the Liberals drop their misguided approach. More and more Canadians are joining the fight every day, and I encourage all law-abiding Canadians to sign the petition at www.E2341.ca.”
The petition is open until Feb. 15.
“The petition is just one part of the many organizations, members of parliament, and individuals seeking to ensure that law-abiding Canadians are not targeted by governments for the actions of criminals and gangs. When this many Canadians speak loud and clear, it would be wise for the Liberals to heed their voice,” he added.
Motz encouraged by results
In an earlier interview with Ontario OUT of DOORS, Motz noted the former leading e-petition was about democratic reform. This is something the Liberals did not follow through on, and Motz surmised the petition might have been a part of that decision.
Motz was also encouraged by the results of a recent press conference of GTA mayors about firearms violence in the city. The conference didn’t reiterate the need for a handgun ban. Previously, Toronto Mayor John Tory had been outspoken on the need for a handgun ban.
“We have already seen some politicians like Mayor John Tory amend their direction based on intelligence and evidence from police,” Motz said. “I hope to continue to bring evidence to this conversation and leave the Liberals no room to mislead Canadians.”
Fairness and respect
Asked if the government would consider the petition, Mary-Liz Power, communications advisor for the Minister of Public Safety, answered, “Our government’s top priority is keeping Canadians safe. Too often, Canadians experience firsthand the devastating impact that gun violence has on our communities. We must take decisive action to strengthen gun control. That includes ending the proliferation of military-style assault rifles in Canada.”
The government already invested $327 million in tackling gang violence and gun smuggling in the last mandate, Power added. More will be invested in the coming months.
“Hunters, farmers, and law-abiding recreational gun owners will be treated with fairness and respect. We work together to keep our communities safe,” she said.


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A mother of a 6 year old girl in Florida was recently arrested and accused of pimping her 6 year old daughter out to multiple men trading sexual favors with the little girl in return for drugs and money.
Dalina Nicholas, 39, was busted on a warrant in Columbus, Georgia after a police investigation began of a woman allegedly allowing men to sexually abuse her 6 year old daughter in return for drugs.
According to a Jacksonville Beach Police report, a homeless man sparked the investigation after reportedly flagging down a police cruiser and alerting the officers of the alleged abuse. The homeless man revealed that he knew of a young girl being sexually abused by several men, which later the young girl was identified as Nicholas’ daughter.
The homeless man said he witnessed Nicholas using drugs, and claimed the sexual abuse of the girl had been going on for about 2 years adding that he was once present when Nicholas allegedly accepted $20 before telling her daughter to get naked and lay on a living room mattress so that one of the men could have oral sex with her.
The daughter reportedly confided in the homeless man asking him (the witness) to “help her make it stop.”
Initially, when confronted at her Jacksonville Beach apartment, Nicholas denied the accusations of sexual abuse, saying she herself had been abused as a child, so she would know if her daughter was.
Nicholas daughter however detailed multiple accounts of sexual abuse in her home with various men to the police.
Nicholas’ mother, Debbie Morgan, denies the abuse of her granddaughter as well claiming her granddaughter told her that Nicholas was the one being abused by the drug dealers in her home and was a prisoner to them. Police found no evidence of this claim.
Three men – Quinn Brooks, 56, John Hagans, 47, and Norman Thompson, 51 – have all been identified as abusers of the girl, and have been charged with capital sexual battery.
Anyone with information on this crime is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS.
(l. to r.) Dalina Nicholas, 39, Quinn Brooks, 56, John Hagans, 47, and Norman Thompson, 51, arrested on charges of sexual abuse of Nicholas’ 6 year old daughter, authorities say.


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In trying to nail down former USMC Capt. Bill Collier’s intention behind writing The Adventures of a Helicopter Pilot: Flying the H-34 Helicopter in Vietnam for the United States Marine Corps (Keokee/Wandering Star Press, 234 pp, $19.00 paper), I decided his goals were to explain why he suffered from PTSD, what it felt like to fear for one’s life constantly for a year, how flying H-34 helicopters provided an adrenaline rush, and the way helicopters worked. He succeeded in every category
In 1966, as a “nugget, a brand new gold-bar second lieutenant” flying copilot on his first night Medevac mission, Collier was so traumatized that he psychologically suppressed the event until 1994. As if that experience weren’t enough, four weeks later his wing man got hit by a friendly artillery shell.
“What I saw was burned into my memory forever, and will never leave me,” he writes. “YR-3 had exploded and was burning up in an intense sun-bright fireball right there off my wing, not 200 feet away.” These incidents triggered the onset of his PTSD, which doctors finally diagnosed in 1993.
Fear was Collier’s constant sidekick. His imagination compounded what he saw during his tour in I Corps: For example, watching a SAM zoom across the DMZ and destroy a low-flying, fast-moving A-4 in “maybe 15 seconds.” Premonitions of doom led him to volunteer for a two-week stint as a forward air controller rather than fly support missions for a sea assault.
On the ground, he encountered more danger than he anticipated. That included shrapnel dropping from the sky and a “short round” mortar dud (again, friendly fire) that nearly landed in his lap. By then he was a captain and ended up in command of a patrol, a duty he was unprepared for.
Collier had gone directly to flight school as a MARCAD and now thought, “I had never been to boot camp. I never attended officer training school at Quantico.” He had “minimal knowledge about grunt things.” Near panic, he instantly learned the value of an XO’s advice.
Collier’s stories exemplify the adrenalin rush inherent in combat flying. In eight months as a copilot, he watched aircraft commanders take risks and perform aerial feats that filled him with excitement, fear, and admiration.
After checking out as an AC, he thought: “I could now live or die by my own bad decisions.” He knew he was hooked. “To do one of those hairy, high-speed, high danger approaches, and then come out of a hot LZ with bullets flying and both machine guns blazing was an extreme adrenaline rush,” he writes.
Fear sharpened Collier’s awareness, thinking, and feelings throughout his entire body. As he puts it: “I became addicted to this adrenaline rush, craving it, seeking it out time after time.” Collier calculated that he “personally carried approximately 375 Medevacs aboard [his] machine while in Vietnam.”
Collier devotes several pages to explaining “How a Helicopter Flies,” “Autorotations,” “The Collective Control and Throttle,” and a “General Description of the H-34D Helicopter.” The science in these sections seems contradicted by what occurred in reality.
Overall, his book convinced me that helicopters are unforgiving of even the slightest mistake. All you have to do is consider the large number of Marine deaths by aircraft accidents—during and following the war—that Collier recounts. Additionally, if the H-34 caught fire, its magnesium-aluminum-alloy air frame consumed itself and its crew in fifteen seconds, as Collier repeatedly reminds the reader.
Regarding his personal behavior, Collier pulls no punches. He confesses to “falling asleep on final approach.” He admits that “our main form of recreation was drinking alcohol. We simply got drunk almost every night. We were a bunch of drunken hellions.”
Of course, the drinking didn’t begin until the night missions ended. And Collier graciously remembers to thank “an attractive, charming lady a bit older than I” for a “great send-off to the war” by seducing him the night before he departed for Vietnam.
Apparently written mainly from memory, the book is jumpy at times, skipping from topic to topic like conversation in a bar. Nevertheless, its many stories are highly readable.
The book’s one hundred-plus photographs—most from Collier’s files—add to the narrative. Collier says this book set the stage for at least two more. Following thirteen months in Vietnam, he flew combat missions for thirty months in Laos with Air America, a tour more exciting than Vietnam. He then flew helicopters commercially for twenty-seven years all around the world.
The author’s blog is http://dawgdriverforever.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-book-adventures-of-helicopter-pilot.html

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The Mill Park Hotel Café Bar is located at the front of the hotel overlooking our beautiful gardens. The exquisite design exudes a relaxed & comfortable atmosphere, and this is evident in our style of menu, which offers a tasteful choice of dishes ranging from speciality signature dishes to a wide selection of seafood options and the popular Irish roasts and grills are also available.
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Even though fall is my favorite season, I’m not the biggest fan of fall décor. Mostly because it doesn’t take much for it to become really “country”—which just isn’t my style. So I thought I’d design a slightly more modern interpretation of fall décor, sans the leaves and gourds and apple pies.
While making this mini quilt, I tackled a few things I’d never done before.
First, I improv-pieced my own letters. Not too tricky, but required me to sort of think backward.
Second, I broke out of my quilter’s cotton rut and used some linen for the first time (in a quilt, at least). People said it might be a little shifty, but I didn’t have a problem. I like that it feels sort of fall-like without being obviously autumnal.
Third, I buried my thread tails on the back. I usually quilt to the edges so this isn’t necessary, but I wanted to quilt it using concentric squares with four colors of thread, so I had to figure out how to make it look nice. I did a decent job to start off with, and by the eighth square I was a pro. I’m pretty much burying my tails from now on — so much prettier than a stay stitch.
The quilt is bound with some fall-colored scraps, and it’s backed with the bright yellow Riley Blake chevrons.
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Revealed: Hillary Clinton earns $200,000 from lucrative world of after-dinner speaking
Oliver Duggan has a BA in Politics and Parliamentary Studies from the University of Leeds and an MA in Newspaper Journalism from City University London. He works as a freelance reporter and editorial assistant for The Independent and i with a focus on Home Affairs and politics.
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Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rakes in up to $200,000 (£132,000) a night in the lucrative world of professional speechmaking, according to The New York Times.
The business, which has netted her husband more than $100 million since he left the White House in 2000, sees Mrs Clinton offer insights into the highest echelons of American politics, shake a few hands and pose for a few photos before being whisked away – often in a pre-negotiated private jet.
According to the paper, after-dinner speaking may be a tactical venture for the former First Lady, who is widely rumoured to be considering a 2016 Presidential bid. Many of those who have attended events where she has appeared say Mrs Clinton shows a personal side, reminiscing about her mother and doting on her daughter Chelsea.
But she also delivers remarks akin to those one audiences might expect to hear in an election campaign. Attacking political inertia surrounding immigration, border security and health policy, she told a crowd of 17,000 in Chicago: “I hope it’s heading to a new law that will resolve a lot of these issues. It’s way overdue.”
She does not make her speechmaking schedule public, but news of the astronomic costs of booking the former diplomat emerged after trade groups publicised the events. A spokesman for Mrs Clinton reportedly declined to comment.
The revelations have sparked interest among right-wing groups, who have taken to checking the 65-year-olds commitments for signs of hypocrisy or conflicts of interest.
Tim Miller, the executive director of conservative group America Rising, said: “We’re starting immediately to monitor both Hillary and the other Democratic rising stars and collect, tag and characterize their speeches so we can hold them accountable when the campaign begins in earnest.”
Hillary and Bill Clinton are both represented by the Harry Walker Agency, a hugely successfully group booking agents that also look after former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and George W. Bush’ Vice President, Dick Cheney.
While his wife has earned a significant sum since leaving office just months ago, it is former President Clinton who is regularly invited to the big-money events. One event in Nigeria reportedly netted him $700,000 last year, bringing his annual earnings from speech to $17 million in 2012.
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It’s been a busy few months in the RUSI Library of Military History. To keep you abreast of recent developments here is a quick update on all the changes in the Library.
By Laura Dimmock-Jones, Librarian
The Library is generally open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays when the Librarian is on site. We will always do our best to accommodate member’s needs on these days. Whilst the main Library isn’t always available we can still help you access the collection in a number of ways:
- Issuing books and leaving them at reception
- Dealing with enquiries by email or by phone
- Photocopying and scanning (within the rules designated by copyright) articles, chapters and sending them by post or email
In addition to the measures above we now have a functioning Library and Archive Reading Room with a desk space for one reader. This space will always be available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays by appointment. If you have checked the catalogue and know which books or records you would like to see you can email the Librarian to book a slot in the Reading Room. Your items will be waiting for you on your arrival.
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Rare Books, Archive and Special Collection store
All of the Institute’s Rare Books, Archive and Special Collections material have now been moved to our on-site store. This means that all of these collections are now more readily accessible for research and study. The collection includes books dating back to 1700, records of the RUSI Museum, photographs, journals, letters, glass slides and more. The Rare Books are all catalogued and the Archive and Special Collection is almost completely finished, therefore you can easily search these collections via the online catalogue.
Use of these collections is supervised by the Librarian, to book a slot please email firstname.lastname@example.org.
The Librarian and volunteers have been extremely busy organising and cataloguing RUSI’s extensive collection of pamphlets and ephemera.
Many of the pamphlets have required re-stitching, cleaning and boxing. Whilst this project is on-going a selection of these fascinating items can already be accessed via the catalogued. We hope to finish this project completely by the end of 2014.
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Sculptra and Fraxel repair. Which should I get first?
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Sculptra and LASER resurfacing
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Best Fraxel repair and Sculptra Combined Treatment
In general it is preferred to tighten the skin prior to filling it. With Sculptra, it may take 6 to 12 weeks before you can visualize the results. Therefore, we will often treat patients with their first Sculptra treatment at the same time as their Fraxel repair, or even a week or two before. After 6 to 8 weeks, the great majority of swelling from Fraxel repair has resolved, and our patients can have their second session of Sculptra injections. Most importantly choose your treating physician most carefully based on their artistic vision, skill, and expertise. Good luck and be well.
Sculptra and Fraxel
The combination of Sculptra and Fraxel is an excellent one. I would suggest you have Fraxel first and then a week or two later proceed with Sculptra. After Sculptra you have to massage the treated area five times a day for five minutes so it would make much more sense to have Fraxel first. Please consult a board certified dermatologist with a great deal of experience with both procedures for the best results.
Timing of Sculptra and Fraxel treatments
Sculptra and Fraxel Treatment
Fraxel is a form of fractionated laser treatment used to rejuvenate the skin superficially or more deeply depending on the energy level used.
Sculptra is a biological activator of collagen production, when used correctly, stimulates volume production. Although I was initially very skeptical of Sculptra due to reported complications such as nodules, lumps, and other issues, I am now a big believer in the use of Sculptra. An analysis of the problems related to this product, a form of L-polylactic acid, shows that the majority of complications were related to three factors: 1) inadequate reconstitution time in sterile water, 2) overly superficial injection technique, 3) inadequate post-treatment massage. Sculptra requires a minimum of 5 days, preferrably 7 of reconstitution in sterile water. Similar to vicryl suture, which is a close cousin of L-polylactic Acid, Sculptra should not be injected or placed in the immediate subdermal plane, but much deeper. Neither product has significant issues with pre-periosteal or intra-SMAS placement. Lastly, a rigorous massage regimen of 5 minutes, 5 times per day over 5 days is required in the post-treament period. Since employing these measures over the last 6 years, I have not witnessed significant problems and have a large number of very happy patients, with a result duration of two- three years.
Rethink Your Plan! Sculptra and "Fraxel Repair" Can Cause Horrible Complications. There Are Better Options!
So what's wrong with Fraxel?
Fraxel is based on a great concept but uses what many consider an antiquated laser beam. The CO2 laser is what really got laser resurfacing going, but it was poorly tolerated when used effectively. To get good results from a CO2 laser patients had to endure weeks of redness and many suffered horrible pigmentation complications such as hypo and hyper pigmentation, shiny tight unnatural appearing skin, full thickness loss and others. Fraxel was the first fractionate beam to the market and was a brilliant business plan. It is sold as delivering an effective treatment with low recovery because it treats a fraction of the skin, allowing a large percentage of healthy untreated tissue to remain and speed recovery. The truth however is that the CO2 beam causes a very large component of what we call "coagulative damage" this is damage from extreme tissue temperature that causes coagulation, tissue destruction and apoptosis well outside the impact of the laser's beam and is also the cause of the high rate of complications from CO2 beams. Fraxel does indeed deliver separated fractionated beams but because of the wide zone of coagulation, the effect of the laser is not changed much from previous generations of full field treatment. What is very different about Fraxel is that the treatment is reduced by 80-90% of the energy used. This is what is responsible for the reduced downtime and tolerability. It is an absolutely genius business model- the practitioner delivers 10-20% of the treatment to the patient and charges 3-400% more. Most knowledgable plastic surgeons recognize Fraxel as a clever marketing of an outdated technology.
Thus is there really a fractional resurfacing laser?
Yes, the Erbium beam laser is what most consider state of the art today and is tunable to deliver selected percentages of tissue ablation and coagulation. Tissue ablation is essentially instantaneous vaporization of tissue without heat of coagulative damage. The Erbium beam is actually able to deliver what Fraxel claims to. When I perform a fractional resurfacing I use pure or near pure ablation and treat less than 20% of the surface area of the skin, but actually treat FULL THICKNESS, something that is not possible to perform safely with ANY CO2 based system. The down side is that you do not get as much tissue contraction or what is referred to as "tightening." Tightening is, just like the severe compilations of CO2 lasers, the result of the coagulative component. The tunable Erbium beam allows the surgeon to actually add as much or as little coagulative component as desired to deliver this tightening, but the more you add, the more it becomes similar to Fraxel or CO2. In my opinion this is not the safest or most effective way to tighten skin and I simply do not use the coagulative technique in my practice. There are much better non ablative ways to achieve tightening that do not thin the skin, alter skin moisture and set up pigment problems.
What about Sculptra? Doesn't it build native collagen?
Sculptra is an interesting product and again, a very clever business strategy. Sculptra is made of Poly-L-Lactic acid, a material surgeons are very familiar with and have been using inside the body for a long time. Plastic surgeons have a love-hate relationship with this material. It is used to make a long lasting absorbable suture most popularly brand named Vicryl. Plastic surgeons love Vicryl sutures as they are very strong and hold a knot exceptionally well. We hate them because they cause a local inflammatory response that is responsible for their absorption. Thus we try our best to use the minimum amount necessary, throw the minimum amount of knts required and keep them deep far away from the skin. Even with these precautions none of us are surprised when they "spit" or create a "sterile abscess." This is a nasty material that the body does not like having around- thus it goes away with good timing in the healing of incisions. Ask any plastic surgeon if they are surprised when there are several spitting sutures in an abdominoplasty incision or body lift- they will tell you it happens.
Thus along comes Sculptra- a brilliant way to market a known FDA approved implantable material with an acceptable safety profile for a new indication in the aesthetics market. Sculptra is essentially micro particles of Vicryl suture injected in amounts that far exceed that body's local exposure of a suture. What is the secret for success? - product direction to inject deep. Just like plastic surgeons closing an incision, we want to keep the inflammation away from the surface where it can really cause problems. Nevertheless, down deep in the face of every Sculptra patient is a robust inflammatory response that can causes strange swelling, tenderness, granulomas and tissue destruction, yes, tissue destruction. The amazing this is that this robust inflammatory response and scarring is marketed as "generating your body's own natural collagen." The sad truth is that is creates a scar ball that combined with prolonged inflammation can actually cause facial fat atrophy which is essentially accelerated facial aging. Do you really want to pay to have your face aged?
So why are practitioners injection it?
Most patients do not return to the injector when they have problems. Instead they find a true plastic surgeon with aesthetic and reconstructive experience. Adverse results usually take time to show, and patients can be happy for months to years before having problems. Look at the reviews on this website and the time after the procedure that they were posted and this will become very evident. I have seen a tremendous amount of complications from Sculptra, Radiesse, Silicone and other fillers with great marketing promise.
The only safe off the shelf fillers are the relatively unadulterated hyaluronic acid products( Perlane and Juvederm Ultra) and believe it or not if used with appropriate technique (off label) these products can deliver much longer lasting results and actually induce the healthy rejuvenating process of angiogenisis instead of inflammation and scarring. I personally treated my own face with hyaluronic acid and a technique I call "Aesthetic Facial Balancing" and have results that have been stable for three years.
DO NOT FALL INTO THE TRAP OF SO MANY OTHERS
I hope this helps!
All the best,
Rian A. Maercks M.D.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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From the latest iPhone 14 with its SIM card slot to the Nintendo Switch with its SD card slot, know-how has seamlessly built-in into our lives. But have you ever ever wondered how these slots perform inside these devices? With an growing number of features and prospects, it’s important to understand the ins and outs of these slots. In addition, we’ll explore popular slot machines like the well-known Wheel of Fortune and delve into the world of free slot games and on-line slots. With skilled tips about how to win at slot machines and insights into the most effective in slot options for traditional video games like OSRS, this article promises to equip you with invaluable data to elevate your slot machine experience.
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