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I know Igboland doesn’t start from Onitsha because Asaba, Agbor and many other places are part of it too. But there’s something about crossing the Niger Bridge that can’t be explained. When you’re coming back home and you cross that bridge, a quiet wave hits you, a feeling that...

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We are in Onitsha, home to one of the largest markets in West Africa, and a major commercial hub in the Southeast. But today, we weren’t here to buy or sell. We came for the experience. Using the Second Niger Bridge for the first time on a bike? It’s a moment I won’t forget. The structure is massive. Elegant. Strong. But more than its engineering beauty, it's what it represents that matters. For years, the old Opiweka bridge known simply as the Niger Bridge was the only connection between the East and other parts of the country. And if you know anything about holiday season traffic or cross-country movement, you know how choked that bridge could get. But this new bridge changes everything. Riding across it was smooth. No bottleneck. No unnecessary hold-up. Just wide open space and an impressive view of the great River Niger. You could feel the calm that comes from improved infrastructure. The ease of movement. The relief for commuters and transporters. The journey continues. Next stop: Asaba - Benin. I hope the road is good. Let’s ride. #benin #asaba #expressway #infrastructure #roadtrip #nigeria #landscape

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Ronda’s most famous bridge was built after the first one collapsed into the gorge and killed around 50 people. That happened in 1741. The town still needed a way across El Tajo, the gorge that cuts Ronda in two, so they tried again. The replacement became the Puente Nuevo. Construction took decades. It was finally completed in 1793, with the bridge rising roughly 98 meters from the bottom of the ravine. If you’ve ever seen a photo of Ronda, you’ve probably seen it. What I didn’t realize at first was how important the bridge actually was to the town. El Tajo doesn’t sit somewhere outside Ronda. It runs right through it, with the Guadalevín River far below and neighborhoods on either side. The bridge wasn’t built to look impressive. People needed to get across. Much of the stone used to build it came from the gorge itself, which explains why the bridge looks almost like part of the cliff when you see it from below. I wouldn’t come here, take the usual photo and move on. Walk across the bridge first. Look down into the gorge. The drop is enough to make you watch where you’re standing. Then get below it. That’s where you really understand how big the thing is. From town, it’s a bridge. From the bottom of the gorge, it looks like someone built a stone wall nearly all the way up to Ronda. There’s plenty beyond the bridge too. The old quarter still follows streets laid out long before the Puente Nuevo existed, and Ronda’s Islamic past is still visible in places like the Arab baths near the river. There are older crossings as well. It’s called the New Bridge because Ronda already had bridges before it. I’d stay overnight if I could. Ronda is the kind of place that’s easy to turn into a quick stop on an Andalusia itinerary. Arrive, photograph the bridge, eat lunch, leave. I’d rather be there later, when some of the day-trippers are gone. Walk through the old streets. Cross the bridge again. Have dinner somewhere nearby and come back to the gorge without watching the clock. The Puente Nuevo is impressive even if you know nothing about it. But knowing that an earlier bridge collapsed, that the town spent decades building another one, and that people have been crossing it since 1793 makes it a lot harder to look at it as just another photo stop. The photo might get your attention. The story is usually what makes you care about the place. If that sounds like your kind of travel, subscribe to my newsletter.

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A Bay Area resident realizes how the state of California finds endless ways to take our money. “You have to pay to cross the bridge that you paid in taxes to build. Then you have to pay DMV fees every year to maintain the roads and that bridge that you paid to cross and paid to build. So you’re paying on a payment that you already paid on.” And yet, the same politicians responsible for these policies point the finger elsewhere when it comes to the high cost of living.

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jihoon knowing all the tiny details that women go through when preparing ourselves in going to concerts 🥹 he even knows that we get frustrated bc we dont look as perfect inside the venue compared to when we leave our houses and assured us that the thought of wanting to look pretty for him in itself already makes us beautiful 😭 HOW CAN U NOT LOVE THIS PERSON 🐶 i know that when it rains, your curled hair falls out and everything. i know that your makeup gets messed up and all that. i take all of that into consideration when i look at you, so please don’t worry about it too much. i just don’t pay that much attention to things like that, so don’t worry about it 🐶 isn’t it actually better that i know these things? if i didn’t know, you might think i would find it strange. but i know all of that. i know i know. so don’t worry about things like that 🐶 people with curly hair straighten their hair before coming, but then suddenly it starts getting curly again because of the humidity, and the volume in their hair completely dies down 🐶 i also know that you can leave home thinking “this is the prettiest i habe looked” and then when you arrive at the venue, you look so different from how you did at home, and then it can make you upset because the singer you like is going to see you like this. i know that. 🐶 no my hair gets flat too, and my makeup gets messed up too. when it rains and it gets humid, im like that too so what. ah you don’t have to be embarrassed. you don’t have to be embarrassed because i wont pay attention to it. you don’t have to be embarrassed. 🐶 just come comfortably, and dress up however you want. just think “i’m the prettiest today”, “i’m the coolest”. dress up looking your best and come. come and have fun. 🐶 isn’t everyone like that? when people are in front of someone they like, they want to look good right? they want to show their best selves. 🐶 but whenever it’s an important day, you get sick, or a pimple suddenly comes up on your face. and on days that aren’t important, your skin looks amazing, or you somehow keep losing weight. that’s just how life is for people. it’s not just me. you all probably experience that too. 🐶 because you want to meet us so badly, and because all your attention is focused on us, you might come with a pimple on your face. things might not go the way you want them to. i know all that. i’m a person just like you. i know what it’s like when something happens on an important day. just think of it as me not seeing those things. so come comfortably. 🐶 yeah i know you want to look pretty. and because i know how much you want to look pretty, you look pretty to me. that feeling itself is beautiful, you know? i’m grateful. it feels like you’re being considerate of me. 🐶 when you go to meet someone, getting dressed up instead of just going out carelessly is a consideration for the person you’re meeting. of course it’s also for yourself. of course you can’t help but look pretty. 🐶 whether your makeup gets messed up, your hair curls back up, or whatever happens, its the actions themselves, each and every one of them, are all good you guys. 💬 why are you making us so emotional? 🐶 i’m not saying it because i’m trying to make you emotional. it is genuinely how i feel. i’m not saying this because i thought, “i have to make them emotional.” it’s true. i really think this way. 🐶 TREASURE MAKERs, you’re all pretty. really.. you’re all pretty. i genuinely think that way.

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There’s no such thing as a gay Christian. — John MacArthur “Such were some of you; but” – this is key – “you were sanctified.” Do you know what that means? Separated from that sin - separated from that sin. “People say, “Well, you know, if you’re homosexual, you know, you can’t really ever be changed.” That’s not what Scripture says. You were like this, but you are sanctified; you’re separated from that behavior. It doesn’t just say you were justified; that’s forensic. I’m glad it doesn’t just say you were justified, because then people would say, “Yes, I am forgiven; the righteousness of Christ is imputed to me. I’m justified, but I still have the same sort of a tendency.” No, you were justified, but you were also washed and sanctified, changed, separated in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that work is done by the Spirit of our God.

Terri Green

95,669 views • 6 months ago

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Mark Cuban says anyone can become a millionaire by following these 4 rules #1: “Find something you can be good at and then be great at it” #2: “You have to know how to sell. Whatever it is you’re good at, somebody’s gonna need that service, someone’s gonna need that product” “Whatever it is that you’re creating but you have to be able to sell because you don’t wanna be in a position where you’re dependent on other people” #3: “Be curious and always be learning because one thing that’s certain about business is that it changes every single day” #4: “When you have that knowledge and you have that ability to sell, when you know that when you walk into a room, you know your stuff better than anybody else in the room, that’s when it’s time to start a company” “Then you can start to control your own destiny”

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Life is short. Enjoy it and make the best of it! Naval “It’s even briefer than that. Each moment just disappears. It’s gone. There’s only a present moment, and it’s gone instantly. So if you’re not there for it, if you’re stressed out, or you’re anxious, or you’re thinking about something else, you missed it. So the true wasted time is a time that you are not present for, when you are not there for it, when you are not doing the thing you want to do to the best of your capabilities such that you’re immersed in it. If you’re not immersed in this moment, then you’re wasting your time.” Chris Williamson

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99,540 views • 1 year ago

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“When you start believing how good you are that’s going to be a huge game changer” 🗣️ Listen to Eugene talk about how belief in yourself can effect not only how you perform but how you move as well 👊 Believe that you’re the best player on that field and trust your training and work that you’ve put in. Sometimes by being the most meticulous and the hardest working player can hold you back from letting it flow and letting it rip 🧠💪 #the108way

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77,452 views • 3 years ago

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19,409 views • 1 year ago

Brock Purdy says NFL quarterbacks can’t actually see where they’re throwing nearly 40% of the time, and explains why processing information is more important than having a strong arm "My quarterback coach, Brian Griese, the last couple years, he and I talked about that. He played 11 years, his dad’s Bob Griese. But we got talking about how really it’s 60/40. You can see about 60% of the time, and the other 40% you really can’t. I mean, it doesn’t matter how big you are." "He goes, that’s why it’s so important when it comes down to knowing coverages, knowing scheme, where our players are supposed to be, how many steps they’re breaking, and where the ball should be over a certain backer. All those things, man, it matters." "And that’s why guys, you know, if you go to a combine and all those things, you’re just throwing on air, and yeah, you look all good with a strong arm and fast, jumping, all that stuff. But when it comes down to 11-on-11 and you got guys that are a foot taller and you can’t see, it comes down to the processing." "Like before the play, I know that this safety is probably going to rotate down. It’s going to be one high, and I got one hitch, no more than that, to rip it where Deebo’s supposed to be, like just inside the hash. And there’s a backer that’s also got a 40-inch vert that I got to put it over. That’s what’s crazy, all those things when you’re fitting it in over the backer and underneath the deep safety."
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Brock Purdy says NFL quarterbacks can’t actually see where they’re throwing nearly 40% of the time, and explains why processing information is more important than having a strong arm "My quarterback coach, Brian Griese, the last couple years, he and I talked about that. He played 11 years, his dad’s Bob Griese. But we got talking about how really it’s 60/40. You can see about 60% of the time, and the other 40% you really can’t. I mean, it doesn’t matter how big you are." "He goes, that’s why it’s so important when it comes down to knowing coverages, knowing scheme, where our players are supposed to be, how many steps they’re breaking, and where the ball should be over a certain backer. All those things, man, it matters." "And that’s why guys, you know, if you go to a combine and all those things, you’re just throwing on air, and yeah, you look all good with a strong arm and fast, jumping, all that stuff. But when it comes down to 11-on-11 and you got guys that are a foot taller and you can’t see, it comes down to the processing." "Like before the play, I know that this safety is probably going to rotate down. It’s going to be one high, and I got one hitch, no more than that, to rip it where Deebo’s supposed to be, like just inside the hash. And there’s a backer that’s also got a 40-inch vert that I got to put it over. That’s what’s crazy, all those things when you’re fitting it in over the backer and underneath the deep safety."

Josh Chambers

4,943,846 views • 5 days ago

You can’t make this make sense American in San Francisco shows California residents are charged to cross a bridge they paid to build with their taxes “Lemme get this right — You have to pay to cross the bridge that you paid in taxes to build. Then you have to pay DMV fees every year to maintain the roads and that bridge that you paid to cross and paid to build. So you're paying on a payment that you already paid on.” America is land of the fees
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You can’t make this make sense American in San Francisco shows California residents are charged to cross a bridge they paid to build with their taxes “Lemme get this right — You have to pay to cross the bridge that you paid in taxes to build. Then you have to pay DMV fees every year to maintain the roads and that bridge that you paid to cross and paid to build. So you're paying on a payment that you already paid on.” America is land of the fees

Wall Street Apes

490,932 views • 6 months ago

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This one is hard to admit. But a lot of you already feel it. You don’t trust yourself anymore. Not fully. Because you’ve made promises … and broken them. You’ve told yourself “this is the last time”… and repeated the same pattern. You’ve tried to change. You deleted accounts, content, and entire folders… but nothing really sticks. So now there’s a quiet voice in the back of your mind that says: “Can I actually rely on myself?” That’s the real damage. Not the behavior. The loss of self-trust. And the truth is: You don’t rebuild self-trust by thinking harder. Or feeling more dread and guilt. You rebuild it through evidence. Small wins. Repeated actions. Following through. Seeing yourself show up differently. That’s what changes you. That’s why the 14-Day Self-Command Reset works. It gives you structure so you can finally stop guessing and start proving to yourself that you’re capable of more. Because once you trust yourself again… everything changes.

Command Within | Build Self-Command

106,631 views • 5 months ago

The NYT interview with Taylor Swift on her songwriting process is so good. Here she explains her approach to choruses and bridges: “The importance for me of a bridge is it just feels like we’re painting a picture. We’re setting a scene. We have this opportunity as a songwriter to tell an entire story. Or an entire movie. Or a very detailed description of one scene in a movie. Or a very nuanced dynamic between people or a complicated emotion. And we have only so long to do this. I’ve written some really long songs in my life. But, for the most part, they’re between 3.5 to 4 minutes. You can start painting the picture in the verse. You can get to the heart of it at the chorus. But then the bridge can be where you zoom back, you walk 20 feet back, and you see what this entire painting was supposed to be. You’ve seen brushstrokes. You’ve seen the color tones. But the bridge can be when you step back and you feel everything that that piece of art was supposed to make you feel. That’s just how I feel about bridges. I came up as a songwriter in Nashville, where structure is a huge part of how you effectively tell a story, right? You go verse - chorus - second verse - chorus - bridge - chorus. Maybe you repeat that first verse if you want to. If you want to pull at some heartstrings. If it makes sense. Now, that’s something that I absolutely subscribe to…that structure is important. But I think that when you write enough songs — at least in my case — the intuitive part of your songwriting brain can kind of create a new structure that’s not as classically what you’ve been taught. Jack Antonoff is a collaborator of mine and one of my best friends. We established this thing that we love to do and we call it the rant bridge. I could point to examples like, ‘Out of the Woods’, ‘Is It Over Now?’ or ‘Cruel Summer’. And oftentimes we love these rant bridges, where it’s basically like stream of consciousness. Endless pouring-out of emotion. Intrusive thoughts, blended with metaphor with discussion with shouting. You want this rant bridge to feel the most intense of what that feeling is…that you’re trying to, establish over the course of the song and you want it to kind of be a crescendo.” *** Full interview here:
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The NYT interview with Taylor Swift on her songwriting process is so good. Here she explains her approach to choruses and bridges: “The importance for me of a bridge is it just feels like we’re painting a picture. We’re setting a scene. We have this opportunity as a songwriter to tell an entire story. Or an entire movie. Or a very detailed description of one scene in a movie. Or a very nuanced dynamic between people or a complicated emotion. And we have only so long to do this. I’ve written some really long songs in my life. But, for the most part, they’re between 3.5 to 4 minutes. You can start painting the picture in the verse. You can get to the heart of it at the chorus. But then the bridge can be where you zoom back, you walk 20 feet back, and you see what this entire painting was supposed to be. You’ve seen brushstrokes. You’ve seen the color tones. But the bridge can be when you step back and you feel everything that that piece of art was supposed to make you feel. That’s just how I feel about bridges. I came up as a songwriter in Nashville, where structure is a huge part of how you effectively tell a story, right? You go verse - chorus - second verse - chorus - bridge - chorus. Maybe you repeat that first verse if you want to. If you want to pull at some heartstrings. If it makes sense. Now, that’s something that I absolutely subscribe to…that structure is important. But I think that when you write enough songs — at least in my case — the intuitive part of your songwriting brain can kind of create a new structure that’s not as classically what you’ve been taught. Jack Antonoff is a collaborator of mine and one of my best friends. We established this thing that we love to do and we call it the rant bridge. I could point to examples like, ‘Out of the Woods’, ‘Is It Over Now?’ or ‘Cruel Summer’. And oftentimes we love these rant bridges, where it’s basically like stream of consciousness. Endless pouring-out of emotion. Intrusive thoughts, blended with metaphor with discussion with shouting. You want this rant bridge to feel the most intense of what that feeling is…that you’re trying to, establish over the course of the song and you want it to kind of be a crescendo.” *** Full interview here:

Trung Phan

91,687 views • 4 months ago

You’re allowed to take the $ but to take it and then blame and shit on them .. man that’s super unacceptable! And more over … kids you are capable, I mean it, you are, don’t believe the news in the world that tries to tell you, “you can’t” .. there’s so many youngsters that are happy and crushing it professionally, heck I know dozens and dozens… and parents .. remember… “It’s hard to be hungry, when you’re feed” … please watch this video 2x if you’re dealing with this tension in your fam, I hope it helps 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🔑
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You’re allowed to take the $ but to take it and then blame and shit on them .. man that’s super unacceptable! And more over … kids you are capable, I mean it, you are, don’t believe the news in the world that tries to tell you, “you can’t” .. there’s so many youngsters that are happy and crushing it professionally, heck I know dozens and dozens… and parents .. remember… “It’s hard to be hungry, when you’re feed” … please watch this video 2x if you’re dealing with this tension in your fam, I hope it helps 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🔑

Gary Vaynerchuk

23,340 views • 1 year ago

I made a short Video about something that annoys every single crypto user.... 👉 Waiting... 😑 Did you know that the average person spends about 5 years of their life just waiting for stuff... Waiting in line, Waiting for transactions, Waiting for pages to load, Waiting for food to heat up, We wait for everything and no one likes waiting... At least I know I don't! If you use crypto, you know the pain of waiting for bridge transactions. You select your tokens, pick your chains, hit confirm, and then you just sit there... 5 minutes, 10 minutes... Sometimes it fails completely and you have to start all over again. It's one of the most frustrating things in Web3. That's why I started using Bitget Wallet's bridge and I've never looked back. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's the fastest bridge I've ever used. One tap and your tokens are on the other chain in seconds. Not minutes. Seconds. And it has never failed on me. Not once. Every single transaction goes through. It supports 25+ chains so it doesn't matter where your tokens are or where you need them to go. You just bridge and it's done! If you're still using bridges that make you wait and pray, try Bitget Wallet 🩵. You've waited long enough.
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I made a short Video about something that annoys every single crypto user.... 👉 Waiting... 😑 Did you know that the average person spends about 5 years of their life just waiting for stuff... Waiting in line, Waiting for transactions, Waiting for pages to load, Waiting for food to heat up, We wait for everything and no one likes waiting... At least I know I don't! If you use crypto, you know the pain of waiting for bridge transactions. You select your tokens, pick your chains, hit confirm, and then you just sit there... 5 minutes, 10 minutes... Sometimes it fails completely and you have to start all over again. It's one of the most frustrating things in Web3. That's why I started using Bitget Wallet's bridge and I've never looked back. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's the fastest bridge I've ever used. One tap and your tokens are on the other chain in seconds. Not minutes. Seconds. And it has never failed on me. Not once. Every single transaction goes through. It supports 25+ chains so it doesn't matter where your tokens are or where you need them to go. You just bridge and it's done! If you're still using bridges that make you wait and pray, try Bitget Wallet 🩵. You've waited long enough.

Maverick 🧱

17,176 views • 6 months ago

They want you to believe that when you watch a sunset you are actually moving backwards away from it over 1,000 mph watching it go around a curve. The truth is, you are stationary and the sun is moving away from you across a level plane… Just as your senses tell you. You know how I know? Because you can zoom it back in!
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They want you to believe that when you watch a sunset you are actually moving backwards away from it over 1,000 mph watching it go around a curve. The truth is, you are stationary and the sun is moving away from you across a level plane… Just as your senses tell you. You know how I know? Because you can zoom it back in!

Ted Logan

47,237 views • 5 months ago

Liam Coen says analytics should inform decisions, never make them “We leverage analytics. Absolutely. We leverage it for the data and the information to make a decision, not to make the decision. That’s not how it goes. Ever.” “You have the data, AI, analytics, it is unreal. What are the true decisions that lie in the moment, in the now? What are the facts that you need to know? That’s great to leverage.” “We have game management. We have an analytics department to gather that information. But we are not making decisions solely based on those numbers. Ultimately, it has to come from the gut and from yourself.” “Is this the best decision for the Jacksonville Jaguars right now? Because that’s all you can live in. You’re living in every single play.” “I’m going to lean aggressive offensively, especially in year one when you’re trying to instill confidence. You’re trying to instill a mindset of, ‘Yeah, we are good.’ I believe we can go get fourth-and-two. We can.” “We talk about momentum a lot as a team. You can feel that. You can feel momentum. You know when you got it and you know when you don’t. I feed off that as a coach and I feed off the player’s energy on the grass and when they have confidence and momentum I want to roll with it, I want to keep it.” “When you have it you wanna stomp on it, you want to make them feel it.. That’s where the aggression comes in, you want to hold onto that and put your foot on the pedal. And as you grow as a coach there are times where you might be like, ‘Alright, may need to kick here. It’s going to be one of those kind of games.’” “So you have to be prepared, know your gut, go with your gut, feel this, all that’s going on around you, and make the best educated decision.”
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Liam Coen says analytics should inform decisions, never make them “We leverage analytics. Absolutely. We leverage it for the data and the information to make a decision, not to make the decision. That’s not how it goes. Ever.” “You have the data, AI, analytics, it is unreal. What are the true decisions that lie in the moment, in the now? What are the facts that you need to know? That’s great to leverage.” “We have game management. We have an analytics department to gather that information. But we are not making decisions solely based on those numbers. Ultimately, it has to come from the gut and from yourself.” “Is this the best decision for the Jacksonville Jaguars right now? Because that’s all you can live in. You’re living in every single play.” “I’m going to lean aggressive offensively, especially in year one when you’re trying to instill confidence. You’re trying to instill a mindset of, ‘Yeah, we are good.’ I believe we can go get fourth-and-two. We can.” “We talk about momentum a lot as a team. You can feel that. You can feel momentum. You know when you got it and you know when you don’t. I feed off that as a coach and I feed off the player’s energy on the grass and when they have confidence and momentum I want to roll with it, I want to keep it.” “When you have it you wanna stomp on it, you want to make them feel it.. That’s where the aggression comes in, you want to hold onto that and put your foot on the pedal. And as you grow as a coach there are times where you might be like, ‘Alright, may need to kick here. It’s going to be one of those kind of games.’” “So you have to be prepared, know your gut, go with your gut, feel this, all that’s going on around you, and make the best educated decision.”

Josh Chambers

10,496 views • 1 month ago