Monica Rhor Sep. 5, 2017 Updated: Sep. 6, 2017 12 p.m.
Joy Rizzi's voice quivered as she approached the pile of rubble, tossed like flotsam along the banks of the San Jacinto River.
It had been four days since Rizzi was evacuated from the Riverview at Forest Cove complex in the Kingwood area. Four days since she had last visited the townhome that has been her sanctuary for nearly 20 years.
Hurricane Harvey had bulldozed through the Houston suburb, flooding dozens of neighborhoods, turning roadways into roiling rivers, displacing hundreds of families, ravaging schools.
Holed up at her daughter's place 6 miles north in Porter, Rizzi had watched the disaster unfold on her smartphone. Through social media posts, river and lake reports, messages from friends, photos snatched from news reports.
Over the course of 108 hours, the updates grew increasingly grim.
Then, around 8 o'clock Friday morning, a niece sent Rizzi a screenshot plucked from a CNN broadcast. It showed two buckling and damaged beige townhomes. Next to them, a heap of mangled wood and warped metal.
"Aunt Joy," she asked. "Is this your house?"
Two hours later, Rizzi, a former Marine with strawberry blonde hair and azure eyes, tread carefully over the mounds of wet sand that shrouded the road leading into her complex.
Past a deep gulf, filled with murky water and darting fish, was what was left of Rizzi's house. It looked as if it had been minced in a blender. The twisted roof jutted up toward the sky, cinder blocks scattered like toys, a washer-dryer and water heater poked out from crevices where there used to be walls.
Three adjoining units, which had stood to the west of hers, were gone - ripped clean off their foundations and washed away into the river.
Flooding alone couldn't have done that, thought Rizzi. Neither could the rain. That kind of damage had come from the force of water gushing from the Lake Conroe dam. The force of water spilling from a record river crest. The force of water funneled from seven tributaries all heading straight toward Rizzi's house.
The force of all three happening at once.
Rizzi took two shallow breaths and gulped hard. The palm trees had made it, she joked through tears. So had she.
The only thing left to do, the only thing she could do, was to salvage the bits and pieces that remained of her life.
Rizzi had been through storms before.
Her four-story house, in the middle of a six-unit block, sat just 15 feet from the west fork of the San Jacinto River. So, even as Harvey lashed towns 500 miles to the south and rain had not yet reached Houston, she knew her house would flood.
Last year's Memorial Day flood deposited 5 feet of water in her first-floor garage, where she had marked the height in black marker on a white post.
Still, she had been drawn years earlier by the tranquility of life along the riverbanks. When she moved in, she garnished the interior with an Asian theme, created a meditation room, installed decorative pavers in her back patio, planted yucca trees in her driveway island.
At 62, Rizzi relished the serenity of her home, the sunsets over the water, and the company of her four cats, including one rescued from last year's flood and named "Floodie."
As Harvey circled slowly closer, Rizzi stocked up on food and water. She covered her backyard in blue tarp, hoping for an easier clean-up. She hauled plants and backyard furniture inside and stacked as much as she could 6 feet off the ground.
Her house, like the 24 others in the community, was built with breakaway walls, designed to withstand flood waters. It had gulped in 5 feet with barely a scar. Eight feet would batter her garage, but not reach her second floor. Twelve feet would seep into her second floor living area, but the structure would hold strong.
At least that's what was supposed to happen.
Yet, early on Aug. 26, as Harvey pushed through the Gulf Coast and claimed its first life, Rizzi grew worried. Something felt different.
At 1:45 a.m. the next day, Rizzi began checking the National Weather Service reports for the San Jacinto River. The reading was 50.82 feet, with a predicted crest of 57 feet, which would mean first floor flooding.
Five minutes later, her Facebook mood was "feeling depressed."
"Everything I've done to repair last year's devastating flood is going to be gone in just a few hours," she posted.
Nine minutes after that: "Oh Jesus NO! They are releasing the flood gates at Lake Conroe!!"
In 1994, the surge from a dam release had knocked an end unit off its slab and into the river. Rizzi prayed that would not happen again.
By 8:45 a.m., the river was at 53 feet and expected to rise to 62, translating to 5 feet of water in her house. Should she leave? Should she take her cats?
She remembered how the house shook during the last flood as water slammed debris against the exterior.
Her daughter came to get the cats.
At 1:58 p.m., Rizzi told Facebook friends that forecasters were predicting "a devastating and destructive crest."
"I may end up with 12 ft of water, which goes into the second floor."
Five hours later, as the water crept into her garage, Rizzi packed five tops, five pairs of shorts and her black and silver cowboy boots into an overnight bag and climbed aboard a rescue boat.
The next morning, Rizzi was "feeling emotional."
"Why did I leave my home this time, when my home can handle a flood? I left because I knew the San Jacinto predictive flood models were grossly inaccurate," she posted at 10:25 a.m.
Within two hours, the Lake Conroe release sent water hurtling at a rate of 79,141 cubic feet per second - nearly 2½ times the rate during the '94 flood. It raced toward the San Jacinto and Rizzi's house.
Rizzi called up the river reports every two hours. The San Jacinto River kept jumping. 62.36 feet. 63.27. 64.14.
At 4:45 a.m. on Aug. 29, it hit 67.31 - breaking the record set 23 years ago.
We survived that, Rizzi thought. But this time, she couldn't imagine what would be left of her home.
That afternoon, the San Jacinto crested at 69.1 feet.
The garage door, sliding glass doors and windows shattered by the water pressure. The surge from Lake Conroe ripping through walls and Sheetrock.
Water was sucking all her furniture into the center of the river.
The foundation and soil vacuumed from under the house.
The cement patio dropped into an abyss. The balconies, braces and brackets collapsing.
The roof tumbling onto the debris, crushing everything inside.
Later that day, a friend shared aerial photos of the complex. The first Rizzi had seen since she left.
Her abandoned block seemed to bob in the middle of a lake. The residents had all fled the churning waters. Three end units had vanished. Her house was sagging, the corner starting to give way.
But it was still standing.
Two days later, the walls were folding in, the support beams snapping in half.
"My home is now gone."
Rizzi stood in front of the remains of her house on Sunday and smiled.
It was two days since she first returned to her property to find a mass of splintered wood and tattered furnishings where a home once stood.
The floodwaters had mostly receded, leaving behind a thick coating of sand and exposing even more of the destruction.
Some of Rizzi's furniture - a coffee table, sofa cushions, a chair - had turned up stuck in trees about a mile down river.
All weekend, Rizzi had rummaged through the wreckage, hoping to find something intact. She had unearthed a stained glass light fixture. Panels were missing and the metal bent, but she put it aside - "just to have."
She found a rag doll she had handcrafted as a child, white Christmas lights neatly coiled, a framed photograph of her grandmother in Czechoslovakia.
Each find had restored a fraction of her peace of mind.
But many treasures, like the baptismal gown stitched by her mother and worn by her two children and a granddaughter, were still missing.
On this morning, she had brought along a knife and planned to cut through the roof to the attic and, if possible, the fourth floor. She wanted to recover as much as she could.
The house next door was shifting and what little left of hers sinking even deeper into the wet ground, so "we have to listen to noises. If we hear a noise, we have to get out." Looters had already been arrested at the complex, trying to scavenge through the abandoned houses.
She still questioned the decision to open the Lake Conroe flood gates, pointing to the line of trees flattened to the ground, as if in the path of a tornado moving from west to east.
The San Jacinto River Authority says that the release was necessary to keep the dam from breaching and endangering even more homes.
Rizzi did not have flood insurance. She had paid the mortgage off last year and was finishing repairs from the Memorial Day Food damage before getting an elevation report required by her new insurance company.
So, she found comfort in her own ritual, bidding goodbye to the items too waterlogged to keep and giving thanks for those she could retrieve.
The tiny jade elephant missing a trunk and two legs. The macrame plant holder still dripping and sodden. The wooden Christmas decoration from "the old country."
And items close to the heart: The flag from her father's burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. Her grandfather's Bible from Czechoslovakia. Her children's baby pictures.
Rizzi's friends have asked what she will do next.
For now, she tells them, she is living in hope - and hope can be found in the bits and pieces she retrieves from the ruins.


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Shocking Dark, Aliens....in Italy
Ah, Venice! Canals...romance...gondolas...covert, underground, bio-genetics labs...the beauty that is Italy! 1989's "Shocking Dark" (aka "Terminator 2") is considered a complete rip-off of James Cameron's "Aliens." In fact Mr. Cameron was quoted as saying "...I'm so happy my film came out first, as the Italian version blows 'Aliens' away in every aspect." [CREATIVE EMBELLISHMENT] In fairness to the Bruno Mattei film, the last five minutes are slightly different than the second installment of the "Alien" franchise. Instead of taking place on a far-off planet, this film is set in Venice after toxic waste has killed the city.
The Tubular Corporation has set up a secret lab in the bowels of Venice after toxic waste spills. When the scientists in the lab are killed off by an unknown force (monsters), the evil company sends a team of marines in to find out what happened. Accompanying the doomed squad is Sara (Haven Tyler), a genetic scientist, and Fuller (Christopher Aherns), a corporate hack, who merely seeks to preserve the firm's interests. Once in the facility, the soldiers are under instant attack from slimy monsters, and some of them are carried off and put in slimy cocoon things. Hark! A survivor! Samantha, a little girl, and daughter of a scientist, has been living in the ruins of the lab since the initial attack. Sara adopts, as a duty, the task of caring for Samantha. As the marines continue to fall to the slime creatures, Sara discovers the fiends are former humans who have undergone horrific gene alteration by the Tubular Corporation.
After Sara's discovery, Fuller attempts to eliminate her and Samantha. First, he dumps a creature into the room the girls are resting in, and shuts off the monitor. Of course, Sara is able to fight off the things long enough for the remaining marines to come to the rescue. Now Fuller is in all out war with the marines too, and because he is not your average human, the odds are in Fuller's favor. You can guess the remaining aspects of the plot, especially if you have seen "Aliens." The creatures are slimy and scary, and the soldiers are cliche...including the tough, ethnic chick marine.
Is Bruno Mattei attempting to deliver a metaphor for nature reclaiming our structural achievements? Was "Shocking Dark" a response to a population's demand for more elaboration to some unanswered questions from Mr. Cameron's "Aliens"? Don't be offended that Italy came out with a plagiarized version of an "Alien" movie....rather be thankful they decided to plagiarize "Aliens" and not "Ordinary People." This film is available in good quality on YouTube.
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Fellow guest Katie Hopkins also showed her support for internment camps in the wake of the London attack.
Fox & Friends was forced to disavow internment on air on Sunday (4 June) after several guests suggested internment camps in the wake of the terror attack in London. Host Clayton Morris told viewers that the network views the idea of internment as "reprehensible".
"Earlier on the show, we had a couple of guests mention the word 'internment,' the idea of internment camps, as a possible solution to this," Morris said. "I think I made it well known my feeling on that, which I find reprehensible, but on behalf of the network, I think all of us here find that reprehensible here at Fox News Channel, just to be clear."
The on-air clarification came after two guests, including former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, suggested the idea of internment camps as a solution to the attacks. "We want genuine action, and if there is not action, then the calls for internment will grow," Farage said.
"We have over 3,000 people on a sort of known terrorist list, and we're watching, monitoring their activities," he continued. "But [there are] a further 20,000 people who are persons of interest, namely they're linked in some way to extremist organisations. Unless we see the government getting tough, you will see public calls for those 3,000 to be arrested."
According to Huffington Post, Farage acknowledged that "we might alienate decent, fair-minded Muslims in Britain."
Later on in the show, Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins said she agreed with the idea of internment camps. "We do need internment camps," Hopkins said. "Before, I would have bought the idea that this gets more people radicalised—you know, that's not the solution. But we've gone beyond the tipping point. This country cannot take another attack."
Hopkins added that the British people "need to hear 650 jihadis that returned to the UK are going to be incarcerated and deported and we need to hear that Saudi-backed mosques and extreme hate preachers and imams within those mosques are also going to be shut down and reported."
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Host Abby Huntsman then told Hopkins she agreed "we've got to get over the political correctness".
It is not the first time Hopkins has called for similar action. Following the suicide bombing in Manchester in May, she demanded authorities settle on a "final solution" in a tweet that led to her parting company with the London-based radio station LBC on which she had a show.


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Sparky Parker sits down at the Piano as well as the Guitar on this World Jazz CD. Matt Underwood brings his Scofield/Metheny chops to the table as well. Even Kevin Crenshaw resident Drummer , and fellow Song Smith , and Gardner Headrick pull a few tricks out of there musical arsenal in order to make this one hell of a Musical adventure.


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Conference on Post-capitalist City, Pula 14.-16.8.2009
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The city is the space where the reproduction of social, political and economic forms of life takes
place and where these forms of life confront instrumental political power or political diagonal. This
reproduction of forms of life represents the central site of exploitation as well as of resistance.
Resistance is manifested through production of common values and through cooperation. This
complex environment can be the key force behind the making of democracy, justice, common
values and free space. Cities can become places of post-capitalism.
During three days, the Conference on Post-capitalist City will present the common experiences
of European groups involved in mapping, planning and creating situations which escape both the
capitalist logic of production of space and reproduction of life. Some of these groups will present
their work in the form of lectures after which discussions will follow.
– The goal of the Conference is to affirm an international network of individuals and groups
exploring various forms of self-organizing in urban planning. The participants' experiences, their
current projects and practices, will be collected in a catalogue/brochure which will be used for
further activities. The catalogue is conceived as a theoretical elaboration of practices, sorted by
the criteria of 1) method 2) tools/instruments 3) strategy and tactics.
– Our intention is to share experiences as well as create a Document summarizing our
conclusions into a general thesis to be used in further actions.
The project's hypothesis: It is necessary to reread the processes of exploitation and resistance in
the city as well as understand the curren relations of political powers in order to create a new
urbanism, independent from the state and other political institutions. In other words, we propose
that the separation of urban planning from the state is finally conceivable. The existing
forms of production and life have already erased the border between the profession and its
beneficiaries, between planners and citizens, architects and activists. To research new aspects
of urban development is to reinvent them. Individual experience has become the key for
describing the new urban dynamics.
The Symposium will take place in Pula, a city on the Croatian coast. This environment should be
inspiring for investigating the separation of planning and state because the state has been
retreating from Pula for the last 20 years. An historical military port, the town was deserted by the
army and now offers vast abandoned areas. Most of these spaces did not integrate into
commodity markets and the accompanying system of political power, but were transformed
instead into a laboratory for new forms of living, an informal economy and autonomous production
of common values. At this moment, the size of the ex-military areas developing independently is
ten times bigger than the ex-military areas officially integrated into the dominant economic
regime.
The process of demilitarization in Pula started as a minor issue, but has subsequently grown into
the central process by which the city is transformed. As in other cities in a similar situation, here
too the same question arises: What knowledge, methods and tools are needed to establish a
new practice of city planning based on new forms of living, and to turn the existing
political diagonal in its own advantage?
The Symposium on Post-Capitalist City is a part of the 11. Multimedia festival Media
Mediterranea.
Kommentare deaktiviert für Conference on Post-capitalist City, Pula 14.-16.8.2009
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Muthu's Curry started out from a humble stall on Klang Road in the 1960s (known as Muthu Makan shop) has come a long way and is now the go-to destination for authentic South Indian food.
Nothing has changed much, tradition is going strong at this 46-year old restaurant on Race Course Road. The food quality, attention to detail, and creative use of ingredients are still at the forefront.
To cope with the growing customer base of keen following and foreign nationalities, Muthu's Curry underwent major renovations in 2004 and recently added new interior design elements and rustic surroundings inspired by homes and palaces of Chettinad in South India, which is also the birthplace of the brand's late founder Mr Ayyakkannu.
In celebration of Muthu's Curry 46 delicious years in Singapore, the iconic Indian restaurant introduces a limited-edition, heritage menu named Mannuvasanai – which is Tamil for "Fragrance from the Land", featuring signature and authentic Chettinad dishes that are often enjoyed during meal times at home and elaborate banquets.
Set up by a Chettinad native in the kitchens of Muthu's Curry, the Mannuvasanai menu serves up historically accurate dishes from the Chettinad region. Quality ingredients and traditional presentation meticulously prepared for the Mannuvasanai menu takes diners on a heritage journey to the city of Chettinad.
The limited-edition Chettinad menu is made up of five traditional dishes involving a balanced concept of nutritional contents, textures, colours and precision cutting.
Starting with the first banana dish – Vazhathandu Kootu is made from chopped banana shoots and cooked in a low flame with a mixture of moong dal (yellow split lentis), coconut milk, cumin seeds and green chillies. This palate-awakening dish is rich in fibre and potassium, which adds nutrition (good for the bladder) to our diet.
A familiar sight at many Indian restaurants – Vendaikkai and Mochai Mandi, a lady's finger tamarind gravy dish cooked in unpolished rice water and tempered with tamarind juice, chilli powder, coriander and whole garlic.
The bold and tangy gravy dish is added with cannellini beans (white kidney beans) for a firm texture and nutty flavour. Apart from the abundant supply of plant-based healthy protein, the rice water used for cooking this dish provides numerous health benefits, one of which is great for cooling the body in hot weather.
The next potassium-packed dish – Vazhakkai Varruval, is also made from bananas but unripened ones. Raw bananas are peeled, and cut into small pieces, then marinated in turmeric, chilli powder, cumin, fennel and coriander before they are lightly battered and shallow-fried in aromatic thadka base of curry leaves, cumin and fennel.
No one could possibly resist this stir-fry dish that is lightly crisp around the edges, coated with Chettinad spices that brings an unexpected punch of flavours. This dish is really addictive!
Suggest a dish that brings nostalgia memories of grandma's cooking – Milagu Varutha Kozhi, a traditional Masala dish empowered with the fire of chillies, pepper, ginger and the comfort of garlic.
One hour of simmering is enough to break down the ingredients, meld the flavours and just before the chicken meat falls apart, you might want to standby the homemade buttermilk which is a necessary complement to calm excited tastebuds and balance the spice.
The last dish which completes the Mannuvasanai Menu – Vanjaram Meen Kulambu (featured above) is a spicy, flavourful and authentic Chettinad fish curry prepared with only the freshest tenggiri (mackerel) thick-cut fillets and chef's special masala marinade of tangy tamarind juice, turmeric, garlic, ginger, green chills, shallots and savoury tomatoes swimming in the perfectly spiced coconut milk broth.
There is no hard and fast rule on which dish to begin with. The 5 different type of dishes can be eaten separately or in sequence, starting from the lighter Vazhathandu Kootu, to the heartier Vanjaram Meen Kulambu, presented in pretty terracotta pots and then served on a banana leaf where you unfold a delightful cultural and culinary experience.
A small spoonful of salt is usually added to the guest's plate to symbolise the bond between host and guest. Finish off the meal with a sweet Payasam – the typical South Indian rice pudding mixed with tenders slivers of young coconut for a refreshing touch.
If you are too full after eating the Mannuvasanai meal or leaving in a hurry, make sure you come back for the award winning Fish Head Curry ($22/$27/$32) which is strongly recommended for every curry lovers. The signature fish head curry at Muthu's Curry is served with juicy okra and pineapple chunks in a rich gravy blend of aromatic spices that are unique to Muthu's.
The restaurant has created a special retreat for its customers, where one can relish the taste of signature dishes from the Chettinad region. The diverse flavours of all the ingredients and spices used bring an authentic taste of food to every dish which makes the food here very tempting.
A very commonly made statement is that Indian food is unhealthy. In my opinion, Indian food is just like any other food which can be prepared in a healthy way and an unhealthy way. It really depends on how much you consume and what ingredients are used in the preparation of the dishes.
With an open mind and a little sacrifice in taste, everyone can still enjoy Indian food.


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Synergy Aerospace Corp. es una división del Synergy Group, una compañía privada de explotación en el aérea de aviación del empresario Germán Efromovich. La empresa tiene su sede principal en Bogotá, Colombia.

La compañía controla ocho aerolíneas en cuatro países. Estas son las aerolíneas Avianca y Tampa Cargo en Colombia, Avianca Brasil, VarigLog y Synerjet en Brasil, VIP y Aerogal de Ecuador.

Synergy Group ha establecido una empresa conjunta en marzo de 2011 con Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) con sede en Brasil. La empresa EAE Solutions Aerospace fue creado para convertirse en el accionista y la sociedad de cartera de las actividades del grupo en Brasil. Synergy Group quiere invertir en Flight Technologies, un fabricante de vehículos aéreos tácticos no tripulados (UAV) para el Ejército brasileño, con sede en São José dos Campos. La empresa conjunta ofrecerá sistemas avanzados de defensa, también transportadores de misiones múltiples, aviones de combate de misión y actualizaciones, vigilancia de inteligencia y reconocimiento (ISR) y sistemas avanzados radares.

Referencias

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Suddenly, everybody is talking about nitrogen dioxide and free radicals in the air and the direct effect it has on our skin. I, for one work in the City of London where the air is thick with harmful pollutants and I do worry about the how it can have a significant impact on my skin, not just on the surface.
The tipping point was in January 2017, when pollution readings taken from Brixton, Oxford Circus, Kings Road, Chelsea and Kensington High Street showed that nitrogen dioxide levels had breached the EU annual limit for an entire year - in just five days. Since then, MP's called the crisis a "public health emergency" whilst the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Paediatrics have reported around 40,000 deaths each year are due to the exposure of pollution.
Something that is becoming harder to miss is the effect it is having on our skin, although pollution particles cannot be seen or smelt, women living in urban and built-up areas are seeing more visible signs of ageing, higher rates of dark spots, pigmentation, imbalance in pH levels and adult acne. According to the Journal of Dermatology, environmental pollutants increase age spots by 25% around the cheek area as a direct result of nitrogen dioxide concentrations. So with all this bad news in mind, we now know that air pollutants can deplete antioxidant defences and perhaps even degrade proteins in the skin.
While politicians debate and universities research about how to clean up the air, there are some everyday simple things we can do to protect ourselves, on the surface and from within. Here's our breakdown of treatments and products available to help defend your skin against the baddies in the air.
Citric Acid, Lilac, Green Tea, and Chardonnay Grape Seed Extracts work together to neutralise free radicals and help preserve healthy DNA, lipids, and cellular membranes.
Revitalises and balances dull, stressed skin with exceptionally powerful natural antioxidants sourced from the Australian Rainforest.
As a booster serum, it can be used in conjunction with your own daily serum or as a stand alone. It's also very pocket friendly.
This works from the inside, if you're taking injections you'll only need it once fortnightly/monthly depending on what your practitioner tells you. Or opt for supplements.
Plays an important role in detoxification reactions, protecting the cells from harmful effects of unwanted chemical substances, such as free radicals.
With high cysteine concentrations in the cells, explaining the protective effect against unwanted foreign chemical substances.
It helps with cell growth, wound healing and immune function.
Plays pac man and eats up free radicals which are created during exposure to hot and cold environmental temperatures and UV light from the sun or toxicity. There are others factors such as exhaust fumes, pollutants for those in the City and for those who travel a lot by trains or planes where cabin fever can effect the air (re-circulated air).
The lymphatic system is designed to remove waste products and toxins in the body.
We use a lymphatic drainage suction devise to draw out impurities.
Deep cleanse, steam, extraction and mask with the full hour facial.
Your therapist will even show you the suction devise at the end to prove how much grime can build up in your pores! This is a very satisfying facial, consider your skin well and truly cleansed.
Very high photoimmunoprotection with an innovative ulra-light fluid cream texture.
Its exclusive combination of advance filters and BioShield System provides broad spectrum protection against UVA, UVB, IR-A and Visible Light.
Enriched with Fernblock FC for powerful antioxidant activity, and actives which repair sun damage. Suitable for all skin types, with a soft, invisible skin-feel.
Correct the visual signs of photo-ageing and prevent future damage with a broad-spectrum UVA/UVB sunscreen in this antioxidant-rich day cream.
Ideal daytime exfoliating moisturiser helps to diminish the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
It contains three potent antioxidants, including MMP inhibitor Lactobionic Acid, plus broad spectrum sunscreen, to help preserve collagen and maximise protection against oxidative damage. Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHAs) exfoliate to visibly smooth skin.
There is no greater satisfaction than having serum sprayed onto your face with pure oxygen, truly the essence of a city smart facial. The Antioxidant Booster will bubble wrap your face against the elements, smooth, brighten, refine.
Low molecular hyaluronic acid is infused with an antioxidant booster to leave you looking and feeling clean and radiant for up to a week.


We—the Visual Studio App Center development team—have released SDKs for Android, iOS, React Native, UWP and Xamarin, with more in the works. As we build new tools, we do so knowing that many are successors to popular SDKs, like HockeyApp, that developers already use and love (for good reason).
When we started working on App Center, we knew we had to not only build new, exciting features, but take the existing SDKs' hard-earned developer satisfaction into account. We've learned a lot along the way (and continue to learn!), and we're sharing our story today to help you build your own amazing SDKs that your team, friends, and developers around the world will love to use.
So, how are we making our SDKs better than ever, so it's easier for you, and all developers, to ship great apps?
With years of customer feedback from the existing SDKs , it was tempting to start coding. But, we're not ones to succumb to temptation; we began with a pause, and this was possibly the most productive part of the process.
Some of us hadn't worked together before. Spending time discussing perspectives and working through a few "arguments" helped us build a team.
We gave ourselves an opportunity to take a step back, reevaluating and fleshing out our spec (before we got too deep in development).
We established core values that have guided us throughout the whole process of designing and coding our SDKs. Read our post on code review for more info.
We wanted to open-source our SDKs and work in public as much as possible. With full support from our leadership team (in 2016, Microsoft was named the #1 contributor on GitHub), we made our SDK public the day we entered public preview. We do pull requests in the open, and our users contribute their code, file issues, and ask for features in our public repos.
Was working in public a little terrifying at first? Yes, but it's also very rewarding. Other developers see what we're working on, support is much more transparent, and we foster a greater sense of trust, since anyone can verify that things work "as advertised." There are no black boxes, just coding, learning, and iterating.
Head over to GitHub to join the discussion, fork your own code, and see what we're up to.
As developers who use SDKs ourselves,user experience is extremely important to us. We want to create SDKs that are accessible to any developer (inexperienced to expert), easy and quick to use, and just generally delightful.
Less Complexity: A configuration file makes it easy to get up and running with an SDK, but sophisticated functionality (e.g. adding APIs to allow configuration at runtime) often results in complex scenarios that require configuration files and code. This makes it harder for to keep track of what, where, and when you've made changes – which is exactly what we were trying to avoid.
Avoiding the "Black Box": Configuration files get messy. As multiple developers modify a project, they end up with a file containing configurations and variables that they've never seen before. On top of that, they need to be human readable, so they are either JSON or XML. While both are definitely human-readable, they are not fun to look at.
Ultimate Developer Control: There's something appealing about being able to start, stop, enable, configure and customize an SDK to your needs. With code-based solutions, no additional config file can override what you've done in your setup code – and, with our SDK, developers explicitly enable each App Center feature.
Simplified Support: As explained, it's very likely to end up with configuration and setup done in code and the configuration file. On the flip side, with code-based solutions, you configure SDKs in one place (code), so you – and your QA team – easily verify and debug issues. In addition, it's a lot easier for us and our support team to understand what's going on in case where something doesn't work right for you.
Add the dependency to App Center (using your target platform's preferred method to manage dependencies).
Add one line of code.
Like all developers, we're always balancing functionality tradeoffs and we avoid adding complexity whenever possible – but we're flexible. For example: initially, we planned to limit ourselves to a single API to start the SDK, but conversations with our customers helped us realize that we needed to offer more customization options. In the end, we chose to make it possible to setup and start the SDKs with just one line of code, but we provide various APIs to allow for custom behaviors. This adds complexity but helps us achieve our mission and fit into any developer's workflow.
Still, we say "no" more than we say "yes" (or, at least to adding a new API or making any changes that complicate the product).
Reduce Performance Impact: Our SDKs are modular, so our users only integrate what they need. We want you to use all of our amazing features, but you might have other plans or existing tools. We require one very small binary that includes shared code, (e.g., for network i/o), and each App Center service is its own module. While our total footprint–even with every service active–is minimal, we want to provide the most optimized experience we can, so if you're not using a service, you can pare down your app size even more. That said, even if include all of our services, the App Center SDKs are very small.
Reduce Human Error: As Lukas' shared in How We Do Code Review, we all review team members' pull requests. We set up continuous integration and continuous deployment to prevent errors in the first place and help us detect errors as soon as possible. Lastly, we perform integration tests and end-to-end UI tests on a huge variety of devices and OS versions. We not only build App Center, we use App Center and are huge advocates of CI/CD, automation, and eliminating repetitive, error-prone manual processes.
Be Consistent: Each mobile platform and toolchain has its own APIs, programming languages, history, and conventions. To be "delightful," our SDKs need to respect each environment's conventions, and our APIs need to feel natural and familiar.At the same time, we want to be as consistent as possible across all of our SDKs, simplifying life for multi-platform developers (…and our team!).
Each is easily understandable to developers well versed in a development language, but there's enough consistency across the implementations to make multi-platform development simple.
Lastly, to make it easier to learn how to use new modules, we're consistent across all of our SDKs. For example, if you're using the App Center Analytics, there's a method to enable or disable it at runtime. When you add App Center Push to your app, you can (rightfully) assume that there's a method with the same signature to enable or disable at runtime, too.
No process is perfect (continuous innovation FTW!), but these principles allow us to focus on our mission, yet are flexible and applicable to a wide range of circumstances.
We're excited to use them as our guide in our next phase of development, and further refine them as we tackle and ship the many features on our roadmap.
We're on a mission to develop SDKs, tools, and services that developers love, so you focus on delivering apps that users love. Get started for free with App Center to explore our SDKs and developer-friendly APIs and services, and let us know what you think!


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Q: How to use gedit-latex-plugin? I have installed the packages texlive and gedit-latex-plugin.  I see syntax highlighting for .tex files, but I don't get any extra stuff in my gedit menus or toolbars for latex -> pdf like I expected to see, and there isn't anything resembling a latex plugin there to enable in the edit -> preferences -> plugins dialog.  What am I missing?

A: gedit-latex in ubuntu repos works only with gedit-2.x, however ubuntu 11.10 comes with more recent gedit-3.x. Try to use this one https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/i386/gedit-latex-plugin/3.3.1-1~oneiric1

A: I had the same problem. It has to do with the fact that ubuntu 11.10 comes with a newer version of gedit, which doesn't support the gedit-latex-plugin (version 0.2.0) that is currently in the ubuntu repositories.
A new version of gedit-latex-plugin is currently under development here (in lauchpad)
Here are some options:

*

*You could try to run the present unstable version of the plugin. This was constantly segfaulting on my machine, so I moved on...

*You could try a standalone editor, for instance latexila is a great editor. It doesn't, however, support the use of snippets (which is a deal-breaker for me). If snippets aren't that important to you, try it out:
sudo apt-get install latexila

*I ended up using the external tools plugin for gedit. There's a nice post about this option here. A quick how to:

*

*Within gedit, go to edit  >  preferences  >  plugins  and scroll down to the external tools plugin and make sure its box is ticked.

*Close the Preferences dialog and go to tools  >  manage external tools

*Each tool is a just shell script. You can use several variables as explained here. For example, my Latex-to-PDF tool looks like:
#!/bin/sh

filename=$GEDIT_CURRENT_DOCUMENT_NAME
shortname=`echo $filename | sed 's/\(.*\)\.tex$/\1/'`

latex -interaction batchmode -src $filename
bibtex $shortname
makeindex $shortname
latex -interaction batchmode -src $filename
latex -synctex=1 -interaction batchmode -src $filename
dvips -t a4 $shortname.dvi
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dOptimize=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true $shortname.ps
evince $shortname.pdf

A drawback is that this does not support larger "projects", it only compiles the file that is currently being edited.
Tip Check out this post on SyncTex for forward and backward search between gedit and evince, it's great!

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EU fears Turkey's strengthening – PM
Turkey 27 January 2015 17:56 (UTC+04:00)
Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan.27
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
The European Union fears Turkey's strengthening and by all means delays the country's accession there, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
He said Turkey is a part of Europe, whether EU wants it or not, TRT Haber TV channel reported on Jan.27.
The prime minister added that EU will not be a strong structure without Turkey. "Ankara will not beg for accession to EU and the country's strength will grow."
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country has no interest in the issue of accession to EU.
The official negotiations on Turkey's accession to the EU were resumed in 2005.
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc earlier said that if previously 75 percent of Turkey's population supported the country's accession to the EU, currently, this figure has dropped to 20 percent.
Turkey has fulfilled 65 percent of its commitments to the EU for accession to this organization.
Earlier, the country's Minister for EU Affairs Volkan Bozkir said the negotiations between Turkey and EU can't continue in the format required by the organization. He said at the time that democracy in Turkey is at a higher level than in some European countries.
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Half of Azerbaijan's population economically active as of 2020
Azerbaijan disseminates footage from Kendyeri village of Kalbajar district (PHOTO/VIDEO)
SOCAR Aviation starts supplying fuel to Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport


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How people of color are represented on television has been a topic of discussion for a long time. Historically, unless you're watching a "black show," blacks are either represented in an unflattering capacity or not at all. There have been triumphs over the years -- when I was coming up I had shows like Martin; Sister, Sister; Moesha; The Parenthood; The Jamie Foxx Show; The Wayans Bros.; The Fresh Prince of Bel Air; Family Matters, the list goes on -- but anytime we weren't on a series that was made for us by us we were depicted in an exaggerated, stereotypical kind of way. It seems whenever there was a lone negro amongst a cast of white faces it became their responsibility to represent the race, and a lot of times it was something as simple as how they spoke that did them in.
Discovery's Shark Week Reveals What Can be Done With a Shark at Night (PODCAST) - By Jacqueline Cutler
Fox Celebrates Pride Month by Adding a "Little Bit of Color"
These TikTok Creators are Raising Awareness for Mental Health
The Update: Hulu's Asian Stories, The CW's "Kung Fu"


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Q: Android 12+ animation splash screen API not working I am trying to add the new Android animation splash screen to my app, however, it is not showing.
theme.xml:
...
<style name="Theme.MySplash" parent="Theme.SplashScreen">
    <item name="windowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon">@drawable/news_avd_v02</item>
    <item name="postSplashScreenTheme">@style/Theme.xxx.NoActionBar</item>
    <item name="windowSplashScreenIconBackgroundColor">@color/pink_300</item>
    <item name="windowSplashScreenAnimationDuration">3000</item>

    <!-- Status bar and Nav bar configs -->
    <item name="android:statusBarColor">@color/black</item>
    <item name="android:navigationBarColor">@color/black</item>
    <item name="android:windowLightStatusBar">false</item>
</style>
...

AndroidManifest.xml:
<application
    ...
    android:theme="@style/Theme.MySplash">

    <activity
        android:name=".MainDrawerActivity"
        ...
        android:theme="@style/Theme.MySplash">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    ...

MainDrawerActivity.kt:
...
import androidx.core.splashscreen.SplashScreen.Companion.installSplashScreen
  ...
  class MainDrawerActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
  ...
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        val splashScreen = installSplashScreen()
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        binding = ActivityMainBinding.inflate(layoutInflater)
        ...

I have already tried to kill the app and relaunch it, it still not show the animation.

A: replace windowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon -> android: windowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon


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Q: Will changing app executable file name between app store versions cause a crash? My team is planning a large upgrade of our app.  Since our last app store submission, we have changed the executable binary file name.  This was among several changes to make naming conventions make more sense.
When upgrading our app via Xcode (installing and replacing the old app), we see a very unusual "crash" upon launching it that seems to be on the OS side.  There is no app crash log, but see this in the device console:
1) "Application 'XXXXX' exited abnormally with exit status 1" and
2) "posix_spawn("/xxxx/yyy/zz"): Permission denied"
If I rename the executable and target back to what the app store version uses and repeat the upgrade process, I don't see this crash and the app runs normally.
Our concern here is that upon submitting our app to the store, any user who downloads it will experience a crash too and have to delete & re-download the app.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Has anyone successfully submitted an app with a modified executable binary file name and not seen any problems with users upgrading?
As a developer I think everything will be FINE, but I need some evidence that there won't be an issue to present to my product manager.  We have a lot of users paying us money that could be upset by this :)


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package com.cloud.hypervisor.xenserver.resource;

import com.xensource.xenapi.Network;

/**
 * A list of UUIDs that are gathered from the XenServer when the resource first
 * connects to XenServer. These UUIDs do not change over time.
 */
public class XsHost {

    private String systemvmisouuid;
    private String uuid;
    private String ip;
    private String publicNetwork;
    private String privateNetwork;
    private String linkLocalNetwork;
    private Network vswitchNetwork;
    private String storageNetwork1;
    private String guestNetwork;
    private String guestPif;
    private String publicPif;
    private String privatePif;
    private String storagePif1;
    private String storagePif2;
    private String pool;
    private int speed;
    private Integer cpuSockets;
    private int cpus;
    private String productVersion;

    public String getSystemvmisouuid() {
        return systemvmisouuid;
    }

    public void setSystemvmisouuid(final String systemvmisouuid) {
        this.systemvmisouuid = systemvmisouuid;
    }

    public String getUuid() {
        return uuid;
    }

    public void setUuid(final String uuid) {
        this.uuid = uuid;
    }

    public String getIp() {
        return ip;
    }

    public void setIp(final String ip) {
        this.ip = ip;
    }

    public String getPublicNetwork() {
        return publicNetwork;
    }

    public void setPublicNetwork(final String publicNetwork) {
        this.publicNetwork = publicNetwork;
    }

    public String getPrivateNetwork() {
        return privateNetwork;
    }

    public void setPrivateNetwork(final String privateNetwork) {
        this.privateNetwork = privateNetwork;
    }

    public String getLinkLocalNetwork() {
        return linkLocalNetwork;
    }

    public void setLinkLocalNetwork(final String linkLocalNetwork) {
        this.linkLocalNetwork = linkLocalNetwork;
    }

    public Network getVswitchNetwork() {
        return vswitchNetwork;
    }

    public void setVswitchNetwork(final Network vswitchNetwork) {
        this.vswitchNetwork = vswitchNetwork;
    }

    public String getStorageNetwork1() {
        return storageNetwork1;
    }

    public void setStorageNetwork1(final String storageNetwork1) {
        this.storageNetwork1 = storageNetwork1;
    }

    public String getGuestNetwork() {
        return guestNetwork;
    }

    public void setGuestNetwork(final String guestNetwork) {
        this.guestNetwork = guestNetwork;
    }

    public String getGuestPif() {
        return guestPif;
    }

    public void setGuestPif(final String guestPif) {
        this.guestPif = guestPif;
    }

    public String getPublicPif() {
        return publicPif;
    }

    public void setPublicPif(final String publicPif) {
        this.publicPif = publicPif;
    }

    public String getPrivatePif() {
        return privatePif;
    }

    public void setPrivatePif(final String privatePif) {
        this.privatePif = privatePif;
    }

    public String getStoragePif1() {
        return storagePif1;
    }

    public void setStoragePif1(final String storagePif1) {
        this.storagePif1 = storagePif1;
    }

    public String getStoragePif2() {
        return storagePif2;
    }

    public void setStoragePif2(final String storagePif2) {
        this.storagePif2 = storagePif2;
    }

    public String getPool() {
        return pool;
    }

    public void setPool(final String pool) {
        this.pool = pool;
    }

    public int getSpeed() {
        return speed;
    }

    public void setSpeed(final int speed) {
        this.speed = speed;
    }

    public Integer getCpuSockets() {
        return cpuSockets;
    }

    public void setCpuSockets(final Integer cpuSockets) {
        this.cpuSockets = cpuSockets;
    }

    public int getCpus() {
        return cpus;
    }

    public void setCpus(final int cpus) {
        this.cpus = cpus;
    }

    public String getProductVersion() {
        return productVersion;
    }

    public void setProductVersion(final String productVersion) {
        this.productVersion = productVersion;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return new StringBuilder("XS[").append(uuid).append("-").append(ip).append("]").toString();
    }
}

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Australians urged to check 'zombie' superannuation ahead of reforms
New reforms will mop up 10 million unintended multiple super accounts, says Sally Loane. (AAP)
Australians have been urged to check their superannuation in case they are affected by changes from July 1.
Imminent changes targeting millions of "zombie" superannuation accounts will help protect Australians' retirement savings but some people risk losing their insurance cover in the process.
Reforms from July 1 are designed to stop superannuation savings being eaten away by inappropriate fees and insurance premiums while reuniting Australians with forgotten accounts containing low balances.
Financial Services Council CEO Sally Loane said the reforms aim to mop up 10 million unintended multiple accounts, which the Productivity Commission found were being eroded by $2.6 billion in unnecessary fees and insurance premiums a year.
"These are accounts that are lying there like zombies getting eaten up by fees and charges and insurance," she told AAP.
More than half of Australians unaware of superannuation shake-up
The industry has warned Australians to check if they are affected by the reforms, believing many people may not realise the life insurance provided through their superannuation will be cancelled on accounts that have not received contributions for 16 months.
People with inactive accounts must tell their fund they want to keep the insurance, or make a contribution.
"The unintended consequence is that somebody tries to make a claim on insurance, whether it's life insurance or some form of accident insurance, after July 1 and they may find that they no longer have insurance cover," Ms Loane said.
The Productivity Commission found a third of super accounts were unintended multiples after people changed jobs and many members' retirement balances were eroded by duplicate policies or zombie insurance they are unable to claim on.
Ms Loane said individuals may decide they do not want life insurance with their super.
She noted accounts could become inactive for numerous reasons such as ceasing employment, taking extended parental leave or going on sick leave.
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"It would be a disastrous outcome if, through inaction in the next few days, someone allowed their cover to be cancelled shortly before they become eligible for a TPD claim, and are no longer insurable due to their deteriorating health."
The government's reforms also involve the transfer of inactive accounts with balances under $6000 to the Australian Taxation Office, which will consolidate the money into a member's active account.
The ATO has estimated about $6 billion will be returned to three million people in the first year.
The reforms also ban exit fees for moving money from a superannuation account and cap the fees charged on accounts holding less than $6,000 at three per cent a year.


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Fine art photography; Sophisticated minimalism by Olivier Du Tré
For Du Tré, everything is black and white, but never lacking in passion. His approach could be best described as sophisticated minimalism with an unbridled fascination for symbolism and symmetry, a reoccurring theme throughout his work.
Olivier Du Tré (˚1977, Ghent, Belgium) is a fine art photographer based out of Cochrane, Alberta.
"Zo vader, zo zoon" the Dutch equivalent for "Like father, like son" holds true for photographer Olivier Du Tré, who credits his father as his inspiration.
"He's a fantastic painter and a gifted photographer. As a child, I marveled at his uncanny ability to 'dial-in' his Leica M3 and produce the most beautiful shots without the aid of a light meter. I don't ever recall thinking 'I want to become a photographer' at that time, but because of him, I definitely knew I wanted to be an artist."
After graduating as a graphic designer in 1998, Du Tré found his passion after enrolling in a three-year photography program at KISP in Ghent. During this time, Olivier immersed himself in film cameras, darkroom printing techniques and black and white photography, all of which continue to play a huge role in his work today. After seven years of travelling back and forth, Olivier and his wife Sarah decided to make Canada their permanent home in 2009. They settled just west of Calgary in the small town of Cochrane.
"The move was a product of passion. My wife is an avid horseback rider and I wanted to be closer to the subject matter that I found so intriguing, the open spaces and the compliment/contradiction of man and nature, there's a unique symmetry to it all."
Olivier's work has been published in multiple online magazines (ƒ11 Magazine no. 19, Stark Magazine no. 7, Landscape Photography Magazine no. 18, …) on numerous photography blogs and in print in Lenswork Magazine no. 103. Recently one of Olivier's photographs received a bronze medal in the annual international photography competition Prix de la Photography, Paris (PX3). The Ian Tan Gallery in Vancouver noticed Olivier's work too this year and now represents his work for Western Canada.
"I don't tell the viewer what to feel, I merely offer a setting for their own story."
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Through precision contrast, proportion and depth, Du Tré captures a 'formal aesthetic' with a multi layered, well-balanced frame that questions the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain world. His photography challenges the audience to consider multiple perspectives and a careful examination of the unseen. A subtle, quiet, and at times romantic take on the unnoticed, passed-by or mundane. [Official Website]
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Propelled by a sense of immediacy, these photos of everyday people in everyday places attempt to reveal what we often fail to see.
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Coldplay, Doja Cat and the Kid Laroi Light Up the Hollywood Bowl at Audacy's Star-Studded We Can Survive Concert
The music stars teamed up for a noble cause at Audacy's eighth annual We Can Survive concert on Saturday night, which included a stacked line-up with Saweetie, the Kid Laroi, Shawn Mendes, Black Eyed Peas, Maroon 5, Doja Cat and Coldplay belonged to.
The star-studded show, presented in partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, filled the 17,500 seats at the Hollywood Bowl – and provided fans with a night of non-stop hits from every performer. With set times averaging around 30 minutes and the bowl's efficient rotating platform eliminating pauses between acts, the audience had little time to digest before starting the next performance – for better or for worse.
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Although the fast pace of the concert gave a slightly rushed feeling, it delivered some magical moments – from the energetic set by Kid Laroi to Coldplay's many stage guests. Read on for all the highlights.
The vocal power of the Kid Laroi
Maybe it was the studded leather jacket he was wearing, but the rap-pop dynamo, the Kid Laroi, had big rock star vibes during his set. Concert recordings of Larois floating around on TikTok didn't always do justice to his singing, so it was refreshing to hear Larois singing in all of its pitch-perfect but gritty glory. 18-year-old Laroi really seemed at home as he hopped across the stage and interacted with his band members who brought more rocky instrumentation to the clean melodies of his songs. Outstanding tracks are "Go", Larois song with the late Juice Wrld; "Lonely and F * cked Up" which was accompanied by some pyrotechnics; "Always Do", during which he climbed a towering stack of amplifier booths; and of course "Stay", his chart-top record with Justin Bieber, about which he happily proclaimed: "This song is currently one of the greatest in the world!" Before finishing his set on "Without You," the track that earned him international acclaim earlier this year, Laroi pondered his own journey into mental health. "That's what I'm doing and a lot of people around me," Laroi said before starting the song the crowd sang to him.
Shawn Mendes call-and-answer
After Laroi, Shawn Mendes started his performance with "Wonder", the title track of his latest album. Without his signature guitar on stage, Mendes seemed a little out of place until he held it back in his arms for his 2017 hit "There's Nothing Holdin 'Me Back," which then went straight to "If I Can't Have." You "passed over. With the audience shouting every word on these two tracks, Mendes almost didn't have to sing – and he used that to his advantage, often just filling in the gaps or riffing out his own familiar choruses. In fact, Mendes was at his best singing the songs that made him famous, with newer tracks like "Summer of Love" and "Monster" falling flat with the audience. Mendes ended his set heavily, however, with an energetic rendition of "Treat You Better" and a piano-led "In My Blood," which he dedicated to those struggling with mental health.
Party start energy of the Black Eyed Peas
After two consecutive singer-songwriters, the bowl was ready for a group and Black Eyed Peas – now consisting of Will.i.am, Taboo, Apl.de.ap and the new member J. Rey Soul – obligated to compulsory set opener, " Let's get started. " But not everyone was on the group's roster when a nearby participant asked, "Where's Fergie?" Soul soon added to the trio as the foursome merged into "Boom Boom Pow" (noteworthy: Fergie's iconic "so 2000 and late" verse was cut out of the mix). After playing another hit, Pump It, the Peas switched to their newer Latin cuts, including Hit It, Girl Like Me, Mamacita, and RITMO. Like Mendes, the Peas were better received when they played the hits – which gave way to one of the night's most memorable songs, "Where Is the Love?" and asked the audience to hold up their cell phone flashlights and sing along. The Peas' set with a mega mash-up from "I Got a Feeling" and "The Time (Dirty Bit)" as well as some solo works by Will.i.am, such as "Scream & Shout" with Britney Spears and "OMG" with Usher.
(LR) Taboo, apl.de.ap and will.i.am from Black Eyed Peas. (Photo by Amy Sussman / Getty Images for Audacy) – Photo credit: Getty Images for Audacy
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Maroon 5's hit heavy, no-nonsense delivery
To kick off the set with "Moves Like Jagger", Adam Levine and Co. served successive hits throughout their 40-minute set and hardly paused between tracks. This resulted in some impressive transitions, including the end of "Moves Like Jagger," where the band cut the pace in half and transitioned into the 2002 hit "This Love". Levine wore a light green jumper with a pixelated unicorn and was also surprised when he took a minute to play a guitar solo – a clue for more. After Levine sped through Stereo, One More Night and Animals, Levine reunited with a pink guitar to prove to the audience that he can do more than hit falsets. But the real highlights of the set were when the band slowed down to play "Sunday Morning" and only guitarist James Valentine stayed to accompany Levine on an acoustic version of "She Will Be Loved". Maroon 5 got the energy going again and concluded its performance with the 2015 hit "Sugar," with Levine serving up a few more high notes for the street.
Adam Levine of Maroon 5 (Photo by Amy Sussman / Getty Images for Audacy) – Photo credit: Getty Images for Audacy
Doja Cat's Nu Metal Infusions
Doja Cat, by far the most entertaining set of the evening, took a break from the festival to bring their much-talked about "Planet Her" set into the bowl. Accompanied by four dancers and a tight live band, the production value of their set was unbeatable. Doja opened with "Rules," and immediately impressed by keeping up with some high stakes choreography, including rapping in a back bend – no backing track required. Dressed in an expertly torn outfit, as if she had just escaped an alien abduction, Doja brought the craziness the evening needed with her exaggerated facial expressions and side comments, and at some point signaled to the mothers and fathers in the family-friendly audience that they "don't often to see ".
After crossing out hits from her latest album – like "Get Into It (Yuh)," "Kiss Me More" and "You Right" – Doja danced to an electric drum kit to hit the opening bar of "Tia Tamera". her 2018 track with Rico Nasty. With the established rhythm, Doja again showed her masterful rap skills – complete with perfectly timed breathwork – and then promptly left the stage to the beat of an epic drum solo. Doja's set certainly had a hard rock note embodied in its long haired guitarist alone, but also became famous when she sang "Say So" over a Nu-Metal-infused instrumental to complete her set. But of course, despite the new vibe, you could still see people doing the song's TikTok dance all over the bowl.
Coldplays set full of stars
Anyone expecting a gentle Coldplay set got no delay, as frontman Chris Martin brought an unexpectedly silly energy to the stage. He danced with swinging arms as the band opened the set with "Higher Power", held the energy up with "Viva La Vida", then fell dramatically to the stage floor and crawled to the piano to sing "Fix You". Though the bowl's video screens were flawed throughout the set, the neon visuals of Coldplay carried through the crowd as wristbands for everyone pulsed a different color with each beat and put on their own light show.
Fortunately, the video projection problem was resolved when Coldplay brought out its first guests of the evening – Grammy-winning musician Jacob Collier and R&B duo We Are King, who sang a scaled-down version of "Human Heart." The cheerful mood continued with "Yellow", which Martin dedicated to the late Benjamin Storm Keough and played solo with an acoustic guitar while the stage was flooded in the color of the namesake. After the intimate sing-along, Martin asked the crowd to make a wish for him and said, "Wouldn't it be great if a Spice Girl appeared out of nowhere?" In fact, Mel C – aka Sporty Spice, who was just out of "Dancing With." the Stars "- and caused screams from the crowd. Then the two sang the love song of the famous girl group "2 Become 1". Although the rendition was not without lyrical glitches, it cemented Coldplay's set as truly star-studded. To top it off, Coldplay played his new song "My Universe" (with the K-pop supergroup BTS, whose members were absent) and ended the show with "A Sky Full of Stars," with fireworks lighting the night appropriate.
Coldplay's Chris Martin and Melanie C. (Photo by Amy Sussman / Getty Images for Audacy) – Photo credit: Getty Images for Audacy
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Underworld (também conhecido como Paying the Penalty) é um filme mudo estadunidense de 1927 do gênero drama, dirigido por Josef von Sternberg e escrito por Ben Hecht, Charles Furthman e Robert N. Lee. Venceu o Oscar de melhor roteiro original na 1ª edição da cerimônia.

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 George Bancroft como "Bull" Weed
 Evelyn Brent como "Feathers" McCoy
 Clive Brook como "Rolls Royce" Wensel
 Fred Kohler como "Buck" Mulligan
 Helen Lynch como Meg
 Larry Semon como "Slippy" Lewis
 Jerry Mandy como Paloma

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"Superb. No matter how much or how little you know about this celebrated creator of images, this film will be a revelation." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times. Sebastião Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last travels, and by Wim Wenders, himself a photographer and critically acclaimed filmmaker.
"More than a musical offering, Seymour is a study in boundless passion, plus a wellspring of wisdom about art and life from a man who sees no dividing line between the one and the other." Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal.Pianist Seymour Bernstein, who gave up performing for teaching, discusses his passion for music and his philosophy of life in this documentary directorial debut from actor Ethan Hawke.
"Charged by dynamite performances and Bruni Coulais's ominous score, this romantic tragedy is more gripping than most thrillers." Graham Fuller, New York Daily News. A tax inspector, his new bride, and her sister become entwined in a love triangle.
"Binoche leaves audiences with the exhilarating feeling . . . of having witnessed something precious and rare-answering the challenge of Assayas' script by revealing a character incredibly closer to her soul." Peter Debruge, Variety. A veteran actress (Juliette Binoche) comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
"This powerful Hungarian drama features the Al Pacino of dog actors." Cath Clarke, TimeOut London. All the unwanted, unloved, and so-called "unfit" dogs rise up under a new leader, Hagen, the one-time house pet who has learned all too well from his "masters" in his journey through the streets and animal control centers how to bite the hands that beat him.
Lambert and Stamptells the remarkable story of Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, aspiring filmmakers from opposite sides of the tracks who set out to find a subject for their underground movie, leading them to discover, mentor, and manage the iconic band that would become known as The Who.


Police are seeking two masked men who attacked and robbed a teenager late Thursday, officials said.
An 18-year-old South Pasadena man was walking about 8 p.m. in the 500 block of Magnolia Street when he noticed a masked man in front of him and changed direction to avoid the suspicious person, South Pasadena police Detective Richard Lee said.
But the masked attacker ran up to the victim and began hitting him, Lee said. A second masked man approached, pointed a handgun at the victim and demanded his money.
The victim turned over about $20 and his cell phone, Sgt. Tony Abdalla said. But the picky robbers took only the cash and fled, leaving the cell phone behind.
Abdalla said the robbery victim declined to be taken to a hospital.
Police described one robber as male, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and 165 pounds. He wore an orange raincoat-style jacket with a dark hood, dark colored pants and a fabric mask over his face.
The second robber as about 5 feet 6 inches tall and 190 pounds. He wore all dark clothing with a hood over his head and a fabric mask over his face, and he carried a black, semi-automatic handgun.


What I really like about '90's music is that this pop song sounds great for me. It linked me to that era and this song sounds just like yesterday.
Lately, I just found out that this song is being sung again for Glee TV series, I checked the video out this version by Lea Michele. Not even close to Paige's version.
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Well, this song was written by Andy Goldmark, Mark Mueller, Berny Cosgrove and Kevin Clark. It was released as the first single from Jennifer Paige's first album, Jennifer Paige (1998).
The music video for "Crush" was produced by Kati Haberstok and directed by David Hogan. The song was charted in many countries, peaked at number one in Australia, Canada and New Zealand and reached number 4 in UK and number 3 US Pop Songs Billboard Chart.


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The item "Tiffany Style Blue Lampshade Victorian Double Lit Stained Glass Desk Lamp Home" is in sale since Thursday, September 6, 2018. This item is in the category "Home & Garden\Lamps, Lighting & Ceiling Fans\Lamps". The seller is "cloudmountain2016" and is located in Ontario, California.
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