Kate Moss arriving home in London, England on 12. Kate Moss gave the cameras an eyeful as she arrived home. Paula Abdul deals with a windblown skirt at The X Factor auditions at Galen Center in Los Angeles, California on 11. Paula Abdul had to deal with a windblown skirt, hair in her face, and the paparazzi as she made her way to The X Factor auditions. Kelly Brook at the Pandora Oxford Street store launch party in London, England on Septem10. The heavy metallic fabrication on Kelly Brook‘s dress saved her from flashing too much flesh. ![]() Kourtney Kardashian on the balcony of Eden Roc Hotel in Miami, Florida on Octo9. Kourtney Kardashian has her skirt blown away by the wind Hard lesson learned for Kourtney Kardashian: no more twirling on windy hotel balconies where there are cameras everywhere on the lower floors! Paris Hilton looking out over the balcony of her beach house in Malibu, California on Aug8. Paris Hilton‘s demure ’50s-style beach attire was ruined by a gust of wind. Megan Fox at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, California on Aug7. It’s as if Megan Fox stuck out her tongue to all the boys waiting for her wardrobe to malfunction. ![]() To be fair to Cameron Diaz, she was also running in this scene she was filming for ‘Knight and Day’.Ĭameron Diaz is caught by the wind while filming on the set of ‘Knight and Day’ in Boston, Massachusetts on Septem6. Jennifer Aniston with a windblown skirt situation at the ‘We’re the Millers’ premiere held at the Odeon West End in London, England on Aug5. Jennifer Aniston is a seasoned pro: she foresaw what the wind would do before anything damaging to her image could happen. When you move around on stage as much as Beyonce, upskirts are just a normal part of life.īeyonce Knowles performing on Good Morning America in New York City on September 8, 2006įor Beyonce Knowles, upskirts are just a normal part of lifeīeyonce Knowles shows off her feet in jewel-embellished shoes 4. Katy Perry experiencing skirt uplift at ‘The Smurfs’ world premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on J3. ![]() If the wind could talk, it would probably say that Katy Perry‘s super-short Smurfette dress was just asking for it. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands at the conference “Be Social, Make Profit: Financing the Future of Developing Countries” as a member of the United Nations in the Peace Palace in Hague, the Netherlands on Ap2. The wind chooses no one: not even a queenly title can protect a woman from its powers to create potentially embarrassing situations. The wind is a friend of fashion photography editorials, but as the following women know, it can also be a formidable foe. In fact, it’s happened to plenty of other high-profile celebrities, including one other royal.ĭear Duchess Kate, we hope you find solace in our list of celebrities who have also had their dresses and skirts caught in the wind! The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.We just want to let Kate Middleton know that she isn’t the only one who has suffered a wind-related wardrobe malfunction. There’s suggestions of wife-swapping, bonding over Xanax and smoothies, and at one point Erika Girardi reveals she sometimes doesn’t wear panties.īut going commando doesn’t sit well with some other members of the sisterhood, especially when Erika does it with men around.Īs Dorit says: “If you’re a lady, you’ve got no undies on and you’ve got a short dress, cross your legs!”Īnd a Real Housewives season wouldn’t be the same without a big dose of back-stabbing and bitchiness, which is served up in huge doses as the clip below shows.Īfter a clash with Erika, Dorit vows: “This means war!” And Boy George also features - as he’s besties with new star Dorit and her husband, businessman Paul “PK” Kemsley.Īnd he’s not the only big-name, as anyone who’s ever washed their hair will know - because Eden Sassoon is the daughter of late beauty icon Vidal Sassoon, the shampoo supremo and legendary creator of the bob-cut hairstyle.īut while she might be keen to uphold her legacy, some of the other ladies are more interested in taking things down a peg or two and partying like there’s no tomorrow.
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Released in 1962 as the B-side of the single “Once Upon a Time,” the reflective ballad became a grassroots phenomenon staying on the charts for more than two years and earning Bennett his first two Grammys, including record of the year.īy his early 40s, he was seemingly out of fashion. “We were rehearsing and the bartender in the club in Little Rock, Arkansas, said, ‘If you record that song, I’m going to be the first to buy it.’” “Ralph saw some sheet music in his shirt drawer … and on top of the pile was a song called ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco.’ Ralph thought it would be good material for San Francisco,” Bennett said. They gave Bennett’s musical director, pianist Ralph Sharon, some sheet music that he stuck in a dresser drawer and forgot about until he was packing for a tour that included a stop in San Francisco. Ironically, his most famous contribution came through two unknowns, George Cory and Douglass Cross, who in the early ’60s provided Bennett with his signature song at a time his career was in a lull. “Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern. ![]() “No country has given the world such great music,” Bennett said in a 2015 interview with Downbeat Magazine. His final album, the 2021 release “Love for Sale,” featured duets with Lady Gaga on the title track, “Night and Day” and other Porter songs.įor Bennett, one of the few performers to move easily between pop and jazz, such collaborations were part of his crusade to expose new audiences to what he called the Great American Songbook. His rapport with Winehouse was captured in the Oscar-nominated documentary “Amy,” which showed Bennett patiently encouraging the insecure young singer through a performance of “Body and Soul.” Three years earlier, he topped the charts with “Duets II,” featuring such contemporary stars as Gaga, Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse, in her last studio recording. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart for “Cheek to Cheek,” his duets project with Lady Gaga. In 2014, at age 88, Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living performer with a No. He not only survived the rise of rock music but endured so long and so well that he gained new fans and collaborators, some young enough to be his grandchildren. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.” … I just like to make people feel good when I perform.”īennett was praised often by his peers, but never more meaningfully than by what Sinatra said in a 1965 Life magazine interview: “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. “I think people … are touched if they hear something that’s sincere and honest and maybe has a little sense of humor. “I enjoy entertaining the audience, making them forget their problems,” he told The Associated Press in 2006. ![]() If his singing and public life lacked the high drama of Sinatra’s, Bennett appealed with an easy, courtly manner and an uncommonly rich and durable voice - “A tenor who sings like a baritone,” he called himself - that made him a master of caressing a ballad or brightening an up-tempo number. Unlike his friend and mentor Sinatra, he would interpret a song rather than embody it. The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create “a hit catalog rather than hit records.” He released more than 70 albums, bringing him 19 competitive Grammys - all but two after he reached his 60s - and enjoyed deep and lasting affection from fans and fellow artists.īennett didn’t tell his own story when performing he let the music speak instead - the Gershwins and Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern. There was no specific cause, but Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016. Publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett’s death to The Associated Press, saying he died in his hometown of New York. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday. NEW YORK (AP) - Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday. Language: English Words: 16,444 Chapters: 6/7 Comments: 53 Kudos: 384 Bookmarks: 91 Hits: 5,011 Or alternatively Jason wakes up in the hospital after an accident, the doctors have identified him as the long lost son of Bruce Wayne, and he's forced to not only figure out how to navigate his (very public) personal life, but also the broken relationship with his father. “When you were injured, it was as a civilian.” The silence that followed only served to unsettle him more. “What?” He exclaimed with a huff, falling back onto his pillow to glare at the ceiling. Jason wasn’t sure whether he was glad or disappointed. His hand twitched, as though he wanted to take Jason’s, or maybe put a reassuring hand on his shoulder like he used to. “Jay, lad,” Bruce began, quietly, and Jason wanted nothing more than for his father to just spit it out. He didn’t care for his father’s mind games. “What am I missing?” Jason asked, his brow furrowing and letting annoyance creep into his tone. Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings.Or: What if Tim Drake was not found in time by Hood in "A New Beginning"? Language: English Words: 64,881 Chapters: 33/? Collections: 8 Comments: 796 Kudos: 1,295 Bookmarks: 292 Hits: 29,924ĪlexaAffect Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DC Extended Universe, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics) Jason Todd has accidentally walked into a situation far above his pay-grade. Huntressundone, Lulu_Rythmea Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics) Language: English Words: 27,594 Chapters: 16/? Comments: 167 Kudos: 455 Bookmarks: 29 Hits: 3,845 There might be specific chapters with additional warnings in the notesĪlternate scenes, early drafts, and other scenes that did not make the cut :) Enjoy! Series.some of you will have seen some of these from tumblr.there are too many characters to tag so I'm just going to tag the batfam. ![]() Stephanie Brown & Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Damian Wayne.Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne.Listentothelittlebird Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics) Pawn editing is another useful ability of editing save files. ![]() ![]() Change this to only 1 line with just this. You will find: some text regarding the Toxic Fallout. It will now never occur again.Īlso if currently, you would be experiencing this Toxic Fallout and would want to remove it not only for the future but also immediately, do the following: Ctrl+F in the save file and search for 'activeconditions'. Change the number to '0' between which is in the same position in the list as 'ToxicFallout' was in the previous list (bottom one for me). Stopping an event Įxample of removing the Toxic Fallout event from the game: open the save file with Wordpad, press Ctrl+ F, or ⌘+ F on macOS and search for 'toxicfallout'. It is highly recommended that you make a copy of your save file before editing it or save the new one as a different save file. Note: Incorrectly editing the save might can have unwanted consequences that might be irreversible if the original file is lost, up to and including the total loss of the save. It can be used to do various things such as adding or remove currently active events, pawn traits and passions, and modifying skills and statistics. Save editing can be a useful way to tweak the current game state. See also: Permadeath save conversion guide, Dev mode renabling, and Fluid ideoligion save conversion guide Open "~/Library/Application Support/RimWorld/Saves/"Īs of at least Alpha 16, Steam Cloud uses the directory ~/Library/Application Support/RimWorld By Ludeon Studios/Saves, whereas the game uses open ~/Library/Application Support/RimWorld/Saves/, therefore meaning the save game sync is currently not working. To see your save games with Finder, open a new shell and enter: Your Rimworld settings folder is ~/Library/Application Support/RimWorld The Save files are stored in: ~/.config/unit圓d/Ludeon Studios/RimWorld by Ludeon Studios/Saves/Īt least as of Alpha 17b, Steam Cloud synchronization is working as intended on Linux, meaning that save files are automatically updated across different Steam installations on multiple devices. By default, %USERPROFILE% is the same as C:\Users\.As of at least Alpha 16, the directory Steam Cloud will create is %USERPROFILE%\Appdata\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld which is not detected by the game.Windows+ R -> the Run dialog will appear.%USERPROFILE%\Appdata\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Saves The Save files are stored in users AppData folders: Note: This structure was taken from 1.2 save files. For brevity's sake, only the opening tag is shown and closing tags are omitted with the exception of. As with always, it is harder to figure out how to create things from thin air than to change existing things.Įach section is book-ended by an opening tag and closing tag respectively. The class attribute should be familiar to those who know HTML. The names are generally quite descriptive, so it shouldn't be hard to figure out the purpose of things and how to change them. and serve the same purpose, but they are numbers. Be sure to change it if you duplicate a thing. It might be referred to several times in the file. This contains a string of the unique identifier of a thing. A donkey, on the other hand, starts with a def containing "Donkey" in the section that describes pawns. For example, an element needs > li.Need_Food > def (in CSS selector syntax) has the value "Food", explaining that the data is about need for food. ![]() "def" contains a single string that refers to some item or property. It can have many different meanings depending on what the element surrounding it is. ![]() As in HTML, this simply stands for a "list item". Important elements You will notice that "li" appears a lot in the save file.
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![]() If you are missing the call history feature on the Duo app, you can access call history from the Phone app where you can see all the details including the call duration, time and date, etc.īut to do that, you need to give permission to the Duo app by opening Duo > three-dot menu > Settings > Call settings > Add Duo calls to device’s Call history and accept it. Access Google Duo Call history from the phone app.Īnother integrated feature on Android with Duo app is the call history is registered in the phone app. This feature is not possible on Samsung phones, but other OEM’s like OnePlus can do that.Ĥ. But it is not possible on all android devices as OEM’s do their changes to the phone app. ![]() You can even open the phone app and do a video call to any contact and the video call will be placed by the Duo app. One of the best features of Duo comparing to any video calling apps is it is natively integrated into android. Make Google Duo calls from the Phone app. Just like Low light mode, this feature is also available only on the mobile app versions of Android and iOS, but not on the website version.ģ. You can access this feature by clicking the three-dot menu and selecting the Portrait mode option once you are on the call. Even though your device supports portrait mode or not, Google Duo uses software to create the portrait mode. Now you can access that feature on this video calling app too. ![]() Portrait mode is a quite popular feature on mobile cameras these days. Your video settings will be only accessible to you, so if you are in a dark environment, you have to turn it manually for the others to see.īut as of now, this feature is only available on the Duo mobile apps of Android and iOS, but not on the website version. To turn on the feature, tap on the three-dot menu and select the ‘Low-light’ option to activate it. It does not turn on the flashlight or bright up the screen but adds the brightness to the video by software similar to ISO in cameras. ![]() The low-light feature helps others to see you during a video call when you are in a dark environment. Apart from that, there are other Google Duo Tips and Tricks to use Duo effectively. Google recently added new features where you can group call with up to 12 people, smart home integration, etc. There’s Google Duo, which is better for video calling friends, family, etc. Joe brings that same passion to How-To Geek.While services like Zoom, Skype are used for official meetings, online classes, etc. If something piques his interest, he will dive into it headfirst and try to learn as much as possible. Outside of technology, Joe is an avid DIYer, runner, and food enthusiast. After several years of jailbreaking and heavily modifying an iPod Touch, he moved on to his first smartphone, the HTC DROID Eris. He got his start in the industry covering Windows Phone on a small blog, and later moved to Phandroid where he covered Android news, reviewed devices, wrote tutorials, created YouTube videos, and hosted a podcast.įrom smartphones to Bluetooth earbuds to Z-Wave switches, Joe is interested in all kinds of technology. He has written thousands of articles, hundreds of tutorials, and dozens of reviews.īefore joining How-To Geek, Joe worked at XDA-Developers as Managing Editor and covered news from the Google ecosystem. Joe loves all things technology and is also an avid DIYer at heart. He has been covering Android and the rest of the Google ecosystem for years, reviewing devices, hosting podcasts, filming videos, and writing tutorials. Joe Fedewa has been writing about technology for over a decade. ![]() ![]() This will help you make sure you're not missing any, and you'll know when you can move on to the next section.Īt the start of most levels in Superliminal, you walk out of a bedroom, down a hallway, and into a room I'll call Reception. Feel free to come back here for the ones you can't seem to find on your own.įor my fire alarms & extinguishers hints, I'll be telling you how many of each you can find in each section. While you're searching for the harder secrets, you're likely to run into a lot of the fire alarms and extinguishers. I recommend that before you use this portion of the guide, you search the levels for secrets on your own once, maybe twice. For example, you'll often find one if you go through a door and look toward the doorway you just came through. Clicking on an extinguisher that you've already emptied during a previous game-load will result in that same wheezing sound you hear when you completely emptied it earlier.īoth of these objects are not exactly hidden, they're typically mounted on walls in plain sight, though they can be easily missed if you don't look at all walls over every room. Clicking on an extinguisher that you've already emptied recently in that play session will do nothing. Unlike fire alarms, there's no visual indicator of if you've emptied an extinguisher already, which makes replaying levels a little trickier. Make sure to click on them four times in a row. If you completely empty every fire extinguisher in the game, you'll get an achievement. Clicking on them four times will empty the extinguisher completely, signaled with a wheezing sound on the final click. Clicking on them once makes them shoot a puff of white chemicals. but if you pull every alarm in the game, you'll get an achievement!įire extinguishers are mounted on the walls throughout the game, also at roughly light switch-level. These alarms don't set anything off, they appear to be broken in-universe. This is handy to keep track of which ones you've already pulled. Even if you reset from your checkpoint or come back to the level another day, it'll stay down. Once you've clicked on a fire alarm, the handle will go down and stay down. These may look like secrets at first, but they have no handle and cannot be interacted with: ignore them.) (I say this so you will not confuse them with similar square things mounted up near the ceiling. They all have a T-shaped handle and are mounted on the wall at about the level you'd find a light switch. ![]() If the symbol isn't there at all, that means you've never found a secret of that type in the entire game yet.įire alarms are small squares mounted on the walls throughout the game. If the symbol is crossed out, then that level doesn't have any to find. If the symbol is greyed out (like this extinguisher and constellation are), then you have at least one you still need to find. If the symbol is white, you've 100%ed this level for that category. Other easter eggs do not show up here, making them hard to track. In order, the symbols are: fire alarms, extinguishers, constellations, hidden chess pieces, and blueprints. For example, here's what it looks like when I do that for level 5. To check which secrets you've found and which you're still missing, go to the title screen, click Select Level, and then hover your mouse over one of the levels. ![]() Feel free to come back here for the ones you can't seem to find on your own. You'll find a good percentage of them on your own. I recommend that before you use this guide, you search the levels for nooks and crannies on your own once, maybe twice. Some people enjoy the fun of finding the secret, but they're stuck on where to find some of them, so they'd like some hints and clues on where to look, without telling them exactly where to look. If you'd rather have hints than "go exactly here" directions, so you still get that "ah-ha!" moment satisfaction, this guide is for you. THIS IS NOT A WALKTHROUGH, THIS GUIDE IS DESIGNED TO GIVE YOU CLUES ![]() The Note Repeat also doubles up as an arpeggiator. Pad is the traditional 16 sounds, 16 pads setup with each sound given its own pad, Keyboard turns the 16 pads into chromatic steps with various scale modes, Chord mode lets you play sounds as chords, with scales, chord types and harmonisers, and Step activates the step sequencer. Once you load a sound, there are four modes to play it - Pad mode, Keyboard mode, Chord mode and Step mode. There are many ways to load a sound in Maschine+, depending on what you need - full kits, individual one-shots, instrument plugins and instrument samples can all be loaded using the Browser +Plugin button. It is possible to side-load any Reaktor ensemble or any custom Kontakt instrument, but they’re not all officially supported by NI. ![]() ![]() Maschine+ comes with five expansions of your choosing. Once that’s done you can download any Maschine Expansions that are linked to your account and any other supported plugs like FM8, Reaktor, Kontakt, Monark, Massive and Prism. Once you turn on Maschine+ for the first time, you’ll need to connect to a WiFi network and authorise the unit using a QR code, which avoids entering lengthy email addresses. There’s also a power port - this unit cannot be battery powered. We would have prefered the headphone port at the front as your cable trails off to the side and sometimes across the unit. That being said, NI did add some presets for controlling hardware like the Tanzbaer drum machine and the Korg Volca Beats, with pre-mapped CCs for popular controls, but it’s more for one unit at a time, rather than a hub for multiple bits of kit. There’s also no CV/Gate outputs, so it’s very much a standalone sampler rather than a standalone sequencer for external kit. There’s also no phono ins for turntable sampling like on the Akai MPC Live, which would have been a nice nod to the MPC heritage. The fact there’s only one stereo output and input is a bit disappointing, but you can hook up any supported soundcard to the USB A ports, potentially adding up to 16 ins and outs. Round back, it’s still not hugely dissimilar to the mk3, with stereo line inputs for recording and sampling, stereo line output, a quarter-inch mic input, MIDI DIN I/O and USB A ports. The unit feels like it could be tossed around in a backpack without any issues. The pads are excellent, sensitive but tough, and the main control knob feels satisfying to use. It feels solid, slightly heavier than the mk3 at 2.5kg, with every button and knob feeling sturdy. It’s a credit to Native that they spent so much time making the mk3 usable without a computer that when you remove the computer entirely, nothing needs to change. In fact, it’s identical - apart from a re-labelling of Arranger to Ideas / Song mode - which will be good news for current users. Maschine+ has the same form factor as Maschine mk3, all the way down to the layout of each button. But as the functionality, features and libraries grew, can NI really cram over a decade of innovation and updates into a single box, minus the laptop screen, without compromising on usability? Let’s find out. Maschine mk1 was born - a bespoke piece of hardware tied to a bespoke piece of software, promising to make the best of both the physical and digital worlds.įast forward 12 years and things have come full circle with Maschine+ - Native Instruments’ first completely standalone version of Maschine, no computer required. But the fact remained when it came to hands-on beat making, be it the immediacy, workflow or sound, many still longed for a modern MPC-style solution. Despite its sound, legacy and aforementioned workflow, it was phased out in favour of bigger screens, more CPU and flexibility offered by the modern DAWs. No piece of hardware encapsulated that elusive ‘workflow’ better than the Akai MPC, a legendary sampler and ‘groovebox’ used by everyone from J Dilla and MF Doom to Mark Ronson and Kanye West. Computers had become powerful enough to supersede hardware-packed studios that came before, meaning that while in-the-box music-making was possible, powerful and largely prefered, the tactile feedback and focused workflow of hardware was missing from the modern studio. When Native Instruments first released Maschine, it was attempting to fill a gap. |
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