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![]() For her label, it was seen as a flop because it did not make the Top 40 (six of its nine songs have passed 15m streams). For Raye, it was a body of work her fans could really dig into. Late last year there was a breakthrough of sorts with the release of the mini-album Euphoric Sad Songs. ‘I’ve been working every single day for a really long time’ … Raye. “I did get to 6-6,” she says with a shrug. “I was like: ‘OK, noted, I’m going to figure out how to bring that back.’” She quickly scored a UK Top 10 with the Brit-nominated Secrets, a collaboration with DJ Regard that has been streamed 280m times on Spotify. One exchange, from Christmas 2019, is seared into her mind: “The head of the label said to me: ‘It’s like you’re 6-0 down at half-time.’” She notices my shock. Communication with her new bosses slowly disintegrated. When the label head who signed her left in 2016, Raye says she became less of a priority. Early tracks like pulsating kiss-off Shhh and the boisterous banger The Line, which zoomed in on a night out gone awry, showcased pop’s secret weapons attitude, personality and an ability to switch styles, taking in everything from Afrobeats to disco.It was her collaboration with producer Jax Jones on Top 3 smash You Don’t Know Me that proved a turning point with the label: suddenly Raye seemed to be repositioned not as a long-term recording artist, but as a featured vocalist on other people’s songs. Collaborations with the rappers Stefflon Don and Mr Eazi followed. The excellent Second EP, released in 2016, featured a pre-fame Stormzy. Signed by Polydor off the back of the success of her self-released 2014 EP Welcome to the Winter, Raye’s early tracks were a combination of hazy R&B and hip-hop. I think I've always been a rule breaker at heart Some of pop’s biggest household names – Mabel, Anne-Marie, even Dua Lipa – endured EPs, mixtapes, dance music collaborations and tastemaker tracks on their long road to debut albums. Pop is littered with artists, from Chlöe Howl to Sinéad Harnett, who have signed with major labels and then been sidelined, perhaps because of shifting commercial expectations, reluctance to finance an album campaign, or simply because the person who signed them left the company. While Raye’s honesty felt unique, the situation she found herself in is not. Aware there was no turning back with her label, Polydor, she added: “I’m done being a polite pop star.” In mid-July, she announced she had been released from her contract: “Today I am speaking to you as an independent artist.” “And haven’t been allowed to put out one album.” She detailed how her “music sat in folders collecting dust”, and were being gutted, with songs passed on to other artists “because I am still awaiting confirmation that I am good enough to release an album”. “ I have been on a 4 ALBUM RECORD DEAL since 2014,” she vented to her 50,000 followers. ![]() Two days later, sitting alone in her bedroom, she opened Twitter and shattered the illusion for good. There to promote her dance bop Call on Me, – the latest in a long line of make-or-break singles – she found an innocuous query about the status of her elusive debut album triggering emotions she had suppressed for years. But then, on a lumpy turquoise sofa in a Shepherd’s Bush studio, the rictus pop star smile started to wobble. With more than 17 million monthly listeners on Spotify, seven Top 20 hits to her name and songwriting credits for the likes of Beyoncé, John Legend and Little Mix, the south Londoner’s career appeared to be going from strength to strength. T owards the end of June, while waiting to be interviewed on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, Raye found herself desperately trying not to cry on live TV. ![]()
![]() We certainly didn’t find it overly obtrusive in our home as it scurried about doing its business. The company claims it’s no louder than a microwave, and at around 55dB is quieter than a traditional vacuum cleaner. There is no support for IFTTT or HomePod, however.ĭespite the superior suction power, the RoboVac 30C is not particularly loud in use. ![]() Other intelligent features built in include the aforementioned Wi-Fi support, which allows it to work with the EufyHome mobile app on any Android or iOS device, and Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa integration. It’s difficult to properly test this feature, though Eufy claims the RoboVac can intelligently and automatically ramp up the suction power to the max 1500Pa when required using BoostIQ technology. On the subject of warnings though, we did like the sticker on the bottom of the device listing common error codes: finding the user guide in order to solve an issue months after you’ve thrown away the product’s box isn’t always straightforward. You will have to remember to empty this reasonably regularly and you won’t get a warning when it’s time to do so. The dustbox is reasonably generous in capacity at 0.6L, and is accessible via a button at the front of the 30C. This takes between five and six hours, and when complete the LED built into the single power button on the unit’s top will glow blue, but actual cleaning time is less at around one hour in max mode or 100 minutes in auto mode. There’s a 2600mAh battery inside, and when the charge depletes the RoboVac 30C will be a good little robot and return to its base for recharging. Some spares are provided in the box, with extra filters, two spare side brushes and a cleaning tool all included. Eufy recommends that the filters are replaced every two months, the rolling brush once or twice a year depending on usage, and the side brushes and brush guard every three- to six months or when visibly worn. This isn’t the only maintenance you should perform, and as with all vacuum cleaners the parts aren’t intended to last forever. The conversation guide will support you in setting up initial and continuing conversations with your team to identify any workplace frustrations, or ‘pebbles in your shoes’, and to engage and empower the team to identify potential solutions.
You’ll be charged a “members-only discount price” on your second month. However, since it is subscription-based, only the first month (a pair of books) is actually free. Reader Service– With this program, anyone who registers is sent two free books mailed to your home, no questions asked. BookBoon – College students or anyone looking for educational textbooks or business books can request one of over 1000 free textbooks written by professors of top universities.Ĩ. 12 Places That Send Free Books by Mail for All Agesħ. Once the journal is completed, they could bring their journal to a store near them and collect their free book. Throughout the summer, a child or teen must keep a reading journal and list down 8 books they’ve finished. But it’s still a fantastic program that promotes literacy among children of all ages. ![]() Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program – Aimed at kids, this program is technically not one that sends free books by mail. National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) - The EPA, through the NSCEP, gives out free books by mail to kids, aiming to promote environmental awareness. If you don’t reside in these states but would like some resources, there are free ebooks available for you.ĥ. Read Conmigo – If you want to learn Spanish with your kids or partner and you live in California, Florida, or Texas, you can get free English-Spanish books for children from preschool through fifth grade sent directly to your home. To enroll, each applicant must be blind or have low vision, be a Braille reader, and have successfully filled out the Braille Books Program online application.Ĥ. American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults: Braille Books Program – This program has been giving blind children a free Braille book every month from a popular children’s reading series since 1997. They accept both donations and requests, so make sure to check their Facebook page for new titles.ģ. PJ Library – This website offers free Jewish books for kids up to 12 years old. The org announced has gifted over 165 million free books by mail since its launch.Ģ. Any child from birth to age 5 in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Ireland can join the program and receive 1 book per month completely FREE. It originated in Sevier County, Tennessee, then spread all over the country. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library – From Award-winning country music singer Dolly Parton, this non-profit organization has been promoting literacy in kids since 1995. 6 Places That Send Free Books by Mail for Kidsġ. If you’re a fellow book lover and would to know how to get free books-whether they’re print books for adults, for kids, or ebooks-make sure to bookmark this page as I add and update these resources. Sign up for free to get started.Īs someone who loves receiving all kinds of free stuff, books are always welcome in our home. Survey Junkie - Test new products, keep them, and get paid for your feedback.Join Try Products to get even more free samples shipped right to you. Try Products - What's better than one giant box of free stuff? TWO giant boxes of free stuff.Daily Goodie Box - Grab a GIANT box of free samples from some of the world's most popular brands.Some of the sites that offer free downloads are shown in the box to the right. Most of these books are older materials that are no longer in copyright or works that authors and publishers have decided to offer for free. However, there are many sites such as Project Gutenberg that offer free ebooks for you to download to your device for as long as you would like. If you have a NOOK you can buy ebooks from Sony eReader you can buy from their reader store. If you have a Kindle you can buy ebooks from. This would include most new fiction ebooks. The paid ebooks are typically books still under copyright available in an ebook format. On the internet, fiscally speaking, there are two types of ebooks you can download: paid and free. The ebooks the library offers come with check out periods, so after a set period of time the books will be removed from your device unless it is an ebook with unlimited downloading capablity and no checkout periods. ![]() There is an important difference between the ebooks you can get off of websites and the ebooks the library offers. ![]() In reality this song hardly has anything to do with time, but it felt like a necessary addition to the Daylight Savings Time track list simply because of its iconic piano hook. And the “tick-tock, tick-tock” hook is just too good (not to mention perfectly fitting for this “holiday”). Who would’ve ever thought singing about a specific amount of time could be so catchy? This Madonna/ Timberlake team-up made for one club banger back in 2008. This classic ‘80s ballad is definitely more about romance than it is about literal time, but it sure is timeless. But realistically, that wouldn’t be the case anyway, as her song about a specific time is actually about her regretful decision to contact a no-good-for-her ex in the middle of the night. Unfortunately Meghan Trainor’s tune is one hour off from the official clocks-turning-back time of 2 a.m., so it’s not quite qualified to be the Daylights Savings Time song. Oh, and throwing in a good ol’ pelvic thrust will really get the Daylight Savings Time party going. If you’re looking for a little jig to do while you enjoy your extra hour of the weekend, might as well do a jump to the left and then a step to the right. I think that when you have a conflict with someone, it’s very hard to resolve it if you’re not willing to have a conversation,” he said on the NPR show The Limits With Jay Williams.“Time Warp,” Rocky Horror Picture Show cast I think a lot of things got lost in translation. “I learned an important lesson from that. Scooter Braun recently gave an interview in which he revealed his “regret” over how he handled the sale of Swift’s master recordings following his company’s acquisition of Swift’s old label Big Machine in 2019. Last year, she released the first two of her re-recorded albums, ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ and ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’. Swift’s most recent albums of new material arrived in 2020, with ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’. The back covers for the different vinyl versions will come together to make a clockface. The singer-songwriter will release the album through four distinctly covered vinyl pressings including the ‘Jade Green’, ‘Blood Moon’ and ‘Mahogany’ editions as well as a ‘Lavender’ version of the album. Swift’s frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff worked on the record, which is her 10th. “I really don’t think I’ve delved this far into my insecurities in this detail before,” she said in a video.Īnother notable song on the record is ‘Karma’ – which is the title fans speculated she had given to an unreleased album she recorded and shelved in 2016, and some believed that she would release this year. ![]() Swift also recently said that the song ‘Anti-Hero’ on the new record is one of her favourite songs she’s ever written. ♬ Midnight Mayhem episode 13 – Taylor Swift LAST EPISODE! The season finale of Midnights Mayhem with Me, with QUITE the twist of an ending… #TSmidnighTS #SwiftTok #MidnightsMayhemWithMe ![]() Watch her final Tiktok in the series and watch the rest on her account here. The final batch of song titles revealed were album opener ‘Lavender Haze’, track five ‘You’re On Your Own, Kid’, track 10 ‘Labyrinth’, track 12 ‘Sweet Nothings’ and – last but not least – track four ‘Snow On The Beach’ featuring Lana Del Rey. Today, Swift concluded the TikTok series by sharing five song titles in videos posted hourly. The singer-songwriter shared song titles from the record one by one via her TikTok series ‘Midnights Mayhem With Me’, where she randomly picked out tracks to reveal by spinning a cage of balls and picking one out. READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ review: a retread of heartbreak.Taylor Swift has revealed the entire tracklist of her upcoming album ‘Midnights’ – see it below. ![]() Get it on your hands, your neck, even your clothes! A zombie takedown is a messy business so have fun with it. This can be the part that's the most fun as well! Be sure and equip yourself with plenty of fake blood. The last part of putting together your perfect zombie costume is making sure the makeup is just right. ![]() That's just the beauty of zombie costumes! The thing is, everyone can choose their own style and still hang out together. The next friend might want to go the opposite route and dress as a zombie football player. Maybe your friend wants to go the tragic route and dress as a zombie bride. The best part of putting together a zombie group costume is watching everyone pick out their own style. Secondly, do you want to go out alone or curate a zombie horde? There's nothing scarier on Halloween night than watching a group of undead saunter toward your house. These are important questions that zombie fans will have a lot of fun pondering. For instance, in your world are the undead fast or slow? Are they smart enough to track prey down or will they get stuck in the same corner for eternity if lead the right way. Whether you decide to be an undead baseball player or a zombie prom queen, you still have some decision-making to do once you choose your zombie costume. While this undead look is super scary for kids, it also avoids some of the gore popular in some of these zombie costumes! The clothes are tattered as if the zombie has spent the better part of a year under the ground. It's face is rotting away and worms are falling out. Unlike some of the other zombie costumes in our selection, this costume shows a zombie in a late stage of disrepair. If you want to dress up as the classic undead, choosing a zombie costume like the "Worm Wishes from the Grave" look is a great idea. ![]() Wait, are we just talking modern zombies here? Because there are many more styles to cover than that! It used to be that undead stories focused on zombies crawling out of their graves, mindlessly searching for flesh. Zombie nurses and doctors are featured in most zombie apocalypse movies, it's a classic costume that's easy to appreciate. For instance, a zombie doctor costume would make you seem like someone who was just trying to help when the outbreak first happened. Some of our favorite zombie costumes are the ones that have a little back story. All of us at have been there! If this is the case, then you probably know what you're looking for when it comes to picking out your zombie costume! If you're a fan of zombies, then you've probably thought about where you would be and what you would be doing if a zombie outbreak happened. ![]() ![]() The founders of Quant are highly optimistic that being a leader, the mass adoption of Quant has a lot of promises to behold for its fans. Quant (QNT) price has to its discredit being the slowest and its credit being the consistently growing crypto asset nomenclature. With a market capitalization of $1,672,435,031 and a trading volume of $42,349,912, Quant has a lot to surprise investors. Quant Price Predictions: Market Sentiment Emerging as the most promising solution to scalability, this distributed ledger technology (DLT) has been the root of the genesis for Quant. ![]() Distributed ledger technology is an altogether different concept that contributes to making the lives of people more empowered and more expeditious, making their lives easier and more comfortable both. Gilbert Verdian followed Quant in the year 2015. This has further facilitated interoperability, connected the world, and helped drive tremendous value, open up new markets, and realize new efficiencies for enterprises, governments, and individuals alike. Enterprises, governments, and individuals across the globe benefit from the true potential of an incredibly powerful technology of DLT. The need to exchange assets across a secure and cost-effective network has picked up momentum, and the enterprise DLT gateway promises interoperability across different systems and networks and DLTs. Here comes the role of distributed ledger technology (DLT) that supersedes the entire gamut of blockchain-based solutions providing answers to all questions that until now remained unanswered. The world of Blockchain has its limitations. You look up and you squint it's all you can do. You have seen this happen time and time again, but on each and every occasion you simply cannot fail to be completely awed-hypnotized almost, perhaps-by the incredible view that is above your head. You know only all too well from where those massive shadows are coming. They even blot out the light of the Sun itself. Those same shadows slowly begin to envelop just about all and everyone in sight. Huge shadows appear here, there, and everywhere. Suddenly, the sky above you begins to grow dark ominously, to be sure. The temperature is soaring, and it's only getting hotter. There are desert sands in every single direction. Imagine, if you will, the following scenario before you: It's several millennia ago, and deep in the heart of what is now called the Middle East. Nick lives just a few miles from Dallas, Texas’ infamous Grassy Knoll. He has appeared on numerous television shows, including History Channel’s Monster Quest and UFO Hunters VH1’s Legend Hunters National Geographic Channel’s The Truth about UFOs and Paranatural BBC’s Out of this World MSNBC’s Countdown and SyFy Channel’s Proof Positive. His many books include Visible Ink Press’ Time Travel: The Science and Science Fiction Area 51: The Revealing Truth of UFOs, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies The Bigfoot Book: The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti, and Cryptid Primates The Alien Book: A Guide to Extraterrestrial Beings on Earth Secret History: Conspiracies from Ancient Aliens to the New World Order Cover-Ups & Secrets: The Complete Guide to Government Conspiracies, Manipulations & Deceptions Control: MKUltra, Chemtrails and the Conspiracy to Suppress the Masses Secret Societies: The Complete Guide to Histories, Rites, and Rituals The Monster Book: Creatures, Beasts, and Fiends of Nature and Monsters of the Deep. He writes about a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including UFOs, alien encounters, government conspiracies, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster. Nick Redfern works full time as an author, lecturer, and journalist. Today, we are finally starting to get a grasp on this incredible technology, a technology that may have been the work of ancient humans, aliens from faraway worlds-or, perhaps, a combination of the two. The truth of the science behind acoustic levitation was lost and forgotten for ages with little more left than fanciful tales of music, whistles, a curious papyrus, and strange metal rods that could achieve incredible feats in the air. Almost certainly, acoustic levitation was at the heart of these incredible feats. Native American stories of ancient priests being able to make stones light to move easilyĪuthor Nick Redfern argues it was not literally music and whistling that somehow raised large stones, but both have one thing in common: sound.The Mayan story of the construction of the Pyramid of the Magician said to be overseen by a small humanoid who could whistle large stones into place.A 9th-century story of a mysterious papyrus with the power to move large stones at the Giza Necropolis.How Antigravity Built the Pyramids delves into specific stories and theories: Were they the work of ancient humans or of equally ancient extraterrestrials? That doesn’t take away the fact that sound was, and still remains, the key to the construction of the pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, the stone figures of Easter Island, and the massive stones at Baalbek, Lebanon. ![]() Throughout history, folklore, and mystery, tales have circulated of massive stones being moved through the air effortlessly by sound. ![]() Discover the Lost Secrets of the Ancients and the Time When Stones Floated High over Egypt |
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