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The models wore pool-slide and slingback sneakers. Then Long stepped back into a nearly all-white section which featured a fluorescent-green piped lapel jacket over a double-layered pleated long skirt with more Is, also green. There was certainly a lot of showing off poolside from the audience, and when the looks began their circuit, they just as certainly fit Long’s description, along with that of one of my bench mates: “These are clothes for influencers.” Vivid pastel-sequinned swimwear and minidresses, and long color-paneled silk dresses scattered with houndstooth I reliefs, which were sometimes paired with knit sweaters patterned with Looney Tunes graphics, represented the first section. As he explained backstage preshow during an urgent search for nail varnish remover: “Because we’ve been showing in London, I really wanted this to feel like Milan, and it does. He said he had chosen his title, Underwater Lovers, long before discovering the bagni. It made for an ideal spot for James Long’s first womenswear-only show, not only under the banner of Iceberg but also in his design career at large. There is a café where you are spritzed by cooling jets as you drink your post-swim Aperol Spritz. Its waters dapple cool and blue beyond perfectly tended beds of herbs. This then-dilapidated, fascist-era open-air lido has since been fully restored-by donors including Giorgio Armani-into one of bourgeois Milan’s most chichi destinations: the Bagni Misteriosi (“mysterious baths”). Because, yes, this was the very same swimming pool in which Theophilus London rapped on a Jet Ski while we watched on and were slowly devoured by mosquitoes.Īnd yet it was also not the same. For anyone here of a certain vintage, entering this venue was a queasy flashback to five and a bit years ago: Philipp Plein’s Spring/Summer 2015 show. Investigators continue to point to problems with the pool deck as their "leading failure hypothesis," the reason why the 40-year old 12-story building collapsed with little warning in a matter of seconds. National There's New Evidence That The Surfside Condo That Collapsed Had Extensive Corrosion Investigators have previously said they found significant design and construction problems that left the deck weaker than required by building codes. In a progress report, one of the team's leaders, Glenn Bell said the investigation continues to focus on the condo tower's pool deck. It began days after the 2021 collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside. Structural engineers with the National Institute of Standards and Technology say it's one of the most complex investigations ever undertaken. They're focusing on construction flaws on the building's pool deck. MIAMI - More than two years after 98 people died in the collapse of a Florida condominium tower, federal investigators have released new details about the cause of the collapse. Ninety-eight people died when the building partially collapsed on June 24, 2021. That's all I have for you today.In an aerial view, a cleared lot where the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building once stood is seen on Jin Surfside, Fla. But if your committed to this game, this is the best resource on the market for a deck building and collection managing app. If this app came out with such an addition though, I would surely be abliged to try it out and update this rating! I also do not recommend buying this app if you are extremely new to MTG or are unsure of investing too deeply in it. However, this app will not be your one and only Magic resource. Despite it being costly when compared to other free apps, this one gives you a better interface than most, a better deck builder tool, and a more comprehensive collection manager than others with similar features. Overall, I give Decked Builder an B+ (4.0/5 star) rating. :star: :star: :star: :star: / :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: I would not recommend net-decking, but if your lost for ideas, this is always an option. This allows you to search through Standard, Modern, and Pauper decks, and allows you to open them within the app itself, which is a very neat way to gain inspiration for a new project from a more well known one, or to see if you have the cards for a strategy. The last bit of information I want to pull your attention to is the "Find Decks" feature under the 4th tab. My only gripe with the collections feature is a lack of export to Sheets/Excel but I can understand why that feature isn't necessarily a necessity. This app also updates with every new set and when bannings occur, coming a long way from when I started using this app more than 4 years ago. Fortunately, Decked Builder has pushed a little into this realm, with prerelease promos from KTK-OGW added, but also GP and PT promos which are not in databases of most apps. One thing to note in regards to all apps is the lack of special printings their databases do not contain. This is a neat way to get an estimate on the value of parts of your collection if you so choose. Decked Builder allows you to price your collection as a whole, or as in parts, by displaying the total value of cards by their color, type, rarity, format legality, and set. I do enjoy this feature by it's integration with the deck builders tool, but also as a value tool. You can have anywhere from just 1 to over 4,000 cards tracked, and this app let's you look through them no problem through either the collections tab (middle tab) or search. The collections add on is more pricey than the base app at $ 4.99, however for the cost the feature sure does make things easy. You can also search for all cards under a certain format through options for Standard, Modern, Legacy, Commander, and Pauper through an option under the Set filter, as well as use the other various search perameters. By default, it is set to alphabetical order and cost, but these can be ajusted to suit your style. The search settings even have the ability to toggle on and off unique cards from their multiple printings, and the listing order of your search results. The app includes a card search feature, identified as the magnifying glass on the bottom toolbar. As such, you will most likely use it for this reason. Let's get into it!ĭecked Builder, as the name implies, is primarily a deck building tool. In this review, we will go over the functions of the app, likes and dislikes, cost, and am overall rating of the app. One of the questions you get asked most often as an established MTG player is "which app do you prefer?" For me, it's the first app I ever saw and first app I ever bought, Decked Builder by Decked Studios. Hey guys, Atony1400 here with something a little different. Your not going to regret suppers with our without a can when your arms aren't being ripped off by a methed out assailant you've already ventilated 8 times. But in the end penetration isn't strictly about energy.Īs far as keeping your ears safe vs shooting effective threat stoppers. Heavier traditional bullets tend to be constructed tougher. And as another has stated it probably has more to do with bullet construction. There have been hundreds maybe thousands of other tests, many sponsored by dod and law enforcement agencies that suggest that the opposite is generally true. Yes, it can be painful, and yes you could have significantly reduced hearing for a short amount of time while your eardrum heals, but the permanent damage slowly accumulates. And they’ll only be slightly higher than what’s considered hearing safe (exposure time matters for this too).Īll in all, the hearing damage from a short exposure to loud sounds like gun shots isn’t as bad as people make it out to be. They will likely be below the pain threshold for your ears. They won’t be movie quiet like subs, but they won’t rupture your eardrums. If you add a silencer, even supers aren’t that bad. It’s not like you’re going to have massively reduced hearing from one self defense encounter. Yes, you will have permanent hearing damage, but damage from a single unsuppressed rifle gunshot has about the hearing damage as a work week of exposure to loud background noises like machinery, or loud A/Cs. You will likely rupture an eardrum, but that heals. Some things to think about in terms of sound and hearing damage though:Įven without a silencer, a couple supersonic loads shot in your house isn’t the end of the world. A rifle load just gives you a slightly bigger margin of error. Single shot from a 9mm carbine and he was instantly incapacitated. Heck, look at the video or the two guys arguing over custody on one guy’s front step. With a vital zone shot, they will be in hypovolemic shock quickly. Even if the sub only does crush damage, you have a 1” wide face cruising through the body with those expanded petals. They’re better than 9mm or even 45, but way more controllable in a braced AR pistol. I personally think subs are totally fine for home defense. Garner ended up repeating whatever Sorokin said in the accent she'd been working on with her dialect coach. "She's like, 'Please, let me hear it.' It got very meta," Garner revealed. Wednesday The Lincoln Lawyer The Witcher Stranger Things Extraction 2 The Night Agent Never Have I Ever Aaron Epstein/Netflix Interview How Julia Garner Mastered Anna Delvey’s Idiosyncratic Accent in ‘Inventing Anna’ The self-proclaimed perfectionist details her linguistic journey. But then her voice gets less soft-spoken when she wants something," Garner said of Sorokin, who was convicted of defrauding financial institutions of thousands of dollars in 2017. As others have written, she is Russian-born, teen-raised in. If youre familiar with the story of Inventing Anna, youll know that Anna Delvey was apparently born in. She listened to Anna Sorokinas accent and modelled hers on this. Garner previously revealed that the real-life Sorokin wanted to hear Garner's accent for the new series when the actress visited her in prison. However, fans have now pointed out that Garners voice actually makes a whole lot of sense. And then she probably learned English in the British way because she's European they don't learn American English." "This is a girl who said that she was German, and people believed it, but she actually was born in Russia, so she's not going to have a Russian accent. Garner stars in the show as Anna Delvey, a pseudonym used by. "I was like, 'What is her accent?' I didn't even know what her accent was," the "Ozark" star said of figuring out how she'd speak for her "Inventing Anna" role. The real-life Anna Sorokin has admitted that she struggled hearing Julia Garner ’s impersonation of her accent in Inventing Anna. In the end, she squeezed in a few months of Inventing Anna before filming season 4 of Ozark, then hopped back into Shonda-land to wrap things up in November 2020. Garner as Anna Delvey on "Inventing Anna" (left) and Garner as Ruth Langmore on "Ozark" (right). Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. In it, Trump sought to empathize with the rioters based on the lies he’s spread about a fraudulent election. One top Republican ally called the President’s video a “piece of sh*t.” ET curfew, even some of his top allies were critical – though, after four years of equivocation and appeasement of his violent base, unsurprised – by the President’s response. Pottinger’s resignation appeared to be imminent while the others may sleep on the decision.īy evening, as sirens wailed on Capitol Hill and Washington entered a 6 p.m. National security adviser Robert O’Brien, deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger and deputy chief of staff Chris Liddell were all considering resigning as soon as Wednesday night, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Trump’s minute-long spot, taped from the White House Rose Garden, was hardly the forceful denunciation of the violence that nearly every one of the President’s allies and advisers were encouraging him to deliver over the course of the afternoon.Īides who had served with him for years began submitting their resignations, including the first lady’s chief of staff Stephanie Grisham, the White House social secretary and a deputy press secretary. Josh Hawley of Missouri will continue his push for an objection. Meanwhile, Giuliani and Trump were calling senators Wednesday evening, urging them to press ahead with objections, according to a source familiar with the discussions, who said it appears Sen. “To those who wreaked havoc in our Capitol today: You did not win,” he said. That was a distant cry from how Pence addressed the rioters during remarks from the Senate floor after the chamber reconvened at 8 p.m. “You’re very special.” Later, he seemed to justify the actions in a tweet, writing, “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away.” In his video, Trump praised the mob, who broke into the Capitol using force, stole items from its rooms and posed for photographs in the legislative chambers. Instead it appeared the vice president, who was evacuated from the Senate floor where he was presiding over the Electoral College count, was responsible for coordinating the government’s response. Only after pleading from aides and congressional allies inside the besieged Capitol building did Trump release a taped video urging the mass of his supporters – many carrying Trump flags or wearing Trump paraphernalia – to “go home,” while still fanning their misplaced grievances about a stolen election.Īpart from inciting it, Trump appeared otherwise disengaged from the melee. Trump’s Twitter account was temporarily suspended. The messages and video were deleted by Twitter and Facebook in what the companies said was an attempt to prevent more violence. The sitting President, in tweets and a video, offered only mild rebukes while seeking to justify the crimes committed in his name. The mob interrupted the very act that will certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and formalize Trump’s loss.īut as predictable as the scene may have been, it nonetheless amounted to a low point for American democracy. In many ways the spectacle was the natural culmination of a presidency built on disregard for democratic norms, antagonizing government institutions and willful ignorance of the far-right’s violent tendencies. Several senior White House staffers resigned and many more – including the President’s national security adviser – were also considering leaving in protest. It left one woman dead, sent members of Congress ducking for cover and forced evacuations after pipe bombs were discovered in nearby office buildings.Ĭoming 14 days before the end of his presidency, the unprecedented episode prompted renewed calls for Trump’s impeachment and fresh talk of the 25th Amendment that would remove him from office. It was a stunning scene Trump encouraged hours beforehand and refused to condemn afterward. Three years, 11 months and 17 days after President Donald Trump warned from the West Front of the US Capitol that “American carnage stops right here,” the very spot he stood was engulfed by his own protesters bringing carnage of their own. |
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