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Dua Lipa Shares Heartfelt Moment With Mustafa The Poet On Toronto Stage

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Mustafa the Poet and Dua Lipa shared a stage and created a special moment in Toronto to hold on to forever. The singer stated that she was so happy about the experience that it had become an eternal memory for her. Luko teased the Chicago show next, causing her followers to be excited in anticipation for the next thing.

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The international superstar Dua Lipa feels all the love this tour has to give and just can keep quiet. She took to Instagram to recount the biggest highlight of her show at Toronto and share some heartfelt memories. Perky Lipa wrote about sharing the stage with her bestie, poet, and artist Mustafa.

The picture is almost as good as the news itself-a giant backstage shot of Dua sitting on the stairs bathed in warm and inviting stage light. Just bearing a beautiful golden corset that screams elegance and power, smiles on her face, it was reflective. It speaks to the memory of intimacy and celebration of a night that will forever remain in her memory.

“It’s something I’ll carry with me forever,” Lipa commented on the duet, with heart and cake emojis to back up the sentiment of sweetness coming from the crowd in Toronto. She closes with an anticipating, “Chicago you’re next!”

Support from fans and peers came in a deluge. “Was at Toronto night 2 with my 2 daughters (8 & 10) for their first ever concert and you didn’t disappoint. What an amazing show. Anyone who has tickets for upcoming shows be prepared for an unbelievable night. Dua you rock!!” A visibly moved contributor said. Testimonies like these speak volumes as to how the concert impacted families and first-timers.

Already, there is excitement for the next stop; one fan comments, “Chiiicccaaaagggooo here we come,” tagging several of her friends to revel in the anticipation. Contagious energy awaits as the tour continues.

International fans were also in the mix, with one commenting in Spanish, “You are the real deal, mami, I love you,” bringing forth a shining testament to Lipa’s far-reaching global presence. Another commented in English, full of admiration: “You are amazing girl,” before mentioning that the Toronto concert was the first she’d attended in ten years, making it all the more significant for her.

That kind of buzz wouldn’t have passed unnoticed by any official handle, with SiriusXM Canada chiming, “we’re OBSESSED with this duo!”

The majority of comments were about the music, with lots of praise, but a sole comment forced in some politics, standing in stark contrast to the laudations upon music and talent.

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Moments like these pave the way for a deep connection to occur at subsequent shows across the concert series-a sort of onstage bonding with unexpected guests, offstage with her devoted audience. Our Toronto show might have been the perfect demonstration of merging a live concert into the memory of these moments for everyone present. Now she is using this momentum into the next show, with Chicago waiting eagerly to partake in the magic.




This story originally appeared on Celebrityinsider

Weekly Meal Plan #57 | The Recipe Critic

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This weekly meal plan is full of hearty family favorites. They’re easy and cozy dinners that everyone will love. For even more ideas, check out my other meal plans here.

Collage of the different dinner's that are in this weekly meal plan. Collage of the different dinner's that are in this weekly meal plan.

The goal of this weekly meal plan? Keeping dinner simple, satisfying, and stress-free. Bonus: these meals are easy on the budget but big on flavor, so you can feel good about feeding the whole family without stretching your grocery bill.

Cube Steak

This cube steak is tender, flavorful, and swimming in gravy! It’s the kind of comfort food that saves the day when you need dinner fast.

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Shredded Chicken Tacos- 4 Ways

Shredded Chicken Tacos are a filling and flavorful dinner ready in just 10 minutes. The chicken is perfectly seasoned and served on a warmed tortilla topped with all of your favorite toppings. It’s always a hit!

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Ricotta Meatballs

Level up your meatball game with the addition of ricotta cheese! These ricotta meatballs have the creamiest texture and turn out extra tender and juicy. The flavors are incredible and your family will beg you to make these every week!

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Chinese Chicken and Broccoli

This flavorful Chinese Chicken and Broccoli dish is made in just one pan and is ready in less than 30 minutes! Small pieces of tender chicken and broccoli florets are cooked in an irresistible sweet and savory sauce. Serve over rice with a sprinkle of sesame seeds and red pepper flakes for an amazing meal!

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Crockpot Ranch Pork Chops

Creamy, tender pork chops cooked in the slow cooker with ranch seasoning and potatoes. Easy, family-friendly, and perfect for busy nights.

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How Many Does it Feed?

This free weekly meal plan is just what you need to get your week started. It provides five meals that will feed 4-6 (depending on whether you are feeding adults or kids), AND it includes a shopping list! With fresh new ideas and easy-to-make recipes, having a weekly menu plan will be a lifesaver.

Why Should I Meal Plan? 

If you’ve ever hit 5 o’clock and wondered, “What am I making for dinner?”, meal planning is your new best friend. Here’s why it helps, especially for busy moms:

  • Saves time: No last-minute scrambling; you already know what’s for dinner.
  • Cuts stress: One less decision to make during the busiest time of day.
  • Keeps you on budget: Shopping with a plan means fewer random (and pricey) grocery trips.
  • Healthier choices: You’re less likely to grab takeout when dinner is ready to go.

Side Dishes for Dinner

My weekly meal plans always include a free printable shopping list that is measured out and ready to go. It makes things so easy! Click below and get shopping!

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Storing Leftovers for Meal Planning

My meal plans are just for Monday through Friday. By the time the weekend rolls around, we’re usually out and about or eating up leftovers. Just be sure to store any leftovers in an airtight container so they stay fresh and ready when you are.




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L.A. Affairs: I’m pausing my life in Los Angeles for love in Florida. Am I doing the right thing?

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Kathy and I were married almost 30 years until her breast cancer ended things on my birthday in 2018. It’s weird how life happens.

We were blessed with a precious daughter, now 25. Our family was formed largely by the 1926 “Hollywood Eclectic” house, with its steep pitched roof and turret, that we occupied on a scenic mountainside street in Mt. Washington. It was the type of house neighborhood kids called the “witch’s’ house” around Halloween.

I lived in that house uneasily after Kathy died and Laura left for college at Tulane in New Orleans. The house was filled with memories, which comforted me as much as they stung by critical absences.

At some point, I dated via Match.com. I met good women, all intelligent, kind, loving and wise. There was one in particular from Santa Monica whom I thought after two years of dating was my forever. But she eventually decided she needed freedom and space, so I scooped up my splintered heart and moved on.

It struck me during one more endless silent night alone on the couch that there was no good reason for me to live in this big old house by myself. So I sold it about a year ago and moved into an 8-foot-by-12 foot room on the fourth floor of the elevator-less Glendale YMCA. I was trying to live cheaply. I wanted to get a position with an organization like the Peace Corps, something overseas, like I did with Kathy in the ’80s.

After three months at the Y, I was walking home from dinner one night when I tripped on a crack in a sidewalk and fractured my kneecap. I called Laura the next morning. She impressed on me that I couldn’t live at the Y anymore.

So she found a place for me in Glendale, which advertised itself as “gracious senior living.” It was a good place, run by decent, well-meaning people, but the average age of the folks living there was 85. I’m 69. The frames of reference were, in retrospect, incompatible. I greatly appreciated some individuals there, but clearly it couldn’t be my long-term home.

One day, I came to the dining room of my gracious place, and seated across from me was a woman who immediately struck me. Her short-cut hair was gray to white. She had blue eyes and a soft voice, and as I would learn later, an impish wit. She was there to close out the affairs of her 103-year-old mother, who had died around the time I hurt my leg. I learned she was an architect — just like me.

Gail asked me to come to her mom’s burial at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills. We sat next to each other with a small group. Gail got up at some point and released a dove, which weaved around and eventually disappeared.

Gail describes herself as an agnostic. I’m a practicing Catholic. I always thought it was important for couples to have a common faith — to bond better. But in our time together, I changed. It’s good to have your own convictions, and it’s nice to share them. But I realize sharing can happen without converting.

Often Gail looks like she’s frowning, but it’s just that she has poor vision and is straining to see through her prescription lenses. She often sees difficulties as bigger than I see them. A standing joke between us is Gail saying, “And there’s another problem.” To which I might reply, “Is that a problem or a possibility?”

She would scowl at me then (I think, but can’t be sure), so, in response, I’d make a pumping up-and-down movement with my arms, imitating common Florida lizards. Or I’d growl like a feral dog. She’d laugh, and I’d kiss her behind her ears while growling more as she closed her eyes and smiled. I’m very happy at times like that.

Gail and I have grown so close.

But then she had to go home — back to Gainesville, Fla. So I went to visit her for a month. Then I went to visit her for two months.

A few weeks ago, Gail flew to L.A. We stuffed my belongings into my tiny Fiat 500 and drove cross-country. We saw Frank Lloyd Wright’s compound Taliesin West outside Scottsdale, Ariz.; astonishing White Sands National Park in New Mexico; and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.

With each thing seen and shared, we’ve grown closer. Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Ark., was, I think, our benediction. There was more, but the chapel did it.

As for Los Angeles, I will always love it. I didn’t leave for lack of affection for the city. I left because I met a woman I loved who was unwilling to relocate and I wanted to be with her. Life is change, and either you change with circumstances or you break.

Gail and I now live together in Gainesville. But I must consider: What was the mysterious confluence that caused my knee to break at the time Gail’s mother died, bringing Gail and me to one table, in one place, at one time? I don’t claim to understand it. But for us, our shared delight, laughter and gratitude are enough.

A famous architect once said, “God is in the details.” Maybe that applies to relationships. When I first came to Gail’s house, I sat on a dining room chair of hers with a wicker cane seat. I did that two or three times.

Then one day, as I sat down, the seat broke, and my fleshy cheek seemed to have plunged into the abyss. Gail asked, “Could you please sit more gently in my chairs?” I didn’t think I sat any harder on her chair than I ever sat on a chair before in my life. But I said “OK,” because, in hindsight, maybe I was being too hard-assed.

Maybe the mystery of love lies in that wicker hole.

The author is an architect. He recently left Los Angeles and now lives in Gainesville, Fla.

L.A. Affairs chronicles the search for romantic love in all its glorious expressions in the L.A. area, and we want to hear your true story. We pay $400 for a published essay. Email LAAffairs@latimes.com. You can find submission guidelines here. You can find past columns here.



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Three British nationals among those who died in Lisbon funicular crash | World News

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Three British nationals are among the 16 who died after the iconic Gloria funicular in Lisbon derailed and crashed, authorities have said.

The crash, which also left 22 people injured, happened at around 6pm on Wednesday.

Footage showed one of the railway’s two carriages practically destroyed and emergency workers pulling people out of the wreckage.

Read more: Everything we know about the Lisbon crash

So far, the nationalities of 11 of the people who died have been released by the authorities. They are: five people from Portugal, including four workers at a charity based near the funicular, three from Great Britain, two from Korea, and one person from Switzerland.

The streetcar’s brakeman, Andrew Marques, is the only person killed to have been identified so far.

All but one of the victims was declared dead at the scene, with the other dying of their injuries in hospital.

Sky News has contacted the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for further information on the three British victims.

A spokesperson for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he is “deeply saddened” to hear of the British nationals who have died.

“His thoughts are with families and those affected,” they said. “We stand united with Portugal during this time.”

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Majority of dead and injured foreign nationals

Among the injured are 12 women, seven men, and a three-year-old child, according to Portugal’s Civil Protection Authority.

Three who suffered injuries are from Portugal, two from Germany, one from Spain, one from Korea, one from Cape Verde, one from Canada, one from Italy, one from France, one from Switzerland, and one from Morocco.

According to CNN Portugal, the two from Germany were the three-year-old child and his mother, who were both pulled from the wreckage.

The lower carriage in the foreground with the remains of the one that crashed further uphill. Pic: AP
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The lower carriage in the foreground with the remains of the one that crashed further uphill. Pic: AP

The Gloria funicular connects Lisbon's Restauradores Square to the Bairro Alto viewpoint
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The Gloria funicular connects Lisbon’s Restauradores Square to the Bairro Alto viewpoint

The Gloria funicular is hugely popular with tourists and classified as a national monument.

Its journey between Restauradores Square in downtown Lisbon and the Bairro Alto neighbourhood is just 265m (870ft) and three minutes long, but climbs up a steep hill, with two carriages travelling in opposite directions.

It was believed to be operating at full capacity as rush hour began in the Portuguese capital on Wednesday evening when the top car hurtled down the hill, left the tracks, and crashed into a building 30m (98ft) from the bottom.

According to the people who were in the lower carriage, a few metres into their ascent, it started going backwards. When they saw the other car speeding towards them, they jumped through the windows to escape.

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Lisbon funicular crash: ‘We felt no brakes anymore’

Preliminary crash report due on Friday

It is not clear what caused the crash.

The Portuguese government office for air and rail accident investigations said it has completed its analysis of the crash site and will release a preliminary report on Friday.

One witness who was in the lower carriage told Sky’s Europe correspondent Alistair Bunkall that the brakes appeared to fail.

Engineer Dave Cooper told Sky News on Thursday that the two carriages may have become detached from one another because of a fault with the cables.

The second carriage was removed overnight on Thursday. Pic: Reuters
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The second carriage was removed overnight on Thursday. Pic: Reuters

The funicular tracks empty after both carriages were removed. Pic: AP
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The funicular tracks empty after both carriages were removed. Pic: AP

Flowers left at the scene on Friday. Pic: AP
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Flowers left at the scene on Friday. Pic: AP

Emergency services and engineers worked throughout the night on Thursday to remove both carriages from the site, while the other two funiculars in the city remained closed until the crash investigation concludes.

A mass was held, attended by Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro and Lisbon mayor Carlos Moedas, in memory of the victims at a nearby church on Thursday evening.

Lisbon declared three days of municipal mourning, while Portugal observed a national day of grief on Thursday.



This story originally appeared on Skynews

RFK Jr. on vaccines; Ukraine’s post-war safety : NPR

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Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day.

Today’s top stories

In a Senate hearing yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced calls to resign from Democrats and criticism from Republicans. For decades, Kennedy has established a reputation as an anti-vaccine activist. However, when President Trump was considering him for the HHS secretary role, Kennedy made promises not to prevent people from obtaining vaccines. In the hearing, he was asked to explain his recent actions regarding vaccines. This included how he went back on his vow not to touch the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory committee on immunization practices. He fired all 17 members of the committee and replaced them with people with a history of anti-vaccine activism.

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  • 🎧 Kennedy insisted that anybody who wants to receive the shot can and got angry when he was pressed on the topic, NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin tells Up First. This year, the Food and Drug Administration approved the COVID booster, but only for people with certain conditions and those over 65. This decision has caused confusion among doctors, patients and insurance companies. Simmons-Duffins says it’s still unknown what the CDC’s advisory committee on immunization practices plans to do about vaccinations. The panel is set to review routine childhood vaccines, including the one for measles, mumps and rubella, and Hepatitis B.

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, stating that the deployment of the National Guard in the nation’s capital is illegal. For the past three weeks, National Guard troops have been patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C., following Trump’s declaration of a “crime emergency” in the city. The president’s claim came as D.C. reported a 30-year low for violent crimes. Schwalb says the military shouldn’t be involved in domestic law enforcement, and they are untrained in policing.

  • 🎧 Since troops were deployed to Washington, estimates indicate that crime overall has decreased, says Alex Koma of NPR network station WAMU. Troops are not authorized to make arrests, but can inform police of a crime. This makes it hard to evaluate if they have any direct correlation with the decline in crime, according to Koma. D.C. has asked a judge to remove the National Guard troops from the area immediately. The lawsuit comes two days after a federal judge ruled that Trump broke the law when he sent National Guard troops into Los Angeles during the protests against immigration raids. This case is being closely monitored by cities like Chicago and Baltimore, where Trump threatened to deploy federal forces.
  • ➡️ On Tuesday, the White House said that 1,669 people have been arrested since Trump’s takeover of the D.C. police. NPR combed through court records and other data. Here’s a breakdown of who has been arrested and what charges they’re facing.

Europe announced yesterday that it had finalized a plan to guarantee Ukraine’s peace and security after the war with Russia ends. The proposal would include troops on the ground in Ukraine from several countries from a group known as the coalition of the willing. The coalition currently includes 35 countries that gathered in Paris, physically and by video. Representatives from Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Canada also attended.

  • 🎧 Russian President Vladimir Putin warned this morning that any foreign troops in Ukraine would be a target. NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley says his response to the news isn’t surprising. It is also why French President Emmanuel Macron, says the backbone of Ukraine’s post-war security is a strong Ukrainian army. Macron stated that this is the reason they won’t be accepting restrictions on the Ukrainian army’s size and shape.

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Living Better is a special series about what it takes to stay healthy in America.

Creatine supplements have gained popularity among social media influencers who say they can help with muscle growth, improve athletic performance and even enhance brain function. The compound is made from three amino acids that serve as a source of energy for your muscles. While your body naturally produces some creatine, can maximizing on it really deliver the benefits influencers are claiming? Here’s what the evidence shows:

  • 🥛 Creatine does work for adding lean muscle mass, but you have to work out to benefit from its effects.
  • 🥛 Men who combined the supplements with resistance training added around two to three pounds of lean body mass, according to a review of 35 studies. This could be significant for older men, who tend to lose muscle mass as they age.
  • 🥛 Initial evidence indicates that benefits like regulating blood sugar in Type 2 diabetes and improving memory are not strongly supported, according to Jose Antonio, an exercise and sports science professor at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.
  • 🥛 Vegans and vegetarians are more likely to see the benefits from taking creatine, as they probably don’t get much or any of it in their diet. Creatine comes from red meat, chicken or fish.

Weekend picks

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Check out what NPR is watching, reading and listening to this weekend:

🍿 Movies: In The Thursday Murder Club a group of retirees gather to research cold cases to pass the time — until a real murder and a plucky new member show up on their doorstep.

📺 TV: Daniel Dae Kim stars in Butterfly as a former U.S. government spy who comes out of hiding to save his long-lost daughter from her life as an assassin.

📚 Books: To the Moon and Back follows Steph Harper, who aspires to become NASA’s first Cherokee astronaut. Before she can achieve her dreams, she must escape an abusive parent and navigate her youth spent on a reservation while experiencing a queer coming of age.

🎵 Music: Artist Nourished by Time’s new album, The Passionate Ones, is a not-so-quiet, yearning and romantic expression that nothing can stand in the way of pursuing love.

❓ Quiz: I have been bested this week. I got seven out of the 11 questions right. I know you can do better! Test your memory.

3 things to know before you go

Amanda Anisimova of the United States celebrates after defeating Naomi Osaka of Japan in three sets during their women's singles semifinal match on Sept. 5, 2025, in the Queens borough of New York City.

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  1. American Amanda Anisimova defeated Naomi Osaka of Japan early today in the U.S. Open semifinals. She is expected to compete in her first U.S. Open finals tomorrow.
  2. Giorgio Armani, the founder of the Italian luxury fashion house Armani, died yesterday in Milan at age 91. His designs had a goal of highlighting the body as a work of art.
  3. Susan Stamberg, one of NPR’s “founding mothers,” is retiring after over 50 years behind the mic. Morning Edition shares a tribute to her legacy.

This newsletter was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.



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AI and clean energy drive job growth, reshape US labor market – Computerworld

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At the same time, the push toward electrification — driven by AI, electric vehicles, and data centers — is powering a surge in renewable energy jobs. Solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy industries top the list of fastest-growing sectors, projected to add over 41,000 jobs, while battery and electrical component manufacturing will add nearly 48,400 positions, according to BLS data.

However, automation and AI are also expected to lead to significant job declines in office, sales, and production roles. Overall AI and mathematical occupations, led by data scientists and cybersecurity analysts, are forecast to grow over 10%, more than triple the national average, the BLS’s report showed.

Yet, only 10% of CIOs and senior tech leaders say AI is fully integrated across their organization, leaving a lot of room for adoption growth, according to a study by staffing firm ManpowerGroup.



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Valerion launches new premium projector with anti-rainbow effect technology

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After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Valerion is formally announcing its new premium projector, the VisionMaster Max, at IFA 2025. The boxy little projector offers improved contrast and brightness, but the feature that should be most interesting to home theater aficionados is how it tries to address the “rainbow effect” common in some cheaper projectors.

Cheaper DLP projectors sometimes display stuttery strobes of color when the projector’s color wheel is forced to quickly shift between colors during fast-paced scenes. While these doesn’t necessarily impede watching a movie or TV show, the rainbow effect can bother sensitive projector owners. The VisionMaster Max attempts to address the problem with what Valerion calls “Anti-RBE Technology” that “reduces rainbow effects by 99.9 percent.” The company pulls this off by using software to blend the individual color sequences of whatever you’re watching faster than the human eye can perceive, creating what looks like a seamless image.

Valerion says the VisionMaster Max also has an upgraded native contrast ratio of 5,000:1 and an AI-assisted “Enhanced Black Level (EBL)” contrast of 50,000:1 for improved depth and details in shadows. Valerion’s dramatically named “NoirScene Dark Field Engine System” mixes stable luminance from a fixed iris aperture and an EBL algorithm to offer deeper blacks with less need for calibration. Combined with the VisionMaster Max’s up to 3,500 lumens of brightness, it makes the projector even more usable during day or night.

The VisionMaster Max also carries over the adjustable lens system from some of Valerion’s other projectors, offers support for Gigabit ethernet and Wi-Fi 6E and runs Google TV. Despite favoring Google’s home theater OS, Valerion guarantees you can fully integrate the VisionMaster Max with Google Home, Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Control4 and Crestron smart home systems.

If that all sounds good, just make sure you’re comfortable paying for a premium experience. Valerion says the VisionMaster Max will be available in October 2025, starting at $4,999.



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Meet Her Daughter Willow & Son Jameson Hart – Hollywood Life

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Pink can do it all! The Grammy Award-winning singer, 44, is not only a legend in the music industry, but she’s also the proud mother of two children, whom she shares with her husband Carey Hart, 48. The couple, who got married in 2006, welcomed their first child, daughter Willow Sage, in June 2011. Five years later, their son Jameson Moon joined the family.

Pink, whose real name is Alecia Beth Moore, loves being a mom so much. But previously, she confessed to People that she was initially “terrified” to have children because she was worried she’d “be a terrible mother.” And she couldn’t have been more wrong! “But, oh my God, being a mom is the most incredible thing I’ve ever done,” Pink also said in that interview. “It’s shocking how responsible I’ve become.”

Below, learn all about Pink’s kids, Willow Sage and Jameson.

Willow Sage Hart

Pink’s daughter was born on June 2, 2011. “We are ecstatic to welcome our new beautiful healthy happy baby girl, Willow Sage Hart,” Pink wrote on Twitter when she announced her daughter’s arrival. “She’s gorgeous, just like her daddy #beyondblessed.”

Willow, now 14, has followed in her mother’s footsteps as a performer. In December 2020, Pink and Willow teamed up for The Disney Holiday Singalong where they performed a duet of the classic “The Christmas Song.” Willow was then featured on her mom’s 2021 single “Cover Me In Sunshine,” dueting with the popstar on a heartfelt ballad. A few months later, Willow joined her mom on stage at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards for an impressive aerial routine. Willow also has other passions that Pink revealed in a 2021 interview with People. “Willow does gymnastics and reads Harry Potter and is convinced she’s going to Hogwarts when she’s 11, and I don’t have the heart to tell her that she’s not,” the “So What” singer said.

Jameson Moon Hart

Pink’s son was born on December 26, 2016, and she announced his arrival on Instagram. The singer shared a photo of her husband holding baby Jameson, with the caption, “I love my baby daddy.”

Jameson, now 8, is the most adorable little boy and he’s so loved by both his parents. Pink frequently posts footage of Jameson doing all kinds of different activities on her social media. Jameson has also been to many red carpet events with his famous mom and the rest of their family. In an interview with People, Pink revealed that her son “wants to be an astronaut.” She also said that both Jameson and Willow are “normal kids.”




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‘I’m Brit in Benidorm and three situations made me want to go home’ | Travel News | Travel

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A man who has “lived in Benidorm for at least seven or eight years” has shared three of the moments that had him wondering whether he’d actually made the right choice, or whether he should swiftly catch a plane back to the UK.

Harry, who posts on TikTok as @harrytokky, regularly shares lifestyle content from Benidorm, and he’s recently shared the “most dangerous slash scariest situations” that he’d found himself in while in the Spanish party capital.

Nearly getting run over by a bus

“Yes, you heard, ran over,” Harry explained. He continued: “It was one of these back roads here in Benidorm where people drive at mental speeds, and to be honest, they were so close to hitting me.

“I literally had to run out of the way of the road, it was awful”.

Random police search

Harry explained he’d been stopped by police, and they “literally said random search” to him. He claimed they were looking for “the naughty stuff,” which Harry said he “didn’t have”.

“They did a full-on search on the side of the road here in Benidorm. I honestly thought they were going to handcuff me, chuck me in the back of a car and throw away the key,” Harry claimed.

Nearly getting mugged 

“This is definitely number one by far,” Harry shared, explaining: “I was walking down one of the back alleys […] from the beach to the main road and a guy came up to me, shook my hand, twisted my arm around my back and all of this”.

He said that this was an attempt to “rob” him of his belongings, saying that it was the “worst experience,” and it would leave anybody shaken up.

He did say, however, that he wasn’t sharing his experiences to “scare anyone off Benidorm,” but instead, he wanted to equip people with the knowledge that these things can happen so they can try and protect themselves.

“Stuff like this does happen everywhere in the world,” Harry reiterated. “But because I live here, it’s happened to me, and I wanted to speak about it.”

In the comments, someone said he’d lived a “crazy life” while he’d been in Benidorm, and Harry replied: “I know right, super crazy”.

However, there are some perks to Benidorm – you can get a really cheap McDonald’s.

Sitting outside, he said: “And just like that, the food has arrived. Now you will not believe how cheap this was. We’ve got two meals here. Guess how much this costs? €11 (£9.53)”.

Harry continued, explaining that there are two fries, two burgers, two drinks, and some chicken nuggets on the side as well.

He gushed: “I mean, €11? What do you think guys? I think that’s an absolute bargain, let’s be honest. €11? In the UK, that’d probably be at least £20.”

In the UK, a large Big Mac meal costs around £7.69, depending on location. Meanwhile, six chicken nuggets cost around £3.49, depending on location.



This story originally appeared on Express.co.uk

Today’s fall in the Ashmore Group share price pushes its yield to 10.3%!

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The Ashmore Group (LSE:ASHM) share price fell over 8% in early trading today (5 September) after the emerging markets asset manager published its results for the year ended 30 June (FY25). However, by midday, it had recovered a little and was down ‘only’ 5.5%.

What’s going on?

Since 2020, the group has observed a trend for investors to move their money away from emerging markets into, predominantly, US equities. As a result, it’s seen its assets under management (AuM) fall. At 30 June 2021, these were $94.4bn. Four years’ later, it was managing $47.6bn of funds on behalf of its clients, which it describes as “predominantly a diversified set of institutions”.

Source: company reports

Not surprisingly, its management fees have more than halved during this period. And, since September 2020, the group’s share price has fallen by over 50%.

To help offset falling revenue, it’s embarked on a cost-cutting exercise. However, in a business which relies heavily on people, I suspect there’s not much scope for making further reductions.  

But despite the fall in the group’s AuM, it remains positive about the sector. It says: “Emerging markets provide superior economic growth, more effective monetary and fiscal policies, and higher risk-adjusted returns”.

Indeed, for as long as I can remember, emerging markets have been touted as the next big thing. Their huge populations, superior growth rates and attractive asset valuations are often given as reasons to invest. Dollar weakness also makes the exports of these countries cheaper.

And while these markets generally do okay, others do better. For example, over the past 10 years, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index has risen by an average annual rate of 6.92%. This beats the 6.6% return from MSCI’s UK index but global stocks have delivered growth of 12.22% a year.

Good for income

Prior to today’s share price fall, the stock was offering a healthy yield. But it’s now even higher. With the year’s dividend confirmed at 16.9p, the stock’s now yielding 10.3%. Of course, there can never be any guarantees when it comes to shareholder returns. But at the risk of appearing churlish, I should point out that the group’s dividend has remained unchanged for five years now.

Even so, a double-digit yield puts it in the top five on the FTSE 250. And it’s three times higher than the average for the index. Some will be concerned that its payout this year is more than its earnings per share. Indeed, this has been the case for the past four years. However, the group’s able to maintain its dividend by selling some of its own independently-held investment portfolio of funds managed for its clients. Ultimately, this could prove unsustainable.

Even though I acknowledge there’s a strong investment case for emerging markets, I don’t want to take a stake in Ashmore Group.

For as long as its AuM continues to fall, it’s inevitable that it’s income will drop, no matter how good its professionals are at identifying profitable opportunities for the group’s clients. And this is likely to put further pressure on its share price. On this basis, the stock’s not for me.



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