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Christina Aguilera Is Unrecognizable Today - Duration: 7:28.

Pop powerhouse Christina Aguilera has changed musical styles about as often as she's changed

up her look — which, for the record, has been a common occurrence throughout the singer's

career.

The "Genie in a Bottle" songstress has never been one to remain all bottled up — constantly

expressing her evolving interests, musical tastes, and appearance.

No matter the look, you can be sure Aguilera has made a headline for it.

Here's an inside look at Aguilera's evolving styles, from the very beginning to the present

day.

In fact, you may not even recognize the superstar today.

'90s girl

Everyone gets their start somewhere.

For Christina Aguilera, that somewhere just happened to be national television on the

popular talent show Star Search.

She sang "A Sunday Kind of Love," belting the lyrics with the signature growl audiences

have come to know and love.

Dressed in a super sparkly black sweater, complete with straight bangs and a half ponytail,

Aguilera's look could best be described as quintessential '90s girl.

"You are so tiny to have such a big voice I'm so envious of you there are a lot of adults

in this building saying 'gosh if we could only sing like that.'"

Despite those pipes and undeniable stage presence, the future chart-topper lost to Christopher

Eason.

Teen rivals

Luckily for pop fans everywhere, Aguilera didn't let her Star Search loss get her down.

Instead, she went on to star alongside some of the biggest names of '90s music as a member

of The Mickey Mouse Club.

Four years after her Star Search appearance, young Aguilera had ditched her straight bangs

and half-pony for teased, wavy locks.

With a little more height and a lot more confidence, one episode saw Aguilera belting her rendition

of Aretha Franklin's "Think" as she strutted around on stage.

As Us Weekly noted, watchful eyes can spot a young Britney Spears, Aguilera's infamous

frenemy, acting as a backup dancer for the girl who would go on to be her most notable

competition.

Mulan makeover

Star Search and The Mickey Mouse Club gave Aguilera a small taste of the spotlight, and

she was hooked — but she didn't seem to be getting the same kind of fame as her Disney

co-stars.

"I mean I'm hoping of course it does well but I know my time will come soon and I'll

be joining Britney soon, hehe"

According to the star, a "random phone call" from her manager changed her career.

He asked her to record herself singing and send the tape to Los Angeles overnight.

That tape scored Aguilera the coveted prize of getting to record the single version of

Mulan's "Reflection," one of Disney's most beloved original tunes.

According to Aguilera, she got the job because she was able to hit one particularly difficult

note.

"[singing] that was the note, the Hoo!"

The Reflection music video features the 18 year-old Christina all grown up and gorgeous

— her signature blonde locks chopped into a layered, face-framing bob.

Good girl no more

After Mulan, the teen was quick to score a record deal with RCA Records, and in June

1999, she released her debut single, "Genie in a Bottle."

The song's music video showed Aguilera with a brand new look.

The star's layered, platinum blonde bob had grown to her shoulders, and her teal eyeshadow

and glossy lip inspired teen girls everywhere.

While some critics considered the contents of the song a bit too risqué, the '90s jam

will forever be known as one of Aguilera's catchiest tunes.

Debut look

Despite her first album's success, Aguilera wasn't satisfied with the early direction

of her career.

In a 2002 Newsweek interview, Aguilera reminisced on her debut album , saying: "It was made

for that pop time when there was no real substance behind the music."

Substance or not, her self-titled first album won Aguilera the Best New Artist Grammy at

the 2000 awards ceremony.

But she had aspirations greater than winning awards for songs she wasn't passionate about.

One of her first moves in that direction was lending her talents to "Lady Marmalade," the

hit song from Moulin Rouge!

Aguilera may prefer not to be reminded of the dreadlocks she sported from 2001 to 2002,

but the internet forgets nothing.

"I definitely tried to rebel in certain ways trying to different hairstyles and different

looks and things."

Beautiful

Christina Aguilera's emotional song "Beautiful," perhaps her most famous work, made its debut

in 2002 on Aguilera's fourth studio album, Stripped.

Rolling Stone praised Stripped for being "almost an album for grown-ups," noting its overall

message of being true to oneself.

In a 2012 interview, Aguilera thanked them, saying, "Even when I felt I couldn't stand,

[the LGBTQ community] helped me up and supported me."

The Stripped era saw a softer side of Aguilera.

Much like her album, she stripped her look closer to the basics, sporting long, blonde

and black locks.

Mom image

In 2005, three years after the release of Stripped, the superstar became engaged to

music executive Jordan Bratman.

Three years after their nuptials, the couple welcomed their first child together.

To commemorate the special day, Aguilera released an adorably sweet music video set to "Save

Me From Myself," a song from her 2006 album, Back to Basics.

Between clips of her and Bratman's wedding, Aguilera crooned the romantic ballad with

a lone guitar accompanist, while donning a very "back to basics" look — minimal makeup,

long layered locks, flared denim, and a modest, light-grey sweater.

To say that love looked good on Aguilera would be an understatement.

Post-divorce

Unfortunately, good things often come to an end — and such was the case for Aguilera

and Bratman's marriage.

Aguilera filed for divorce in October 2010.

She told People: "When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

… That's the last thing I wanted for my son."

But through dark times come light once again.

June 2010 saw the release of Bionic.

The electronic-inspired album was quite a change for the pop star, but Aguilera has

never been afraid to switch up her sound — or her look.

The Bionic era saw an old-school Hollywood glam version of Aguilera, often sporting bold,

red lipstick and slicked-back blonde tresses.

Backlash

It's a good thing Aguilera isn't afraid of change, because the years after her split

from Bratman saw a whole boatload of just that.

Aguilera began dating production assistant Matt Rutler, whom she met on the set of the

2010 movie Burlesque.

In the midst of her romantic drama, Aguilera also began a new career venture as a coach

on NBC's The Voice.

While it was an exciting time, the star was still recovering from her share of prior hardships.

Burlesque was a box office flop, she was criticized for her performance of "The Star Spangled

Banner" at the 2011 Super Bowl, and she and Rutler were arrested.

It was a stressful time, and Aguilera put on some extra pounds while coping.

She looked beautiful and felt confident, but the media latched onto her weight gain.

Aguilera's response?

"My boyfriend [loves] my body.

My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me."

Coming clean

In March 2018, Paper magazine published a feature on the starlet titled: "Christina

Aguilera is Back with Another Transformation."

But it wasn't really a transformation at all.

Instead, it was more of an unveiling of the real Aguilera.

Paper published jaw-dropping photos of the star — up close and personal in all her

bare-faced, freckled glory.

The songstress told Paper: "I'm at the place, even musically, where it's a liberating feeling

to be able to strip it all back and appreciate who you are and your raw beauty."

After years of changing styles, it's safe to say Aguilera's 2018 "raw beauty" is her

most low-maintenance look yet.

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This is why you procrastinate - Duration: 4:28.

"Procrastinate"

"Put off to another time"

"Pro-crastinus

belonging to tomorrow."

But you don't need Latin to tell you what

you're probably doing right now.

But hold on, hold on...don't stop the video now.

If you've ever procrastinated, it's about time you have an idea of why.

After all, procrastination has been documented for centuries.

Leonardo da Vinci didn't even finish 20 paintings in his lifetime because he got sidetracked doodling.

Total waste of time, right.

When author Victor Hugo was writing the Hunchback of Notre Dame, he locked up his formal clothes

so he wouldn't be tempted to go out.

And Margaret Atwood has said she procrastinates all morning, and is only able to get it together

and write by about 3 p.m.

A lot of people say

"I am the worst procrastinator."

But sometimes when we say that, our dilly dallying isn't actually considered procrastinating.

Researchers call true procrastination the voluntary delay of some important task that

we intend to do, even though we're well aware that we'll suffer for it.

And chronic procrastinators really do suffer.

People who chronically procrastinate tend to have poorer health all around.

Headaches and muscle aches and strains, stomach issues

and flus and colds.

They tend to practise fewer health protective behaviours

So they tend to not eat as healthily and not exercise and they're not very good at managing their stress.

So why do we torture ourselves like this?

There's a theory that behavioural economists have come up with called temporal discounting.

It's the idea is that people tend to value an immediate reward more than one in the distant future.

So if you're offered $200 right now, versus waiting a month to get $250

more people would take the $200 and run.

But if this whole scenario is pushed further in the future, then you're more likely to wait.

So, if someone were to give you $200 a year from now, or $250 a year and one month from now

in that case, both are so far away, so why not wait the extra month and get the bigger payoff?

[ding]

This is called "hyperbolic discounting."

It's used in economics but the principal can be applied to other scenarios.

Take exam season for instance.

Even if the payoff for studying for an exam early would be a sense of preparation,

less stress and potentially a higher grade

if the exam is two weeks down the road

the payoff doesn't seem to hold as much value as, say, scrolling through YouTube right here, right now.

It's not until the deadline gets closer that completing the task starts to take on more value.

So, you're having fun now

you're going to pay for it later

and you don't really care.

We really don't have a lot of empathy for our future selves.

Homer Simpson in one of the episodes of the Simpsons, his wife says to Homer

Someday these kids will be out of the house

and you'll regret not spending more time with them.

And Homer says,

That's a problem for future Homer

Man, I don't envy that guy

[thud]

You know, most of us think of procrastination as a time management problem.

And it's not.

I mean, that's the biggest myth about procrastination.

It's an emotion regulation issue.

When we face a task that we think is aversive to us

and this comes in many flavours but it's all negative emotions.

It might be boredom, resentment, frustration,

anxiety, stress.

So, whatever it is, you go, 'oh, I don't want to do that.'

And so procrastination then is really

the use of avoidance

to feel better.

So, it's not necessarily an inability to manage time

although that can definitely add to problems

but an inability to manage emotions surrounding a task

so we just avoid it.

One of ways Pychyl suggests to deal with the urge to procrastinate is, rather than getting

wrapped up in the whole monumental task, break up it up into small steps and just focus on

what you have to do next.

It also helps to reward your good behaviour, once you finish these small tasks.

Sometimes it helps to understand just why the task causes you so much discomfort

that you want to put it off.

Are you worried about making a mistake?

Are you overwhelmed?

Are you a perfectionist?

Figuring that out can help you can confront your fears and then just get to it.

Alright, now, run along. Go do whatever it is you're avoiding.

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And let us know how you handle procrastination in the comments below.

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#5 What is an Intent and how to pass values from one activity to another in Android? - Duration: 3:45.

Hello, welcome to BackToCoding. Today we'll be talking about "What is an Intent and

how to pass values from one activity to another in android?" An intent is a type

of message. Whenever you want an activity to start a second activity, you use an

intent. You can think of an intent as an "intent to do something". It's a type of

message that allows you to bind separate objects(such as activities) together at

runtime. If one activity wants to start a second activity, it does it by sending an

intent to Android. Android will start the second activity and pass it the intent.

You can create and send an intent using just a couple of lines of code. You can

start by creating the intent like this: Intent intent = new Intent

(this, Target.class); The first parameter tells Android which object the

intent is from, and you can use the word this to refer to the current activity.

The second parameter is the class name of the activity that needs to receive

the intent. Once you've created the intent, you pass it to Android like this:

startActivity(intent); This tells Android to start the

activity specified by the intent. Once Android receives the intent, it checks

everything's OK and tells the activity to start. If it can't find the activity,

it throws an ActivityNotFoundException. Now, let's see how to pass

information from one activity to another. You've seen how you can create a new

intent using Intent intent = new Intent(this, Target.class);

You can add extra information to this intent that can be picked up by the

activity you're targeting so it can react in some way. To do this, you use the

putExtra() method Intent.putExtra("message", value); Where message is

a String name for the value you're passing in, and value is the value. The

putExtra() method is overloaded, so value has many possible types. As an example, it

can be a primitive such as a Boolean or int, an array of primitives, or a String. You can

use putExtra() repeatedly to add numerous extra data to the intent. If you do this,

make sure you give each one a unique name.

How to retrieve extra information from an intent When Android tells SecondActivity

to start, SecondActivity needs some way of retrieving the extra

information that FirstActivity sent to Android in the intent. There are a couple

of useful methods that can help with this. The first of these is getIntent();

getIntent() returns the intent that started the activity, and you can use

this to retrieve any extra information that, was sent along with it. How you do

this depends on the type of information that was sent. As an example, if you know

the intent includes a String value with a name of "message", you would use the

following: Intent intent = getIntent(); String string = intent.

getStringExtra("message"); You're not just limited to retrieving String values.

As an example, you can use Int intNum = intent.getIntExtra

("name", default_value); to retrieve an int with a name of name. default_value

specifies what int value you should use as a default. That's it for

this video. Thank you for watching, I hope you liked it. Please do like, share and

subscribe to my channel which really motivates me to make such useful content

for you. Also don't forget to check my other videos, which can be really helpful

to you and do hit that like button.