At the time, I didn’t realize that it sounded too perfect to be true, that maybe 2001 was not just a mythical gangsta rap album, but also a Dre rehabilitation project. The draws of 2001’s story are numerous: There was the cathartic reconciliation with Snoop, the discovery of Eminem, the introduction of an unprecedented space-age sound, the blend of West Coast legacies old and new, the massive commercial success that followed. Growing up in L.A., where he remains omnipresent, I was captivated by Dre’s mystery-and the lore surrounding this comeback album in particular. 2001, a big-budget, tightly controlled film, had to create a myth bigger than the man itself. It had to reassert Dre’s place atop of rap’s hierarchy while also cementing, and smoothing over, his legacy. 2001, released 20 years ago on November 16, had to be more than an album. the Aftermath, which announced his intention to step away from gangsta rap-and the rocky start of his new label that he felt compelled to bend the truth. It wasn’t, actually, but the stakes were so high for Dre to rebound from his real second album-1996’s soulless Dr. “Haters say Dre fell off / How? Nigga, my last album was The Chronic,” he scoffs on the same song. It’s not a lie, but it’s certainly not the truth Dre’s version of the period of time between leaving Death Row Records in 19’s triumph in 1999 excludes a series of excruciating personal and professional setbacks that tell a more complex story of who Andre Young really is. “Since the last time you heard from me I lost some friends / Well, hell, me and Snoop, we dippin’ again / Kept my ear to the streets, signed Eminem,” he raps. It’s cinematic and immersive, which is exactly what Dre intended: Coming off of three years in the wilderness, Dre needed more than a new sound. Twenty years later, even though the myth of 2001 has worn off, the song is still transportive. Dre’s 2001, is an antihero’s theme, the music Denzel Washington’s bad cop Alonzo Harris flips on before his panoramic tour of L.A.’s underbelly in Training Day. “Still D.R.E.,” the first single from Dr. You know the ones: that murderous mob-movie piano, clinking as it’s methodically built out by a lone cello and mournful violins, then by electric bass and drums so crisp they sound pulled from the soul of the Korg Triton machine they were produced on. I still can’t shake the goosebumps I get when I hear those keys.
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Thief simulator is a pretty enjoyable experience but unfortunately the game is riddled with bugs and glitches. As ever in these types of games, stealing cars is always a blast! There’s a glitch in the hood But my favourite skill which comes later in the game is the technology skill where you learn how to hack terminals using a PDA or laptop. Skills can range from agility, where you can learn to run faster when carrying larger items like TV’s or printers, to lock picking where you learn to open more sophisticated doors and sneak into properties rather than using brute force and smashing windows which will attract the attention of the owner resulting in the po-po catching you. Because you need to be at a certain level and have a certain amount of skill points to unlock an item which is needed in the story line, it can feel like a real grind later in the game when extra XP is sparse and levelling up takes a lot longer. The game is heavily focused on levelling up and gaining XP which can ruin the momentum of the game due to not being able to progress. Saying that, it’s better then nothing and I found driving around in third person helped a lot. The handling of the car is not great either and I can only imagine it was only added to help the player get from A to B, which is a shame as you do spend a big chunk of the game driving around from place to place. The design of the car is not very pretty, if you had to imagine what the car looked like in the song W.T.P by Eminem then this is it. You can also use the car to sleep in to pass the time. Noble Muffins have added driving mechanics to thief simulator to help you get around and make a quick getaway if needed. The second area is the pawn shop which you will only need to visit when you want to sell the items you have pilfered from the poor citizens and finally the third area being the neighbourhoods themselves, this is where you will spend most of your time. The hints can be from property owners daily habits or if the house has a high valued item. The dark web can let you accept side contracts to earn more money, buy tools to aid you, black bay where you can sell wanted items for a high price and a forum in which you can buy hints for certain properties. The first area being your home where you can store items that you have stolen, learn new skills, sleep to pass the time and access the dark web via a PC. There are 3 main area’s in which you can visit within thief simulator. He will call you every now and then to give you missions and objectives to complete and help re-pay your dues. There is very little substance to the story line other than a guy named Vinny has helped you out and, as a result, you are now you are in debt to him big time. As you level up and progress you can learn new techniques and buy more intricate items such as hacking PDA’s and cameras to help you pull off bigger and more lucrative break-ins. Thief Simulator is an open world game in which you start off as a petty crook breaking into properties to steal or vandalise items with only a crowbar to your name. Have you ever thought that you would make a decent thief or just that you wanted to cause havoc on a quaint suburban neighbourhood but then realised, nah that’s a stupid idea, you are way too good looking to go to jail.
Ross Barnett, a sophomore majoring in computer networking and information technology from Ripon, used Kit Kat candy bars to make his house look like a log cabin. It could have turned out a lot worse,” he said, laughing. “I should have been using more frosting to build it. “It was easy until it got hard,” he said. Jack Lonn, a first-year student majoring in computer and electrical engineering from Minneapolis, said he decided to build a gingerbread house for a fun activity. “The idea was to have something fun for students to end the year on a sweet note.” “I thought it would be a good idea to get people together, while still maintaining social distancing,” Anderson, of Racine, said. Anderson is the campus events coordinator for Student Leadership Assistants. Jevon Anderson, a sophomore majoring in marketing and business education, planned the event, keeping the gingerbread houses six feet a part to allow for social distancing. “It also gave me a chance to get into the holiday spirit.” “I just seemed like a fun activity, especially during COVID-19 when you can’t do a lot with other people,” Skalitzky said. The house is kind of old, so it kind of looks like a gingerbread house. We have a lot of pine trees in the front of the house. “I was inspired by my house in Sun Prairie. A Lilliputian wreath was hung above the door of the house. “I got fluffy marshmallow spread and sprinkled it with sugar sparkles to make it look like snow on the roof,” Skalitzky said, noting she used sugar pearls to decorate the roof edge. Lizzie Skalitzky, a sophomore apparel design and development student, entered a gingerbread house decorated a bit like her home in Sun Prairie. The group gave out 90 kits to students to decorate, a fun activity to help them take a break from finals and capture the winter holiday spirit. 18 in the Memorial Student Center.Ī total of about a dozen houses built and decorated by students were part of the display for a contest held by Student Leadership Assistants, a University Housing organization. With gum drops, candy canes, frosting and a lot of creativity, University of Wisconsin-Stout students created holiday spirit with gingerbread houses they decorated and displayed Dec. Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute.Corporate Relations & Economic Engagement.
By the way, team, there will be a spreadsheet on the Patreon platform that spells out each of these four recipes and lets you alter the volume you want to make, which will then give you all the ingredients.īack to the recipe. Thank you so much, patrons, for being awesome people who support me regularly. Anyway, should we move on to the next recipe?īut first, I need to say a huge thank you to the patrons. So, anytime in this video where you see me using apple juice concentrate, it’s just apple juice that’s been boiled long enough to reduce it to about a third of its original size. I found two of them that promised on their website to carry apple juice concentrate, but when I arrived, they said they don’t carry it anymore because no one has ever bought it. Restaurant supply stores are not the answer. In the comments section, everyone was telling me to use apple concentrate, but I couldn’t because we can’t get it here in New Zealand. Regular viewers of the channel may remember that I made an apple brandy not long ago. It does not drink or taste like a liqueur, but much more like a sweet-flavored whiskey, not a liqueur. These spices in here are much more reminiscent of the kind of spices you would get from some barrel treatments. It is juicy and slightly tart, with a raw apple mouth-watering characteristic that the others don’t have as much of. How does the raw version taste? By far, it is the most whiskey-like of anything on the table, which is good for me. Then, add 300 ml of an ester-forward rum. At that point, you want to strain all the chunky stuff out, pop it back into the same jar, fish the piece of oak out, and pop it back in. Pop the lid on and let it macerate for three to seven days. One liter of white corn whiskey at 60 ABV, aka our moonshine, and 300 ml of apple juice concentrate. One half of a nutmeg thingy, whatever they are, cracked, two peppercorns, and around 45 grams of American white oak. I actually erred on the smaller side rather than the larger side. I am using Braeburns, and to be honest, mine are kinda small, so I actually used five. Next, slice up three apples and put them into the jar. Keep an eye out for these they’ll be popping up all through the video. To start, you’re going to need a 2-3 liter jar and freedom units. First, let’s get stuck in with the first recipe, shall we? This is the uncooked version. Oh, and by the way, I made my own kind of kiwi spin on apple pie moonshine, but we’ll get to that at the end. The main goal of going through all of those recipes was to condense them down into those three different categories. Things that I thought were worthy made it into one of these three recipes. I took all these recipes, I got 36 of them in the end, and scoured through them for anything interesting in terms of a different ingredient or technique. It turns out that there are basically three different apple pie recipes that the home distilling community recommends: the fresh uncooked version, a partially cooked infused version, and a straight-up cooked apple version. I took all of those recipes, assessed them all, and got a little bit geeky with spreadsheets and stuff like that. I consulted Uncle Google, scoured through home distilling forums all over the place, watched a bunch of YouTube videos on the topic, and, probably most importantly, I asked you guys to submit your very best apple pie moonshine recipes. In fact, so much that it’s hard to talk past it. Well, it’s a whole lot of apple pie moonshine. Hey, Chases! I hope you’re having a kick-ass week. Today, I’m making four different apple pie moonshine recipes that the international home distilling community has labeled the very best. Apple Macerated Corn Moonshine – 750ml / 25 oz.Fat Washed Corn Moonshine – 650 ml / 22 oz.Adjust to taste with moonshine / apple juice / simple syrup.Apple Pie Moonshine Recipe #1: Raw VersionĪpple Pie Moonshine Recipe #2: “Par Cooked” VersionĪpple Pie Moonshine Recipe #3: Cooked Version A high loft means the clubface is facing upward more, so when you hit, the ball goes up into the air with more spin. Remember, the higher the loft, the higher the ball flight trajectory and backspin. If you’re a beginner, a pitching wedge (sometimes with a sand wedge) should be enough for you. Professional golfers often have all four wedges in their golf bags. Because that will dictate the kind of wedge you go for. The wrong wedge can translate into poor swinging and getting bad shots, leading to poor scores.įollow these guidelines to pick the right wedge: You’ll also be confident in your ability to hit and swing when you have the proper setup. Picking the right wedge can help you perform at your optimum. Once you’re ready to do sand or high pitch shots, you can transition to a sand wedge. You may need the assistance of a club fitter to understand the most suitable wedge loft you will be using. If you’re a beginner, you’ll need the pitching wedge to master your short game. So, you can putt with a gap wedge of 50 degrees, a sand wedge of 54 degrees, and a lob wedge of 58 degrees. This is your loft gap and sticking with it helps you cover approach shots from different lies and yardage. If your pitching wedge loft is 46, for example, your next set of wedges can be spaced by 4 or 5 degrees each. It’s very important to know your pitching wedge loft because that’s what you’ll need for your gapping. Sort of like how a 5 iron will fly further than a 6 iron.Įveryone knows how important the right wedge loft is for the short game. You can get between 110 to 140 yards on a full swing.īecause of their lower loft, pitching wedges are able to send more energy at impact, enabling them to hit the ball farther than other wedges. Pitching wedges (shorthand PW) are a versatile option as they’re often used for long chip shots or full swings. If you’re an experienced golfer, you probably want more specialized wedges as they can help more with your control and spin. They also have a different profile in that they usually come in the iron set, making them the most used as most golfers have easy access to them. The loft on a pitching wedge is typically around 46 to 48 degrees, being the least lofted of all the wedges. Wedges have more loft than any other golf club, including your irons, drivers, putters, and wood. A pro can maximize its performance though, and score up to 90 yards, even on a fairway.Īside from the sand wedge and lob wedge, there are also pitching wedge and gap wedge, which will be explained further down. So, an amateur may not be able to go over 30 yards with it. Tom Kite was the first professional golfer to use the lob wedge on tour while Karsten Solheim, founder of PING, commercialized it. The lob wedge’s most important use is pitching over an obstacle such as a tree standing between the target and the location of the ball. So, you may have to purchase them separately. Like sand wedges, these will likely not come with your golf club set. The other great thing about them is they help you get a soft landing on the green, thanks to the high trajectory. You use a lob wedge when you need to lift the ball past high rising grasses and other obstacles on the green.īecause shots on lob wedges are under 80 yards, getting the ball high up in the air is easier and more effective than sand wedges. Lob wedges are the shortest clubs, overtaking sand shots for being the highest lofted club with 60 to 65 degrees. They are a type of golf club with the shortest shafts, but also the highest loft, making them an excellent choice for golfers looking for short, high arc shots. Lob wedges are the newest addition to the wedge family. Sand wedges were once great for chips, flop shots, and bunker shots, but have been overtaken by lob wedges. If you’re a skilled golfer, you can expect to hit up to 100 yards with this club. You’re also able to use sand wedges to extract golf balls from the sand bunkers or as a regular short iron. Their wider and angled sole provides you lots of flexibilities such as allowing you to play in soft lies.īecause of their high loft, high trajectory, and low spin, sand wedges help you hit the ball closer to the hole, reducing the chances of it bouncing or rolling away from the target. Sand wedges let you hit the ball through the sand without digging in, thanks to their superior bounce and lower spin. This club is specifically designed to help golfers hit balls out of bunkers or sand traps.Ī sand wedge will have a heavy clubhead and a broader sole of all the types of wedges and typically features a loft between 54 and 65 degrees. If you find yourself where you have to hit the ball out of the bunker, a sand wedge is your best option. Sand traps and bunkers can handicap the most skillful of players. 120, she was awarded a wild card into the Indian Wells singles main draw. Two years ago this week, after a run in two Mexican tournaments raised her ranking to career-best No. 404 in the world, she lost in the first round of qualifying at an entry-level $25,000 tournament halfway around the world in Nishitama, Japan. Just three years ago this week, a 16-year-old Fernandez was nowhere near preparing to face the best in the California desert. 18), she’ll begin her run in the desert this weekend against either Amanda Anisimova or wild card Emma Navarro, whom she played in the final when she won the Roland Garros junior girls’ event in 2019. 21 in the rankings, and fresh off a successful defence of her first career WTA title in Monterrey, Mexico.Īnd after the first-round bye granted to the 32 seeded players (she’s at No. The 19-year-old from Montreal comes into the 2022 edition at No. Leylah Fernandez’s brief history at the BNP Paribas Open is a snapshot of her meteoric rise in women’s tennis. Venus Williams ended her boycott by competing in Indian Wells in 2016.INDIAN WELLS, Calif. Īfter a phone call from Larry Ellison (the multi-billionaire founder of Oracle, tennis enthusiast and most recent owner of the tournament), Serena Williams returned to Indian Wells in 2015, ending her 14-year boycott of the event. The following month at the Ericsson Open, Richard Williams, Serena and Venus's father, claimed racial slurs were directed at him while in the stands, although there is no definitive evidence of this. Williams won the tournament and was subsequently booed during the awards ceremony. Amid speculation of match fixing, the crowd for the final loudly booed Serena when she came out to play the final and continued to boo her intermittently through the entire match, even to the point of cheering unforced errors and double faults. The two were scheduled to play in the 2001 semifinal but Venus withdrew due to an injury. Venus and Serena Williams refused to play the Indian Wells tournament from 2001 to 2014 despite threats of financial sanctions and ranking point penalties. Indian Wells Tennis Garden in 2005įurther information: Williams sisters § Boycott of the Indian Wells Masters The revamping of the tennis center also included a "Pro Purple" interior court color created specifically for the ATP Masters Series and first used at Indian Wells, citing the purple color being 180 degrees and exactly opposite the yellow of the ball. After the 2013 BNP Paribas Open, the Indian Wells Tennis Garden started an expansion and upgrade of its facilities that includes a new 8,000 seat Stadium 2. The tournament is played in the Indian Wells Tennis Garden (built in 2000) which has 29 tennis courts, including the 16,100-seat main stadium, which is the second largest tennis-specific stadium in the world. Indian Wells lies in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), about 125 miles (201 km) east of downtown Los Angeles. The Indian Wells Masters event is the premier tennis tournament within the Western United States and is the second largest tennis tournament throughout the United States and the Americas, behind the US Open ( Grand Slam tournament held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City within the Eastern United States). The Indian Wells Tennis Garden has the second- largest permanent tennis stadium in the world, behind New York City's Arthur Ashe Stadium. The tournament is played on hardcourt and is the best-attended tennis tournament outside the four Grand Slam tournaments (475,372 in total attendance during the 2019 event) it is often called the "fifth Grand Slam". Both singles main draws include 96 players in a 128-player grid, with the 32 seeded players getting a bye (a free pass) to the second round. Both finals are held on Sunday of the following week. The women's main draw usually starts on Wednesday and the men's main draw starts on Thursday. The event is one of two tour events (along with the Miami Open), other than the Majors, in which main draw play extends beyond eight days. The tournament is a Masters 1000 event on the men's tour and is a WTA 1000 event on the women's tour.īetween 19 it was non-tour event and between 19 it was held as part of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour. The tournament director is former world No. The owner is Larry Ellison, executive chairman and co-founder of Oracle. The Indian Wells Masters, also known as the Indian Wells Open and BNP Paribas Open, is an annual tennis tournament usually held in early- and mid-March at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States. (xv) any other incidental or associated purposes relating to the above, or any other purpose which you may from time to time agree.Ĥ. 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Hence, the risks of EDCs are a global health issue 10.ĮE2 has been reported to exert a higher estrogenic activity than estradiol (E2), and is extremely stable against oxidation by metabolism or degradation in the human body due to the property of the ethynyl group in the C 17 position 11, 12, 13. In humans, increasing studies have indicated that EDCs have detrimental effects on the reproductive system, resulting in poor sperm quality and testicular dysgenic occurrence in men 6, 7, and disorders of ovulation and the uterus as well as a rise in breast cancer incidences in women 8, 9. Numerous studies have indicated that EDCs interfere with endogenous endocrine processes by mimicking hormonal action, leading to infertility, metabolic syndrome, and the rise of cancer incidence 3, 4, 5. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are natural or industrial chemicals that are released into the environment through industries, livestock activities, domestic wastewater, and hospital effluence 1, 2. The endocrine system precisely mediates sexual development and reproductive ability through circulating sexual hormones, which act as signaling molecules to render adequate regulation. Taken together, these results demonstrate an underlying mechanism of EE2 to downregulate testosterone production in Leydig cells, explaining the damaging effects of EE2 on male reproduction. The prostate gland and seminal vesicle atrophied significantly, and their expression level of 5α-reductase type II was reduced after EE2 exposure. Moreover, the serum dihydrotestosterone (DHT) level was decreased by treatment with EE2. The sperm motility in the vas deferens and epididymis was reduced, but the histopathological features of the testis and the total sperm number of the vas deferens were not affected. The expression levels of StAR and P450scc were decreased in Leydig cells by treatment of rats with EE2 for 7 days. EE2 reduced luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) expression associated with decreased cAMP generation by downregulation of adenylyl cyclase activity and decreased intracellular calcium-mediated pathways. Treatment of rats with EE2 reduced plasma testosterone levels and decreased the sensitivity of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). The results show that EE2 treatment decreased testosterone release from rat Leydig cells. In this study, we investigated the molecular mechanism underlying EE2-regulatory testosterone release in vitro and in vivo. The pharmaceutical 17α-ethynylestradiol (EE2) is considered as an endocrine-disrupting chemical that interferes with male reproduction and hormonal activation. |
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