![]() ![]() ![]() Mitchell is a true find for E, a rapper with a childish voice who raps about sex, drugs, and murders, giving that iconic voice a charisma that makes it understandable why the other (more talented) members gave him the first shot. He had the cash (through selling crack) to get the studio time, had the first hit single (“Boyz-n-the-Hood”), and got the manager that knocked down doors to get the group signed and on the road, Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti, playing a similar manipulative music manager role as he did in this year’s Love & Mercy, except with less yelling at the group for eating hamburgers). Straight Outta Compton remains loud, proud, and unbowed.In the big sprawling story, Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell) owns the first half of the movie, which is appropriate because E was the first star from the super group. After this record, hip-hop had two epicenters nearly 2,500 miles from each other. Nevertheless, they unleashed a fully realized hardcore album that represents its era perfectly. The album was a runaway success, though the group was really only working out its direction as they were assembling it it hadn’t been that long since they’d been building electro-dance tunes. “Quiet On the Set,” chiefly a showcase for Ren, deserves attention this is pure hip-hop, rolling on the intro to The Blackbyrds’ “Rock Creek Park” with a juicy, punchy feel to the vocal mix. The talk grows even darker on “Dopeman (Remix),” an advisory to avoid crack that manages to insert grim sex into its scenario: Just Say No it ain’t. The language may be rough, but the tale could be vaudeville – or date back to Salome. Yella and Dre set up “I Ain’t Tha 1” with a witty yet still hardcore loop from Brass Construction, as Cube moans about women while they come in for his cash. “Compton’s N The House (Remix)” is a remix of a cassette-only track with a raw machine break supporting Ren, Dre, and Eazy-E’s assertion of hometown supremacy. Dre’s showcase, the tune was as funky as can be, and Dre explains his lifestyle and thoughts – including a denial of dope in contrast to his classic The Chronic. It launched a rumor that Eazy-E (Eric Wright) was Wright Sr’s nephew, which the old-school funkateer flatly denied. Then comes another bomb: “Express Yourself,” erected on Charles Wright’s tune of the same title but taking it somewhere else altogether. “Parental Discretion Iz Advised” is planned provocation, with The DOC’s opening stanza mostly within the bounds of the acceptable before Dre, Ren and Cube up the ante for Eazy-E’s climactic demand of money for sex in an outrageous final verse. An underrated member purely because he was surrounded by such huge personalities, MC Ren’s skills hit the mark on “If It Ain’t Ruff,” downbeat relief from the noise of its predecessors and a diversion into standard hip-hop throwdowns. “Gangsta Gangsta” kicks off like a crime movie, with Eazy-E sounding exactly like the hustler he was before NWA hit. “Straight Outta Compton” introduces the group as a gang: sawn-off shotgun, mutha-smothering and all. Arabian Prince and The DOC were also on hand, though only the former made the Straight Outta Compton cover. MC Ren joined in 1987, just as NWA were ready to drop bombs that included tracks on the album NWA And The Posse. Eazy-E had earned acclaim for his single “The Boyz-N-The-Hood,” penned by Cube with a title to conjure with. ![]() Ice Cube had been in CIA, better known to UK B-boys than their US brethren thanks to an appearance on the popular Street Sounds Hip-Hop compilations. They had pedigree Dr Dre and Yella were part of World Class Wreckin’ Cru, who fused R&B and rap with some success. It was more complicated than that, though: if you hadn’t noticed NWA, that was your fault. This relatively unknown group was suddenly at hip-hop’s pinnacle, both underground and simultaneously highly visible, thanks to an album that could blow you away – its cover is designed to look like Eazy-E’s gun is the last thing you’ll ever see. It made the West Coast matter in hip-hop. Straight Outta Compton arrived, on August 8, 1988, like a road crash: you couldn’t ignore it. ![]()
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![]() When firing the revolver, I found the frame and grips fit most hands well. 22 caliber ammunition just doesn’t fail, but I like the rebated portion. While it isn’t really needed, the Rough Rider follows the traditional line of rebating the rear of the cylinder in order to provide an extra measure of safety in the case of a ruptured cartridge. It is ideal for beginners and controllable by a trained shooter. The trigger release is about six pounds and free of grit. The trigger action is smooth and the hammer indents solidly when cocked. There is a steel block between the hammer and firing pin when this safety is in place. There is also a rather unique hammer block safety. This birdshead grip version is a popular rendition of the cowboy gun. Once the trigger is released, the transfer bar is no longer in contact with the firing pin. This momentum is then transferred to the frame-mounted firing pin. When this action is taken, a transfer bar rises and takes the hit from the hammer. Cock the hammer and then press the trigger. The hammer isn’t touching the firing pin when the hammer is at rest with the Rough Rider. In the earliest revolvers, the hammer would simply rest on the primer of the cartridge when lowered. The transfer bar system is far safer than that used with the first single action revolvers. The modern Rough Rider has an advantage over early single action revolvers. Just as we begin a young shooter with a single-shot bolt-action rifle, the single action revolver is a great place to begin the shooting life. The ejector rod-located in the ejector housing under the barrel-is then pressed to the rear to eject the spent cases one at a time as the cylinder is rotated. The gate is closed, and you are ready to fire.Īfter firing, the hammer is placed on half-cock and the gate opened again. The cartridges are loaded into the cylinders one at a time. The hammer is pulled to half-cock, and the loading gate is opened. Roughly similar in size to the now out of production Colt Scout, the Rough Rider operates in the same manner. The Rough Rider has the cowboy gun style we all like. ![]() The handgun has more of a cowboy look and is pretty popular. 22 revolver as much as anyone, a handgun that costs less than $200, but delivers good service, is appealing. 22 revolver is an inexpensive handgun to coax young shooters into safe handling and marksmanship. A new, more authentic looking flat-sided hammer paired with new exotic cocobolo grips, makes the Rough Rider both functional and handsome.For many of us, the. A hammer block mounted in the recoil shield provides extra protection and has a red dot indicator that lets you know when the gun is ready for action. The machined barrel is micro-threaded and inserted into the frame for the optimal barrel/cylinder gap to give you maximum ammunition performance. ![]() The cylinder lock-up is tight and the perfect timing of the action makes for a handgun that will put its shots where you want 'em. 22 Magnum cartridges, the Rough Rider is manufactured using state-of-the-art precision machinery that assures its accuracy and reliability. Born of the traditions of the Old West, the Rough Rider maintains much of the look and feel of the legendary Single Action Army revolver, only in a scaled down version. ![]() ![]() ![]() Repeat with remaining 15 cake balls and melted wafers in bowl, cleaning fork between each dip. Place ball on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, and immediately sprinkle with desired amount of sprinkles or sanding sugars. Using a fork and working with 1 cake ball at a time, dip ball into melted wafers, allowing excess to drip back into bowl. Start with 16 cake balls (continue to chill remaining 32 cake balls). Melt 1 package of the melting wafers in a medium-size microwavable bowl in microwave according to package directions.Place balls on baking sheets, and cover with plastic wrap. (Reserve any remaining frosting for another use.) Roll cake mixture into 48 balls, about 1-inch in diameter. Crumble cooled cake into a large bowl.Increase speed to medium-high, and beat until fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes. Reduce speed to low, and gradually add powdered sugar and remaining 2 teaspoons vanilla, beating until blended. Meanwhile, beat cream cheese and softened butter with heavy-duty stand mixer fitted paddle attachment on medium speed until creamy.Turn cake out onto wire rack, and let cool completely, about 2 hours. Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 24 to 28 minutes.Pour batter into a greased (with vegetable shortening) and floured 13- x 9-inch baking pan. Increase speed to medium, and beat 2 minutes. Beat cake mix, milk, melted butter, and 1 teaspoon of the vanilla in bowl of a heavy-duty stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment on low speed until well blended, about 1 minute. But be warned, these miniature treats will be gone in seconds. Get the kids involved in this fun baking project. Instead of baking a cake for the next birthday celebration, try creating these sweet bite-sized treats. To make this recipe even easier, we used boxed cake mix. Make sure to add sprinkles before the chocolate dries to ensure that they firmly stick. For an extra decadent finish, we used Ghirardelli white chocolate and dusted the top with sprinkles for a stunning polish. This tasty creation is made out of red velvet cake that is bonded together with homemade cream cheese frosting and coated in white chocolate. Our Red Velvet Cake Balls are deliciously tender and almost too adorable to eat. ![]() While we sure do love our classic cakes, we decided to try our hand at transforming red velvet cake into bite-sized treats. We can whip up a decadent Hummingbird Cake and an indulgent Apple Stack Cake on the fly. Southerners certainly know best when it comes to baking glorious cakes. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The guiding principle we’re using now is that we’re trying not to hold students accountable for situations out of their control.” “In any case where we’ve identified administrative errors on our part, we’re correcting them,” Yunek said. ![]() UC Davis has yet to send out rescission notices this year but has averaged about 150 in each of the last two years, a spokeswoman said.Īt UC Irvine, admissions officials worked hard to process appeals quickly, Yunek said - and 63 of 295 students who filed them have had their acceptances reinstated so far. UCLA revoked seven freshman offers this year and UC San Diego nine. All colleges and universities set conditions that admitted students must meet or face rescissions - one reason schools warn against “senioritis” - and UC campuses vary widely in their cancellations. Yunek said data for previous years were not immediately available, so he could not say whether this year’s rescissions were unusually high. Those conditions include receiving a high school diploma, maintaining a weighted 3.0 senior-year grade-point average with no Ds or Fs in UC-approved courses and meeting deadlines for submitting all official high school and college transcripts and test scores. Yunek said UCI had revoked acceptances only for students who had not met the conditions of their admission contracts. That amounts to 850 more students than UC Irvine’s planned freshman class of 6,250, though some are expected to decide to enroll elsewhere this fall in what is known as “summer melt.” Still, in the last two years, the summer drop-off has been only about 250 students. Overall, about 7,100 of the 31,103 freshmen offered admission to UC Irvine for this fall accepted it as of May, according to the UC Office of the President. “For those who felt ignored or mistreated, I sincerely apologize.”īrent Yunek, associate vice chancellor of enrollment services, confirmed that more students signed formal statements of intent to register than anticipated - the share of California freshmen who did so, for instance, rose to 26.4% from 24.6% last year, he said. “I acknowledge that we took a harder line on the terms and conditions this year and we could have managed that process with greater care, sensitivity and clarity about available options,” he said in a message sent to all students whose admissions were revoked. He said that all accepted students who met the admission conditions would be allowed to attend and that UCI would not withdraw admission offers because of overenrollment. Parham, vice chancellor of student affairs, wrote a letter to affected students Friday apologizing for the distress caused and urged those who felt they had been treated unfairly to file appeals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Further pursuit of active detection techniques was then abandoned because of the limit of infrared energy available from searchlight sources.Īlthough research continued at the SCL in the passive detection of infrared emitted from heated aircraft engines, Blair became convinced that practical detection systems would involve reflected radio signals. In August 1932, this equipment was used to track a blimp at a distance of over a mile. Initially, emphasis was placed on special devices with high-gain amplification for detecting reflected infrared from an illuminating searchlight. Carrying this forward, in 1931, Blair initiated Project 88, "Position Finding by Means of Light." Here "light" was used in the general sense of electromagnetic radiation, including infrared and very short-length ( microwave) radio waves. ![]() When the SCL was formed, this work was transferred to that Laboratory. While the number of personnel was inadequate for major work in these many and diverse areas, Blair, the Director, was personally knowledgeable in all of them.ĭuring the 1920s, the Army Ordnance Corps at Frankford Arsenal had made tests in detecting infrared emitted from airplane engines or reflected by their surfaces. The next year, this Laboratory was also made responsible for research in the detection of aircraft by acoustics and electromagnetic radiation. The SCL was responsible for the Army's ground radio and wire communication development and for improvement of the meteorological service. On June 30, 1930, the SCL had a personnel strength of 5 officers, 12 enlisted men, and 53 civilians. Wright, New York to Fort Monmouth as well. ![]() In 1930, the Signal Corps transferred the Subaqueous Sound Ranging Laboratory from Fort H. Upon arriving at their destination, the research facilities were combined with the Radio Laboratory already at Fort Monmouth to form what became known as the Signal Corps Laboratories. In the interest of “economy and efficiency,” the National Bureau of Standards moved the Signal Corps Electrical Laboratory, the Signal Corps Meteorological Laboratory, and the Signal Corps Laboratory at the Bureau of Standards to Fort Monmouth. Coupling capabilities in electronics and meteorology, in 1929 the Laboratory developed and launched the first radio-equipped weather balloon.īy 1929, decline in economic conditions forced the consolidation of the Signal Corps' widespread laboratories. Developments included a variety of radios for voice and Morse code communications. Although overshadowed by the Signal School and at a reduced scale due to budget restrictions, the Radio Laboratory remained an important activity at Fort Monmouth. In 1925, Fort Vail was renamed Fort Monmouth. The facility survived as an Army installation by the Signal Corps moving all of its schools to Camp Vail, with the consolidation named the Signal School. The Radio Laboratories at Camp Vail continued at a low level, centering on design and testing of radio sets, field telephone and telegraph equipment, and meteorology. Squier had earlier made a major contribution to communications by developing multiplexing, for which he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1919.Īfter the end of World War I, aviation communication was transferred to the Signal Corps Aircraft Radio Laboratory at Wilbur Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. Experimentation was also being done on radio communications with aircraft, detection of aircraft using sound and electromagnetic waves, and meteorology. (Dr.) George Owen Squier, the Radio Laboratories centered on the standardization of vacuum tubes and the testing of equipment manufactured for the Army by commercial firms. The overall installation was upgraded and became Fort Vail. Later that year, the Army established the Signal Corps Radio Laboratories at Camp Vail, devoted to research in radio and electronics. This facility was named after Alfred Vail, an inventor associated with Samuel F. Army Signal Corps opened a training facility named Camp Vail in east-central New Jersey. Through the years, the SCL had a number of changes in name, but remained the operation providing research and development services for the Signal Corps.Īt the beginning of World War I in 1917, the U.S. ![]() Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Signal Corps Laboratories (SCL) was formed on June 30, 1930, as part of the U.S. ![]() ![]() There are three different species of them. Some bats eat fish, so they will catch fish with enlarged hind feet and so they will fly over the surface of the water and scoop up small fish and eat them.ĮRIC: Okay, that's crazy. So we have the carnivorous bats like that, that eat vertebrate terrestrial forms. It has a skull that's an inch and a half long, and wit will take other pretty good-sized prey, mice, rats, birds, things like that. And it's the largest carnivorous bat in the in the new world.ĮRIC: Yeah, that sounds like an enormous bat, much bigger than you'd think bats could get. There's a bat in South America and Central America that has a wingspan of about three and a half feet. And they're meat-eating, and so they will eat lizards, frogs, birds, other bats. But there are other bats which are carnivorous. Some bats eat spiders, but those are all preying on things in the insect arthropod world. There are bats that live in the desert that eat scorpions and great big centipedes. NANCY: Some bats eat other insect-related things, but some that might surprise you, like scorpions. And so it just depends on the species and where they are and how many other species are doing similar things in their environment.ĮRIC: And based on what you said at first, it sounds like not all bats eat flying insects? So the moth eater will also sometimes take beetles, and the the one that eats little gnats will also eat somewhat larger things. Larger animals may specialize in really big moths that fly in certain places. So one species may eat little tiny gnats and other species may specialize in hard beetles. And the way that they separate out this niche space of being a flying nocturnal insect-eating animal is that they specialize on different kinds of insects. NANCY: That is what the majority of species do. And they're all anatomically different so that they're good at these various different lifestyles, so that they can survive and not compete too much with each other.ĮRIC: Most people imagine that sweeping through the air to grab bugs, is that mostly the case? There's little teeny bats, great big bats, bats that fly close to the ground, bats that prefer flying up high in the forest canopy, bats that want to fly mostly in open space. In some parts of the world, there can be as many as 150 species, all living in the same piece of forest, all doing slightly different things. The most recent number of for living species of bats is 1,456. Can you talk a little bit about how many species of bats there are and how diverse they are? And you can tell that's true because they are everywhere. So flying has worked out really well for bats. ![]() And yes, we'll find out if vampire bats really do drink blood. And today we're going to see how flight has resulted in an amazing variety of bat species living across nearly all of the Earth's skies. Last episode, we heard about why bats evolved the ability to fly. Nancy Simmons, the curator-in-charge of the Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. And it's time for part two of my conversation with Dr. ERIC: From the Museum of Science in Boston, this is Pulsar, a podcast where we buzz for answers to the best questions we get from our visitors. ![]() ![]() “If you ask my personal opinion, this is a bit of a fad,” says Joydeep Bhattacharya, a psychology professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. And either way, neither of the beats caused any impact on cognitive performance or mood change. In Orozco Perez’s study, he and his colleagues found that while binaural beats do in fact condition our brains to sync up to a wavelength, monaural beats, which sound pretty much the same but don’t require headphones to get each ear to hear something different, do a better job anyway. But of course, hardly anything in neuroscience is as simple as that. So, theoretically, if we could “sync” our brains up with a certain wavelength of noise, maybe we could tap into different neural pathways and nudge our brains to meditate or memorize equations better. Tightly wound and fast-paced waves are associated with alertness and focus, while slower, more spaced-out waves are associated with relaxation and sleep. Our brains have certain electrical wavelengths for communicating thoughts, emotions, and so on. “In auditory research, we know you can synchronize your brain with any kind of stimulus.” “That’s true, but that’s nothing special.” Orozco Perez says. What makes binaural beats interesting is their ability to synchronize, or entrain, your brain’s electrical response to adhere to a certain rhythm. For example, if your right ear is hearing 400 Hertz, and your left ear is hearing 410 Hertz, then your binaural beat comes in around 10 Hertz. So while you hear a sort of rhythm between the two notes in binaural beats, your head is just creating a filler sound that bridges the difference between the two original sounds. This frequency mismatch creates a third tone that waxes and wanes in volume-but the catch is that the sound only exists in your brain. What happens is when you listen to two pure tones separated into each ear, the tiny difference causes a “frequency mismatch” as the sound travels to the auditory part of your brainstem, says Hector Orozco Perez, an author of a recent study on the mysterious beats. ![]() And as trendy as they are, the scientific community has known about them since the 1800s.īinaural beats, simply put, are an illusion. But much like everything else in the wellness world, there’s just not 100 percent consensus on how well they work or if they work at all. If listening to ethereal, almost otherworldly, sounds for a few minutes every day while you study and work could make your brain more creative and less prone to anxiety, wouldn’t we all do it? One such concept, binaural beats, has been touted by some to be a bit of a magic cure for handling stress. ![]() You'll need headphones for this possibly soothing sound experiment. ![]() ![]() Please fill out the form on this site to receive your choice of either a suggested replacement product of equal or greater value than the recalled product or a full refund in the form of a YETI gift card with an additional value depending on product and market. If your pull tab is in front of the flap as pictured below, please visit our Warranty page for assistance with your product. If your pull tag is behind the flap like the one pictured below, you have a recalled product and you can continue with the recall claim process. Verify your Sidekick Dry product by confirming that your pull tab is behind the flap. If magnets are not visible, please visit our Warranty page for assistance with your product. If magnets are visible, please continue with the recall claim process. 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So yeah, it was something that I'll hold dear for the rest of my life."Ī club DJ and self-confessed crate digger, Wood also briefly ran his own record label, Simian, which signed Apples in Stereo and Heloise & The Savoir Faire. And also just on the side we would spend most of our time on set, there wasn't a great deal of downtime, but one of us would be engaged in conversation constantly. It was just totally electrifying and awesome. He was constantly coming up with ideas, and it really kept me on my toes in the best way. And it didn't disappoint it was just a total joy, both to be opposite him and also just to watch him work, and to watch the internal mechanisms grind away and him have thoughts that would come out in these impulses he would have that were so unique to him. "I have been an admirer of his work for so long and given the opportunity to work opposite him was just something that I couldn't pass up. "Getting a chance to work opposite Nic Cage was just a life gift," he says. For Wood, the chance to play opposite Cage was something he was never going to turn down. Unsurprisingly this doesn't go entirely smoothly in fact, Wood and Cage's characters soon find themselves resident in the furthest extremity of Shit Creek, with paddles of any description notable by their absence. Wood and Cage play a pair of deeply bored and cynical Las Vegas cops who decide to liven up their dull desk jobs by ripping off a local drugs gang. Wood is currently starring alongside Nicolas Cage and Skye Ferreira in the Brewer brothers' stylish, bleak crime thriller The Trust. Notable roles since have included silent cannibal killer Kevin in Sin City, opposite Mickey Rourke's Marv, a Harvard boy gone native among West Ham football hooligans in Green Street, and the voice of Mumble the penguin in Happy Feet, as well as the stitchpunk-doll '9' in Shane Acker's SF animation of the same name. ![]() ![]() His career then took a huge, hairy-footed leap forward when he was cast as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings trilogy, a role he later reprised in 2012's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Music has been Wood's constant companion in an acting career that started with acclaimed child roles in the likes of Avalon, North and The Good Son, before graduating to teenage parts in The Ice Storm, Deep Impact and The Faculty. Going to Africa in the seventies, like Nigeria, obviously you've got afrobeat and African rock, which is all just a response to soul, funk and James Brown, but through their African rhythms which creates something entirely new. They're answering it through their rhythms or their instrumentation or their traditional music, and that combination of traditional elements from a certain country responding to a specific musical style is infinitely exciting, because it's truly something new. "Chances are if you visit one part of the world at the same time as something else was happening elsewhere that part of the world has their answer to it. "There's so much to explore internationally, and that always yields really exciting results because you start to realise that everyone was influenced by everything," he enthuses. For Elijah Wood, music is the gateway to a world of possibilities, where incredible new discoveries potentially await around every corner. ![]() |
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