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She has all these creative ideas for turning ordinary home items and find a dual use for them. Like this lunch money cuff tutorial!
Today I'm going to show you how to make an alphabetized organizer for your loyalty cards. You could also store your business cards inside. My point and shoot camera also fits perfectly in it!
I saw something like this that was made with vinyl at a favorite quilt shop, but they were asking $18.00 for it! We all know the benefit of knowing how to sew, and how it can sometimes save us money. (That is, if we aren't hoarding fabric!)
You'll need:
10" x 11" piece of fabric
10" x 11" piece of coordinating fabric
10" x 11" piece of fusible featherweight interfacing (not the thinnest you can get, but not the thickest either—thick enough to hold some shape to the holder)
one magnetic snapcoordinating thread
Printed Pattern A and Pattern B, taped together where indicatedPrinted Alphabetizing Cards: 1, 2, 3, and 4 (optional)
Cut out one pattern from both fabrics and the interfacing. Also cut out one 1.5" x 1.5" square interfacing for the magnetic snap.
Iron the interfacing cut from the pattern onto the wrong side of the main outer fabric. Iron the small square of interfacing onto the wrong side of the lining fabric, at the top.
Take one of the rectangle "arms" of the pattern and line up perfectly on the edges, right sides together. Sew with a 1/4" seam.
Now line up the two edges that have a black line marking them, and sew those, right sides together.
So you'll have a sort of box side now.
Repeat with the other "arm" on the outer fabric.
Now do the same thing to the lining fabric.
Next we'll place the magnetic snap. Crease with your fingers a line marking the bottom of the holder.
Measure up about 3/4" of an inch, mark, and insert one side of the magnetic snap so it's on the outside of the outer fabric. For more thorough directions on how to insert a magnetic snap, just google it and you'll find all sorts of tutorials.
Insert the other half of the snap on the right side of the lining, leaving about 1" in order to be able to sew around the snap. You may want to adjust the snap placement to your liking, but keep in mind when placing both sides of the snap that you'll want to place it so the edge of the snap is at least 3/4" from the top of the lining because you will be sewing around the snap, so adjust the spacing of the snap in order to have enough space to work around when sewing the lining flap. Tip: if you are having a hard time getting around the snap on the lining, try using your zipper foot.
Insert the outer fabric into the lining, right sides together as pictured below.
Pin around the flap and the edges of the holder. Leave about a 3" opening on the straight part (not pinned in the picture). Now sew around the edges, making sure to leave the 3" opening for turning.
I had to take off the U-shaped part of my machine to sew around the edges since it is small. And it looks a little crazy. Adjust often so you don't sew a layer you aren't supposed to. Make sure your needle is in the down position when adjusting so that your stitches remain even.
When you get to the corners of the flap, turn the holder a 90 degree angle to you have a nice, square corner stitch. I also backstitched a few times in the corners to reinforce.
Clip the corners and also the curve of the flap.
Pull the outer fabric through the 3" opening. Iron well, pin, and then topstitch around the edges, again reinforcing the corners with backstitching if desired. (next 3 pictures)
Cut the alphabetizing cards out, if desired, and place those many loyalty cards into your new holder. Finding one of those cards has never be easier!
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Speaker: Sponsored post: Speed and Safety
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
We've scrubbed off about 5km/h over the last decade, and that has saved a lot of lives.
Over the last decade the vehicle fleet has got safer and many of the worst roads have been improved. The annual road toll at Pukerua Bay has dwindled to somewhere around zero instead of being around five every year, to name one example. The dividing of SH1 between Hamilton and Auckland has, similarly, reduced the incidence of fatal collisions along that road.
The insistence that it's the focus on speed which has reduced the road toll is given lie by the incredibly patchy results for year-on-year holiday period road tolls. Sometimes they're up, sometimes they're down, despite the police pushing the 4km/h tolerance. If it was all down to speed, we shouldn't be seeing such huge variation.
Chris Waugh, in reply to
8.2 metres is actually quite a long way into another person's car.
Roughly two car lengths into another person's car?
James Butler, in reply to
Not four times as bad? Or some other even higher number? I'd have thought driving/crashing at 100km/h was much more dangerous than driving/crashing at 50km/h.
In terms of released energy, yes, it's four times as bad thanks to the "squared" in the theory of relativity.
*cough* Not quite - it's all Newtonian. A car's kinetic energy is 1/2(mv^2). So one car hitting a perfectly strong wall at 100km/h will release four times the energy of the same car hitting the same wall at 50 km/h; but two identical cars hitting each other head on at identical speeds will only release twice as much as one hitting a wall at the same speed.
Think of it this way - in both the car-hits-wall case and the car-hits-car case, each car decelerates from v to zero during the collision, so the total energy is e * (number of cars).
(Russell - how about LaTeX parsing for comments?)
Martin Lambert, in reply to
That extra 15% of energy may well be the reason you die....every tissue in the human body has a breaking point! Whilst everyone's tissue is different, a 15% difference in energy in a motor vehicle impact may be the difference between tissue injury and tissue failure resulting in fatality.
In the relativistic case, the entire mass of the car would be instantly converted to energy at the rate of mc^2, which for a 1.5 tonne car would be an explosion equivalent to several gigatons of TNT. That would be one incentive to drive safely.
Rich of Observationz, in reply to
And rather different roads, too
Actually, not so much,
The UK has no unsealed roads, but a lot of one lane roads, sunken in a ditch and with mud all over the surface
All three countries have modern motorways, but also many secondary roads just like ours and many urban roads, especially in the US, that are way worse than ours (for instance the Bay Bridge).
Possibly we have more roads in the "good enough to die on but not good enough to save you" class, but I think being really bad drivers helps. And if all you do is slow people down, we'll have really bad slow drivers.
Matthew Poole, in reply to
Let's take a look at that using physics.
All else being equal, stopping distance at 100km/h = 49.2m, while stopping distance at 108km/h = 57.4m
8.2 metres is actually quite a long way into another person's car.
Yes, but human reaction times are not instant. The through car is so close to the intersection when the other driver pulls out that it would take a very alert, very quick driver to have done much more than get their foot off the accelerator before impact.
We're not talking about pulling up short, we're talking about a near-full-speed side-impact collision at speeds that are not survivable until a heck of a lot of momentum has been lost. The ad shows a crash where a driver who was abiding the 100km/h speed limit would still have collided at pretty much their full speed with a driver who just pulled out in front.Watch the ad. Pause it at the moment where the car pulls out. The through driver has about a second to react, half a second of braking time if he's doing well. But it's not half a second, because by the time he's got his foot on the brake pedal the distance to impact (check out the aerial shot) is down to about nine metres, or less than 1/3 of a second at 100km/h (27.8m/s at 100km/h, 30m/s at 108km/h). Physics, also, says that maximum braking force is not immediately applied because it takes time to depress the pedal, for the brake fluid to compress and apply the brakes, the friction surfaces to make contact and begin slowing the car...
The speed is irrelevant. Not even Michael Schumacher could have braked fast enough to stop it being a fatal side impact (ignoring that he'd likely have spotted the crash before it happened and taken early evasive action). -
Rich of Observationz, in reply to
You can see why the Ford Nucleon never made it into production?
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
I've never thought of the CF Bedford
in quite that way …...to be honest I never thought it in the CF Bedford, that was one solid beast, it was in the later Nissan(?) Vanette - which felt about as safe as an aluminium takeaway container - that those thoughts kept flickering through my mind...
And technically, I suppose, with all those magazines on board it could've been called a moving 'stationery object' - or is that pushing the envelope?
:- )
Brent Jackson, in reply to
but two identical cars hitting each other head on at identical speeds will only release twice as much as one hitting a wall at the same speed.
And that energy is spread over twice the material (ie 2 cars as opposed to 1), so from a car's occupant's perspective, a head-on collision (with a similar-sized, and speed vehicle) is the same as hitting an immovable object at the same speed.
James Butler, in reply to
Quite true.
I've never quite figured out the NZ obsession with speed being classed as the primary killer on the roads, when that's only true in the absolute sense - casualties can only be guaranteed drop to zero only if the speed drops to zero, which rather defeats the purpose of NZTA spending billions and billions and billions on more roads.
Clearly it's bad judgement that causes crashes, not speed per se, and I agree that the ad would have been more honest if the issue of speed had been left off the table - even at 95km/hr, the crash depicted in the ad would have occurred.
But we seem to have some sort of cultural issue with attributing most crashes to driver error; even the media is in on it.
In far too many cases, the news report of an entirely preventable crash has a description like "the car left the road and hit a power pole" ... as though the car had some sort of independent agency, and the driver was a mere uninvolved spectator in the proceedings. It should say, "the driver failed to display suitable skills and drove his/her car into a power pole". It would at least have the benefit of honesty about where the responsibility for the crash lies. If we can routinely attribute plane crashes to pilot error, I don't know why we can't attribute road crashes to driver error.
But in my view, the focus on speed comes because it makes for easy enforcement. It's easy to measure, the speed limit is objective rather than subjective, and it's amenable to instant fines and very structured prosecutions. Enforcing good judgement is a somewhat more complex and fraught process, but one more likely to produce better long-term results.
And in that context, it's worth asking the question about why getting a license in a rural area 40 years ago means you're still qualified to drive a car of double the weight and five times the power in busy Auckland motorway traffic, with no evidence of any subsequent re-training. We don't allow surgeons to carry on willy-nilly for four decades without regular refreshers, because they might kill people ... but apparently it's OK to let people in charge of a few tonnes of speeding metal without as much as a casual glance in the direction of the Road Code for that period of time, because it's not like they'd kill people ...
Brent Jackson, in reply to
I usually drive dead on 50 kph.
Is that 50 according to your speedo, or 50 as measured correctly ? Modern car's speedos seem to read about 8% lower than the car's actual speed. This has probably been the main contributor to the lowering of average speeds. However, a lot of that will be people driving at 90 thinking they're driving at 100, instead of people driving over 110 actually slowing down.
Stephen Judd, in reply to
Is that 50 according to your speedo, or 50 as measured correctly ?
I don't know. Those fancy roadside displays that tell you what your speed is and my speedo agree very well, though.
David Hood, in reply to
When a collision takes place the kinetic energy gets divided up among the car/car car/wall in some potentially complicated but important fashion. When a car hits a wall we don't much care what happens to the wall. It is like how much difference the stopping distance makes depends on how far away you are to apply it (so we can argue over what the numbers mean). But I think however much we argue about the numbers in different scenarios we probably all agree more speed equals worse outcome (other things being equal).
James, there is the old dodge of making an equation into a picture and uploading that.
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
why the Ford Nucleon never made it into production
Then there is that DeLorean
Run, DMC, Run... -
Some interesting race/class things lurking in this video which I don't feel competent to give a close reading of right now.
izogi, in reply to
Modern car's speedos seem to read about 8% lower than the car's actual speed.
I hadn't realised how widespread this was until I drove around with a SatNav for a few weeks in the UK, and it displayed the actual speed compared with the speed limit for the section of road (which was very useful – totally useless and dangerously misleading once we reached Ireland because everything was out of date).
Even a GNSS-based speedo will under-read on corners, though, unless there's some kind of internal algorithm to compensate, though, because if it's not a perfectly straight line then the points it's measuring between will be closer than the distance actually driven.
Rich of Observationz, in reply to
Not reading high is a functional requirement of various vehicle certification authorities, so speedometers read low by design (as they will always have an error budget).
Also, some GPS receivers use doppler measurements for speed, which doesn't suffer from sampling artefacts as you turn corners.
Russell Brown, in reply to
In far too many cases, the news report of an entirely preventable crash has a description like "the car left the road and hit a power pole" … as though the car had some sort of independent agency, and the driver was a mere uninvolved spectator in the proceedings. It should say, "the driver failed to display suitable skills and drove his/her car into a power pole".
Or … the driver was travelling too fast for the conditions, was unable to control the car and left the road. Perhaps the driver's skill level was a factor too, or the weather or the state of the road. That seems to be the point here – that while speed in itself may be the sole cause of relatively few crashes, it's a contributory factor in many more.
According to the MoT, speed (defined as "driving too fast for the conditions") was a contributory factor in 29% of fatal accidents from 2010-2012 and "the more serious the crash, the more likely it is that speed was a contributing factor."
Enforcing good judgement is a somewhat more complex and fraught process, but one more likely to produce better long-term results.
Like, say, through public advisory campaigns on TV and the internet?
Tom Ackroyd, in reply to
And I'm interested in Rich of Observationz' race/class reading of the Ghost chips ad.
Are you going to be running one of those "funny" racist ads next with the drunk Māori dude talking in the silly voice?
Russell Brown, in reply to
And I'm interested in Rich of Observationz' race/class reading of the Ghost chips ad.
Are you going to be running one of those "funny" racist ads next with the drunk Māori dude talking in the silly voice?
I'm completely puzzled by that reading of it, if he was actually talking about "ghost chips". The genius of "ghost chips" was surely that it granted agency and insight to a character who might not be expected to have either and, as as British site Creative Review notes, it "succeeds by not patronising its main audience." (Which is arguably where the confusing Drive Social campaign falls down.)
And apart from anything else, the meme jackpot was well and truly struck by that ad. You don't manage that by insulting your audience or being racist about them. So that just seems like a weird criticism to me.
So, this post is sponsored by the NZTA. Does this mean our speeding tickets are indirectly feeding Russell and his clan?
Moz, in reply to
So, this post is sponsored by the NZTA. Does this mean our speeding tickets are indirectly feeding Russell and his clan?
I hope so. It would be nice to think that voluntary taxation was going to a good home. ... but let's not get too political.
One day I hope to get a speeding ticket, but every year I get a little bit slower, so unless I take up speeding on the (rare) 10kph signposted shared paths it's not likely. And the cops are normally uncooperative even when a bike does manage to trigger their radar.
Which brings up a good point, are NZTA getting their money's worth? How many of y'all have had a speeding ticket or significant crash recently?
My last speeding ticket was about 14 years back, and my last crash (which was my fault, but not speed related) further back than that.
I believe I am becoming more aware recently of my own driving behaviours as my oldest boy approaches driving age (he's begun swotting up on the road code, even though he more than a year away from a learner's). Which isn't to say that I don't have a stack of iffy habits accumulated over the years since I got my full licence.
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As loyal listeners know, Phil darn near went blind. As a result, he and Dean have not discussed books in a long time! Well, Phil's eyesight is back, thank you very much, and so is "What We're Reading" on this week's show! In fact, Phil's selection ties in very much to TWO conversations Dean and Phil will have this week. One about Buster Keaton's "The General" (which will re-visit last week's theme of "failure"). The other about what television your friends in podcasting are watching right now. Comedy, drama, mystery and the paranormal are all on the small screen menu! And before your friends in podcasting depart from the small screen, they discuss the current SNL controversy surrounding the firing of a recently-hired performer.
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The West Kootenay Village of Fruitvale will be the site of a new state-of-the-art natural gas facility.
FortisBC is partnering with REN Energy International Corporation (REN Energy) to create Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from wood waste sourced from Fruitvale's ATCO Wood Products and other Kootenay forestry companies.
"The Village of Fruitvale is beyond excited," said Fruitvale mayor Steve Morissette. "It's a once in a lifetime thing, it doesn't happen in small communities very often. It will offer good paying jobs and there'll be plant operators, process operators, and typically fork lift drivers, and wood managers."
The proposed site for the facility is at the old Park Siding ATCO mill about 6 km from Fruitvale in southeastern BC. The project will offer about 18 months of construction jobs and, once construction is complete, the plant will employ 30-35 local workers.
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According to FortisBC Supply Manager Scott Gramm, Fortis will buy the gas generated by the facility and tap into its pipeline that runs near the Park Siding property.
"REN Energy chose that location because it was a source of wood waste and close to our pipeline at the same time," said Gramm. "We're talking like 300-metres from our transmission pipeline, it's nice and close - so acceptable wood waste, acceptable pipeline."
REN Energy is a global company whose goal is to reduce waste and improve the environment through the development of sustainable, clean fuel-based projects. REN seeks out opportunities to create partnerships with municipalities like Fruitvale and regional districts, forestry industry operators like ATCO, and financial partners like FortisBC to create essentially zero-emission energy products like RNG.
"The plant, the first of its kind in North America, will create an immediate annual economic impact in the Kootenay region," said Philip Viggiani, president of REN Energy in a release. "As well, our future waste-to-energy project regions will carry similar economic impacts in regard to the creation of hundreds of direct and indirect jobs, significant in-community investments and, of course, the clean energy product we create."
RNG is a carbon-neutral energy that is made from capturing the methane released from decomposing organic waste.
The project will make use of waste from forestry operations, sawmills and other wood product manufacturers and will speed up the natural process by creating syngas through gasification. The syngas is further converted to methane and then purified to meet natural gas line specifications.
The output is expected to be substantial, and FortisBC estimates over one million gigajoules of energy will be created annually from the facility.
"The average household uses about 90-ish," explained Gramm. "So we're talking enough gas to sustain 10,000 to 12,000 homes annually."
The construction on the facility will begin in the fall, and is expected to be up and running in late 2021, early 2022, says Gramm.
Once operational, the technology will create a use for forestry waste in B.C. and unlock the potential for significant new volumes of RNG in the province.
"We are extremely pleased with our FortisBC agreement spanning 20 years, to provide RNG to our fellow B.C. customers," said Viggiani. "REN Energy plans to be a major factor in assisting with the FortisBC mandate of creating carbon-neutral RNG."
When economically feasible, REN Energy intends to benefit both the province and the forestry industry by cleaning up and processing brush piles, and thereby mitigate potential forest fires.
Furthermore, the REN facility will create a market for local forest companies in a time when they need it most.
"It will for sure help our forest industry," said Morissette. "It will help ILMA - the Interior Lumber Manufacturers' Association - because they (REN) will be sourcing a lot of the waste wood from them."
The ground-breaking project's use of carbon-neutral energies is a crucial element of FortisBC's 30BY30 target.
The goal is to reduce customers' greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2030. FortisBC is also working towards having 15 per cent of its natural gas supply be renewable by 2030, which is in line with commitments outlined in the Province's CleanBC promise 30-30.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — A number of Jewish groups have filed friend of the court briefs in a Supreme Court case considering whether Americans born in Jerusalem may list "Israel" as their birthplace on their passports.
Among the groups filing in recent days on behalf of Menachem Zivotofsky in his lawsuit against the U.S. State Department are the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, the Zionist Organization of America and the Louis D. Brandeis Center, a rights advocacy group.
The court in April said it would hear the appeal of a lower court decision that struck down a law passed by Congress in 2002 that would have allowed such a listing.
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President Obama and before him President George W. Bush had ignored the law, saying that applying it would compromise its peacemaking efforts in the Middle East. The Palestinians also claim Jerusalem as the capital of a future state. The U.S. embassy is located in Tel Aviv.
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Sam is the lovely and very interesting lady mentioned above. Bobbing in her blue swimming cap, she patiently waits for me as I catch up to her in the sea. With no pushing and gliding at either end like in a pool and a slight sense of vertigo as my body rolls in the swell, I'm still acclimatising to open water swimming. We jump in to the sea at the end of Palm Beach ocean pool and swim parallel with the shore for 500m or so and then back again.
Let me be clear at this point. I find this activity extremely scary. Rips, swell, breaking waves, deep water. No problem. But not being able to see what's beneath me. The thing that nightmares are made of. Conquering your fears though is kind of addictive, and every time I get out of the water after another swim, I want to get straight back in. Plus I guess being scared makes a morning swim just that little bit more exhilarating.
Sam is also a mum, and a runner, and she's done ski seasons. I feel at home in her company. After sharing a few drinks with her and her husband's one Sunday afternoon, Mark and I wanted to continue the conversation, so the following weekend we invited them to dinner. Cue the beautiful Thai canapés. Sweet, salty and nutty. The perfect flavour combination to enjoy with a few pre dinner drinks.
It's funny. I've owned David Thompson's Thai compendium for years, and enjoyed glancing at its fuchsia spine on my bookshelf, but I've never cooked anything from it. I'm a little nervous of Asian recipes, slightly fazed by their long ingredient lists and confused about what to substitute for items that aren't readily available. But this recipe. I felt confident about it. And now I've made it once, I want to make it again. A bit like diving in to the ocean I suppose. Scary at first, but definitely something to repeat.
Beautiful Thai canapés – Ma Hor – Galloping horses
Minced chicken, pork and prawn with pineapple
From David Thompson's book Thai Food
- 100g prawn meat, finely chopped
- 100g chicken mince
- 100g pork mince
- 1 cup palm sugar, grated
- 1/2 cup fish sauce
- 1/2 cup fried garlic
- 1/2 cup fried shallots
- 4 tbsp ground toasted peanuts (unsalted)
Coriander and garlic paste
- 4 coriander roots
- 5 garlic cloves
- 15 white peppercorns
- pinch salt
Fry the prawn mince with a pinch of salt in the oil of your choice. When cooked, transfer to a bowl to cool and repeat with the chicken and pork mince.
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Now fry the paste in a little oil and when fragrant add the palm sugar and fish sauce and then simmer for a few minutes until the mixture is thick and syrupy.
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location: Everglades Area. |
What is it supposed to be on the show?
A. A wilderness
area with an Everglades feel to it.
Q. Where is it supposed to be on the show? A. In Florida.
Q. When did we see it on the show? A. In Episode 3 (of Season 1), "Popping Cherry". Dexter has been keeping an eye on a young killer named Jeremy. He watched him being released from a youth facility. Then, to make sure he hadn't changed his ways, he followed him to an outdoor swap meet, where he watched him buy a large hunting knife. In this scene, Dexter has followed Jeremy to the outskirts of an Everglades-like wilderness area. Dexter watches from afar as Jeremy and another teenage boy ignore "No Trespassing Signs" and climb over a fence into the preserve. Through binoculars, Dexter sees the hunting knife in Jeremy's back pocket. It becomes clear to Dexter that Jeremy has brought the boy here to kill him. So, Dexter follows them through the forest, as Jeremy leads his young victim deeper into the tropical overgrowth of the marsh, away from any possible witnesses. As they walk, Jeremy promises the boy that he can see an alligator in the marsh. Sensing something isn't right, the boy is reluctant to continue, but Jeremy taunts him on by questioning his courage. As Jeremy reaches for his knife, Dexter abruptly walks into the clearing, and both teenagers flee. As Dexter turns to leave, he is shocked when he suddenly encounters an actual alligator, which springs from the bushes, wide-jawed. Dexter falls back and winds up in the mud, cursing himself as he stumbles away. Back at his car, Dexter finds that Jeremy has broken his car window and stolen his wallet. Dexter later goes to kill Jeremy (at a halfway house), but when he learns that the man Jeremy originally killed had raped him, he decides that the killing was justified (by Harry's code), and lets him go (with a warning not to kill those who don't deserve it). ( Dexter
meets Jeremy again later in Season One, in Episode 5, "Circle of Friends".
Learning that Jeremy has ignored his warning and killed another innocent
boy, Dexter stalks him on the jogging paths of a public
Q. What is it actually in real life? A. A nature center & pond at a public park - but nowhere near the Everglades.
Q. Where can I find it in real life? A. This scene was shot at the El Dorado Nature Center, (at El Dorado Regional Park), a 100-acre preserve located at 7550 E. Spring Street, in Long Beach, CA. El Dorado is a huge park (800 acres and several lakes), so to be more specific, you will find the Nature Center on the south side of Spring Street, between the 605 Freeway (on the east) and the San Gabriel River (on the west). The guard booth will charge you $5.00 to enter the park. Just inside the gate, you'll find a small parking lot. After you park, the entrance to the nature center is just to the west. You'll first walk across a bridge and through a park office & nature museum which sits in the middle of the large pond (or small lake). After you exit this office to the west, you'll be in the forest area. For a small center in the middle of civilization, it has a convincing wilderness feel to it, with densely grown trees and bushes surrounding the round, tranquil pond (which is actually more like a large lake). It's here, in this semi-tropical garden area that they filmed the Everglades scenes (with the help of a few additional palms and hanging vines, not to mention a little "fog" - all added by the prop department). You'll find some turtles sunning themselves on rocks in the pond, as well as a variety of birds, squirrels, and perhaps an occasional racoon, but don't worry - there are no alligators. There are several trails available, some longer than others. The most interesting scenery (and the most tropical) is around the first pond, and on the banks of the stream that runs through the center, especially to the west. The land farther to the south gets a bit barren & plain by comparison. In the scene, as the alligator suddenly attacks, and Dexter tumbles into the mud, you can catch a glimpse of (what appears to be) the round pond in the background, as he pulls himself up from the ground and stumbles away. I can't pinpoint
the exact spot in the Nature Center where they filmed the scenes. The
place is simply too large, with too many winding trails (all of which look
somewhat alike), and chances are that they padded the scenery with extra
foliage to make it look more tropical. Here is an aerial photo of the Nature Center. And here is a map link. And here is a .PDF map of the trails at the Nature Center. ( Another scene
from the same episode was shot nearby. The hunting
scene, where Harry (Dexter's foster father) allows Dexter to kill a
deer, was also filmed at the Nature Center. ) Update:
In a bizarre case of life imitating art, in May 2010, Long Beach police
found the dismembered body parts of a man scattered about this Nature Center,
including the victim's arm, hand and head. The killer had murdered the
victim for his ATM card, then murdered the man's female tutor and
attempted to make it look like the victim had killed her and had then fled
the scene. Unlike Dexter, this killer opted to dispose of the remains in
this forested part of the park, rather than out at sea. It should be noted
that the murder didn't take place at the park - the killer just hid the
body parts here. (You can read the news story here.
I shot the photos below in late 2008, at the El Dorado Nature Center:
Q. How the heck did you figure out where it was? A. This one had me baffled for quite a while. This early in the first season, they were still shooting a lot of their scenes in Florida, so I had no way of knowing whether they filmed it in L.A. or at some actual Everglades area in Florida. In 2008, I found out that the "Flamingo Park" scene (with Jeremy) was filmed at El Dorado Park, an area I hadn't considered before. Since I knew that the "Dexter" crew tends to film more than one scene at interesting locations, I thought I'd take a second look at a few other scenes that might have been filmed at the park. And since the character of 'Jeremy' appeared in both scenes, it was the first one I considered. The forest was too dense to have been a part of the regular El Dorado Park (where they filmed the jogging scenes), which is a fairly typical modern park, made up mostly of grass lawns and lakes. But I had previously
visited the El Dorado Nature Center (a forested nature preserve to the
southeast of the Flamingo Park lake), and had hiked around there on several
occasions. I knew it contained dense growth and a sizeable pond.
Also, in the hunting scene, if you look closely, you'll see young Canary
Pine trees, something you rarely see in Florida, but which are in abundance
at El Dorado park. So I visited the Nature Center once again to shoot the
photos above.
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Deep Impact Update 16, No, we're not dead! |
Deep Impact Update 16, No, we're not dead! |
28 Oct 2015, 18:25
The X General Group: Project Leader Posts: 2166 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: Philippines Member No.: 73 Uniqueness is Overrated |
By 2055 aggression between the big powers reached it's highest level, as all 4 players pumped all their resources into the war, ignoring all the financial risks involved. Within 2 years of prolonged heavy conflicts, everyone found themselves in the need to lower military resource spending. By 2058 it was clear to everyone that the total defeat of any of the big players was not happening any time soon. Either the impregnable defense of the WEA, the high mobility of the AC, the massed armor columns of the ADF, or the treachery and extreme resiliency of the WLF, proved too great an obstacle to be overcome by any single faction. The stalemate had to be broken, and everyone knew the only way to do this was to capture all the neutral adjacent lands around their territories and use the additional resources and manpower to their advantage. Eastern Europe, northern Africa, Antarctica, and what was left of the Middle East, all became primary war zones. In a way, this was a huge breath of fresh air for each faction, with the front lines move away from their homelands, but, with the fear of another economic collapse looming on everyone's heads, a complete military restructure was unavoidable. For the WEA, that meant reallocating vehicles and equipment from their Continental Defense division, as well as technologies previously exclusive to them, to improve the Mechanized Assault division and turn it into a simplified global operations force. This decision was met with fierce resistance by pro Continental Defense politicians, who argued that waging a war outside the walls would only waste resources as well as jeopardize the safety of the inner cities. They also claimed that the resources they were receiving from the recycler facilities would be more than enough if they would just focus all their attention on defense. In the end, the global operations force proposal won, and by the end of 2058, the Mechanized Assault division became the European Rapid Response Initiative (ERRI). Their task: to quickly secure strategic points outside the walls, and hold them at all costs. The ADF had it the worst, having suffered countless defeats in eastern Europe against the WEA, and also several defeats against AC incursions within south east Asia, the ADF was practically forced to cut their military spending. The use of nuclear ordinance was greatly reduced, partly due to their high cost, but also because of the damage they were causing to the already poor post impact environmental situation. and other exotic weapons was reserving them only for special occasions, and only under the authority of high ranking officials. As an alliance between the worlds biggest vehicle owning countries, the ADF has huge military vehicle reserves. This became the basis for the decision to make the bulk of the new ADF army consist mostly of mass produced ground vehicles. By the end of 2058 the Federal Expeditionary Force (FEF) was formed, it's mission: to capture the neutral zones around ADF territory, and crush anyone who gets in their way. For the AC, their problem came from their territory being stretched over a vast region. The AC had difficulty providing rapid response with the bureaucracy that plagued its multiple military branches. Each general wanted his demands to have priority, while each branch insisted its needs more important than the other branches'. Once the AC's situation came to a more balanced state, the AC executive branch moved to simplify their military system to allow a more direct approach to any situation. The priority was diverted to extreme mobility provided by drones, spec-op teams, and air supremacy. Eventually, the Global Operation Command (GOCOM) was formed, tasked with maintaining control over all the current territories as well as capturing new territory for the AC. The WLF had 2 main problems. The first problem was dealing with each cell's tendency of acting on their own, wasting men and resources in the process. Even after uniting under "The Avenger" the majority of the WLF was still split between different religious leaders, royal family members, and wealthy weapon dealers. To solve this, the Avenger mobilized his personal army and demanded total submission under the threat of death. It took many months and many deaths, but soon the entire WLF was directly under his control. Each cell was forbidden from doing any action without express instruction by the Avenger or his subordinates. The second problem was the huge lack in man power resulting from excessive fanatical behavior. The bulk of the WLF was made of religious fanatics willing to go to any lengths in the name of their god and the WLF. However, untrained, over-zealous fanatics can only go so far, and soon the WLF was losing a lot more men than they were gaining. To solve this problem, the Avenger forbid the following of any religion, and banned the use of suicide bombing and other fanatical acts. Once again, his decision was met with much fighting and death, however, to those who survived, he personally gave extensive training in combat, strategy, and the use of modern technology, and soon the results spoke for themselves. The WLF started winning battles left and right against the other 3 factions, most of the time against overwhelming odds. By the end of 2058, the Avenger had turned the WLF into a modern, highly trained, army of assassins, with an intelligence network the old GLA could only dream of, and now the their sights were set to their next target: the neutral territories untouched by the other 3 factions. It is time to end it all. Hey how's everyone doing? It's been a while since our last update, so let's start with a few words from Anubis. The old sub-factions system is gone, instead we decided to just stick with the main factions. While having multiple sub factions is interesting, it is time consuming to make and also pretty limiting. The more factions you have the more you need to scrap from each other to make each one feel somewhat unique. Rather than being forced to do that, we would rather have the faction have it's own unique style and add as much as possible to that faction to further enhance it's theme feel. So in short under the current plan, faction themes are as follows: WEA The WEA relies on its heavy defenses, infantry, and gunships. They have the strongest defenses in the game, their tech structures double as heavy defenses (ex. Fortress, and Olympus Fort), they have heavy basic infantry that can counter pretty much any type of threat, and their late game infantry are though enough to be considered light vehicles. Their special powers are directed towards map control and troop reinforcements. Strengths: heavy defenses, strong secondary economy, good map control, very strong infantry and high tier gunships. Weaknesses: limited artillery, high prices, limited direct firepower. ADF The ADF relies on its heavy use of massed tanks and ground vehicles. They have the strongest ground units in the game, their war factories produce units with conventional weapons while their experimental weapons are available only from their tier 2 tech structure. In order to further add to the whole military alliance we decided to give each tier a country theme: tier 1 is dedicated to China, tier 2 is dedicated to India, and tier 3 is dedicated to Russia. This applies to Their experimental units as well, with early experimental units being Chinese or Indian in origin, while heavy experimental units being Russian in origin. Strengths: heavy and easily spammed ground vehicles. Weaknesses: limited advanced units and aircraft. AC The AC relies on its heavy use of drones and air units. They have the strongest air units with gunships that can cover multiple roles, as well as a variety of jets for surgical strikes. Their ground forces mostly consist of drones and light to medium vehicles. The AC have heavy air transports that allows them to move quickly around the map, and have a lot of hard hitting support powers. Strengths: heavy air units and high mobility. Weaknesses: weak ground units. WLF The WLF relies on stealth, versatility and heavy artillery. Having no regard for civilian safety, the WLF employs devastating high explosive and biological weapons, to commit repeated acts of terror, and disappear before enemy forces could respond. While the GLA used propaganda to incite riots and other fanatical acts, WLF propaganda, emphasizes self preservation over self sacrifice, healing and inspiring their troops instead. Every WLF factory can call on the support off any cell at any time, by choosing 1 of 3 available tech upgrades to spice up their unit roster. Strengths: heavy artillery and stealth. propaganda. versatility. Weaknesses: weak units (before tech upgrades). In terms of the current content we've already made public in older updates, I am happy to announce that all those models for WEA will belong to a single faction. Some of their roles however have changed to adapt to the new direction. A few examples: - Olympus Fort is now the new tier 3 tech structure unlocking WEA's most powerful technologies. - Cerberus Defense is no longer uses a photon-tech weapon but a cryo-tech weapon, becoming more of a support oriented defense. - Phobos is no longer WEA's early AA unit, but their early ATGM - dedicated anti-tank. - Charon is no longer a mine layer but WEA's early troop transport and AA vehicle. This are just a few examples, but almost all units suffered changes of roles. We fill this will allow us to have a much better defined faction as well as offer us less amount of work. As we said several times, both me and Zeke, have hit a more adult period of our lives, where real life issues such as work or social life have takes much of our time. That being said, i hope you guys will enjoy this new update and as always feel free to ask questions as long as it's not the ultimate stupid one - when release Initially a project designated for the Continental Defense army branch, it got retrofitted with additional weapons and techs and became what can be safely called WEA's flag ship of their gunship armada. While many would argue that jets still offer the superior mobility and firepower, in most urban warfare theaters, jets would only be able to bomb from a far distance. But the true fire-support for ground forces comes from gunships. Of course the Hyperion takes the gunship concept to a whole new level, but it was a concept born out of necessity. The initial concept was smaller and armed with an experimental PRISMTM cannon. However with the military doctrine switch, the concept got improved by an increase in size and the addition of multiple missile launchers to fulfill a much needed role within WEA's ERRI force: A siege weapon. The PRISMTM cannon does extreme damage to defenses and structures in general, and if that's not enough, the Hyperion can launch a volley of incendiary missiles that will melt any structure. Since it's mobility is rather lacking, it also comes with an air-to-air missile battery to counter lighter air threats. Exotic weapons like those employed by the Hyperion cost a lot of resources, so in order to keep spending within limits, the ERRI high command called for additional retrofits of other gunships in order to fulfill different roles. One of these retrofits became a powerful new weapon on its own. Based on the Nyx gunship, the Hekate has additional armor, a nose mounted auto-cannon for light ground targets, and dual mounted air-to-air photon arrays. The Hekate's main role is to hunt down and destroy enemy air units. While gunships provide excellent support for ground forces, they cannot offer the firepower required to level a whole block instantly. So when the situation deems it necessary, WEA employees VTOL bombers to deal terrible terrible damage. The Nemesis is a joint project between the ERRI and Cynopolis Corp. It's role is to level defensive positions or army groups that gunships and ground vehicles find too hard to crack. It is armed with an experimental photon-tech vortex bomb that deals both instant damage as well as damage over time. Well that's all we have for this update.
Want more info? Head to our website! Comments and suggestions? Post them in the forums! Want to help out, but can't mod? Make us popular! and we'll see you in the next update. This post has been edited by Zeke: 29 Oct 2015, 16:39
Reason for edit: typos
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28 Oct 2015, 19:21
Chat Nick Group: Members Posts: 845 Joined: 12 April 2015 From: Serbia Member No.: 11096 If you ever decide to invade Russia, for the love of God, bring some warm clothes. We don't want you to blame the "evil Russian winter" when you get crushed, like everyone else who tried. |
Great. Although this puts my story a bit off track, since I used the sub-factions theme to a significant extent. But it's also good you clarified things, so I have more parameters for a canon-worthy revision. Anyway, good progress. Keep it up, guys.
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28 Oct 2015, 21:20
Group: Dev. Team Posts: 1242 Joined: 26 July 2014 Member No.: 10559 |
Looks so awesome!! Release it now
29 Oct 2015, 3:38
Enlima Studios Group: Project Leader Posts: 757 Joined: 11 October 2009 From: Jakarta, Indonesia Member No.: 482 |
tfw the Hyperion papercraft came out earlier than the actual update.
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29 Oct 2015, 14:07
Group: Members Posts: 64 Joined: 12 May 2014 Member No.: 10458 |
1- Up to this point you have primarily worked on the WEA , have you made progress on the other factions ? 2- Will you release an updated version when you finish the WEA ? |
29 Oct 2015, 16:29
The X General Group: Project Leader Posts: 2166 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: Philippines Member No.: 73 Uniqueness is Overrated |
1. We have worked on the other factions, but only as far as concepts and codes. Only the WEA has updated models.
2. We will release a new version once the WEA and ADF are done at the very least. -------------------- |
29 Oct 2015, 17:19
The Forums American Hotshot Flyboy Group: Tester Posts: 2860 Joined: 22 November 2012 From: The foundation of modern freedom and Liberty;United States of America. Member No.: 9500 |
Are you sure your not dead?
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29 Oct 2015, 22:26
Group: Project Leader Posts: 892 Joined: 8 June 2009 From: Cynopolies Member No.: 97 |
2 Nov 2015, 20:54
Group: Members Posts: 353 Joined: 9 July 2013 Member No.: 10025 |
Are suggestions still open? I improved a lot in that respect.
3 Nov 2015, 3:48
The X General Group: Project Leader Posts: 2166 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: Philippines Member No.: 73 Uniqueness is Overrated |
Suggestions are open, especially for non WEA factions.
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3 Nov 2015, 6:08
Top Law Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 17 June 2014 From: Some random Tf2 map Member No.: 10509 Stuff Stuff Blah Blah Blawh Law |
Well the smell from time to time might be a bit pestilent but, even in zombie mode we still crawl. BRAINNNSSS!!! There coming for you Barbara -------------------- |
3 Jul 2016, 0:37
Group: New Members Posts: 2 Joined: 3 July 2016 Member No.: 13014 |
Hi guys ! can you release the version with WEA and/or ADF faction ?
I wait this mod since long time so if its possible |
3 Jul 2016, 0:48
Gamer Girl Group: Legend Posts: 3808 Joined: 19 June 2009 From: Disboard Member No.: 182 Friendly Freelancer |
Don't revive old threads unless you have something to add, just asking for a release doesn't apply.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Washington's Bradley Beal seemed to make every shot he took in setting a career high with 37 points. But then, with the game on the line, he struggled down the stretch.
Nick Calathes and Marc Gasol scored 18 points each, and the Memphis Grizzlies survived Beal's big night to defeat the Wizards 92-89 on Tuesday night.
Beal finished the night converting 15 of 24 shots, but was unable to connect in the closing minutes. He missed five of his last six shots, including a 21-footer with 12.9 seconds left that would have tied the game.
"The past few games, I was too worried about my defender," Beal said. "As soon as I saw the first couple go in, it was a wrap after that. My confidence was high, and I just kept shooting the ball the same way every time.
"I was having fun."
Zach Randolph split two free throws with 11.5 seconds left to give the Grizzlies the 92-89 lead. John Wall's 3-pointer for the tie with about 1 second left rattled around before popping out, giving Memphis the win.
"We were supposed to hand it back to John," Wizards coach Randy Wittman said of the final play. "Bradley was going to flare for a three, but we didn't get the hand off back to John."
Randolph, Courtney Lee and James Johnson scored 13 apiece for Memphis, and Randolph grabbed 10 rebounds. Calathes, who started his sixth straight game because of an ankle injury to starting point guard Mike Conley, also had six assists for the Grizzlies.
"Nick Calathes is playing great," Memphis coach Dave Joerger said. "He makes some mistakes, but I have the ball in his hands and 98 percent of the time, he makes the right play and the right pass. What he's doing right now in leading this ballclub is absolutely tremendous."
Nene had 17 points for the Wizards, while Trevor Ariza and Marcin Gortat added 10 points each. Wall, who entered the game averaging a team-best 20.1 points, was limited to a season-low five points, making only 2 of 10 shots, missing all four attempts from outside the arc.
"It's terrible that you waste a game like that from (them)," Wittman said of Beal and Nene, particularly citing Nene holding Randolph to 4 of 11 shooting and forcing the Grizzlies forward into five turnovers. "As well as Nene was playing Zach Randolph in the post, it's too bad you waste efforts like that."
Memphis pushed the lead to 16 near the 9-minute mark of the third quarter on a 3-pointer from Tayshaun Prince. But Washington, with Beal continuing to score and Gortat contributing 10 in the quarter, went on a 20-8 burst to make a serious dent in the Memphis margin.
"Obviously, Bradley Beal hits a lot of great shots," Joerger said. "Courtney (Lee) trailed him and bothered him. James (Johnson) trailed him and bothered him. The guy made tough shots."
By the end of the third, Memphis had added a few points to its remaining lead carrying a 79-70 lead into the fourth.
The Wizards were able to pull even at 80 with 6:52 left when Beal's 14-footer, pushed him past his previous career high of 34.
Beal was the major part of the 12-1 Wizards run to give them an 82-80 lead on Nene's 17-footer with 5:46 left. Memphis answered with a 7-2 mini-run to put the Grizzlies up for good, although each team made mistakes in the closing minutes.
"We kept the ball on one side, and they just loaded up," Gasol said of Washington's second-half defense. "We would average two, three passes and played too far away from the basket. We let them do what they wanted to do defensively and made it easy on them.
"But we got away with a win."
NOTES: Conley missed his sixth straight game with a bum right ankle. The Grizzlies are now 3-3 since his injury. ... Beal's previous high was 34 points against Oklahoma City on Nov. 10. ... Johnson recorded his 16th block of a 3-pointer this season near the end of the first half. ... The Wizards have lost nine straight in Memphis and haven't won a road game in the series since Nov. 3, 2004, the night of the first regular-season game the Grizzlies played at FedExForum.


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Back up libraries
To back up your Final Cut Pro libraries, you can use a system-wide backup solution like Time Machine, or you can simply copy the library to a dedicated backup drive. This is a good solution if you're storing the original media assets in a library along with the associated events and projects (managed media). You can use the Consolidate Files command to collect external media as managed media inside the same library for easy transport or archiving.
To protect your media, you should back up to a storage device or partition different from the one where you store the media files used with Final Cut Pro.
Archive projects
You can archive a project as a short-term solution to free up storage space, or you can archive for long-term storage and retrieve it when it needs updating or repurposing.
Select the items in the library you want to archive, such as one or more events or a final project. The media included in the archive depends on your selection:
Select an event to archive all media in the event, whether or not it's used in a project.
Select a project to archive the project and the media needed for that project. This results in a smaller archive.
Choose File > Copy [item] to Library > New Library. Type a name for the new library, navigate to a location for the new library, and click Save.
In the window that appears, do one of the following:
If you want the smallest possible archive, make sure the Optimized Media and Proxy Media checkboxes aren't enabled.
If you want to include optimized or proxy media (and copying time and storage space aren't issues), select the Optimized Media checkbox, the Proxy Media checkbox, or both.
Click OK. The new library (with storage settings inherited from the original library) appears in the Libraries list.
If you want to adjust the storage locations for the new archive library, select it and choose File > Library Properties (or press Control-Command-J) to open the Library Properties Inspector. Make any changes you would like.
Click Consolidate or choose File > Consolidate Library Files and then click OK.
Consolidating managed media within the library provides you with one library file that has everything you need later.
Consolidating to an external location results in two items to move: the library and the Media folder. However, you can more easily share this media later with multiple editors (on a storage area network for example).
Render files are not copied across libraries. You can regenerate them when you reopen your library.
Archive additional files
There are a few other items you should archive in addition to the library. These are elements of your project that you'll need if you set up a new system to edit an archived library.
Motion templates: Any custom motion templates created in ~/Movies/Motion Templates/
Fonts: Any custom fonts that aren't included with the system
Plug-ins: Any third-party plug-ins used within the project, such as FxPlug effects, Audio Units plug-ins, or camera manufacturer plug-ins that enable playback of specific camera formats such as RED, Sony XAVC, or Canon XF
You may also want to archive a master media file of the final project together with a Final Cut Pro XML export of the final project. This XML file has text you can read that describes the edited sequence in the Timeline with all of the edit timing, asset references, effects, metadata, and other information available. This is a much richer archiving choice than an EDL and makes for a more accurate and complete re-creation of the project at a later date. For more information about exporting an XML file, see Use XML to transfer projects in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
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Daz The Dilinger
(Hook - Lataya Williams)
(Feels so good)
Feels good to know that someone loves you
(To know someone loves you)
Feels good to know someone cares
(I wanna feel you)
It's been a long time since I felt you
Just call my name I'll be there
(Feels so good)
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Observe, that is somethin particular, met 'em ??? town
Homegirl what's ya name, she replied the same
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Respect me, you best be prepared when you sex me
Since I let you tell it girl I could rock you 'til your heartstops
Down to your knees like just like havin a seizure
Please you with the conversation ?? ???
Later on, have you chillin talkin 'bout livin lavish and bubblebathes
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Wasn't usual but it was crucial, that I had the bomb and you hadit
Couldn't even get mad, it wasn't expected from the baddest girlaround town
I paged you early in the day, by 10:30 have it all locked down
What you did to me couldn't be duplicated, you made it the bomb
Even playa hated sometimes, keep in mind
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When you gave it up girl, you knew you ran the right race
Make it hot and sweet, give your body to me
Young Daz, sho' 'nuff gon' get it, homegirl
And it feels good baby
In my mind's eye all I see is time passin by,
will I make it to the other side
Ready to ride, we was all born to die
But will I die alone, baby girl what's it gon' be
She got the bombest shape I ever seen before
Man, she got a brother thinkin 'bout never doin wrong, man
Go on girl with your bad ass,
she got her own bank account, makin her own cash
I might be movin to fast, but with an ass shaped like that
She's the shit, plus she makes her own money, she ain't after mychips
I mean what more could I ask for, what else would I blast for
Catch a G dippin by high at the sky, I lace the game
Everybody wants the best, and every gangsta has a gangstaress
When I pulled on the block lovin the hood like a muthafucka
Then I seen my girl, felt good from that moment on
Yo Daz (get busy)
Kurupt (get busy)
All my ladies (get busy)
It don't stop (get busy)
Ay yo Daz (get busy)
Kurupt (get busy)
It don't stop y'all (get busy)
It don't stop y'all (get busy)
Who ya down for (you)
To ride or die, to lie, baby just for you)
Wouldn't trade you for no money or no girls
It was me and you to rule the world
(it was me and you to rule the world)
She cruise my neighborhood draggin the ground,
layin it down on hundred spokes
Flossin with her homegirls with no shirt
Pull around the corner, Dana Dane's shinin
She see me on the grind and on the front line and
You know where I hang, about handlin things
Be on the corner where the bangers bang
Flossin the neighborhood with your homegirls yellin "whoo,whoo"
Lookin extra cute, G'd in my Coupe
Get your bounce on baby girl, I love her
Plus you'll bounce with me, I adore her
'Cause she'll blaze an ounce with me (say what)
Khakis more creased than mine
She's gangstafied, she wears Dickies not Calvin Kleins
Never ignore me 'cause she adores me, ya know, ya know
(Hook to fade)
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Women have to work harder than men in order to start sweating, while men are more effective sweaters during exercise, according to new research published in the journal Experimental Physiology.
The study by Japanese scientists at Osaka International University and Kobe University looked at differences between men and women's sweating response to changes in exercise intensity. The researchers asked four groups of subjects (trained and untrained females, trained and untrained males) to cycle continuously for an hour in a controlled climate with increasing intensity intervals.
The results showed that men are more efficient at sweating. While exercise training improves sweating in both sexes, the degree of improvement is greater in men, with the difference becoming even more pronounced as the level of exercise intensity increases. The untrained females had the worst sweating response of all requiring a higher body temperature than the other groups (or work intensity) to begin sweating. In other words, women need to get hotter than men before they get sweaty.
The study's coordinator Yoshimitsu Inoue commented: 'It appears that women are at a disadvantage when they need to sweat a lot during exercise, especially in hot conditions.'
Previous studies have demonstrated that men have a higher sweat output than women, in part because testosterone is believed to enhance the sweating response. Physical training is known to decrease the body's core temperature threshold for the activation of the sweating response, which works to the athlete's advantage and allows them to perform longer. This is the first study, however, to investigate the sex differences in the effects of physical training on the sweating response during exercise.
The findings have implications for exercise and heat tolerance in humans, including shedding light on why the sexes cope differently with extremes of temperature like heat waves.
Inoue believes there may be an evolutionary reason why men and women have evolved to sweat differently. 'Women generally have less body fluid than men and may become dehydrated more easily,' he explains. 'Therefore the lower sweat loss in women may be an adaptation strategy that attaches importance to survival in a hot environment, while the higher sweat rate in men may be a strategy for greater efficiency of action or labour.'
Inoue says future studies will look more closely at the relationship between reproductive hormones and the sweating response as well as the effectiveness of different kinds of sweat (sweat that evaporates and cools versus sweat that drops off).
In the meantime, Inoue advises women should take more care than men in hot conditions. But he adds, 'Both men and women can acclimate themselves better to heat if they exercise regularly before a heat wave comes.'


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Boere Braai
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In our unique, little-known and often misunderstood Boere culture we take our meat and meat preparation, very seriously. If you know anything about South Africa's Boere identity and heritage, you will be aware of a right of passage called a "braai". If you don't, let me introduce you to this fantastic way of life.
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The word braai (pronounced "bry", rhyming with the word "cry"; plural "braais") is Afrikaans for "barbeque" or "roast" and is a social custom in South Africa. "The word braaivleis is Afrikaans for "roasted meat."
Only trusted friends are ever invited to a Boere braai. If you manage to get an invitation, then be aware that you are allowed into the inner sanctum of culinary privilege. A braai is our happy place. With a beer in hand, an open fire, good company, and something slowly roasting away we savour life. This is living.
When you ever make it to a braai with the Two Cowboys or any other South African Boer, then there is some important advice you should heed. Whatever you do, never ever criticise the way the meat is cooked. There is no bigger insult to a Boer than interfering with this sacred rite. Ever! Here's another piece of valuable advice. Never recommend sauce for the meat. It shows you are self-destructive or even suicidal. There is a good chance you won't live to tell about it.
It is highly irregular and unlikely to find any store bought sauce worthy of a Two Cowboys Boere braai. However, without admitting it too publicly, I think we've found one that we may tolerate. Jamie Ayles from Bow Valley BBQ told us more about it.
In 2013, Jamie and Bow Valley BBQ was accepted into the Self Employment government program for new entrepreneurs through Community Futures Centre West. In utilising the network and resources made available through the program, Jamie and Marie, his partner received a Growing Forward Government Grant to scale up and develop five products.
They then moved their production from a modest commercial kitchen setting in Olds and began producing 400 kg formulations at the Alberta Food Processing and Development Centre in Leduc, AB. Bow Valley BBQ is now providing federally inspected HACCP certified products for both retail and food service.
Currently, Bow Valley BBQ Inc. products can be found in over 20 Restaurants and Retailers throughout Alberta and B.C. with more to come. They have since grown their monthly production demands to 2,400kg batches and a storage facility in Canmore is housing their inventories from where they ship it nationwide.
Most commercially manufactured barbeque sauces are molasses laden, fake smoke-induced, MSG-enhanced bottled concoctions. It is what you put on meat if you don't know what you are doing or when you have the in-laws over for dinner. If you do put it on your meat, you end up with a sugary, charcoal resembled, burned bitterness that serves no purpose other than make you look mean and stupid.
With the Boq Valley BBQ Blueberry Merlot Steak Sauce, we've found something much different. It enhanced our work. We used it as a basting sauce, and it made the meat flavour better, instead of destroying or masking it. We used it in combination with the Missing Link Spice Blend on sirloin, pork ribs, prime rib, and so far just could not fault it. It left us enough room for our own flavour additions.
We keep a high standard when we braai. There are reputations to protect. Jamie and his creations are helping us take it to the next level. We are glad we gave it a try. It is now a regular condiment in our arsenal of gourmet braai secrets.
P.S. Jamie is in the process of launching the Canmore Co-Packing Collective. He promised to work with the Two Cowboys to help package and bottle our own famous Monkey Gland Sauce. More about that later...
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Abortion ship sailed outside Mexican territorial waters for second time.
For immediate release April 22, 2017: Women on Waves sailed out again with several women to international waters today from Zihuatanejo, Mexico. There was no interference from the authorities. The ship did not need any special permission for coastal sailing.
The last 2 days, more than 70 women from all over Mexico called the safe abortion hotline. We received calls from Quintana Roo to Oaxaca from women needing abortions because of a variety of reasons, including failure of their contraceptives, or because they had been raped and are too afraid to reach out for legal local health services (abortion is legal in cases sexual violence in all states).
The hotline also received many calls from Mexico City, where abortion is legal and free. Many women still did not know they could have safe abortions in this City. Every Mexican woman has the right to information. Even after the ship leaves Mexico the hotline will continue to provide women information with safe abortion options. Women in need of an safe abortion can continue to call 755 9800 548.
Women who need help have the following options: Travel to Mexico City as it is free and legal for more information, please check: http://ile.salud.cdmx.gob.mx/. They can also contact Fondo MARIA at 01800-8327-311, to receive information or support to travel to Mexico City or they can contact Women on Web, at www.comoabortar.org, where women can fulfill an online consultation to receive a medical abortion.
Hundreds of Mexicans have expressed their support for the campaign. The success of this action shows that the Mexican society is ready to discuss abortion beyond each person's individual beliefs, taking into account the human rights of women and the secular nature of the Mexican State.
This campaign was an international collaboration between Women on Waves and 40 Mexican organizations and human rights defenders that are working tirelessly to protect and promote the human right to a safe abortion.
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Abortion ship Mexico, April 2017
Women on Waves arrived in Ixtapa on April 19 th on the invitation of more than…