![]() The song features provocative lyrics such as: "Let's go // Brand new Lamborghini, f- a cop car // With the pistol on my hip like I'm a cop (yeah, yeah, yeah)" and "This ain't no guitar, b-, this a Glock (woo)". The accompanying music video starts with DaBaby driving a fancy sports car later he's shown shooting zombies in the woods. Released in April, the rapper's biggest hit comes from his latest album, "Blame It On Baby." A Black Lives Matter remix of "Rockstar" was released in June in the aftermath of Floyd's death. His latest album, "Blame It On Baby," dropped in 2020, making it the rappers third album in a little over a year.ĭaBaby has a daughter with ex-girlfriend MeMe. His single "Suge" earned him two nominations at the 62nd annual Grammys for best rap performance and best rap song. He released several mixtapes, starting in 2014, but it was his debut "Baby On Baby," which dropped in March 2019, that launched him into the mainstream. Another album, "Kirk," came out the same year. ![]() Earlier in his music career, he was known as Baby Jesus.Īfter high school, he attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for two years, but quit, claiming he'd only gone to college to please his parents, according to Rolling Stone. He's a Grammy-nominated rapperĭaBaby was born Jonathan Lyndale Kirk in Cleveland, but calls Charlotte, North Carolina home. Here are some things to know about DaBaby, the 28-year-old rapper who is burning up the charts. The collaboration with Roddy Ricch had 43.7 million US streams in the week that ended July 2, the magazine reported, citing data from Nielsen Music/MRC Data.ĭaBaby's recent fame has been fueled, in part, by an appearance at this year's BET Awards on June 28, where he performed "Rockstar" complete with an actor portraying a police officer placing a knee on his neck, similar to how George Floyd died while in the custody of Minneapolis police.Īt the same event, which was held virtually, Ricch won album of the year and wore a Black Lives Matter shirt while performing "High Fashion" and "The Box."ĭaBaby also met with Charlotte city leaders for a "Black Lives BEEN Mattered" summit. The rapper has been atop Billboard's Hot 100 Songs chart for five straight weeks. But it's DaBaby's "Rockstar" that just might be the season's defining hit. So far, we've danced in our living rooms to Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande's duet "Rain On Me" and classy, bougie, ratchet-ed to Megan Thee Stallion's "Savage" featuring Beyonce. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, the “Rockstar” became the 20th act to claim the top two spots on the chart at the same time.This summer is anything but normal (thanks, coronavirus) but the music industry is still churning out hits, vying for the title of song of summer. Lil Baby: Twelve songs off of “My Turn” appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 in March, giving Lil Baby a career total of 47 tracks on the chart, which tied him with a couple of legends: Prince and Paul McCartney.ĭaBaby: When the remix of Jack Harlow’s “Whats Poppin,” featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne, hit No. Lil Baby: His track “Catch the Sun” was featured in the 2019 film “Queen & Slim.”ĭaBaby: He released a “Bonnie and Clyde”-inspired short film for his single “Find My Way” in April. Lil Baby: He appeared in the MTV stoner movie “How High 2” in 2019.ĭaBaby: He made a powerful Black Lives Matter statement at last month’s BET Awards by re-enacting George Floyd’s death. Lil Baby: 1 (Best Rap/Sung Performance for “Drip Too Hard” in 2020)ĭaBaby: 2 (Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for “Suge” in 2020) TV close-up Debut albumĭaBaby: “Baby on Baby” (2019) DaBaby Getty Images for Hennessey Drake collabĭaBaby: “Oprah’s Bank Account” (with Lil Yachty) Grammy nominations Lil Baby: When he was a kid, his older friends often called him “Lil Baby.”ĭaBaby: Formerly known as Baby Jesus, he thought his name had become a distraction, so he changed it to DaBaby. AgeĭaBaby: Charlotte, North Carolina Lil Baby WireImage How he got his handle Here, we break down the tale of the tape in summer’s biggest battle. ![]() 1 on the Billboard 200 - more than any other artist this year - while DaBaby’s “Rockstar” single, featuring Roddy Ricch, has occupied the summit of the Hot 100 for four weeks.Īnd these hot hip-hoppers - who traded rhymes on “Baby” in 2019 and a “Life Is Good” remix earlier this year - don’t show any signs of cooling off. The two rappers have been cradling the top spots on the charts: Lil Baby’s “My Turn” album has spent five weeks at No. ![]() And it’s been all for Lil Baby and DaBaby. There’s been lots of Baby love going around this year.
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Ganymede, the largest of these, has a diameter greater than that of Mercury. ![]() Jupiter has at least 67 moons, including the four large Galilean moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. The planet’s magnetic field is thought to be generated by electrical currents in this layer. Jupiter’s core is thought to be molten and may be surrounded by a thick layer of liquid metallic hydrogen. The temperature and pressure in the interior increase with depth, reaching values typical of the Sun’s interior by the time one-third of the way to the center. The interior of Jupiter is mainly composed of hydrogen and helium. ![]() A prominent result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the 17th century when it was first seen by telescope. The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along their interactions. Because of its rapid rotation, the planet’s shape is that of an oblate spheroid (it has a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator). It may also have a rocky core of heavier elements, but like the other giant planets, Jupiter lacks a well-defined solid surface. Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium, though helium only composes about a tenth of the number of molecules in Jupiter. When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can be bright enough to cast shadows, and is on average the third-brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus. The Romans named it after their god Jupiter. Jupiter has been known to astronomers since antiquity. It is a gas giant with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. The giant planet will next come to opposition on November 3, 2023.Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. Jupiter will be bright and beautiful for at least the next few weeks before rising earlier and earlier, and thus moving higher into the night sky. Look far to the right and you’ll see Saturn, whose incredible ring pattern is visible through any small telescope. Look just above Jupiter and you’ll also see a diamond-shaped constellation of four bright stars known as the “Great Square of Pegasus,” an asterism (unofficial shape) within a larger constellation. ![]() With any pair of binoculars or even a tiny telescope pointed at Jupiter you’ll see three or four of its large Galilean moons-Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and Io. The result of that is that it gets noticed much more than when it’s high in the sky during the middle of the night.īut take a closer look. Any planet near to its opposition is visible close to the horizon in the early evening when many people are still outside. ![]() Another adaptive mechanism is seen in skill-training subjects (golfers, table tennis players, etc.) where functional and electrical alterations in cardiac activity observed despite the absence of structural cardiac remodeling in contrast to healthy sedentary individuals (9, 10].įor simplicity of understanding of cardiac adaptation in athletes, sedentary subjects and patients we proposed a diagram (Fig. Objectively, most of sportive disciplines consist of both endurance and resistance activity, so these branches are classified as mixed-training (boxing, football etc.). According to that, eccentric hypertrophy (EccH) develops mainly due to endurance-training or exercises with high dynamic and low static exertions (long-distance runners, cross-country skiers, etc.) while concentric hypertrophy (ConH) progresses in response to long-standing power training or exercises with high static demand (weightlifting, wrestling, etc.) (5-7, 10]. Despite the controversial nature of Morganroth hypothesis, two phenotypes of athletic heart have not been fully rejected, rather modified according to static and dynamic effects of exercise on cardiac structures. The fluctuating prevalence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) due presumably to underlying structural and electrical remodeling of athlete’s heart presents the unresolved issues.Įarly investigations revealed the different pathogenesis of athlete's hypertrophy in contrast to pathological one and defined as "physiological hypertrophy", thus structural and functional changes were proportional and hypertrophy regressed by detraining for a given period (3,4).įurthermore, studies in sports cardiology presented the different features of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) depending on sportive branches. Doping abuse and overtraining are other huge problems of sports cardiology with known and unknown deleterious outcomes. The third question is the defining of controversial nature of the athletic heart syndrome whether adaptive hypertrophy shares or not the pathologic features of disease-based hypertrophy. Key words: athlete’s heart, pathological hypertrophy, maladaptive hypertrophy, sudden cardiac death, cardiovascular imaging, overtraining Introduction In this review, we aimed to represent recent physiological and clinical standpoints regarding to athletic heart syndrome as well as its difference from sedentary heart changes and pathological hypertrophy, its association with sudden cardiac death. The significance of problem is more emphasized when cohort studies represented survival differences by means of cardiovascular parameters between athletes and sedentary subjects and cardiac patients. The development, variety and severity of cardiac hypertrophy fluctuate by sportive branch and training mode. Additionally, the higher prevalence of sudden cardiac death in sportsmen compared to sedentary matches, especially in case of athletes with known or suspected cardiovascular diseases necessitated scrupulous investigation of athletic heart syndrome. The emerging huge challenges in sports cardiology are overtraining and doping abuse of elite athletes by the development of an excessive cardiac hypertrophy with the increased risk of cardiovascular adverse outcomes. According to recent evidence, a gray zone of hypertrophy became emerged between physiological and pathological entities, which require further extensive investigations. Conventionally pathologic hypertrophy believed to be developed in a case of cardiovascular diseases, while the athlete’s heart resulted by long-standing physical training. The improvement of imaging modalities and assessment tools largely contributed to comprehensive integration of scientific and clinical standpoints of athletic hypertrophy. It seems that, on the basis of a contemporary data, the perception of ‘benign’ nature of the cardiac hypertrophy in athletic population is blurred. Probably, it is explained by the prevalence of cardiovascular disorders in all-cause mortality. 1 Scientific Research Institute of Heart Surgery and Organ Transplantation, Bishkek, KyrgyzstanĬardiac hypertrophy has been continuing as the subject of the ‘hottest’ topic in research field for a long time since it creates pathophysiologic and clinical issues by structural and functional alterations of heart. ![]() Walsch's God acknowledges himself as the creator of life, but then adds that he created us in his image so that we could be creators as well. ![]() God Does Not Care What We Do Because Of Why We Are Here Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth." 8 Once again, if words are such an unreliable "purveyor of Truth," then why should we believe this statement, since it is made with words? This sentence invalidates its own statement and the whole book. Walsch, surprised by this, then asks God what should be considered an authoritative source. 6 A few pages later, God blatantly states that the Bible is not an authoritative source (neither are ministers, rabbis, or priests). God tells the author (and us) that we have placed too much importance on "the Word of God and so little on the experience" and that we should put experience over words. The purpose behind the attack on words so early in the book soon becomes apparent. Until you understand every passage." 5 What happened to words being noises? 4 God also advises the author to re-program his thinking by "reading and re-reading this book. Words are described here as "thought expressed" which "sends forth creative energy into the universe." 3 This idea is repeated where words are described as a vehicle for bringing thought into concrete reality. God explains the process of creation as operating through three levels: thought, word, and action. This is done further in the book, when the reader might have forgotten what God initially says about words. In addition to this, God later totally contradicts his attack on words. This is the first clue that this might not be God who is speaking. God, who should be more clever than this, is using words to say words mean nothing. This statement defeats its own assertion.Īlso, why is God using a book of words to communicate to us through Walsch? Why should we believe anything in this book if words are so useless and mere "noises?" If one wanted to be rigidly logical, one could say that this statement renders the book meaningless and therefore there is no reason to read it. They are not the real thing." 2 If this is true, then this statement, which is made with words, cannot be true which would mean that maybe then words are truth. merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. 1 Interestingly, God (for the sake of convenience, I will call Walsch's God "God," though I am not agreeing that this is the one true living God of the universe) immediately attacks words: "Words are really the least effective communicator. In fact, his main form of communication is through feeling. The very first point this God makes is that he communicates with everyone, but not by words alone. He just asserts it as though the reader should accept it. There is no obligation on the reader's part to take Walsch's word that this is God, especially since Walsch offers absolutely no evidence for it. It is only natural, then, that we examine this book to see what God has to say and what kind of God he is. Walsch claims he knew this was God dictating the responses, although he does not explain how he knew this. As he finished writing the last question, Walsch claims the pen moved on its own and he found himself writing words as though taking dictation. In 1992, Walsch, unhappy and full of angry questions about why his life seemed to be a failure, wrote a letter to God with his questions. ![]() It covers a wide range of topics which cannot all be presented here, so only the most striking points will be addressed Since it seemed to have had such a strong influence on her world view, I purchased and read it. She kept quoting from this book, as though it were a sacred source of truth, finally telling me that I should read it. I first heard of this book in 1997 while discussing spiritual beliefs with a woman working in a New Age bookstore. The title of this best-selling book means what it says: the author has recorded in words conversations held between him and a being he calls God. Walsch BOOK REVIEW: CONVERSATIONS WITH WHICH GOD? LOOKING AT NEALE DONALD WALSCH'S CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK 1 By Marcia Montenegro Marshmallow God: Look at Friendship with God by Neale Donald Conversations With God for Teens ( For Teens)įor Teens: Don't Talk to Strangers ( For Adults) Having the ability to proactively optimize individual virtual machines helps administrators mitigate common pain points that can play havoc with resources in dense storage environments. With VM-level monitoring, enterprise IT organizations have the ability to optimize workload performance and proactively identify, isolate and address these resource contention issues before service level agreements are impacted. In consolidated environments, it is not uncommon for some VM's to consume a disproportionately high amount of resources, starving other VMs on the same system - leading to what is commonly known as the noisy neighbor problem. 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InfoSight provides intelligent, actionable recommendations to IT organizations on how best to scale storage resources in alignment with changing requirements, all of which is easily accessible from any laptop computer via a single cloud-connected interface. ![]() InfoSight automatically opens more than 90 percent of all support cases, and generates resolutions for over 80 percent of them, saving customers the time and effort of having to drive manual support processes. The InfoSight deep data analytics engine captures and analyzes over 30 million data points collected daily from each one of the thousands of installed-base Adaptive Flash storage arrays to provide comprehensive intelligence into overall storage infrastructure health. 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InfoSight completely changed our storage management practices by providing full visibility into VM resource consumption, and a single performance dashboard that gives me an instant heads-up when upgrades are imminent. "The only way my team and I could keep pace with our organization's changing needs was to turn certain VMs on and off to free up IOPS because it was so resource-constrained and severely limited in terms of scalability. ![]() "Our previous legacy storage solution had us caught in a juggling act when managing our VMs," said Steven Jackson, IT Manager at QUMU, a business video platform provider. ![]() With the addition of VM-level monitoring capabilities, InfoSight now provides granular visibility into VMware virtual machine environments, enabling enterprise IT organizations to rapidly resolve resource contention issues and optimize performance. 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While in Aquatic Form, you cannot cast spells or talk to NPCs.They can breathe with a buff and their skills aren't restricted like the aquatic form druid's are. Be slightly wary of warlocks underwater.However, without Glyph of Aquatic Form you are still slower than a hunter's pet underwater. ![]() It is a useful technique for escaping PvP opponents, as few can equal the Sea lion's swim speed and few can hold their breath long enough to catch you. Use this whenever you go into the water.The form can also be exceptionally useful for druids with the Herbalism tradeskill, as it allows more rapid harvesting of the herb, which is valuable on many servers. The speed bonus means that it can serve as a fast form of travel if a given destination can be reached via water, and the greater presence of rivers in Alliance territory means it also gives Horde druids venturing into that area numerous opportunities for concealment, reconnaissance, and rapid escape. 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We are committed to safeguarding your personal data in compliance with Republic Act No. The initial release of Ghosts of the Abyss was limited to big-screen IMAX theaters and movie houses specially equipped to show 3-D features.TV5 Network Inc. Ghosts of the Abyss offers a detailed look at the team's search for the Titanic, as well as imagining what the final hours for the crew and passengers must have been like. Cameron brought along a film crew equipped with state-of-the-art 3-D cameras to document the voyage and utilized the Mir-1 and Mir-2, Russian deep sea submersible vessels capable of voyaging to a depth of around 6500 kilometers. In the summer of 2001, Cameron and his good friend Bill Paxton (who appeared in Titanic) joined a group of scientists, maritime historians, archaeologists, and deep sea explorers for a daring experiment - to find and document the Titanic's final resting place at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Filmmaker James Cameron has long been fascinated with the ill-fated maiden voyage of the great ship the Titanic, and he used the story as the backdrop for his most famous and successful movie. ![]() ![]() The newly unveiled trailer offers a glimpse into the captivating narrative, centered around Yasna, the game’s main character. It serves as a reminder that our greatest threat lies not in nature itself but in our own human nature.ĭeveloped by Starward Industries and published by 11 bit studios, The Invincible is an eagerly anticipated adventure game. Frostpunk 2 continues to explore the themes of human ambition, societal ideals, and the consequences of difficult decisions. With ambitions running high and societal divisions widening, The City teeters on the precipice of downfall. The citizens, having conquered the frost, now face internal struggles and scarcity of vital supplies. However, a world transformed by years of whiteouts presents a blank canvas for a new post-apocalyptic narrative. The City, built around the life-giving warmth of the Generator, has flourished despite the challenges. The sequel takes place three decades after the bitter storm that marked the end of the first chapter. Frostpunk 2: The City Must Not FallĪfter the success of Frostpunk, 11 bit studios is thrilled to announce the arrival of Frostpunk 2, set to launch on PC in 2024. Let’s explore these thrilling upcoming releases in greater detail. ![]() Meanwhile, The Invincible, an adventure game based on Stanislaw Lem’s sci-fi novel, provides a narrative-driven experience that delves into humankind’s unyielding ambition. Frostpunk 2, the highly-anticipated sequel to the award-winning city-builder, is set to release on PC in 2024. The trailers for Frostpunk 2 and The Invincible have generated immense anticipation among gaming enthusiasts. 11 bit studios, renowned for their captivating games, has unveiled exciting updates during the PC Gaming Show. ![]() Soft and fluffy Pandan Cupcakes topped with delicious frosting, coconut shreds, and coconut sugar syrup (gula melaka). Manis is unfortunately only available in Dutch right now, if you’re looking for an Indonesian cookbook recommendation Sri Owen’s Indonesian Food(UK) or The Indonesian Kitchen (US) is your best bet in English. If you’re unfamiliar with pandan, it’s a fragrant tropical plant commonly used in Southeast Asian cuisine to infuse a sweet and unique flavor into dishes, especially desserts. Other recipes that caught my eye are rose syrup marshmallows, kue putu mayang (fresh made noodles in a gula djawa sauce), rotikukus vanila cokelat (this is a steamed Indonesian cake I used to get for all my birthdays but I have yet to replicate my grandmother’s recipe) and brownies with a kue lapis crumble (hello?!). If you want to make pandan fudge yourself just follow the recipe below, for the gula djawa fudge I’m afraid you’re going to have to hope Francis will one day share it in English, or get the book and figure out the translations for yourself. I got the ingredients for both though, so I guess I’ll be eating fudge for the next month or so. I’d wanted to combine them with one a swirl to the other, but as I’m a shit baker and they are made with two different techniques, Francis warned against it. The recipes I was most eager to cook were the pandan and gula djawa fudge (Javanese palm sugar, my other favorite Indonesian sweet ingredient – more on that that some other time) as they seemed the easiest to tackle. Furthermore, as Francis points out in her book, extract ads more liquid to your bakes, which tends to cause problems. ![]() I’ve tried those extracts in small brown bottles but suffer from a bitter note that is really gross and drowns out subtle pandan. I recommend the Koepoe Kopoe brand of pandan paste. This is probably why I prefer artificial pandan over ‘real’ pandan which is too mild for my tastes. While we can now get fresh or frozen pandan in Europe, I remember the first pandan I ever had coming from Indonesian pandan chiffon cake mixes my grandmother brought over in the 90’s. All you need to know is that pandan is good, makes everything sweet more delicious and that it turns everything green (including my nose when I was making this fudge). Flavorwise, except for the subtlety, it is nothing like vanilla in my opinion. If you don’t know what pandan is, it’s often called ‘the vanilla of South East Asia’ but I never know if this is because it is so widely used or because people need to come up with useless comparisons. Though her editor told her that maybe that was enough pandan for one book, personally I can never get enough pandan so I was quite happy to see so much of it (and gula djawa) in one book. Manis offers a nice combination of nostalgic Indisch and Indonesian recipes alongside more modern concoctions that Francis came up with herself. Like me, Francis is of Dutch-Indonesian descent so after her tomes on the foundations of Indisch and Indonesian cooking it was time for a book on Indisch and Indonesian sweets and baking. Her new book, Manis (Indonesian for ‘sweet’), is coming out this week and I had the pleasure of having a look before it hit stores. She has large online following, makes regular TV appearances and has released four cookbooks in the Netherlands up to date. Note: if you just add simple pandan syrup to milk, you'll end up with either a very light, almost indiscernible flavor or an overly-sweet milk.Francis Kuijk has a well-known and beloved face in the Dutch food scene since she made it to the season 4 finale of Heel Holland Bakt (Dutch Bake Off). If watching your calories, feel free to omit as many milks, such as almond milk, are quite sweet already. Pandan goes particularly well with brown sugar and gula melaka sugar.
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