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The Chemistry of Psychedelics and the Brain
November 28, 2021 / Ruby Brien / 0 Comments
It is paramount to learn how magic mushrooms work and how the influence of shroom compounds on the brain before crossing the line of the psychedelic world. Learn more about psychedelic and brain chemistry right here.
Psychonauts describes using psychedelics as a discovery of one's self and entering a new world. It is incredible how a biological compound offers a powerfully transformative experience. However, have you wondered how psychedelics influence the brain? What happens to the brain at a molecular and chemical level when one consumes this compound?
Psychedelics, A Short Background
Magic mushroom, generally known as shroom, is the best example of a psychedelic source. Shrooms contain psilocybin – a psychoactive and hallucinogenic chemical with similar properties to LSDs; click to read more on shrooms and psilocybin. The health sector recognizes psilocybin as the most common and well-known psychedelic substance.
How do psilocybin and other psychedelic substances affect the brain? The answer all comes down to the chemical composition of psychedelics.
Influence of Psychedelics on the Brain
There are many ways psychedelics can affect the brain. First, this biological compound may forge, create, and alter neural paths. Regenerating neural links and neurons may improve one's cognitive abilities, enhance mood and stop addiction. It supports easier withdrawal from opiate addiction.
Psychedelic is likewise a well-known psychiatric medication. It is capable of regulating the emotions of patients with psychological disorders. Medical professionals and experts primarily utilize psychedelic as a psychiatric medication due to its ability to enhance emotional release and sensitivity.
Aside from regenerating neural paths, psychedelic affects the neurotransmitters and receptors in the brain. Psilocybin, a chemical messenger, is known as a serotonergic psychedelic. It activates the serotonin receptors in the cerebral cortex. Firing up these receptors causes profound impact and higher-order functions. It heightens awareness, mood and stimulates all the senses, which results in a transformative experience. Additionally, the long-term use of psilocybin significantly increases serotonin levels, which eventually consequences improved optimism.
Psilocybin also suppresses the brain's Default Mode Network (DNM) -a common characteristic of psychedelics. DNM is a system connected to the regions of the brain with functions related to introspective activities such as daydreaming. Studies show that a high level of DNM activities is associated with depression and anxiety. It is also the reason behind an individual's high sense of ego.
Psychedelics, like psilocybin, it inhibits DNM overactivity. It regulates the activities of sensory inputs, thereby controlling perceptions, vision, and movement. Psychedelics, therefore, supports the cultivation of higher self-awareness by opening the consciousness to a different world.
Using psychedelics helps in the process of generating neurons, otherwise known as neuroplasticity and neurogenesis. These processes take place in the hippocampus of the brain. According to studies, low neurogenesis and neuroplasticity activities could lead to poor memory, slower cognition, frequent mood changes, poor sleep, and overall productivity.
Inasmuch, psilocybin and other psychedelic compounds influence brain functions and processes. It stimulates the brain, which leads to higher-order functions and easement of psychiatric disorders. Therefore, using psilocybin may help people suffering from psychological problems, opiate withdrawal, and poor physical performance.
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Jurors to decide fate of Rockport man accused of paying to sexually assault a nine-year-old
David Wills is accused of paying a woman to let him sexually assault her nine-year-old daughter.
Author: Michael Gibson
Published: 6:19 PM CDT October 7, 2019
Updated: 6:19 PM CDT October 7, 2019
ROCKPORT, Texas — The fate of a Rockport, Texas, businessman accused of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl is now in the hands of a federal court jury.
It took some four years for David Wills to finally be brought to trial.
Prosecutors wrapped up their case just before noon Monday at the federal courthouse, leaving jurors to decide if Wills is guilty or innocent.
Wills is a Rockport businessman accused of paying Maria Loyosa to allow him to have sex with her nine-year-old daughter back in 2012. Wills is facing 18 federal counts, including sex trafficking of children, and coercion and enticement of females.
"Well, he didn't do it," Wills' defense attorney John Gilmore said. "I mean, that's our argument. Yep. It was an extortion attempt, so that's our argument."
Prosecutors in their closing arguments told the jury that Losoya already pleads guilty to the sex trafficking of her own child, and that prosecutors had proven their case against Wills.
The indictment in the case stated that Losoya would visit wills in Rockport with the girl so that he could sexually assault her for money. It goes on to say that the abuse continued for roughly three years until 2015. The assaults allegedly took place not only in Rockport but in multiple counties.
Security guard killed in south side bar shooting
Victim identified in murder near Corpus Christi Walmart
Argument escalates on city's south side
Fiesta de la Flor leaving Corpus Christi, according to Quintanilla family

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Those looking to get a taste of the LG G3 on Sprint's network but don't want or aren't able to cough up the cost of what it takes to pick up the handset, will be able to grab a somewhat slimmed down version of the device starting this Friday. Sprint has announced that beginning on September 19th, they will be offering the LG G3 Vigor at a non contract price of $299, giving consumers a chance to have the style of the LG G3 without the price. That drop in cost of course also means a drop in specs, as the Vigor loses the 3GB of RAM and instead sports 1GB, and forfeits the QHD screen resolution for a 5-inch IPS display with 720p resolution.
Although it doesn't have a complete focus on selfies, Sprint and LG mention that the LG G3 Vigor was designed with selfies in mind, touting a 1.3MP front facing camera that features a front facing a soft light that is supposed to make for brighter images thanks to the illuminated border that surrounds the display. In addition to this LG has added in the capability to activate the shutter using gestures. Although the rear facing camera isn't quite up to par with the original G3's 13MP shooter, it does carry the same laser auto-focus paired with an 8MP rear camera for an enhanced, quicker focus ability on the subject of the picture.
The Vigor will also be taking on the G3's knock code feature, as well as the smart cleaning feature to help optimize your phone to run as smooth as possible by notifying the user about unused temporary files being stored on the device. It'll be running Android 4.4.2 kit kat out of the box, and carries a 2540mAh battery inside. For storage, the Vigor sports 8GB of internal memory but can expand to an additional 32GB via microSD. It comes in burgandy red or metallic black, and if customers aren't keen on spending the $299 up front Sprint is allowing the option of $0 down and $12.50 a month for customers who are enrolled in the Sprint Easy Pay option, basically financing the phone over a series of 24 monthly payments. Event though it is a watered down mid-range version of the LG G3, it doesn't seem to bad of a device, especially if you can't afford the higher cost of the G3. Customers will be able to grab the device through all normal sales channels, which includes retail locations, the online store and of course Sprint's telesales and Business sales channels.


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Tomorrow morning (Saturday 9/13), Saotome Shihan will be teaching class @ 10 AM. Saotome Shihan is a world renowned martial arts master and one of the last surviving uchideshi (personal live-in students) of O'Sensei. We are very fortunate to have him here in Sarasota and teaching at 12th Street Dojo. All are welcomed to attend, please place your $10 mat fee in the box with your name on it. This applies to active dojo memebrs as well. See you there!


One of this season's trends, that we have yet to talk about here at Elite Daily, is metallic fabric. Seen on Elie Saab, Louis Vuitton and Giambattista Valli runways, the metallic trend is an interesting and certainly complicated trend to wear.
You don't want to overdo it when it comes to metallic fabric. Too much metallic worn in the wrong way can make you look like Zenon, but when worn correctly, metallic fabric can give you an extra edge and be a beautiful nighttime ensemble.
Try a metallic blazer with an all-matte outfit or a metallic dress with matte tights. Metallic pumps are also being seen everywhere this winter and would be an unconventional addition to your closet.
Would you wear metallic fabric?


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Current news directly from Teamster Locals in the US and Canada.
01/20/20 - Teamsters local 570
Jan. 20, 2020 | ACTIVISM | In what would have been his 91st birthday, we celebrate the towering legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—his moral force as a faith leader, his devotion to nonviolent resistance and, of course, the sacrifices he made to end legalized segregation in the South. But there is an often-overlooked aspect of his work: Dr.
On the night before he died, Martin Luther King gave a speech about the dignity of labor. It still rings true. He was in Memphis, Tenn., supporting sanitation workers' rights to respect and a decent wage. He said: "Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth." Dr.
Every ten years a census has been conducted in the United States of America since 1790 (every year ending in "0"). This year, Pennsylvanians will again....
01/19/20 - Pennsylvania Federation BMWED-IBT
NO Friend of Workers... NO Friend of Unions... NO Friend of Railroads... How or Why some would support this troll is unimaginable. When it comes to wowing workers, Donald Trump is an absolute magician. Through some mysterious sorcery, he has convinced millions of American workers that he is their true friend, fighting hard for them, even though he and his appointees have taken one anti-worker action after another—dozens of them.
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING SUNDAY, JANUARY 19
The Teamsters Local 179 General Membership meeting will be held on Sunday, January 19 at 10:00 a.m. at the Local 179 membership hall located at 990 NE Frontage Road in Joliet. Hope to see you there.
TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL 25 WOMEN'S COMMITTEE'S SCHOLARSHIP IS NOW AVAILABLE!
Teamsters Joint Council 25 Women's Committee is proud to announce it's 2020 Scholarship! Each year, Teamsters Joint Council 25 Women's Committee awards 5 scholarships to Teamster Women who demonstrate the desire to excel and reach their educational goals. The scholarships are valued from $1,000-$2,500.
The Ghost of Jimmy Hoffa
The Ghost of Jimmy Hoffa By David Macaray | CounterPunch | Following is an article from one of our favorite magazine journals, CounterPunch, a periodical chocked with deep-seated investigative reporting that speaks to progressive politics and civil liberties. Lately there has been so much hype surrounding the the life and death of Jimmy Hoffa. The Martin Scorsese Netflix movie "The Irishman" attempts to chart the events of the day Hoffa disappeared in a way that you somehow yield to them not as a flight of fancy but as the reconstruction of an established truth. This author felt necessary to put facts into perspective, removing Scorsese's glamorization of one-time Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa and identifying the union and it's leadership for what it was - corrupt, anti-democratic and dirty.
Local 743 Stewards Train to Organizing Amidst Major UCMC Campaign
On a wet and windy morning on Chicago's South Side, nearly 100 Union Stewards from Teamsters Local 743 met to learn about the organizing side of union business.
It's Time for Lawmakers to Acknowledge Workers Are Struggling
Jan. 17, 2020 | FAIR WAGES | There rightfully has been a lot of focus recently on the need for good-paying jobs. We wrote about it last week in this space and will again right now. Why? Because it is important to counter the narrative being pushed by some that everything is going just great for workers. Interest in the topic certainly goes beyond the Teamster Nation Blog.
Jan. 17, 2020 | ECONOMY | There rightfully has been a lot of focus recently on the need for good-paying jobs. We wrote about it last week in this space and will again right now. Why? Because it is important to counter the narrative being pushed by some that everything is going just great for workers. Interest in the topic certainly goes beyond the Teamster Nation Blog.
Local 776 Newsletter
Recently Local 776 mailed the Winter 2020 issue of the 776 Review to the membership. Did the mailman....
Virginia 38th and Final State Needed to Pass Equal Rights Amendment
Jan. 16, 2020 | EQUALITY | Since Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, the proposal to enshrine gender equality in the Constitution has languished in state legislatures, failing to rack up the approvals in the three-quarters of states required of Constitutional amendments—until now.
For the Love of God, Ask the Candidates About Unions
Jan. 16, 2020 | VOTE2020 | The American labor movement has been under attack for decades, but you wouldn't know it from watching the Democratic primary debates. On Tuesday evening, moderators mentioned unions once — specifically a union, the AFL-CIO, and only to ask Bernie Sanders why he opposed the USMCA trade deal that the union endorsed.


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package roadgraph.searchalgorithms.api;

import geography.GeographicPoint;
import roadgraph.graphsenities.MapEdge;
import roadgraph.graphsenities.MapNode;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.function.Consumer;

public abstract class SearchAlgo implements Searcher {
    protected final Map<MapNode, List<MapEdge>> graph;

    public SearchAlgo(Map<MapNode, List<MapEdge>> graph) {
        this.graph = graph;
    }

    public Map<MapNode, List<MapEdge>> getGraph() {
        return graph;
    }

    protected abstract boolean findPath(MapNode startNode, MapNode goalNode,
                                     Consumer<GeographicPoint> nodeSearched, List<GeographicPoint> result);

    public List<GeographicPoint> search(MapNode startNode, MapNode goalNode,
                                        Consumer<GeographicPoint> nodeSearched) {
        List<GeographicPoint> result = new ArrayList<>();
        return findPath(startNode, goalNode, nodeSearched, result) ? result : null;
    }

    protected boolean isInputValid(MapNode startNode, MapNode goalNode, Consumer<GeographicPoint> nodeSearched,
                                   List<GeographicPoint> result) {

        return startNode != null  && goalNode != null && graph != null && result != null && nodeSearched != null;
    }

    protected List<GeographicPoint> constructPath(Map<MapNode, MapNode> parentMap, MapNode goal,
                                                List<GeographicPoint> result) {
        for(MapNode node = goal; node != null; node = parentMap.get(node)) {
            result.add(node.getLocation());
        }
        Collections.reverse(result);
        return result;
    }

    protected void constructPrimaryWeightedGraph(MapNode startNode) {
        for (Map.Entry<MapNode, List<MapEdge>> entry : graph.entrySet()) {
            if (entry.getKey().equals(startNode)) {
                entry.getKey().setWeight(0.0);
            }
        }
    }

}

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Syringe found in bush at Jubilee Reserve earlier this year.
THE Housing Authority is set to review its position on an alleged drug house in Eden Hill after the tenants' criminal court hearing in December.
The property located on Northmoor Road near Jubilee Reserve has been linked to drug activity in recent months.
On October 11, the tenants faced court and pleaded not guilty, with their case adjourned until December 21.
Housing Authority service delivery general manager Greg Cash said the Housing Authority was still following the case.
"Should the tenants be convicted of the charges, Housing can proceed with termination of the tenancy under the Residential Tenancies Act," he said.
"The final decision to evict a tenant rests with the Magistrate's Court.
Bassendean MLA Dave Kelly said the State Government should respect summer was a peak family time and should protect the area around Jubilee Reserve.
"My understanding is the Government does not have to wait until December," he said.
Resident and Jubilee Action Group member Neera Mukherjee said the tenants needed to be evicted to keep the community safe.
"Personally I would like to view the process of how people are placed in housing," she said.


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package org.pentaho.hbase.factory;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor;

public interface HBaseAdmin {
  HTableDescriptor[] listTables() throws IOException;

  boolean tableExists( String tableName ) throws IOException;

  void disableTable( String tableName ) throws IOException;

  void enableTable( String tableName ) throws IOException;

  boolean isTableDisabled( String tableName ) throws IOException;

  boolean isTableEnabled( String tableName ) throws IOException;

  boolean isTableAvailable( String tableName ) throws IOException;

  HTableDescriptor getTableDescriptor( byte[] tableName ) throws IOException;

  void deleteTable( String tableName ) throws IOException;

  void createTable( HTableDescriptor tableDesc ) throws IOException;

  void close() throws IOException;
}


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Q: Dominio problemas con sendmail.ini Cuando estaba creando una pagina web en local (servidor XAMPP) para la parte de enviar un formulario a un correo, utilizaba los archivos php.ini y sendmail.ini para poner la configuracion de mi correo. Ahora que he subido la pagina a mi dominio, no me funciona al darle enviar el formulario, pero en local si.
email.php:
<?php

    $to_email = "correo@gmail.com";
    $subject =  "Cliente: " . $_POST['name'];
    $body = "Telefono: " . $_POST['phone'] . "\n\n" . "Correo: ". $_POST['email'] . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
    $headers = $_POST['email'];

    mail($to_email, $subject, $body, $headers);

?>

AJAX:
function sendMailPHP() {
    $('.contact').on('submit', function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        $.ajax({
            type: 'post',
            url: 'php/email.php',
            data: $('.contact').serialize(),
            success: function() {
                $(".btn-general").val("ENVIADO!");
            }
        });
    });

}

HTML:
<form class="container contact" name="send_email">

Explicanos tu proyecto

                    <input type="text" name="name" id="" placeholder="Nombre y apellidos" class="form-input input-name">

                    <input type="text" name="email" id="" placeholder="Email" class="form-input input-email">

                    <input type="number" name="phone" id="" placeholder="Teléfono" class="form-input input-phone">

                    <textarea type="radio" name="message" id="" placeholder="Mensaje" class="form-input input-message"></textarea>

                    <input name="submit" type="submit" value="ENVIAR" class="btn-general btn-submit disabled-button">

            </form>

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As I sit here in the kitchen wondering what to make the kiddos for breakfast, I realized that today is Cow Appreciation Day. I began to think about all the great things you do for us on a daily basis.
In honor of this special day for you, I wanted to give you a break. For breakfast, I will make eggs and bacon. However, it will be served with milk. My kids are sprouting up like crazy and I need their bones strong, so thank you for providing the calcium. Plus, their beverage choices are limited to milk or water. If I took the milk away, they'd be upset.
For lunch, Higgins and Bernardo love their yogurt. Again, thank you for the milk. Higgins also is going to ask for cheese, so unfortunately you won't have too much time off at lunch. However, they usually ask for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, so that is a plus for you!
For dinner...well....I hope only the dairy cows are reading this. We're having steak. Maybe burgers. Either way, you're tasty and we appreciate your sacrifice to provide us with a protein filled meal. Of course, dinner isn't going to be just meat. The fruits and vegetables have made a considerable sacrifice today as well.
Just at quick view of our current cow contribution.
The day will probably end with a cup of coffee and maybe some chocolate or ice cream for dessert.
Cows, we do appreciate all that you do! Have a great day.
Cows have 1 stomach, but it has 4 compartments to break down its food.
Cows are herbivores (they eat grass and other plants).
Cows are red/green color blind.
Cows are pregnant for 9 months.
Cows are like snowflakes: no two cows have the same spots.
In the front of their mouths, cows only have front bottom teeth!
BOOKS: Here are some of the cute cow books we read. I'm sure there are many more out there!


Hey girl I remember another poster being very friendly, but then turned sour after having reported lots of benefits from iodine, and the next thing I remember reading about was her reporting how her hair was fallin out by the handful. I'll see if I can do a search for it. If your hair starts falling out, can you please be sure to let us know ?


I am experimenting with syncing Live to external sequencers (e.g., Squarp Pyramid, Elektron Digitakt) and I have encountered an issue. When the external sequencer is stopped, Live's "MIDI Track Out" indicator is lit and I cannot audition plug-in's loaded in Live's MIDI tracks. I assume that an "All Notes Off" message or something similar is being generated continuously by Live when the external sequencer is stopped, but I cannot verify this. I have not been able to find any documentation describing this behavior.
When Live is not synced to an external sequencer, and when Live's sequencer is stopped, I do not experience the same behavior. This behavior is consistent with all external sequencers that I have experimented with syncing Live to, so I have to assume that Live is responsible for this behavior.
So, my question is: What is this MIDI message that Live is generating continuously when synced to an external sequencer that is stopped? Is there a way to disable this behavior? Is this behavior expected?
This issue is localised to your Squarp and possibly the Elektron too.
I tested with a TR-8 and although the MIDI out indicator is permanently lit when Live is in Ext. sync mode, you can still audition plugins and instruments when the external sequencer is not running.
Further investigation reveals that the Squarp sends a MIDI stop with each clock tick when it isn't playing. There should be a setting in the system which allows you to change this. We don't have a Squarp though I can't give any more guidance on that.
Can anyone confirm that the Pyramid sends a MIDI stop message w/ each clock tick when the sequencer is stopped? I didn't find this in the manual. Also, I've never observed this when monitoring the MIDI Out messages under the Info menu. If I remember correctly, I've experienced this issue even when Pyramid is configured not to send clock when the sequencer is stopped.
If anyone can share any more information I'd appreciate it!
We don't send a midi stop message with each clock. We have a setting SETTINGS > MIDI OUT > SYNC STOP which allows you to keep the clock regardless of the player state. I don't know if Ableton needs a clock if the master is stopped but one value of this setting should do the trick.
We don't send a midi stop message with each clock.
Good to know. Setting "SYNC STOP" to "OFF" did the trick.
I wonder now whether this behavior is inherent to Live's handling of clock messages when the sequencer is stopped, or whether the behavior is specific to certain plug-ins.


law abridging freedom of speech."
but she finally quit because she ran out.
what she feels is "selective prosecution"
to stop by any University official.
they'll be penalized in anyway."
faculty members employed by USF.
Development Fund, a charitable organization.
Fr . Buckley believes that the faculty union would lose an appeal.
better wages, better working hours, more security.
better than I, do not share this opinion."
Buckley with an arbitration board to hear his case.
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The rate of inflation is having a detrimental effect on those who are trying to save, it has been reported.
According to Defaqto, increases of 3.7 per cent for the Retail Prices Index (RPI) and 3.5 per cent for the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) are making it hard for people in both the lower and higher tax brakets to get a good return on their savings.
The group stated that it is near impossible for tax payers to get a real rate of return on their savings accounts.
David Black, banking specialist at Defaqto, said: "The stark reality is that there are now no taxable instant access or notice accounts that will give a real rate of return to even a basic rate taxpayer, let alone a higher rate taxpayer."
Defaqto warned earlier this month of the poor rates that savers are currently facing, after the Monetary Policy Committee decided to prolong the Bank of England base rate at 0.5 per cent.


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Q: python check if colour exists on mouse click I am trying to automate part of a game. I've done all but one part of what I need and its proving to be difficult. My code so far:
import win32api, win32con, time
import win32com.client as comclt

counter = 0
holder = 611

def click(x,y):
    win32api.SetCursorPos((x,y))
    win32api.mouse_event(win32con.MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN,x,y,0,0)
    win32api.mouse_event(win32con.MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP,x,y,0,0)

click(100,470)#click auto
time.sleep(1)
click(336,222)#click private parking
time.sleep(0.5)
click(1200,330)#click steal
time.sleep(1)
click(429,y)#select car

The last line "select car" is where I am having an issue. Basically I cannot always steal a car because the attempt will fail so I need a way to check if a car has been stolen. Once you steal a car it gives you some info in a row and at the end is a colour bar. What I would like to do is this:
After stealing a car, check to see if the colour red exists at x,y coordinates. If so, do something else (which is already done). If not I will set the y coord back. What is the best way for me to go about checking whether the colour red is present?

A: solved using: color = win32gui.GetPixel(win32gui.GetDC(win32gui.GetActiveWindow()), 1242 , 523)


Female boxing in Britain could soon have another star in the shape of Natasha Jonas.
Female boxing is increasing in popularity, especially in Britain. It could soon have another star in the shape of Natasha Jonas. The Scouser took up boxing in 2005 and was a highly decorated amateur. She has signed with Eddie Hearn and will make her debut this week.
She was the first female to make it onto the GB squad. She won a bronze medal at the 2012 World Championships and was a medal hope entering the London Games. Unfortunately she was drawn to fade Katie Taylor in the quarter final and came out on the losing side. She is returning from a sabbatical she took to give birth.
The debut for Jonas will come on June 23 in Newcastle. It will come against Polish boxer Monika Antonik. She has lost three of her four bouts, the last two being in England. She lost to prospects making their debut in Nina Bradley and Lauren Johnson.
Her aim is to win a title in her first year as a professional and she could well be on a collision course with amateur rival Katie Taylor.


Can someone explain the characteristics of these black bubbles and mad-faced poison bubbles:confused:? Can you only complete a level by buying anti-venom?
No. You can complete it without buying the antivenom. But it sure is easier to buy it. If you are low on coins just go back to islands one and two and redo all the levels aiming for 3 stars until you have enough to buy the antivenom.
I use level 5 puzzles to increase my amount of coins.
I've not seen antivenom. Where do you buy it. I've looked all around in settings and there doesn't seem to be a store. Does it only pop up when you have so much money? I'm on level 6-5.
The antivenom in the pic above is the one circled in red.
Also, the black bubbles cannot be matched with anything. You have to play around them or knock them off by popping all the bubbles above them. I think there is some exploding boost that can get rid of them, too, but I have never used that boost, so I can't say for sure.


Human hair paintbrushes are a sustainable way to create beautiful works of art. Whether you use your own hair, your family's hair or hair from the local barber shop, you will never run out of this renewable resource. Your bamboo brush handle is also a sustainable resource that is easy to obtain and easy to grow. When you make your own paintbrush, you also reduce the emissions used to create and ship a manufactured paintbrush.
Lay the hair in pieces on the napkin liner, allowing it to lay over the edge of the liner. Make sure the cut ends of the hair are inside the liner because the uncut ends will hold pigment better than the cut ends.
Drizzle a generous amount of glue on the hair in the napkin liner and roll the liner tightly.
Place the hair and liner in the bamboo. You may need an ice pick or screwdriver to force the hair and liner into the bamboo. Make sure the hair and liner are secure in the bamboo and insert matchsticks into the bamboo with the hair to make it tighter if necessary.
Allow the brush to dry overnight. Do not use the brush before the it is completely dry.
Wash your brush completely after every use and allow it to dry thoroughly. Proper care will extend the life of your hair paintbrush.


One day after Labor Day, judicial candidate John MacKinnon was touting recent endorsements he'd received from Sheriff Bill Brown, Santa Barbara Mayor Marty Blum, and every member of the Santa Barbara City Council, not to mention by four members of Goleta's City Council. Although MacKinnon, a North County Republican and prosecuting attorney, is running for a judicial seat that's largely regarded as part of the "North County" bench, he's been actively courting South Coast Democrats, touting his past involvement in the drug court program. His opponent, Jed Beebe, is a well-respected Santa Maria attorney who provides research services for the North County bench.


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"Fashion is about something that comes from within you"
-Ralph Lauren
Fashion has changed a lot over the past few centuries. Throughout history, fashion has been a way of identifying an era and making a practical determination of individual personality and social status. Even though social pressures do influence style choices, personal fashion opinions are a matter of self-esteem and individual comfort.
Evolution of Fashion
Fashion is a form of art that is dedicated to the creation of clothing and other lifestyle accessories. Designers are to clothes what artists are to their canvases. What an artist expresses with colors, a fashion designer expresses with fabric.
Fashion does not hold meaning in any one way. It is simply how you carry yourself and express your identity and create your brand. Change is the only constant in the fashion world. We are continuously bombarded with new fashion ideas visible all around us.
Musicians and cultural icons have frequently influenced our trends. Back in the 1950s, teenagers everywhere dressed up like Elvis Presley. Buts so have the royalties. Even folks in the 1700s went through fashion magazines to stay updated about the latest styles. Women and dressmakers outside the French court depended on sketches to know what was going on in the fashion world. The famous French King Louis XIV said that fashion is a mirror. He himself was renowned for his style that tended towards extravagant laces and velvets.
During the Industrial Revolution era, a clothing and textile revolution started in Great Britain. Through a combination of intimately guarded industry secrets that were legally prohibited to be disclosed, and the spread of new and revolutionary machinery inventions like the power loom and the spinning frame, Great Britain ferociously dominated the textile industry.
Using cotton and wool as their major textiles, these innovations brought about an unprecedented industrialization of clothing manufacture, and soon it was estimated that over 25% of exports from the country were clothing and textiles. In 1738 Lewis Paul developed the Roller Spinning machine with John Wyatt, and then went on to invent the carding machine in 1748 and the Spinning Jenny in 1764. The inventions of Lewis Paul greatly helped the industry.
Top Fashion Brands
One of the most recognizable brands in fashion, Calvin Klein is well known by its clean lines and spare shapes. Since its advent in 1988, CK won a lot of awards for its product line that had initiated with a line of 'youthful understated coats and dresses.
Louis Vuitton was founded in 1854. Its products range from leather goods and luxury trunks to shoes, jewelery, sunglasses and books. The brand started with the launch of flat bottomed trunks with trianon canvas and went on to explore a wide range of products.
Found in 1972 by Stephen Marks, French Connection offers a forward fashion clothing range with a quirky twist on design, priding itself on affordable prices and quality. French Connection is set out to create well-designed fashionable clothing that appeals to a broader market.
Chanel tops in fashion and accessories along with fragrance, eyewear, fine jewelery and watches. It was founded by Coco Chanel and is one of the most expensive brands in the world.
Alternative Fashion Styles
Alternative Fashion mainly focuses on youth subcultures. It is inspired and admired by the youth. Have a look at some of the alternative fashion styles and respective brands born out of them.
You can thank the 70's era for the Goth movement. It rose from the British rock scenes gradually made its way to the US. Gothic clothing is a lacey tale consisting of handkerchief hems, corsets and dark colors.
Nowadays, the sportswear look added with jewelry is a popular fashion statement. What urban style really is about is sporting everyday items accessible to any urban kid. It is fashion suited to the city life with a little extra bling.
Unlike other styles, steampunk is not just one defined look. It is a depiction of what fashion means to an individual donning the style. It is a mixture of futuristic styles and Victorian elements with some reinvention. It is all about bustle skirts, Victorian corsets and leather.
Alternative Fashion Brands
Alternative fashion brands are hard to keep track of as they are usually very small and are known to have developed from some creatively stylish members of the subcultures. These brands keep low profiles and can only be found by someone who is particularly looking for them. Yet among them, there are some that manage to gain attention.
Banned Clothing comes in almost all clothing styles. It quickly gained popularity because of its youthful and modern designs.
Hello Bunny is the most popular alternate clothing brand. It has a vast range of clothing and attends to the rockabilly and vintage designs of the 50s. Along with this it even covers Lolita, Punk and Indie styles.
Play Clan is an amazing fusion of traditional Indian themes and pop colors. The accessories are amazing and their caftans are straight out of the 70s movie.
Fabindia is a style overflowing with unfamiliar clothing. It brings in the calm of traditional Indian fashion. It boasts of kurtas, dupattas and dhotis. It makes sense in a way a pair of jeans never could. Besides being extremely comfortable they look classy.
Vixxsin is a latest development. It focuses on darker and edgier designs of punk and Goth styles.
Another brand that is a must mention is Khadi. You can feel the revolution on your skin. Started as a small scale clothing production, the Khadi culture has exploded and can be seen around in the nooks and corners of villages. Along with style it evokes the patriot in you.
This trend of changing trends is till date followed by some top notch designers who have scored their names in the fashion industry.
Born in January 1905, this French designer was well known for his distinctive "New Look" silhouette. First appearing in 1947, his suits and dresses revolutionized the way women donned post the Second World War. Today, the talented designer John Galliano carries on this legendary designer's legacy in Paris, where he designs dramatic couture ball gowns, chic prêt-a-porter, and luxurious accessories for Dior. Galliano's talent and his amazing runway shows have ensured that the brand still remains strong and viable in today's world.
Tom Ford is grouped among the most famous designers today. His portfolio includes serving as a Creative Director for both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Growing up, he wanted to be an actor. He was born in Texas and even took training to become an actor. But fortunately, fate had other plans for him.
This Italian-born Frenchman is appreciated for his 20th century designs that looked as though they were taken right from the future. As Cardin arose to popularity in the age of the space race, his creations built an air of futurism. His famous bubble dresses had all the feels of science fiction, combining elegance with out-of-this-world colors and avant garde designs.
Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Bianchi Prada was born on May 10, 1949 in Milan, Italy. This Italian fashion designer is best known as the head designer at Prada fashion house. She is lauded for making use of minimalist designs to achieve a traditional style with a modern influence.
With every coming season, fashion trends keep changing. Sometimes it's all about short skirts while sometimes maxis make a comeback, and as for the jeans, well they never go out of fashion.
"Fashion is in the sky, in the street.
Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live
And what is happening."
-Coco Chanel


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Wiz Khalifa's Blacc Hollywood Album Finally Has A Release Date And Cover Art
It's coming in August.
Nadeska Alexis 06/30/2014
Hey Taylors, good news -- the wait for Wiz Khalifa's 3rd studio album is almost over. Blacc Hollywood will finally arrive on August 19, and you can probably catch a second hand high from the cover art.
Wiz officially announced the drop date on Monday (June 30), after giving fans a little teaser with his 28 Grams mixtape last month. By the time the album is released, the Pittsburgh rapper will already be on the road for his Under the Influence of Music tour with Jeezy, Tyga and Ty Dolla $ign.
He's been steadily releasing music for the past few weeks, including the recent single "KK" featuring Juicy J and Project Pat. On the song he celebrates his own personal strain of weed.


Right now there are 29 of us, who will have our blogs in the hop. I know you all understand how these work, but it is very important to involve even the followers of our own blogs. Get them involved and following along.
So what I was thinking was......For each person with a blog to show case a project made with their machine, a project each day. Along with a plug for a different cutter.I have emailed most of the different svg stores telling them of what we are planning, and some have even donated files for us to make things with, as well as gift certificates. So each blog will have a file from a different store, and will show case a different machine, as well as have links to those stores and cutters., we are also going to have links to the face book page and the blogfrog community. Some will even have their own give away's and little extras, it is totally up to you if you choose to do an additional give away.We are also gonna have to start advertising the blog hop and wearing the badges on our blogs, in our sigi lines, where ever we can to get the word out. I know you all know this, and will go above and beyond. Once I get the files that are being given to us to use I will post them and you can all request one to use. I am not sure of the line up yet, but hope to have that soon. If anyone wishes to donate a file as a give away or to use for that day let me know so I can put it in the post. And if anyone has any other ideas to make this even bigger and better let me know. As for the projects, I would like to see a variety, cards, layouts, paper piecings, 3-D art, altered arts, mixed media, ATC's, I think the bigger the variety of projects the more appealing. So once the files are posted you can choose one of them and then tell me what type of project so we do not get an over abundance of one type of project. And as I said, those of you who make svg's and want us to use them for the day send them to me and I will post them as well. I also am thinking we should have our own facebook page, and make it private, that way we can share ideas and get this the exposure it deserves. So let me know what you all think. There is always room for improvement..
So If anyone wants to make a few different badges for the blog be my guest. Have a great Easter everyone..
In order to set up the face book group I need you all to leave a comment here with the name you go by on facebook, as I can not find a lot of you..so your name and what your name on face book is pleas..thanks .Some of the svg sites have donated select files for us to use. I am thinking if we can use as many files from the makers of the files, as we have quite a list not only can we help them out and drive traffic to them, but to let people know just how many places there really are to get files. Lisa, from precious piecings has donated 4 files to use, thank you Lisa, SVG cuts is donating a few files plus a gift certificate... Will keep working on that.
Good morning crafty ones...You have seen/heard by now that we have come up with a way for you all to share your love of paper crafting, your passions and things you believe in, and the opportunity to educate others. The blog will stay as a main focus, with updates, and news releases. As well as organized blog hops. But over on the blog frog, is where you can share your projects, your files, your passions for crafting, and the opportunity to reach another group of crafters who may or may not know about us or the dealings of Provo Craft, so become members, post away and lets get more people to join us in the PC free march against Provo Craft.. The blog frog is directly connected to the facebook page, this blog and twitter, so we believe we have many areas covered, now to just the word.


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Audio: Pope Francis is a marxist and not welcome in the North, says Rev. Brown
The Pope's a marxist and shouldn't be welcomed to the North during a planned visit to Ireland in 2018, according to former Derry pastor, Rev. Ian Brown.
Rev. Brown, who was pastor to the city's Free Presbyterian Congregation for years before he took over at Rev. Ian Paisley's old church Martyrs' Memorial in 2013, said that Pope Francis betrays his communism in his apostolic exhortation, 'Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel'.
In a sermon posted at SermonAudio, "the largest and most trusted library of audio sermons from conservative churches and ministries worldwide," on Wednesday, Rev. Brown said: "The Pope's gospel is a social gospel whereby people are saved by helping the poor, by getting along with each other and this carries over into his economic theory that is purely marxist.
"And to crown his errors, far from exalting the person and work of our only saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Pope directs his highest praise to Mary."
"So a treatise on marxism and mariolatry it is but it is absolutely nothing to do with 'the joy of the gospel'," adds Rev. Brown.
Rev. Brown has vowed to peacefully protest any visit by the Pope to the North, should one be forthcoming.
Pope Francis, in his 'Evangelii Gaudium' of 2013, states that "demands involving the distribution of wealth, concern for the poor and human rights cannot be suppressed under the guise of creating a consensus on paper or a transient peace for a contented minority".
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After losing her $2 million, 20-carat diamond engagement ring in an ice bucket in a Miami nightclub for what was surely a terrifying few minutes, Paris Hilton is back on the party circuit. Hilton is not one to hold back when it comes to her deejaying wardrobe—she's as likely to don a sparkling bra behind the decks as she is to match her rhinestone-encrusted headphones to her corset-like, bejeweled dress—and her latest look is yet another over-the-top ensemble fit for her glam Ibiza-core DJ sets.
Hilton's recent Instagram post depicts the heiress wearing a deep green leopard-print triangle bra with a matching long-sleeved, high-neck shirt that doesn't extend much lower than her clavicle. And if that weren't bold enough, she finished off the look with an emerald green sequined skirt (one shiny enough to almost rival that diamond stunner on her finger). Hilton captioned the photo "Tinker Bell in TechnoLand," and it's a relatively apt description of her characteristically rave-ready outfit—and if Hilton does lose her ring again, Techno Tinker Bell will surely help her find it.


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Harbor Bridge traffic will be reduced to one lane for safety inspection
Motorists may have a longer commute over the Harbor Bridge beginning Monday. Here's why.
Harbor Bridge traffic will be reduced to one lane for safety inspection Motorists may have a longer commute over the Harbor Bridge beginning Monday. Here's why. Check out this story on caller.com: https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2019/04/06/harbor-bridge-traffic-reduced-one-lane-safety-inspection/3381184002/
Alexandria Rodriguez, Corpus Christi Caller Times Published 7:00 a.m. CT April 6, 2019
Motorists may have a longer commute over the Harbor Bridge beginning Monday.
The bridge will be reduced to one lane for a biennial safety inspection, according to a Texas Department of Transportation news release.
The Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi. (Photo: Gabe Hernandez, Caller-Times)
The center and right lanes of U.S. 181 southbound will be blocked off Monday and Tuesday.
Wednesday and Thursday, the center and right lanes of U.S. 181 northbound will be closed, the release states.
Drivers are encouraged to consider alternate routes and to slow down in work zones. Closures are weather permitting.
Work will also continue through the following week
April 15: Center and right lane closure on U.S. 181 southbound
April 16: Center and right lane closure on U.S. 181 northbound
More: Taking shape: New cranes, tower lifts appear on Harbor Bridge project site
More: Work on Corpus Christi's new bridge behind schedule
More: 'Monster crane' will be a high-profile addition to Harbor Bridge tool set
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Take a look at how the new Harbor Bridge is being made
Construction continues on the new Harbor Bridge on December 27, 2019. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
Construction continues on State Highway 286, work of which is being done to support the new Harbor Bridge, on December 27, 2019. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
Construction continues on Interstate Highway 37, which is being redone to support the new Harbor Bridge, on December 27, 2019. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
The north side of the new Harbor Bridge project along the canal of the Port of Corpus Christi on Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
The south side of the new Harbor Bridge project along the canal of the Port of Corpus Christi on Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Work continues on the new Harbor Bridge Project on Friday, April 12, 2019. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
The Stillman Street Pedestrian Bridge, which is part of the new Harbor Bridge Project, opened on Friday, April 12, 2019. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
Flatiron construction crews work on the north side of the Harbor Bridge replacement project on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Flatiron construction crews work on the south side of the Harbor Bridge replacement project on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Construction crews work on the new Harbor Bridge project on January 7, 2019. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-TImes
Construction crews work on the new Harbor Bridge project on Interstate-37 on Friday, December 21, 2018. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
Construction crews work on the new Harbor Bridge project and assemble a crane on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. Casey Jackson/Caller-Times
Construction crews work on the new Harbor Bridge project on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. Casey Jackson/Caller-Times
Crews place a segment of a massive gantry crane that will be used to help construct the span to replace the Harbor Bridge. Flatiron/Dragados
Construction crews work on the Harbor Bridge replacement project on Tuesday, Sep. 4, 2018. Casey Jackson/Caller-Times
A concrete cast is moved at the Flatiron-Dragados's pre-cast yard in Robstown for the Harbor Bridge replacement project in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Crews work at the Flatiron-Dragados's pre-cast yard in Robstown for the Harbor Bridge replacement project in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Crews work to lower a rebar cage to make a concrete cast at the Flatiron-Dragados's pre-cast yard in Robstown for the Harbor Bridge replacement project in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Concrete casts lined up at the Flatiron-Dragados's pre-cast yard in Robstown for the Harbor Bridge replacement project in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Worker at the Flatiron-Dragados's pre-cast yard in Robstown for the Harbor Bridge replacement project in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
A rebar cage is lowered to make a concrete cast at the Flatiron-Dragados's pre-cast yard in Robstown for the Harbor Bridge replacement project in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
A rebar cage is taken over to make a concrete cast at the Flatiron-Dragados's pre-cast yard in Robstown for the Harbor Bridge replacement project in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Concrete casts for the Flatiron-Dragados's pre-cast yard in Robstown for the Harbor Bridge replacement project in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
A concrete cast is moved at the Flatiron-Dragados's pre-cast yard in Robstown for the Harbor Bridge replacement project in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times,
Crews work at the Flatiron-Dragados's pre-cast yard in Robstown for the Harbor Bridge replacement project in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times,
Construction crews work on the new Harbor Bridge project. Harbor Bridge Project
Construction crews work on the Harbor Bridge replacement project on Tuesday, July 3, 2018. Casey Jackson/Caller-Times
Four molds to cast segments that will be used to build the new Harbor Bridge are currently on site at the Flatiron/Dragados, LLC Pre-Cast Yard on Friday, October 6, 2017. A total of eight molds will eventually be on site to cast approximately 2,600 segments. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
A segment that will be used to build the new Harbor Bridge is moved via a straddle carrier to a curing location at the Flatiron/Dragados, LLC Pre-Cast Yard on Friday, October 6, 2017. Each segment weighs 100 tons. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
A segment that will be used to build the new Harbor Bridge sits in a mold at the Flatiron/Dragados, LLC Pre-Cast Yard on Friday, October 6, 2017. Each segment weighs 100 tons. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
A segment that will be used to build the new Harbor Bridge is moved to a curing location at the Flatiron/Dragados, LLC Pre-Cast Yard on Friday, October 6, 2017. Each segment weighs 100 tons. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
Justin Guevara, project engineer with Flatiron/Dragados, LLC, gives a tour of the Flatiron/Dragados, LLC Pre-Cast Yard on Friday, October 6, 2017. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
A segment that will be used to build the new Harbor Bridge is moved to a curing location at the Flatiron/Dragados, LLC Pre-Cast Yard on Friday, Oct. 6, 2017. Each segment weighs 100 tons. Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times
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Claire McCaskill says attempted Russia hacking on her office 'not successful'
Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Thursday that Russians unsuccessfully attempted to hack her Senate com...
Posted: Jul 27, 2018 7:41 AM
Updated: Jul 27, 2018 7:41 AM
Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Thursday that Russians unsuccessfully attempted to hack her Senate computer network.
McCaskill's acknowledgment was in response to a report from The Daily Beast that there was a phishing attempt against her office last year mirroring the tactics used successfully against John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman in the 2016 presidential election. The US intelligence community has accused Russia of perpetrating the hack against Podesta and others in an effort to sway the election in favor of President Donald Trump.
"While this attack was not successful, it is outrageous that they think they can get away with this," McCaskill said in a statement. "I will not be intimidated. I've said it before and I will say it again, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin is a thug and a bully."
Thursday's report said hackers sent forged emails to targets in the Senate with malicious links as part of an effort that Microsoft picked up. It said there was nothing to suggest the hacking attempt was successful.
CNN has rated the Missouri Senate contest a "toss-up," as the Democratic senator seeks re-election in a state that went for Trump in 2016.
At the Aspen Security Forum last week, Microsoft corporate vice president for customer security and trust Tom Burt said Russia had attempted to hack into the online accounts of staffers on three congressional campaigns ahead of the midterm elections this year. The allegation from Microsoft in addition to The Daily Beast report marked the first major public accusations of attempted interference by Russia in the 2018 elections.
Top US national security officials have sounded the alarm about potential threats to the US in cyberspace. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said earlier this month that the situation was critical and went as far as comparing the "warning signs" to those faced ahead of the attacks on September 11, 2001.
"The warning signs are there," Coats said. "The system is blinking. It is why I believe we are at a critical point."
McCaskill: Attempted hacking 'not successful'
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The lifetime cost of naval vessels is an increasingly important factor to ship owners and, subsequently, to ship designers. A vessel's lifetime cost is composed of various cost categories such as production, operation, and maintenance. The impact of each of these categories is important and in many instances they may be competing with each other. Design decisions regarding the hull form and structure will dictate these costs, however, in what way decisions will impact them is difficult to understand. This is especially true for naval vessels as their service life is uncertain, and changes to the operational life of a vessel can have significant unforeseen costs with respect to maintenance and operation. In order to reduce the overall lifetime cost the tradeoffs between these different categories must be understood. This thesis explores a linked resistance, production, and maintenance costing model and develops a novel enhanced multi-disciplinary optimizer capable of solving the resulting problem. Most work in cost optimization has focused on reducing a single category of cost and considering other disciplines operational constraints at best. This type of sequential or single-discipline optimization does not reveal the trade-space to the designer and may result in non-optimal designs being developed when considering the full lifecycle cost of the vessel. Unfortunately understanding these trade-offs is difficult and traditional multi-objective optimization algorithms are unable to resolve the Pareto-fronts effectively. Presented here is a framework to aid designers in finding these trade spaces using a multi-disciplinary optimization environment. In order to realistically represent the problem being solved a maintenance costing algorithm is developed that tracks physical damage throughout a ship's lifetime. Given that the design life of a vessel may be prolonged a probabilistic service life is implemented to account for this uncertainty. A hydrodynamic search method is also developed that facilitates efficiently searching large design spaces using a minimal number of design variables. These models allow for the development of trade-spaces that reflect the nuances of the naval design problem. In order to utilize these models to understand the trade-offs in lifetime cost an enhanced multi-disciplinary optimization framework is developed. This algorithm uses novel techniques to facilitate solving this difficult design problem. The algorithm (eMOCO) is adopted from a multi-objective collaborative optimization framework with two enhancements. The first is the use of a decision support process, goal programming, at the sub-system level in order to allow the discipline optimizers to reduce objective functions local to that discipline. This means that the discipline-level solutions that returned to the system-level optimizers are minimized with respect to their local variables. Secondly, a new single-objective genetic algorithm is developed specifically as a discipline-level optimizer in distributed MDO architectures. This novel GA, called the locally-elitist genetic algorithm (LEGA,) allows the discipline problem to be solved in a single execution of the discipline-level optimizer. These enhancements, tailored specifically to the naval design problem, facilitate solving for these difficult and unique trade-spaces. This model is used to develop trade spaces between production, maintenance, and resistance in order to understand the interaction between the different categories of cost. The results show that the trade-spaces are difficult to fully resolve and the use of a multi-disciplinary environment is necessary. They also show that by developing the trade-spaces unique understanding into the interaction between cost categories can be found that allow an engineer to design ships that have minimal lifetime cost and are robust to changes in operation or service life.
The material and modeling parameters that drive structural reliability analysis for marine structures are subject to a significant uncertainty. This is especially true when time-dependent degradation mechanisms such as structural fatigue cracking are considered. Through inspection and monitoring, information such as crack location and size can be obtained to improve these parameters and the corresponding reliability estimates. Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBNs) are a powerful and flexible tool to model dynamic system behavior and update reliability and uncertainty analysis with life cycle data for problems such as fatigue cracking. However, a central challenge in using DBNs is the need to discretize certain types of continuous random variables to perform network inference while still accurately tracking low-probability failure events. Most existing discretization methods focus on getting the overall shape of the distribution correct, with less emphasis on the tail region. Therefore, a novel scheme is presented specifically to estimate the likelihood of low-probability failure events. The scheme is an iterative algorithm which dynamically partitions the discretization intervals at each iteration. Through applications to two stochastic crack-growth example problems, the algorithm is shown to be robust and accurate. Comparisons are presented between the proposed approach and existing methods for the discretization problem.
Current naval shipowners are being forced to extend the service lives of their aging vessels from budgetary and political constraints. This is causing them to incur significant costs due to maintaining the structure of these older ships to keep the ships in operation. These increasing costs make it desirable to design new naval structures with their minimization in mind, as well as ensuring that such vessels are robust to changes in expected service life with respect to their total lifetime cost. However, such structures will necessarily have higher production costs, therefore, an optimization framework is presented to estimate both production and maintenance costs for a naval vessel's internal structure and develop trade-spaces between these two competing objectives in order to find designs that represent a balance of both.
Recent work by the authors investigated an extension of the finite element analysis of plasticity-induced crack closure to non-stationary, ship structural loading sequences by taking advantage of their inherent time-dependent nature in which the larger loading cycles tend to be clustered together. In doing so, first-order load interactions are presumed to arise from the random occurrence and severity of physical storms encountered by ships and offshore structures throughout their service lives. This material hysteresis is captured through a time-dependent crack "opening" level (Kop) which is based on the evolution of a rate-independent, incremental plasticity model simulating combined nonlinear kinematic and isotropic hardening. The result is a mechanistic rather than phenomenological numerical model requiring only experimentally measured fatigue crack growth rates under constant amplitude, cyclic loading (e.g., ASTM E647-13) and a full material constitutive model defined through experimental push–pull tests for the same material. This approach permits a consideration of material behaviors which are physically relevant to structural steels, yet necessarily omitted in the similar application of a strip-yield model. The present paper generalizes the model originally proposed by the authors to now consider arbitrary storm model loading sequences taken from high-fidelity, time-domain seakeeping codes. To predict the fatigue fracture induced by variable amplitude stress records with upwards of 5×106 time-dependent cycles, a consistent modeling reduction is applied based on the Ordered Overall Range (OOR) or racetrack counting method. The resultant crack growth behavior is demonstrated to converge remarkably well for sufficiently small refined mesh sizes. Using this model, and by considering different arrangements of the same stress record, the importance of nonlinearities (i.e., those associated with ship response as well as material hysteresis) are emphasized.


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Wallowa
45°54'01″N 117°18'36″W
4,350 ft (1,330 m)
Flora is an unincorporated community in Wallowa County, Oregon, United States. It is located about 35 miles north of Enterprise, just off Oregon Route 3, and is considered a ghost town. Its elevation is 4350 ft.
Flora was platted on April 7, 1897. By 1910, it had a population of 200 residents and an eight-room school. It is considered "the most substantial town to fail" in the Northeast Oregon region.
The community was named after the daughter of the first postmaster, A. D. Buzzard. Flora post office operated from 1890–1966. The Flora School, built in 1915, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Now known as the Flora School Education Center, the schoolhouse has been restored as a pioneer arts education center.


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Home Dining Chefs and Restaurateurs Broken Social Scene: Ray Garcia Opens B.S. Taqueria
Tacos on grandma's patio is the vibe in the back of B.S. Taqueria.
Photograph by Bill Esparza
Chefs and Restaurateurs
Broken Social Scene: Ray Garcia Opens B.S. Taqueria
The chef elevates L.A.'s taco game while continuing to work on his flagship Broken Spanish restaurant
Bill Esparza
On Thursday, B.S. Taqueria, the first of a Downtown pair of Alta California cuisine concepts by chef Ray Garcia, opened in the former Mo-Chica space. This is the sister restaurant of Garcia's flagship Broken Spanish restaurant that he is working on in the former Rivera location.
It has been a quick transition for Garcia since leaving Fig six months ago to pursue his own restaurant for the first time and cook a cuisine born from his pocho roots. The turnkey operation facilitated by Bill Chait's Sprout Restaurant Group now sports a warm-hued main dining area under a ceiling of dangling molinillos (chocolate stirrers), and the rear dining area has the cluttered, verdant charm of your abuelita's patio, without the squawking parakeets.
B.S. Taqueria is open in the former Mo-Chica space.
The bologna taco, a childhood memory of chef Ray Garcia's, gets a makeover.
Campechana verde at B.S. Taqueria
Clam and lardo tacos? Yes, please.
The B.S. Handshake, a welcoming toast to the taco at B.S. Taqueria
B.S. Taqueria's menu has eight tacos that range from $7 to $10 for a pair, Garcia's take on taqueria classics like toasted chiles toreados and cactus salad, some fun platos especiales, and high-end junk food inspired by Mexico's savory-snack-cart vendors.
The restaurant's bologna taco is a tribute to Garcia's youth—when times were tight, some bologna in a fresh tortilla was all the luxury a young man could ever want. Garcia prepares his own bologna in-house and cuts it into thick bolts of All-American pork sausage on heirloom corn tortillas made from nixtamal.
The out-of-this-world lardo and Manila clam taco with an added crunch from garlic chips is a marriage of richness from the land and sea.
Speaking of the sea, the campechana verde, or mixed seafood cocktail, comes with tender squid rings, shrimp with just the right snap, scallops, and red snapper in a natural green cocktail of cucumber, tomatillo, and lime, with no hint of the usual store-bought condiments so prevalent in Mexican seafood establishments. To get to full beach vibe, firmly shake the house-made habanero hot sauce into your campechana.
Wash it down with a can of Tecate in a paper bag flavored with salt, chile, and lime, called the B.S. Handshake—it's your official greeting for a feast of tacos, which is a common courtesy for a typical Los Angeles experience.
B.S. Taqueria, 514 W. Seventh St., Downtown, 213-622-3744. The restaurant is open Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Seven-day-a-week dinner service is scheduled to start April 20, and there are also plans to add brunch and delivery.
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Have You Seen The Powerpuff… Ladies?
Posted by Malik Forté on January 10, 2014
I'm sure many of us have imagined this at some point, but to actually see it is quite riveting. The talented Stanley Lau (a.k.a. Artgerm) featured a mature version of the Powerpuff Girls in his collection of satirical "Justice Magazine" covers. The end result turned out to be nothing short of glorious.
A little bit Sailor Moon-ish, yes, though I personally don't see a problem in that. This is an excellent tease if not an amazing piece of fan art. Now excuse me while I catch myself from slipping into a fit of anger over the fact that this is not real.
Check out some of Stanley Lau's other "Justice Magazine" Covers:
Via: Kotaku, Stanley Lau (Artgem)
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Rangle says:
That's an inntillgeet answer to a difficult question xxx
For all of those saying they don't like them being sexualized, did you watch the episode when they were teenagers?
RG says:
There's a fine line between pro-sex feminism and objectification, but there's also a fine line between being ethical and slut-shaming. The only worthless perspective in any discussion is the one that says to shut something down without consideration.
Just because objectification, sexism, and the promotion of an imbalanced female body image are major topics, it doesn't mean that you're supposed to avoid them and anything that resembles them with a ten-foot pole. Satirical or not, there must be content pf all sorts to keep the wheels turning. The key is discussing and understanding the content objectively… not projecting an intent upon it (and then, as so many do, using that projection as a pedestal to shame someone else and promote your own shining standards).
I agree with Nate on one point. The article says these are supposed to be satirical covers but I couldn't find anything to prove that. All I see are highly-sexualized images of female characters. Which is a thing and a thing that artists are welcome to produce and consumers to enjoy. But don't say it's satirical without a source because as far as I can tell this is just more of the same.
R E Miller says:
I used to thing I could like things. Then I read comments on a website and I learned that I should be pissed about everything. Should I feel bad that I like things? Some things I like!
varcilla says:
Apperantly people want ugly people as their heroines? I loved the PPG show and any re-imagining of the characters i'll take. Plus pretty sure this was one artists' take on how they'd look older so chill out kids. Its not official. Great piece stan! Keep making renditions of badass chicks who are sexy as well!
Phe says:
@Nate – Are we really about to compare a highly detailed drawing such as this to a fairly simplistic style of animation? …Okay.
"What…made the artist think they'd all grow up to be nearly identical…" Let's start here shall we? How about the fact that they DO look nearly identical. Google some images. They have the same size and shape bodies. Only difference is their hair style and the color given to each one.
"What made him think that all three of them were so generically white, without a hint of ethnicity?" Again, look up some images from the show. They are all the same skin color…GENERIC WHITE.
Again, this is HIS take on the concept of "The Powerpuff Girls." It wasn't meant to be a direct copy and paste of the design from the show. If you don't like the image, say so, and leave it at that. It's that simple.
Please point me towards any evidence that there is anything "satirical" about any of these images. It's straight-up cheesecake, with a straight face, and there's nothing about the poses or the styles or the text on the covers to let you know the artist thinks he's "commenting" on anything, he's just doing highly skilled pictures of hot babes.
And that's the problem with this image. The Powerpuff Girls were little girls, they weren't model-perfect sexual objects. What about their pudgy, rounded, cartoon bodies made the artist think that they'd all grow up to be nearly identical, large-breasted glamazons? What made him think that all three of them were so generically white, without a hint of ethnicity? The thought of three little girls created by a scientist in a laboratory is weird enough, but the thought of three hot babes created by a scientist in a lab is just softporn or a bad "reboot" of *Weird Science*.
No question this artist is skilled, but this image just bums me out.
T_ says:
You folks read the word "satirical" in the article, right? As in, these covers are supposed to be over-the-top and make fun of the sexualization everyone's blaming the artist for? If you're skeezed out by this, Lau did his job.
You people are a bunch of tools. One of you can't even get the name correct. It's POWERpuff, not POWDERpuff…seriously, it's in the title of the damn article. But more importantly it's the "were not supposed to be "hot." Huge fail."" and "Doesn't do much for women other than sexualize them. No thanks." bits that piss me off. Do you complain that Robin The Boy Wonder has aged into Nightwing and runs around in a tight bodysuit showing off his rippling muscles and bulging package? He too was a fun loving, crime fighting child character that at some point someone decided it was time for him to mature. I guess that doesn't matter though since you can only sexualize females, right? Stanley Lau is an amazing artist and this was his take on the concept of "The Powerpuff Girls." Why don't you jackasses take it for what it is, art. He wasn't trying to make a political statement. He wasn't trying to degrade women. He was making art. Whether or not you like his style or this particular piece is a matter of opinion. But you can take that feminist crap back to the kitchen.
Did Team Unicorn model for this? Two of them look an awful lot like an artist's rendering of Clare Grant and Michele Boyd.
Jenny R says:
I see the puff. I don't see the power.
I can't get into Stanley Lau's work. Tiny heads and tig bitties. Doesn't do much for women other than sexualize them. No thanks.
Jonathan McGaha says:
That's certainly a different take on the characters. It's not to my taste, but I don't hold my opinion as somehow the definitive qualifier on what is an isn't an acceptable version of a character.
I actually somewhat prefer a world in which there can be radically altered versions of old characters without someone getting sued or berated for it. Hot pink Darth Vaders and weirdly-statuesque Power Puff girls, change is the spice of life.
Turn the tights into thigh highs and make sure the dresses are short. Charming.
Tedydy says:
Where are the other months???
Seriously? The Powderpuff girls were not meant to be "hot." Huge fail.


SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea's antitrust regulator has lowered a decade-old penalty imposed on U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc by 18 percent to $200 million, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said on Thursday.
The cut comes after the Supreme Court in January overturned one of several lower court rulings against the U.S. firm for abusing its dominant market position.
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Like Ray LaMontagne, I've got trouble. Smartphone trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. I can figure out the apps I want, and I've got the games I need (wait, I might have those priorities backward), but transferring all my images and data is a bit more of a pain. There always seem to be music that gets left behind or images that, for whatever reason, refuse to back-up. I consider myself pretty savvy, but when I got a new smartphone I was starting to worry, worry, worry, worry. I couldn't even imagine if I was trying to transfer data from a larger device—getting all of the files from a hard drive or something larger seems like it would throw me for even more of a loop.
When I purchased my new smartphone, the sales team helped me out by using a utility app that migrated my data from the old to the new smartphone with ease. I didn't have to flounder with thirty cords and cables and hunt through all of my collections to determine what was being transferred over anymore. Now take this experience, and apply it to your work: how often do you have to replace the firmware of a microcontroller? And how often do you wish you could avoid that clumsy process of plugging in cables? One way to simplify this process is by using an SD card bootloader.
Conventionally, a microcontroller is programmed using a programming cable. This can become cumbersome and tedious if you are working in a space-restricted environment or if you're like me and you tend to leave your unfinished tasks hanging out all over the place. Furthermore, it lends itself to outside interference. What if you trip on a cable and knock everything off a table? Or spend several hours trying to figure out why data is not transferring only to realize that the cable simply was not plugged in tightly enough?
In a microcontroller, a bootloader is a special program that receives the application firmware from an external source and writes it to the internal program memory. It tends to have a small footprint and resides in a reserved section of the program memory. When the microcontroller is powered on and attempts to read the latest firmware present in external media or resources, the bootloader program will erase the existing firmware in the program memory and write the new firmware onto it.
You could customize your bootloader to obtain its new firmware from serial interfaces, LAN, external media, and more. But my personal preference is for the SD card: it does not need to be a complicated setup on a computer, and it is practically wireless. Using an SD card for your bootloader program turns updating firmware into a matter of inserting the SD card and resetting the microcontroller.
With a bootloader, updating firmware can be done on the spot and with minimum interruption to the system operation. This feature makes bootloaders, and especially SD card bootloaders, incredibly helpful in embedded systems that may require updating or troubleshooting in the course of their deployment. If the specifications of your firmware may need to evolve with time or update regularly then an SD card bootloader would make the process that much easier.
Make sure the microcontroller has space for both the bootloader and the main application.
Program Memory Allocation: While there are clear benefits of having an SD card bootloader, not all microcontrollers can be loaded with a bootloader program. A bootloader is an application by itself. As such, it does require a certain amount of program memory space that may not be available if you're using a microcontroller with smaller memory space or your application firmware is too large. Allocate adequate program memory space for both the bootloader and firmware application if you're planning to incorporate a bootloader.
Implementing an SD Card Interface: An SD card bootloader will require additional components to be built on your hardware to accommodate the SD card storage. It will incur additional cost if your main application does not require the SD card interface. Besides that, you'll need to implement the File Allocation Table (FAT32) stack on your bootloader program to ensure that your bootloader program can read the binary or hex file of the new firmware.
Program Memory Flash Write Sequence: A bootloader basically rewrites a range of address in its internal flash with bytes of information of the application firmware to be loaded. This will require executing the right sequence of command on specific registers to erase and write on the internal flash. Ensure that the right address is being written onto and that the bootloader does not actually erase itself mistakenly.
Mapping the Binary Files to the Right Address: A normal application is usually written on the starting address of 0x00000000. However, with a bootloader, the starting address of the main application or the bootloader may differ, depending on how they are allocated in the program memory space. Modify the memory link file to ensure that hex files of both programs are compiled for the right memory address.
Rigorous Testing: The purpose of an SD card bootloader is to simplify firmware updating in the field, not to add unnecessary errors or difficulties to the process. It is important that you test your bootloader thoroughly and ensure that both the bootloader and the main application runs as expected. If the main application is being written improperly or mapped incorrectly you may find that the system will behave erratically.
You'll want to ensure the bootloader is writing the right code at the right space.
There are other benefits, too, to using a bootloader program aside from quality firmware development. A good hardware design, particularly for the SD card interface, will rule out crosstalk and electrical interference. Altium Designer's signal integrity analysis tool may be handy for that.
Simplify your workspace and make necessary firmware updates flexible and capable of on-the-go processing with a bootloader program. Unlike with smartphones, proper care and set-up for your SD card bootloader program can last you much longer than the few months before another phone upgrade is released. And the best part is you won't need to call customer assistance each time you need to use it.
Need more help in designing an SD card bootloader? Get in touch with the experts at Altium now.


In a high-speed food processor add the dates, sea salt, maca powder, vanilla, walnuts, cacao powder and coconut oil.
Process until the mix comes together, if the mixture is too dry add extra coconut oil or warm water and if the mix is too wet add extra walnuts or almond meal.
Roll balls in the raw cacao or desiccated coconut dependent on your taste.
Set in the freezer for 1 hour before serving.


- He will automatically pick up the victim at night and inside the interior (preferring dark areas). Vampire will predict that "everything is OK and nothing is going on" if detected, he can perform several attempts depending on situation. The stealth skill affects the chance of detection.
Characters with high moral (like Serana) will not feed on their friends.
- Same scheme with sleeping characters , but the chance of detection is lower.
- Vampires are able to feed on their enemies in combat (if the vampire's health and stamina are higher). NOT A KILLMOVE, this one is just a soft bite!!! The enemy will survive this.
BUT... if the vampire's level is much higher, he can restore his health. Such mechanics makes the vampire encounters more interesting and challenging.
4) [Optional, but recommended] Use this for diagnostics. Make sure that the Bloodthirst* scripts are gone from your savegame.
Sorry, I'm not planning to provide long term support for this mod. I'll prefere to keep it simple, so I believe no new features will be added.
Another vampire mod, "Dark Maneuvers" is on the way. Please, stay in touch!


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How to Overcome Life Regrets and Move On - Dealing With Regret
Don't Let Regrets Ruin Your Health
How to wise up and move on
by Dorothy Foltz-Gray, AARP Bulletin, March 14, 2012 | Comments: 0
A severe case of the regrets — feeling overwhelmed by the coulda-shoulda-woulda of life — not only robs us of energy and imprisons us in the past, it can also make us sick
According to research at Concordia University in Montreal, the emotional distress of regrets can disrupt your hormonal and immune systems, particularly if you are 65 or older, which can lead to colds, headaches — or worse.
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"People with severe life regrets had more cold symptoms, such as nasal congestion, coughs, sneezing, fever and headaches," says Concordia researcher Isabelle Bauer, now a clinical psychologist at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.
Bauer also found an increase in depressive symptoms — such as difficulty sleeping and concentrating — in those with unresolved regret. "Obsessing or ruminating over regrets can also lead to depression and anxiety as you kick yourself over and over," says psychologist Neal Roese, a professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
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Roese's 2011 study of most common regrets found that romance topped the list, followed by regrets about family, education, career, finances and parenting. But he adds that regrets can have their upside as well. "They can be a signal that it's time to change your strategy, and a motivator for new action," he says.
The other goods news is that as we age, most of us become more adept at letting go of regrets. We may not have as much opportunity to undo the past — return to school for a degree, say, or undo an unhappy marriage — but life experience has wised us up. "We get better at accepting things we can't change," says Carsten Wrosch, an associate professor of psychology at Concordia University.
Here are some experts' tips for overcoming regret and moving on.
Focus on others' regrets. When the source of your regret is undoable — say, a badly chosen career path — realizing that someone else's sorrows are more wrenching than yours can help you more easily make peace with the past, says Bauer.
Let others motivate you. "If you can change what led to regrets, thinking about people who are better off than you can be motivating," says Bauer. "It can make you think of how to take advantage of current opportunities." For instance, if you regret not spending time with family during your working years, perhaps you can follow the lead of a buddy who dotes on his family now.
Next: More ways to let go of the past and move forward. »
Shift from inner to outer focus. Take your regrets seriously, says Roese, "but then move on by taking new action." Maybe you can't make amends to the late cousin you dissed. "But you can rechannel that energy to people around you now," says Roese. If you regret parts of your education, "take a new class in pottery — or anything," says Roese. "Switch your mind away from the past to focus on the present."
Write out your angst. Bauer asked people to write about regrets: One day they wrote about people who had regrets more severe than their own, another about external circumstances that led to regret, and finally, about goals for the future. "The adults who went through the writing intervention reported fewer cold symptoms than the others," says Bauer. "If you write about recent emotional experiences daily, it helps you put them in context and leave them behind," says Roese. A 2008 Australian study also found that writing once a week for three weeks about an upsetting experience reduced intrusive thoughts.
Practice the positive. When you find yourself focusing on regrets, shape your thoughts by exploring the silver lining in whatever you did, says Roese: "What were the lessons learned? How did you gain wisdom out of a particular situation?" In the case of an unhappy marriage, for example, celebrate the children that came from it, says Wrosch. "That doesn't change anything about the marriage, but it makes it easier to live with the situation."
Assess your actions. Let's say you bought a house that turned out to be a money pit. Examine the process that led to the purchase, says Roese: "Did you do a house inspection or decide on impulse? Sometimes it's good to go back and assess. You may see that there wasn't anything else to be done, and that's comforting."
Set new goals. "Let go of regret by finding something positive and meaningful to do," says Wrosch. "It may not be the same things you were engaged in when you were working, but the underlying themes may be similar: traveling, making new friends, learning something new."
Seek help. If you find yourself unable to stop thinking about regrets, consider counseling, says Roese. "Cognitive behavioral therapy, in particular, emphasizes changing thought patterns that are destructive."
Also of interest: Optimism linked to reduced risk of stroke.
Dorothy Foltz-Gray is a freelance writer who lives in North Carolina.


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Mr. Sander's Neighborhood
"Update" Girl(s) of the Week
The Man, the Myth, the "Hawk"
Milwaukee Buck center, and Port Pierce, FL native Larry Sanders has plenty of ink on his body, but this afternoon (8-20-13) he put ink worth a "pretty penny" on a 4 year extension. The contract extension will keep Larry in a Bucks uniform as they move forward and contend in the NBA Eastern Conference.
Larry Sanders signing extension on instagram
The former VCU Ram made $1.9 million last season, his third in the NBA, and was the #15 overall pick by the Bucks in 2010. Sanders put up promising numbers last season, some may say that they are not worthy of the $44 million dollar price tag, but his stock is definitely on the rise!
Sanders at his best
2012/13 seasons numbers, Sanders played in 71 of 82 games, started 55 while playing 1,937 minutes. In those minutes Larry shot just over 50% from the field (50.6%), 61% from the charity stripe, pulled down 672 rebounds, blocking an astounding 201 shots, all while dropping 696 pts. Sanders lit up the league with his shot blocking last season, during one stretch (11/28/12 – 3/4/13) he had 40 consecutive games with at least one blocked shot, and became only the 2nd Buck in the history of the franchise to have a 10 block game (11/30/12)…the other Buck was Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Sanders also led the team in "double-doubles" with 26.
#8 is a definite leader, that was proven during last years Playoffs vs Miami when during halftime of Game 3 he took charge in the locker room calling some players out for lack of effort, which almost led to blows between himself and Monta Ellis. Sanders speech was about playing together, and not worrying about next season or being selfish. Ellis felt as though Larry's words were directed toward himself, and the ruckus began. Sander's passion for the game was not just limited to the locker room last season, he also led the team in technical fouls.
Sanders Ejected
Bucks GM John Hammonds had this to say of Tuesdays signing: "By combining his God-given ability with hard work and determination, Larry has developed into one of the top young defensive players in the league,…he is a very important part of what we are doing in Milwaukee, and we're excited to announce his contract extension."
I agree with Hammonds 100%, and would rather have a good "up and coming player" who is extremely passionate about the game, than a great player who mails "IT" in because he can.
Dunk time!
Congratulations Larry on your contract extension, you deserve it.
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2 thoughts on "Mr. Sander's Neighborhood"
Dave Miller says:
The Bucks have to change so mabe this is a start.
knuckles says:
I will enjoy Larry firing up the crowd for the next five seasons but one solid year doesn't deserve a contract this big!
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Commissioned c. 1907 by the sitter, Hugo Reisinger [1856-1914], New York; by inheritance to his son, Curt H. Reisinger [d. 1964], New York; gift 1957 to NGA.
Loan for display with permanent collection, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1986-1994.
Zorn: Paintings, Graphics, and Sculpture, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1986, no. 22, repro.
Anders Zorn, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, 1994-1995, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Loan for display with permanent collection, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1995-present.
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 127, repro.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 378, repro.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 442, repro.