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That One Boss: Touhou
"Still, is it too easy? Well, I'm about at my limit..."
—ZUN on Perfect Cherry Blossom, the only Touhou game to have a phantasm stage - a level above the usual extra stage.
"I can see it... My mind-reading third eye will show me your very heart! An image of battle... I think I can use this to make you suffer. [...] Now, this is where it really begins! Go and sleep with a trauma so frightful it will wake you up!"As anyone who has played Touhou will tell you, the boss fights are what these games are all about. There are well over 100 boss characters in the series, and you encounter most of them only once, so it's natural that some make a more lasting impression than others. In fanon, they might be famous for their colorful personalities, ridiculous cuteness levels, or Memetic Sex God/Molester status, but for those who have actually played the games, they will always be fondly remembered for a different reason. She may not be the hardest boss in her game. She may not test your skills to the same extent as the Final Boss, or your patience and determination like the Extra Boss. Beating her may not even earn you much bragging rights. But she will make your life a living Bullet Hell nonetheless. She is the reason many people have never seen the good endings. She has left countless broken hearts and keyboards in her wake. Even hardened shmup players have been known to reach for the bomb key at first sight of her. She is That One Girl! Which boss exactly qualifies for the title varies from player to player and depends somewhat on your choice of character and shot type, but generally every game has at least one boss that will make you go pichuun again and again long after you've figured her patterns out. You can always count on them to mess up your until-that-point perfect game. They are mostly found around stage 4 or 5. NOTE: As always, the Final Boss and Wake-Up Call Boss cannot be That One Boss without being overly hard by their standards. Please do not add them as examples. Also, to avoid cheapening the title, don't list bosses that are only an example on Lunatic difficulty or because of that one spell card you can cancel out with a single bomb. Remember Bonus Boss is completely banned no matter what. This includes Extra stage mid-bosses too.
—Satori Komeiji, Subterranean Animism, stage 4.
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- Marisa Kirisame in her very first appearance as the stage 4 boss. She pulls out four multicolored orbs that all shoot danmaku in addition to the bullets coming from herself. Furthermore, she can cause them to spin around outward in a fashion that is very hard to anticipate and dodge. She becomes much easier when the orbs are destroyed... until she simply recreates them. She is also aggravating due to her tendency to fly down to the bottom of the screen, much closer to the player than most other Touhou bosses, which makes dodging her attacks harder or impossible.
- Elly, mainly because of her scythe. She throws it at you in the middle of her patterns, which already require a fair bit of precision, it's slightly homing, and it blocks your shots. If you're playing a shot type that can't get around that it'll be a very long fight.
- When playing as Marisa, there's Reimu in stage 4. She is a nightmare to defeat, since she has several attacks that can either spawn very fast spreads of bullets, yin-yangs which are large and bounce off the sides of the play field in erratic fashions, or wall in the player and force them to dodge fast aimed bullets.
- Mai and Yuki, the stage 4 bosses, are pretty frustrating due to the sheer amount of bullet spam coming from two different directions, as well as Mai's laser and small bullets. And that's when you fight them together. Depending upon who received the most damage, you fight the survivor, and it gets harder. Mai uses bouncing ice daggers and egg bullets that break into more bullets when your shots hit them. Yuki, on the other hand, just spams slow and fast patterns, but also uses fireballs that block shots.
- Yumeko, the penultimate boss of the game, is known for being a nightmare to defeat even for experts. While the difficulty of the game is gradually but steadily raised until her battle, she herself is a nasty difficulty spike. Half of her patterns require very fast reactions - she just throws some knives and bullets. But later, you have to deal with VERY tightly aimed streams of bullets/lasers AND knives she randomly throws everywhere. If you survive that, prepare for some very fast bullet walls followed by more knives... from both sides of the screen! Her final attack, which "only" requires dodging diagonally thrown daggers, seems easy by comparison. And since all of her patterns are speedy and need very good reflexes rather than good bullet trajectory reading, you will usually have to bomb in advance to avoid losing even more resources. Just watch this video...
- Patchouli Knowledge, the stage 4 boss, is the novice Touhou player's greatest obstacle to completing the game without continues. Her spell card patterns are very random, and she tends to move around a lot, making her a challenge to hit. If you chose to play as Reimu B, who is otherwise the most balanced character, you're stuck with torturous spell cards like "Bury in Lake" and "Water Elf".
- If you got past Patchouli, there is no chance to rest, as Sakuya comes very soon after. Her midboss pattern is specifically designed to box the player in. It does not help that she is the first user of that annoying dagger danmaku with a hitbox which seems larger than the actual sprite. Her stage 5 midboss spell card "Misdirection" can drop your lives quickly if you don't know exactly how to deal with it.
- Right BEFORE Patchouli, we also have Meiling, but her battle might be more of That One Spellcard than anything else, because of that accursed Rainbow Windchime spell.
- The Prismriver Sisters, come at the end of stage 4, which is already arguably the hardest non-extra level in Touhou. Yet again, the cards they use on you depend on your character choice, as well as which one of them you focus your shots on. Their nameless non-spell patterns fill the screen with a truly ridiculous number of bullets on higher difficulties. These are the same every time, so it's possible to find a safe spot and/or memorize them, but if you get hit even once while dodging them, Dynamic Difficulty kicks in and changes up the pattern, making memorization completely impractical.
- The main downside to playing as Sakuya is you're forced to fight Merlin at the start of the Prismriver Sisters battle. Why is this a downside? Because Merlin's gimmick is homing lasers!
- Once you get past the Prismriver Sisters, there is another difficulty spike awaiting you - Youmu Konpaku. She keeps you company all the way to the final boss as miniboss of stage 5 & 6, but it's her boss battle that's evil. Her favorite method of attack is to throw dense AND rather fast (or just extremely dense)
clusterfuckslayers of bullets, while giving you about 3 seconds of bullet time to position yourself out of harm's way. In theory. You need a lot of practice to get used to this to the point you won't be reaching for the bomb key during every slowdown. Youmu singlehandely proves that reading-based spells can be just as hard as reaction-based ones. Demonstration.
- Both level 4 bosses, that is, either Reimu or Marisa.
- Reimu uses heavily patterned, but extremely dense clusters of spell tags, fires off powerful homing shots, and boxes you into small areas with her attacks. In the second part of the fight, she's usually zipping all over the screen, making herself nigh-impossible to hit. Not so hard as she was in LLS, but really hard anyways.
- On the other hand, Marisa's attacks are much less structured. She prefers to shower the entire screen with her deceptively large looking star bullets. Her first spell card generates spirals of huge stars, showers the field with tiny stars coming in from the sides, and adds periodic shotgun-style blasts from her familiars. Then you get to the second half of the fight...
- Aya Shameimaru. She's fast as hell, and it doesn't help the AI makes her excessively cheap, dodging almost everything you'll throw to her. Usually you will lose one or two lives trying to defeat her, before the RNG goes easy on you and let you defeat her more easily, but even if you defeat her, you'll have yet to face Komachi / Yuka and Eiki Shiki, which is even worse than Aya in terms of AI cheapness. If the character you're using finds her as your 7th opponent, good luck in trying to clear the game in one credit with that character. You'll need it...
- "Seamless Ceiling of Kinkaku-ji". The nightmarish new impossible request of Kaguya Houraisan is impossible for many a player indeed. It starts as a seemingly doable pattern of falling almost half-screen bullet walls and a spinning layer of bullets thrown around the stage to make it harder to approach her. Said layer gets thicker after each successful photo and reaches a ridiculous level for the last one - it's one of the scenes many people simply don't have the patience to clear.
- Aya, from the past main game, returns as the stage 4 boss. The luck factor is vital for that fight, especially the survival card almost at the end.
- Parsee Mizuhashi, despite only being a stage 2 boss, has become rather infamous for surprising players with how difficult her spell cards are. "Green-Eyed Monster" is particularly brutal, as she uses it when she encounters the players as a midboss, and it's homing, a quality typically reserved for the bosses of stages 5 and 6 in a Touhou game. Another gimmick not normally seen until endbosses is the Doppelgänger Attack, which Parsee also uses (her "Tongue-Cut Sparrow" spell cards).
- Yuugi Hoshiguma in the stage 3 usually trips up players due to the sheer brute force of her attacks. Her final spellcard, "Knockout In Three Steps", is particularly brutal, because it's ensured you will lose at least one life if you don't know exactly what you need to do to pass this spellcard, and if you messed up... *pichuun*. She's often cited as a reason to not assume a character's strength from their placement in the game. One such argument spawned the NOT EVEN DROP meme.
- The first spell card she uses, Oni Sign "Anomalies, Strength, Disorder, and Spirits" is rather hard even on Easy. Yuugi shoots out a spiral of danmaku that are facing ever which way, before they go out in haphazard paths. You can get in the way of the spiral to not make those shots appear, but it won't really help.
- Satori Komeiji can be this, depending on who your option is, as she uses that character's spell cards. Heaven help you if you're playing as ReimuC and aren't prepared for "Tengu Macro Burst" to come hurtling at you. If you are playing as ReimuA, then have fun with Yukari's "Border of Wave and Particle", which was part of the extra stage of Shoot The Bullet. And then there's MarisaB (Patchouli). Her torturous water cards are the ones that Satori chooses, even if one of them ("Princess Undine"), isn't one of the spellcards that Marisa remembers from her. Well, those and one of Patchouli's cards from the extra stage of EoSD, the "Philosopher's Stone".
- Orin is almost universally declared the worst of them all. For beginners, there's the non-spellcards from the cat form in the stage 5 battle. Not so hard as it seems, but you can get clipped easily. Then there's the infamous "Cat's Walk" / "Vengeful Cat Spirit's Erratic Step". If you don't read the card's pattern correctly, well... And then, there's the actual boss battle. The zombie fairies are the least of your worries. Her third spell card, "Needle Mountain of a Former Hell" / "The Needles of Yore and the Vengeful Spirits in Pain", is really hard to read, due to the spinning ghost wheels, which are almost but not entirely unlike any other attack found in the series, and the bombs are useless against the wheels, so have fun.
- Her final encounter in Stage 6. For those that played Battle Toads, remember the final part of Stage 3? It's basically that, that is if you care about the spell card bonus.
- With this many That One Boss characters, some fans like to joke that Subterranean Animism is That One Game.
- Ichirin, together with Unzan, in stage 3. Be prepared to deal with Unzan's fists while you try to dodge the other bullets and lasers.
- Captain Minamitsu Murasa, the stage 4 boss. Giant anchors, literal raindrop dodging, and a homing survival card, all at stage four. If she doesn't mess you up, then...
- Shou Toramaru, the stage 5 boss, definitely will do it. Many people have great difficulty with her, especially with the curvy lasers. Her most notable spell card is Most Valuable Vajra / Vajra of Perfect Buddhism. The spinning homing lasers plus the other bullets make this card insanely difficult. It gives you so little opportunity to damage her, that with certain shot types it basically becomes a survival card too.
- Satori's "Vague Recollection of Kinkaku-ji". See that example in Shoot the Bullet section? Satori, being the troll she is, makes the players relive the horror again. This time, you only have to take 3 pictures... because the spell starts in the hardest mode. And the bullet pattern before the last photo is even harder than the original spellcard's hardest phase.
- Iku Nagae, the stage 10 boss.note Though she originated in the fighting game Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, and was not even the final boss in it, practically all her spell cards are a nightmare. Just try and capturing "Pearl of the Five-Clawed Dragon" with Hatate, who makes every other card in the game easier. And then you get to "Dragon Palace Messenger's Swimming Shot", which feels downright broken. No strategy or trick works against its combination of completely random curvy lasers mixed with completely random large orbs with big hitboxes. This is the last scene most people clear, usually by pure luck, if at all.
- Yoshika Miyako, the resident jiang-shi of Stage 3, has the annoying gimmick of absorbing spirits that emanate from her body to restore health. If you don't get close to her to intercept the spirits, she can easily deny a spellcard capture, even if you are wailing at her health the entire time. In addition, she fires large, spread out waves of kunai danmaku that can be very difficult to deal with, especially with a forward shooting character. And that's not even getting to the problems Youmu has...
- Seiga Kaku by herself is weak. However, being a Flunky Boss, she decides to bring in a bodyguard...which just so happens to be the previous That One Boss, which makes her incredibly hard to hit. Fortunately, you can take Yoshika out. Unfortunately, she'll come back to life after a few seconds.
- Seija Kijin, the stage 5 boss. Do you remember Sakuya, Youmu and Reisen and how their gimmicks screwed many players? Well... she goes one step further, having the power of turning anything over, and she'll be glad of using this ability against you. She isn't as strong as other bosses in terms of bullet spam, but she doesn't need anything of that because of her ability. Her mid-boss spellcard fires bullets upwards that then Wrap Around to the bottom of the screen, which screws a lot of players up simply because of how used they are to dodging bullets coming from the top. Then, in the stage boss fight, she screws you over by flipping the screen horizontally and your controls with it in the first spell card and then vertically in the next. The third spell card works a lot like the mid-boss one, with one difference: Bombs are useless against the bullets this time around. Then, for her final spellcard, she rotates the screen 180 degrees every few seconds. The patterns themselves aren't terribly difficult by Stage 5 standards; it's the screen flipping and rotating and breaks from the gameplay norms that makes her attacks brutal.
- Doremy Sweet, who is developing some notoriety in the fandom in the demo for having brutal non-spells. She has been compared to Stage 5 or Stage 6 bosses in difficulty, but she's only a Stage 3 boss! Her non-spells combine fast and slow bullets, she fires them in a swirl-like fashion, the bullets spin into themselves and you can easily get cornered. Her midboss card spawns bullets close to the player in all angles, her first boss card can wall the player with purple stars, her third boss card has lasers and bullets that bounce from walls, including the bottom one, might as well be an instakill if you are close to the bottom of the screen, her last card can spawn bullets close/on top of the player if it isn't careful. Her only easy attack is her second boss card, which uses fast swirls.
- Patchouli Knowledge in Koumajou Densetsu, lagely thanks to her "Philosopher's Stone" attack which deals a large amount of damage, is tricky to dodge, tricky to follow up with a comeback and follows an attack with homing bullets, making it all the harder to exploit the brief moments where she is open.
- The sequel has three TOBs. First of all Konpaku Youmu who attacks the player in an area where water reaches up to Sakuya's torso, severly crippling her mobility, and at higher difficulty settings her ghost-half also fires bullet barrages when hit, forcing the player to time his/her attacks to make sure the ghost-half is not accidentally caught in a stray slash. The second example is Marisa who has likely claimed more extra lives with her laser barrage than any other single attack in the game. The third one is Yuyuko who has two boss gimmicks: The first one is a red butterfly that slowly follows you throughout the fight and is a One-Hit Kill on touch. The second gimmick is that many of her bullets do not cause Mercy Invincibility, or even make you flinch, so if she nails you with a line of butterflies, you're pretty much dead. In addition to this, she also throws a LOT More Dakka than any boss fought up to this point.
- Megumi Yaobi, the stage 5 boss from the fangame Marine Benefit. She has the gimmick of flooding the screen while giving the player a bubble to stay in; if your hitbox leaves the bubble for even a millisecond, you die. On top of that, she moves constantly all around the screen, making it very hard to actually deal damage to her. For her last nonspell, she even circles the screen while spraying bullets everywhere. And when you think it's over, she pulls out her survival card, The Eight Million Laughing Gods, which is That One Attack to end them all. It's not unheard of to lose two or three lives to this one card.note
- As if this weren't enough, she shows up again as the stage 6 midboss, and deliberately goes out of her way to block your path through the bubbles with the biggest projectile available to her - Megumi Yaobi. If you aren't prepared for this, and are just watching the bullets and the bubbles while paying no attention to the boss, as is typically expected of the player, you WILL die. And even if you are prepared, the attack is nightmarishly difficult to read, considering how the bullets come from absolutely every direction possible for bullets to come from, all at once, without any pattern to speak of. Arguably the hardest attack in stage 6, and the player hasn't even seen the final boss yet.
- Alice in Paper Tenko. You first face off a giant puppet with 60 HP that hits you for 4 to 5 damage per turn when at this point you'll have around 30 hp at best. Then you face a 50 HP Alice. When at this point your HP was reduced to single digits, Alice will summon mooks constantly so you can't damage her with any attacks except the Celestial Stone Drill, launch said mooks at you for an attack that deals 10 hp damage, 9 if you time your button presses correctly. If you didn't stock on healing items back at Nitori's shop this will be a very painful battle.
- Utsuho in her Phantasmagoria Trues incarnation. She's only faced in Unlimited difficulty, but in every other difficulty, you had two options for who you faced in stage 4; in Unlimited, you're forced to fight Utsuho. This is a problem, since despite being only the stage 4 boss, she's actually harder than she was in Subterranean Animism - where she was the final boss! Her danmaku is ridiculously fast, to the point where in some patterns you can get killed by a bullet that didn't exist half a second ago, while her smaller bullets move in very awkward ways and love to wall the player at any opportunity they can get. All of this isn't getting into That One Attack, Suppression "Hell's Helix", consisting of constant shifting walls coming at the player relentlessly from the sides. Or the fact that in this game, Utsuho's suns are entirely hitbox, while in Subterranean Animism, they were almost entirely hitbox - this may look on paper like a distinction without a difference, but in practice, far from it. Next to Utsuho, even Eiki Shiki in stage 5 feels like a Breather Boss in comparison.
- And then there's Ran Yakumo. She isn't a Bonus Boss in this game, but when you get to Stage 3 on Advanced difficulty, you will desperately wish she was. Her patterns feature enormous walls, so large they can potentially cover a third of the screen or even more, as early as her first midboss nonspell, which is followed by a spell that features walls with tiny gaps coming at you from both sides at once. Then it's taken From Bad to Worse with her actual boss battle, where she greets you with a survival card that forces you to get ridiculously close to the red targeting circles that signify imminent death or else you die instantly - but don't actually touch the circles, or you also die instantly. And it doesn't get any easier from there, culminating in her final spellcard which constantly throws glowing walls at you from multiple directions, followed by a stream of knives that you need to dodge at the very bottom of the screen - when the angle of the walls Ran had been throwing at you made being high on the screen seem like the right strategy.
- Tarumi Takenouchi, the fifth stage boss of Riverbed Soul Saver. She isn't content to just use one gimmick against you; no, she'll throw something different at you with almost literally every attack she performs. Trying to wall you, shooting bullets at you from every conceivable direction all at once, doing so again while actively chasing you down, throwing giant fists at you, then throwing anchors at you in case you weren't already having horrible flashbacks to Undefined Fantastic Object. And what's her final attack? All of the above at once. Not even Liberation mode is likely to save you here.
- Not helping matters any is that she showed up as the stage 4 midboss...and she was a total pushover then. After the brutal Wake-Up Call Boss in stage 4, and That One Midboss earlier in stage 5, most new players are relieved to see her as the boss, expecting a Breather Boss fight. They'd be very, very wrong.


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Hey guys so I just got my truck back after an agonizing week of it being gone at the body shop. The paint chipped and started rusting on my left fender. I took it to the dealer and they took some pictures and then they got it resolved with Chrysler. They re-did my entire fender and I have to say it look fantastic at no cost to me. The paint looks perfect, I would say better than factory.
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Birthday Party Policy: While we recognize that birthdays are special, we request that birthday "treats" (cake, cupcakes, candy, etc.) are provided at home, and not during school hours. Instead, parents are encouraged to have lunch with their child to celebrate his/her birthday. Please see your child's teacher for details.
Healthy Party Policy: To promote wellness and good nutrition, we encourage parents to provide healthier options for class parties (i.e. Halloween, Valentine's Day, etc.). See teacher for further information/suggestions.
Water Policy: Belle Hall recognizes the importance of staying hydrated, and the best way to do that is to drink plenty of water! Please adhere to our beverage policy, which allows for water ONLY in the classroom. Water bottles and water containers are encouraged.
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World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim Remarks at the Opening Plenary of the International AIDS Conference 2012
"Ending AIDS and Poverty"Your Excellencies and honored guests, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues and friends,As we look back on the history of this epidemic, it is hard to say that there is any o... Show More +
Georgia – Competitiveness and Growth Development Policy Operation
IDA Credit: US$60 million equivalentTerms: Maturity = 25 years Grace = 5Project ID: P129597Project Description: The development objective of the program is to support competitiveness and inclusive gro... Show More +
Georgia's Economic Recovery is Gaining Strength with World Bank Support
World Bank Approves First Competitiveness and Growth Development Policy OperationWASHINGTON, July 19, 2012 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$ 60 million Competitiv... Show More +
World Bank Group Provided over $10.4 Billion to Emerging Europe and Central Asia
Helping Governments Support Growth and Sustain RecoveryWASHINGTON, July 11, 2012 – The World Bank Group provided US $10.47 billion in funding to governments in Emerging Europe and Central Asia (ECA) i... Show More +
World Bank Sees Warning Sign in Gas Flaring Increase
WASHINGTON DC, July 3, 2012 — New data showing a two-billion cubic meter increase in flared gas in 2011 over the previous year is a warning that efforts to reduce flaring need to be sustained and even... Show More +
Statement of World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim
I am honored to assume the Presidency of the World Bank Group. I do so at a moment that is pivotal for the global economy, and defining for the World Bank as an institution.The global economy remains ... Show More +
Transcript of Media Roundtable
MR. MILLS: Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us for this roundtable. My name is Richard Mills. I know many of you; welcome. ... Show More +
Transcript of World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim's Remarks upon Arrival at the Bank
DR. KIM: Good morning, everyone.I'm honored today to assume the presidency of the World Bank Group. I do so at a pivotal moment for the global economy.I want to start by thanking my predecessor, Rober... Show More +
World Bank Group Support to Promote Growth and Overcome Poverty in Developing Countries Hits Nearly $53 Billion in 2012
Demand remains above FY08 pre-crisis lending levels; IFC and MIGA post increasesWASHINGTON, June 29, 2012 – The World Bank Group committed $52.6 billion in loans, grants, equity investments, and guara... Show More +
Keynote Address on Connecting to Climate Event at the Newseum, by Caroline Anstey, Managing Director, World Bank
Working with others we've launched an Open Data for Resilience Initiative, a global effort working in 25 countries. An example is haitidata.org, which makes risk assessment data produced followi... Show More +
World Bank Announces Winners in "Apps for Climate" Competition
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2012 – A software application developed in Argentina that teaches about energy consumption, climate change and the actions needed to reduce carbon emissions took first place in th... Show More +
Connect4Climate and MTV Launch "Voices4Climate", a Global Competition Focused on Youth, Technology, and Climate Change
Kenyan hip hop artist/environmentalist Juliani to kick-off projectWashington, June 28, 2012 – So, what does climate change mean to you? This is the question Connect4Climate (C4C) and MTV will be askin... Show More +
Zoellick to Join Harvard's Belfer Center, Peterson Institute
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2012 — Robert B. Zoellick today said he would join the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and the Peterson Institute for International Econo... Show More +
World Bank Supports Georgia's Economic Development with Additional Financing for the Third East-West Highway Improvement Project
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2012 – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved US$ 43 International Development Association (million IDA) Additional Financing for the Third East-West Highway I... Show More +
Georgia – Third East-West Highway Improvement Project [Additional Financing]
IDA Credit: $43 million equivalentTerms: Maturity = 25 years: Grace = 5 yearsProject ID: P128863Project Description: The goal of the additional financing for the Third East-West Highway Improvement Pr... Show More +
Innovative Fund to Boost Food Security and Farmer Livelihoods is Launched
New Approach to Financing Innovations in Food Security and Agricultural Development Unveiled at G20 Summit in MexicoAgResults: Innovation in Research and DeliveryLOS CABOS, Mexico (June 18, 2012) – An... Show More +
World Bank Appoints New Regional Director for the South Caucasus
Tbilisi, June 15, 2012 - Mr. Henry Kerali has been appointed World Bank Regional Director for the South Caucasus effective July 1, 2012. In this position, Mr. Kerali will oversee the Bank's... Show More +
Global Mobility Unaffected by Financial Crisis, as Remittances Remained Resilient
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2012 – The global financial crisis of 2008/09 has not sent migrant workers streaming back home, despite worsening employment prospects and anti-immigration rhetoric in some destin... Show More +
Running Water—A Huge Relief for Georgian Villages
In Gori, Lily Tskhovrebashvili, used to rise at dawn to fill buckets and carry them home. Now water is piped to her house around the clock. "This is a huge relief. I assure you that every Gori re... Show More +
WB Urges Developing Countries to Strengthen Domestic Fundamentals, to Weather Global Economic Turmoil
WASHINGTON, June 12, 2012 – Developing countries should prepare for a long period of volatility in the global economy by re-emphasizing medium-term development strategies, while preparing for tougher ... Show More +


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Rocksteady's gorgeous-looking third Arkham game refines its open-world format a bit and lets you drive a whole hell of a lot of Batmobile.
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Twinbee is the ship from the popular Twinbee series of shoot-em ups. It has also made a cameo in the Parodius series as well.
Norse God of Mischief, Brother of Thor, Odinson.
The feathered-serpent god of the Aztecs and greater Mesoamerica. An important deity, he had a hand in the creation of humans, played a role as the Sun, and was the patron god of priests.
The second most prominent character in the Kunio-kun franchise. He is Kunio's friend and rival.
Megaman.EXE is one of the main characters in the Mega Man Battle Network Series. Unlike other adaptations of mega man, this one exists only as a program on a large computer network.
Captain America (Steve Rogers) is a superhero from Marvel comics. The only success of the United States' Super Soldier program, Rogers fought in World War II until he crashed a plane into the Arctic. There his body was left frozen in suspended animation until being revived in the modern day.
The mother of Donkey Kong Jr. and wife of Cranky Kong (also known as Donkey Kong), Wrinkly Kong has appeared in several of the major Donkey Kong titles. She died between DKC3 and DK64 and is now a ghost.
Toadsworth is Princess Peach's personal steward who first appeared in Super Mario Sunshine. Since then, he has appeared in a number of Mario franchise spin-offs.
This little robot made his debut in Mega Man 4, he was created by Dr. Light as a "personal walking suit case." He appears in some stages to aid Mega Man.
Barbara Gordon is the daughter of Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon. She is the most prominently known woman to don the mantle of Batgirl, and following an incident involving The Joker, became paralyzed. Confined to a wheelchair, Barbara nevertheless still helped Batman and friends as the information broker Oracle.
A wandering martial-artist, Ryu is a master of the fictional fighting style, Ansatsuken, and is one of the main characters in the Street Fighter universe. Only those that have beaten him know his surname.
A murdered farmer transformed into an aggressive, immortal monster, Solomon Grundy is an incredibly dangerous supervillain who comes back to life each time he dies, a little more powerful than he was before.
A compendium for all things Spyro, lest the little dragon that could be forgotten forever in the mists of time.
Fryguy is the boss of World 4 in Super Mario Bros. 2. When defeated, he splits into four mini-Fryguys.
Eddie Brock is a character in the Marvel Universe best known as Venom. He became Venom when he was joined with an alien symbiote life form and was one of the most fearsome enemies of Spider-Man. He had become Anti-Venom but recently lost the symbiote in the Spider-Island story arc.
Tryclyde is one of Wart's generals in Super Mario Bros. 2. His strategy is to spit numerous fireballs at a rapid pace.
Another of Dr Light's mechanical men who goes berserk after being reprogrammed by Dr Wily. Built for forestry, attacks with giant scissors.
Bulky Robot Master created by Dr. Light for construction.
A character from the Mega Man Battle Network series. he is Lan and MegaMan.EXE's main rival.
ProtoMan.EXE, known as Blues.EXE in Japan, is a NetNavi from the MegaMan Battle Network series operated by the ace NetBattler Eugene Chaud (Ijūin Enzan) and rival of MegaMan.
Mr. Match is a member of the terrorist organization WWW. He is the operator of three NetNavis: FireMan.EXE, HeatMan.EXE and FlameMan.EXE.
Mayl is a friend and classmate of Lan's. She is the operator of Roll.EXE.
Bass.EXE is an autonomous, very powerful NetNavi.
The leader of terrorist organization WWW, and main antagonist of the Mega Man Battle Network series. He is always defeated by Lan Hikari and Mega Man.
The first character to appear in a Castlevania game and easily the most referred to, Simon Belmont is the most recognizable of the Belmont protagonists and is endowed with the greatest of their legacies. He has also appeared in the most games within the franchise.
The one who is many. Consists of a nucleus surrounded by a multitude of bodies.
As the main antagonist of the US version of Super Mario Bros. 2, Wart is the final boss in the game. He was also featured in Doki Doki Panic as Mamu, on which the Super Mario Bros. 2 is based.
Part man part machine. Cyborg is a member of the Teen Titans.
The Mad Hatter combines his obsession with the works of Lewis Carroll with an equally unhealthy fascination with headgear. Utilizing various forms of mind control, Jervis Tetch roams the streets of Gotham City committing crimes to feed his deranged ego.
Poochy is Yoshi's canine pal and he happily carries Yoshi and Baby Mario on his back across lava and spikes in Yoshi's Island. He was also one of the bosses in Tetris Attack, having been brainwashed by Bowser and Kamek.
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In for Baggs for the last three tuneups against the Athleticals before it starts for real…
The Giants don't have many decisions to make to finalize their 25-man roster, but that doesn't mean there isn't some serious intrigue regarding the final two spots, and the drama may continue through the weekend, right up to Opening Day.
Twenty-seven players are on the major-league portion of the roster the Giants brought north to AT&T Park to open the Bay Bridge Series with the A's Thursday night. It's been known for awhile that the two open spots still in question are backup infielder (Matt Duffy or Ehire Adrianza) and right-handed set-up reliever (Jean Machi or George Kontos).
There are two wild-card developments, however, that could impact one or both of those calls. The first is the health of first baseman/outfielder Travis Ishikawa, who could go on the disabled list with a back injury. Manager Bruce Bochy said Ishikawa is "50/50" to go on the D.L., and if he does, that could mean both Duffy and Adrianza make the team.
But hold on. The Giants are also now considering opening the season with 13 pitchers because of the glut of early games – 10 straight to open the season with no off days – meaning both Kontos and Machi would make the team. That also means either Duffy or Adrianza wouldn't – and conceivably, although highly unlikely, both wouldn't if Ishikawa isn't on the D.L. and the club goes with 13 pitchers.
In short, Ishikawa's status is affecting a lot of futures at the moment, but Bochy said he needed to confer with trainer Dave Groeschner before making his final determination on a D.L. move.


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The Last Full Measure
By Jeff Shaara
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In the Pulitzer prize–winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel that brings to life the final two years of the Civil War.
As The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal year. On the Union side, the gulf between the politicians in Washington and the generals in the field yawns ever wider. Never has the cumbersome Union Army so desperately needed a decisive, hard-nosed leader. It is at this critical moment that Lincoln places Ulysses S. Grant in command—and turns the tide of war.
For Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg was an unspeakable disaster—compounded by the shattering loss of the fiery Stonewall Jackson two months before. Lee knows better than anyone that the South cannot survive a war of attrition. But with the total devotion of his generals—Longstreet, Hill, Stuart—and his unswerving faith in God, Lee is determined to fight to the bitter end.
Here too is Joshua Chamberlain, the college professor who emerged as the Union hero of Gettysburg—and who will rise to become one of the greatest figures of the Civil War.
Battle by staggering battle, Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontation between Lee and Grant—complicated, heroic, deeply troubled men. From the costly Battle of the Wilderness to the agonizing siege of Petersburg to Lee's epoch-making surrender at Appomattox, Shaara portrays the riveting conclusion of the Civil War through the minds and hearts of the individuals who gave their last full measure.
Full of human passion and the spellbinding truth of history, The Last Full Measure is the fitting capstone to a magnificent literary trilogy.
Michael's interest in Gettysburg was prompted by some letters written by his great-grandfather, who had been wounded at the great battle while serving with the 4th Georgia Infantry. In 1966, he took his family on a vacation to the battlefield and found himself moved.
In 1970, Michael Shaara returned to Gettysburg with his son Jeff. The pair crisscrossed the historic site, gathering detailed information for the father's novel-in-progress. In 1974, the novel was published with the title The Killer Angels. This gripping fictional account of the three bloody days at Gettysburg won Michael Shaara a Pulitzer Prize and a vast, appreciative audience. To date it has sold two million copies.
When Michael Shaara died in 1988, his son Jeff began to manage his literary estate. It was a legacy he knew well, having helped his father create it. When director Ron Maxwell filmed the movie Gettysburg, based on The Killer Angels, he asked Jeff to serve as a consultant. Maxwell encouraged Shaara to continue the story his father began; inspired, Jeff planned an ambitious trilogy, with The Killer Angels as the centerpiece, following the war from its origins to its end.
With Gods and Generals, Jeff Shaara gives fans of The Killer Angels everything they could have asked--an epic, brilliantly written saga that bringsthe nation's greatest conflict to life.


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I've lead teams and oversaw large IT projects and logistics/supply chain implementations for customers such as GE, Lockheed Martin, Tyco International and Motorola. I've presented to groups as small as 2-3 people and as large as 300 hundred. I've trained people on the use of software in groups as small as 5 and as large as 50. I thrive working in a client facing environment. On the technology front, I appreciate aspects such as project management, systems integration and training. I enjoy optimizing websites and blogs for search engine optimization and integrating the same with various social media tools. I can also write website copy. I also love photography. There is nothing like a photograph that captures a specific moment in time. Nothing else comes close to replicating it. I use a camera to tell stories. Specialities Creative: Project management, content editing, software training, conference photography, headshot photography, portrait photography, SEO, web copy Technical: Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes, Wordpress, Basecamp, MS Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SQL Server, Cognos, SQL, iSeries-AS/400 operations, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, AS400, AS2, EDI, XML
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"My Father's Ghost" is a wise woman's look at a "failed" father-daughter relationship--how it hurt, how it healed, and how, ultimately and in unexpected ways, the problem father became the daughter's strength. My Father's Ghost will be an inspiration to anyone who is dealing with a parent's aging or approaching death, and fans of this splended writer will find her at her b ...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published September 30th 2002 by Tarcher
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Dec 16, 2014 Sull rated it 5 of 5 stars
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WHAT a book this was! When the author invited her estranged, mysterious father to move across the country to live with her and her husband, she had no idea that he'd say yes, or what the reality would be once he arrived with his few art supplies (he had been an artist) and the cache of 40 volumes of diary he'd kept for most of his adult life, the "history" his daughter wasn't sure she could face but did.
But mostly it's a story of all those years he lived with her (17!). As he and her mother had ...more
But mostly it's a story of all those years he lived with her (17!). As he and her mother had ...more
Jan 15, 2013 Patricia rated it 5 of 5 stars
When Suzy McKee Charnas was eight years-old her father, Robin McKee, left her, her mother and sister to dedicate his life to being an artist. He was spectacularly unsuccessful. Contact with his children was intermittent but never broken. Several years later realizing that Robin was living a meager existence in Manhatten and had problems caring for himself as he entered old age, Charnas invites him to live with her and her husband in New Mexico. Surprisingly he accepts.
Charnas writes eloquently a ...more
Charnas writes eloquently a ...more
Oct 07, 2009 Abby rated it 5 of 5 stars
A very honest and often funny account of being the grown-up child of an aging stranger-dad. I like the elderly; I found this book on a shelf at work; I now like my job.
Suzy McKee Charnas was born and educated in New York City, attending Barnard College as an Economic History major (1961) and, after a two-year stint in Nigeria with the Peace Corps, New York University (MAT, 1965). She taught at the New Lincoln School in New York until Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital hired her away as a curriculum consultant for their high school drug-abuse treatment program. In 1969 ...moreMore about Suzy McKee Charnas...
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Impact of dietary fat quantity and quality on skeletal muscle fatty acid metabolism in subjects with the metabolic syndrome
ABSTRACT Insulin resistance is characterized by disturbances in lipid metabolism in skeletal muscle. Our aim was to investigate whether gene expression and fatty acid (FA) profile of skeletal muscle lipids are affected by diets differing in fat quantity and quality in subjects with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and varying degrees of insulin sensitivity. 84 subjects (age 57.3±0.9 y, BMI 30.9±0.4kg/m(2), 42M/42F) were randomly assigned to one of four iso-energetic diets: high-SFA (HSFA); high-MUFA (HMUFA) or two low-fat, high-complex carbohydrate diets, supplemented with 1.24g/day of long-chain n-3 PUFA (LFHCCn-3) or control oil (LFHCC) for 12weeks. In a subgroup of men (n=26), muscle TAG, DAG, FFA and phospholipid contents were determined including their fractional synthetic rate (FSR) and FA composition at fasting and 4h after consumption of a high-fat mixed-meal, both pre- and post-intervention. Genes involved in lipogenesis were downregulated after HMUFA (mean fold change -1.3) and after LFHCCn-3 (fold change -1.7) in insulin resistant subjects (< median of (S(I))), whereas in insulin sensitive subjects (>median of insulin sensitivity) the opposite effect was shown (fold change +1.6 for both diets). HMUFA diet tended to decrease FSR in TAG (P=.055) and DAG (P=.066), whereas the LFHCCn-3 diet reduced TAG content (P=.032). In conclusion, HMUFA and LFHCCn-3 diets reduced the expression of the lipogenic genes in skeletal muscle of insulin resistant subjects, whilst HMUFA reduced the fractional synthesis rate of DAG and TAG and LFHCC n-3 the TAG content. Our data indicate that these diets may reduce muscle fat accumulation by affecting the balance between FA synthesis, storage and oxidation.
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ABSTRACT: Omega-3 supplementation has been purported to improve the function of several organs in the body, including reports of increased resting metabolic rate (RMR) and reliance on fat oxidation. However, the potential for omega-3s to modulate human skeletal muscle metabolism has received little attention. This study examined the effects of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation on whole-body RMR and the content of proteins involved in fat metabolism in human skeletal muscle. Recreationally active males supplemented with 3.0 g/day of EPA and DHA (n = 21) or olive oil (n = 9) for 12 weeks. Resting muscle biopsies were sampled in a subset of 10 subjects before (pre) and after (post) omega-3 supplementation. RMR significantly increased (5.3%, p = 0.040) following omega-3 supplementation (Pre, 1.33 ±0.05; Post, 1.40 ±0.04 kcal/min) with variable individual responses. When normalizing for body mass, this effect was lost (5.2%, p = 0.058). Omega-3s did not affect whole-body fat oxidation, and olive oil did not alter any parameter assessed. Omega-3 supplementation did not affect whole muscle, sarcolemmal, or mitochondrial FAT/CD36, FABPpm, FATP1 or FATP4 contents or mitochondrial electron chain and PDH proteins, but did increase the long form of UCP3 by 11%. In conclusion, supplementation with a high dose of omega-3s for 12 weeks increased RMR in a small and variable manner in a group of healthy young men. Omega-3 supplementation also had no effect on several proteins involved in skeletal muscle fat metabolism and did not cause mitochondrial biogenesis.Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism 04/2014; 39(9):1-9. DOI:10.1139/apnm-2014-0049 · 2.23 Impact Factor
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