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The Legend of Zelda
"I am Error."
The Legend of Zelda, released in Japan as a name that ends in no Densetsu, is a series of videogames that are considered Nintendo's strongest non-Mario-related work. These games seamlessly mix together elements of action, adventure, puzzle solving, and pottery destruction. The main story follows Link, a boy/man who leaves his comfortable home at 12/17 to save Hyrule/Zelda/The World from Ganondorf/Vaati/The Imprisoned/Ghirahim/Onox/Veran/Agahnim by collecting/rescuing three/four/six/eight gems/maidens/pieces of Triforce/shards of Triforce/shards of Mirror/Instruments/map pieces/sacred flames/Fused Shadows/Sages/Fairies/Giants (circle all that apply).
Story and funny speaking[edit]
"Ganon kidnapped who? Again?! Fuck my life... "
Link starts off the game jacking off, going into some cave where he is given a sword by some Old Man, and is presumably raped (this is why you don't accept gifts from strangers.) Tempted by the shittyness of the sword, and aided by the fact that he didn't take his pills, he goes on a retarded rampage, ass-raping every living thing in sight.
During the course of the game, Link locates eight mansions and slaughters the household's servants (with an assortment of bombs, ponies, arrows, and penis shaped swords) and eventually the owner of the household. He eats their hearts in a Satanic ritual to make himself stronger and then steals the poor dead monsters's triangle, after robbing their house of valuables of course. Along the way, he steals a variety of stuff from other people that helps him to go on his killing spree. He eventually finds his way into the pleasant household of Ganon, rapes his well paid servants, and proceeds to kill Ganon. Ganon's wife, the shemale Zelda, is forced to watch this happen. If this weren't enough, Link eventually has his way wivermin/her over a pool table. The end.
- Link
A "symbol of courage, strength and wisdom", Link was designed as a coming-of-age motif for players to occupy themselves with: a large-eared youth that can only communicate with 8-bit beeps begins the game a psychopathic boy but grows in strength (not that you'd be able to tell with his six-by-six pixel face) and fortitude to triumph over innocent monsters, and collect masses of pornographic material on his way.
- Princess Zelda
"People always said that it was weird for me to crossdress as a shemale ninja, but I'm not really a man trapped in a woman's body. I'm a gay guy trapped in a woman's body."
Unlike most other video game characters, Zelda is actually a pre op transsexual (Raiden 'mucho butthurt' of Metal Gear Solid being the other high profile tranny star), having starred in many shemale movies alongside barney the dinosaur. An embodiment of corporate America, and an offical mascot of the 2012 Olympics, the world is currently his/her crayfish. The name of the princess(actually prince) was inspired by someone else I know, and gained much of her sustenance from rolls and bread. There is also an uneasy sexual tension between him/her and the pet gruffalo. Zelda had a very important cameo in the recent Batman film, no doubt influenced by his/her role in the XXX film of the same name.
Epona is a wild stallion called on by a magical penis flute played by Link. Epona's only job is to service Link in all ways sexual. Heeee HAAAAAWWWWW!!!!
Unnamed Character
everyone also knows that if Apple auto-correct doesn't recognise your name, then you are a Cyborg from the future sent back through time to destroy mankinds only hope of survival, Mountain Dew. This character shows up occasionally on the epic troll edition, and results in almost instantaneous butthurt. It can only be countered by a level 245 hadukken, a well timed finesse shot or the Tombstone Piledriver.
- Ganondwarf (Or Ganondork)
Ganon is a poor helpless man who was killed by link by using his weird penis sword of sexuality. His wife Zelda was eventually raped by Link. Ganon was heard from again however coming back as a giant penis shaped dinosaur.
When The Legend of Zelda was released its gameplay defied categorization. The game begins with the player controlling a young delinquent named Link who finds himself in the magical world of Hyrule. Seeing a green cave, Link headed inside and received a wooden sword from some old guy. Feeling like a million bucks, Link sets out to destroy 9 different gangs on a miss-guided quest to "save" Princess Zelda from the clutches of the infamous pimp daddy Ganon. However, Link doesn't realize that he's really the bad guy and not Ganon.
Though Link managed to kill Ganon, he came back as a stinky ass fat piece of waste.
How to follow the storyline[edit]
The Legend of Zelda has multiple theories to which no one seems to have a proper answer. The best explanation so far is that there was a temporal explosion created by Link grabbing the Master Sword, ripping the space time continum into two where Link must save both worlds from an insane, maniacal evil doer named Ganon or Ganondorf. However one must ask why he doesnt appear in every game? Well the answer to that is that he does not have to appear for him to be involved. For example, why was the moon crashing into the town in Majora's Mask? Ganondorf. Anytime there is a problem in the Legend of Zelda the person behind it should ALWAYS be assumed to be Ganondorf, no matter how obscure it is.
The Legend of Zelda seems to have four constants, Link, Ganondorf, Zelda and Garthe Knight. Yes that's right, the characters have somehow traversed space and time. This leaves us to believe that Link may be behind who stole the the Doc's train and thus why Back to the Future 4 was never created. Ganondorf is a witch by common belief and witches can pass through time as they please. One puzzling aspect of all these games is why Link never ties the knot with Zelda. Like he only saves her in virtually every game. The only way to explain this is that Link is sexually inept and cannot produce children with Zelda, or that Zelda is too jealous of his previous affairs with Malon the prostitute, Saria (Link's childhood butt-buddy), and Ruto the creepy fish lady princess.
Now how do we tell which game is in which timeline. Well this is easy, put every game in their own timeline. Yes the beauty of alternate universes. Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time, Multiple universes. Minnish Cap, definently hopefully its own universe. Super Smash Bros Brawl, Yep own universe. Does anyone else notice that Ganondorf is one of the main baddies in that game as well, maybe he will replace Bowser in the next Mario game?
Second Quest[edit]
Are you glad that you finally slayed Ganon? Guess what? The game rewards you for that. With round two!!!! After Ganon came back from hell, He realized what went wrong and made each of the gangs way more stronger. Fuck, you can't even walk into Level 1 without swords getting thrown at you...Unfortunately for the bad guys, Link trained Rocky style and then proceeded to go psycho on everyone's ass...The game ends Link fucking Zelda forever.
Development and release[edit]
Designer Shigeru Miyamoto was responsible for the development of Super Communist Bros. and decided to corrupt America's youth with yet another controversial character, this time in the form of a silent psychopathic, terrorist thief with a six-by-six pixel face incapable of any emotion or being identified.
With The Legend of Zelda, Miyamoto wanted to blur the lines between reality and illusion even further, giving players "a miniature garden that they can put inside their drawer."[1] A perfect example can be seen in 'the ocarina of time' where as opposed to reality, where a cow is milked by its utters, link obtains milk by playing a song for them. He drew his inspiration from his experiences as a boy around Alaska, where he explored nearby fields, woods, and caves, and through the Zelda titles he always tries to impart to players some of the sense of exploration and limitless wonder he felt. "When I was a pixel child," he said, "I went hiking through the pixellated country and found a bright blue lake made out of pixels. A pixellated fairy appeared out of it and circled me with pixellated red hearts, and I felt as if I had to let the players experience the sense of pixellated wonder I felt at this beautiful occurence."
In the initial game designs, the player would start the game with the sword already in their inventory. According to Miyamoto, those in Japan were confused and had trouble finding their way through the multiple path dungeons. Rather than listening to the complaints, Norris took away the sword out of spite, making the game even more difficult.
In the later game designs, after Shigeru Miyamoto stepped aside, the nintendo team would get high each day before working on the game. This resulted in Zelda "The Windwaker" where link has somehow turned from a tall manly master rapist into a small cat eyed freak who looks like he has been on the opposite side of some of those rapes. players must also shoot frogs made of gold with a bow and arrow in order to be taught a symbol that allows them to teleport via tornado, because thats what frogs do. After shooting the frogs and taking their symbols, Link must make them do a perverted dance so that Link can take pictures for later and then rapes them until their dead.
The Legend of Zelda's thief character, Link, warped the minds of players around the world on its initial run. It was reissued in 1990, in the hope that people would be too stupid to realise it was the same game. It was re-released for the Gayboy Advances for the same reasons, and you morons just lapped it up, didn't you?
The game places prominently on rigged popularity polls run by Zelda fans and spawned many cheap cash-in products such as toys, watches, trash, sequels, and the worst animated series in the existence of mankind. Even Michael Jackson, who was seriously turned on by Link and loved watching his show in the nude, abruptly stopped for fear of turning into a child molester. Too late.
In 2011, Nintendo is planning to add Link into the real world through a time teleporter. Anyone living on Earth should lock their doors and get ready for a mini-apocalyspe.
Zelda has been re-released on multiple platforms, because Nintendo is a company that thinks you won't notice the difference and will keep paying for the same old junk over and over again. Judging from the way you lap these games up, they're right. See Pokemon.
Link- an Elven pimp.
Zelda: Link's hooker.
Ganon: A boar that escaped a mental asylum.
Tingle: A homosexual crack addict.
Navi: The character that gave James Cameron the idea for the language in Avatar.
Captain Falcon: Show him Zelda's boobs
Gravity Cat: He is never amused.
Everyone else: No one gives a shit.
- ↑ Andrew Vestal, Cliff O'Neill and Brad Shoemaker (2000-11-14). The History of Zelda. Gamespot. Retrieved on 2006-09-30.
See also[edit]
The Legend of Zelda - Blink-182 is Passé - Link's Arousal - Ocarina of Time - Majora's Mask - The Wind Waker - The Midget's Crap - Twilight Princess - Phantom Hourglass - Spirit Tracks - The Wand of Gamelon
|Link - Princess Zelda - Ganondorf - King Harkinian - Tingle - Vaati - That Old Man from The Legend Of Zelda - Lord Jabu-Jabu
|Hyrule - Link is a Tree - The Legend of Zelda Link theory - Rupees


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Consider the linear space $\sum_{\mathbb{R}} \mathbb{R}$. As in the Frolicher-Kriegl-Michor view, we make this into a Frolicher space as follows.
Equip it with the locally convex topology of the colimit. Specifically, it is given the finest locally convex topology so that all of the inclusions of finite summands are continuous. What is important is that a linear functions $\phi \colon \sum_{\mathbb{R}} \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is continuous if and only if its restriction to any finite summand is continuous. Thus all linear functionals $\sum_{\mathbb{R}} \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ are continuous. Technical note: with this topology, it is complete.
Now define the family of smooth curves to be those curves $c \colon \mathbb{R} \to \sum_{\mathbb{R}} \mathbb{R}$ with the property that $\psi \circ c \colon \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is smooth for all $\psi \in \prod_{\mathbb{R}} \mathbb{R}$ (that is, for all continuous, linear maps $\psi : \sum_{\mathbb{R}} \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$). Note that curves are not assumed to be continuous (though they will be).
Now define the family of smooth functions to be those $f \colon \sum_{\mathbb{R}} \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ for which $f \circ c \colon \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is smooth for all smooth curves $c$. Again, smooth functions are not assumed to be continuous.
Here's the question: are all smooth functions continuous?
If we took a countable sum then this would be true. For the uncountable product, Kriegl and Michor show (Example 4.8, pp37-38 of A Convenient Setting of Global Analysis) that this is not true. So I suspect the answer to be false, but don't know if this is known or not.


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(Reuters) - Angry investors are seeing far fewer financial benefits from lawsuits accusing corporate America of securities fraud, but may be on the cusp of a turnaround.
The number and size of securities fraud settlements that won final U.S. court approval fell in 2011 to the lowest in a decade, amid a drop in cases linked to accounting problems and U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission enforcement activity.
According to a study being released on Wednesday by Stanford Law School and Cornerstone Research, courts in 2011 approved 65 such settlements totaling a mere $1.36 billion, down from 86 settlements totaling $3.21 billion a year earlier.
The dollar amount is less than half the $2.78 billion recovered in 2003, which had been the lowest since the adoption the prior year of the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance law.
Still, Laura Simmons, a business professor at the College of William & Mary and co-author of the study, said large settlements involving American International Group Inc and other companies, as well as increased SEC enforcement activity, may make 2012 a more rewarding year for investors.
"As we look at the potential impact of whistleblower lawsuits, we expect a further increase in SEC activity, which could result in a greater amount of private settlements," she said in an interview.
Last year, the SEC filed 735 enforcement cases, up 8.6 percent from 2010 and the most in its history, according to the regulator's annual report.
The largest 2011 settlement in Cornerstone's study was a $208.5 million accord by officers, directors, underwriters and an auditor for Washington Mutual Inc, the largest U.S. bank or thrift to fail.
"Lawyers will debate whether this decline is a result of plaintiffs having brought weaker claims or pro-defendant changes in the legal regime, or some combination," Joseph Grundfest, a Stanford University law professor who works with Cornerstone, said in a statement. "The really big litigation bucks were not in the class-action securities fraud market in 2011."
Simmons said the drop in accounting-related cases may stem from fewer restatements, which in turn may be attributed in part to improved corporate governance under Sarbanes-Oxley.
She also said that some plaintiffs' lawyers may have focused more in recent years on housing-related litigation, including the sale of risky mortgage-backed securities, rather than more traditional securities fraud cases.
Cornerstone's study excludes settlements challenging mergers. Such cases accounted for 43 of the 188 new securities fraud lawsuits filed last year.
Settlement totals for 2012 will include AIG's $725 million settlement to resolve claims accusing the insurer of accounting fraud and stock price manipulation.
Other accords topping $100 million that may also be included are with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc; wireless equipment company Motorola Solutions Inc; National City Corp, a bank now owned by PNC Financial Services Group Inc; and private education company Apollo Group Inc.
The peak years for settlements were 2005 and 2006, when settlements over WorldCom Inc's and Enron Corp's collapses contributed to respective total payouts of $10.5 billion and $19.19 billion, Cornerstone said.
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Vail Daily obituary: August Grasis II
Vail, CO Colorado
August Grasis II of South Padre Island, Texas, and Vail departed this life at age 87 on Monday of congestive heart failure.
As husband, father, role model, leader, businessman, sailor, skier, swimmer and wine enthusiast, August was known for his love for life, his unconditional love for family and friends, his pragmatic, logical and fair business approach, and his dedication and willpower to be the best in whatever he chose to do.
August lived the American dream, building his life and his legacy in the USA after escaping Soviet-occupied Latvia in 1944. He married his sweetheart, Ruta, in 1950 and founded Grasis Corporation in 1964 to become America's leading microwave tower company. Along the way, he and Ruta raised three children, won many sailboat races, competed in national skiing competitions and collected the finest Bordeaux. Post-retirement, he rekindled his love for automobiles by restoring and driving Studebakers, Jaguars, Porches and Lagondas in events all over the world.
While living in Vail, August and his wife, Ruta, were regular participants in the Colorado Grand, having completed it 15 times in their beloved black Jaguar XK140.
His countless Nastar gold medals in Vail races led to a fourth-place at the Nastar national competition when August was 50 years old.
In 1993, August, with the assistance of his best friend from Latvia, the famous architect Gunnar Birkerts, he designed and built one of Vail's architectural treasures. Birkerts later used this design, replicated, but considerably larger, when he became the architect for the iconic Kemper Art Museum in Kansas City.
His smile, laugh and zest for life will always be missed by his bride and love of his life for 61 years, Ruta; his three children, Mara Grasis Garton (a long-time Vail resident with husband Tim Garton), August III and Nora Kristina Jenkins and their families, including 10 grandchildren and six great grandchildren; and his many friends he is leaving behind. He loved them all very much.
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After climbing a steep iMovie learning curve, I am finally able to post our video of the outreach in Chimayo! We administered 52 vaccines before running out! In addition, Site Manager Elias Fresquez hosted a car show (with awards), a farmers' market, education for seniors by the Public Regulatory Commission, among other things. County Commissioners, the Mayor of Espanola, the Sheriff, school board members and other officials mingled with the public. A great time for everyone!
All this and more in our second minimentary of the series: Hospital in Chimayo!


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I have until now avoided discussing the issue of what normal blood sugars should be in pregnancy because it looked like gynecologists were being more aggressive with blood sugar control during pregnancy then other doctors.
Blood sugar control is particularly important in pregnancy because a fetus that is exposed to continually high blood sugars will experience significant changes in the way that its genes express which will affect its blood sugar metabolism for the rest of its life.
High blood sugar will also make babies very large, which poses problems when it is time for delivery, some life-threatening.
Blood sugars are lower in pregnant women because there is a higher blood volume during pregnancy, but it is starting to look like the targets gynecologists have been recommending, which would have been excellent for non-diabetic women are considerably higher than normal.
This was made clear by a new meta-study that analyzed a series of studies of the blood sugars of a wide range of normal pregnant women using Continuous Glucose Monitoring, home testing, and hospital lab results. It makes it clear that the current targets for pregnancy are probably too high.
Here is the full text version of the meta-study:
Patterns of Glycemia in Normal Pregnancy: Should the current therapeutic targets be challenged? Teri L. Hernandez, et al. Diabetes Care July 2011 vol. 34 no. 7 1660-1668.
It concludes that the following appear to be truly normal blood sugars for pregnant women:
Fasting: 70.9 ± 7.8 mg/dl (3.94 mmol/L ± .43)
One Hour Post Meal: 108.9 ± 12.9 mg/dl (6.05 ± .72 mmol/L)
Two Hours Post Meal: 99.3 ±10.2 mg/dl (5.52 ± .57 mmol/L )
A commentary published in this month's Diabetes Care gives more insight into the importance of this study and why doctors should aggressively lower blood sugars in pregnancy. You can read it HERE. The Full text version is free.
The commentary suggests that pregnant women should strive for blood sugars that don't exceed the first standard deviation of normal (that's the average with the number following the "±" added to it. Doing that gives us targets that should not exceed
Fasting: 79 mg/dl (4.4 mmol/L)
One Hour After Meals: 122 mg/dl (6.8 mmol/L)
Two Hours After Meals: 110 m/gdl (6.1 mmol/L)
The challenge during pregnancy, of course, is to lower blood sugar without going too low because hypos can also cause problems for the fetus. In addition, the solution that works so well for non-pregnant people--cutting way back on carbs--raises issues.
Very low carb diets raise the concentration of ketones in the blood. This isn't a problem when we aren't pregnant--most of our organs can run quite happily burning ketones. But because ketones are usually produced when humans are starving, it is very possible that fetuses produced when the mother is in a ketogenic state may end up with environmentally-produced permanent changes to their genes (epigenetic changes, to use a technical term) that will predispose them to gaining weight once they are born, because ketones may signal the forming baby that they are being born into an environment of scarcity.
The fact that ketogenic diets downregulate T3 and slow the thyroid in non-pregnant people raises the question about whether a ketogenic diet might also have a negative effect on the baby's developing thyroid.
So it's generally considered to be best for pregnant women to lower their blood sugar as much as possible by cutting back on carbohydrates but to keep their carbs over the threshold (anywhere from 60-100 grams a day) where glycogen is depleted and the concentration of ketones in the blood and urine rises.
You can usually detect your own ketogenic threshold easily: it is the carbohydrate intake level at which, after eating at that level for three days, you suddenly lose anywhere from 3 to 8 lbs (depending on your size.) Raising carbs will immediately restore those quickly lost pounds because they are not fat (or growing baby) but the glycogen stored in your liver and muscles which gets burned away when your carbohydrate level is too low to replenish it.
If you eat only enough carbohydrates to keep your glycogen replenished, you won't have to worry that ketones will give your fetus the message that it's being born into an environment where starvation is occurring and shift its genes into a state where they optimize fat storage.
If you can't lower your blood sugar during pregnancy with diet alone, insulin is a safe medication for pregnant women and most doctors provide pregnant women with diabetes much better education in how to use insulin than family doctors do to their non-pregnant peers.
If you are reading this because you are pregnant and have just discovered you have gestational diabetes though you were not diabetic before your pregnancy, here's one last important fact to keep in mind: abnormal blood sugars in pregnancy almost always point to the pre-existence of abnormal sugars in the non-pregnant state that were missed by your doctor because the tests doctors use to screen for diabetes do a woefully bad job of diagnosing it until you have suffered years of high blood sugars that may irreversibly damage your organs.
Once you deliver your baby, don't rely on doctors to tell you if your blood sugar is normal. Test your blood sugar after meals every so often with a meter to make sure that you are not going over the 140 mg/dl (7.7 mmol/L) level at one hour that is truly normal in the non-pregnant state and that you are under 120 mg/dl (ideally far under) at two hours. If you are going over these levels, cut back on your carbohydrates and if that doesn't help, find a doctor willing to work with you to use safe drugs like metformin that can keep your sugars in the normal range for life.
Don't rely on the A1c test, as most doctors now do. It has been shown to be a poor guide to the high post-meal sugars that characterize the very early stages of Type 2 diabetes and which cause heart disease and early diabetic complications.
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2012 was a big year for the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. Overall, the site generated more than $274 million for startup projects that otherwise might not have had a chance at success. Many of the best Kickstarter projects get a great deal of exposure when they first hit the website and begin collecting pledges, but now that the lucky entrepreneurs have had a chance to build their dreams, Kickstarter-funded products are set to make a big splash in 2013.
Here are some of the top gadgets, accessories and other oddities that were paid for with the help of digital donors.
Pebble Smart Watch
Price: $150.00
Public Launch: April-May 2013
Original Goal: $100,000
Total Pledges: $10,266,845
These days it seems like everyone has a smartphone in his or her pocket, but intelligent gadgets don't stop there. Pebble is the first truly full-featured smart watch. With a collection of apps capable of everything from tracking your workout to relaying Twitter messages, the project quickly became one of the most successful Kickstarter stories of 2012.
Pebble monitors your social network accounts, alerts you to important emails, and syncs with your smartphone, allowing you to use the watch as a smaller secondary screen to control music and other features. It's a remarkably powerful little gadget and is capable of performing just about every task you'd normally use your smartphone for, short of making calls.
Those who got in on the ground floor of the Pebble revolution have already received their watches, but don't expect the Pebble to simply fade into obscurity. The company is working hard to make its gadget a retail success as well. Don't be surprised to see the Pebble in 2013, either at your favorite electronics store or on a friend's wrist.
Ouya Game Console
Price: $99
Public Launch: June 2013
Original Goal: $950,000
Total Pledges: $8,596,474
When you think of a video game console, you typically envision a large, bulky box like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. The Android-powered Ouya could change all that, and its Kickstarter campaign remains one of the most popular of last year. Developers already have their Ouya units in hand, and those who pledged in the original campaign can expect to receive their consoles starting in March 2013.
But how is the Ouya different? Well, for starters, it's tiny and can easily be held in the palm of your hand. It features a full-sized game controller, with a layout similar to that of the Xbox 360. All of the titles available for the device will be download-only, so you'll never see a physical copy of a game on a store shelf. In short, it's the most affordable new gaming experience in years, and its futuristic approach to content could very well shake up the game industry.
The console is Android-powered, which makes game development an easy affair for those familiar with the smartphone world. Also many of the most popular mobile game companies have already promised to bring their work to the diminutive console. Oh, and every game on the Ouya will be free to try, so you never have to worry about dropping cash on trash ever again. If you're a gamer, there may be no escaping the Ouya in 2013.
Safecast Geiger Counter
Price: $400
Public Launch: Not available
Original Goal: $4,000
Total Pledges: $104,268
After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in early 2011, a company called Safecast launched a campaign to distribute small, affordable Geiger counters throughout the country to monitor radiation from coast to coast. After the success of its initial fundraiser, Safecast returned to Kickstarter in 2012 with plans to create a pint-sized radiation-monitoring device that just about anyone can use. The project was an immediate success, and hundreds of supporters paid for their own ultraportable Geiger counters.
But as cool as the devices themselves are, the most innovative thing about Safecast's project is that all the data collected can be uploaded to a central database and explored for free. Now, the company bills itself as a "global sensor network," and hopes to empower individuals of all countries with the information they need to detect dangers faster than ever before. If a radioactive event occurs in 2013, you can bet Safecast's handheld monitors won't be far behind.
Luminae Multitouch Keyboard & Touchpad
Price: $499 (keyboard), $249 (touchpad)
Public Launch: Summer 2013
Original Goal: $50,000
Total Pledges: $143,583
Yes, it may look like something out of the Starship Enterprise, but the Luminae multitouch desktop accessories are indeed the real deal. Featuring see-through touch surfaces, the multitouch keyboard and touchpad combo was originally offered on Kickstarter in late 2011. After successful funding in 2012—and many unforeseen production delays since—the futuristic input devices look to finally land in customers' hands in 2013.
The peripherals feature an ultraclean design, color LED accent lighting, customizable overlays and rechargeable batteries. Of course, the most important feature of the accessories is that you can spill a few drips of your morning coffee on them and not end up with sticky keys.
SLXtreme Waterproof Solar iPhone Case
Price: $129.99
Public Launch: Available Now
Original Goal: $75,000
Total Pledges: $164,603
If you have a nasty habit of accidentally destroying your gadgets with drops, spills or any other environmental hazard, the SLXtreme iPhone case was made for you. The project was successfully funded in March 2012 under the name Aqua Tek S, but it has since been renamed and is currently shipping to supporters worldwide.
Unlike other protective cases, the SLXtreme can take just about whatever you can throw at it. For starters, it's waterproof—not just water-resistant. The case is designed to be able to withstand water up to 20 feet deep, so feel free to use it as an aquatic camera the next time you're on a short dive. The case also has a built-in solar panel that can recharge your iPhone even when you're nowhere near a power source. If you're a lover of the outdoors, there's really no other iPhone accessory to consider.
2012 was a big year for the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. Overall, the site generated more than $274 million for startup projects that otherwise might not have had a chance at success. Many of the best Kickstarter projects get a great deal of exposure when they first hit the website and begin collecting pledges, but now that the lucky entrepreneurs have had a chance to build their dreams, Kickstarter-funded products are set to make a big splash in 2013.


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Can you tell me about the Reformed Church in America? Are they liberal or conservative? How do they differ from the OPC?
I'll try to answer your questions on the basis of my own personal experience and expertise, but it should be understood at the start that what I write should be taken as simply my own perspective as an individual minister rather than as any sort of "official" statement of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
First, let me say something about my own background. I was baptized as an infant in the Reformed Church in America (RCA), grew up in that denomination (taught Sunday School, sang in the choir, etc.), and in fact was ordained in that denomination (I was proud to have the late Dr. John Skilton of Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia, speak at my ordination), serving for approximately ten years as Pastor of Talmage Memorial Fourth Reformed Church, Philadelphia, a congregation that is now Pilgrim Orthodox Presbyterian Church (more about that later).
Is the Reformed Church in America liberal or conservative? If we consider the denomination's history, that is not a simple question to answer, unless one answers it, "Yes," or, "It may depend partly on where you live."
I say that because in the past (for example, this was largely true in the 1960's, while I was a student at Westminster Seminary), the RCA was in many respects not one church, but two churches, divided geographically. This is an oversimplification, but essentially the East was "liberal" and the West was "conservative," and each had its own theological seminary (if you were "liberal," you went to New Brunswick in the East; if you were "conservative," you went to "Western" in the West).
It was not a homogeneous situation in either geographical area, but congregations in the East tended to be similar to the more liberal mainline denominations (such as what was then known as the United Presbyterian Church), while those in the West tended to be similar to the more conservative Christian Reformed Church (except that the CRC placed more emphasis upon Christian schools than did the RCA).
Incidentally, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) and the Christian Reformed Church were both "conservative" and very close in theological perspective (although the CRC has changed in recent years). The Reformed Church in America was a mixture of "conservative" and "liberal," although in certain geographical areas (Michigan is a typical example) the RCA was almost as "conservative" as the CRC.
Associated with the RCA (at least in the West) was an evangelical radio ministry earlier called "Temple Time" (Dr. Henry Bast was the radio preacher 1952-1972) and later called "Words of Hope" (Dr. William Brownson was radio preacher 1972-1994, followed by the Rev. David Bast). In viewpoint, the ministry was close to that of the "Back to God Hour" of the CRC (with long-time radio preacher Dr. Joel Nederhood), but there was an important difference: the "Back to God Hour" was officially supported by the CRC denomination, whereas "Temple Time"/"Words of Hope" was supported primarily by a particular geographical area of the RCA (i.e., the West).
In the process of time, New Brunwick Seminary became somewhat more "conservative," while Western Seminary became more "liberal," so there is currently less of a theological difference not only in seminaries but also in geographical areas. As far as general theological stance is concerned, most people would consider the RCA to be definitely on the "liberal" side (ordination of women to the ministry is supported, the historicity of the early chapters of Genesis is questioned, etc.).
We come now to how the Reformed Church in America differs from the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. In terms of doctrinal standards, the RCA officially holds (as does the CRC) to the "Reformed Standards of Unity," i.e., the Belgic Confession of Faith, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Canons of Dort (wherein are found the "Five Points of Calvinism"). The OPC officially holds to the Westminster Standards the (Westminster Confession and the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms).
The theology of these two groups of documents is essentially the same. The important difference between the RCA and the OPC is that the RCA tends to see its standards as historical documents defining the denomination's beliefs at an earlier stage in its history, while the OPC sees the Westminster Standards as documents thatnow as in the pastrepresent an accurate presentation of the system of doctrine in Holy Scripture.
Yet even more important is that the OPC affirms the Bible as the infallible, inerrant Word of God, whereas it is unlikely that many ministers or congregations in the RCA would make this affirmation. And the OPC holds without compromise to the historic Reformed faith (including the radical fallenness of man and man's radical need of God's grace), while some of the best-known preachers of the RCAmen like Norman Vincent Peale ("positive thinking") and Robert Schuller ("possibility thinking")have replaced these Reformation views with a faith in the potential of man.
It is because of such differences that Talmage Memorial Fourth Reformed Church (the last RCA church in the city of Philadelphia) reluctantly came to the conclusion that for the sake of the congregation and its continued ministry in the city, it must become united with a denomination (the OPC) fully committed to the gospel of God, the full trustworthiness of the Scriptures, and the historic Reformed Faith.
Although the congregation knew that to do so would mean the losing of all material possessions (church building, Sunday School annex, parking lot, parsonage, money in bank accounts, etc.), they voted unanimously to become part of the OPC and thus became Pilgrim OPC, confessing that "they were strangers and pilgrims on this earth" (Heb. 11:13). They have not had occasion or reason to regret that decision.
One final thought: I am not saying (nor was the congregation saying) that there are no Bible-believing individual ministers, members, or even congregations in the Reformed Church in America. They may be in the minority (as in other so-called mainline denominations), but that is not to say they do not exist.
One significant feature of the OPC, however, is that if you attend an OPC worship service at random, you will not have to wonder whether you will hear the gospel of God or "another gospel" being proclaimed. Rather, you can rest assured that you will hear the gospel of God based on the Word of God.
Well, that's my personal attempt, "warts and all," at answering the question. If you would like a more "official" answer concerning the OPC's present relationship with other denominations, you may want to contact the Committee on Ecumenicity and Interchurch Relations.
"Questions and Answers" is a weekly feature of the OPC website. The answers come from individual ministers in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church expressing their own convictions and do not necessarily represent an "official" position of the Church, especially in areas where the Standards of the Church (the Scriptures and the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms) are silent.
The questions come from individuals like yourself. If you have questions about biblical and theological matters, you are invited to send them by e-mail by using the "Pose a Question" link on the OPC home page or by clicking here.
At least one new question is posted each week, so there should always be something new here for you to read. (For those people who would like to look at previous questions and answers, they will continue to be available as well.)
The purpose of the OPC website's "Questions and Answers" is to respond to biblical and theological questions. Matters of church discipline, disputes, or debates go beyond the scope of our work. We recommend that you present your concerns in these areas to the appropriate judicatory. In most cases this will be to a local pastor, elder, or session. We do not want the website to replace personal involvement in, or commitment to, the local, visible church.
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These days I'm all to thankful for the season of giving, sharing and sale-ing! It sweetens the seasonal pot even more when one of my favorite accessory designers', Tuleste Market, has a sale worthy for the fashion masters to attend!
Some of Tuleste Market's FW11 collection, which includes jewelry, handbags and boots that are comfortable and fits up to a size 11 foot, will be on sale Nov 16th – 17th. Markdowns will be from 50%-90%, making their pieces as low as $10 to $150 (boots here I come honey)
Sales hours are 12-8pm
Location: The Draft
Address:157 Ludlow St NYC, between Rivington and Staton.
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Don't you agree, it is the most wonderful time of the year to own some of the most wonderful things for yourself and maybe buy for others!!! Remember it is season for giving, sharing…blah blah blah. Give Me Moreeee.
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I recently took a day trip down the California coast from S.F. to Big Sur. One of my stops was Point Lobos, and I had a blast creating some abstract photographs. This particular one is the first I've processed, and I would like to get some feedback from the community here. Technical and/or Artistic/Emotional feedback is welcome. Thanks.A.J.http://www.ag3photography.com/landscape/po...s-1-logoMat.jpg[attachment=500:attachment][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=63206\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Thank you for posting your image. Interest is created in your image because of the lack of identifying features of scale, which I like, and I think is often important in abstract photographs for them to work really well.. From a short distance away, it is difficult to tell whether it is a macro type shot of sand grains, or from the air across a desert area. That element of uncertainty for me is positive for the image, but my eye is hungry for more. I think I am searching for what is in the shadow areas... which is sometimes a good thing - ie, not to give the viewer everything, but in this case, I don't think there isn't enough elsewhere to hold the image on its' own. The image seems a little 'heavy' for me, or cumbersome...perhaps it is the two large dark areas...hmmmm, and I don't really have any real emotional response to your image, sorry. Do you have a link to any others??Julie[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=63236\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Great contrast, combination of shadow and light plays very nicely on the grain of the sand and creates a kind of stark and yet rich impression. I like it from a technical point of view. In terms of evoking emotion or conveying a message... hmmmm. This may not be important to you but I tend to look for it. What is the key feature here, the message, the emotion you want to convey? It might be stronger with a strong single feature as part of the overall tone you a e setting with an otherwise excellent shot. Just one opinion.Jeff[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=63221\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
This, in itself, immediately risks that the work will be given a verbal equivalent that will remove it to varying degrees from being treated as a visual experience. In my thinking, photography gives up a lot when it departs from what is an obvious relationship to the tangible world. The question, "but what is it" necessarily signals a reluctance to accept an image as "given".
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IMO the photographers whose 'abstracts' are most engaging are those who have quite overtly 'told me' what the subject matter is, but have nevertheless triumphed over the identifiable subject matter to dazzle me with their presentation of form & texture, tone & pattern. From this standpoint, Siskind would be a prime example; Brett Weston, the nearest to abstract expressionism; & Friedlander the most complex of all. If your interest is in nature photography, look as his amazing trees![a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=67894\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Serge Ibaka tied his career-best with 25 points and grabbed a season-high 17 rebounds, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the San Antonio Spurs 107-93 Monday night to maintain sole possession of the best record in the NBA.
The Thunder took control with a string of 11 straight points during the third quarter, punctuated by Nick Collison's putback that made it 71-56 with 4:27 remaining in the period. On the next possession, Ibaka ripped away his third straight offensive rebound before heading toward midcourt and flexing his muscles.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich kept his starters parked on the bench throughout the fourth quarter, even as San Antonio cut an 18-point lead in half with about 5 1/2 minutes left.
Tony Parker and Nando De Colo had 14 points apiece to lead the Spurs, who could have created a virtual tie for the best record with a win.


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Student loan rates will double July 1 if Congress does not change course.
In a speech on Thursday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, President Obama said congressional Republicans were stalling in passing legislation to stop such a hike. However, Republicans say the administration has ignored their proposals to stop such a hike.
Also on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., issued two proposals to pay for a one-year extension of the current student loan rates in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
On July 1, federally subsidized student loan rates jump from 3.4% to 6.8%, Obama said. While both parties agree that a one-year extension of the current rate should continue, they are at odds over how to pay for the government's $6 billion expense to keep the rate intact.
"My message to Congress is simple: 'Let's get back to work,'" Obama said during his speech. "How many people can afford to pay an extra thousand dollars if you're a student just because Congress can't get its act together?"
In his letter, Reid told Boehner and McConnell, R-Ky., that he is proposing two measures to stop the hike. The first proposal expands an offset that recently passed the Senate on a bipartisan vote of 74-22 as part of the transportation jobs bill, Reid said. The combination of the two proposals, he said, "offers a bipartisan path forward to break the impasse currently facing the student loan bill."
The two proposals Reid issued are as follows:
- Reforms to employer pension payment contributions. The proposal would create a "stabilization range" for employers to compute their pension liabilities. Instead of being forced to use the two-year corporate bond rates in computing their pension liabilities, the new proposal would allow them to compute liabilities using rates for a 25-year period within which the two-year rates must fall. To the extent that the two-year rates fall outside this range, the company would be allowed to use a rate closest to the two-year rate that falls within the stabilization range to compute its pension funding requirements. This more flexible approach would narrow fluctuations in computing pension contributions and result in businesses taking fewer tax deductions for contributions.
- Change contributions to Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. premiums. In addition, Reid proposed increasing premiums paid by employers for the insurance provided by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Currently, employers pay a flat dollar premium of $35 per pension plan participant as well as a variable premium equal to $9 for each $1,000 that the plan is underfunded.
Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., sent a letter to Obama on Wednesday reminding him of a May 31 letter they sent to him with their own proposals to stop such a student loan hike. However, the lawmakers complained their letter has fallen on deaf ears.
Both Boehner and Cantor told Obama that the recent "disappointing jobs report showed far too many Americans are still struggling in this economy. Young people in particular have been hit hard, with only half of recent college graduates able to find full-time work." Both lawmakers told Obama that the current reduced rates for Stafford student loans should be extended for another year.
However, Boehner and Cantor told Obama that they "have not received any response from your administration." In fact, they said, in recent public comments Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan "both seemed unfamiliar with the proposals we sent you. With all of the great economic challenges facing our country, there is no reason to manufacture political fights where there is no policy disagreement."


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There have been quite a few famous Americans (and other expats) in history that decided to either settle or live in France for long periods of time. Today many follow their example and in this blog post we interview Michael Barrett, an American who is now living in France.
Global Coach Center (GCC): How long have you lived in France and how did you come to live there?
Michael: I've lived in France now over four years in a row but longer than that over my lifetime. I lived in Paris as a baby and toddler for three years as my father worked here on assignment. My family always had an interest in France so it influenced my decision to study the language and culture in middle school, high school and then in college. My first trip back to France was with the French club of my high school in 2003. During my sophomore year (2nd year) at the University of Notre Dame, I studied abroad in Angers, France 2004-2005, where I lived with a French family, studied in French, traveled and made friends from all over the world. It motivated me to come back.
I followed that with an internship at Sciences Po Paris in 2006, and then after graduating in 2007, I moved to Lyon to be an English assistant. I met my French girlfriend there, pursued graduate studies in communications in Grenoble for two years, during which I worked at AmCham France. In July 2010 I was hired as a Digital Project Manager at New BBDO Paris, and advertising agency. I've been here ever since, and I also manage the site Americanexpatinfrance, write for several websites and am involved with the expatriate community while keeping a close group of French friends. I plan on applying for dual citizenship soon.
GCC: What do you love most about living in France?
Michael: My girlfriend, my French friends, the rich culture and gastronomy and history, the diversity of the regions and their characteristics… close proximity to other European countries. A generally balanced approach to life and work…their healthcare system –although it's not perfect.
GCC: What frustrates you?
Michael: Generalizations about America and its culture, strikes, lack of convenience here (the US is a culture of convenience)…although I've gradually come to accept these cultural differences with the traditional French shrug of the shoulders. Every country has its own pros and cons.
GCC: What would you have liked to know that you didn't before coming to live in France?
Michael: To know how to (try to) master the inner workings of the French civil service bureaucracy and its paperwork, implicit messages (not explicit) and assumptions that you know everything if you don't ask a question. But I've learned how to manage that, too.
GCC: What are three tips you can give people planning to move to France?
- Learn the language and about the culture as well, as this will not only enrich you but also show a genuine willingness on your part to the French that you're making an effort and reaching out.
- On a related note, be open-minded. This is not America, and there will be some culture shock and things and approaches that are done differently. They have a different perspective here on many things, so approach it with curiosity and don't be afraid to have friendly debate with French coworkers and friends (make French friends), as long as it's not on taboo subjects (money, religion) – those are for closer friends usually.
- Take a look at practical matters in detail – education, healthcare, taxes, driving regulations, housing – hopefully your employer or organization can help you with these matters. Better to be well prepared than land here and figure out as you go along. That can add to frustration. I'd be happy to advise on questions or refer you to an expert in a field that I don't master as well.
About Michael: Michael Barrett is a 26 year-old American with roots in Chicago and Washington D.C. working as Project Manager at New BBDO Paris, a PR firm in Paris. He writes a must-read blog for expats called American Expat in France.
Global Coach Center recently launched an online cross-cultural course — "Living and Working in France" which:
- provides you with a foundation of what France is all about;
- through the Culture Mastery 4 C's Process™ helps you understand the gap between your way of thinking and the French way of thinking;
- provides extensive tools to negotiate the difference; and
- blends cross-cultural information with a coaching approach to understanding and becoming successful in any culture.
Download the "Living and Working in France" here.


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What is pop music? At different times, it has been Madonna, The Lovin' Spoonful, and The Clovers, just to name a few. These artists could not sound more different from each other, but each is or was pop. Pop music then is a menu of musical memories and reference points. Listen to Madonna's Borderland, or a song inspired by it, and you might recall how you felt when you first heard it. That gives songwriters an opening. The ability to invoke these feelings with a musical feel can enhance what they do. The key, often, is to avoid the excesses of the form you are invoking, but still recall that form, and perhaps comment on it. Here are five artists sampling from different parts of the menu, to great effect.
Tyler Fortier: Might As Well Get Saved
Tyler Fortier sometimes makes albums that are almost folk, with not much more than his voice and acoustic guitar. But Fear of the Unknown as a whole is what happens the rest of the time. The band on this album is large, and the music mostly rocks. Fortier uses horns, strings, and some other instruments not often heard in rock to create rich textures that suit the songs well. And then there is the song I have chosen. Might as Well Get Saved represents the middle ground between the two extremes of Fortier's approach to making music. The song is a ballad, and Fortier sets the song for voice and acoustic guitar. But there is a piano line that weaves around the guitar part, and strengthens it. Fortier's vocal is almost doubled by a background singer doing a close harmony line. And the whole thing rests on a cushion of organ and trumpet. The result is a work of subtle beauty. The lyric tells the tale of an itinerate preacher who warns all who will listen of the end times. The words don't tell us entirely what to make of him, but the musical setting conveys sympathy. Fortier does not ask us to agree with this man's theology, but he wants us to feel the loneliness of his self-appointed mission. The combination of words and musical setting convey that beautifully.
Walter Parks: New Mexico
New Mexico is almost the negative example of my thesis here. Parks makes this one work by what he leaves out. The lyric could be pure country, and in fact, someone like George Strait could probably have a massive hit with it. Parks tells the story of a woman in North Carolina who feels that she must leave her life and a lover behind, and restart her life in New Mexico. A country version of this would drench the song in pedal steel and strings. But Parks strips the song down, with a spare arrangement for drums, bass, and guitar, with some subtle lap steel that is mostly atmospheric. The arrangement features lots of space that must go unfilled, as the lyric tells us. The emotion of the piece is that much stronger because of its sparseness, and that is emphasized because of what we expect a song like this to sound like. Parks takes a subject that could have been a cliché, and makes it true.
Steve Robinson: Riddles
Steve Robinson goes in the opposite direction, to wonderful effect. Riddles begins with just Robinson's fine tenor and acoustic guitar. But then the layers of sound begin to accumulate, and soon we are close to a sound like The Beatles at their psychedelic best. One can also hear the fact that Robinson worked with Roger McGuinn for some time, and there are some intimations of the best of The Moody Blues. It adds up to pure pop bliss. Robinson is no musical tourist; it is clear that this is his musical home, and I was glad to accept his invitation to visit him there.
Will Galison: Bobby & Sally
Like Steve Robinson, Will Galison has a sure touch with big arrangements. The songs here are constructed as they were in the 1950's, but filtered through modern sensibilities. Galison creates great grooves, aches just right on the ballads, and delivers a perfect love duet with Sonya Valet on the title track. But Bobby & Sally gets everything sublimely perfect. The lyric is a quirky and delightful love story, and Galison becomes the second songwriter I know of, after John Hiatt, to use the word amoeba in a song and do it well. The whole thing rides on a vaguely Latin groove, and Galison's emotive tenor caps it all off. I can't sit still to this one, and I find it hard to resist singing along. Repeated listens have done nothing to dim my enthusiasm.
Phillip Masorti: Cheaper
Cheaper gathers itself out of chaos, and settles into a stabbing groove. The lyric is enigmatic. The song could be a metaphorical expression of the dangers of love, but there are also lines that could be taken as drug references. What comes through clearly is the combined sense of excitement and danger. Musically, it's easy to hear this one as hard rock, but Phillip Masorti does something far more interesting. The groove comes from drums played with brushes, electric bass, acoustic guitar, and mandolin. The sense of danger is heightened by a ragged fiddle part and a scarred electric guitar line. Masorti's low baritone slinks on top of this, and the feeling is complete. There is no need to get louder; this one has all of the power it could possibly need.


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Beltre a reliable name in Rangers' lineup
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The countdown to the end of third baseman Adrian Beltre's contract begins this season.
Beltre is signed for three more seasons at $17 million this season, $18 million in 2015 and $16 million in 2016. But the Rangers have a voidable option on 2016 based on Beltre being able to stay in the lineup this season and next year.
According to the terms of his contract, the Rangers can exercise the voidable option if Beltre fails to reach 1,200 plate appearances in 2014-15 or 600 plate appearances in 2015.
Beltre's history suggests he has a good chance of hitting both marks. He has had 1,344 plate appearances over the past two seasons and has had at least 600 plate appearances in 10 of the past 12 seasons. He had 477 plate appearances with the Mariners in 2009 and 525 with the Rangers in 2011. Beltre was on the disabled list twice in 2009 and once in 2011 with a strained left hamstring.
Beltre, who will turn 35 on April 7, played in 161 games last year. He did so while dealing with some tightness in his hamstrings. Beltre's legs remain a concern, which is why manager Ron Washington likes to give him an occasional start at designated hitter. He had 15 starts at DH last season.
"I feel good right now," Beltre said Thursday after the first official workout.
"All I know is every time I go to the ballpark, I can pencil Beltre's name in the lineup," Washington said. "I'll take 85 percent of Beltre over 100 percent of some other guys."


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Integral rolls back history of Milky Way's super-massive black hole
The centre of our galaxy has been known for years to host a black hole, a 'super-massive' yet very quiet one.
New observations with Integral, ESA's gamma-ray observatory, have now revealed that 350 years ago the black hole was much more active, releasing a million times more energy than at present. Scientists expect that it will become active again in the future.
Most galaxies harbour a super-massive black hole in their centre, weighing a million or even a thousand million times more than our Sun.
Our galaxy too, the Milky Way, hosts a super-massive black hole at its centre. Astronomers call it Sgr A* (pronounced 'Sagittarius A star') from its position in the southern constellation Sagittarius, 'the archer'.
In spite of its enormous mass of more than a million suns, Sgr A* appears today as a quiet and harmless black hole. However, a new investigation with ESA's gamma-ray observatory Integral has revealed that in the past Sgr A* has been much more active. Data clearly show that it interacted violently with its surroundings, releasing almost a million times as much energy than it does today.
This result has been obtained by a international team of scientists led by Dr Mikhail Revnivtsev (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia, and Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany). As Revnivtsev explains, "About 350 years ago, the region around Sgr A* was literally swamped in a tide of gamma rays."
This gamma-ray radiation is a direct consequence of Sgr A*'s past activity, in which gas and matter trapped by the hole's gravity are crushed and heated until they radiate X-rays and gamma rays, just before disappearing below the 'event horizon' - the point of no return from which even light cannot escape.
The team were able to unveil the history of Sgr A* thanks to a cloud of molecular hydrogen gas, called Sgr B2 and located about 350 light-years away from it, which acts as a living record of the hectic black hole's past.
Because of its distance from the black hole, Sgr B2 is only now being exposed to the gamma rays emitted by Sgr A* 350 years ago, during one of its 'high' states. This powerful radiation is absorbed and then re-emitted by the gas in Sgr B2, but this process leaves behind an unmistakable signature.
"We are now seeing an echo from a sort of natural mirror near the galactic centre - the giant cloud Sgr B2 simply reflects gamma rays emitted by Sgr A* in the past," says Revnivtsev. The flash was so powerful that the cloud became fluorescent in the X-rays and was even seen with X-ray telescopes before Integral. However, by showing how high-energy radiation is reflected and reprocessed by the cloud, Integral allowed scientists to reconstruct for the first time the hectic past of Sgr A*.
The high state or 'activity' of black holes is closely linked to the way in which they grow in size. Super-massive black holes are not born so big but, thanks to their tremendous gravitational pull, they grow over time by sucking up the gas and matter around them. When the matter is finally swallowed, a burst of X-rays and gamma rays results. The more voracious a black hole, the stronger the radiation that erupts from it.
The new Integral discovery solves the mystery of the emission from super-massive but weak black holes, such as Sgr A*. Scientists already suspected that such weak black holes should be numerous in the Universe, but they were unable to tell how much energy and of which type they emit. "Just a few years ago we could only imagine a result like this," Revnivtsev says. "But thanks to Integral, we now know it!"
As for the duration of the latest high state of Sgr A*, 350 years ago, Revnivtsev and his team have evidence that it must have lasted at least ten years and probably much longer. The team also expect that Sgr A* will become bright again in the foreseeable future. Detecting the next burst would provide much needed information about the duty cycle of super-massive black holes.


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Restoring Health, Rebuilding Life, and Revitalizing Hope
For more than 125 years, the clinicians at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (Rancho Los Amigos) in Downey, California, have been on a mission to restore health, rebuild life, and revitalize hope for persons with a life-changing illness, injury, or disability. Rancho Los Amigos is recognized as an international leader in rehabilitation medicine and clinical research, and since 1989, the hospital has been consistently ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals" in Rehabilitation by U.S. News and World Report. As one of the largest rehabilitation hospitals in the United States, Rancho Los Amigos cares for approximately 4,000 inpatients each year, and services 71,000 outpatient visits each year.
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The Rancho Los Amigos Story: What We Do
Rancho Rising 2020: Building on Our History of Hope and Healing
Rancho Los Amigos is undergoing a $418 million renovation and campus beautification project to construct a new Wellness & Aquatic Therapy Center, new outpatient facilities, and a new inpatient expansion to improve seismic safety. Long a source of pride for the Downey community and a jewel of Los Angeles County's Department of Health Services, the needed renovation secures Rancho Los Amigos' future as one of the top-ranked rehabilitation hospitals in the nation with technologically-advanced facilities and increased accessibility for patients and the surrounding community. To view complete press release, click HERE.
There are two construction phases of this project: The Wellness & Aquatic Therapy Center will be the focus of the first phase, scheduled to be completed by the end of August 2016. Phase two will be the construction of the outpatient facilities and renovations to research and administrative buildings, all of which will be completed by December 2020. For a map and timeline, please click HERE.
The Rancho Los Amigos campus is rapidly changing! For the latest information on the progress of the Rancho Rising 2020 construction project, please click HERE
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We want to hear from you! Throughout the duration of construction, questions or comments can be directed to the 24/7 Rancho Rising 2020 Hotline, available in English and Spanish, by calling: 1-562-219-4771


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Refactoring projects
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A List of Refactoring Projects
Little Projects
- Derive SPStar from SPShape (not SPPolygon), update 'object/README'.
- Move sp-item-transform.h functions into SPItem.
- Move sp-item-update-cns.h function into SPItem.
- Move sp-item-rm-unsatisfied-cns.h function into SPItem.
- Remove config.h code (or document why it is needed).
- Remove macros.h (or document why it is needed).
- Remove dependence on Glib::object in ResourceManager().
- Simplify ResourceManager... it does only one thing: fix broken links.
- In SPObject one can write:
getRepr()->setAttribute("x", "y");
setKeyValue( sp_attribute_lookup("x"), "y");
These are redundant and neither is really convenient. SPObject perhaps should have it's own setAttribute() function.
- Rename helper-fns.h with a better discriptive name and move to util(?).
Medium Projects
- Remove god-awful SPWidget (only used for selection).
- Move most files in 'src' to subdirectories, add README for each directory with description of contents.
- In toolbars, use dataKludge or data or tbl or holder ... but not all four! (Maybe combine with C++ify toolbars -- probably removed need for data.)
Large Projects
- C++ify toolbars.
- Convert verbs to Gio::Action's(?).
- Add a one or two line description of what each file contains at the top of the file if it is missing.
Super Large Projects
- Convert all GtkActions's and Gtk::Action's to Gio::Action's.
- Convert GUI to XML files.
- Invert 'y' coordinate system to match SVG.


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deviantbear posted a topic in BearClub Community ForumI am a big fatty bear near Vancouver, BC, Canada. Any chubby lovers in Vancouver area that want to play, hit me up! You will not be disappointed!


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YOU ARE WATCHING: Suits (jp)
Have a nice day! All The Best
Suits (jp)
Kai Shogo (Oda Yuji) is a hotshot lawyer who belongs to Yukimura Uesugi, one of Japan's four large law firms which is headed by Yukimura Chika (Suzuki Honami). He is a sharp but very arrogant man who studied at Harvard University after enrolling in Tokyo University. Kai is primarily in charge of lucrative cases such as corporate acquisitions, mergers and strategic alliances, and a promotion to senior partner is within reach. Worried about Kai's extreme win-at-all-costs mentality, his boss proposes that he team up with a young lawyer as a condition for his promotion. Kai accepts this condition and conducts interviews to hire a rookie lawyer. That is when Suzuki Daiki (Nakajima Yuto) arrives. Suzuki is a smart young man with a photographic memory. But he lives the life of a part-timer under the influence of bad company, and earns a living by as a substitute test taker for all sorts of industries.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Law
Country: japan
Movie: Suits (jp)
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Recipe, collect – collect – collect
There is a lot that can be said about this topic.
I wish you could see my collection. From time to time I start cooking through all the bits and pieces that I have collected over the years. However to use recipes in a Catering Business you will have to try them.
When I try new recipes I tend to alter them according to my liking and what I think will work and what not. Please do yourself a favor, write down every little thing you change. Believe me, after only a short time you will not remember what you altered in this particular recipe, and if someone else does your cooking, how is he or she to know.
When catering for a function, your recipes need to be reliable. You will not have the time to go by trial and error. It needs to work the first time; every time.
Before you start with your business, cook the recipes that you will offer your clients; complete menus would be great. When finished, take photos and build yourself a portfolio with sample menus.
You need to know in advance what will work and what not, what flavors will complement others. You will have to collect recipes for special needs, like vegetarian, gluten free, dairy free, children's dishes, and the list goes on. I like the deserts the best, I'll trial them any day. I actually have a collection of wedding cakes, special occasion cakes, birthday cakes etc. (And Yes, I have a sweet tooth)
I actually take photos of every event I cater for, it helps me to remember. Also when you refer back to that event at a later time, there may be just that special touch they have been impressed with which you can reproduce. Date them, and keep them on file under the name of the host and also in your Portfolio.
Having a portfolio makes it easier for you to hone in on your clients requirements, visual preference etc. A Buffet on a photo can look very impressive; it gives you and your client ideas. Also you will find it easier to find out about the likes and dislikes of your client, the color scheme etc.
One thing I can recommend to you is to take the best photos you have of one or two of your catering events, and enlarge them, frame them, and grace your office wall with them. These things speak volumes. Make sure that at least in one of them either you or one of your staff is visible. This will show your prospective client, he/she is not looking at some generic advertising, but at something they can expect from you.
Here is a tip for your prospective client visiting your office. Have always an onion and a slice of bread ready. No, not to offer your client. Just put the onion in the oven just before they arrive, yes the bread as well, it will give your kitchen that wonderful aroma that will make their mouth water.
And NO! "I can't open the oven door, it will ruin the dish."
To your success,
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