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The Creation of Hyrule
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I wouldn't even recommend watching this at all. The full version is almost 4MB, so it
didn't fit on this site. NEW SITE:
http://www.angelfire.com/yt3/twilight_realm/c_o_h.html (there's a link below) to see it
(be patient, it's a big file), then come back and comment (please comment!).
Note that I made that site just for this file, there's nothing else on it. If it doesn't
work, that's because too many people have seen it and I've exceeded the data
transfer limit.
Now go, watch it,
and then finish reading this description (if you want to). Go. Now.
I realize that the lightning didn't work out like it should have. I think I'm going to add
sounds, including thunder, to it. eventually.
Also, I know it's
jerky, especially when the camera jerks before the sun moves. And the rest is just too
But overall, I think this is my masterpiece (which, you could argue, isn't saying much....)
and I'm really happy with how it came out.
I used Terragen (obviously), Irfanview for renaming and JPEGing, MX Flash 8 for converting
it to Flash, and... that's it. BTW, KR, the code didn't work.
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if someone wants to sing it for me i'd be glad to add in your voice, but i decided my voice (bass) is not fitted for such a song (go listen to some russians hear to see what i sound like).
Also, if anyone has any dance suggestions i'll take them, but for now this sums up the animation pretty well. As always though, it's a work in progress :)
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Koroks Rock
AoL Link Dancing
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Not my prettiest animation (i hate the colors, even though I adjusted the some), but it conveys a mood that I wanted to show visually.
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Koroks Rock
galloping epona
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an animation of epona galloping. i might do something with it like put link on her or put a background.( im missing a frame for some reason! sorry!! thats why its kinda jumpy...)
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A little animation I made. Actually this was my first animation! Click for better view.
Sprites- SemiJuggalo
colorized stained glass animation
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I like this one better than the other stained glass one, I got it to work better. Thumbnail dumbness (again). That seems to happen with all my animated masterpieces (lol...masterpieces...)
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Goron Ruby
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I decided to do a background this time, instead of just white. dude_thats_evil did some editing on the background for me (like taking out the ocarina of time--yes, that's why link's partially underwater. he's part-way underwater.)
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some animations from past
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oioioi i hope this works. I stuck in the tetris thing at the end just for the hell of it
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hyrule (castle?) sunset
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well, this is an animation of my hyrule castle pic. except there is no hyrule castle. and for
a good reason, too: the castle was put in by paint, and took about 10-20 minutes, and
doing that for 66 separate frames would be..... stupid.
once i completed this, i was about to upload it, and realized it went too fast. so, i made a new frame to stick in between every frame i had, and now it's slow. and now it looks good. I had a lot of problems making this. maybe a third of the pictures had the wrong ground covering, and i had to redo them. and then i hit some naming problems, which were the result of, and resulted in, renaming each frame 2-3 times, and converting each and every one to a jpeg. believe me, renaming 66 frames that many times is NOT FUN!!! but music helps. i spent a lot of that time listening to dte's "beat of the dragon," thanks a lot for making it, it saved my life.
ok, enough complaining. i personally like the sunlight on water and the sunbeams in the air. COMMENT!!
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Link Signature
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A Link Sig I made for myself at one point.
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start of a fight 'tween link & his evil dark (but happy!) counterpart
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>.< too bad the quality didn't turn out so good in the end ah well. yes the shield is about 20 times better than the actual link model, but i made the shield originally for my more serious animation and just imported it into this one to use cuz i didnt feel like making another shield
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link against his dark(but peppy!) self part2 (is there a part one? yes there is.)
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yes i realize the second scene here with the balls look like sh*t. when i converted it to flash i made the framerate a lot smaller, to save memory, unfortuantely, the balls fly fast already, and got reeeaaallly choppy afterwards.
amazingly this only took up 1 500 kb.. meaning i had at least 500 kb left to upload. guess i could have made it longer.. i was hoping to add sound effects (makes the animation way better if theres sound) but whenever i convert it to flash the sound gets screwed up and plays at the wrong times so.. ah well. ive only played one rayman game and the dude was like shooting balls (er- glowing balls) and stuff. i wanted to put a face on link, but that wouldnt have worked since i wouldnt be able to animate the face. Phew, aaaaand im spent.
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Link VS Dark Link
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after a small request...my small talent animation..finally gave birth to..this...its kind of cheesy but my gifanimator is cheesy...not to mention my way with sprites..I think it came out well..it took me like 5 or six hours to do..time I should have been sleeping...hope you guys like^-^.....will link servive..
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Majora Thingamugum
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Music Track (moderate volume)
Flash 6
This odd, rapidly produced animation was made to the specifications of a friend... what the heck he wanted it for I have no clue, but he sent me some text and some instructions and I did it.
Relatively simple animation, uses background music I edited out myself, pictures gotten from the multimedia gallery next door, right here in zeldalegends. That's about all I have to say.
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Koroks Rock
master sword1.swf
master sword animation
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this is my first flash! well, it hardly counts, all i did was import all the pictures. i'm
planning on some real flash thingies soon.
so anyway, here's my master sword from a buncha different angles. i actually had
fun on this, it wasn't really tedious, because i had to decide where to make the
camera go. it freezes before it stabs you on purpose, i didn't realize it would look
weird like that. so anyway, please comment, even if you're just saying that it bores
you and in fact you don't even like zelda at all...
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A Medli animation I made by editing a Malon base that I found on Zelda Central.
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Happy Holidays
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(plesae no fighting/talk/etc.. over pairings, I'm so tired of fighting. It doesn't matter, it's just a picture)
I tried to make a festive picture of Link and Zelda. It's OoT style, but I was thinking of the old animation a little. I always hated that Link, but I loved that Zelda. I really dislike Navi's wings, I should have had them mirror each other. Done in photoshop and sent out as a card for my site, History of Hyrule
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OoT on fire
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.... I hate my animation thumbnails!!! I don't understand why my animation files act up every time! Sorry again! I was bored, so i decided to draw something on fire... so there u go!
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A animation I made for Link_Rulez. Click for a better view. Please comment. Thanx
Link- SemiJuggalo
Rocks- Debug
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goron ruby
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KR made this for me awhile ago, i never got around to uploading it, and i just rediscovered it in my inbox. he took my gif animation of the goron ruby and put the spiritual stone music in. so thanks KR, and thanks DTE for helping on the background, even though you think it sucks.
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Rupees (animated gif)
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I know the quality is really crappy, it's even worse than a gif usually is. i want to make this a Flash animation, but i'm totally confused on how to. any easy tips anyone?
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Twilight Princess Sunset
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this is an animation of 40 pictures like the one i did before. for anyone who didn't see the other one, this is the sun in the trailers for tp setting. yes, i know it's huge. both the sun and the filesize. And it still goes faster than I wanted it to. and the lighting of the clouds changes sorta abruptly, but that's terragen's fault, not mine
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The Calm Before...
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well, here's my second landscape animation. for info on how this actually relates to zelda, check the first one. this actually looks a lot like the tp weather, with the moving clouds and the cloud shadows. this is actually another sunset (you can see part of the sun on the--hold on--the right side). and the clouds aren't actually moving, it's just the light changing...i'll try to use that again later. this one was only 27 pictures, so it was less miserable to make than the last one, but i had to do it twice, because the first was over the size limit.
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Out With the Old and In With the NEW!!!
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I got the idea for this little animation while i was watching the behaviors of this gallery toward the Zelda games. I noticed that most of the new pics were 'Twilight Princess' related. So i felt like destroying the old Zelda logo in replace of the New one. Again sorry about the thumbnail pic. Zelda Legends needs to figure out a way to fix the thumbnails of gif animation.
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text: Public Sector Canada's Action Plan Web site sees little action nestor e. arellano @itworldca Published: July 22nd, 2013Canada's Economic Action Pan Web portal is seeing very little action by way of online visits despite a multi-million dollar campaign by the Harper government to promote the program, according to a recent survey.Launched in 2009 to raise public awareness of the government's initiatives to create jobs and promote economic growth, the site is among the marketing strategies which has caused no less that $113 million in the last four years.This year, the government also began airing 30-second television ads to further promote the action plan. And a critical part of measuring viewer impact in to track online traffic on the Actionplan.gc.ca Web portal. Results of a poll of 2,003 adult Canadians done by the survey firm Harris Decima for the federal Finance Department in April this year, show that only three people visited the Web site. Results of the survey were obtained by the Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.RELATED CONTENTOttawa improves open data portalJust six per cent of respondents who said the recalled the TV adds which started appearing in February last year reported doing anything about it, according to the CanadianOf the few people that actually took action, nine said they did so to complain or "express displeasure" about the TV ads.However, a spokesperson for the Finance Department said other surveys commissioned by the department show an overall awareness of the action plan campaigned have gone up to as high as 62 per cent this year from a low of 20 per cent in 2009.Traffic to the action plan Web site increased during the winter campaigns to 12,600 visits each day from a baseline of 2,300, according to spokesperson Jack Aubry. The campaign included print, radio TV and online ads.Read the whole story here Public Sector Canadian government, Open government, Web services


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In this post I will share some information about incremental operator ++ of C#. In many interviews this question has been already asked and still it is one of the favorite question for some of the interviewers i.e. What is the difference between i++ and ++I in C#?
So let's check what the difference is.
In both the cases value of "i" gets incremented but the difference is i++ - It's a type of post increment. When you write i++ it means "give me the value of i and then increment its value", on the other hand ++i means "increment the value of i and then give me the updated value".
Let's understand using some example.
If you write a code like below.
int i = 2; int j= 2; int k = i++; int l = ++j;
In above case, at the end, values of i,j,k and l will be like following
i = 3
j = 3
k =2
l = 3
So by above example you can easily understand how pre increment and post increment works.
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How a Healthy Hip Works
The hip is one of the main weight-bearing joints in your body. It consists of two main parts:
- A ball (femoral head) at the top of your thighbone (femur)
- A rounded socket (acetabulum) in your pelvis
Ligaments, which are bands of tissue, connect the ball to the socket and help keep the ball and socket steady. A smooth, tough material called articular cartilage, which cushions the bones and lets them move easily, covers the surfaces of the ball and socket.
All the rest of the surfaces of the hip joint are covered by a thin, smooth tissue liner called synovial membrane, which makes a small amount of fluid that acts as a lubricant so that the bones in the hip joint will not rub against each other.
What causes hip pain?
Pain in your hip can be debilitating, making it difficult for you to walk, climb stairs, or even pick up an object from the floor. It can limit your freedom of movement and ability to function independently.
While hip pain can be caused by deformity or by direct injury, like trauma or a sports injury, the most common cause of hip pain is osteoarthritis (OA) also known as degenerative joint disease (DJD). Depending on factors like age, weight, joint function, and activity, people with arthritis find their hip's cartilage lining wears away over time. At that point, your bones begin to rub against each other, resulting in friction, swelling, pain, stiffness, and instability.
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EgyptAir is set to begin flights from Cairo to El-Alamein's city airport on the North Coast for the first time, as part of a plan to encourage internal tourism and link touristic attractions all over the country, the chairman of Egypt's flagship airliner Safwat Mosalam announced in a statement.
Mosalam, who did not clarify the start date of the new flights but said they would begin soon, said that the direct flights would run twice weekly on Thursdays and Saturdays.
Thousands of vacationers travel on holiday every year to Egypt's North Coast cities and resorts on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road during the months of July and August.
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El-Alamein's city airport lies 112 kilometres from Alexandria, the central hub of Egypt's Mediterranean coastline.
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Simone Corsi and Mattia Pasini will remain with the NGM Mobile Forward Racing squad for a second season in the Moto2 class next year. The Swiss outfit, who have run three different makes of chassis in the last two years, will switch back to the British-based manufacturer FTR after a year with Speed Up which has only yielded one podium finish, earned by Corsi at the Sachsenring.
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"I am really happy to have reached an agreement with NGM Mobile Forward Racing Team for 2014. Even if we have not been able to achieve the results that we would have hoped for this season we will try again in 2014. Thursday and Friday after Valencia the new adventure begins with FTR: I have ridden their bike in the past, they will follow us closely and we will aim to get good results."
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The slutty-girl-next-door Keisha Grey gets her daily squats and pelvic thrusts in! You have to get your protein to stay in top shape – but those drinks are so gross.. There has to be another way.. Luckily Mr. Pete came along with an idea to replenish her reserves, but she'd have to help him raise both their heart rates for a little while longer. If Keisha wanted some delicious cum instead of a nasty shake, she was gonna have to sweat for it in this sexual workout! The fucking sweat is totally worth the reward.
Luna Lavey and Owen Gray take their love of live action roleplay and cosplay to the next level by living out a little Skyrim fantasy. Luna, an Altmer from Summerset Isle embarks on a journey through Skyrim collecting only the finest herbs and stops by Owen's apothecary to make a trade! Only, he's not enough coin for her flowers and must offer something suitable to trade instead – like his very rare orgasms! You won't find a better one in all of Skyrim – and Luna is delighted by the goods offered. The creative sex process producing cum will fill her for days with the energy to complete her travels!
Ooh, ahh yeah! Feel that burn in your muscles? That means the exercise is working! You don't get fit by sitting around, you have to put in the effort like Queen Joanna Angel! It just so happens that her workout routine in addition to kettlebells and squats includes a sexy striptease and sucking her husband's solid cock, stroking her hands up and down on it like a shake weight! A pussy pounding can help build abs, and anal thrusting is great for glutes. Enhance leg day by wrapping them tight around your partner and taking dick until you squirt – a fine way to rid yourself of water weight!
Curvy Canadian Victoria Villain couldn't stop masturbating loudly with her vibrator – she was just so horny! She diddled away until her neighbor Jessy came a-knockin, wondering why she masturbates so much, and was curious to know why she has so many tattoos: duh, so people can cum on them! Random people. Anyone. Her neighbor was going to do just fine! He loved up on her meaty pussy and delivered that ass a pounding that satisfied her sexual appetite and jizz fetish! Canadians really are so polite and helpful.
Welcome brand new starlet Honey Gold to the Burning Angel family! She's an elegant mix of Cantonese, African-American, Cherokee Indian, Irish and Mongolian – and one of the most stunning beauties I've seen. Honey's very first porn scene ever with BA house-cock Small Hands is FIRE! Queen Joanna Angel gets Honey to open up and gives her a lesson in Porno 101 – how to striptease for cameras, crawling on hands and knees – all the classic moves! After a little face-sucking of their own, this brand new switch fucks on camera like she's done it a million times before. What a natural!
When a chilly Rachel Rampage comes a-knocking on Small Hands' door after losing her car keys, he does the gentlemanly thing and lets his new friend warm up by his dual fires. Digital and analog! Being from the frozen north, Rachel wanders around wearing practically nothing ALL THE TIME never bothered by the frigid air (a hoe never gets cold!), but the fires just weren't helping.. looks like the only thing that could heat her up was going to be CUM on her TATTOOS! Small Hands was more than happy to deliver the pounding and the jizz. Does the trick every time!
Nein, nein, nein! There is NO WAY German student Nikki Darling is going to pass her exam tomorrow. As a desperate last attempt at studying hard, she calls her professor Steve Holmes to come help her understand. He quickly realizes the poor girl has no chance, but he could teach her some things she could use on her trip to Germany.. It just so happens to be about licking pussy and eating ass and sucking cock and getting fucked! Did you know getting anally stuffed and then sucking your ass juices off a stiff penis is what gets you an A in class? Today you learned.
Sploosh! Lily Lane loves to be a little bit mean and demanding before letting you touch her gorgeous inked bod. Can you jerk off your cock good enough to get it nice, and big, and stiff? What makes Lily SO wet is when you listen like a good boy, and you'd better pay attention to her instruction or you'll never get between her slippery thighs! If you do, you should work hard at making her squirt her glistening girl jizz all over! Mr. Pete delivers a proper pussy pounding in order to satisfy Lily's ravenous thirst and sexual appetite!
There are a few things we love a lot in this world, and yoga pants are one of them. Especially a naturally gorgeous and curvy girl like Tank! She sexily stripteases her way up the stairs into a bedroom, tantalizing you with her pretty feet and toes, right into our hearts and Gage Sin's pants. He peels her skintight yoga pants off as he gives her a little spanking, and Gage is treated to a footjob before he gets to pound away at her quivering pussy and pretty puckering asshole! An anal romp was enjoyed by all, ending with hot cum all over her big natural tits.
Well isn't this romantic! One brunette Janice Griffith gyrates sexily in the sunlight wearing black gothic lingerie whilst waiting for her dark prince Xander Corvus to come find and fuck her. Simply the thought of getting his nice fat cock makes her pussy drip with antici…pation! That trickle of cunt juice turns into streams upon streams of girl cum once Xander starts pounding away at her precious twat! All squirts and smiles, Janice is the human equivalent of a waterfall, having strong squirting orgasms 30 god damned times! She might be the solution to California's drought.
In this adult Wednesday Addams sex fantasy, Katrina Jade features as your favorite creepy goth girl! Today, she takes her Uber driver Tommy Pistol on a journey down her very long driveway.. It's only when they reach their final destination that Tommy realizes Katrina's ride hasn't yet ended, and his only choice was coming inside at her demand! She told him to eat her pussy, and while scared, he knew what must be done! Besides, if he didn't make her cum like the devil by fucking the abyss right out of her, he might find himself in danger…
Oh no! Party girl Eden Sin's loud date Ramon showed up to the house and started making a ruckus while her stepbrother Pete was sleeping nearby. He wakes up, scolding her along with this friends with benefits guy who is casually banging his stepsister, because she's SUPPOSED to be studying, and well, he isn't getting any pussy at all. Eden knows this, so she turns the tables on her bro and decides she could show him how to get his bone on properly. Since his sister just wants to have fun and fuck, this is really a win/win for Eden. Double penetration, and the gift of a sexual education!
In our latest Very Adult Wednesday Addams sex fantasy, Gina Valentina takes the role, and she wants a man… a dancing man! She ordered a hot gigolo from the backpages, and 666 minutes later: voila, a personal dancing fireman delivered right to her doorstep! He wasn't a very good dancer, but she had other uses for him in mind, like him pummeling her tight, sweet whore hole right into the abyss with his thick throbbing penis and getting her face covered in sticky cum. She paid for a show, and sure as fuck got one! The spirits are pleased.
Small Hands fell in lust with Anna Bell Peaks this one time she fucked his friend and squirted her girl jizz all over HIS back, because she wasn't quite finished getting off yet. He couldn't take his mind off this, so he wrote her a song, gave her flowers.. It was this whole grand romantic gesture that worked like a charm! They say chivalry is dead, by my count, Anna Bell soaked him in a waterfall of lady juices from orgasming more than a dozen times, which Small Hands lapped up like a thirsty jungle cat. He's a real gentleman, and romance exists!
Brenna Sparks' stepdad Ramon is SO WEIRD, always walking around naked, eating bananas, and wagging his cock around for all the neighors to see. He interrupts his bratty stepdaughter's selfie session and receives a tongue lashing for the annoyance and nudity – this just isn't how you do things in America, gosh! Dad disagrees and encourages Brenna to try being naked more often. She's unsure at first, but likes his butt and starts to enjoy the feeling of having her beautiful boobs out.. pretty soon she's fully naked, and admiring his big, erect penis with her mouth and tight young slit!
Sydnee Vicious is a real-life anime schoolgirl. Shy, submissive and most of all, horny, this good girl was up to no good at all, masturbating on the couch! She hoped nobody would catch her being a slut in private, but the jig was up when Xander walked in! He believed she wasn't diddling herself quite right, so he'd have to make this naughty girl well-behaved once again, teaching her dripping wet cunt and mouth a real sex lesson with his manmeat. This pigtailed, big tit co-ed never felt anything like these orgasms before.. being bad MUST be good!
Elsa Jean is supposed to be loading out, and by that I mean taking Gage Sin's cock post-show, but instead she got caught in the band's green room making out with Chloe Carter, his little stepsister! Woah! Elsa insisted they could still fuck – but with a little teasing, and literally threatening to tell his girlfriend he's been fucking HER for the last year, he and his boner quickly grew more comfortable with the idea of screwing them both. They took turns stealing pleasure from Gage and burying their faces in each others pussies until everyone was sufficiently rocked-and-rolled!
Charlotte Sartre stars as your favorite creepy pigtailed goth in the latest episode of a Very Adult Wednesday Addams. Since her mom remarried, she's been ducking out on family bonding time with her new father. Understanding how important it was to mommy dearest, the two sat down for dinner to get to know each other better, and grow closer as a family. Well, Wednesday's idea of closeness involves swallowing her step-fathers cock and begging her new daddy to fuck her ass. No arguments from step-dad here! He's happy to oblige. Anything for his step-daughter!
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Cell suicide to prevent infection
Host cells may self-immolate if the action can abort the infection they carry. A research team led by Penn Vet scientists studied the bacteria Yersenia and found that a mutant form can potently induce cell death of infected cells. "That led us to the hypothesis that maybe cell death was actually a host cell response," Penn Vet's Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathobiology Igor Brodsky said.
Yersenia may try to cause infections by suppressing the immune response, but the host can fight back when cells trigger inflammation, alerting that a potential infection is underway.
Research to advance addiction treatment
Neuroscientists and neurosurgeons at Penn's psychology department and in the Perelman School of Medicine have conducted the first study in humans to show that electrical stimulation of dopaminergic neurons in the brain can affect reward-based learning. Eleven subjects with Parkinson's disease played a game in which choosing certain objects resulted in different rates of rewards. The objects were then disassociated from reward and the dopamine receptors were electrically stimulated. Participants continued to make old choices, despite doing worse in the game. The finding may have clinical significance for treating patients with addictions.
Biological ways to live longer
At the Perelman School of Medicine, Professor Shelley Berger and her team found a way to promote longevity by working with yeast. "Aging is, in part, the accumulation of cellular stress," Berger said. "If you can better respond to these stresses, this ameliorates the damage it can cause."
Berger and her team focused on epigenetics — the study that encompasses how gene packaging can influence gene expression. The team deleted the gene that encodes for ISW2 protein, which is involved in DNA wrapping and packaging. By deleting the ISW2, DNA damage repair increased and extended the lifespan of yeast by 25 percent.
The holistic side of cancer treatment
According to oncologist Neha Vapiwala at HUP, cancer patients who are involved in their treatment decisions are more satisfied. Around 300 patients who underwent radiation therapy were survyed after their treatment. The survey asked patients about their involvement in treatment decisions, as well as how often they experienced depression, anxiety and fatigue. Patients who wished to provide input showed significantly higher percentages of depression, anxiety and fatigue. Vapiwala concluded that the results of the survey highlight the importance of doctor-patient collaboration.Comments powered by Disqus
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AbstractComputational modelling of cell motility on substrates is a formidable challenge; regulatory pathways are intertwined and forces that influence cell motion are not fully quantified. Additional challenges arise from the need to describe a moving deformable cell boundary. Here, we present a simple mathematical model coupling cell shape dynamics, treated by the phase-field approach, to a vector field describing the mean orientation (polarization) of the actin filament network. The model successfully reproduces the primary phenomenology of cell motility: discontinuous onset of motion, diversity of cell shapes and shape oscillations. The results are in qualitative agreement with recent experiments on motility of keratocyte cells and cell fragments. The asymmetry of the shapes is captured to a large extent in this simple model, which may prove useful for the interpretation of experiments.
CitationZiebert F, Swaminathan S, Aranson IS (2011) Model for self-polarization and motility of keratocyte fragments. Journal of The Royal Society Interface 9: 1084–1092. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2011.0433.
SponsorsWe thank J. Oliver, P. Sens, E. Raphael, J. Prost, J.-F. Joanny, F. Julicher and K. Kruse for stimulating discussions. We also would like to thank one of the referees to point out the connection to nematic droplets. F.Z. thanks the DFG for partial funding via IRTG 1642 Soft Matter Science. S.S. acknowledges support from KAUST, the University of Oxford and the DDR&E and AFOSR under Award No. FA9550-10-1-0167. I.S.A. thanks the ESPCI for hospitality and the CNRS for support during his stay. The work of I.S.A. was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Science and Engineering, under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.
PublisherThe Royal Society
PubMed ID22012972
PubMed Central IDPMC3306635
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: In other words, I think that there were some assholes who really liked the idea that they were earthly manifestations of God too much... this idea was sort of enabling for the narcissistic power hungry... which is ultimately realized at the present as the head of a corporation. What a shock it was for the general population to find out that these people, too, were corrupt, just like the Church leaders of old... There's still a tendency to associate good morals & hard work w/ money - sort of a marriage between the Catholic tradition, the Protestant work ethic, & the Capitalist ideal.
xxx & the Capitalist ideal is just a newer version of the old aristocratic set-up w/ a bit more turn over (well, maybe it's not going to end up that way) & set to an industrial pace.
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Here is a brief look at some of the recent news stories that featured Neeley students, staff and faculty. For a complete look at Neeley in the News, check out In the News Archives.
January 7, 2013New year, new you: Improve your financial life - By Bailey ShifflerWhile many New Year's resolutions revolve around getting physically fit, focusing on finances is sure to reap tangible rewards. Of course, there's no plan or piece of advice that will fit every individual or family, but these basic steps can be a launch point for financial success.MAKE A FINANCIAL PLANJim Wigen, a portfolio manager and financial adviser who teaches personal-finance classes through continuing-education programs at TCU and UTA, says either on your own or with the help of a financial adviser, determine how you want to balance spending with paying off debt, saving and investing. Determine what you want your retirement to look like, and calculate how much money you'll need to live that way. Having goals will help keep your spending on track. You can also set realistic expectations for how you want to live now and in the future."One big message that I have is so many people get caught up into saving money and being debt-free at the cost of living their life," Wigen says.Nick Michels, a financial adviser at Edward Jones in Fort Worth, agrees. Having a financial plan that is tailored for your family will help you find the balance. "When it comes to investing, there's going to be ups and downs," Michels says. "It's the people who stick to a financial plan or strategy who work out well in the end."START SAVING FOR RETIREMENTWith so many things to save for -- cars, homes, children's education -- it's easy to justify postponing retirement saving. Don't.Larry Lockwood, a professor of finance at TCU's School of Business, says it's important, no matter your age, to be putting money away for retirement. He advises that you not only enroll in your company's 401K or pension program, but also that you set aside a separate portion of your salary, ideally 5 to 10 percent, for personal investments. Wigen agrees. "Even before parents plan for their kids, plan for yourself," he says.DIVERSIFY YOUR INVESTMENTSThe amount of risk you take in investments is highly personal, as age, salary and savings should factor into your decisions. In general, Lockwood suggests varying investments across "stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate and international investments, including investments in emerging markets." It all may sound overwhelming, but a good financial adviser can guide you to a solid plan. Lockwood suggests searching for a diverse mutual fund. "Mutual funds offer cheap and efficient diversification, and their shares are easy to buy and sell," he says.And don't try to time the stock market. So-called "playing" the market is a game that's tough to win. Lockwood suggests thinking more long-term, especially as the market in 2013 reacts to fallout from international and local economic strain. "It's simply too difficult to know when to jump in and out of the market," he says. "Often the market spikes quickly, and the investor will miss out on the gains potential."PAY DOWN CREDIT CARD DEBTPaying off debt is a given in any financial plan -- it's important to have a game plan for your mortgage, student loans and car notes. But because of the high interest rates, Lockwood says it's crucial to make a sound plan to pay off any credit card debt your family has accumulated. "Resolve in 2013 to do everything you can to pay that down," he says. "You're paying extraordinary interest rates on that money."SET A BUDGETGoing beyond having a financial plan with long-term goals, figure out how to spend and save your money on a daily basis, Michels says. "A lot of people don't realize how much frivolous spending they're doing each year until they see it on paper," he says. With online banking, it's easy. Michels recommends sitting down once -- or several times -- a month and looking at your statements. A seemingly simple philosophy to live by is to live below your means, Michels says. "I can't stress the word discipline enough," he says.SAVE SMALLConsider how you can put aside small amounts of money daily, even if it's just by making coffee at home instead of buying a cup on the way to work. Wigen suggests keeping a change jar that you fill with more than coins. "It's amazing how quickly you are able to save when you are saving change and $1 bills," he says. Similarly, enroll in any saving programs that your bank allows, such as Bank of America's Keep the Change program, which rounds up debit card purchases to the nearest dollar and transfers the change to your savings account.GET TO KNOW NEW POLICIESLockwood suggests that investors with a high net worth talk to their accountants or financial advisers about how new tax policies locally and nationwide will affect them, "especially as they apply to taxes on capital gains, dividends and estate distributions."
January 8, 2013Fiscal Cliff - By Chuck SchechnerDean Homer Erekson was interviewed about the U.S. government's "fiscal cliff."
January 16, 2013AMR Reports $Q Profits - By Chuck SchechnerAccounting Professor Patricia Walters was interviewed about tax implications of AMR Corporation's fourth quarter report that showed a net profit of $262 million, up $1.1 billion from the same period in 2011. Without the income tax benefit, the company would have lost $88 billion.
January 2013Beyond the lemonade stand - by Alison Rich(The Neeley Entrepreneurship Center supplied the names for several TCU entrepreneurship students and alumni to be interviewed for this story.)Throwing out terms like "synergistic opportunities" and "value propositions" like most kids throw out gum wrappers, these young whippersnappers haven't just been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug … they've been stung by the scorpion.When it comes to launching their own businesses, most youngsters lean toward the lemon. Touting an established track record, an easy setup and a respectable profit margin, the venerable beverage-hawking business has been lining anklebiters' pockets for decades. For the vast majority of entrepreneurial neophytes, manning a lemonade stand for a day or two while raking in some spare change quells their capitalist thirst. The fervor typically melts right along with the ice, and these once gung-ho kiddos are more content to banter about Barbies and baseball than worry about balance statements and bottom lines.Such is not the case, however, with the business-minded bunch you're about to meet. These millennials all are involved in different ventures, some with their roots planted in childhood. What they share is extreme drive and ambition. And their ages. All fall along the 10–29 continuum.A couple of caveats: The purpose of this story isn't to parse their P&Ls. The definition of success is relative — especially when mom has to cash your checks and you're making presidential decisions but still aren't old enough to vote. Also, while this list is by no means exhaustive, we think it gives a well-rounded snapshot of our area's under-30 entrepreneurs.Take, for example, Hannah Scheideman, a 2010 TCU grad who is collaring the market on retail cool. In June, th e 24-year-old unleashed her dogged entrepreneurial spirit with Wag, a "boutique and lounge for Fido and his people.""The most motivating factor was to have a place where people and their dogs could be happy," Scheideman said of her Foch Street shop, which nestles among a hive of independently owned stores in the West 7th Street enclave. "From an entrepreneurial standpoint, there wasn't another dog boutique in Fort Worth."Capitalizing on that untapped gap in the market, though, was secondary to the first reason for setting out her shingle, Scheideman says."I love dogs and would like Fort Worth to have a more dog-friendly community," she said from the covered patio of her pooch-inspired outpost, taking a quick break from time to time to greet her clientele — both of the two-legged and the four-legged ilk. "Hopefully, Wag can start that trend." And if the amount of happy hellos she fielded that day are any indication of future performance, Scheideman is well on her way to trend-setting status.But being a young small-business owner — especially in today's crimped economy — is not without its challenges. "Emotionally, there were days when I thought I was in over my head," Scheideman said. "The driving force and what keeps me going is, first, God, and second, it's having a firm group of people supporting me. My husband, Ben Witten, and my parents are always cheering me on."Not Kidding AroundSouthlake's Jarrett Cadiz, a 20-year-old CEO of two companies, is also a big believer in staying connected to family and friends. His mom, Jamie, is heavily involved in helping run his ventures: Gathowin — which among other initiatives markets 360 PharmaTracks, a vaccine and injection tracking system designed for medical clinics — and Cloud Chase, a cloud-hosting service that "rents" space to customers. Jarrett launched Gathowin in September 2011. Cloud Chase came about this past June."Jarrett was always thinking of ways to start a business," his mom recalled of his childhood. "When he was 2, he would change every door handle in the house with a battery-operated screwdriver. When he was 3, he was changing locks."Jarrett's mechanical prowess evolved from locksmithing to wordsmithing. He learned to write computer code when he was 6. He evolved into a personal help desk of sorts at age 8."I was kind of the Geek Squad before Geek Squad existed," Cadiz said. He charged $25 an hour for his services, bumping up the pricing structure at age 12: $50 an hour for individuals and $100 for businesses.Ten-year-old Caroline Ellis has a demanding agenda as a fifth-grader at Trinity Valley School (and straight-A student, no less), but that hasn't crimped her dreams one iota."I like to do crafty stuff," said Caroline, who counts headbands, hairbows, bracelets and even dog collars among her inventory as owner of Color Tag. The budding businesswoman has peddled her wares at Kay's Hallmark and Sobo Fashion Lounge in Fort Worth, as well as to friends and to her mom's students. Caroline has a vendor number and regularly checks her sales online."I felt like my role as a teacher was to help Caroline find her gifts and help them grow," said her mom, Danielle Ellis, who teaches third grade at Fort Worth Academy. "This [experience] has taken my little introverted child out of her shell and done so much for her self-esteem. … She's constantly thinking of new ideas. She motivates herself."Justin Avery Anderson bit into the business world after a trip to the orthodontist to repair a broken braces bracket. The culprit? A piece of crunchy granola.Now 25, he was 16 when he started Anderson Trail, which markets the company's flagship product, a soft granola in three flavors: original, blueberry and peanut butter graham cracker. The company recently underwent a rebranding, and more "snackable" oat-based products are in the pipeline, he notes.After two months of toying with recipes, Anderson knew he'd landed on a winner after passing out samples of his concoction at a Boy Scout campout. "It was all gone by midnight on Friday," he recalled. And a company was born.Rising to the OccasionWhat inspires an elementary-aged kid to not just create a company but also to stick with the idea, growing it into a bona-fide business? Beyond that, how does a youth filter out the typical daily distractions and focus instead on the finer points of free enterprise?"It's not easy," said 20-year-old Matt Burke, who owns TCU Game Day with brother Daniel, 25, and best friend Zach Johnston, 20. "It's all day, every day. What keeps me going is just creating. And I'm a stress junkie. I need a certain level of stress just to go about my day."Which is a good thing, seeing as how things get mighty tense during football season, when the trio sets up specially designed Game Day yard flags in neighborhoods surrounding TCU."Last year, we did around 120 flags," Daniel said. "We're expecting to do about 300 this year." They put up the flags on Thursday and take them down on Sunday.Matt Burke says providing premium-grade follow-through helped him curry favor with dubious clients, who were prone to second-guessing the preteen. "When I was DJing, I had a ton of [age-related] issues," he said. To counter that, he "always gave excellent customer service" in the form of thank-you notes and phone calls, which engendered trust and goodwill.The brothers Burke are no strangers to capitalism."I started a car detailing service when I was 9 and ran that for a couple of summers," Matt said. "But I only did the interiors because I was way too short to do the outside."Lack of stature, it seems, isn't the only challenge with which youthful leaders must contend. They also must contend with image."When I was in middle school, it was hard to convince people that I wasn't just sitting there playing video games," Cadiz said of the time he spent tweaking clients' computers. But those skeptics quickly turned to devotees after just a few keystrokes. Like magic, the pre-adolescent pro would have their once-unruly systems up and running again.Then faster than you can say "control-alt-delete," Cadiz amassed a faithful following.It's hard not to harken back to Apple impresario Steve Jobs and Microsoft mogul Bill Gates when chatting with Cadiz. Both are renowned for their high-tech wizardry and visionary business sense;Jobs and Gates also got their start as young gurus."I look up to entrepreneurs like them who have been able to take their idea from start to a reliable, viable company because it's not easy," said Cadiz, whose brother gifted him with a programming book at age 6.A voracious reader of computer manuals (yes, we're serious!), the pint-size student quickly soaked up its contents. Incidentally, all that learning enlightened him on the world of password protection, which he eagerly demonstrated to his kindergarten teacher."I set the password on her computer, and she banned me from it for a week," Cadiz recalled with a mischievous grin. But, as luck would have it, she lifted the ban after just a couple of days: The hapless instructor needed computer help, and the "little businessman" was the only person capable of helping.It was fashion sense, not function keys, that roused Marlo Adelle Greta's interest in the corporate world. When she was 14, Greta launched her eponymously named business, Marlo Adelle. Now 21, the online retailer of feather-adorned hair accessories is every bit the consummate professional. But, she admits, getting people to see her as such isn't always a piece of cake."On one hand, it can be beneficial because people want to support you as a young entrepreneur; they don't see you as a threat. Then again, they also don't take you seriously," said Greta, an Austin native whose business has been spotlighted in Seventeen magazine. "So from a young age, I've positioned myself as someone older."Arlington resident Chris Tracey launched Gymdoll with partners Chris Phillips, 28, and Cory Peters, 29. Although well-acquainted with the rigors of entrepreneurship — Tracey was entrenched in web development and computer programming at age 11 and ran an online advertising business with Phillips and Peters at 14 — the 28-year-old still grapples at times with a generation-gap mentality."It's not as bad as it used to be. But you do run into 'old-fashioned-type' businesspeople who may not take you seriously," said Tracey, who debuted his online fitness apparel company in mid-June.Gymdoll's mix includes tanks and tees designed especially for women, with other products planned."Being a younger entrepreneur, that's one of the obstacles you run into. … But after you get that [entrepreneurial] bug and see [your idea] build into something, you can't go back," Tracey said.Bring on the BenefitsSo what's the remedy when customers seem hesitant to partner with younger-than-average entrepreneurs?"We deal with it by investing in technology to create lower-cost services for clients," like next-gen GIS (geographic information system) mapping and cloud computing, said Jesse Hejny, 28, president/co-founder of Purple Land Management, a Fort Worth-based oil and gas company that offers lease acquisition, project management and title services.His partner and fellow TCU alum, Bryan Cortney, 29, is CEO. The duo rolled out Purple Land in early 2010. (If the name sounds familiar, it's probably because their natural gas-powered Chevy pickup sits conspicuously in the parking lot, which fronts Hulen Street. It's emblazoned with their company logo.)Hejny and Cortney stress no-holds-barred professionalism — that's the "Purple Way," they say — as another antidote to any skepticism posed by potential clients who may view them as the antithesis of "old-school" oil and gas execs."We learned a lot about business from playing football for Coach [Gary] Patterson," said Hejny, who was a punter; Cortney was a defensive end. "He runs a tight ship, and that's how we've been from Day One with this company.""We both have a relentless drive, which came out as youth in athletics," Cortney added. "Then when we graduated, we applied that same relentless drive in our business."It's that get-up-and-go — coupled with a "giver's mentality," the pair says — that helps keep any age-centric doubts at bay."It's going to be a long, hard road and you're going to hear 'no,' " he said. "But it's OK. It's the relentless pursuit of the big-picture concept and how you react and respond when things do happen."Gymdoll's Tracey says the solution rests in consistent delivery of stellar results.Chris Powers, 25, and Andrew Curtis, 26, founders of Fort Worth-based real estate investment and development firm Powers & Curtis, agree."Real estate is definitely an 'older person's' business," Powers said. "But it's one of those things where if your first couple of deals work out — which ours have — people will trust you no matter how old you are." (Two of those deals, incidentally, are this magazine's 2011 and 2012 Dream Homes.)Curtis, in fact, contends their youth is a boon."I think [our age] works to our advantage because people see we're young and hungry," he said. "Every deal is a make or break, so we've always been on top of our game. [Our age] adds a high level of motivation."Powers concurs. "In most cases, we don't say our age up front," he said. "Then people see what we can do and, if anything, are more impressed than seeing it as a risk factor."Twenty-something status also allows entrepreneurs to plan on a more protracted timeline than those who are more advanced in years, Purple Land's Hejny says"Because we are so young, we can make decisions based on where we see our company 20 to 30 years from now, not 20 to 30 days," he said. Purple Land acquired its first client, Chesapeake Energy, in 2010. The company currently does business in more than 20 states."Early on, it took a lot of convincing," said 28-year-old Red Sanders, president of script-to-screen production company Red Productions, of the age issue. "Now, not so much. When we seek new clients, there's definitely some trust that has to be earned. But I'm glad there is. It keeps us working hard."As for Sanders' exceptional work ethic, he nods to his mom and dad."My parents gave me a lot of freedom. They trusted me," said Sanders, who first realized the fruits of his own labors during his initial foray into the self-employment sector; he hawked tomatoes from the family garden. "And with that trust, it gave me all the more reason to want to perform and not screw up."Decoding the DifferenceSanders isn't alone in his age-defying maturity. The entire lot of our gifted group exudes professional prowess and poise Believe it or not, all of our interviewees shrugged off notions that they're somehow "special." Sure, they know they've accomplished more at their young ages than many people do in a lifetime, but they also maintain that much of their success comes from working hard and aligning themselves with like-minded folks. Oh, and having top-tier entrepreneurial DNA doesn't hurt either, they note."Almost everyone in my family has been an entrepreneur, so they set a high bar for me as far as success goes," said real estate pro Curtis.A precocious teen turned savvy businesswoman, who has even sat on panels postulating on the entrepreneur ideal (with fellow speakers three times her age, no less), Greta says her zeal for capitalism stems from her lineage and her upbringing."Both my parents and grandparents are entrepreneurs. So it's second nature," she explained.TCU Game Day's Matt Burke points to his dad and granddad as the source of his entrepreneurialism."It runs in the blood," he said. "I think you are born with a business mind and then trained by your surroundings."Tracey would likely see eye-to-eye with Burke on that concept. His older half-sister, Tiffany Hughes, is a self-employed Dallas-area Web designer who embodies the same entrepreneurial mindset as Tracey. Here's the interesting part: They met for the first time when Tracey was 12 but didn't forge a relationship until he was 23."We started hanging out and instantly realized we shared a lot of the same passions and had very similar personalities," he said. "We soon began working together on various Web development projects. In the last couple of years, we both became very busy with our own projects, but we still help each other out on things."Although its link to genetics is impossible to prove, it stands to reason that entrepreneurial prowess could be passed from parents to progeny.That said the ability to build your own business isn't reserved solely for the lucky inheritors of good genes."I definitely think it's something you can learn," Greta said during a break between her college courses at TCU, where she is a fashion merchandising senior.If you don't love it, our mold-breaking bunch says, you'll surely leave it, so pick a profession that will please you for the long haul."Find something you're passionate about, something you can see yourself doing for a long time," said Anderson, whose passion for his product has been undergirding his decisions and fueling his drive since the day he unwittingly chomped down on too-crunchy granola.Powers parallels Anderson's sentiment."I don't consider this work," Powers said of his principal/broker role. "It's a passion. I'm excited every day to come to work. I want to create my own destiny. And being an entrepreneur, you hold the key."All for OneAlthough entrepreneurship connotes individualism, it takes a village, these young people profess, to raise a successful brainchild."There's no way I'd be able to do this alone," said Sanders, who has six full-time staffers. "Our team is awesome, and I would by no means be half the entrepreneur I am today without them. … This isn't about being independent. It's about being interdependent and how we all sharpen each other."It's that sort of symbiotic relationship that buttresses Purple Land Management, its leaders contend."We have a mutual respect for what each of us brings to the table," Hejny said. Both he and Cortney worked in the oil and gas business for four-and-a-half years before forming Purple Land. "Bryan's very analytical. I'm more apt to make a decision and move on. And we have a mutual respect for what each of us brings to the table. We are a really cool team."Although he worked as a sole proprietor until just this year, Anderson emphasizes the importance of teamwork."As soon as you can, take an inventory of your strengths and weaknesses and then find a business partner who can complement what you're not so good at," he said. Anderson recently brought on a 40-something former Frito-Lay exec, who will serve as full-time CEO, freeing Anderson to focus on product development and other issues.Tracey, too, points to the influence of others as the catalyst for his leap into corporate America. But his motivation ran even deeper than that."I grew up kind of poor and wanted to get past that," Tracey said. "I also never wanted to do the 9-to-5 thing. And I have great mentors who are entrepreneurs as well and who inspire me to keep pushing."Just the BeginningSanders, a TCU grad who grew up in Grapevine and founded his Fort Worth-based company in 2005, started out at Tech Fort Worth, as did Jarrett Cadiz.For the uninitiated, Tech Fort Worth is a not-for-profit business incubator that helps aspiring entrepreneurs evolve their innovative technologies from embryonic ideas into sustainable commercial enterprises. The organization is a public-private partnership of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, the City of Fort Worth and the North Texas business community at large."In 2005, we were accepted into the Tech Fort Worth incubator," said Sanders, who counts David Minor, the first director of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Center at TCU's Neeley School of Business, as his most influential mentor. "It was a really cool atmosphere with others in startup mode."It's when he officially brought Red Productions into being that things truly began to take shape for Sanders and his crew."That was the real 2.0 of what I was doing," said Sanders, who started a local DJ business at age 12. "Everything else was like being a 'baby entrepreneur.' "Besides knowing almost instinctively that he wanted to run a business of his own making, Sanders also was adamant in his desire to root his company in Cowtown. Although he travels to Los Angeles each month for a one-week stay, he has no plans to acquire a California ZIP code."Fort Worth will always be home base," Sanders says, noting that instead of headquartering his company in production-saturated Hollywood, he decided from the get-go that he'd much rather be a big fish in a smaller pond.Among its numerous big-time projects, Red Productions released its second feature film, indie comedy thriller Searching for Sonny, Aug. 28. Starring Jason Dohring, Minka Kelly and Masi Oka, the full-length movie was filmed entirely in Fort Worth, save for two opening scenes in New York. Eagle-eye viewers will surely spot Ol' South Pancake House and Trinity Valley School in several scenes, but Searching for Sonny was filmed "all over town," Sanders said.And speaking of searching, while Sanders admits he's always on the lookout for new ideas, there's something to be said for time-tested concepts — sometimes."On certain things, don't reinvent the wheel," Sanders advised. "With other things, totally smash it."


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Ferguson Update: Holder Writes Op-Ed; City Calls For Nighttime Calm
Attorney General Eric Holder has made a pledge to Ferguson, Mo., where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer on Aug. 9.
"Our investigation into this matter will be full, it will be fair, and it will be independent," he wrote in an op-ed for the St. Louis Dispatch. He added, "Long after the events of Aug. 9 have receded from the headlines, the Justice Department will continue to stand with this community."
City leaders in the St. Louis suburb are calling for residents to "stay home at night, allow peace to settle in, and allow for the justice process to take its course."
Here are a few other noteworthy developments today:
— There has been a shooting in the city of St. Louis, a few miles from Ferguson. A man with a knife was "acting erratically," and was killed by police after not complying with orders, Metropolitan Police Chief Sam Dotson said. The incident is apparently not connected to the protests, but shortly after the shooting a crowd gathered, chanting, "Hands up! Don't shoot!"
— School has been canceled for the rest of the week, but NPR's Elise Hu reports that Tuesday morning, "150 area teachers took part in some unusual professional development: picking up broken glass, water bottles and tear gas canisters from the street."
— The Pentagon defended a program that gives local law enforcement agencies surplus military equipment, NPR's Tom Bowman reports. The program, which dates back to 1988, has come under criticism because of what some have called the military-style police response in Ferguson. Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said the program has helped in counterdrug and other operations. He also said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has asked for more information on the program, though he has not ordered an official review.
What to watch for Tuesday night into Wednesday:
— Overnight protests and potential violence. Journalists are suiting up in riot gear:
— Attorney general will be in Ferguson.
— The Brown case will go before a grand jury. The Atlantic Wire has an overview of what to expect.


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WHAT?! She typed me something to the effect of, "Well, you've still got my e-mail" when we both left TFM a few months back.
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Abraham Ortelius (also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels; 14 April 1527 – 28 June 1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, conventionally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). He is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions.
Ortelius was born in the city of Antwerp, which was then in the Habsburg ruled Seventeen Provinces. The Orthellius family were originally from Augsburg, a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1535, the family had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism. Following the death of Ortelius' father, his uncle Jacobus van Meteren returned from religious exile in England to take care of Ortelius. Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren who would later move to London.[1] In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy.
He traveled extensively in Europe, and is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces; in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575–1576); France (1559–1560); England and Ireland (1576), and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 1550 and 1558).
Beginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps. He supplemented his income trading in books, prints, and maps, and his journeys included yearly visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair where he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554.[1] In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator's influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer.
In 1564 he published his first map, Typus Orbis Terrarum, an eight-leaved wall map of the world, on which he identified the Regio Patalis with Locach as a northward extension of the Terra Australis, reaching as far as New Guinea.[1][2] This map subsequently appeared in reduced form in the Terrarum (the only extant copy is in now at Basel University Library).[3] He also published a two-sheet map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of the Brittenburg castle on the coast of the Netherlands in 1568, an eight-sheet map of Asia in 1567, and a six-sheet map of Spain before the appearance of his atlas.
In England Ortelius' contacts included William Camden, Richard Hakluyt, Thomas Penny, puritan controversialist William Charke, and Humphrey Llwyd, who would contribute the map of England and Wales to Ortelius's 1573 edition of the Theatrum.[1]
In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography by his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished in expanded form as Thesaurus geographicus in 1587 and again expanded in 1596. In this last edition, Ortelius considers the possibility of continental drift, a hypothesis proved correct only centuries later).
In 1596 he received a presentation from Antwerp city, similar to that afterwards bestowed on Rubens. His death on 28 June 1598, and his burial in the church of St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, were marked by public mourning. Quietis cultor sine lite, uxore, prole (meaning - "served quietly, without accusation, wife, and offspring." ), reads the inscription on his tombstone.
On 20 May 1570, Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp issued Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the "first modern atlas" (of 53 maps).[Note 1] De Summa totius OrbisThree Latin editions of this (besides a Dutch, a French and a German edition) appeared before the end of 1572; twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius' death in 1598; and several others were published subsequently, for the atlas continued to be in demand until about 1612. Most of the maps were admittedly reproductions (a list of 87 authors is given in the first Theatrum by Ortelius himself, growing to 183 names in the 1601 Latin edition), and many discrepancies of delineation or nomenclature occur. Errors, of course, abound, both in general conceptions and in detail; thus South America is initially very faulty in outline, but corrected in the 1587 French edition, and in Scotland the Grampians lie between the Forth and the Clyde; but, taken as a whole, this atlas with its accompanying text was a monument of rare erudition and industry. Its immediate precursor and prototype was a collection of thirty-eight maps of European lands, and of Asia, Africa, Tartary and Egypt, gathered together by the wealth and enterprise, and through the agents, of Ortelius' friend and patron, Gillis Hooftman (1521–1581),[5] lord of Cleydael and Aertselaer: most of these were printed in Rome, eight or nine only in the Southern Netherlands.
In 1573 Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. Four more Additamenta were to follow, the last one appearing in 1597. He also had a keen interest and formed a fine collection of coins, medals and antiques, and this resulted in the book (also in 1573, published by Philippe Galle of Antwerp) Deorum dearumque capita ... ex Museo Ortelii (reprinted in 1582, 1602, 1612, 1680, 1683 and finally in 1699 by Gronovius, Thesaurus Graecarum Antiquitatum. vol. vii).
The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum inspired a six volume work entitled Frans Hogenberg with the assistance of Ortelius himself.
In 1579 Ortelius brought out his Nomenclator Ptolemaicus and started his Parergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient history, sacred and secular). He also published Itinerarium per nonnuilas Galliae Belgicae partes (at the Plantin press in 1584, and reprinted in 1630, 1661 in Hegenitius, Itin. Frisio-Hoil., in 1667 by Verbiest, and finally in 1757 in Leuven), a record of a journey in Belgium and the Rhineland made in 1575. In 1589 he published Maris Pacifici, the first dedicated map of the Pacific to be printed.[6] Among his last works were an edition of Caesar (C. I. Caesaris omnia quae extant, Leiden, Raphelingen, 1593), and the Aurei saeculi imago, sive Germanorum veterum vita, mores, ritus et religio. (Philippe Galle, Antwerp, 1596). He also aided Welser in his edition of the Peutinger Table in 1598.
Contrary to popular belief, Abraham Ortelius, who had no children, never lived at the Mercator-Orteliushuis (Kloosterstraat 11-17, Antwerpen), but lived at his sister's house (Kloosterstraat 33-35, Antwerpen).[7]
Originals of Ortelius' maps are popular collectors' items and often sell for tens of thousands of dollars. Facsimiles of his maps are also available from many retailers. A map he made of North and South America is also included in the world's largest commercially available [8] jigsaw puzzle which is of four world maps. This puzzle is made by Ravensburger, measures 6 feet (1.8 m) × 9 feet (2.7 m), and has over 18,000 pieces.
Ortelius was the first to underline the geometrical coincidence between the coasts of America and Europe-Africa, and to propose continental drift as an explanation. Kious described Ortelius' thoughts in this way:[9]
Abraham Ortelius in his work Thesaurus Geographicus ... suggested that the Americas were "torn away from Europe and Africa ... by earthquakes and floods" and went on to say: "The vestiges of the rupture reveal themselves, if someone brings forward a map of the world and considers carefully the coasts of the three [continents]."
Ortelius's observations of continental juxtaposition and his proposal of rupture and separation were repeated by Alfred Wegener who published his hypothesis of continental drift in 1912 and in following years.[10] Because his publications were widely available in German and English, and because he adduced geological support for the idea, Wegener is credited by most geologists as the first to recognize the possibility of continental drift. During the 1960s geophysical and geological evidence for seafloor spreading at mid-oceanic ridges became increasingly compelling to geologists (e.g. Hess, 1960,[11]) and finally established continental drift as an ongoing global mechanism. After more than three centuries, Ortelius's supposition of continental drift was proven correct.
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