Hasta La Gadget!

A movie about Tron is definitely cool – way too cool, and thankfully, the remake that was released a few years ago had the advantage of brilliant CGI getting the job done, although the actors, too, had to have their fair share of acting. However, just how the heck can one actually come up with a movie adapted from the classic ‘80s puzzle video game “Tetris” is set to hit the silver screen some time down the road.

It would definitely be interesting to see just what kind of storyline will be in place of a game premise where falling bricks known as tetrominos fall down in varying sizes and lengths, where you attempt to clear as many lines as possible while scoring the most points possible with each clearance.

Threshold Entertainment has worked alongside the Tetris Company to roll out a live-action film that will be based on the game. So far, there has been no mention of any directors or cast concerning the film, but Threshold’s CEO Larry Kasanoff did mention, “It’s a very big, epic sci-fi movie. This isn’t a movie with a bunch of lines running around the page. We’re not giving feet to the geometric shapes.”

Hopefully the movie will be nothing like dropping brick after brick – that works great as a game, and a game alone.

Tetris Movie Is In The Pipeline

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It would be safe to say that Pebble is still the most popular smartwatch out there despite the fact that there are now better alternatives available that have colored and even round displays. Even though Pebble’s black and white display might seem outdated right now it arguably still has the most amount of apps available and is still a wearable device worth considering. To entire potential buyers Pebble today decided to cut prices of both its smartwatches.

Pebble also released a new software update today which enables non-stop activity tracking and sleep monitoring on the smartwatch. Users can now track their activity in the background at all times and Pebble allows third party apps from Jawbone, Misfit and Swim.com to take advantage of this feature.

For example the Misfit app for Pebble can now track activity and sleep continuously round the clock. Jawbone’s activity tracking watchface for Pebble, called UP, will show daily and weekly progress and will automatically sync with the new UP app for iOS which no longer requires an UP band.

Swim.com will offer the first smartwatch app that lets users measure time, strokes, pace, distance and efficiency when they’re swimming with their Pebble watch, and this data will automatically be synced with the cloud and their smartphone.

Starting today the regular Pebble smartwatch will now be sold for $99. Those who want to go with Pebble Steel now only have to pay $199, the steel version was released earlier this year and has been appreciated a lot by customers.

Pebble Watch Price Cut

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According to the Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation (CPIRF), over 17 million people worldwide have cerebral palsy — for which there is no cure. I am one of them.

Tomorrow is World Cerebral Palsy (CP) Day 2014. The goal of this project, led by a group of non-profit cerebral palsy charities and supported by organizations in over 45 countries, is to change the world for people living with cerebral palsy and their families. The theme for the day is ‘change my world in one minute.’

World Cerebral Palsy (CP) Day is celebrated each year on the first Wednesday in October. The World CP project runs year-round. We are looking for ideas to improve the quality of life of people with cerebral palsy. These ideas could impact on any aspect of a person’s life such as mobility, independence, accessibility, communication or social connection. They must be for something that needs inventing – not for an existing product, technology or service.

Here is how you can support World CP Day:

Post your ideas and win. Submit 1 minute ideas until Friday, October 31, 2014. The most creative and innovative ideas will be eligible to win prizes including $500 and an Apple iPad. The non-profit organization whose clients, staff and supporters post the most number of ideas before the deadline will win a $10,000 prize.

Every hour a child is born with cerebral palsy (CPIRF key facts). Cerebral palsy is a life-long physical disability. There is no cure. We need more funding for research projects. More attention must be paid to the quality of life for adults with CP. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology discuss this important issue in Cerebral Palsy and Aging.

One and a half years ago, I had selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR), the only surgical procedure that can permanently remove spasticity (abnormal muscle tightness) caused by cerebral palsy. I’m thankful for World CP Day because it shines a light on a largely forgotten disability (this is especially true if you are an adult with CP) that affects millions of people.

I challenge you to change my world (and the millions like me) in one minute! Thank you for supporting World CP Day with your ideas, inventions and votes. Wear green to celebrate World CP Day. Together, we can show the cerebral palsy community we care about them — not only on this special day — but every day.

As a clergy person who regularly speaks out in support of access to abortion care, people often talk to me about their personal struggles with their day to day life and their faith. Far too often the lessons they heard from the pulpit and the pews have left them feeling unprepared to make healthy decisions about relationships and sex and feeling judged for using birth control or seeking abortion. I counsel them as a minister, but also as someone who has been where they are and knows how difficult it can be to reconcile those negative messages with our real lives.

I look back 30 years, and see myself as a young woman facing an unintended pregnancy. I was barely scraping by, working two jobs, in the grip of substance abuse, and in an unhealthy relationship. I had been told that abortion was a sin. But I knew the true sin would be to bring a child into the chaos of my life, into a mutually dysfunctional relationship with people who were so clearly unprepared to be parents.

In a single visit to an independent clinic, I was able to get the care I needed from courageous and compassionate staff, but only after running a gauntlet of protesters shouting that I was going to hell. It was a difficult and lonely experience, and my feelings in the days after the procedure yo-yoed back and forth between grief and relief.

I have never regretted this most intimate healthcare decision, not then or at any time since. I knew it was the best decision for me, and I knew I was lucky. Even though I did not have health insurance I had the support to help me seek the care I needed. This helped me to eventually get out of that relationship, grow as a person and eventually find love and build a family. I later went to Divinity School hoping to become the kind of clergy person I wish I had known in my early years, someone who believes in standing with people in my community rather than isolating them, understanding and supporting them rather than judging.

I know now that mine is a story of privilege. For 38 years the Hyde Amendment has denied federal coverage for abortion for people who use Medicaid benefits. Nearly one in three women who experience unintended pregnancy will have an abortion, and nearly 70 percent of them are living in poverty. Most already have children and know what it means to make difficult parenting decisions. This issue speaks to the very heart of justice for me as a woman who has had an abortion and as a clergy person who works to support the women in my community.

I believe that a woman, no matter what her economic circumstances, should have access to safe and dignified reproductive health care. I believe that a woman facing an unintended pregnancy is best suited to make decisions for herself and her family, without political interference. I believe that God gives each of us, in consultation with our faith and with those who matter most to us, the ability to determine our capacity for parenting, caring for others in our families, and serving our communities.

Scripture upon scripture in both the Hebrew and Christian books of the Bible call the faithful to care for those in poverty, those who struggle to make ends meet, the downtrodden and heavy laden. We know that a woman facing an unwanted pregnancy may miss paying her rent or buying groceries for her family in order to pay for the abortion she needs and wants. People of faith may have different views on reproductive health, rights, and justice, but we should be able to agree that a woman facing a difficult situation deserves compassion and access to full spectrum reproductive healthcare, rather than shame and denial of basic services.

The political gamesmanship in which low-income women are being used as pawns is morally wrong. Religious liberty means that each of us has the constitutionally protected right to make our own healthcare decisions according to our own faith and conscience. Withholding coverage or making it harder to access abortion care when a person needs it interferes with their ability to make a decision based on their personal beliefs. There is no right to spiritual or emotional harassment, no matter how strongly others feel about their own beliefs. Nor should there be a right to deny basic reproductive healthcare to any woman, regardless of whether her insurance is public or private.

I believe that God calls us to address the racial and economic injustices of the Hyde Amendment, a policy that hurts those who already struggle to access quality health care the most: low-income women, women of color, young women, and immigrant women.

The decision of when and whether to parent a child is complicated, one of the most crucial decisions any of us will ever make. I have always been grateful that I had the means and the access to follow my own conscience regarding the outcome of that pregnancy long ago. Today I am the mother, wife, daughter, friend, community member and clergy person God calls me to be, and my life is better because I had the access and means to have a safe, legal, affordable abortion. Regardless of how she gets her insurance, every woman deserves the same.