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James (Japanese: コジロウ Kojirou) is a member of Team Rocket which is an evil team who try to capture rare Pokémon and his trio has a keen eye on Ash's Pikachu.
BiographyIn the anime, he is a common member of Team Rocket and in many ways, is the anime representation of the Male Agent. During his adventures in trying to capture Pikachu, James is part of a unit made up of himself, Jessie, and Meowth. Although born into a rich family with loving parents, he runs away from home to avoid Jessebelle to whom he was supposed to marry later on. With a very caring and thoughtful personality, James can sometimes have a hard time dealing with the "rotten things" he and his team mates do from various times to get what they want, but in the end he fulfill his obligations with less-admirable results, he also gives out information on Pokémon whenever Meowth cannot do it himself via Index cards. James is also a bottle cap collector as well. In a flashback that James was having it was about a man that cheated him into buying a Magikarp. The same guy appeared in Battle aboard the St. Anne and Tricks of the Trade.
As compared to the Team Rocket Trio, James is the most emotional and most caring towards others, as well as his Pokémon. In A Hole Lotta Trouble, he told Ash that he just want to have a fair battle with him rather than to do dirty tricks on them as suggested by Jessie and Meowth. In Training Daze, he is also the one always helping Meowth all along when Meowth gets stuck in the Obstacle Courses. In episodes like Sweet Baby James and Once There Were Greenfield, it also clearly shows his emotions and feelings towards his Pokémon when they are departing each other. It also shows his love and good cooperation with his Pokémon as seen in Off The Unbeaten Path and Holy Matrimony!, with his Growlie and Mime Jr. He is especially even more careful and catious with his Chimecho, treating with additional care and not letting it suffer through battles, just like how Misty treats her Togepi. Due to His great care of his Pokémon, most of his pokemons like to have physical contacts with him when his pokemons came out of their pokeball. He also tend to be good to people who treat him well, Like his grandparents as seen in the episode Sweet Baby James. He was also seen comforting May in that same episode while her Munchlax got sick too with his Chimecho in the same episode.
As of his, Jessie's and Meowth's promotion and transfer to Unova, James has become a highly skilled stealth artist, an excellent hacker and is often successful in many missions with his team mates to the point of the trio becoming a serious enemy for Ash and co. The trio were key in Team Rocket's Meteonite plan, taking order directly from Giovanni himself as well as his secretary. James and his team-mates worked together with Pierce and met Doctor Zager. Once the plan culminated, James and his team-mates were asked to be as they please in Unova, so they continued working hard to do Team Rocket good and now work closely with Zager. Ash has also become less important to them but they will still antagonize him if he interferes in their plans.
On hand
|It is a Pokémon that loves to steal food. They encountered the Inkay when it was eating their sandwiches from the balloon. James takes this to his advantage, and catches Inkay with a Poke ball, much to Jessie and Meowth's dismay.
At Team Rocket HQ
|James captured a Yamask while he, Jessie, and Meowth searched for Giovanni.Yamask can use Shadow Ball,Haze,and Night Shade. It was later used as an emissary between Team Rocket and a trio of fellow Ghost-type Litwick. Unlike James' other Pokemon, Yamask doesn't give James painful affection like Carnivine and Cacnea. James's capture of this ghost-type signifies the serious tone the trio have taken in the Unova region.
|Yamask ♂
|James caught an Amoonguss off screen while going back to Unova. It knows Stun Spore and Body Slam. It is capable of taking down Ash's Pikachu with one Body Slam.
|Amoonguss ♂
|James's Mime Jr. is the Pokémon James caught when he gave Chimecho to his Grandparents. His Chimecho was sick and they gave him a replacement Pokémon for his Chimecho, Mime Jr.. Jessie has borrowed Mime Jr. for Contests. James loves Mime Jr. so much. He thinks of her as his Chimecho. In the earlier times (before Sinnoh) Mime Jr. used to copy him. When Jessie and James is transported by Team Rocket to Unova, Mime Jr. was given to the Team Rocket Headquarters for safekeeping as it was a Pokémon not native there.
|Mime Jr. ♂
|James's Carnivine was the first Pokémon that James obtained in the Sinnoh region. It made its debut in Two Degrees of Separation. James released him from its Poké Ball after remembering that he left it in a summer cottage years ago. Carnivine tends to jump out and sucks on James's head, a habit that replaced Cacnea's painful hugs. James originally caught Carnivine in the Great Marsh as a boy when it appeared to be quite injured, as mentioned in a flashback. It was later left at Team Rocket Headquarters as it was not native to the Unova region, safeguarded until James returns.
|Carnivine ♂
In Training
|Every time which Cacnea came out of James' Poké Ball it used to hug him tight with it's needles, causing James pain. Cacnea was used in many battles but went to train with Gardenia to master its Drain Punch. When Cacnea left, James was extremely upset as it the first Pokemon he captured after Weezing left. It is later learned Cacnea mastered Drain Punch. However, as James, Meowth and Jessie continue to follow Ash to different regions, it is highly unlikely James will ever see Cacnea again.
|Cacnea ♂
At Home
|Growlie was a childhood Pokémon of James. James considers it more like a friend than his Pokémon.
|Growlie ♂
Traded Away
|James traded Victreebel for a Weepinbell from the Magikarp Salesman during one of his scams. That Weepinbell evolved into Victreebel soon after, they both were kicked away by their owners and bumbed into each other falling in love and running away together.
|Weepinbell → Victreebel ♂
With Family
|James first caught Chimecho while wandering around at a festival in Fortree City. When Chimecho fell ill, it was left with James' Grandparents. James was so upset at leaving Chimecho behind, and so Mime Jr. took Chimecho's place.
|Chimecho ♀
|James bought Gyarados when he was still a Magikarp from the Magikarp Salesman when he was aboard the S.S. Anne. When James threw Magikarp into the ocean, he evolved into Gyarados. Eventually, he used Dragon Rage hurling Ash, Misty, Brock, and Team Rocket away and he was never seen again.
|Magikarp → Gyarados ♂
|Once he gave her away Jessie kicked her away.
|Weepinbell → Victreebel
|He told Weezing to run away and protect some Koffing from a poacher.
|Koffing → Weezing ♂
|James was fooled by the Magikarp Salesman into buying another Magikarp.
|Magikarp ♂
|James used Yanmega for a PokeRinger competition but lost in the first round.
|Yanmega ♀
|James borrowed Dustox from Jessie for a PokéRinger competition in Hoenn. She went up all the way to the final round where she lost to Ash's Swellow.
|Dustox ♀
|James bought Hoppip from the Magikarp Saleman thinking it was a Chimecho. After the disguise it had fell apart, it flew off.
|Jessie, James and Meowth stole Porygon from Dr. Akihabara.
|Porygon 0
|James used this Pikachu in IL056 to battle in the Pokémon League entrance exam.
|James used Ivysaur and Charizard at the same time in an attempt to defeat the Pokémon League entrance exam instructor in battle.
|James used Charizard and Ivysaur at the same time in an attempt to defeat the Pokémon League entrance exam instructor in battle.
|James used and stole Venusaur in One Trick Phony!. He attempted to use it against its owner, but it was only obedient inside the battle park.
|Delibird gave Jessie and James an Aggron and a Charizard. James used the Aggron to battle Ash and Brock in the Pewter Gym, along side Jessie and Charizard. After losing to them, Delibird returned to take the Pokémon back to their intended recipients.
|After Pikachu lost its memory, Team Rocket told it that it belonged to Team Rocket and that it was member.
|Pikachu ♂
Voice Actors
- Ed Paul (Season 1; IL002-IL008) (temp.)
- Eric Stuart (Seasons 1 - 8, Movies 1 - 8) (4kids)
- Jimmy Zoppi (Season 9 - present, Movie 9 - present) (PUSA/DuArt)
- Japanese: Shin-ichiro Miki
- Italian: Simone D'Andrea
- Greek: Fotis Petridis
- Dutch: Bram Bart (ep1-ep368), Paul Disbergen (ep368-present)
- James most recurring Pokémon are Grass-Type. It is also interesting to point out that said Pokémon are the ones who show the most affection towards him via physical contact, even if James is annoyed at it. His friendly relationship with Gardenia also seem to emphasize that, as she claims that "those who own Grass Pokémon cannot be so evil", which is also true to some point if one considers he is the "less" evil member of the trio.
- For some reason when Jessie and James make a disguised entrance as a couple of sorts, James is the female character and Jessie is the male character.
- Jessie and James are more successful in the Unova region.
- Jessie's and James' English names are derived from the notable outlaw Jesse James.
- In one episode of the Anime (which is banned in the US) James is shown swearing at Kaiser.
- In Pokémon XD: Gale Of Darkness, there is a trainer in Mt. Battle in zone 35 that has a Cacnea and Chimecho, who asks if you've seen anyone with the same Pokémon. This is an obvious nod to James, when he had those Pokémon in the Hoenn region.
- Sometimes, Meowth calls him "Jimmy", a sort of nickname for people named James. He normally calls him that when he is confused about something that James knows or has said.
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Madame Boss · Giovanni · Masked Man
Professor Sebastian · Dr. Fuji · Dr. Namba · Doctor Zager · Gideon
|Jessie's Pokémon
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300 Million Names Added to LDS Online Search Database
The NGS conference is being held in Salt Lake City this week and FamilySearch President Jay Verkler said 300 million more names will be available online this week through the LDS Church's family history service.
The church's Worldwide Indexing project, created mostly by volunteers digitize images of microfilmed records from the Mormon collection of microfilm and transcribe the records so they can be indexed and searched easily online by people at home.
This addition of 300 million names adds to a few hundred million indexed names that are already accessible.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has plans to index all of the approximately 3.5 billion names stored on microfilm. It will take about 10 years to index all of the records, a task previously projected to take more than a century to complete.
The new search site is in beta and may be searched from home now at: http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/
The original search utility may be found at: http://familysearch.org/
These new additions to the name index are primarily from the United States and Europe. I tested a few from some of my known German areas and am finding many new opportunities for further research.
Personally, I like the search index very much, but find the gold is in the library catalog. On any new project I always go to familysearch.org and click on "Library" and then click on the "Library Catalog" tab in the drop down menu, then go to either:
Place Search
Surname Search
Keyword Search
Film/Fiche Search
Author search
Subject Search, or
Call Number Search.
These choices will tell you what microfilms they have on your topic of choice and then you can order the original records on microfilm to be delivered to your own local Family History Center.
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I missed Randy Seaver's SNGF (Saturday Night Genealogical Fun) this weekend, but it's been so long since I've posted here I decided to turn his SNGF challenge to List Your Matrilineal Line into "Matrilineal Monday".
Randy asked us to:
1) List your matrilineal line – your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother. Note: this line is how your mitochondrial DNA was passed to you!
2) Tell us if you have had your mitochondrial DNA tested, and if so, which Haplogroup you are in.
3) Does this list spur you to find distant cousins that might share one of your matrilineal lines?
My Matrilineal Line
1) Me
2) Mom
3) Mae (Marianna) Zawodna (02 Aug 1907, Philadelphia, PA – 30 Apr 1986, Philadelphia, PA) married Henry M. Pater
4) Waclawa Slesinska (14 Aug 1885, Dobrosołowo, Poland – 20 May 1956, Philadelphia, PA) married Jozef Zawodny
5) Stanislawa Drogowska (04 Jun 1860, Wilczyn, Poland – 30 Dec 1918, Dobrosołowo, Poland) married Wincenty Ślesiński
6) Konstancja Kubińska (c.1818, Luszczewo, Poland – 17 Dec 1896, Wilczyn, Poland) married Jan Drogowski
7) Apolonia Lewandowska (c.1796 – c. 1838) married Jozef Kubiński
My Father's Matrilineal Line
1) Dad
2) Margaret H. Bergmeister (11 Apr 1913, Philadelphia, PA – 14 Jan 1998, Philadelphia, PA) married James Pointkouski
3) Maria Echerer (27 Feb 1875, Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm, Bavaria, Germany – 05 Feb 1919, Philadelphia, PA) married Josef Bergmeister
4) Margarethe Fischer (21 Jan 1845, Langenbruck, Bavaria – 04 Oct 1895, Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm, Bavaria) married Karl Echerer
5) Barbara Gürtner (14 Dec 1814, Dörfl, Bavaria – unknown) married Franz X. Fischer
6) Maria Catharine Schwarzmaier (25 May 1785, Waal, Bavaria – c. 1851) married Franz X. Gürtner
7) Barbara unknown married Jacob Schwarzmaier
More Mommas
My maternal grandfather's side (Henry Pater 1912-1975) represents the shortest branch of my family tree. I can name his mother, Elżbieta Müller (Elizabeth Miller), but since I have not yet found evidence of her birth I can only provide the possible name of her mother based on secondary evidence: Alzbeta Smetanna (Elżbieta in Polish, Elizabeth in English).
My paternal grandfather's (James Pointkouski 1910-1980) matrilineal line is equally short. I can name his mother: Rozalia Kieswetter (08 Aug 1866, Mała Wies, Przybyszew, Poland – 10 Feb 1937, Philadelphia, PA) married Jan Piątkowski. Rozalia's mother was Marianna Ostał (unknown, Poland – died after 1900 in Warsaw, Poland) married Jan Kiziewieter . For now, that's the farthest I've gotten on these lines.
The person on my tree whose matrilineal line goes back the farthest is my 2nd great-grandfather, Karl Echerer (31 May 1846, Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm, Bavaria – died after 1882, Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm, Bavaria). He is my paternal grandmother's mother's father. I can trace his matrilineal line back six generations in Bavaria to the 1600's.
I have not had any DNA testing done, mtDNA or otherwise, so I have no idea what Haplogroup I'm in – nor, for that matter, what it would tell me. I will have to investigate further unless someone wants to provide some insight in the comments.
Does this list spur me to find distant cousins that might share one of my matrilineal lines? Actually, it spurs me to get back to my research – especially on my two grandfather's maternal lines which are much shorter branches on the family tree than my own maternal line! But that poses an interesting question – are there actually any distant cousins that share these lines? I don't think so. My Pointkouski grandfather's sister did not have any children, to the best of my knowledge. I know his mother had at least one brother, but his descendants would not share the matrilineal line and I have not yet discovered a sister. My Pater grandfather had only brothers, so their descendants do not have the same matrilineal line. But did my great-grandmother Müller/Miller have any sisters? I wish I knew! It is time for more research!


text: This is from Sunday, but it's so priceless we had to take a look at it. John Elway, perhaps the greatest quarterback in NFL history, stopped by the booth for a conversation with Terry Bradshaw during this weekend's 49ers-Broncos game in Denver—and he came dressed quite curiously. Maybe this is haute couture, but it looks a lot more as if Elway's been hitting up Arvada thrift stores. Perhaps Big John should leave the weathered look to new NBA arenas.


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I don't know about you, but apart from classic TV made in the US, I've always enjoyed exploring shows from other countries, predominantly from Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Israel, South America and Europe. Pride & Prejudice made me fall in love with Colin Firth in 1995, Bleak House turned me into a Dickens addict 10 years later and that same year, Slings & Arrows reassured me that my stage experiences were not unique. Some of these international shows have since been made available on DVD, others were remade in the States including The Bridge, The Killing, Hatufim (US: Homeland), Be Tipul (US:In Treatment) , Mistresses and House of Cards.
It's a matter of personal taste whether or not you like a reboot. In some cases I did not, in others I did. No matter how much I have liked (or disliked) an original show though, the remake often missed a crucial ingredient, something the American version never seems to quite get. It's not only the appeal of a foreign setting and culture or the sound of a different language, it's the different approach to storytelling, or better, differing aesthetics. Each year, the market is flooded by American productions with silly or crude characters and storylines that all too often jump the shark. Despite this unfortunate development (unfortunate at least to me, not the industry itself it seems), my heart beats for a good TV series and I'm happy that this up-coming season, two new American productions actually got my attention: Madam Secretary starring Téa Leonie and Matthew Perry's update of The Odd Couple.
Madam Secretary may fill a gap I've longed to fill since The West Wing ended, The Good Wife lost its vibe and The Newsroom did not live up to my expectations. Judging by the first look trailer, this show may be my kind of treat, the kind of show that has the potential follow into the footsteps of my favorite Danish series, Borgen.
Borgen has what a lot of international shows of my liking have in common: a wonderful cast, a smart female character, crafty writers, witty dialogue, intelligent storylines and a distinctive design. For three seasons, Borgen was highly addictive without leaning on the soapy side like Britain's Downton Abbey. That's not to say I wouldn't enjoy ITV's period drama, Maggie Smith is starring in it after all. But given the choice, I prefer stories without unnecessary malice or personal drama blown out of proportion.


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A recent article published by the East African magazine (Nation Media Group Ltd) Nairobi-Kenya on August 20, 2007 titled "Gulf Air, Oman Air planning to resume flights to Darussalam", which was also made available globally and circulated on a number of internet sites, reporter MIKE MANDE has allegedly made statements attributed to Oman Air regarding the commencement of its operations to East Africa. As allegedly declared by the publication, Oman Air during this phase is assessing the circumstances on a daily basis and is satisfied that it should resume flights to Tanzania. Furthermore, the airline was waiting for the outcome of the final negotiations between the Governments of Oman and the friendly United Republic of Tanzania to resume commercial flights to Julius Nyerere International Airport with the first flight scheduled to operate soon.
In this regard, Oman Air's Corporate Communications and Media Department stated that although the airline places, within its plans, resumption of operations to its destinations in East Africa, it categorically denies conducting any interview with the Reporter of the above-mentioned magazine nor have any statements been released in this context to him or others. Oman Air affirms that the article is a fabrication by the Reporter and that the so-called statements with respect to this topic lack any validity.


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text: Next year the Tennessee State Museum is mounting an exhibit on slavery at the Wessyngton plantation, which at one point was the largest farm in the entire state and the biggest tobacco-producing plantation in the country. Archaeologists from UT have been studying the plantation's slave cemetery, site of some 200 burials, as part of the preparation for the exhibit. USA Today has the details. Looks like it'll be an interesting display.


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In a highly scientific survey conducted by this blog on foreigners checking out of Korea, I asked what people would most miss about the ROK. Obvious answers like cheap transportation, liberal drinking laws, and the ability to easily save half a paycheque were abound, but the answer people are most certain, and certainly passionate about? The food. The set of sides accompanying each meal, spilling off the edge of the table. The incredibly cheap prices, where cooking Korean at home usually saves a negligible amount. The spiciness, the sauces, the DIY meals—we're all really gonna miss this cuisine. And since we've now entered our last month in Korea (cue a wave of mixed emotions), I want to squeeze in as much gochujang, red pepper powder, kimchi, and kimbap as possible into my next month—including the meals I prepare for myself.
After my article for Colorful Daegu on Kimchi Jeon, they've requested I put my kitchen to work again. This time I made a simple fried tofu dish, mostly as a host for a spicy, savory, salty sauce—one that I'll be stocking regularly in my fridge from now on. While I'm not a huge fan of tofu as a main protein source (nobody likes OD-ing on estrogen), I do believe in moderation. Where beans and lentils are not actually plentiful here in Korea, tofu—so long as it's organic and not jam-packed with GMOs—can make a nice occasional vegetarian protein source, a pretty side dish with a kick, or as I used it, a salad booster for my lunch.
Head on over to Colorful Daegu for my post on Tofu Buchim!


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The country is being inexorably pushed towards a confrontation of unpredictable consequences as a result of the seeming reluctance of the Prime Minister to assert his authority and steer the country out of a messy situation in which it finds itself. This situation is characterised by a widening divide between the Government and large sections of public opinion on the issue of setting up a permanent and independent investigating and prosecuting machinery to be called Jan Lok Pal to deal with corruption.
2.The movement for setting up an independent and powerful Jan Lok Pal can no longer be dismissed as purely a movement spearheaded by a politically conscious and manipulative elite claiming to represent the so-called civil society. Growing sections of the people identify themselves with the objectives of the movement as a result of Anna Hazare, an anti-corruption activist with no political ambitions till now, assuming its leadership.
3. His fast and the surprising public response to it made the Government realise belatedly that it can no longer drag its feet on the demand for setting up such a machinery as successive Governments have been doing for nearly 50 years. A government rattled by the extent of the public response to the fast swung from one extreme of inaction to the other extreme of a series of ill-advised actions as a result of which the moral authority to steer the anti-corruption movement has slipped from the hands of the Government into the hands of some civil society activists headed by Anna Hazare.
4. The Government let itself be stampeded by the increasing public anger on the issue of corruption into recognising the questionable credentials of Anna Hazare and his close advisers as representatives of the civil society as a whole. They did not represent the civil society. They represented strong segments of non-governmental opinion which demanded immediate action on the Lok Pal issue.
5. There are many dimensions to the movement for the creation of a powerful and independent Jan Lok Pal such as the procedure for its constitution, its powers to investigate and prosecute the corrupt and its jurisdiction. Civil society in any democracy is not monolithic. Nor is the world of non-governmental opinion. There is always a plurality of centres of non-governmental initiatives, leadership and ideas.
6. A confused Government reacted to the growing public support to the movement headed by Anna Hazare in a manner that made the civil society appear to be monolithic and conferred on Anna and his small circle of advisers the right to speak exclusively on behalf of the entire non-Governmental society. The existence of a plurality of centres of opinion was lost sight of in the panic response to the growing public support for Anna's fast. This plurality of centres existed not only in the non-governmental segment having no formal role in policy-formulation, but also in that segment, which was not governmental, but had a role in policy formulation in the form of different political parties and their elected representatives in the Parliament and the State legislatures.
7. As a result, the exercise to give shape and structure to the Jan Lok Pal mechanism came to be restricted to the Government or the State on the one side and an articulate, but over-projected segment of non- Governmental opinion which sought to reduce the exercise to one of forcing the Government to accept its point of view as representing that of non-Governmental India as a whole.
8. When the Government realised the inadvisability of such as exercise, its valid reservations on the manner in which Anna Hazare and his advisers were seeking to monopolise the national debate though they had no national following were sought to be misrepresented by Anna and his advisers as reflecting the Government's unwillingness to create a powerful and independent machinery. Differences on important individual issues such as whether the proposed Lok Pal should have jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute the Prime Minister and members of the judiciary too have been sought to be misrepresented as additional arguments reflecting the Government's opposition to the creation of a Lok Pal.
9.Non-governmental bodies act as advisers on policy-making. It ought to be left to the Government to decide which advice will be followed and which will be rejected. The Government has the right to reject or modify for valid and cogent reasons. It is so in all democracies.
10.Since independence, we have had dozens of non-Governmental groups----some permanent, some temporary--- which had advised various Governments on what policies should be followed. The Government did not always accept all their advice, even if it was given unanimously.
11. For the first time in our history, we have created a non-Governmental group which is trying to dictate policy to the Government. When any of its advice is rejected, it is threatening to take the issue again to the streets in order to force the Government to accept it. Anna Hazare has put the Government on notice that he would go on fast again from August 15 if a solution satisfactory to his group is not found.
12.No Government worth its salt can let itself be dictated by a segment of non-Governmental opinion. The Government has to reject firmly, but politely the pretensions of Anna and his team to be the custodian of the morals of our society as a whole. They have to have an important role in policy-formulation on anti-corruption issues, but as advisers with a restricted mandate and not as non-governmental dictators with a self-assumed, unrestricted mandate.
13. The Government has done well to initiate an exercise for consultations with the other political parties to reach a national consensus. It is incumbent on the other political polities to respond positively to the Government's initiative. Any attempt to take advantage of the Government's self-created difficulties will be short-sighted and could weaken democracy in the long-term.
14. Even while initiating this exercise, the Government should not burn its bridges with the Hazare team. It should try to give the new exercise a larger format by bringing in other non-governmental segments while not diluting the primacy of the Anna Hazare group. It should play the role of the first among equals, but not as the sole arbiter of the national debate on the Lok Pal issue.
15. The unfortunate rhetoric emanating from individual Ministers of the Government as well as from individual leaders of the Congress (I) should be lowered in order not to add to the heat and bitterness of the debate. There is a need for deft handling and political delicatesse which could come only from the Prime Minister and from no one else. It is time for him to take the debate to the people through the media as well as through direct interactions with the people during tours across the country.
16. If these steps are not taken, there could be a danger of the debate getting out of hand and leading to unpredictable consequences.
17.The dithering has to end---NOW.( 26-6-11)
( The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Associate of the Chennai Centre For China Studies. E-mail: email@example.com . Twitter:@SORBONNE75 )
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If there's one thing that we love as cyclists, it's our bikes; where would we be without them? So keeping our bikes safe when we're away from them is a number one priority. A good quality lock and security system is a priceless investment for any cyclist.
The times when you could use a bike lock are endless, it's not just about the obvious ones, such as leaving your bike at a park or outside a shop, you have to think about bike security as an on-going process. So when you hit that cafe stop on a big ride, and the whole peloton leaves their bikes outside, consider putting a lock on yours. It may seem like there's safety in numbers, but it's better to never take a chance.
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Even at home it's best to be safe. Do you keep your bike locked away in a shed or garage? Again, while it is quite safe, these sorts of places are targeted for bike theft, and a good tip is to use a chain lock to tie it to a stationary object such as an attachment on a wall.
Bike locks and chains are the kind of product that will never show their true purpose until the very rare case of a theft, which we all hope will never happen. It is, however, always better to be safe than sorry. If you love your bike, lock it up!


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Writing a term paper is a task that nearly every college student will undertake prior to graduation. These papers can be difficult if students do not know what to include in them. Fortunately, nearly every term paper has the same structure, even if the paper is written for a math class or a literature class. No matter what you are writing, the paper does need to have a topic that fits the course assignment. So, your literature class paper should have a topic that is related to literature and your math project should be about a math topic. Other than that, here are six features that every project requires:
When you write your paper, you will need to use in-text documentation. Each time you refer to a fact that you have found in a resource, you will need to include a properly formatted citation so your reader can reference back to the works cited page and find the source if they want to learn more. Without correct referencing, you could be accused of plagiarism, especially if you do not cite a source and your reader thinks you are claiming the information as your own. If you take good notes, you should be able to reference everything perfectly.
This final section is one of the most important. It does not require any unique thought, but students still struggle with it. In order to craft a perfect bibliography, it is helpful to use an online bibliography app. These will create the entry based on the information that you input. However, you should always double check what the app created for you.
Too many students think they can write about a cliche topic and earn a good grade. Unfortunately, too many topics have been overdone and have left students without any unique ideas. Every now and again, there is an assignment you force yourself through in order to get it done on time no matter what. Don't burn yourself out and feel free to find help here now. There are only so many things students can say about legalizing marijuana or promoting stem-cell research. Creating an original topic means looking to the future to what people will be interested in learning about soon. This is challenging. Students also need to look at crafting arguments that they may not necessary agree with, but are interesting to discuss.
Students who take good notes will have plenty of information to include in their papers. This means that students need to deeply read their sources and analyze the texts they plan to use. It is important to use only resources that are from academic journals or professional organizations that are not just looking for clicks on the Internet. Good note-taking also involves organizing your notes so you know where the information came from and where you should put that information in your paper.
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Each term paper project does need to have specific sections. Those sections will be determined by the style that you need to use. But, most will need an abstract, introduction, body, conclusion, and bibliography or works cited page. Some will need to have an appendix section and possibly even a table of contents. Most also need to have a properly formatted title page, too. A style guide will clearly explain the necessities. It is also helpful to have a sample paper to use as a template.
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July 5, 2012
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Alex Majoli's masterclass requires students to start with introducing themselves through their photographic projects.
Over the course of 6 days the focus will be on how each student's visual language can be improved, mainly by critiquing, shooting, editing and sequencing. Also content and artistic autonomy are basic topics in Alex Majoli's teachings.
The importance of the individual as a photographer, his history, experiences and background are all related to the way the photographer will take a picture. The goal of the masterclass is to nurture and feed each student own unique photographic vision as much as possible.
The masterclass is divided into two workshops, one in summer and one in spring, both in 6 consecutive days. By the end of the first class (summer) Alex Majoli will advice every student how to proceed with their project. In the following 6 months each student will have private sessions with Alex Majoli through skype, email, phone, etc., (according to his available time) in which he will advice on how to develop the project to not only achieve the best results for the proposed project, but mainly for the development of one´s own artistic vision in order to maintain a lasting quality.
During the second session, all the students shall show their progress to all the class and shall be able to finalize their projects by the end of the Masterclass. Students can apply by sending their portfolios to email@example.com
Applicants will be accepted mainly according to the quality of their work.
TEACHER: Alex Majoli / Magnum Photos
DURATION: 2 x 6 days
1st session: September 17/22, 2012
2nd session: March 28 - April 02, 2013
h. 9.00/13.00 - 14.00/18.00
Students will attend both sessions. Between both summer and spring sessions of the workshop, the course provides an additional tutor sessions with Alex Majoli (according to his available time) in which progress, development, steps to be taken and other advice necessary for the advancement of the project will be discussed.
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Portfolio in PDF file with no more than 20 to 30 jpg images.
All files should be sent in a zip. folder with no more than 10MB size.
Applications should be submitted until 1st September 2012.
The first entries will be the ones selected.
The course will be held in English. Translation to Italian if needed will be available. (Ask before the application).
A selection of your work is essential to present to the teacher and your fellow students at the start of the workshop. Make sure you have your work ready for presentation. (jpgs files in low res. 2000 pixel width 72dpi in case of digital portfolio)
It will be very useful for the teacher in order to evaluate your photographic level and determine what steps you have made by the end of the workshop.
Bring at least 2 literary books that you love and 2 of your favorite films.
Students should also bring their own laptop and photographic equipment.
For any technical or practical problem, Cesuralab staff will help.
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The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise"(Prv. 11:30)
The verse before us can be taken as a whole or in two parts. Today, we shall endeavor to expound upon the latter half.
He that winneth souls is wise." On the outset, some might say that this is an Arminian statement. That could not possibly be the case, however, for it is found within the scope of God's eternal Word. The Scriptures teach us clearly that "salvation is of the Lord"(Jon. 2:9). Eternal life isn't given by a preacher, missionary, or church member to a person dead in trespasses and sins any more than physical life is given to a person physically dead. However, God here teaches us that we should desire to be used of God to draw His elect to Christ. The gospel of Christ is the means of salvation and we are the instruments used of the Lord to spread that means. Somewhere along the line, our churches have missed the mark on the ever-important subject.
Oftentimes, our people are taught that all there is to being a Christian is going to church, praying, and studying the Bible. I'm not trying to belittle any of those positive duties. These are things that should be done by Christian people and, sadly, these are avoided by the masses. Nevertheless, these are not all a Christian is required to do. We are required to "preach the gospel to every creature"(Mrk. 16:15). Is this to say that we, within ourselves, have the power to convert any? God forbid. Still, the Apostle Paul(the apostle noted for being the apostle of the doctrines of "grace") says, "Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men"(II Cor. 5:11). Is Paul trying to say that he actually changed the minds and hearts of these people? No! But, he is trying to say that he tried to convince people to become Christians in hopes that God would bless his efforts.
Christ seemed to allude to a similar teaching when He told Simon and Andrew, "I will make you to become fishers of men.(Mrk. 1:17). Now, most of you have fished. How many fish can you catch at home? Any? In order to have good results, you must go to a lake, pond, stream, etc. In other words, you must go fishing. Jesus here tells these(as we can rightly assume we are to follow this example) that they were to become fishers of men. They were to try and catch men and draw them into the group of disciples. They were to try and make Christians out of them. They were to cast the bait in front of them in hopes that God would open their hearts to receive it(Act. 16:14). This brings up a good question. What is the bait? We must go fishing, yes, but, what bait are we to use? The doctrines of grace, maybe? Sadly enough, that's what many think, but, that is not right. Paul said, "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified"(I Cor. 2:2). This was Paul's bait when he tried to "persuade" men--Jesus Christ, and him crucified. Without belief in this, other doctrines have no meaning. I grew up in Sovereign Grace circles and I can tell you quickly that one can know the doctrines of grace and still be lost. I was. I could have taken the Bible and proven them to you, but, I didn't see Christ as my Savior and I was lost.
Again, Paul tells us "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek"(Rom. 1:16). The apostle again reminds us that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is God's way of saving His lost sheep. God draws them by His Spirit, through His Word. It is God that saves, but, He doesn't save into darkness. He brings people "out of darkness into his marvellous light"(I Pet. 2:9). That light is the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work--His satisfaction. Sadly, many of our own have rejected this blessed truth, but, that doesn't change the Word of God, nor does it change His way of working.
So, we see that we are to be soul winners, or fishers of men. We can establish that we are to use the gospel of Christ to win those souls. The question should be asked, why then are our churches not growing? "But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully"(II Cor. 9:6). Generally, our churches aren't preaching the gospel to the lost. Does this mean that God isn't saving His own? Absolutely not!! But, God is big enough to use another if His own fail. He has used a bush, a donkey, a wall, and various other inanimate objects. He can you an Arminian preacher if He desires to.
Other churches are growing. We can fault them in many, if not most, things. However, we can't fault them on their zeal. If our people had zeal, we might win a convert here and there. The Bible just told us if we sow "sparingly" we will reap "sparingly." However, it also told us if we sow "bountifully" we will reap "bountifully." This is consolation. This is positive motivation. Our churches aren't sowing much seed and they aren't reaping anything. We can rightly expect to grow if we will sow some seed. Can't we believe this verse? Don't we trust the Word of God?
Some would say, "I need more motivation than one verse." Fine. Isa 55:11 says, "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." We might not be the most articulate speaker, but, we can be comforted in knowing that God's Word accomplishes His purpose. We might be looked at as "unlearned and ignorant men"(Act. 4:13). That's OK. The gospel of Christ will still accomplish God's good purpose. God's Word will not return unto Him void. There is no doubt in this passage. It doesn't say, "might not." It says "will not." The Scriptures speak here in the absolute. How many things are we promised in life that we will prosper in? Here in America, we are (supposedly) guaranteed the right to pursue happiness. We are not(unbeknownst to many) promised happiness. But, here, in this one thing, God confirms that His Word will not return unto Him void. This is positive motivation to take the gospel of Christ to the world.
Another positive motivation is the doctrine of election. As a general rule, our people look at election negatively. This is not the way it's meant to be taken. It is a positive truth. C. H. Spurgeon, when asked "if some are elect, why preach" said, "...if indeed, I believed there was not a number who must be saved, I could not go into a pulpit again. Only once make me think that no one is certain to be saved and I do not care to preach. But, now I know that a countless number must be saved; I am confident that Christ 'shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days.' I know that, if there is much to dispirit me in my ministry, and I see but little of its effects, yet He shall keep all whom the Father has given to Him; and this makes me preach." What Brother Spurgeon is saying here is that Arminianism believes in the possibility that none will ever be saved. What a defeated purpose! For an Arminian missionary to leave on a missionary journey must be a burden. However, Sovereign Grace teaches us that a certain number not only can and will be saved, but, must be saved. This, again, is positive motivation.
God's sheep need brought into the fold and we are told to do the bringing. We are told to preach the gospel to the lost and pray that God will bless our efforts. The wording in our text verse, "He that winneth souls is wise" almost alludes to a game. I'm not saying that the salvation of sinners is a game, but, this is the simple wording that the Lord uses in this passage. Generally when we think of winning something, we think of a game. If this is a game, and somebody is keeping score(as the Lord is), what is your score? You shall stand for your work done for the Lord at the judgment seat of Christ. Are you striving to win souls? Do you care for your lost friends and family?
Christ told the one whom He had cleansed in Mark 5:19, "Go home to thy friends and tell them what great things the Lord had done for thee." Is this our attitude? Are we doing this? We should desire for others to have what we have. Thank the Lord somebody cared about us.
Baptist people, there is a wide-open field in the world. There are more people on the Earth than there have ever been. This presupposes that there are more lost people than there have ever been. The world is ripe. Preach the gospel. Pray for results. We are promised results if we would only sow.
Are you a soul winner? Do you desire to be? What is your score?


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Barron's Bounce: Dole is Top Banana
Barrons.com blogger Sam Mamudi and editor Jack Otter look at share-price moves by Apple, Dole, and Ryman Hospitality, owner of the Grand Old Opry.
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Flames fully loaded, fired up for Saturday's Liberty Open
September 25, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
A record turnout of 26 players will enable Liberty University's paintball team to go to battle with plenty of reinforcements this season.
"We definitely have one of if not the biggest program in the country right now," said Flames head coach Todd Hoglund, who plans to field five full teams for Saturday's Liberty Open, with a total of 10 other teams expected to be in the fray. "It's typical to have one or maybe two teams and it's very rare for a school to have even three rosters or lines. We've had four before but this is the first time we've had five."
He said having numbers to draw from gives the Flames, who finished fourth at the 2010 and 2011 National Collegiate Paintball Association championships, a huge advantage.
"With a larger player pool, we're able to really see who our top players are instead of relying on what five guys show up," Hoglund said.
Half of the players on this year's team are returning and half are new, with varying levels of experience.
"We have an overwhelming number of players looking to play at a top level," Hoglund said. "Beyond that, we're able to take players at a lower level and improve their skills and abilities."
Five schools — defending champion Georgia State, East Carolina, N.C. State, Radford, and VMI — have confirmed they will be competing in Saturday's first Mid-South Collegiate Conference event, which starts at 8 a.m. and is expected to end by 4 p.m. at the Liberty Paintball Fields. Lynchburg College, which scrimmaged the Flames and ECU this past Sunday on Liberty Mountain, Clemson, and James Madison also are likely to make the trip.
"We can take up to 20 teams, but we've only got 10 signed up," Hoglund said, noting most of the other schools are only bringing one team.
The Flames will field two top-level teams clad in gold and red, two with middle-range players dressed in white and blue, and one with less-experienced shooters, all brand new to Liberty, sporting black.
"All five should do well," said Hoglund, who wouldn't be surprised if Liberty's gold and red teams meet in the championship match Saturday, and for the white and blue squads to advance to the semifinals. "Our team has definitely improved, while the talent on the other teams is about the same. We have a good solid group of guys that have been training really hard and they're ready to defend their home field."
The black squad is the only one with a sixth man available as an alternate.
"If there's an injury, we have to suck it up or play with four," Hoglund said of the other four.
Liberty returns junior team captain Aaron Thompson and senior assistant captain Noah Burns, who has been playing especially well on the "snake side" of the field, on the gold team.
The red team features two new players Hoglund is excited about, Dan Brown, who plays on the "Dorito side," and snake side specialist Aaron Westafer.
"Both of those guys are new to the team and have a lot of potential," Hoglund said, noting Westafer has been training with former Liberty player Ben Konechne at River Valley Ranch in Maryland.
The blue team features Cody Bowman, a solid back-line player, and Neal Clement an effective snake side attacker.
Hoglund said the Liberty Open will use a fairly standard layout of inflatable obstacles, with the Dorito side on the far side and the snake side on the near side from the spectators' point of view.
"This layout is pretty aggressive," Hoglund said. "There should also be lots of play up the middle, which should be exciting. Any time players go up the middle, it's an attack move and either something good happens or something bad happens."
He said this season's teams have developed good chemistry and strategy and shown good judgment as to when to attack and when to play it safe.
"We've trained them pretty well to know when to move, when to hold their position, when to go from offensive to defensive," Hoglund said. "Their game plan is to stay on the offensive as much as possible. Typically the teams that play intelligently aggressive are usually the teams that come out victorious."


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A Brief History of Obama's 'Angry' Moments
Stories about perilously long wait times at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities are the latest chapter in President Barack Obama being mad about something.
Mr. Obama hasn't said so himself yet, but White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough took to CNN Thursday to say that "nobody's more mad than the president." Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters the president is "concerned and angry" about the situation.
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That, as my colleagues Colleen McCain Nelson and Ben Kesling write, reprised, nearly verbatim, a similar White House tactic from last fall's health-care website debacle. In October, Mr. Obama spoke of his anger in the Rose Garden. "Nobody's madder than me about the fact that the website isn't working as well as it should," he said.
And when he announced the sacking of the Internal Revenue Service commissioner in May 2013 over inappropriate scrutiny to political groups, Mr. Obama said: "Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it."
Of course, despite his words, the most upset most Americans have seen Mr. Obama have not been when he declared himself angry but when he showed it.
On Nov. 14, 2012, Mr. Obama didn't have to declare his anger when defending Susan Rice, then the United Nations ambassador and now the national security adviser, from attacks against her by Sens. John McCain (R., Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) over her statements about the Benghazi attack.
"If Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham, and others want to go after somebody? They should go after me," Mr. Obama said during a White House press conference. "And I'm happy to have that discussion with them. But for them to go after the U.N. ambassador who had nothing to do with Benghazi? And was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received? And to besmirch her reputation is outrageous."
And after his gun-control efforts died in the Senate in April 2013, Mr. Obama lashed out at the nation's gun lobby and called the vote "a pretty shameful day" for Washington.
A few other instances of Mr. Obama publicly expressing his anger:
Feb. 27, 2014: During remarks for his My Brothers Keeper initiative, Mr. Obama spoke of being angry growing up because he didn't have his father around.
"I didn't have a dad in the house," he said. "And I was angry about it, even though I didn't necessarily realize it at the time. I made bad choices."
April 15, 2012: After the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia, Mr. Obama offered conditional anger.
"If it turns out that some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then of course I'll be angry," he said at a press conference.
May 27, 2010: Mr. Obama said he was upset about watching the BP oil spill.
"And I know that doesn't lessen the enormous sense of anger and frustration felt by people on the Gulf and so many Americans. Every day I see this leak continue I am angry and frustrated as well."
March 18, 2009: When executives at AIG, which was in the process of being bailed out by the federal government, were to be awarded million-dollar bonuses, Mr. Obama said there was no need to tamp down public outrage.
"I don't want to quell anger," he said. "I think people are right to be angry. I'm angry."
Update: In an interview that aired Sunday, Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Mr. Obama is "madder than hell" about the problems facing the Department of Veterans Affairs. "Nobody is more outraged about this problem right now" than the president, he said.
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Some say the information revolution happened in the 1970s upon the advent of the personal computer, some say it happened in the 90s when the internet reached critical mass. These were incredibly important events in the history of humanity, but I claim the information revolution has seen only its beginnings.
Consider the case of the automobile. The transportation revolution did not happen overnight in 1897 when Rudolf Diesel built the first combustion engine. Instead, it happened gradually as the world was changed around the people as a result of this new technology. Oldsmobile and Ford refined the process of creating cars, and with that transformation came a new kind of economics based on the assembly line. The transportation revolution came to its apex upon the construction of the interstate highway system, upon which the choice of where a person lived and where he worked became decoupled.
We have seen the analog of the advent of the combustion engine and the beginning of Ford's innovations. "The Information Superhighway" is superficially related to the creation of the highway system, but I think of that as an echo of the revolution of the highway system, not the revolution of the information age. We are at the creation of the assembly line, before it gained wide adoption. Google is Ford.
The reason is that the information age is about information, which is a totally different kind of beast than traditional commodities, around which our economy is based. As few as five years ago, businessmen tried to charge $50 for ready-made software sitting on a shelf as if it were a television or a bag of rice. But that is an ancient conception that completely fails to reflect the economics of what a software package is.
To see this issue clearly, we have to step back from our personal conceptions of money as a thing which allows us to live and operate in society, and think about it in terms of what it was when it was created: an abstraction for trade, which served to make society as a whole more efficient. Money is about allocating scarce resources to where they will most benefit society. It isn't perfect at doing that job, but it is pretty damn good all things considered. It works way better than communism, which puts that allocation in the government's hands.
Back to the television and the software package. A single television requires resources to produce. When you buy a television from the shelf, you are communicating "a television has value to me, please continue to allocate resources to produce televisions". As society moves beyond the need for new televisions, people stop buying them, money (an abstraction for resources) stops flowing to the manufacturer of the televisions, and the company shrinks or dissolves so that those resources can be allocated somewhere where they can more benefit society.
Try to apply this story to software. Software costs resources to produce initially, but after it is on the shelf, all the resources it will ever consume have already been spent during its development, modulo its useless and wasteful packaging. Now there is a component of continuing to improve the software, but the cost of improving the software is not proportional to the number of users the way the cost of producing televisions is proportional to the number of people that want televisions. While treating software as a commodity does serve to compensate the creator for producing the software, when seen from the perspective of the economy as a whole rather than a single business, it makes no sense. The idea of commodity software is a misallocation resources.
Fortunately, the idea of commodity software is gradually fading away. We have mostly done away with the wasteful practice of putting software — essentially free to reproduce — into boxes, which have a cost to reproduce and are only advertisements until they are thrown away by the purchaser. But the model persists in the App Store, among other places. But note how the great Giants of the age are no longer using this model. Apple is profiting off of others using this model, but they are not using it directly. Google and Facebook will have nothing to do with it. Microsoft is dying a slow, painful death.
While there is a social realization that the old commodity model isn't working anymore, it is not clear to me that anyone sees where it is headed. Google has hit a sweet spot where they can provide value to everyone without charging consumers any money — by collecting data about people, they make it easier for producers and consumers to connect when they stand to benefit from each other, and they found a nice place to skim compensation off of that arrangement. Google essentially has one very valuable product. Apple's business model is basically that of a hardware company. But how does a typical software company work in the new age of information?
To explore this idea, I will take the vantage point of looking at society as a whole and follow the scent of efficient resource allocation. Resources are required to produce software in the first place: we need ideas, programmers, testers, and marketers. After the software has been conceived of, written, and tested — that is, at the point when the consumer uses the software — all the resources required for producing the software have already been expended. It is nonsense to charge people at this point; society would benefit more if you simply gave your software away, because the cost of doing so is (almost) zero. We need a way to pay for ideas, programmers, testers, and marketers. The resources required for providing a product are proportional to the difficulty of its creation, not the scale of its distribution.
I picture a combination of Kickstarter and an economic extension of UserVoice due to John De Goes. Allow people to pledge money for the improvement (or creation) of a product or feature, to be paid when that feature is usable. The features that are most valuable to people will have the most money pledged to them, providing incentive for the company to develop those features. We are now allocating resources where they need to be: in improving the product, rather than paying for the vacation of somebody who created valuable software in the past, somebody whose mind and expertise would be more beneficial to society developing or improving their product. This is just one idea, I'm certain there are other models that will accurately reflect information economics as well. In particular, this model compensates those who implement an idea, but not those who came up with the idea in the first place, which is a place for improvement.
Observe how this new type of model has shifted the economic emphasis to one derivative higher. People are compensated for continuously improving their product and creating new products, rather than having one great idea and banking on it. This may frighten innovators: their great innovations now stand to make them less money; we now need to constantly work to create value instead of sitting atop a great idea allocating resources. But look at it from society's perspective: we are coming up on an age of immense growth, in which every worker in the economy is seeking not just to continue the status quo, but to improve it! Everyone is an innovator or an enabler of an innovator. And this all comes from software being free to copy. When something is free to copy, everyone should have equal access to it. Any other way is short-changing society.
It's time to stop clinging to software as if it is consumed when it is used. There is an economic boom waiting to happen, if we just let information resources flow the way they want to.


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Turner shows signs of potential, progress to be made
JUPITER, Fla. -- With Marlins right-hander Jacob Turner, it isn't a matter of pure stuff. The question remains command.
Turner's first Grapefruit League start on Monday against the Astros was another example of some mixed results.
"He's one of those guys -- no telling how good this guy can be," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "He has the ability to make guys swing and miss. What I saw was a tighter breaking ball today than I've seen in the past. You just look at the crispness of the way the ball was coming out of his hand, and it looked good."
To the first two batters, Turner's fastball was 92-95 mph, and his slider was 82-83 mph. Both are good readings. His changeup is a work in progress, and he needs to slow it down a bit to create some separation from his fastball. His changeup was clocked at 87-89 mph.
Where Turner got in trouble on Monday came in the first inning. With the count full to Marc Krauss, Turner grooved a 92-mph fastball, which was promptly deposited over the wall in right field.
The solo homer was the lone run Turner allowed in two innings in Miami's 4-0 loss.
"You're going to leave pitches up," Turner said. "I left one up, and he got me."
Turner was more upset at himself for not putting Krauss away after getting ahead 1-2 in the count.
The 6-foot-5 Turner projects to be Miami's fourth starter, but the job isn't automatically his. But chances are, he will be because he is out of options, and the organization would risk losing him if he didn't make the Opening Day roster.
Turner also is striving to avoid the pitfalls he had last year in Spring Training, when his ERA was 9.69 in 13 innings.
The 22-year-old isn't getting caught up in last year.
"Really, it's like any other spring," he said. "Go out there and get ready for the season."
On Monday, Turner was heeding the advice of pitching coach Chuck Hernandez.
"Fastball command," Turner said. "Everything builds off that. That's what Chuck preaches to all of us, being able to throw your fastball to both sides of the plate. If you can do that, a lot of things will go your way."


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Friday was a quieter day at the show but still lots going on...
Here's stamas at the H-T booth in between signing up new members
Mr. & Mrs. Caveman (scientifically karsthuntr)
Tom Jackson & Kurt Wessling of Jackson Systems, a CT regular and H-T advertiser. Contractors, if you aren't using their themostats imprinted with your name, logo & phone number, you are missing a great customer retention method!
Doc Holiday
The product showcase, good vendor participation this year
Time for the grand prize drawing at the LG booth. Hope The Editor doesn't take all afternoon with it.
Must be present to win...and they were


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There are a couple of hidden gems within the new Photoshop for Creative Cloud (Photoshop CC), and these are under the Filters/Other menu item. The two filters Minimum and Maximum are typically used to refine selection masks, but up to Photoshop CC were limited to squareness and to whole numbers only. Inside Photoshop CC both of these filters have been enhanced to support a bias toward roundness as well as squareness on the mask, as well as supporting decimals on the roundness preservation setting of each.
Here is a picture of a spoon that i shot in a Bhutan kitchen, and i may want to extract and include as part of another composition.
Using the Pen tool I am able to make a pretty good mask, but won't be as tight to the object as i need it to be. Also, when i blend this into another image, there will most likely be some haloing on the around the edges.
For each pen path, I have created separate paths (under the paths panel), as the shapes/masks are slightly different (one is more square and one more round), which may be used later in the extraction .
Once the paths have been created, the selection for each can be made, first of all the handle. to make the selection from the path, select the path and right click it, or use the fly out menu on the paths panel.
I want to make sure that there is a feathered edge on the final selection, so that the mask that is created is not so aggressive.
Add a mask to the image to extract the handle, however, as the background layer is locked, I suggest duplicating the background layer (CMD+J on the Mac, CTRL+J on a PC), then select the new duplicate layer. Create a new mask on this layer by clicking on the new mask icon (at the bottom of the layers panel)
(I have also created a new layer between the background and the masked layer, so i can see the final effect)
To apply the filter, select the mask layer then use the menu item Filter/ Other / Minimum
The Maximum filter has the effect of applying a choke—spreading out white areas and choking in black areas.
The Minimum filter has the effect of applying a spread—spreading out black areas and shrinking white areas.
The Maximum and Minimum filters are useful for modifying masks, the filters look at individual pixels in a selection, within a specified radius. Maximum and Minimum filters replace the current pixel's brightness value with the highest or lowest brightness value of the surrounding pixels, meaning that the feathered edge will be supported with these filters.
(There is another way of modifying the mask, and that is to use a Levels adjustment directly on the mask (this is different from using an Adjustment Layer). The levels adjustment won't preserve the feathering as these filters do)
By default the settings will be "Preserve = Squareness" and the Radius set to 1. Ultimately the Radius size won't be huge, but to demonstrate the feature, i'll push it much higher than normal. By increasing the Radius to 30 pixels, the mask has been restricted and has taken on a bias towards preserving squared edges, which on a round section, isn't desirable.
If the Preserve option is changed to "Roundness" (notice that decimals are also accepted into the Radius value), the bias on the mask (section highlighted in Red) is more towards preserving the round edge.
Once both selections have been completed the mask is tight to the extracted object, and has kept the feathered edge.


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"The problem with technetium is not just that it's radioactive," says Sherman Ponder. "The problem is that it lasts forever."
For places like the Hanford Nuclear Reservation along the Columbia River in Washington State, where the groundwater is contaminated with technetium and other radionuclides, radioactive presence—and permanence—is a big problem. The Hanford site, which produced the plutonium used in the first atomic bombs, opened in 1943. For its first 30 years, Hanford produced radioactive materials; for the last 25, scientists, environmentalists, and government officials have been trying to figure out how to remove the radioactive residue that's leaked into the water and soil.
Ponder, a graduate student in chemistry at Penn State, believes that "ferragels," a material he has invented with his adviser, Thomas Mallouk, and for which Penn State is seeking a patent, may offer a solution—not only for cleaning up this nuclear mess, but for eliminating pollution at sites contaminated by toxic metals and by organic compounds such as pesticides, dioxins, and PCBs.
The main ingredients of ferragels are nanoparticles of iron, each less than a micron in size. Their cleaning ability depends on the simple, ordinary process of rusting. Except for those researchers trying to find ways to stop corrosion, Ponder says, "Most scientists haven't paid attention to what rust actually means." Rusting depends on a reduction/oxidation or "redox" reaction. During a redox reaction, the loss of electrons from one substance is called oxidation, and the addition of electrons to another is called reduction. Since this electron transfer always requires a donor and an acceptor, oxidation and reduction always go together. Ponder explains, "When iron oxidizes, something else must be reduced at the same time. We're harnessing the redox reaction to reduce and thus remove contaminants from our groundwater supply."
Ponder studied iron's ability to eliminate toxins as an undergraduate at the University of South Florida, so when he and Mallouk were trying to find a solution for treating technetium, the redox reaction of iron was a natural choice. When the team first began experimenting, they used a gel to stabilize the iron. Although they now use a resin, they've kept the original name, "ferragels."
Making ferragels, Ponder says, he first puts ferrous salt, which looks like sea-green bath crystals, in a small beaker, mixes it with water, and adds a stabilizing agent the color and consistency of flour. To this mix he adds a touch of a chemical that instantly causes the liquid to turn black, bubble, and gurgle. "You should see it when we make a huge vat of this stuff," says Ponder. "It's very cool."
The metamorphosis, he explains, is caused by nanoparticles of iron binding to the resin; after the mixture is strained, you're left with a small handful of ferragels, which smells like railroad tracks, and feels gritty and oily—not the kind of substance you'd imagine could clean anything. But use that same handful to filter water from a stream contaminated with something like dry-cleaning fluid, and the beauty of ferragels shines through.
"The particles act like nano-bloodhounds," says Ponder. In the case of dry-cleaning fluid, ferragels track down and bind to chlorine molecules, and the result is ethylene, a neutral, non-toxic gas—the same thing used to ripen grocery-store tomatoes. "The toxic contaminant no longer exists, and the ethylene should just percolate out of the soil." Laboratory tests show that the ferragels remain in the water as small amounts of rust.
Ponder and Mallouk are working with a simulated "recipe" of Hanford tank waste in their University Park lab. The mixture contains chemicals like aluminum nitrate, sodium hydroxide, iron, and rhenium (a nonradioactive element used instead of technetium). It looks like pond scum. Ponder says the mix is nasty stuff—it would burn your skin off if you fell into a vat of it. So far, his and Mallouk's studies show that ferragels remove 99.999 percent of the rhenium in this test solution.
On a large scale, radioactive water would be filtered through a column containing ferragels. The technetium would then be reduced to an insoluble solid, which could be collected and mixed into large glass rods which would not degrade like metal barrels do. Says Ponder, "If we can get ferragels to work at Hanford, we can get them to work anywhere."
Sherman Ponder is a graduate student in chemistry in the Eberly College of Science, 317 Chandlee Lab, University Park, PA 16802; 814-863-9791; ponder@chem. psu.edu. His adviser is Thomas E. Mallouk, professor of chemistry, 152 Davey Lab; 863-9637; firstname.lastname@example.com. Graduate student Bettina Schrick and undergraduate James R. Ford are also working on this project. The Hanford research is being conducted in conjunction with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.


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Searching today with Google my own name Nic Kolbe returns 591.000 results, simply by typing my full name into the search field. Google returns all records that include my first name plus it returns all records that include my surname. More than 590.000 results are not related to, what I am looking for!
Many people know - and many dont, that one can search for records that include only the complete name by simply putting the search string into this format: Nic+Kolbe which returns only 925 results. Most of the results are, what I am looking for!
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Today I find myself thinking a lot about yoga, what it means to me and how it has a way of inserting itself into every part of my life. I'm likely so reflective because I start my 200 hour yoga teacher training this Saturday. I am so excited for my continued yoga journey, and my opportunity to train & learn from my yoga teacher Suzanne who I respect and admire for her dedication to the practice, and to the greater good
I am also looking forward to meeting the rest of the class. So much of these experiences are determined by the people who you share them with. I am told we will have a couple veterans in our midst, from the Veteran's Yoga Project - and I look forward to learning from their experiences with the practice.
Yoga is a great physical challenge, but it also has a lot of benefits that are more subtle than toned shoulders and a good butt. For me, it brings me a peace of mind that I don't naturally possess. I am at my core, a hyper, fast thinking, fast talking, frenetic type of person. I can be quick witted, or quickly angered depending on the day (or sometimes what I've had for lunch...eek!).
Yoga is my permission to slow down, breathe deeply, and connect with my innermost true-self. When I am actively practicing I let go of the need to have all the answers, or finish the test first....and become someone who wants to be nice to other people, be helpful, and be happy with all the blessings that she possesses.
So, for me, yoga isn't all about the stretching and the good butt (though, lululemon crops help in that department...something about that fabric is magic for the buns). Yoga is my *me* time and my reminder to cool it, and not feel the need to do everything PERFECTLY....and beat myself up when I get something wrong.
It's about acceptance of a lot...but first, of myself.


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FYI – In WordPress 3.3 the Admin Bar was renamed the Toolbar, replacing the header entirely, and now has more hooks to edit it. Please read http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/admin-bar-api-changes-in-3-3/ for more information.
Since WordPress 3.1, the Admin Bar has been around and been somewhat controversial. Some people love it, some hate it, and some couldn't care. A lot of the time in the WP Support Forums I had to remind people that you can turn this off for yourself in your profile.
My standard replies to people was pretty much this:
If it's throwing your theme out of whack, make sure you have a call to
wp_footer()in your theme's footer. The next cause for that is your theme's css having a conflict. If it's your avatar size, again, that's CSS. Wanna turn the admin menu ON for EVERYONE? Use the Always Show Admin Bar Function. Like the bar but not the search? Hide Admin Bar Search Plugin is there. Want to minimise it? Admin Bar Minimiser Plugin. Want to disable it selectively? Admin Bar Disabler Plugin can do that.
Finally if you MUST turn it off… you can add one of these to your functions.phpadd_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' ); show_admin_bar(false); show_admin_bar(0);
OR use the Disable Admin Bar plugin.
FYI, if you put the plugin in a folder called mu-plugins (yes, you can do this on Single Site as well as MultiSite) then your users won't be able to un-install it unless they go in via FTP. Just put the mu-plugins folder in the same level as themes and plugins (wp-content/mu-plugins) and copy the FILE (not the folder) for the plugin into there. Done.
Now me? I like having it on. I used to have it turned one for all users, all visitors, everyone all the time. Recently, when I re-designed some sites, I removed that functionality because it was showing too much info to people who were suffering from information overload. Once I pulled the admin bar off for non-logged in users, I realized I wanted to change the way it worked.
The normal admin bar is actually pretty straight forward. The pretty icon of your user ID with a drop down menu rocks. The problem I had was my site was built to keep people off the backend. I already use the rocking WP Hide Dashboard plugin, and BuddyPress is installed, so I wanted to redirect people from places like 'My Profile' on the unbranded WP backend to the pretty BuddyPress front end. And yes, I think all 'user interface' plugins should have a front-end version.
I could have used something like WP Custom Admin Bar, but I knew I was going to want some pretty weird, granular level, control over the layout and the submenus. In order to make this look how I wanted, I had to remove menus I didn't want (or need) and add in new ones. I did it all in a file called
adminbar.php, which I tossed in the
mu-plugins folder (so on a multisite it can never be turned off):
function ipstenu_admin_bar_remove() { global $wp_admin_bar; /* Remove their stuff */ $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('my-blogs'); $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('my-account-with-avatar'); $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('appearance'); } add_action('wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'ipstenu_admin_bar_remove', 0);
The values like
my-blogs and so on are the IDs of the menus you want to yank:
my-account: Links to your account. The ID depends upon if you have avatars enabled or not.
my-blogs: My Sites menu. For networks (aka MultiSite) only
edit: Post/Page edit link
new-content: Add New Content menu
comments: Comments link
appearance: Appearance menu
updates: Updates link
get-shortlink: Shortlink to a page
While some of these menus only show up for the admins, I figured I may as well remove the ones I don't need right there anyway. I'm also of the (unproven) opinion that the fewer calls I make in that admin menu, the faster my site will be. The only reason I yanked
my-account-with-avatar was because I wanted to remove some of the submenus and add in my own. I found it was easier to recreate it on my own, so I did this:
function ipstenu_admin_bar_add() { global $wp_admin_bar, $user_identity; $user_id = get_current_user_id(); /* Add my stuff */ if ( 0 != $user_id ) { $avatar = get_avatar( get_current_user_id(), 16 ); $id = ( ! empty( $avatar ) ) ? 'ipstenu-account-with-avatar' : 'ipstenu-account'; $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array( 'id' => $id, 'title' => $avatar . $user_identity, 'href' => 'https://ipstenu.org/members/'. $user_identity .'/profile/' ) ); $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array( 'parent' => $id, 'title' => __( 'Edit My Profile' ), 'href' => 'https://ipstenu.org/members/'. $user_identity .'/profile/edit/' ) ); if ( current_user_can('manage_options') ) { $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array( 'parent' => $id, 'title' => __( 'Dashboard' ), 'href' => 'https://ipstenu.org/wp-admin/' ) ); $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array( 'parent' => $id, 'title' => __( 'Network Admin' ), 'href' => 'https://ipstenu.org/wp-admin/network' ) ); } $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array( 'parent' => $id, 'title' => __( 'Log Out' ), 'href' => wp_logout_url() ) ); } } add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'ipstenu_admin_bar_add', 10 );
But wait! If you just tried that, you found out the CSS looks like a monkey puked on your site. The avatar icon's goobered, that pretty sprite that shows the arrow is missing. Well, that's easily fixed with some CSS.
In the same
adminbar.php file, I put this:
function link_to_stylesheet() {
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
wp_head you still get the fugly on the admin side. That's easilly fixed with a second action call:
add_action('admin_head', 'link_to_stylesheet');
Now you can make your admin bar have the menus (or submenus) you want to your heart's content too!
While you can take my work for your starting point, here are the links I found helpful when I was kicking all this around:
• SumTips: Customize WordPress Admin Bar by Adding/Removing Links
• WP Engineer: Add Menus to the Admin Bar of WordPress
• Digging Into WordPress: Admin Bar Tricks