text:
Check BulbaNewsNOW for up-to-date Pokémon news and discuss it on the forums or in the Bulbagarden Discord server.
Difference between revisions of "List of clothing in the anime"
m (→{{an|Clemont}}: rewording, proofreading)
Grabbergirl (talk | contribs)
(→Other outfits)
|Line 568:
|Line 568:
====Other outfits====
====Other outfits====
* [[XY007]] and [[XY009]], Tyrantrum .
<gallery perrow=5>
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Bonnie Pajamas.png|Bonnie in her pajamas
File:Bonnie Pajamas.png|Bonnie in her pajamas
Revision as of 00:39, 7 December 2013
- 1 Ash
- 2 Misty
- 3 Brock
- 4 Tracey
- 5 May
- 6 Max
- 7 Dawn
- 8 Iris
- 9 Cilan
- 10 Serena
- 11 Clemont
- 12 Bonnie
- 13 Jessie, James and Meowth
In the Pokémon anime, while the main characters will generally wear a single outfit for several seasons, they have changed outfits from time to time and, at the start of a new series, changed their main outfit entirely. This is a list of the different clothing and outfits worn by the main characters.
Main outfits
All of Ash's main outfits are highlighted by his hat. They often strongly feature the colors red and blue, along with black, white, green and golden yellow. These are primary and bold colors, accenting Ash's primary status in the series.
Original series
One of the curious notes about Ash's first outfit is that, unlike May, Dawn, Iris and Cilan, while it is clear his clothing is directly inspired by Red's, it is a unique outfit design in its own right. This fact is also echoed by the outfits of Brock and Misty, which were designed purely for the anime instead of using the outfits seen in the games themselves and the artwork for the games.
The upper outfit is a blue jacket with gold trim and white collar and sleeves, worn open over a dark cyan t-shirt. Ash kept his Kanto, Orange League, and Johto Badges pinned to the inside of the jacket, which from time to time, would be taken off by him, most notably when his Pokémon need warmth. His lower outfit consists of jeans with light blue cuffs, black and white sneakers with red dots on both sides, and a brown belt, which he used to hung his Poké Balls.
Ash also wears green fingerless gloves with light green borders, and of course, his hat. The only part of the outfit with a known story behind it is the hat, which he won from a contest from the Pokémon League. Ash would turn his hat backwards when he was concentrating heavily, such as when he would face a Trainer or capture a Pokémon. This was very much the case early in his journey in Kanto, though by the time his journey in Johto ended, he hardly ever turned his cap.
He has a green backpack with a yellow square label and slings with black adjusters on it. The backpack has two pockets and two open compartments on each side. The main, bigger pocket is delimited by a black zip fastener, while the external pocket has an orange stripe on it.
Ash wore this outfit from Pokémon - I Choose You! to Gotta Catch Ya Later!.
Advanced Generation series
Ash's second outfit was the first alternate main outfit to be seen on any character, and by default, the least expected. Brock and Misty's second outfits would not debut until several episodes after Ash's did. This outfit was given to Ash as a gift by his mother in Gotta Catch Ya Later!.
Along with a new hat, Ash wore a hoodie instead of a jacket, black gloves instead of green, and new jeans and sneakers. However, he keeps the hoodie closed, possibly because he no longer keeps Badges pinned to the inside. The backpack is green, with one pocket and a red Poké Ball design on it.
All of his new clothes, however, bear a notable resemblance to his old clothes, probably to maintain his style and avoid confusion which would be caused by a completely new appearance. This becomes a common theme among all new outfits: the new ones take on the style on the former outfits.
The symbol on his hat, backpack, and hoodie pocket reflect the Poké Ball symbols seen frequently in the Generation III games, particularly in the designs of the main characters' clothes. Ash's Advanced Generation series outfit is similar to the one Red wears in Generation III, most notably, his sleeves.
Ash wore this outfit from Hoenn Alone! to When Pokémon Worlds Collide!, making this the first outfit he has wore during more than one series, with a total of three.
Diamond & Pearl series
Based on the example set by the Advanced Generation series, most fans were expecting Ash to wear a new outfit at the start of the Diamond & Pearl series.
His third outfit takes a step back to his first outfit by wearing a jacket instead of a hoodie, and with colors closer to the original. It also has a white undershirt instead of black for a change, as well as a new hat, new jeans, and new sneakers. The gloves are the same as those from his second outfit. The backpack is similar to to the one he wore in AG, being green with one pocket, and having a white Poké Ball design with a red "button". It should be noted that this new outfit is mostly based on that of Lucas, the male player character from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. The only differences are the hat designs, sneakers, backpack color, and the fact that Ash wears open fingered gloves, but no scarf. It also bears traits of Red's outfit, mainly the white collar, though there is the fact he is now wearing a closed jacket, another similarity with Red's.
One of the most common complaints among fans about the outfit is the yellow stripe across Ash's chest. This is, considering its curve, apparently based on the lower half of the Poké Ball symbol which was seen on Ash's pocket in his second outfit. However, given how long it is now, it is more difficult to tell.
Ash wore this outfit from When Pokémon Worlds Collide! to Memories Are Made of Bliss.
Best Wishes series
As expected, Ash has received a new outfit for the Best Wishes series. Outfit changes are now accepted as routine if and when the anime changes sagas.
As with his previous outfit, this one appears to be modeled on the outfit worn by Hilbert from Pokémon Black and White, with the differences being the clothing shades and the hat, which resembles the one from the original series. Ash's new clothing closely follows the same color scheme he has always had: red, blue, yellow, green, black, and white. In this series Ash's sneakers are high tops, rather than the normal sneakers he wore during the other series. Instead of blue jeans, Ash starts to wear black baggy jeans and wears a hoodie just like in AG. He wears black fingerless gloves but the border is red. The backpack is blue-green, with one pocket, black straps, and a light green, curved stripe on it, resembling a Poké Ball design.
Ash wore this outfit from In The Shadow of Zekrom! to The Dream Continues!.
XY series
Ash's outfit seems to be modeled after the outfit worn by Calem from the games, with some differences. The jacket that Calem wears has been shortened into a collared shirt for Ash, and a black undershirt is visible, both worn very much in the same style as Red's Generation III outfit. Ash wears red high top sneakers, similar to those worn in the Best Wishes series. The backpack is one pocket, colored green with a white, slanted Poké Ball design on it, similar to previous generations.
Ash's hat continues to sport the rounded Poké Ball design seen in previous generations, and most notably seems to be directly based off of Red's Generation III hat; albeit modified to somewhat resemble characteristics of Calem's hat as well. In general, the outfit heavily borrows characteristics from Ash's game counterpart and Calem.
Ash started wearing this outfit in The Dream Continues! when he received it from his mother Delia Ketchum.
Side outfits
Formal clothes
- Ash wore a yukata to a summer festival in The Ghost of Maiden's Peak.
- Ash and Brock don party outfits in The March of the Exeggutor Squad. Ash wears a bright orange tuxedo with a frilled shirt and orange bowler hat.
- Ash fantasizes about wearing a blue tuxedo for a movie premier in Go West Young Meowth.
- In Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, the characters dress up in formal medieval-themed outfits. Ash wore an outfit based directly on that of Sir Aaron: a blue tunic over a gray long-sleeved shirt and gray pants, matched with blue gloves and boots and a black hat with a teal band and a hooded cape.
- In the Wallace Cup, Ash wore a fedora hat and a tuxedo.
Weather clothes
- In the original series, Ash's most common swimwear is a pair of teal trunks with yellow stripes running down the sides.
- Ash wore blue trunks with palm trees and coconuts in Pokémon Double Trouble.
- Ash changed to a different swimsuit along with his main clothing in the Advanced Generation series, in which he wore orange trunks with a green and yellow double stripe going down the left side. The same pattern was on the right as well, but appeared only on the waistband and was much smaller. This swimsuit actually appeared once before, in The Pi-Kahuna, but it didn't appear frequently until Ash's adventures in Hoenn.
- In the Diamond & Pearl series, Ash wears red trunks with light blue lines at the bottom and dark blue upside-down v-patterns on the sides. Like his Advanced Generation swimsuit, Ash had worn this one before in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, but it didn't make frequent appearances until his adventures in Sinnoh.
- Ash wore trunks that were two-shaded blue (dark on top and lighter on the bottom) with white stripes down the sides in Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea.
- He also wore red trunks with large white Poké Ball prints on the sides in Arceus and the Jewel of Life.
- In the Best Wishes series Ash wears purple trunks with red lines near the legs and yellow lines on the side.
- Another pair of trunks appears in the fourth ending of the Best Wishes series, Look Look☆Here. The swim trunks are red, with a dark blue stripe at both sides of the trunks. In the anime itself, Ash wore it for the first time in Expedition to Onix Island!.
Snow wear
- Ash wore a red jacket and olive pants in Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!.
- Ash wore a jacket similar to Lucas's Platinum jacket from Battling a Cute Drama! to Pillars of Friendship!. He was also seen wearing it during the credits of Arceus and the Jewel of Life.
Other clothes
- In Pokémon - I Choose You!, when he went to Professor Oak's Laboratory, Ash wore green and yellow pajamas. He also wore it at the beginning of Showdown at the Po-ké Corral, when Mr. Mime used a vacuum in front of his face.
- As of the Best Wishes series, Ash has, apparently, worn at least two pairs of boxer shorts. The first boxers he wore were solid white as seen in Abra and the Psychic Showdown. The second pair, that Ash has most recently been seen in, are white with thin vertical blue stripes. He was seen in them was when he went swimming in the ocean in Holiday Hi-Jynx, and in A Fishing Connoisseur in a Fishy Competition! while he was drying his clothes after Bianca accidentally pushed him into a stream. In the Diamond & Pearl series, Ash wore blue boxers with white lines at the bottom. He apparently still wears them too, as seen in A Home for Dwebble! and Scraggy-Hatched to be Wild!. A running gag in the original series showed Ash's mother reminding him to change his underwear everyday, much to his embarrassment.
- Ash wore a cow suit in Challenge of the Samurai.
- Ash also had an orange and white dress with red Mary-Janes that he had to wear to get into Erika's Gym. The outfit was worn with a blonde wig with a large pink bow in it. When wearing this outfit, he went by the name "Ashley". The wig was destroyed when Pikachu electrocuted him, but it is unknown what happened to the dress and shoes afterwards. It is possible he still has them. This is the first of four times that he crossdressed (albeit unwillingly).
- Ash wore a tennis outfit in Pokémon Double Trouble consisting of a white collared shirt and blue shorts.
- Ash wore army attire in Tanks a Lot! and Plant It Now... Diglett Later.
- Ash wore a Team Rocket uniform in Ditto's Mysterious Mansion.
- Ash also wore a medieval themed outfit for DJ Mary's radio show in Air Time!. It was a long blue shirt with light gray tights. He also wore a green cap similar to the signature one of Robin Hood.
- Ash also wore blue-and-black-colored ninja clothing in From Cradle to Save!. Interestingly, he did not wear a white headband like most of the other characters, presumably because of his hat.
- In ZigZag Zangoose, Ash wore a Seviper costume.
- Ash and Pikachu wore Hawaiian-styled clothing in Battling the Generation Gap!.
- In Strategy Begins At Home!, a flashback of Ash when he was younger shows him wearing a yellow shirt with a red stripe and blue shorts.
- In Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"!, Ash wears a knight costume for Luke's film.
- In Lost at the Stamp Rally!, Ash wore a pink tuxedo in the Pokémon Musical.
- In An Amazing Aerial Battle!, Ash was seen wearing light blue pajamas while planning out his strategy for his upcoming Gym
battle with Skyla.
- In XY007, Ash wore a blue jumpsuit at the Rhyhorn race.
- In XY007 and XY009, Ash wore his pajamas, which consists of a yellow and red sleeveless undershirt and something else, however it's unknown due to him being under the covers, however it's implied to be shorts due to his legs being shown.
Ash's Hollywood fantasy outfit
Ash's teal trunks in the original series
Ash's orange trunks from the Advanced Generation series
Ash's blue trunks in Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
Ash's red trunks in the Diamond & Pearl series
Ash's red trunks in Arceus and the Jewel of Life
Ash's purple trunks in the Best Wishes series
Ash's other pair of trunks in the Best Wishes series
Contest attire for the Wallace Cup
Ash and Pikachu wearing Hawaiian-styled clothing
Ash's Poké Ball belt
Ash's winter jacket in Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!
Ash's tennis outfit in Pokémon Double Trouble
Ash and Pikachu as Alder and Bouffalant in Climbing the Tower of Success!
Ash's pajamas in XY007.
Main outfits
All of Misty's main outfits feature the colors yellow, red, and blue.
Original series
Misty's first outfit, and her best known, is a yellow crop top and jean shorts held up with red suspenders. Her entire midriff is revealed here. She wore red and white sneakers with it, and also carried a red drawstring backpack with it.
This outfit also debuted her hairstyle, which is typically the way she always wears it, regardless of her outfit: a small side ponytail. She will occasionally take it down, but usually only if she is sleeping, bathing, or wearing a formal outfit of some sort. With her mermaid outfit, she wears it down with pearl ornaments.
Misty wore this outfit from Pokémon - I Choose You! to Gotta Catch Ya Later! (and continuing into the first three of four Pokémon Chronicles episodes she was in).
Advanced Generation series
Misty's second outfit is a yellow sleeveless top or vest with a large blue button on the front and matching shorts, worn over some sort of dark-red under-all (swimsuit or leotard, etc.). She wears it with short orange boots. The few times she carries a backpack with it, it is a small backpack designed to look like a Spheal.
Misty started wearing this outfit in The Princess and the Togepi. She is also seen wearing this outfit in the special episode The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon, but she was carrying a pink bag.
Pokémon Chronicles series
In the early episodes of Pokémon Chronicles involving Misty (Cerulean Blues, The Blue Badge of Courage, A Date with Delcatty,), she wears her original series outfit. However, in Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing (which was broadcast after the debut of her AG ensemble), she wears a new "casual" outfit: a sleeveless yellow top with a hood, slightly longer and looser blue shorts, a small white belt with a pink buckle, and reddish-brown penny loafer shoes worn with white socks.
Side outfits
Formal clothes
- Misty wears a yukata to a summer festival in The Ghost of Maiden's Peak. It appears again in the fourth ending theme, Pokémon Ondo.
- Misty wears a stage dress designed to look like Goldeen in The March of the Exeggutor Squad.
- Misty wears a pink kimono for the Princess festival in Princess vs. Princess.
- Misty fantasizes about wearing a red dress for a movie premier in Go West Young Meowth.
- Misty and Brock both wore special outfits for the Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station. Misty's outfit is a red Cheongsam.
Weather clothes
- Misty's most common swimwear is a red bikini, seen worn in Challenge of the Samurai, Beauty and the Beach, Dig Those Diglett!, The Evolution Solution, A Shadow of a Drought and A Hot Water Battle.
- Misty fantasizes about sunbathing in a pink bikini in Battle Aboard the St. Anne.
- Misty wears a yellow bikini with a skirt and a red star on the top in The Pi-Kahuna.
- Misty wears a red one-piece bathing suit with white flowers in Pokémon Double Trouble.
- Misty wears a green and white striped bikini in Cerulean Blues.
Other clothes
- Misty wore a pink blouse and a long, brown skirt in her fantasy of France in The School of Hard Knocks.
- Misty wore a red shirt with a pink jacket featuring green and yellow stripes as part of Team Rocket's makeover in Pokémon Fashion Flash.
- Misty donned a Team Rocket outfit in the second half of Ditto's Mysterious Mansion.
- Misty wore a Nurse Joy outfit while helping out at the clinic in A Chansey Operation.
- Misty wore a blue jacket with a black and red cap as a disguise in The Breeding Center Secret.
- Misty wears a mermaid outfit when performing at the Cerulean Gym. It was first seen in The Misty Mermaid. The outfit consists of a shell-pattern bikini top and a light blue "mermaid fin." She also wears a long, wavy, redhead wig.
- Misty sometimes wears a blue shirt with black sweatpants. She wore it in The Pi-Kahuna and in part of All Fired Up!.
- Misty wore a yellow shirt with sleeves as pajamas in Make Room for Gloom.
- After the weather conditions turned poor in Pokémon the Movie 2000, Misty wore a pink jacket that had a horizontal light blue stripe across the chest.
- Misty wore an army attire in Tanks A Lot!.
- Misty wore a red and pink dress with long red tights in Air Time!. One of the sleeves jutted out, which she used as a perch for Togepi to sit on.
- A flashback in Cerulean Blues! showed Misty as a baby, wearing a sky-blue shirt and yellow diaper.
- Misty outfit SS016.png
Misty in Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing
Misty's Hollywood fantasy outfit
- Misty Mermaid SS002.png
Misty's Mermaid outfit
Main outfits
Brock's main outfits contain different shades of the earthy colors green, brown and orange.
Original series
One of the most distinct features of Brock's first outfit was his green vest, which had four large pockets on the front. He wore this over an orange short-sleeved shirt, along with brown pants and blue and white sneakers. On either side of his belt, which was black with a gold rectangular buckle, he had attached brown belt pockets. With it, he carried a large, blue backpack with a bedroll seen strapped to it at the top.
It is assumed he keeps many supplies in his many pockets, just as he tends to fill his bag with more supplies than it should be realistically able to hold. However, he has never been seen reaching into these pockets, so their contents remain unknown. The numerous pockets in this outfit were seen in all of his outfits.
Brock wore this outfit from Showdown in Pewter City to A Family That Battles Together Stays Together!.
Advanced Generation series
In the Advanced Generation series, Brock wore a brown jacket with an orange collar. Under it, he wore a green undershirt, but he no longer wears a belt. His shoes are a dark blue, and his new backpack is blue, but has no bedroll.
Brock wore this outfit from A Family That Battles Together Stays Together! to Home is Where the Start Is!.
Diamond & Pearl series
Brock's Diamond & Pearl series outfit is one step closer to his original series outfit. He wears a vest again, but the colors are reversed. Instead of a green vest and an orange shirt, he wears an orange vest (which also consists of gray) and a green shirt. His new shoes and backpack are still blue, and his backpack does not have a bedroll.
Brock started wearing this outfit prior in Two Degrees of Separation!, and is currently wearing it as of the latest Japanese episode.
Side outfits
Formal clothes
- Ash and Brock don party outfits in The March of the Exeggutor Squad. Brock wears a white outfit with large pink frills on the sleeves and pant cuffs. He holds a pair of maracas with it.
- Brock fantasizes about wearing a blue tuxedo for a movie premier in Go West Young Meowth.
- One of Brock's best known outfits is his "Takeshi's Paradise" outfit. This was possibly inspired by his outfit in The March of the Exeggutor Squad. It is similar in many ways, particularly the pink frills. However, this outfit is purple and red instead of white. Also, he wears a large sombrero with it, and his maracas now look like Poké Balls. He wore a similar outfit in The Psyduck Stops Here!
- Brock wears a white tuxedo in Beauty and the Breeder. He is seen in it again in Temacu's wedding fantasy in The Heartbreak of Brock with a rose tucked in the breast pocket.
- Misty and Brock both wore special outfits for the Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station. Brock's outfit is a lime green tuxedo with an oversized sparkling pink bow tie.
- Brock wears a purple suit in fantasies in Berry, Berry Interesting and Hail to the Chef. For some reason, these fantasies also always involve Brock's woman of choice in a red dress with a white hair accessory, and drinking milk from a wine glass. However, the suit itself is variable; in the first episode, he wears it with a tie, and in the second, with a bow tie.
- In Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, the characters dress up in formal medieval-themed outfits. Brock wears a beige robe similar to that of a priest covered by some sort of cape or mantle in brown, green, orange, and trimmed with gold, all topped with an orange skullcap.
Weather clothes
- Brock's first swimwear was a pair of light purple swim trunks with three dark blue diamonds on the sides. From the Advanced Generation series onwards, these trunks were colored dark purple, due to the different palette used in the digitally colored episodes beginning with Here's Lookin' at You, Elekid.
- In Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, Brock wore a pair of olive green trunks with an orange stripe down the side. These trunks would later become Brock's main swimwear in the Diamond & Pearl series. Brock also wore his new trunks in the hotspring scene in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, but this is only known from the artwork, as in the scene itself, nothing below Brock's neck was seen above water.
- Like Ash and Dawn, Brock wore a different swimsuit than his normal one in Arceus and the Jewel of Life - in Brock's case, a pair of dark green trunks with white lines on them. Like Ash's and Dawn's new swimwear, Brock's new trunks are quite unique, as he only wore them in that movie.
Snow wear
- Brock wore a red jacket and olive pants in Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!.
- Brock wore a jacket similar to Lucas's in Platinum from Battling a Cute Drama! to Pillars of Friendship!, as well as part of the credits of Arceus and the Jewel of Life.
Other clothes
- One of Brock's best known accessories is his pink frilly apron. He frequently wears it while cooking or doing other chores.
- He also wears an alternate apron, known as the "movie apron" since it is only seen in the Pokémon movies. This apron is bright blue with neon green straps.
- He wore a long, blue, medieval-themed robe for DJ Mary's radio show in Air Time!.
- He wore army attire in Tanks A Lot! when they had a plan to rescue Pikachu and others.
- He wore a stylish outfit with a matching cap in Battling The Generation Gap!.
- In Three Sides to Every Story!, Brock is seen in his new boxers, which have the same color scheme as his undershirt.
Brock's Hollywood fantasy outfit
Brock at Lila's shop
Brock's swim trunks from Sandshrew's Locker!
Ash and his friends in a "prince" story from Air Time!
Ash, Brock, and Misty with their original series bags
- Brock dp with bag.png
Brock with his DP bag
Main outfit
Tracey has only had one main outfit throughout the entire series. It consists of a loose green T-shirt, reddish-brown shorts, blue and yellow sneakers, an orange backpack, and his most notable accessory, a light red headband that he uses to keep his hair out of his face. Tracey is the only main character from the original series whose outfit was not changed at the start of any of the newer series.
Side outfits
Formal clothes
Weather clothes
- His first swimsuit was a pair of navy-blue swim trunks with two red lines on either side, as seen in The Joy of Pokémon.
- The second was seen in Pokémon Double Trouble. It is still a pair of navy blue swim trunks but with a sunflower print. He also removed his headband while in this outfit.
- The third was seen in The Blue Badge of Courage. It is yet another pair of blue swim trunks but with an orange stripe painted on the legs.
Other clothes
In Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing, Daisy fantasized Tracey playing the prince in her water ballet alongside Misty. This outfit consisted of a blue shirt with long sleeves and gold trimming, teal pants, a red cape, and a silver crown. This would be the second time he is seen without his headband.
- Tracey Trunks SS005.png
Tracey's trunks in The Blue Badge of Courage
Tracey with his bag, riding a Dodrio
Main outfit
Advanced Generation series
May's main outfit is a red t-shirt with a dark blue circle around her neck, dark blue bike shorts, white skirt, red and yellow sneakers, a red bandanna with a white Poké Ball print, a yellow waistpack, and dark-blue and white gloves. It is based on the outfit her game counterpart wears in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
Diamond & Pearl series
Much like Ash and Brock changed clothes at the start of both the Advanced Generation and Diamond & Pearl series, and Misty did before her return in The Princess and the Togepi, May changed clothes sometime between her departure in Home Is Where the Start Is and her return in Our Cup Runneth Over! Her outfit in the Diamond & Pearl series is based on the outfit that her game counterpart wears in Pokémon Emerald. It consists of a green bandanna, a red orange sleeveless T-shirt with a black collar, black bike shorts, black socks, and red and white sneakers. She also carries a green waistpack similar to the one she carried in the Advanced Generation series. When she got off the boat, she was seen with a yellow backpack. It is unknown if she normally carries this or only had it because she was traveling a long distance (to Sinnoh from Johto).
May wore this outfit as of her latest appearance, and presumably currently wears it.
Side outfits
Formal clothes
- In Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, the characters dress up in formal medieval-themed outfits. May wears a white, pink and red ball gown decorated with tiny bows and with a decoration similar to Beautifly wings on the back. She wears her hair in two different ways in this outfit, with different accessories for each: in one way, she wears a large pink bow styled to look like her regular bandanna, and another, she has little pink pom-poms in her hair.
- During the Wallace Cup, May wore a new dress for the Contest, which was unique because it had an Arabian style to it. It was a pink half shirt with a yellow heart on it with yellow border on the sleeves and neck. She also wore a peach veil with a green gem on top, and a light purple long skirt with a piece of pink fabric at the waist. Her entire midriff is exposed here. She also wears brown flip-flops with toe rings and a yellow necklace with a red heart.
Weather clothes
- May's most common swimwear is a yellow hearts bikini. This was shown in The Lotad Lowdown and Sharpedo Attack!.
- May also wore a pink polka-dotted one-piece swimsuit in Sharpedo Attack!.
- May wore a green bikini with red hearts on her hips in Brave the Wave.
- Twice May wore a pink bikini, first in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and then a second time in Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea.
Snow wear
- May wore a red jacket and olive pants in Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!.
Other clothes
- May wore sleeveless pink colored ninja clothing in From Cradle to Save!. Like Ash, she did not wear a white headband like the majority of the other characters.
- She was seen wearing winter clothing during a flashback in A Full Course Tag Battle! while at Ice Rock near Snowpoint City. It is basically a pink dress with sleeves, her green bandanna, and pink shoes.
- In Pruning a Passel of Pals!, May wore orange pajamas.
At Ice Rock
Main outfit
Max's main outfit is a green t-shirt, green and brown sneakers, black glasses and brown shorts. He carries a yellow backpack with his belongings.
Side outfits
Formal clothes
- In Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, the characters dress up in formal medieval-themed outfits. Max's outfit appears to be one of a young prince with a beret and a cape.
Weather clothes
- Max's most common swimwear was a pair of green trunks, with no special patterns. This was seen in The Lotad Lowdown and Sharpedo Attack!, as well as The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing!
- He also wore a dark green Speedo in Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, as well as in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.
Snow Wear
- Max wore a red jacket and olive pants in Let It Snow, Let it Snow, Let It Snorunt!
Other Clothes
- Max wore blue-and-black-colored ninja clothing and a white headband in From Cradle to Save!
- MaxSpeedoManaphy2.png
Max swimming in a green Speedo
Max with his bag, playing alongside a Shuppet
Main outfit
Dawn's outfit consists of a mini dress which is mostly black with a white undershirt inside a V-shaped neck with a short pink skirt. On her head, she wears a white beanie with a pink Poké Ball print on it. She also wears gold hair clips that hold up her hair in front. On her feet, she wears pink knee-high boots with black socks underneath. She also has a small yellow backpack with all her personal belongings. It is nearly identical to her game counterpart's with the exception of her scarf and bag.
Side outfits
Formal clothes
Formal clothes are a key part of Dawn's wardrobe, since she dresses up nicely for all her Pokémon Contests.
- In her debut appearance, she was shown to be wearing three different formal outfits when imagining herself in Contests with each of the Sinnoh starters.
- She frequently wears a pink dress during her Contests. In the Floaroma Town Contest, she decorated her dress with flowers, presumably to fit the town's flowery theme. In the Hearthome City Contest, she added a yellow Ribbon around her waist and her hair barrettes were star-shaped. The yellow Ribbon was also seen in the Wallace Cup. In the first round of the Celestic Town Contest, she decorated her dress with fluffy fur, similar to Buneary's. In the Lilypad Town Contest, she again wore her yellow Ribbon with long white gloves. In the Daybreak Town Contest, she wears short white gloves, with one red Ribbon in each one, and her shoes have one yellow rose in each. Opening and ending themes show her in different dresses, but she has never worn them in Contests.
- In The Rise of Darkrai, Dawn wore a pink outfit for the Alamos Town Contest.
- In the Hearthome Collection, she wore a plain white-blue dress with a yellow Ribbon at the back. It also came along with a blue, beaded necklace and white shoes.
- In Dawn of a Royal Day, Dawn wore Princess Salvia's light pink dress with long white gloves, when they swapped places.
- In the Grand Festival, she wore a new yellow dress with long white gloves and white shoes.
In the Wallace Cup
Weather clothes
- Dawn's most common swimwear is a yellow and orange bikini, which she wore in Sandshrew's Locker!, Hot Springing a Leak!, and Up Close and Personable!
- She wore a pink one-piece swimsuit with a short skirt around the waist in Arceus and the Jewel of Life, along with some kind of white undershirt with horizontal black stripes on it.
- In the ending In Your Heart, LaLaLa, Dawn wore a light pink one-piece swimsuit with two white stripes at the bottom.
- Dawn wears a different swimsuit in the Best Wishes series. This two-piece swimsuit consists of a light green top with vertical dark green stripes and a light green piece of cloth wrapped around her middle. Dawn wore this swimsuit for the first time in Expedition to Onix Island!.
Snow wear
- Dawn wore an outfit nearly identical to her game counterpart's in Platinum from Battling a Cute Drama! to Pillars of Friendship!, as well as part of the credits of Arceus and the Jewel of Life. The only difference is she maintains her gold barrettes rather than wearing pink ones.
- The Pokémon Learning League website portrays Dawn with her white undershirt having sleeves that reach past her elbows, and black stockings or tights covering her legs.
- Dawn donned a pink cheerleading outfit in O'er the Rampardos we Watched, A Triple Fighting Chance! and The Eighth Wonder of the Sinnoh World!. Her Pokémon have similar outfits. The purpose of the outfit was to support Ash Ketchum in his Gym battles with Roark, Maylene and Volkner.
- Before leaving her home to start her journey, she was shown to have many clothes in the bag her mom asked her to leave behind.
- Dawn wore a French maid's outfit to help out at the Café Cabin in Tanks for the Memories!.
- In Malice in Wonderland she wore a Piplup costume in her dream.
- One point of the end credits of The Rise of Darkrai features shots of Dawn in a number of different outfits.
- Whenever she's sleeping, Dawn wears pink pajamas, first seen in Setting the World on its Buneary!.
- Dawn wears a long pink nightgown at the start of Following a Maiden's Voyage!. It is also seen in the ending By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~.
Helping out at the Café Cabin
Dawn's pajamas in Pruning a Passel of Pals!
Dawn's pajamas in Last Call, First Round!
Green suit in The Rise of Darkrai
Chinese dress in The Rise of Darkrai
Lolita outfit in The Rise of Darkrai
Cyberpunk outfit in The Rise of Darkrai
Leona and Dawn in their kindergarten outfits
Swimsuit in Arceus and the Jewel of Life
Dawn's swimsuit in Expedition to Onix Island!
Main outfit
- Iris' usual outfit is exactly the same as her game counterpart's outfit. It consists of a cream shirt that has long loose sleeves with pink cuffs and a pink collar, a pink skirt with a large pink Ribbon on the side, the pink ribbon is tied around her waist just like a normal cardigan would be also there is white and yellow leggings going over her knees, a pink backpack, pink and white shoes with yellow stripes and a yellow hair Ribbon.
Side outfits
- Iris wore a white swimsuit in A Sandile Gusher of Change!. However, it is unknown if it is one- or two-piece, since nothing below her chest was seen above water.
- Iris wears another swimsuit in the fourth ending of the Best Wishes series, Look Look☆Here. It is a light pink one-piece bathing suit, with a dark pink ribbon at the chest. In the anime itself, Iris wore it for the first time in Expedition to Onix Island!.
- When sleeping, Iris wears a light pink shirt and pink boxer shorts.
- During the flashback of a younger Iris in Iris and Excadrill Against the Dragon Buster!, Iris was seen wearing a cream top with pink trim, plain white leggings and pink sandals.
- In Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"!, Iris wore a Dragon Master costume, as well as a princess dress during Luke's film.
- Iris wore a pink top with a black skirt and pink hat in promotional artwork for Lost at the Stamp Rally!, however, she never wore it in the actual episode.
Iris's swimsuit in A Sandile Gusher of Change!
Iris's second swimsuit in the Best Wishes series
Iris in promotional artwork for the Pokémon Musical
Iris and Axew as Professor Juniper and Darumaka in Climbing the Tower of Success!
Main outfit
- Cilan's usual outfit is identical to his game counterpart's, consisting of a white shirt, a black and gray vest with gold buttons, a green bow tie, black pants held up with a brown belt, and brown shoes. However, unlike his game counterpart, he does not always wear his apron, instead putting it on occasionally when cooking. He also includes a brown backpack to store his belongings.
Side outfits
- Cilan wore green house slippers in Cilan Versus Trip, Ash Versus Georgia!.
Other outfits
- Cilan is shown in his pajamas in numerous episodes which appear to be gray pants and a long-sleeved, light green top.
- Cilan wore a brown detective cap in Where Did You Go, Audino? when investigating the missing Audino.
- In Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"!, Cilan wears a pirate costume for Luke's film, as well as an orange masquerade mask and cape.
- In addition to his brown cap from before, Cilan wore a white trench coat in Meowth's Scrafty Tactics!.
- Cilan wore a white tuxedo in promotional artwork for Lost at the Stamp Rally!, however, he never wore it in the actual episode.
- In Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige! Cilan wore a pink dress with red bows and a blond wig.
- Cilan wears swim trunks in the fourth ending of the Best Wishes series, Look Look☆Here. The swim trunks are dark yellow, with a light green stripe and a dark green stripe at each side.
Cilan in promotional artwork for the Pokémon Musical
Cilan's house slippers in Cilan Versus Trip, Ash Versus Georgia!
Cilan dressed up as Elesa in Climbing the Tower of Success!
Cilan and Ash crossdressing in Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige!
Main outfit
- Serena's main outfit consists of a black tank-top with a white collar, a red skirt, a dark pink hat with a black bow, black long socks, and black shoes.
Side outfits
Other outfits
- In Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin! and XY009, Serena wore pink pajamas.
- In Lumiose City Pursuit! and XY007, Serena wore a pink jumpsuit while practicing for the Rhyhorn race.
- In Lumiose City Pursuit! and XY007, Serena wore a lavender sweater and dark-pink shorts as inside clothing.
- In XY007, she also donned a pink apron while baking.
Main outfit
- Clemont's main outfit is identical to his in-game counterpart's, consisting of a blue and yellow jumpsuit, glasses, and black and white shoes. He stores his inventions in the black and white backpack he calls his "Clemontic gear."
Side outfits
Other outfits
- Clemont's pajamas were seen in XY007 and XY009, including a nightcap and long-sleeved shirt with blue and light blue stripes.
Main outfit
- Bonnie's main outfit consists of a dark brown shirt with a black ribbon on the chest, white skirt, black shorts, and pink shoes. She carries a yellow satchel.
Side outfits
Other outfits
Jessie, James and Meowth
Main outfits
Jessie and James are usually found in the same outfit at all times: their white Team Rocket uniforms. There has been some question about the position or rank denoted by these uniforms, since most Rocket Grunts wear a black uniform of similar design. However, in Dues and Don'ts, it was revealed that Jessie and James designed their own uniforms to "express their sense of style." Jessie and James have only been seen wearing a different color uniform in Training Daze, where they (along with the other trainees) wear dark red. They also wore the black uniforms once.[citation needed]
Meowth, being a Pokémon, has no main outfit and is seen most often not wearing any clothing. However, he does have a fairly notable list of side outfits which he's worn alongside Jessie and James.
Best Wishes series
Jessie and James changed into their black uniforms in the Best Wishes series. They wore these outfits from In the Shadow of Zekrom until Battling For The Love of Bug-Types! when they switched back into their white ones.
Side outfits
- Main article: List of Team Rocket's disguises
Frequently, when they are not wearing their Team Rocket uniforms, they are most likely wearing something as a disguise to fool the twerps. These range from very elaborate to very simple outfits, all of which have fooled Ash and his friends with similar success.
Several of these disguises are posing as other characters, such as Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy. Brock is usually the best at telling these disguises from the actual women, whether he is aware of it or not.
Formal clothes
- In Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, the characters dress up in formal medieval-themed outfits. Jessie and James looked possibly the most out of place, perhaps as a tongue-in-cheek joke, wearing extravagant outfits based more on the Victorian era than medieval times. Meowth, on the other hand, wore one of the most well-known of medieval outfits, a suit of armor.
- Whenever she competes in Pokémon Super Contests, Jessie wears a large orange dress with light brown boots, with round yellow and orange glasses and her hair in pigtails, under the name Jessilina (Japanese: キャンディ・ムサリーナ Candy Musalina).
Weather clothes
- Jessie and James both wore two-piece bikinis in Beauty and the Beach. James wore his with giant inflatable breasts. These swimsuits were never seen in the English dub, since the scene containing them was cut.
- Jessie and James also both wore swimsuits in A Staravia is Born!. Jessie wore a blue bikini and James wore a blue Speedo. They both had the 'R' logo on them.
- Jessie, James and Meowth were seen using scuba gears in The Island of Illusions!.
Snow wear
- Team Rocket wore green jackets and pants in Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!.
Other clothes
Jessie's and James's swimsuits from A Staravia is Born!
Team Rocket during the introduction of the Indigo League
Team Rocket disguised as police officers
James as Professor Oak
Jessie, James, and Meowth using their casual clothings from the DP series
Jessie and James wearing green Team Rocket snow coats in Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snorunt!
Jessie and James disguises in Abandon Ship!
Jessie as Princess Powerzone
Jessie's Pokémon Summer Academy disguise
- Jessalina.png
Jessie as Jessilina
Jessilina as Fantina
- Jessalina Grand Festival.png
As Jessilina in the Grand Festival
|This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.


text:
Welcome, and thank you for visiting the website of Arlington Heights, IL ophthalmologists David Badawi, M.D. & Brittany Osgood, M.D. If you are a current patient, thank you for allowing us the opportunity to fulfill your eye care needs. If you are a new visitor, we look forward to meeting you and exploring the various options available for maintaining good eye health or correcting and enhancing your vision.
We are conveniently located in Arlington Heights on Central Road, just west of Northwest Community Hospital. We see patients on Mondays through Saturdays and are happy to evaluate patients with urgent eye problems or emergencies. Call us at 224-735-2016 or request an appointment online.
Need to find an experienced eye doctor? You've come to the right place.
When you visit Central Eye Care Limited, your eye health is our top priority. Our entire team is dedicated to providing you with the personalized care you deserve using only the latest, most innovative techniques in eye care. This website was designed with you in mind. Part of our commitment to serving our patients is to provide them with useful information to help them make more informed decisions about the various treatments that are available today.
Call (224) 735-2016 to Request an Appointment!
We would also like to hear from you, so please contact us via telephone or email with any questions, comments, or concerns that you might have. In addition, feel free to contact us today if you would like to schedule an appointment.
Need eye care, an eye exam, or an eye doctor in Arlington Heights, Palatine, Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg, Mount Prospect, or Prospect Heights? We are eye doctors of 60004 and 60005. Central Eye Care Ltd is led by Arlington Heights ophthalmologists Dr. David Badawi, & Dr. Brittany Osgood, [Arlington Heights eye specialists], providing top notch eye care, eyeglasses, and contact lenses. Our advanced vision center helps care for a wide range of eye problems like cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma, dry eyes, and pterygia. Come see the top eye care we provide at our Arlington Heights eye care center located at 1614 W Central Road in Suite #107. We look forward to providing you the service you deserve!
Welcome |
Our Practice |
Meet The Doctors |
What Do We Treat? |
Vision Services |
Testimonials |
Eye Wear |
Problems & Diseases |
Patient Info |
Appointment Request |
Arlington Heights ophthalmologist and eye care specialist Dr. David Badawi and Dr. Brittany Osgood are dedicated to ophthalmology providing eye care & surgery services at Central Eye Care Ltd.
Site Developed by

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Integer programming algorithms minimize or maximize a linear function subject to equality, inequality, and integer constraints. Integer constraints restrict some or all of the variables in the optimization problem to take on only integer values. This enables accurate modeling of problems involving discrete quantities (such as shares of a stock) or yes-or-no decisions. When there are integer constraints on only some of the variables, the problem is called a mixed-integer linear program. Example integer programming problems include portfolio optimization in finance, optimal dispatch of generating units (unit commitment) in energy production, and scheduling and routing in operations research.
Integer programming is the mathematical problem of finding a vector \(x\) that minimizes the function:
\[\min_{x} \left\{f^{\mathsf{T}}x\right\}\]
Subject to the constraints:
\[\begin{eqnarray}Ax \leq b & \quad & \text{(inequality constraint)} \\A_{eq}x = b_{eq} & \quad & \text{(equality constraint)} \\lb \leq x \leq ub & \quad & \text{(bound constraint)} \\ x_i \in \mathbb{Z} & \quad & \text{(integer constraint)} \end{eqnarray}\]
Solving such problems typically requires using a combination of techniques to narrow the solution space, find integer-feasible solutions, and discard portions of the solution space that do not contain better integer-feasible solutions. Common techniques include:
- Cutting planes: Add additional constraints to the problem that reduce the search space.
- Heuristics: Search for integer-feasible solutions.
- Branch and bound: Systematically search for the optimal solution. The algorithm solves linear programming relaxations with restricted ranges of possible values of the integer variables.
For more information on integer programming, see Optimization Toolbox™.


text:
Janesville girl honored by Sandy Hook shooting victim's parents
Local girl reaches out to form friendship
A Wisconsin girl was honored by the parents of victims killed in the Newtown, Conn., shootings.
"(Kindness is) something that you do that makes someone feel good and something that makes someone feel happy," said 9-year-old Ariana Pensy, the recipient of the Charlotte Bacon Act of Kindness Award.
Ariana wrote a letter befriending a schoolmate who never seemed to have a pal and always sat alone, so she became that friend at the risk of losing friends of her own.
"I don't like to be alone, so I thought she should have a friend," she said.
It was an act of kindness that went a long way; all the way to the family of Charlotte Bacon, a victim in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Ariana's letter was chosen among others to be rewarded for their caring.
Ariana said a trip to Newtown last week to receiver her award was phenomenal, but it's a new-found friend that means the most.
"Before she was so sad and alone," Ariana said. "Always would have a frown on her face. Now she has a grin on her face when I'm with her."
NFL linebacker and former Wisconsin Badger J.J. Watt got word of Ariana's letter and invited her family to dinner.


text:
Greenhouse on the Court and Political Climate
Here's Linda Greenhouse, the former NYT Supreme Court reporter, interviewed about themes very important here at F1@1F:
JD: In an article you wrote for The New York Times, you say that "the court lives in constant dialogue with other institutions, formal and informal, and that when it strays too far outside the existing political or social consensus, the result is a palpable tension both inside and outside the court." In what instances have you observed the court straying too far from present social or political consensus?
There was a series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1990s that overturned acts of Congress on the ground that Congress didn't have the constitutional authority to have passed those laws in the first place. I made a big deal about it because I just thought it was really fascinating. There was a pushback against that. Congress pushed back, and the political system pushed back. The court stopped doing it. They tended to be very technical decisions, but subgroups of the population were very interested. That maybe was an instance of the court overreaching, that you could call a Federalist revolution. Then, a lot of people cite Roe v. Wade as the court overreaching. That's not my view in that instance. There was a huge debate going on about abortion at the time, and the court actually had plausible reasons to think that it was following public opinion in Roe.
JD: What was the difference in the political environment surrounding Roe v. Wade and that surrounding a case like Brown. v. Board of Education? What made people think that the court could have been overreaching in Roe, but not in Brown?
Well, of course there can be many reasons. One reason could be that equal protection, which is what Brown is based on, is hard wired into the Constitution, and it's just a question of, did equal protection mean "separate but equal"? One could have disagreed with Brown, and of course many areas in the South took decades to come around to it, but you couldn't appropriately argue that it wasn't the business of the Supreme Court to decide the issue of the rights of black citizens. Of course, the Constitution doesn't contain the word abortion. So, there's always the argument that the court was out of line in doing anything about abortion, yay or nay. The Constitution doesn't say anything about giving the court the right to step into that area. That's not my personal view, but it certainly distinguishes the Roe controversy from Brown v. Board. […]
JD: To what extent do you believe that the court has become politicized? How much does public opinion affect the way judges vote?
Well, Barry Friedman wrote a book that's 682 pages on the subject, called The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution. But Barry Friedman's thesis, which I agree with, is not that the court wakes up in the morning, puts its finger in the wind and says, you know, "what's blowing today?" but that over time, the court tends to situate itself in the mainstream of public opinion and it reflects public opinion, which makes sense, because the justices get on the court through the political process of the president nominating them and the Senate confirming them. And as a part of the government, the court is really limited to its power to persuade, its power to command the respect of the public, which it has succeeded in doing to a remarkable degree over the years. In social science polling, the court is always the most respected arm of government. The court really has been pretty successful in reflecting not necessarily the opinion of the moment, but the tenor of the time, and I think that's not surprising.
JD: Do you agree with people who say that sometimes the court's decisions are influenced by liberal media bias?
Well, no, the whole "Greenhouse Effect?" Properly understood, they are referring to me not as an individual but as sort of an embodiment of Eastern liberal media, namely The New York Times. No, I don't think that's the case, but it's certainly true that over time, the court certainly cannot be completely at odds with the American public. I mean, that's what happened in the Roosevelt court-packing crisis. I hear people speculate that if we were ever to pass a health care bill with a mandate that the court would declare it unconstitutional, but I would be completely shocked if that ever happened, because that would really be a return to the 1930s, where the court was standing in the way of major social legislation that the public had called for. So, I would be extremely surprised if that ever happened again. [F1@1F NOTE: My thoughts exactly.]
JD: In writing of the Supreme Court's relationship with society, you say, the Supreme Court is often a follower: it ratifies or consolidates change, rather than propelling it, although in the midst of a heated debate about a big case, it can appear otherwise. What do you mean by this?
Well, I think I probably had Roe v. Wade in mind. Abortion reform had been going on for 15 years by the time the court decided Roe, so when people say that historically, the court started it, no, they didn't. The court doesn't start much. It can't, really. Cases reach the court after years of debate. Just look at Proposition 8. It's coming up ten years after Lawrence v. Texas and five years after the start of same sex marriages in San Francisco City Hall. So, things get to the court only because they have been working their way up through the rest of society, and it's worth keeping that in mind.


text:
Sunsets Imperial Blue Hannah High Waist
A flattering fit with a retro feel, the new Hannah High Waist bottom is the best of both worlds. Wear it high or fold down the soft band for a mid rise look. Features include matching front and back colored lining. Coverage: Full, Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 14, 16 * top sold separately. Fabric Content: 83% Nylon, 17% Spandex
Terms and conditions
Returns of regular priced merchandise must be postmarked within 14 days of receiving your order to be eligible for a refund. All Sale Items are Final Sale items and are non-returnable. Any returns postmarked within 14-30 days of receiving your order are eligible for Exchange* or Store Credit only. Any returns postmarked after 30 days of delivery will be returned to the customer.
All returned items must be in original and unused condition with tags on. If terms are not met, a 15% restocking fee may apply or the items may be sent back to you.
Shipping costs are non-refundable and all costs for return shipment are the responsibility of the customer. We recommend insuring the package and using a method that allows you to track your package to insure delivery to us. Bestswimwear.com is not responsible for lost packages which were not shipped by us.
*Exchanges can only be made for the exact item in a different size or color that is the exact value of the item you have returned. No exceptions. (Exchanges on Domestic Orders Only)
Are your suits sold as sets?
All tops and bottoms are sold separately. The price is for the item in the description.


text:
Riverbed Technology will acquire Opnet Technologies for about US$1 billion, the two companies said Monday.
Riverbed said the acquisition will enable it to expand its network performance management business into the application performance management market.
The deal will see Riverbed pay $43 per share to Opnet shareholders, divided into $36.55 in cash and 0.2774 percent of a share of Riverbed common stock. Riverbed said the deal is expected to close by the end of this year.
"This acquisition also transforms Riverbed into a billion-dollar revenue company," Jerry Kennelly, Riverbed's chairman and CEO, said in a statement.
The announcement came as Opnet announced its earnings for the quarter from July to September. It said quarterly revenue was $47 million, a jump from $42 million in the same quarter last year.
Martyn Williams covers mobile telecoms, Silicon Valley and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is email@example.com


text:
To this day, us first generation transracial adoptees from Korea and Vietnam are generally referred to as 'war orphans' in the media and by people we encounter on a daily basis, as if it is a self-applied term of endearment. The main assumption is that we were rescued from a tragic past and handed a hopeful future. The public was reassured that we were not going to look back and puzzle together the facts behind our orphan status.
Yet, this is exactly what we are doing. And at every turn, we are admonished for daring to not only question the historical interpretations of the Korean and Vietnam Wars, but also other people's motives and methods for transporting us out of our birth countries. Americans acknowledge these wars without taking any responsibility for the unintended consequences. They ask us, "Where would we be without them?"
In response, we ask one searing question that few people are willing, or even prepared, to answer: Who made us orphans in the first place? In order for us to have gained our second parents, we had to lose our first parents.
Yes, people can say that we were saved. But, we'll be damned if we let them have the last word.


text:
Millions of parents in the U.S. will allow their children to walk to and from school this fall.
No matter how mature and responsible a child is, those few blocks without adult supervision are enough to make most parents worry, NBC News reports.
Technology can help assuage concern and keep track of a child's whereabouts, with options ranging from a free app to wearables and connected home devices.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
PocketFinder, Life 360, Canary and August are some technological solutions to help children get to school safely.


text:
Given that scale zero v == Additive.zero
this type class is equivalent to Module in the following way:
scaleAndAccumulate (a,x) =
let ax = a *> x
in (ax, (ax+))
(see implementation of scaleAndAccumulateModule)
x+y = scaleAccumulate one y $ scale one x
zero = scale zero x
s*>x = scale s x
But this redundancy is only because of a lack of the type system
or lack of my imagination how to solve it better.
Use this type class for all kinds of interpolation,
that is where addition and scaling alone make no sense.
I intended to name this class AffineSpace,
because all interpolations should be affine combinations.
This property is equivalent to interpolations that preserve constant functions.
However, I cannot easily assert this property
and I'm not entirely sure
that all reasonable interpolations are actually affine.
Early versions had a zero method,
but this is against the idea of interpolation.
For implementing zero we needed a Maybe wrapper
for interpolation of StorableVectors.
Btw. having zero instead of scale is also inefficient,
since every sum must include a zero summand,
which works well only when the optimizer
simplifies addition with a constant.
We use only one class method
that contains actually two methods:
scale and scaleAccumulate.
We expect that instances are always defined on record types
lifting interpolations from scalars to records.
This should be done using makeMac and friends
or the MAC type and the Applicative interface
for records with many elements.


text:
Medlife Packages for Obesity
Free Home Collection
Fully Automated Lab
Email/Courier Report
Preventive Health checks upto Rs. 5000/- help you save tax under section 80D of the income tax act.
Medlife Packages for Obesity
{{ filterLabelCounter['Demographic'] }}
{{ filterLabelCounter['Demographic'] }}
{{ filterLabelCounter['Type'] }}
{{ filterLabelCounter['Type'] }}
{{filteredPackages.length}} Packages Found
{{ package.test_name }}
Total tests: {{ package.bundledTestsCount }}
{{ organ|trim }}
{{ package.whyGetTested }}
{{ test.name }}
{{ test }}
Your request has been submitted successfully. Medlife representive will call you shortly to confirm the booking.
To book these packages register below
What our Customers Say?
{{ testimonial.name }}
{{ testimonial.age }}, {{ testimonial.sex }}
{{ testimonial.testimonial }}
Services available in 465 cities in India
How does it work?
Medlife provides easiest way to book tests.
- Select a package which you want to book and fill the form with your basic information
- Our Expert Lab Technician will come to your home to collect the sample from your address
- Reports will be delivered to you by email and your mobile within 24-48 hrs
How does Medlife ensure quality?
Medlife keeps a very stringent process to keep a check on lab protocols
- Our labs have dedicate MD pathalogists with them
- Based on users ratings and quality checks, Medlife review its lab and service protocols weekly.
Are these packages available in my city?
Medlife provides these packages in 300 cities across 24 states and covering over 800 pincodes all across India. We've got you entirely covered.


text:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon scribe Ehren Kruger is writing a remake of David Cronenberg's creepy classic Videodrome. And the studios want a commercial director, Adam Berg, to lens the project. Yep, basically the worst thing ever.
Deadline is reporting that Kruger — who also worked on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and is currently working on a fourth movie in the series — will be writing the script. In Kruger's defense he also penned The Ring which was very good. Berg did that fairly popular commercial where a shootout is frozen in time. It's nice, we guess. Look, some things don't need to be remade. This is one of those things. But Universal is moving forward with it anyway.


text:
Until recently, my feelings about CeCe McDonald, the young trans woman of colour who was violently attacked in Minnesota by a group of men (at least one of whom was a neo-nazi) shouting racist and transphobic slurs, charged with murder for defending herself, and ultimately convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 4 years in a men's prison, had been primarily governed merely by sympathy and empathy (albeit very strong). I absolutely respected her reaction to the attack, the refusal to submit to being a victim. But truthfully, those kinds of situations occur very quickly, are not really governed by coordinated thought, and none of us really know how we'll react until we're actually living it. Also, I would understand, and refuse to judge, any trans woman who had the opposite response, such as surrendering to the attack. We are presented very frequently with representations of ourselves as victims, to such an extent that we often end up thinking of it as basically an inevitability… to such an extent that should we be attacked, our response could very easily and understandably be simply resignation and the desire to get it over with. Trans women of colour in particular live under the burden of the victim-narrative, being hardly represented or reflected in our culture at all outside of that status.
I sympathize and empathize with CeCe. I feel very genuine sadness and anger in regards to what happened to her. But recent statements from her to her supporters have allowed my feelings to grow from simply understanding the tragedy of her circumstances, and feeling an emotional connection to them, to deep admiration. CeCe isn't simply a victim of shitty circumstances and a broken, racist, cissexist culture and legal system. She's more than that. CeCe is a badass, and far more intelligent, selfless and politically savvy than the blogosphere really gave her credit for.
Personally, I feel the need to accept accountability for how my own fucked-up racial biases played into the distorted narrative we built around her. In retrospect, I can't help but feel saddened and a bit disgusted by how few of CeCe's own words and perspectives were included in the discourse surrounding her. The same old awful stories play out over and over again, even where we most ought to know better.
Earlier this month, CeCe communicated statements to her supporters in regards to various long-term, large-scale campaigns being proposed or initiated on her behalf. While grateful for the phone-in campaign that helped CeCe begin receiving her correct hormone dosages, she requested that her supporters not launch or participate in campaigns seeking a pardon or transfer to a women's facility.
The reasons for this were numerous. Amongst them, for instance, was her statement that she would not feel any safer in a women's facility than a men's. Prison is a dangerous and horrible place for a trans woman regardless. But what I saw as demonstrating a staggering degree of integrity, compassion and insight was CeCe's point about how such campaigns would unfairly exceptionalize her. She is NOT the only victim of the transphobia, cissexism and racism inherent in the legal and penal systems, she is simply one of many trans women and/or women of colour suffering on account of those systems' failure. Exceptionalizing her as somehow unique amongst a system that harms so many ultimately only serves to divert attention from fixing the larger problem, and ends up prioritizing the symbolic over the actual issues.
What CeCe offered the trans community, what incensed and motivated us, what it was we were really writing and organizing around, was pretty much a symbol, and perhaps, all too quickly, a commodity. Her story wasn't unique, it was simply especially clear-cut, especially repeatable, especially easy to grasp, especially marketable. In her, we had a synecdoche for larger, systemic issues, such as the ongoing epidemic of violence against trans
people women women of colour, the biases against trans and black people inherent in the legal system, the issue of trans people being placed in prisons in accordance with assigned sex rather than gender identity, safety, or self-selection, the difficulty of accessing transition-specific medical treatment in prison, etc. CeCe's story and image were something that could relatively easily be constructed into a brand, something through which we could sell trans issues to an often hostile or indifferent public.
I don't think we were doing this deliberately. I don't imagine Leslie Feinberg wringing hir hands together and laughing maniacally while saying "this will be perfect for boosting my publicity and book sales!" or anything like that. I just think that we have a very strong (and indeed legitimate) motivation to want to get people to pay attention to our issues, to give a damn about trans people and what happens to us. In CeCe's circumstances we saw an opportunity, and in varying degrees of conscious intentionality, took it. Most of us, I'm sure, felt quite genuine in our desire to help her, and to ensure that the gross miscarriage of justice represented by her prosecution wouldn't come to pass, and our anger when it did was equally genuine. I don't doubt that compassion was a significant component of our motives. But how we did this, why we did this, why this was strong and compelling an issue for us… why this issue… why the emotional resonance was so strong… all of these are considerations that, while very, very uncomfortable, need to be looked at.
This is a pattern that has occurred very frequently in the history of transgender activism. We take the victims of cissexism and transphobia, usually those who are pinned by multiple, intersecting axes of oppression, and we use them to promote our cause. Usually we do this through the deceased, sometimes the incarcerated, often the impoverished… everyone who has the least capacity to speak for themselves, to voice their own needs and concerns. And as we hold up the victims of the worst that a transphobic culture can do, we erase the intersections, and spin the narrative into the plight of trans people as a generalized (and often white-washed) collective.
This is not, of course, to say that trans women in a general sense, trans men, trans people as a whole, do not face genuine oppression and risk. But who faces the most risk, who suffers the most losses, who mourns the most dead… these things don't occur equally across the entirety of the trans population. And it would be an appalling lie to say that there isn't an element of spin, of manipulation, in how we present the narrative and what we hope to gain from it.
Our intentions have always been genuine and good. What we want is a better future for trans people, for less of us to get killed, for us to have basic human rights and equal protection under the law, for us to have access to basic medical care and a minimum standard of quality of life… we want things that are entirely, completely reasonable to want. But over and over again, how we do this is by exploiting those who suffer the most, in such a way that it's those who suffer the least who are helped first. We do this because those who suffer the most offer the most powerful, compelling example of suffering.
And the thing about intentions, historically? They have always been good intentions.
This is what we did, again, with CeCe. We exceptionalized her. We used her to help present our plight. But we ignored her wishes, and we glossed over the much darker fact that her circumstances could not have occurred in isolation. They occurred as the consequence of an ongoing system, that has been operating in that manner all along. That is the fact that needs to be addressed. "Free CeCe" is considerably catchier than "Help abolish the systemic transphobia, racism, misogyny and other forms of discrimination inherent in cultural representation, cultural attitudes, distribution of violence, and both the legal and penal systems, while creating meaningful, lasting structures to remedy the unequal distribution of social privilege and advantage along lines of gender, sex, race, class, ability and sexuality, and compensate for their legacies" …but it fails to address what the real problem is.
The real problem is not that CeCe is presently in jail. The real problem is that the sequence of events that allowed CeCe to end up in jail should never have been possible… or at least not permissible.
Right now, though, this is not a TDoR. CeCe is not the name of a dead woman. She refused to allow that to happen to her, and more so, she is refusing to allow herself to be treated and spoken for in the same manner that those deceased we name each November have been (before the horrible dance parties and movie marathons begin. BRING YR POPCORN LOL.). CeCe has had the opportunity to speak openly and directly about her wishes and concerns, and she has specifically asked that we not exceptionalize her. That we not treat her as a unique case. That we not go campaigning on her behalf, or using her as a symbol on our own behalf, without acknowledging campaigning for everyone else alongside her and yet to come after her. That we instead invest our energies in trying to fix the system as a whole.
That presents us with a fairly rare circumstance. Rather than being permitted the possibility to just assume that our ideas and voices, what we're saying on behalf of the victims of our broken system, is what they would have wanted, we instead are confronted with the clear reality of one such victim's wishes. That presents us a choice to either listen, or make it explicit that we think we know what's best for them better than they do. A mode of thought that has been used by cis people to feel justified in their desire to speak on our behalf, and exploit our existence and experiences, for a very, very long time. Or make it explicit that we don't give a damn what they want, or what's best for them, and that's really all about us and our political agenda.
Personally, I'm making the choice to listen.


text:
ORACLE TEAM USA founder Larry Ellison jumped aboard his sleek and swift AC72 moments after the crew had crossed the finish line of Race 19 of the 34th America's Cup, a winner-take-all race.
"I wanted to let them know they'd just won the America's Cup," said Ellison. "And that's what I told them; that's what I said."
The victory brought to a close the America's Cup in San Francisco. The event ended on a high note with the captivating match between ORACLE TEAM USA and Emirates Team New Zealand, one that took 19 races in 19 days to complete.
RELATED STORY: ORACLE TEAM USA stages massive comeback to win 34th America's Cup
Emirates Team New Zealand jumped out to an 8-1 lead and needed just one win to wrest the Cup back down under, but couldn't complete the mission. Instead, the Kiwis were foiled for eight consecutive races, made to sit and watch ORACLE TEAM USA slowly and steadily claw back and win eight consecutive races.
"Today, the world witnessed the greatest comeback in America's Cup history by Cup Defender ORACLE TEAM USA. I thank and congratulate the crew on a well-deserved victory and thank ORACLE TEAM USA for bringing the America's Cup to San Francisco," said Mayor Ed Lee at the award ceremony. "I also congratulate and thank the 34th America's Cup challenger Emirates Team New Zealand for the amazing racing on our Bay, and it was a pleasure to host your many fans in our City."
ORACLE TEAM USA's victory caps an amazing America's Cup season, one that evolved from the "Summer of Racing" into the "Fall Fisticuffs." This Cup represented one of the most ambitious undertakings to change the nature of the game, and sitting on the dais this afternoon Ellison seemed pleased by the outcome.
"This was the most magnificent spectacle on the water," Ellison said. "These 40-plus knot catamarans are amazing. By going to catamarans we tried to make sailing a bit more extreme, friendlier for the viewing audience. A lot of people weren't interested in sailing, and now they are.
"This regatta has changed sailing forever. More people watched the first race of this America's Cup than all of the America's Cups in history, so I think it's a success," Ellison said.
The legacy of the America's Cup on San Francisco Bay is fast boats racing close to shore and taxing the crews to extremes. The sailors' heart rates were regularly maxed out, and not solely because of the exhilaration afforded by the AC72 wing sail catamaran. They were maxed out because of the physicality required to power the AC72, grinding for 25 to 30 minutes straight to power the hydraulics, to raise and lower the daggerboards, to trim the wing sail and headsails.
Beyond the on-water changes were the changes to the television broadcast, the implementation of AC LiveLine, the on-picture graphics package that illustrates who's ahead and who's behind, and gave viewers information they never would've otherwise understood. A goal was to inspire a new generation of sailors, and Ellison believes the mission was accomplished.
"I think about this regatta and what it means to sailing," said Ellison. "I think it was absolutely spectacular. If a bunch of kids are inspired to go sail, I'm a happy guy."
The spectacle on the water wouldn't have been possible without Emirates Team New Zealand. Today's loss clearly stung skipper Dean Barker and managing director Grant Dalton. The two – and everyone associated with the team – poured heart and soul into this effort. Sitting on match point for a week, they needed just one win to spirit the Cup away back down under. It was one win they couldn't come up with.
"They are champion sailors, competitors. They came here to bring the Cup back to New Zealand and boy did they come close. Hats off to them," said Ellison.
For the Kiwis the loss is particularly tough. They lost the 2007 America's Cup after leading 2-1, and they lost the 2003 Cup in a rout. This was supposed to be the effort that brought the trophy home. The loss wasn't for lack of effort. They simply were matched against a faster boat. The faster boat always wins the America's Cup.
"We weren't expecting 9-8, that's for sure," said Dalton, the gruff impresario who looked to have a lump in his throat. "We've always said the fastest boat would ultimately win through, particularly with the technology race in play here, and that's what happened."
In the end, it was the upwind speed advantage of ORACLE TEAM USA that made the difference. Through the course of the regatta the defender found a way to improve its speed upwind by 90 seconds, according to Dalton. In the final two races the Kiwis led at the first mark and the leeward gate. At the beginning of the match they converted those leads into wins. But the defender's AC72 looked particularly impressive when foiling upwind, and that was the difference in the end.
"Yesterday was the first time that we felt we had a bit on," said Barker, who now has an 11-21 record in races for the America's Cup. "Yesterday in Race 2 we led around the bottom gate and watched Oracle pretty much sail around us and into the distance on the upwind, which had been our strength. Today we went in with the attitude to win the start, lead at the first mark and leeward gate and see what we can do. Today, again, we saw how dominant they'd become upwind.
"It's very difficult to accept, a tough pill to swallow," Barker said. "I'm incredibly proud of Team New Zealand and what the guys have achieved."
The future of the America's Cup is still unknown. Ellison said that his team had received the "hip pocket challenge" that is the first step towards the next event. Beyond that, Ellison said an announcement would be made in the near future as to the boat and venue and timing.
"We did get a challenge, we have a challenger of record," said Ellison. "We will be disclosing in the future. We're all going to sit down and talk about what kind of boats we use going forward."
If the future's anything like the present, the 35th America's Cup could be even more spectacular.
—Sean McNeill


text:
Adobe Experience Manager DAM (CQ5) has had the ability to generate thumbnail previews of InDesign documents since CQ5.5. It creates thumbnails by communicating with Adobe InDesign Server. Unfortunately the out of the box setup only produces a thumbnail of the first page, however this is easily tweaked to created previews of every page in the InDesign file.
You'll need to either grab the jsx file from GitHub and place it at /etc/dam/indesign/scripts, or if feeling lazy I've created a tiny package for you to install here: MultipageThumbnails-1.0.zip
All that is left to do now is add your new script to your DAM-Update-Asset workflow. Double click on the Media Extraction workflow step, switch to the arguments tab, then add a new entry pointing to the MultipagePreview.jsx file you imported. (see the screenshot of how your dialogue should look)
Don't forget to hit save, close the workflow and try importing a new InDesign Document to DAM. Assuming InDesign Server is set up correctly, you should now see additional page previews!
I've tested this out on CQ5.5, CQ5.6 and 5.6.1. If you get stuck, check out the video to see what you might have missed.
InDesign JSX on Github – MultipagePreview.jsx
AEM/CQ Package (including the JSX) MultipageThumbnails-1.0.zip
Big thanks to Sameer Charles for his work on this.


text:
$ 775.00
Notify me when this product is available:
Home Decor
Type: Tabletop
$ 725.00
Choose from the following:
Lemon Yellow Leather Tray w/ White Onxy Handles 20" x 20"
Embossed Crocodile Leather Tray w/ Onxy Handles 20" x 20"
View full product details »
$ 595.00
$ 275.00
Alpaca Silver w/Horn Handles 12"
Subscribe to our newsletter and always be the first to hear about what is happening.
© 2020 Hennessee Haven, LLC
Designed by Out of the Sandbox.
Powered by Shopify


text:
Take a look at the stunts being performed by the
'Skyfall' action unit on the roofs of Istanbul..
A few days before the first unit arrived to
shoot on location in Istanbul, the "Skyfall" second unit and
stunt teams were on the roofs in the city filming motorcycle
In the
photographs below, a stuntman doubling Ola Rapace's character
Patrice with a hairpiece and black dots on his face which will
be used later to aid post production.
The Turkish
media mistakenly thought damage was being done to
the historic rooftops. Michael G. Wilson addressed the issue
in a press
conference last week and stated that the
were actually moving on platforms that had been placed on the
roofs, at a cost of 135,000 Turkish liras. Original roof tiles
were carefully removed and boards of synthetic tiles were put
in place for the filming, before the originals were later replaced.
The media were shown this work up close yesterday in an attempt
to put an end to the story.


text:
Ann's First Look: Rhapsody & Kindred Spirit
Viewer Comments
You really knocked it out of the ball park with these two collections. I absolutely love, love, love the Rhapsody collection. That Ann is amazingly talented.
I am in love with the color combo in the kindred spirits papers. There was a sampling in one of my PW kits and was really admiring the card made with the kindred spirits paper tole.
Just love Ann's work and miss her so much. So happy to have the Simply Ann videos. I would love to be a fly on the wall to see how Ann cut around all those intricate stamps and things. I just can't cut that well certainly not with a craft knife. thank you for all the beautiful things.
Reply from Paper Wishes Customer Service:
Ann uses short bladed scissors (4000487 or 4003964 or 4002621), see if that helps. Also move the paper while keeping the scissors stationary. We're happy you're watching!
Ann your talent is amazing! So far EVERY card you have made is different than anything that was done by PW in the past. I must have the Kindred Spirits collection (ok,Rhapsody, too)to duplicate your cards. Thanks for sharing!
Love the layouts & cards. The butterflies card takes 1st prize from me! Thanks.
It is so great to learn all this new techniques. Love Ann's ideas!!
WOW! Ann has done it again! She has beautiful designs. I don't know how she keeps coming up with new ones. Her new baby is adorable! Thanks Ann & Paper Wishes!!
Ann's designs are beautiful as always. Her son is adorable and I love seeing him. I sure see Ann in her mom. I enjoyed it all.
Beautifully creative! WOW. Thank you as always for sharing. Ann's creativity is never ending. I am so addicted to your Webisodes, can't wait to see what tomorrow will bring us!
These papers are gorgeous. My wish list is growing with each new webisode. Ann, thanks for such beautiful inspiration.
I am in shock at how beautiful all the cards, layouts and items are, how delightful! Thank you!!!
Gorgeous! Nice to see Ann's creations again, she has given us so many ideas to set our minds spinning.
WOW! What great ideas, techniques and papers. Thanks, ladies. And, I am such a paper junkie. Making my list.
Oh, gosh! All the projects are gorgeous. Loved seeing the pictures of Ann's mom and baby. He's a sweetie! These new papers are so lovely. They make lovely cards. Ann has done an amazing job. She deserves an award for them all.
Ann has truly out done herself on all of this. It is absolutely beautiful cards and layouts. Can't wait to get it to try my hand at it all. OUCH! My wallet is crying!!!
Reply from Paper Wishes Customer Service:
Your wallet may be crying but your heart will be happy!
Paper Wishes Weekly Webisodes feature free scrapbooking video classes and card making video classes! Every week Paulette and LeNae bring you new online scrapbooking or card making classes demonstrating the very latest paper craft and scrapbooking techniques. Each of our free card making and scrapbooking classes also gives you unique project ideas and tips from Paper Wishes' Design Team. Come back often so you don't miss any of the fun in our card making and scrapbooking classes! You are sure to be inspired! Also watch for our "Week of Webisodes" events where we feature new scrapbooking video classes daily!


text:
After a five day voting window, Emory University's College of Arts and Sciences voted against a motion of "no confidence" in President James Wagner after a racial allegory used in a column earlier this year.
Voting amongst faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences on whether or not they believed President Wagner held the ability to effectively lead the university began last Monday and ended this past Friday.
Wagner received much criticism in February after writing an essay that was deemed racist.
Wagner used the Three-Fifths Compromise, an agreement of Northern and Southern states from 1787 where three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for representation involving distribution of taxes and distribution of members in the United States House of Representatives. That effectively meant that slaves in the South were considered three-fifths of a human being.
Wagner said his example was intended to display how today people with different opinions can work together toward a common goal regarding the school's impending academic changes.
As a result of the essay's publishing, a Rally Against Racism was formed, where more than 200 Emory University students gathered against Wagner's comments and current campus culture.
According to Professor Stefan Lutz, an associate professor in Chemistry and the chair of Emory University's faculty governance, 530 faculty members were eligible to vote, with only 334 participating, about 63 percent.
The final electronic and anonymously posted tally was 201 against and 133 in favor of a motion of no confidence in Wagner.
"That was part of the whole process of also going to an electronic vote so that people could vote without there being a record who voted or so." said Lutz.
In a statement released on the Emory website, Wagner is cited as saying: "I respect the views of all of our faculty and their right to express concern about the leadership and direction of our institution, and I take to heart the significance of this vote."


text:
Finnish melodic death metallers MORS PRINCIPIUM EST will release their fourth album, …And Death Said Live", in North America on January 15, 2013 via AFM Records.
More video footage from the recording sessions for the CD can be seen below. Also available is an audio stream of a track from the album, "Destroyer Of All" (courtesy of Metal Injection).
MORS PRINIPIUM EST previously issued three full-length albums through the French label Listenable Records. After the release of the band's most recent LP, "Liberation = Termination", in 2007, the band underwent significant lineup changes, and following a worldwide search for the right band members, began writing material for the new album in 2011.
Regarding the decision to sign with AFM, MORS PRINCIPIUM EST singer Ville Viljanen previously said, "We talked to some other labels, too, but AFM seemed the right choice for us. We can't wait to get to the studio in the summer and release the new album at the end of 2012. And then we will see what happens, when the people of AFM starts to work their magic."
MORS PRINCIPIUM EST last year parted ways with guitarists Tomy Laisto and Kalle Aaltonen. A new axeman, Andy Gillion from the United Kingdom, has since been recruited.
MORS PRINCIPIUM EST 2012 is:
Ville Viljanen - Vocals
Mikko Sipola - Drums
Teemu Heinola - Bass
Andy Gillion - Guitar
Andhe Chandler - Guitar
MORS PRINCIPIUM EST's third album, "Liberation = Termination", was released in February 2007 via Listenable Records. The follow-up to "The Unborn" was recorded at Astia Studio in Finland and was mastered at Imperial Mastering in Concord, California.


text:
Overeager Patent Troll Can't Tell Github From Its Web Host
from the slow-down-there-fellas deptLast year, we wrote about the somewhat random confluence of events that brought together two ex-file sharing industry execs (one associated with Kazaa and the other with Morpheus) and made them extreme patent trolls, suing a ton of internet companies under the ridiculous brand "PersonalWeb." Well, PersonalWeb is adding to its ridiculous legacy by suing Rackspace as well, though as the complaint makes clear (pdf), PersonalWeb seems mighty confused about what it's suing over.
That's because it seems to be claiming that Rackspace is responsible for... GitHub. Now, it's true that Rackspace, one of the most popular hosting companies out there, does provide hosting services to GitHub, but that doesn't mean that Rackspace is Github -- though you couldn't tell that from the filing. Now, it isn't just filing about GitHub, but also Rackspace Cloud Servers, which obviously are a Rackspace product. The patents being sued over are basically the same batch as we wrote about last year, but with one addition (added at the top -- it wasn't in last year's post because... it was only granted this year):
- 8,099,420: Accessing data in a data processing system
- 8,001,096: Computer file system using content‐dependent file identifiers
- 7,949,662: De‐duplication of data in a data processing system
- 7,945,544: Similarity‐based access control of data in a data processing system
- 7,945,539: Distributing and accessing data in a data processing system
- 7,802,310: Controlling access to data in a data processing system
- 6,928,442: Enforcement and policing of licensed content using content‐based identifiers
- 6,415,280: Identifying and requesting data in network using identifiers which are based on contents of data
- 5,978,791: Data processing system using substantially unique identifiers to identify data items, whereby identical data items have the same identifiers
After reviewing PersonalWeb's patents, we propose that the USPTO indeed mold a "Pham" award to best commemorate the ultimate, the outrageous, the most horrifically unacceptable patent examination performance of the current patent system.To be fair, it seems like Pham has plenty of company.
There is also the oddity of Level 3 being a plaintiff on the case, though it sounds like it's just along for the ride as a silent partner:
Level 3 has joined in this Complaint pursuant to its contractual obligations under the Agreement, at the request of PersonalWeb.Basically, it sounds like part of the licensing deal in which PersonalWeb ended up with some Level 3 patents, and Level 3 gets a cut of some of the profits.
For its part, Rackspace has rightfully spoken out about the ridiculousness of this. What's good to see is that they don't just focus on the insanity of this particular case (though that is discussed), but the patent system as a whole:
In fact, GitHub is a perfect example of a company that is built to foster and enhance innovation. The GitHub repository service for software development projects has achieved legendary status among open source developers all over the world. GitHub has over 2.1 million users hosting over 3.7 million repositories. They are a paragon of innovation. Yet PersonalWeb has the audacity to file a lawsuit which alleges that "Rackspace Cloud Servers and GitHub Code Hosting Service" infringe some obscure patent from 1999 that has nothing to do with Rackspace and GitHub. Who is truly innovating here, PersonalWeb or Rackspace and GitHub? PersonalWeb is not the issue of course. They are just another patent troll attempting to take advantage of bad law. It is their nature. They look for opportunity, and patent litigation can be very profitable. The real problem is the law. According to a recent study by James Bessen and Michael Meurer of the Boston University School of Law, titled "The Direct Costs from NPE Disputes," patent trolls cost the American economy $29 billion in 2011. The authors found that patent troll litigation affected 5,842 defendants in 2011.It's good to see more companies speaking out and recognizing that this is a widespread problem that needs to be addressed, rather than a narrowly focused one on the margins.
Filed Under: hosting, patent trolls, patents
Companies: github, personalweb, rackspace


text:
Next at the RA: Welcoming a New Friend; Saluting a True One
What to Expect on July 6, 2009 — Day 4 of the 2009 RA
Delegates gather today for the final two business sessions of the 2009 NEA Representative Assembly, to welcome and honor Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond with the 2009 NEA Friend of Education Award, and to say goodbye to the Association's remarkable, long-serving General Counsel Bob Chanin.
Dr. Hammond-Darling, the Charles E. Ducommon Professor of Education at Stanford University and an education advisor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign, is a strong proponent of teacher-led education reform. "Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not simple, predictable, or standardized," she noted in her award-winning book, The Right to Learn.
Over his 41 years at NEA, Bob Chanin has been instrumental in the growth of the Association into the most powerful union in the country. In addition to his legal work in the courts, including arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, he has helped write collective bargaining laws for a dozen states and crafted contract language that serves as a model for local teacher and ESP unions across the nation. And, of course, he has served as legal adviser to the RA.
Topping the delegates' to-do list for the day: debate and action on the report of the Resolutions Committee, action on the 2008-2010 Strategic Plan and Budget, and decisions on the remaining XX New Business Items. The close of the morning session is the deadline for submission of proposed amendments to the NEA Constitution for action in 2010. Proposed amendments to the Constitution for vote in 2010 will be presented before the end of the second business session.
RA Media Headlines
View All RA Speeches


text:
MonsterChow wrote:Lynn Chow for a curator or researcher position at the Perez Museum please.
The curator, Flo Ming will be glad to have another researcher!
Though last time I looked, the Museum is still not rebuilt as yet.
(Edit: I looked at Lynn's sheet. Over RP, she may become curator quickly with her previous experience)


text:
The Common Dolphin (Delphinus Delphis) is not so well-known off the Welsh coast as its larger though less numerous cousin, the bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) which has a healthy and flourishing population in Cardigan Bay.
But this smaller member of the cetacean family, which of course includes whales and porpoises, has possibly had a more distinguished press, for it was the common colphin and not the cottlenose which was frequently represented in the art and literature of ancient Rome and Greece and also featured in the popular TV serial 'Flipper' so beloved of children a generation ago.
Common Dolphins come in two species, the long-beaked (Delphinus Capensis) and short-beaked (Delphinus Delphis), so there was some confusion with the bottlenose, even among cetologists until fairly recent times. It is the bottlenose that features in Marine Parks and Aquatic Shows, so the general misconception is understandable. The Common Dolphin is between 6.2 and 8.2-feet long and weighs between 180 and 518-lbs as opposed to the bottlenose at between 10 and 14 -feet long and weighing up to 1,100-lbs. It is sometimes confused with the porpoise, although the porpoise never leaps out of the water. The back is black or dark grey and the belly white with a long double-arched 'hourglass' pattern on the side, the front half often tinged cream or gold and the back part a rather dirty-looking grey.
Common dolphins are frequently seen in the Irish Sea and around the Irish coast and they seem to love bow-riding ahead of boats, often in large numbers. Passengers on ferries and cruise ships often see them around their boat for long periods, riding the bow waves with great enthusiasm. This is particularly the case in the Irish Sea, the Western approaches and the Bay of Biscay. They can often live in gatherings of hundreds and, in some parts of the world, in thousands where conditions are favourable. They sometimes dive to a depth of over 600 feet in their favourite habitat along shelf edges and in areas where there is sharp seabed relief, and are seldom seen near the shore. They swim swiftly and in close formation and delight in aerobatics well clear of the surface. They are not common in aquatic shows, but on several occasions rescued common dolphins have integrated with bottlenose dolphins in Seaworld, San Diego and at Discovery Cove. One, indeed, managed to mate with a female bottlenose at Seaworld, producing four hybrid 'bolphins.'
The common dolphin is extremely vulnerable to fishing nets and other man-made devices and this has led to the development of 'dolphin-friendly' gear and techniques, which has been widely welcomed by conservationists. But they are still hunted and accidentally caught by fishermen in some other parts of the world. Nevertheless, the short-beaked common dolphin is the most numerous and widest spread cetacean in the world. The population in the Celtic Deep area in 1994 was estimated at around 75,000 animals.