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Q: Git merge/push changes between remote repositories User forks project https://github.com/foo/project.git to https://github.com/bar/project.git and starts working on https://github.com/bar/project.git.
The changes he made to the forked copy can be pushed without any issues.

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*How does user push changes in https://github.com/bar/project.git to https://github.com/foo/project.git

*How does user pull changes from https://github.com/foo/project.git to https://github.com/bar/project.git
Appreciate if you can provide the exact steps.

A: https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/
The process is to use "pull requests".  According to the above doc, go to github.com/bar/project.git, click on "Pull Request" and update the destination to point to github.com/foo/project.git.
After the pull request is sent, the owner can review and automatically merge the pull request on the original repo.

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A city centre nightclub could lose its licence because of a string of violent incidents – including a brawl in which a man was beaten unconscious with a broom handle on the street outside.
The police report calling for So Club Room to lose its licence also reveals cocaine was found inside the venue in Hertford Place and a number of assaults, some carried out by underage teenagers.
A spokesman for the club has strongly refuted the contents of the report and said they plan to oppose any attempt to shut them down .
The fate of the club, formerly known as Club M, now rests with Coventry City Council's licensing team , who will carry out a review and decide whether to revoke the licence or impose new conditions.
The club was placed on a police action plan in September last year, before a change of management took place late in 2015.
In the latest incident in May, door staff were said to have walked away from a 25-year-old man who was attacked with a broom handle without offering first aid, even though he was unconscious. He suffered a fractured skull and what the police report said were "life-changing injuries".
The brawl is believed to have involved up to 20 people and the West Midlands Police report said: "On viewing CCTV it appears that door supervisors and the Designated Premises Supervisor did not intervene or assist with any first aid once the disorder had concluded.
"The male was unconscious and unresponsive and as friends of the man try to help, door supervisors are seen to walk away from him, fully aware of his state. They then stand in close proximity to the injured male watching as his friends try to physically lift him.
"The police feel that this shows total disregard to the premises' responsibilities to the public and their customers.
Other incidents flagged up by police include: officers being called to disorder at a private event in August 2015; cocaine being found the following month during a routine police inspection; reports of an assault carried out by a 17-year-old who was inside the venue and had been drinking; and a customer being found with "deals of heroin and crack cocaine" inside a toy egg after being kicked out of the club.
The report adds: "Over the last 12 months there have been 16 reported crimes relating to the club and directly outside, 38 per cent of these are reported after 4am.
"There have also been 27 police/ambulance logs within the last 12 months and 52 per cent of these are reported after 4am.
"The crimes relate to drugs offences and varying levels of assault. All the police logs relate to disorder and assaults.
If the licence is not revoked, the police want to see conditions put on the licence, including a dispersal policy being implemented, a minimum of two bodycams to be worn by door staff and photographs to be taken of everyone entering the premises.


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Scientists Bring The Sun Down To Earth To Learn How It Works Using a giant pulsed powered machine in New Mexico, researchers have recreated the conditions inside the Sun, and their results help reconcile theoretical models with how the Sun behaves.
Using a giant pulsed powered machine in New Mexico, researchers have recreated the conditions inside the Sun, and their results help reconcile theoretical models with how the Sun behaves.
In Albuquerque, scientists have been re-creating pieces of the sun right here on Earth. They've created these solar samples to resolve a mystery about the way the sun behaves. NPR science correspondent Joe Palca has been exploring the minds and motivations of scientists and inventors. It's a series called Joe's Big Idea. And he's back with this sunny installment.
JOE PALCA, BYLINE: Solar physicist James Bailey says about a decade ago, scientists were pretty secure in their knowledge about how the sun worked.
JAMES BAILEY: And what I mean by that is that theoretical predictions matched all of the available observations to a very high level of accuracy.
PALCA: In other words, the sun was behaving the way scientists thought it should behave.
BAILEY: So around the year 2000, everybody was happy; theories agreed with observations and things were good. Then some people came along and said wait a minute, our new analysis shows that there's about half as much oxygen in the sun as what we thought before.
PALCA: In fact, the new research suggests that the amounts of other elements such as nitrogen and carbon were wrong as well. Bailey says this was a big, big problem.
BAILEY: The theoretical models no longer matched the observations.
PALCA: Now there are basically two possibilities here - either the theoretical models were wrong or the various elements inside the sun were behaving in a way that scientists didn't understand. Bailey was of the opinion that the theories were right. There is other evidence supporting them so he decided to look into the other possibility. To do that, he and his colleagues used a unique device called the Z machine at the Sandia National Laboratory to re-create the heat and pressure inside the sun and see how the solar elements behaved.
BAILEY: It's not that unusual for people to create high temperatures and high densities. What's hard is to create high temperatures and high densities in a big enough sample that you can actually study what's going on.
PALCA: And how big was your sample, just for curiosity?
BAILEY: It's like a grain of sand.
PALCA: But that's big enough?
BAILEY: But that's big enough.
PALCA: The first solar element they studied was iron. And as they report in the current issue of the journal Nature, iron behaves differently than scientists predicted it would. And that may mean that oxygen, nitrogen and carbon may be behaving differently as well.
BAILEY: It's reasonable to be suspicious that, well, if iron is wrong, maybe some of the other elements might be wrong also.
PALCA: So scientists might be right about the amounts of various elements inside the sun; they just might not be right about how those elements are behaving. Bailey says his new measurements have implications for stars elsewhere in our galaxy. Astronomers have now found more than a thousand planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, and some might - possibly - harbor life.
BAILEY: One of the first things that you want to do when you discover a star system that's got some orbiting planets is you want to understand the characteristics of the star that the planets are orbiting around. But if you don't have the composition of the other stars correct, then mistakes will be made in inferring the properties of those other stars.
PALCA: Well, you'd hate to travel all that way and find you made a mistake.
PALCA: Well, that's true. But even if we have to observe those stars from a distance, it would nice to understand which ones are worth scrutinizing when looking for life elsewhere in the universe. Joe Palca, NPR News.


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Tendaba
Tendaba is a tiny village on the southern bank of the Gambia River, approximately 100 miles (160km) from the nation's capital, Banjul. At the centre of the village is Tendaba Camp, originally established as a hunting lodge by a Swedish sea captain in the 1970s. Now Gambian owned and run, it provides a relaxing environment for tourists, offering beautiful scenery and affordable accommodation. Tendaba Camp provides boat trips into Kisi Bolon and through Tunku Creek, where the scenery and environment are sure to leave enduring memories.
The Tendaba area is a paradise for birdwatchers and nature lovers. The two most notable nearby attractions are the Kiang West National Park (featured in a separate article), ideal for viewing amazing wildlife and the Baobolong Wetland Reserve.
Baobolong Wetland Reserve
The Baobolong Wetland Reserve, established in 1996 and occupying 220km�, is a national park which is an internationally recognised Ramsar Convention (Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitats) site. The park features plentiful flora and fauna in a variety of habitats. Significant, protected tree species include the deciduous legume, Pterocarpus erinaceous, the ana tree and wild mangoes. Forests of red and black mangrove trees reach heights in excess of 70 feet. In the salt marshes, the succulent, shoreline purslane, along with dropseed grasses and Bahia grasses can be found, whilst the Savannah areas are home to rare shrubs and grasses.
Bird Life
The Baobolong Wetland Reserve is a premier destination for those seeking to explore the diverse avifauna of Gambia. Amongst the bird life of the Reserve are some 270 species from over 60 families. Characteristic of a wetland habitat, the Baobolong Reserve is home to many species of water birds, including ducks and geese. Notable duck species include the Comb Duck, Northern Pintail and White-faced Whistling Duck, whilst important species of geese include the African Pygmy Goose, Northern Shoveller and Spur-winged Goose. Also inexorably associated with water-based territory are darters and pelicans, with the African Darter and Pink-backed Pelican resident within the Baobolong Wetland Reserve. The long legs of bitterns, egrets, herons, storks and ibises make them ideally adapted for foraging for food on the banks of the river. This group of birds is well represented on the Reserve, with a diverse range of species, including the Little Bittern, Little and Cattle Egrets, Goliath, Grey, Night and Western Reef Herons, along with Marabou and the Sacred Ibis.
The areas of the Reserve with salty water feature the Common Sandpiper, Little Stint and Spur-winged Lapwing. A number of the colourful West African Kingfishers reside near areas of open water, with prominent species including the blue-breasted, giant, malachite, pied and woodland kingfishers. Multi-coloured species of parrots are found in the Reserve, amongst them the Senegal Parrot and the Rose-ringed Parakeet. Other vibrantly coloured Reserve inhabitants include the glossy and violet-backed Starlings. Birds of prey resident in the Baobolong Wetland Reserve include species such as the African Fish Eagle, Bataleur Eagle, Black Kite and Red-necked Buzzard.
32 species of mammals are known to reside on the Baobolong Wetland Reserve, including the African clawless otter, which although rare outside protected areas, is abundant in this area. Several species of antelope are also present, including bushbuck, sitatunga and duikers, whilst the African warthog is also plentiful. Amongst predatory mammals, the spotted hyena is profuse, whilst the Reserve also houses elusive leopards. Resident primates include rare species such as green monkeys, the red colobus monkey and the Patas monkey, along with marmosets, the Guinea baboon and Senegal Bushbaby.
The Reserve's aquatic life includes fish such as the barracuda, giant African threadfin, cichlids and mullet, along with invertebrates such as the blue crab. Mammals, such as the endangered West African manatee are also found, whilst reptiles, such as the Nile crocodile, are common within the boundaries of the Baobolong Wetland Reserve.
Getting There And Travelling Around The Area
A limited amount of car hire is available in the Gambian capital, Banjul, along with a number of the resorts located on the Atlantic coast. However, although the roads in and around Banjul are tarred and reasonably well-maintained, away from the capital roadways tend to be of poor quality, mostly dirt roads. Furthermore, car hire is very expensive. Although the Gambia River is passable along its full length, there are no scheduled boat services. However, many companies offer river cruises or shorter trips on the river as part of a longer Gambia tour. Much of the scenery is superb and travel to Tendaba by boat is an ideal option for those wishing to see as much of the country as possible. "Bush taxis" are a good idea for local travel. These range from seven seater cars to minibuses, travelling along designated routes, with passengers able to embark/disembark where they like.
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The very first thing that made me start researching how to live a cruelty-free lifestyle was seeing something about how cosmetics are tested on animals. I couldn't believe what was involved just so we could put cream on our faces. I vowed never to purchase any products that have been tested on animals, have had any of their ingredients tested on animals, or are owned by parent companies that conduct or outsource animal testing (ie. the profits will go back to the parent company).
I did alot of research, and used to carry around a big list of products that I knew were 'safe' and those I knew were not. Now, all I do is carry around an awesome smart phone app – search for "Choose Cruelty Free" on Android, iPhone or iPad – it's free, and makes things so much easier to check our products while you're actually in the store. You can also access the accredited cruelty-free companies list on your computer. The best part is that it's an Aussie organisation, so you'll find Aussie brands on the list. You can also check out Peta's Caring Consumer list, although they are US-based and apparently their requirements are not quite as strict as the CCF list (but don't quote me on that).
When changing to a completely different skincare regime, it will take a bit of time to get used to it. This routine doesn't take alot of time, is cheap, and is chemical-free as well as cruelty-free (assuming you choose brands of oils that are not tested on animals – I get mine from New Directions Australia). My skin feels so much better having used this routine for about two years now, definitely less 'clogged', and I don't need to use as much make-up anymore (I no longer wear foundation or powder).
If your coconut oil is solid (it changes from liquid to solid at a certain temperature), just scrape a bit out with the back of your fingernail, and it melts in your palms when you rub your hands together.
So without further ado, here's my routine, which of course can be changed as needed to suit you.
Because I have removed my make-up the night before, and haven't really done anything since then except sleep, my face isn't really dirty in the morning – so I don't think it needs a great big detox scrub or anything like that. This is a really simple, really gentle way to kick-start your face in the morning.
In a small-medium glass bowl, put 3 drops of an essential oil. The ones I usually choose between are lavender, geranium, ylang ylang, tea tree, eucalyptus, orange, bergamot (because I'm not a qualified Aromatherapist, I must advise you to please be careful when using any essential oil).
Almost-fill the bowl with hot water, grab a clean dry face cloth, and immerse it in the water. Wring it out so it's not dripping (be careful, the water is hot!) and use the cloth like a compress on your face. The heat helps to soften your skin and helps the essential oils to be absorbed.
Repeat three times, then for the fourth time, wring out the face cloth and quickly rub all over your face as a kind of 'wake me up' and as a gentle exfoliant.
I use virgin coconut oil to moisturise my skin. It felt a bit strange at first to use oil all over my face, and it does take your skin a few days to get used to it. Honestly though, my skin is less oily now than it was before I started using oil. I don't know how that works, maybe because your skin isn't being dried out your body doesn't need to compensate by producing more oil, who knows.
Put a few drops (around 4-5 drops) of virgin coconut oil into the palm of your hand, then add 1 drop of an essential oil. The ones I usually choose between are lavender, ylang ylang, sandalwood, rose (again, be careful when using essential oils).
Rub the palms of your hands together to mix the oils, then apply to your face.
Done! Oh you'd better wait 5-10 mins before applying make-up, to let the coconut oil absorb.
After wearing make-up all day, and general accumulated daily grime, you want to get that crap off your skin before you go to sleep. Did you know that most make-up removers are oil-based? So why not skip all the additives and just use oil? Olive oil dissolves make-up, and it's so gentle you can use it to remove eyeshadow, mascara and lipstick too, as well as foundation.
Raid your kitchen cupboard for some olive oil. You can use any oil, but I find that olive works the best as a make-up remover.
Apply a semi-generous amount of oil to a cotton pad, and swipe over your face once, where you're wearing make-up. Look at the cotton pad. Ewww! See, it really works!
You may need to go over your whole face twice if you wear alot of make-up, but trust me, this will work. Don't forget to change cotton pads as they become dirty.
When you're finished, your face will be all oily and shiny. Don't worry! Just grab a clean face cloth, run it under hot water, wring it out, and wipe your face over. This will get rid of the excess oil that's still left on your skin.
To use, just shake the bottle, squirt some onto a cotton pad, and swipe over your face. Let dry. Easy!
Because I just used the olive oil to cleanse, my face is not dry in the least and never feels like it needs moisturising afterwards – so I don't moisturise at night, but of course you could use the same formula as in the morning, if you like.


Have all eyes on you in this insane neon two piece. This crop top features a bright pink neon crop top with an on trend square neck design. Team with the matching neon bike shorts and a bum bag for a serious festival inspired look we are totally loving.


Alex trained at Leicester University Medical School and qualified in 1985. Then moved onto do his pre-registration jobs before spending a considerable amount of time working in Accident and Emergency and Psychiatry in Jersey. Alex also did Geriatric Medicine in Northampton and Obstetrics and Gynaecology whilst completing General Practice training in Aberdeen. Returning to Jersey in 1990 and joining Cleveland Clinic in 1992. Alex enjoy a variety of outdoor activities, especially kayaking and cycling.


0:00 Dean Isaacson at goalie for Hamline University.
0:00 Hogan, Aidan at goalie for Saint Thomas (MN).
12:04 Shot by Saint Thomas (MN) Acevedo, Jonathan, Save (by goalie) Dean Isaacson.
13:45 Yellow card on Saint Thomas (MN) Nour, Tarak.
20:02 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Kays, Michael for Nour, Tarak.
20:06 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Horton, Lucas for Marty, George.
20:09 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Gutenberg, Alex for Alvarado, Walter.
20:14 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Shirley, Andrew for Longville, Jack.
20:18 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Andersen, Ethan for Cloe, Scott.
20:23 Corner kick by Saint Thomas (MN) Acevedo, Jonathan [20:23].
22:12 Corner kick by Hamline University Adam King [22:12].
24:40 Substitution!Hamline University substitution: Guillermo Bonilla for Rouse, Alex.
30:34 Corner kick by Saint Thomas (MN) Acevedo, Jonathan [30:34].
33:19 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Stuempfig, Andrew for Horton, Lucas.
33:23 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Amey, Jake for Acevedo, Jonathan.
33:30 Corner kick by Saint Thomas (MN) Gutenberg, Alex [33:30].
36:03 Shot by Saint Thomas (MN) Gutenberg, Alex, Save (by goalie) Dean Isaacson.
36:53 Substitution!Hamline University substitution: Brandon Olson for Collin Matzoll.
39:34 Corner kick by Saint Thomas (MN) Gutenberg, Alex [39:34].
40:09 Shot by Saint Thomas (MN) Amey, Jake, Blocked.
42:54 Offside against Hamline University.
43:56 Shot by Saint Thomas (MN) Gutenberg, Alex, Save (by goalie) Dean Isaacson.
44:27 Shot by Hamline University Jack Reddan, Wide.
45:00 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Acevedo, Jonathan for Amey, Jake.
45:00 For Hamline University: #1 Dean Isaacson, #6 Nathan Kange, #7 Jack Reddan, #9 Adam King, #11 Collin Matzoll, #12 Logan Weller, #16 Stefan Kinsinger, #19 Ben Sorenson, #20 Trevor Lewellen, #22 Self El-Fatairy, #29 Rouse, Alex.
46:30 Shot by Saint Thomas (MN) Stuempfig, Andrew, High.
54:54 Substitution!Hamline University substitution: Brandon Olson for Collin Matzoll.
56:32 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Horton, Lucas for Stuempfig, Andrew.
56:36 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Amey, Jake for Shirley, Andrew.
56:58 Shot by Saint Thomas (MN) Acevedo, Jonathan, Save (by goalie) Dean Isaacson.
57:08 Corner kick by Saint Thomas (MN) Gutenberg, Alex [57:08].
58:49 Substitution!Hamline University substitution: Ryan Pyle for Trevor Lewellen.
62:06 Shot by Saint Thomas (MN) Amey, Jake, High.
62:10 Substitution!Hamline University substitution: Guillermo Bonilla for Logan Weller.
63:01 Corner kick by Saint Thomas (MN) Amey, Jake [63:01].
63:30 Header Shot by Saint Thomas (MN) Houg, Halvor, Save (by goalie) Dean Isaacson.
69:20 Substitution!Hamline University substitution: Therence Niyonkuru for Ryan Pyle.
69:24 Substitution!Hamline University substitution: Logan Weller for Guillermo Bonilla.
69:27 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Shirley, Andrew for Amey, Jake.
69:31 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Stuempfig, Andrew for Horton, Lucas.
70:02 Shot by Hamline University Ben Sorenson, Wide.
72:32 Shot by Hamline University Adam King, Save (by goalie) Hogan, Aidan.
73:35 Corner kick by Hamline University Jack Reddan [73:35].
75:32 Substitution!Hamline University substitution: Trevor Lewellen for Therence Niyonkuru.
75:50 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Horton, Lucas for Stuempfig, Andrew.
75:57 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Amey, Jake for Shirley, Andrew.
76:12 Corner kick by Hamline University Jack Reddan [76:12].
85:08 Yellow card on Saint Thomas (MN) Kays, Michael.
85:08 Substitution!Hamline University substitution: Guillermo Bonilla for Adam King.
86:05 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Longville, Jack for Amey, Jake.
86:08 Substitution!Hamline University substitution: Jordan Wik for Self El-Fatairy.
90:00 For Hamline University: #1 Dean Isaacson, #3 Brandon Olson, #6 Nathan Kange, #7 Jack Reddan, #11 Collin Matzoll, #12 Logan Weller, #16 Stefan Kinsinger, #19 Ben Sorenson, #20 Trevor Lewellen, #22 Self El-Fatairy, #29 Rouse, Alex.
90:00 Substitution!Saint Thomas (MN) substitution: Stuempfig, Andrew for Gutenberg, Alex.


Contract clause "INJUNCTIVE RELIEF" - is it reasonable?
I have a potential customer who has asked me to sign a contract with the following statement: "The Consultant acknowledges that damages alone would not be an adequate remedy for breach of any provision in this Agreement. CUSTOMER shall, without prejudice to any other rights or remedies that may be available, be entitled to granting of equitable relief (including without limitation injunctive relief & specific performance) concerning any threatened or actual bf the provisions of this Agreement"
Not sure LSN is the right forum for this. Are you an IT or similar consultant? If so, perhaps some LSN community can actually answers this, if they've had this contract problem. Otherwise I'd advise searching out LSN LinkedIn groups and asking this there!


Fear, Make, and What: Dont let the fear of what could happen make nothing happen.
Internet, Rush, and The Internet: Don't let the internet rush you. No one is posting their failures.
Fire, God, and School: Are you dreading work or school tomorrow? Remember the time you prayed for that job? Or to be able to attend school? Don't let the fire go out on why God sent you to work or even school. You have a purpose tomorrow and it matters. Be grateful and thankful!
Bad, Clothes, and Money: soph @humanesophia If you're a working class kid moving into uni this month, don't let the rich kids make u feel bad for having a part time job, buying value items, not having the nicest clothes or not having pocket money from ur parents. You're at the same uni and just as good as them!!


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Do the rich (neighborhoods) get richer?
By Daniel Hertz
Many studies of gentrification (for example, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia study we wrote about last week) begin by dividing neighborhoods into one of two categories: gentrifiable and non-gentrifiable. Usually, to qualify as "gentrifiable," a neighborhood must rank relatively low on the socioeconomic ladder: one standard used by at least a few different reports is having a median household income that's below average compared to the metropolitan area as a whole.
In the common understanding of gentrification, this isn't a terribly unreasonable line. But that frame can give us a very distorted vision of neighborhood change and issues related to the shifting geography of economic privilege.
On the one hand, it becomes easy to conflate "below average" with "poor." Some of the studies using this standard for "gentrifiable" have reported extremely high rates of gentrification in major cities, which might be understood to mean that low-income neighborhoods are rapidly filling up with the relatively well-to-do. But of course a neighborhood at the 49th percentile of median income regionally—or, for that matter, the 40th or even 30th—is probably very, very different than one at the 10th percentile. Studies that focus on truly low-income neighborhoods, including our own "Lost in Place," have shown that gentrification is generally rare in communities with very high concentrations of poverty. If we're worried about the plight of especially low-income people and neighborhoods, this is an important nuance.
From the other end, by writing half of all neighborhoods out of the story from the very beginning, these studies may imply that economic change in relatively higher-income communities is either less prevalent, or less important. It's not clear that either is true—and at the very least, this question deserves to be a part of the conversation.
The Onion is on it.
Socioeconomic shifts in neighborhoods whose residents are disproportionately low-income or people of color are particularly notable, because they involve changing some of the most highly visible social boundaries in American life. But that doesn't mean that other kinds of changes, like a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood becoming a predominantly white, wealthy neighborhood, don't also matter. For one, this kind of economic segregation can put housing even further out of reach for working class and low-income households, requiring deeper, less efficient subsidies, or increasing housing prices so much that vouchers won't cover the cost of rent. Moreover, growing high-income segregation has grave implications for cities, and society, as a whole.
Previous research, in fact, has demonstrated that much of the increase in income segregation over the past few decades has been driven by the "secession of the rich": the phenomenon of the very wealthy separating themselves from everyone else. Increasing segregation of high-income households can reduce the resources available to support common, community-wide services—a problem that's particularly bad when these elite neighborhoods happen to be separated from others by municipal or other government bodies, which can collect super-sized tax revenues to provide extremely high-quality "public" services, but only to their rich constituents.
New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Illinois.
And looking at income growth across the whole distribution of neighborhoods can help tell us about how income segregation is growing—or not. After all, for income segregation to be declining, low-income neighborhoods have to see faster income growth than more affluent ones. If the opposite is happening—or even if gains are equally distributed—then we're not making progress on income segregation.
So what would a study of neighborhood income change find if it didn't define some places as "ungentrifiable"? To get some idea, we looked at five metropolitan areas: Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Philadelphia, and Portland, OR. Using 2000 Census data, we divvied up Census tracts (areas roughly the size of a neighborhood) into buckets based on their median incomes in 2000—below $25,000, from $25,000 to $50,000, and so on in increments of $25,000. We then looked at how fast median income grew in each of those buckets between 2000 and 2010.
The results are too complex to be summarized in a phrase—but of the five cities, only Miami appears to show a clear pattern of lower-income neighborhoods seeing faster income growth than middle- or upper-income neighborhoods. In Chicago, very low income neighborhoods—those with median incomes of below $25,000 in 2000—grew very fast, but many of those tracts appear to be in communities where public housing projects were dismantled in the 2000s, removing large numbers of low-income people and, as a result, making the median income higher. Above $25,000, Chicago appears to follow a "rich-get-richer" pattern—at least up to a median income of $125,000.
Portland shows the fastest income growth at the extremes of wealthy and poor, though its fast-growing upper-income bucket ($75,000 to $100,000 median income) grew faster, at 26.6 percent, than its lower-income bucket (under $25,000 median income), at 23.8 percent. The middle-income buckets grew more slowly. Even so, Portland's incomes are notable for being evenly distributed: unlike the other metros in our sample, none of Portland's neighborhoods had a median income of more than $125,000.
Philadelphia and Detroit both show a fairly clear pattern of "rich-get-richer," with Detroit's being particularly stark: The median neighborhood with an income below $50,000 grew not at all or actually became poorer, while those with incomes above $100,000 grew most quickly. In Philadelphia, very poor neighborhoods (those with 2000 incomes under $25,000) grew slowly, at 12.4 percent, while other neighborhoods grew faster: neighborhoods with incomes between $75,000 and $100,000, for example, grew median incomes by 27.1 percent.
So what to take out of all of this? In part, it isn't surprising: We know that income segregation is growing nationally, and as we said, for that to be true, wealthy neighborhoods have to be growing faster than lower-income neighborhoods on average. As a caveat, by averaging out rates of income growth across many neighborhoods, we're missing huge amounts of variation. There are some higher-income neighborhoods that are becoming less affluent, and there are some low-income neighborhoods that have seen very rapid income growth.
But looking at income growth across all kinds of communities gives some much-needed context to the conversation about neighborhood change. It's not that change in low-income neighborhoods is less important: indeed, we ought to be concerned about the welfare of people who are most vulnerable, and what happens in their neighborhoods. But social equity involves the distribution of resources across all neighborhoods, and so it matters if high- and moderate-income communities are becoming even more exclusive.
The numbers we've come up with here are far from a full picture, of course—more like a first attempt to explore the question. We're looking forward to learning more in the future.


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Carolyn Martin reviews Snow White, When No One Was Looking
Snow White, When No One Was Looking by Donna Prinzmetal
Publisher: CW Books (2014)
Purchase: Available at Amazon.com
Review by Carolyn Martin
Reading Donna Prinzmetal's collection of persona poems, Snow White, When No One Was Looking (Cincinnati, OH: CW Books, 2014), is like falling down a rabbit hole and landing in the midst of a Salvador Dali painting. While her fairytale heroine has been part of our collective consciousness for generations – from the Grimm brothers to Walt Disney to ABC's Once Upon a Time – no one has ever met a Snow White quite like the one Prinzmetal creates. The poet invites us into the surreal inner world of this iconic heroine with language and images that are fresh and astonishing. In the process, she ensures that we will never look at this fairytale the same way again.
First of all, the foundation of this collection is built upon the original Grimms' fairytale. The three sections dividing the poems – white as snow, red as a blood, black as ebony – reference the qualities Snow White's birth mother wished for in a daughter. She got her wish but died in childbirth, thus setting the stage for the appearance of the evil stepmother, the compassionate huntsman, the protective dwarves, and, of course, the Prince.
But that traditional foundation begins to crack from the very first poem when Snow White announces, "I gotta tell you folks, I've been around the forest a time or two. Hold onto your flying sombrero because my America, the black forest, isn't what you expect" ("Everyone Loves a Happy Ending: Snow White Has Her Own Show").
From that moment on, we hear a voice we've never heard before; and every plot line, theme, and character we thought we knew in the fairytale is blown to smithereens. As Snow White proclaims in "Snow White Sets the Record Straight":
It didn't happen like everyone believed, in black
and white, dwarves in the cottage, a tsunami loose
in my body, then
unquenchable silence into my clear coffin sleep
while you were brooding over me … .
I never meant to start my own rumor.
Undoing that "rumor" is the driving force behind each poem and Snow White is securely enthroned in the driver's seat.
For example, Prinzmetal's Snow White is a time traveler. She doesn't merely reside in the fairytale world of magic mirrors, poison apples, dwarves and crystal coffins but hops to contemporary settings. In one poem she sits in front of a TV watching Oprah and Jerry Springer ("Snow White Watches Daytime TV"); in another she admits, "I'm never on time./I forget my century" ("Snow White Sets the Record Straight"). That statement becomes clearer when we stumble upon her references to Joan of Arc, Debussy, Chopin, Kafka, Errol Flynn, Dali, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Monroe and Madonna.
This Snow White is a handful for any prince – charming or not – who would attempt to love her. In "Snow White: Taxidermy," one of several love-themed poems, she says:
Let me confess
the ecstasy was temporary
as a tulip's bloom.
You would be mortified to know
how often I pretended to love you
in that mango colored tuxedo
you called woe.
And this Snow White is a character both disturbed and disturbing. She wants "so desperately to speak the language/ of the insane without being insane … ("Snow White Meets Salvador Dali"). She claims, "I am your worst/nightmare" ("Snow White: Ventriloquism"). She wishes to "devour the raw and uncleansed flesh of everyone who has ever betrayed me" ("If I Could Sew: Snow White").
While reading this collection, I kept asking myself, "What kind of poetic sensibility could have imagined and imaged this vision of this character?" Indeed, the depth and reach of Prinzmetal's poetic imagination is nothing short of a revelation. Like Snow White, she could tell us, "I am tired of telling the same story" ("Snow White Revises Her Fairy Tale"), yet we feel she never tires of creating surreal landscapes filled with different versions of the same story that haunt and delight, horrify and mystify.
If one of the purposes of poetry is to make us slow down and see the world with new eyes, then Snow White, When No One Was Looking fulfills that purpose. After savoring this collection, we can only admit to ourselves – and to each other – we weren't really looking after all. Now we are.
Carolyn Martin is blissfully retired in Clackamas, OR, where she gardens, writes, and plays with communities of creative colleagues. Currently, she is president of the board of VoiceCatcher, a nonprofit that connects, inspires, and empowers women writers and artists in greater Portland, OR, and Vancouver, WA.


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Q: 100% width is bigger than parent's div I'm working on vBulletin theme, but on thread list, every thread has 100% for its width but threads are also bigger than their parents, but when i remove border of threads, they will fit parent's div:). so think this problem is on borders.
You can see that better on jsfiddle (thread is white shape with black border)

A: The problem here is that the width is a size of the inner area with text, and the padding with border are "wrapped" around it. That specification makes no sense, but most modern browsers follow it.
Your savior is called box-sizing: border-box;.
.threadbit .thread {

    /* ... some stuff ... */

    -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; /* Safari/Chrome, other WebKit */
    -moz-box-sizing: border-box;    /* Firefox, other Gecko */
    box-sizing: border-box;         /* Opera/IE 8+ */
}

Look here: jsFiddle
More info on this property here and here.

A: Yep you are right, the borders are pushing out the "width" of the element. The is the default box-sizing of modern browsers. This can be modified in most with a declaration like:
.threadbit .thread {
    -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; /* Safari/Chrome, other WebKit */
    -moz-box-sizing: border-box;    /* Firefox, other Gecko */
    box-sizing: border-box;         /* Opera/IE 8+ */
}

Note that it isn't supported below IE8 so depending what you are making and the support you want, you may need to find an alternative solution or design.
EDIT
It has been a while since my original answer and browser support has changed slightly. Firefox 29, Chrome 10, Safari 5.1 and Internet Explorer 8 onwards all support box-sizing unprefixed however there are a few known issues from particular versions.
The full/up-to-date list is available on caniuse.com however here is a few ones I found important from the site:

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*IE8: ignores box-sizing: border-box if min/max-width/height is used

*IE8: the min-width property applies to content-box even if box-sizing is set to border-box

*IE9: the width of the scrollbar is subtracted from the width of the element when set to position: absolute and either overflow: auto or overflow-y: scroll
As the market share for IE8 and IE9 decrease, these issues and the other listed on caniuse will be less of an issue in the future.

A: Always remember when you encounter problems related to width check dimensions of element through box model from firefox developer tool or from chrome's metrix box.
Its alway a good idea to include
  *, *:before, *:after {
      -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
      -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
      box-sizing: border-box;
     }

Also make sure to check display property. If a element is made display inline it won't take width, margin & padding values and if it is displayed as inline-block it take width, margin & padding.
Here is a link for box-sizing property http://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/


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Wednesday's GOP debate in Simi Vally, California at the Ronald Reagan library marked the first time that Texas Governor Rick Perry joined the stage with the rest of the Republican Presidential hopefuls, and the dynamic created a noticeable difference between this debate and the previous debate in New Hampshire that we blogged about HERE. Whereas the previous debate boiled down to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Minnesota Congresswoman and Tea Party Caucus Chair Michelle Bachmann, last night's debate was certainly dominated by the slick talkin', Texas Southern accent twangin', non-question-answerin' Perry. Mr. "Audios Mofo" himself. When the other 7 candidates weren't busy bashing President Obama (which made up for about 90% of their stand up material) they were focused on taking shots at the Texas front runner.
Our Winners and Losers after the Jump:
Rick Perry - Gov. of Texas
No surprise here. Rick Perry is a Republican among Republicans. He came into the debate as the front runner, and he left the debate as the front runner because nobody (save Romney) was able to land a punch on the guy. He threw red meat talking points out onto the crowd and had them dancing to his tune as if he were the Pied Piper himself; at one point he even had the crowd cheering - yes literally cheering - for the fact that Texas kills more people on death row than any other state in the country (no BS). You could gather from his smug Texas twang that he was self-assured in his position as the front runner, even as he brushed his shoulders off at attacks on his state's shortcomings in education and health coverage. He almost made it out of the woods gaffe-free but about an hour into the debate he made the most controversial statement of the evening when he attacked Social Security and called it a "Ponzi Scheme." Romney quickly capitalized on the mistake, stating that the GOP needs to nominate somebody who will fix Social Security rather than destroy it.
Mitt Romney - Businessman and former Governor of Massachusetts
Romney, who enjoyed the front runner status at the previous debate, was noticeably disturbed by the fact that he was playing catch-up to Gov. Perry all night long. To be sure, he got his talking points in, but they seemed a bit rushed at times and not as polished as he has been over the previous months. One of his talking points failed to pass the sniff test when boasted that "We created more jobs in Massachusetts than this President has created in the entire country." Actually, when Romney was Governor of Massachusetts between January 2003 and January 2007, 48,500 jobs were created. Obama's stimulus program, on the other hand, has created between 1.0 million and 2.9 million jobs according to the CBO. Not even close. However, Romney still projected that he is the GOP's strongest General Election candidate next to Jon Huntsman. Romney wasted no time throwing a few counter punches against Gov. Perry when Perry, attempting to belittle Romney's job growth record in Massachusetts, quipped "Michael Dukakis created jobs 3 times faster than you did, Mitt." Romney, searching through his mental cheat sheet on Perry, quickly fired back with "Well as a matter of fact, George Bush and his predecessor created jobs at a faster rate than you did, Governor." Nevertheless, Romney did manage to establish himself as the George Foreman to Perry's Muhammad Ali, relegating the other 6 candidates into what will likely be an unshakeable second-tier status from this point forward unless something significant happens to shake up the race.
LOSERS:
Michelle Bachmann - Minnesota Congresswoman
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. As we all know, in politics your luck can change faster than a New York minute, and nobody personifies this phenomenon more aptly than Michelle Bachmann. When we tuned into the last debate, Bachmann was "new hotness." Now she's just "old and busted." Bachmann's stock plummeted faster than America's credit rating after the debt ceiling debate....which, incidentally, her Tea Party Caucus was largely responsible for creating. The cause of Bachmann's fall from grace can be summed up in one word: Perry. Ever since the Texas Governor has entered the race, the GOP base has tipped its hand in an unmistakeable manner that calls into question just how far the party has "progressed" (no pun intended) over the years. As it turns out, the Republican base still loves to hear the exact same Tea Party rhetoric that Michelle Bachmann has consistently delivered since she first arrived on the Presidential scene...but they'd rather hear it coming from a man than hear it coming from woman. Go figure.
Jon Huntsman - Former Utah Governor & Ambassador to China
Is he electable? Yes. Could he beat Obama in 2012? Yes. Will the GOP give him the nod? Of course not! Make no mistakes about it, as a former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, U.S. Ambassador to China, and Governor of the State of Utah...the GOP's most viable General Election candidate - even more viable than his fellow Mormon brethren Mitt Romney - is Jon Huntsman. And, to keep it one hunnid, he actually made one helluva case for himself during last night's debate. So you may be wondering why we have him listed in the "Losers" category. Because, despite his general election credentials, Huntsman will never make it out of the Republican primary. The GOP won't run him primarily for three reasons: (i) he's not a Christian, (ii) part of his service as Ambassador to China was under the Obama Administration, and most importantly (iii) he has the au-da-ci-tyyyyyyyy to tell the truth about the Republican Party [gasp]. Since we likely will not have the opportunity of writing about Mr. Huntsman anymore after tonight, we'd like to provide the full text of the quote that singlehandedly eliminated his chances of EVER receiving the Republican nod:
"Listen, when you make comments that fly in the face of what 98 out of 100 climate scientists have said, when you call into question the science of evolution, all I am saying is that in order for the Republican Party to win we can't run from science. We can't run from mainstream conservative philosophy. We've got to win voters. We've got to do what I did as Governor when I was re-elected: we reached out and we brought in independents. I got independents. I got conservative democrats. If we're gonna win in 2012, we've gotta make sure that we have somebody who can win based upon numbers of the math that will get us there. And by making comments that basically don't reflect the reality of the situation, we turn people off."
THE "WHY ARE THEY STILL HERE?" CATEGORY:
Ron Paul - Texas Congressman
Ok Mr. Paul, it was fun while it lasted but seriously, what are you still doing here? Yes, sure, we know that you've raised a considerable amount of money and that's all well and good, but it's not going to happen.
Rick Santorum - U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania
Honestly, about halfway through the debate I seriously forgot that the guy was still running for President. At one point after Perry, Romney, Bachmann and Huntsman had dominated the conversation for a good half hour, the camera cut over to Santorum and I had to do a double take like "where the hell did that guy come from? Has he been on stage this whole time?" Once again, Santorum did nothing that helped to distinguish or elevate his standing among the 8 GOP candidates. Time to go the way of the T-Paw, good sir.
Newt Gingrich - former Speaker of the House
So you're not interested in the moderators' attempts to get Republicans to fight other Republican, are you? Well guess what, Newt - we're not interested in anything you had to say anyway. His only memorable applause line of the evening came when he commended the other candidates on collectively opposing Obama. Congratulations: you got a room full of Republicans to applaud other Republicans for opposing Obama. Be sure to add that to your resume of lifetime accomplishments.
Herman Cain - Businessman
And once again coming in dead last, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain. Cain had a few nuggets for the crowd, such as his 9-9-9 tax program that would lower every person and every corporation's tax rate to 9%, and his suggestion to copy the privatized pension plan of the nation of Chile. At this point, however, with a popular White male Tea Party candidate (from Texas no doubt) supplying the Republican base with all of the talking points that it needs, there simply isn't any demand for a Black conservative selling the same product.
What were your takeaways from the Debate?
Who were the biggest Winners or Losers?
[ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE URBAN POLITICO]
Posted by The Janitor at 2:50 AM
Labels: GOP, Presidential Debates, Republicans


Hickory's sweetheart, Mandy Pitts Hildebrand joins us on StreetCircleDrive for a closer look at the Tourism industry in our area. Meetings, conferences, events… you name it, and the Hickory Metro Convention Center and Visitors Bureau has you covered!
Next, Its a new year and a new McNally! Tune in as we head to local healthy hotspot, Active Edge / Center Street Eats! They have a new addition we wanted to check out and the low calorie intake is just what we needed to kick off the New Year! The boys only ordered one lunch -and- McNally set his all time spending low!
Check out the latest edition of the show for Hickory residents and those who want to be… StreetCircleDrive!


This second release by Reuben Son for Private Chronology strays from the minimalism and restraint previously exercised. Side A provides a slice of tape-garble sourced largely from a crudely played electric guitar. Side B is something else entirely, an almost melodramatic guitar jaunt incorporating a previously recorded tape piece and locational sounds (floated in from an open window).
Hand-assembled edition of 100 by the artist, with labels scrawled onto painted cassette shells by fingerpick.
" ... Reuben's vision is proving to be one of the more singular amidst these pages ; criminal he's only been able to get out these small-run tapes thusfar ... but then again, we should all be grateful that we're even granted access to his inner sanctum ... Highly Recommended !!!"
"... Totally cryptic and totally magnificent .."


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Critical Geographies
Dr Rebecca Ellis
My research draws upon the disciplines of Social Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies and Cultural Geography to explore how we, as humans, come to know, relate to and respond to non-human entities such as the multitude of organisms making up the planet's biodiversity. This has involved working with Amazonian indigenous communities, UK amateur naturalists and laboratory and field scientists in the fields of taxonomy, biodiversity and bioinformatics. This mix of contexts has allowed me to observe and sometimes understand very different ways of knowing and engaging with the world and the intersections which lie between these differences continue to excite me. Currently, I am particularly interested in probing further into what it might mean to engage with entities - organic and inorganic - which lie beyond the realm of human experience either because they are difficult to sense or because they exist before or after our presence on the planet. This kind of research is sometimes quite abstract and also raises key questions for academia and a wider public with an urgent and practical interest in the environment. Working in an interdisciplinary research centre like Lancaster Environment Centre and collaborating across the University with colleagues in computing, sociology, medicine and art has also opened my research out into different directions which are reflected in the research projects below.
Ellis, R. (forthcoming) "Dark Taxa: Blank Spaces for Biosemiosis"
Ellis, R. (forthcoming) "Quiet Matter: labour, loss and a message from cryptic diversity"
Mackenzie, A., Waterton, C., Ellis, R., Frow, E., McNally, R., Busch, L. & Wynne, B. (2013) "Classifyng, Constructing and Identifying Life: Standards as Transformations of the Biological" Science, Technology & Human Values
Waterton, C., Ellis, R. and Wynne, B. (2013) "Barcoding Nature: Shifting Taxonomic Practices in an Age of Biodiversity Loss", CESAGen Genetics and Society Book Series, Routledge
Ellis, R. (2011) "Jizz and the Joy of Pattern Recognition: virtuosity, discipline and the agency of insight in UK naturalist arts of seeing" Social Studies of Science Vol 41 (6) pp. 769-790
Ellis, R., Waterton, C., and Wynne, B. (2009) "Taxonomy, Biodiversity and their Publics in 21st Century DNA Barcoding". Public Understanding of Science Vol. 19 (4): 497-512
Ellis, R. and Waterton, C. 2005, "Caught between the cartographic and the ethnographic imagination: the whereabouts of amateurs, professionals and nature in knowing biodiversity", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 23/5, pp. 673-693
Ellis, R. and Waterton, C. 2004, "Environmental citizenship in the making: the participation of volunteer naturalists in UK biological recording and biodiversity policy", Science and Public Policy, April 2004, Vol. 31/2, pp. 95-101
Citizens Transforming Society: Tools for Change(CaTalyST):a 'Petri dish' for the
promotion of interdisciplinary research in citizen-led social innovation
http://www.catalystproject.org.uk/
Understanding and Managing Energy Usage in Future Networks EPSRC funded
http://current.lancs.ac.uk/
'Taxonomy at a Crossroads: Science, Policy and Publics in Biodiversity':
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/taxonomy/
'Amateurs as Experts: Harnessing New Knowledge Networks for Biodiversity'Biodiversity':
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/projects/ieppp/amateurs/
'Databases, Naturalists and the Convention on Biological Diversity'Biodiversity':
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/sis/
Society and Environment Research Group
Centre for the Study of Environmental Change
Centre for Science Studies
Current PhD Supervision
Emily Adams: Understanding and Managing Honey Bee Health in the UK: Beekeeping Knowledge and Engagement with Science and Policy (ESRC-NERC funding)
Rachael Carrie: Towards Sustainable River Management: combining biological indicators and local environmental knowledge to monitor and manage river integrity in Belize (ESRC-NERC funding)
Niklas Hartmann: Ecosystem Services - studying how a concept transforms ecological theory, research practice and human-environment relations
Jonnet Middleton: The Age of Mending: The art of disruptive innovation for new economies of mending
Anne Toomey: Community science as a tool for engagement in conservation practice: Understanding how different ways of knowing can translate into better ways of doing in Madidi National Park, Bolivia
Previous PhD Students
Jodie Chapel: Biopiracy in Peru: Tracing Biopiracies, Theft, Loss and Traditional Knowledge(ESRC funding)
Amy Fowler: Citizen Science and local climate change: an interdisciplinary approach to public participation and the formulation of data sets to model Urban Heat Island effects (ESRC-NERC funding)
From responsibility to accountability: working creatively with distributed agency in office energy metering and management
Whittle, R. K., Ellis, R. J., Marshall, I., Alcock, P., Hutchison, D. & Mauthe, A. U., 11/2015, In : Energy Research and Social Science. 10, p. 240-249 10 p.
Porous topologies of (im)perceptibilities as creative process
Casey, S. & Ellis, R., 4/09/2015.
Imaginative labour and relationships of care: co-designing prototypes with vulnerable communities
Southern, J., Ellis, R., Ferrario, M. A., McNally, R., Dillon, R., Simm, W. & Whittle, J., 05/2014, In : Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 84, p. 131-142 12 p.
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Ash and co are now heading through a forest trail as May admires her two ribbons. Max congratulates her and she thanks him as Ash says their next stop is the Petalburg City Gym. Max comments that he won't be as lucky as May was in his next competition, as their father is a tough opponent. Ash feels confident that he'll prove him wrong. He then realizes that he's pretty thirsty and asks Brock for some water. Brock shakes them empty canteen and says they must be out. Everyone begins to freak, but Brock remains calm. He says that as a great water trainer, he will find them a source to refill their canteens and rushes off. Ash and co rush after him.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket is busy with their latest scheme. It turns out that they are bottling and boxing jugs of water to sell. As they talk about how hot it is and how much money they are going to make, Ash and co appear through the forest. They instantly decide to hid and capture Pikachu when the group comes by.
Ash and co tiredly press on as Brock says water must be around here somewhere. Suddenly, a Zubat flutters out of the bushes and everyone freaks out. Brock then comments that it was only a Zubat, and May seems annoyed by the little Pokemon identification. Brock then turns and notices a Solrock flying off. It turns around like Bigfoot from the Patterson Film, and everyone is in awe. They begin to chase after it, but suddenly fall into a pitfall trap.
Team Rocket appears gloating at how easy this was, and Meowth snatches Pikachu out of the hole with a net. Suddenly, a fire spin comes by and knocks Team Rocket back and frees Pikachu from the net. Solrock comes into the fray and Team Rocket begins to yell at it. When everyone is out of the trap, Ash scans the Pokemon with his dex. Jessie and Meowth begin to make fun of the Solrock, and James cuts in saying they need to get rid of it.
He calls out Cacnea who instantly goes to hug him. James pulls it off and tells it to use pin missile on Solrock. It does so, but the attacks just bounce off. Meowth then suggests they capture it and the three leap towards it. Solrock then launches a solar beam sending them blasting off. When the dust settles, Ash and co realize Solrock is gone! They call for it and Ash seems disappointed as he wanted to thank it for saving Pikachu. Brock then suggests they head towards the spring to get some water, and then worry about Solrock. Max and May instantly agree.
When the group makes it to the small spring, they are in shock to find it completely dried up! As they wonder what could have done this, May notices a small village in the valley below. Brock says they must have water and so the group decides to head there. The village is very strange as the roofs of the houses are all lily pads. What's even worse is that the lake under the bridge is completely dried up. Ash asks Pikachu if it smells any water, but it shakes its head. Max then comments that water Pokemon usually know where to find sources, and Ash agrees.
He calls out Corphish and Brock releases Mudkip and Lotad. Skitty then randomly pops out of May's pack. May asks if it wants to help and it nods. Ash then tells the group to find water. Corphish leaps into the dried lake and begins to dig. Ash says that the water must be under the ground! Skitty then smells something and rushes off. Mudkip and Lotad follow and Brock, May, and Max do as well. Ash says he'll see what Corphish finds, but he then looks down to see it pull a pot from the sand and place it on itself. He sighs as Corphish happily peaks out.
It turns out Skitty smelt flowers as it stands by a house sniffing them. May nervously informs it that they wanted water, not flowers. Mudkip and Lotad end up finding a well in the middle of the town and everyone seems happy. Brock then realizes that the well looks dried up as well and everyone sighs. Lotad then leaps onto the bucket and sits there. Everyone stares at it for awhile, and then Max asks what it is doing. Lotad suddenly freaks out as the bucket tips and it falls into the well. Ash and co lunge to help it, but hear a crash below.
They can't help but laugh at this misfortune, and Brock tells Lotad to get in the bucket and he'll pull it up. He does so, and thanks it for trying. Suddenly, Lotad begins to glow and everyone stares in awe. In a matter of seconds, the group looks upon a brand new Lombre! Ash scans it with the dex and Brock greets his new Pokemon. Suddenly, an old woman comes rushing down the road towards them. She has a lily pad on her head and seems to be approaching for Lombre.
When she makes it to the group, she pushes them aside and gets on her knees to pray to the Pokemon. May wonders what is so special about Lombre and the old woman instantly begins to yell at them. She explains that her village has been waiting for this blessing for awhile now. She then gets a hold of herself and thanks them for bringing Lombre. Ash then asks why she has waited for this and the old woman tells them that Lombre can help them get rid of that pestering Solrock that recently appeared.
She then calls out to a nearby house and the door opens. A young woman steps out to see what's going on. Another old woman and an old man follow her. Brock is instantly in love and approaches her exclaiming that he has bravely traveled many miles to save their village with his Lombre. The girl seems confused and Max pulls Brock away. The old woman then points to Lombre and all the villages appear crowding around it. The young woman stays back however. Ash and co approach her and wonder why they want to get rid of Solrock. She seems as confused as they do however.
The old woman then says this Pokemon will single handedly save them from the drought and the girl turns to Ash and co. She apologizes for this and introduces herself as Hamatsu. She then wonders why they are hear and Max and May embarrassedly explain that they were looking for water. Hamatsu leads them into their house and happily hands them some glasses of water. Ash and co thank her and she says it was no problem.
She then goes on to explain that they don't get much water anymore. Ash and co wonder why and she explains that the town's irrigation depends on small spring at the shrine. She explains that the shrine is said to tell the tale of a Lombre that watches over the town and makes sure they always have water. She then explains that some time ago, a meteor struck nearby and villagers began reporting seeing a Solrock in the woods. After some time, a drought started and the water in the spring dried up. She explains that the villagers became angry and want to get rid of the Solrock.
Ash and co realize that that is a problem, but Hamatsu informs them that Solrock doesn't mean to cause trouble. She says that it's just lost and trapped. The group then hears the villagers chanting outside and rush out to seem them all waiting with musical instruments. The old woman explains that they need Lombre to do a rain dance with them so that they can ward off the Solrock. Ash and co get angry and explain to her that Solrock isn't trying to cause trouble. May adds in that she'd feel pretty scared too if she was lost and in a strange environment.
Hamatsu agrees and tells the villagers to stop acting so harsh. The old lady and her begin to argue, but the old lady winds by getting the mob excited to do a rain dance. Lombre is then set on the shrine and the villagers begin to dance around it. Ash and May think the tune is pretty catchy, and Brock asks Hamatsu to dance. Max pulls her away and Ash comments that Lombre seems to be getting into it too. They all look to see it begin to jig happily on the shrine. May says it can really move and Max wonders where it got that from. Brock instantly says he taught it.
The old lady then says that they need to dance faster and everyone begins to speed it up. Suddenly, Pikachu leaps from Ash's shoulder and joins the dance. A few Bellossom also exit the forest and join in. Suddenly, many grass Pokemon appear and join the dance. After a while, the group tires themselves out and begins to rest. The sun still shies brightly and the old lady says it will rain any second now. Ash and co wonder if it will work, but Hamatsu cuts in saying this is pointless.
Ash and co then come to their senses and agree. They then suggest that instead of chasing Solrock out, they get it to stop using sunny day. The old woman doesn't like this idea, but in the end, Max convinces her to go with it. The group hides in the bushes as Lombre continues to dance. Brock says that Solrock is usually curious as it helped them out before, so it should show up to investigate. The old woman prays this will work. Solrock suddenly hovers down to Lombre. The two begin to talk and Ash and co wait patiently to see what happens.
Suddenly, Skitty randomly pops out and begins to run off. May chases it and Hamatsu follows. Skitty rushes inside a dark cave and May wonders what to do now. Hamatsu pulls out a flashlight and says she'll help. The head through the cave and soon come upon Skitty. They also come upon a large machine with a red R on it sucking the water from the spring. May and Hamatsu realize it wasn't Solrock causing the lake to dry up!
Outside, Team Rocket continues to fill their bottles up and put them into boxes. They gloat at how much money this will bring in, and Meowth then notices something in the distance. He takes out some binoculars and discovers that Lombre is talking to Solrock by the shrine. He then gets an idea and suggests that they go and steal the two Pokemon. Jessie and James wonder why and he has a vision of Giovanni using Lombre as a portable sink and Solrock keeping him warm. With hopes of getting promoted in mind, they all agree! May and Hamatsu then appear and them to stop taking the water.
Meanwhile, Ash and co watch as Solrock begins to aid Lombre in its dance. Ash says that it will feel comfortable in no time and stop the drought, but the old lady disagrees. She yells to the villagers exclaiming that Solrock is here and they all leap out. Ash tells them to stop, but they won't listen. They all lunge at Solrock, but it uses psychic to lift them up. Ash tells it to put them down, and Lombre also motions it to. Solrock does so and they all hit the ground hard.
May and Hamatsu then run up exclaiming that Team Rocket is causing the drought. Before anyone can react, the team crashes through the forest in a jolly green giant mecha and say their motto. Meowth then activates a switch and a net comes out of one of the arms and snags Lombre and Solrock. Brock tells Lombre to use razor leaf, and it ends up cutting the net. The two Pokemon escape and Team Rocket is shocked. Pikachu then tries a thunderbolt, but Meowth sends a water gun at Pikachu using the nozzle nose of the mecha.
Pikachu is knocked away and Ash rushes to it. Meowth then turns the water gun towards the villagers who cower in fear. Suddenly, Solrock leaps in the way and takes the hit. Brock remarks that Solrock is a rock type and so that water could really do some damage. However, Solrock begins to spin and heat up. Brock remarks that the water can't do anything when Solrock it's doing that, and Meowth decides to increase the pressure.
It still doesn't affect Solrock and the Pokemon begins to charge the mecha. Soon it slams into it blowing the mecha back. Pikachu then uses thunderbolt to blow it up and send Team Rocket blasting off again. The group thinks everything is back to normal, but they suddenly notice that Solrock can't stop spinning! The group watches as the heat increases making it extremely hot in the area.
Suddenly, some bushes near the old lady go up in flames and everyone panics. Solrock then goes out of control and begins to spin toward the village. Everyone begins to worry and the old lady begs Brock to save their homes. Brock immediately has Lombre use water gun, but it doesn't seem to do much. Brock calls out Mudkip to help, and the two Pokemon launch their attacks. After some time, steam begins to rise from Solrock's burning mass and the clouds start to turn colors. After some time, the increased heat and steam begin to make the clouds turn to rain clouds and it starts pouring.
Everyone cheers and Solrock finally stops spinning. It turns around and seems to be ok. Hamatsu is overjoyed by this and then notices that the spring is filled again! The villagers begin to dance around it as Solrock and Lombre join them. The old lady gets on her knees and prays for this blessing. With the spring restored, the villagers begin to reclaim water from the well. Hamatsu thanks Ash and co for all their help and Brock then begins to flirt with her. He offers to stay with her and have Lombre protect the village, but after some time, he notices she walked away and begins to sulk.
339: Solrock & Lombre! Legend Of The Forest!