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October 19, 1989 - December 31, 1989
This group of fine, nineteenth-century appliqué quilts, many of them from the Philadelphia area, has never been the subject of a specific study, and several are now exhibited for the first time. The exhibition coincides with the one hundredth annual meeting of the American Folklore Society, which occurs in Philadelphia.
September 9, 1989 - November 26, 1989
Between 1871 and 1929 Philadelphia planned and substantially executed a grand scheme to build a broad Parkway. The Philadelphia Museum of Art still houses 170 architectural drawings that document Philadelphia's important contribution to the "City Beautiful" movement, tracing the development of the Parkway (Philadelphia's "Champ-Elysee") as the intended site of major cultural and commercial monuments which literally culminated in the building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, completed in 1928.
May 21, 1989 - September 17, 1989
This extraordinary collection of paintings by the leading artists of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism--Manet, Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Degas, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Cézanne, Vuillard--will have its first public showing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
September 15, 1988 - July 15, 1989
The delicate nature of works on paper and silk necessitates the frequent rotation of paintings. The current installation features the art of flower painting. Through the centuries, Chinese artists have delighted in depicting the flowers of every season.
September 15, 1988 - July 15, 1989
Sixty years ago, in the fall of 1928, a shipment of crates arrived here from Japan containing the elements of a teahouse. The teahouse and its waiting room had originally been built in 1917 by a Japanese architect for his private residence in Tokyo. It would be nearly thirty years before the plan of another architect, then director of this museum, Fiske Kimball, was completed, with the opening of the Museum's Far Eastern wing in 1957.
April 15, 1989 - July 9, 1989
This exhibition features Flemish engravers, Jan, Raphael, and Aegidius Sadeler, who were prominent figures in the world of prints and book publishing in the late 16th century.
April 22, 1989 - June 2, 1989
This exhibition, among the first ever to be devoted to a single country house, chronicles the designing of one of Great Britain's key monuments of Neoclassical architecture. Kedleston, the country seat in Derby, was largely designed by Britain's most distinguished eighteenth-century architect, Robert Adam (1728-1792).
Twenty-Five Years of Gifts from the Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
March 18, 1989 - May 21, 1989
This display is part of a year-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Friends of the Museum, who raise funds for the acquisition of works of art for the Museum's collections. Many of the approximately 40 prints, drawings, and photographs in the exhibitions are 20th century.
February 19, 1989 - April 16, 1989
This exhibition of approximately 250 photographs celebrates Robert Adams' mastery in recording the changing appearance as well as the enduring qualities of the American landscape.
February 1, 1989 - April 9, 1989
Selection of African-American Works from the Collections is a show mounted by the Department of Twentieth Century Art in honor of Black History month.
January 29, 1989 - April 2, 1989
The fascinating literary tradition which has linked the Jewish and Catholic faiths throughout the ages is demonstrated by an exhibition of 56 manuscripts from the Vatican Library. It is the first major public showing of the Vatican Library's Hebrew illuminations, chosen from the Library's collection of 801 Hebrew manuscripts.
December 17, 1988 - March 26, 1989
This exhibition presents a selection from the paintings in Johnson's catalogue of 1892 and traces the first decade of his illustrious career as an art collector. The fourteen artists represented were all active in the 1880s and 1890s. Works from eleven countries are exhibited, showing Johnson's breadth of vision, while the inclusion of three French paintings reflects his preference.
October 23, 1988 - January 8, 1989
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has organized a survey of recent paintings and drawings by Jasper Johns, one of the most celebrated and influential artists working today, for the United States Pavilion of the 43rd Venice Biennale.
November 5, 1988 - January 1, 1989
Pietro Testa, one of the most remarkable artists in the circle of Nicolas Poussin, was an enigmatic and melancholic painter active in Rome from about 1630 until his early death in 1650. During his short career he became famous for the inventiveness and technical brio of his prints and drawings, which constitute his most important artistic contribution. Following the seventeenth-century, however, Testa's reputation suffered a decline. The exhibition and catalogue should reestablish Testa's rightful reputation among the premier draftsmen and etchers of Baroque Italy.


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Do I love America? No.......after what I have seen and been through in the last 25 years of my life,i can honestly say so.This is not what I thought America was and I hope to be leaving for another country as soon as I can get locked into my social security benefits in a few short years.........even though I am an atheist I pray everyday that I will not die on American soil . Between the church and state anything and everything that could have meant anything to me has been taken from me......so you think your free? Think again........there is no freedom here......one only gets to move into a bigger cage if he is lucky enough......
So would American soldiers fighting in combat for the sake of the corporate muckey mucks be considered contract killers,murdering innocent people under the guise of collateral damage? Are soldiers considered to be murdering assholes in my book? Absolutely!
Hey people. Here are some good sites to go to if you want to read about Anarchy. Anarchadia Anarchist News Anarchist Writers. If you have questions about Anarchy or you want to see what is going on in the Anarchist world then go there. If one of the links doesn't work then let me know.
John, THANK YOU FOR THE 411.
Bill H.R. 1540 passed last night with a nearly unanimous vote. For those of you living under rocks, this bill is the National Defense Authorization Act, which is renewed every year, but which this year includes the declaration that "the entire USA is a "battleground" upon which U.S. military forces can operate with impunity, overriding Posse Comitatus and granting the military the unchecked power to arrest, detain, interrogate and even assassinate U.S. citizens with impunity." - source
The bill merely awaits Obama's signature, and although he has threatened to veto it, here is proof from CSPAN2 that the language exempting Americans from military impunity was removed AT HIS REQUEST. He will pass this bill, and America will officially become a military dictatorship. This will mean that, on suspicion of support for any entity that opposes US doctrine, you may be arrested, detained without trial, tortured and killed.
We have a few days before the bill is signed into law. I urge everyone to raise as much of a fuss as you possibly can, because it will be illegal for you to raise a fuss after the bill is signed. I also urge everyone to become non-cooperative with this government. Stop paying your taxes, stop paying your mortgage, pull your money out of the stock market and buy precious metals, and become as self-sufficient as you possibly can. Help and encourage others to do so as well. You are the only one who can protect each other: the police and military are now your enemies! Load your guns and discuss emergency plans with your freinds, family and neighbors. We are on our own.
Good luck to all of you.
Yeah, that's exactly the type of shit I'm talking about. In fact, I just made that same argument to someone who suggested I get off the grid instead of complaining about society. If anyone is interrested, I took this topic to another site, where it has taken off in greater detail, with some well-informed contributors. The link is here
There is a decent parallel to the advent of air travel. In the sixties, the planes weren't full, the food/service was great, the bureaucracy/red-tape was minimal, FLYING WAS GREAT. Air travel was the great liberator, today, it is completely controlled and profiled and integrated with borders, immigration, customs, police, flight information. All this information is digitally cross-referenced, errors and unfairness included.
You mention getting off the grid... I don't believe that's really possible any more. They now use heat sensing satellite data to track pot plantations in the middle of forests in the middle of nowhere. At this point in civilisation, if the powers that be want to find you, they will... :(
I think for the first few decades of its life, the internet grew too quickly for its creators to control it, and the younger generation's ability to manipulate it outstripped anyone else's ability prevent them. But now they are figuring out ways to lock the internet down, and once it's locked down, the temporary freedom it has provided will be gone. We are alive in a rare time, where we actually got to experience what it was like to be uncontrolable. If we don't fight to keep that state of affairs, we may never experience it again. Check out these articles:
1. Uncle Sam wants to pit hackers against hackers
2. TOR files used to establish a massive government spy network
3. The borderless internet is dead
Exactly, information technology, in the end, serves power, not the people. The information highway it was for its first decade of life was no different from a drug pusher's front, to get people hooked to the drug. Now the axe starts to fall.
Sure, but what happens when your internet gets shut down? That's what's happening in China, in Syria, in Iran, in North Korea, and guess who provides the technology to do that? US. Tht signifies to me that our government is testing the efficacy of these devices elsewhere, where thye don't care if civil unrest is the result because that just strengthens their positions anyway. And once the kinks are worked out, and SOPA passes, they'll be deploying that equipment right here, and there goes your social communication tools. There goes any power the people have to organize and rebel against the atrocities.
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Ryan Gosling to retire temporarily
Ryan Gosling is currently promoting The Place Beyond The Pines. In an interview with the AP, Ryan revealed that he's decided to take some time off from acting. He's currently working on his directorial debut.
"I've been doing it too much," he says of acting. "I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does."
This wouldn't be the first time. He went away after Lars And The Real Girl, remember? To play in his band, Dead Man's Bones, with people dressed up in Halloween costumes, touring small venues across North America. That was almost 3 years ago, and for 3 years. So he needs to reset again. Which is good. And, for this industry, actually kinda brave. Because these people are inherently famewhores, and they can't help themselves, they need, obsessively, to be up in our faces.
Interesting though the difference between what he considers a "break" and what the audience considers a "break". Or, more specifically, his audience. Because for those who would NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO at this news, it's not like, well, it's not like they go see his movies anyway and certainly not the way, say, they go see Channing Tatum movies. So long as he's papped now and again, and looking hot, really, to them, hey girl, what does it matter? After all, The Notebook is available on DVD.
And what of The Notebook and his status as everyone's boyfriend?
"By virtue of being in a movie like that, it just changes people's perception of you. But it doesn't make it true."
Maybe not right now. But if he and Eva Mendes ever break up, it'll be easier for them to believe again.
Attached -- Gosling in New York yesterday.
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Meowth (Team Rocket)
- This article is about the Meowth who works for Team Rocket. For the TCG card from the Team Rocket set, see Meowth (Team Rocket 62).
Meowth of Team Rocket
Meowth (Japanese: ニャース Nyarth) is a member of Team Rocket in a trio with Jessie and James.
- 1 In the anime
- 2 In the games
- 3 In the manga
- 4 In the TCG
- 5 Trivia
- 6 Related articles
In the anime
When he was younger, Meowth lived on the streets in Hollywood after he came there in search of fame and fortune. He was a member of a gang of street Meowth that was led by a Persian; the gang annoyed the humans in town, stealing food and causing trouble in general. One day, Meowth came across a female Meowth named Meowzie. Since she rejected him and preferred the company of her rich human mistress, Meowth attempted to make himself stand out from other Meowth and become more human-like to make himself "worthy" of her. Thus, he painstakingly taught himself to speak human language in a New York accent and walk upright like a human. When he approached her after this transformation, she once again rejected him, calling him a freak. Heartbroken, Meowth remembered the first human word he learned to speak - "rocket" - and was inspired to join Team Rocket. In Japanese, he often puts the word "Nya" into his sentences, the equivalent of a meow in Japanese. This was abandoned in the English dub shortly into the beginning of the series. Because Meowth can speak human but is a Pokémon, he is useful as a Pokémon translator. Despite being a Pokémon though, he is in charge of building and repairing the machines used by his team.
In Go West, Young Meowth, Meowth, Jessie, and James returned to Hollywood while following Ash, and Meowth was reunited with Meowzie, who had since been abandoned by her mistress and was forced to join the gang of street Meowth. Meowth fought his former Persian leader to win Meowzie's love, and won, but Meowzie demonstrated that her loyalty was with Persian since he took care of her when she needed it, and Meowth was once again heartbroken.
Because of the effort Meowth exerted while learning to speak and walk like a human, he has not learned the signature move of his species, Pay Day. In Meowth Rules, Meowth was worshiped by an island of people who believed that he could bring them riches with Pay Day. When he was caught in a battle meant to induce Pay Day, Jessie and James had to secretly bail him out by throwing the last of their spare change and some of James' prized bottlecaps in order to appease the islanders. Upon learning of its species' love for gathering coins and shiny objects from Ash's Pokédex later in Do I Hear a Ralts?, Jessie criticized him for not doing so.
There has been some debate as to whether or not Meowth was ever Giovanni's "Top Cat" (personal pet). He has stated himself as such in front of Giovanni with no objection (only to say that Persian was now in that position). Yet in Training Daze, he was shown to have been present at Team Rocket Headquarters for a short time, during which we see that Persian is already there. During this time, Meowth became a servant to Giovanni, bringing him food and drinks; however, he was unsuccessful at this task because he tripped over a wire, spilled Giovanni's coffee and got himself electrocuted. Giovanni didn't appear to be angry, but he assigned Meowth to Jessie and James's team. In light of this, it should be noted that Training Daze potentially contradicted other stated facts from previous episodes regarding Team Rocket's back story.
Several times, Meowth and Pikachu have had to team up, such as in the episodes Bound for Trouble and Hoenn Alone when both were separated from their respective parties. His relationship with Jessie and James varies in quality; for example, in Go West, Young Meowth they stated that they regarded Meowth as a friend, but in Bound for Trouble, having discovered Meowth and Pikachu after the two had been stuck together, they both stated that they had really been looking for Pikachu and Meowth was just 'part of the package'. Meowth seems to have aspects of each of his teammates in him; in arguments, he can often be seen siding with either Jessie (usually denouncing James' incompetence) or James (usually complaining about Jessie's overdramatic and rash behavior). Despite these fights, the three remain very close and loyal friends, although at one point in Giovanni's Gym in Viridian City, they threatened to split up. However they realized they had over reacted, and became friends again, proving themselves very loyal to each other.
Meowth also has demonstrated aspirations of being a parent-like caretaker, coddling Togepi's egg before fighting for custody of it only to finally lose it to Misty. To regain custody of Togepi, he even defeated Brock's Onix by throwing a bucket of water in its face and finishing it with a Fury Swipes attack to the head.
Meowth has also, since late Johto, had frequent fantasies about presenting Giovanni with various Pokémon. These fantasies often involve whatever creature it happens to be assisting Giovanni in his daily routine.
Much like Ash's Pikachu, Meowth does not stay inside a Poké Ball, but is technically a wild Pokémon unlike Pikachu. Strangely, though he first appeared in the second episode, in an era where Ash scanned nearly every Pokémon he came into contact with with his Pokédex, it took until Do I Hear a Ralts? for Ash to do this to Meowth. However, this was a mere accident: Meowth was dressed up like a Kirlia, and Ash had never seen one before. In Two Degrees of Separation, Dawn, unlike Ash, scanned him right away. She also made the same mistake as Ash when she scanned Meowth as a Shiftry in Leave it to Brocko!. Also in the episode The Lost Lapras the character Tracey started examining Meowth (despite not having a Pokédex), but only because he was interested in the fact that he could talk.
Meowth normally does not battle unless there are extreme circumstances; his explanation is that his ability to talk and walk upright came at the expense of battling ability. However, when forced to fight, Meowth is fairly resourceful, such as dumping a bucket of water on an Onix to weaken it. In Jumping Rocket Ship , however, Meowth fought extremely well, even knocking out Barry's Empoleon with Fury Swipes, which normally wouldn't do much damage. Yet just two episodes later, in Get Your Rotom Running!, Meowth was unable to break a display case using Scratch. Meowth's Fury Swipes attack was shown to slice dough in order to make ramen in the episode, Noodles! Roamin' Off!. Christopher, a former Team Rocket member and the owner of the ramen shop, saw Meowth do this and asked him to work in his restaurant as a noodle maker. After some thought, which included reflecting back on previous failures and the lack of appreciation and respect from Jessie and James, Meowth quit the Team Rocket Trio and accepted the offer. However, he eventually rejoined the group after hearing that James and Jessie were in danger.
Meowth has used his claws to pick locks on several occasions, such as when Jessie, James, and he wanted to get into the Old Chateau in Canalave City.
Jessie also used him during the Princess Festival in the episode Princess vs. Princess, Jessie's contest in Mean With Envy and the Pokémon Ping Pong Tournament in To Thine Own Pokémon Be True!.
In the Appeals Round in the contest, he created an ice sculpture of Giovanni, his Persian and himself.
In "the Jester"'s battle with Erica, he used "Transform". He did this by using the pouch attached to his belly. He transformed into a Sunflora first, using Razor Leaf against Jynx. Later, he transformed into a Kirlia and again into a Wailord. It popped the inflatable Wailord with its claws and "the Jester" was eventually disqualified.
In the Ping Pong tournament, Jessie and Meowth were disqualified since Meowth sliced the ball with his claws, instead of hitting it. In Dressed for Jess Success!, James disguised as Jessilina due to Jessie being sick. Meowth, following his promise in Old Rivals, New Tricks!, is used for the appeal, where it used its talent for slicing ramen. The two then gave the judges the ramen to taste. Upon seeing the appeal on TV, Christopher became very proud.
In Arceus and the Jewel of Life, Meowth first makes an appearance in the opening song when he and Team Rocket are powering a blimp by peddling on a bike. However, they grow tired and crash before they have a chance to do anything. Not too long after, Team Rocket appears again when Kevin explains Sheena's ability to communicate with Pokémon. Meowth appears later in the movie when Arceus is floating down to investigate the fake Jewel of Life. After Arceus finds out the Jewel is fake, it attacks the group. Ash, Sheena, Kevin, Dawn and Brock escape, but Team Rocket is caught in the explosion and ends up being washed into the lake. Meowth makes minor appearances throughout the rest of the movie as the battle between the Legendary Pokémon continues. Meowth also makes an appearance in the credits, when an Electrode uses Explosion on Team Rocket when they sneak into the corn field.
In the Best Wishes series, Jessie, James, and Meowth were sent to the Unova region under orders from Giovanni after they were promoted in Memories are Made of Bliss!. To prevent them from getting too much attention, Giovanni did not allow Jessie's and James's other Pokémon to be sent to them, only making them use Pokémon native to Unova. This, however, made Meowth think of what would happen to him. Throughout most of the series, Meowth and his two friends were presented as horribly failing and erroneous criminals, always failing in their missions to capture Ash's Pikachu or other Pokémon. Recently, however, he, along with the rest of his team, developed a more serious attitude in their work, as he had when first introduced, being quicker-witted and much more resourceful than before and using ingenious methods of escape and thus proving much more difficult for Ash to defeat. He has also demonstrated much more battling skill than before, being agile enough to land on his feet when blown back by Ash's Pidove's Gust, and unlike before, does not horribly injure himself in battle.
In Club Battle Finale: A Hero's Outcome!, while in Nimbasa City, Team Rocket prepared to put their latest plan into action. Later, in the next episode, Meowth was found injured by Ash, Iris and Cilan. While recovering, Meowth explained that while in Nimbasa City, he had botched up Team Rocket's scheme badly and was fired by Giovanni, leading to Jessie and James turning their backs on him. Later, Iris's Axew was kidnapped by a Scrafty, who wanted Axew's help to get its home back from a Mandibuzz. Using his ability to speak to both Pokémon and humans, Meowth not only helped get Axew back but also helped Scrafty get its home back and helped Mandibuzz return to her original nest. Afterwards, Meowth decided to travel with Ash and his friends, only for Iris to attempt to capture him in a Poké Ball. The capture nearly succeeded but Meowth broke out and told her he was going to help her regardless. Ever since, it seems to have become a running gag that he ends up in a Poké Ball at one point in an episode, as Iris tried twice (one of which was because Meowth didn't want a Purrloin to get caught), and by Cliff. However, in Crisis from the Underground Up!, it was revealed that Meowth's being fired was fake and all just one of Team Rocket's schemes to capture Ash's and friend's Pokémon.
Personality and characteristics
Meowth has an ambitious, conniving, and idealistic personality. He has made it his life goal to please Giovanni (or "Boss," as he and his teammates call Giovanni), and will stop at nothing to capture or steal useful or rare Pokémon, especially Ash's Pikachu, which he has been pursuing since he encountered it in Pokémon Emergency.
Despite his seemingly outgoing nature, Meowth also has a contemplative inner side not seen as often. In one of his image songs, Meowth's Song, and in Mewtwo Strikes Back, he is shown to be a bit of a philosopher. In Mewtwo Strikes Back, he and his clone (in addition to Pikachu) were the only Pokémon not to participate in the giant battle, Meowth remarking (in the dub) that the originals and the clones shared the same air, moon, and planet, giving them common ground. Meowth comforted Ash's Chimchar in Tears For Fears! and actually expressed some admiration for Ash and his friends, commenting, "You (Chimchar) have buddies who'd give you the shirt off their backs if you needed one." It is possible during that time that Meowth developed a friendship with it, as seen in A Real Rival Rouser when he, Jessie and James cheered it on. On a few occasions, Meowth has become stranded with Pikachu, and during these times, the two work together fairly well. Pikachu distrusts Meowth for obvious reasons but Meowth is more willing to let go of the past and work together. Usually, by the end of these episodes, Meowth will betray Pikachu once they find Jessie and James.
Meowth is an amorous Pokémon, developing crushes on occasion (obviously not as much as Brock, but still a fair amount). The first of these was the aforementioned Meowzie. The next one seen is Cassandra, the (human) herbalist. Due to this infatuation, he decided to help her Paras evolve. However, he was replaced by a Persian so that he can continue traveling with Jessie and James, as Cassandra thought he was a hero and should continue doing his (not so) good work with Team Rocket. After this, three more cat-based Pokémon followed, beginning with May's Skitty. However, due to the fact that Jessie wanted to catch the Skitty, Meowth helped it escape in order to avoid Skitty getting hurt with the rest of the team. Later on, in Big Meowth, Little Dreams he falls in love with another Skitty. In For The Love Of Meowth, Meowth fell in love with a Glameow this time, one that belongs to Mamie. Similar to May's Skitty, Meowth tries to get away from Jessie and James so Glameow would not join them in blasting off. After Meowth was surrounded by Jessie, James, Ash, Dawn, Brock and Mamie, Meowth gained power from the love he felt, allowing him to defeat several Pokémon thrown at him, including Ash's Infernape and Staraptor, Jessie's Seviper and Yanmega and Dawn's Togekiss. However, after getting hit with James's Carnivine's Bullet Seed, Glameow evolves into Purugly and squishes Meowth, making Meowth lose its feelings for it. In Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokémon Knight"!, Luke's Zorua used this trait to her advantage and turned into a female Meowth causing Meowth to become infatuated and unable to do her harm. He did this again in Purrloin: Sweet or Sneaky? when he fell in love with a Purrloin he thought was female. During the time when Meowth was traveling with the group, Oshawott fought with him, usually when the two exploit two of their characteristics at the same time (falling in love with the same Pokémon, or when their prides are being entangled).
Moves used
|A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.
Moves Improvised
- In Bound For Trouble, Meowth jumped onto a Rhydon and used an improvised Tickle attack, however the move Tickle wasn't released until Generation III.
- Meowth claimed to be learning Night Slash in Jumping Rocket Ship!, but he has never been seen using the move. The reason to this is that he claimed the move too scary to use.
- Meowth also improvised a move that he called "Fury Swipes of Love" in the episode For The Love Of Meowth to protect a Glameow he was in love with.
Voice actors
In the games
Pokémon Yellow
Meowth appears as part of Jessie and James' team each time they appear, alongside Ekans/Koffing and their evolved forms. However, unlike in the anime, Meowth resides in a Poké Ball instead of traveling around with Jessie and James.
First battle
|Meowth Lv.14
Second battle
|Meowth Lv.25
Third battle
|Meowth Lv.27
Fourth battle
|Meowth Lv.31
Pokémon Puzzle League
Meowth is a playable character, along with Jessie and James. Their theme is Double Trouble.
Pokémon Zany Cards
In Special Seven mode, Meowth appears as card #2. When the Meowth card is used, he will force the opponent to draw 2 cards. This can be countered if the player has another Meowth card, in which case the effect will pass on to the next player, unless they also have a Meowth card, and so on.
Meowth also makes a cameo in Four Kings mode. When the game is won, he tells the player to try the next level of difficulty. Meowth also appears on the box art.
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Meowth appears as a trophy. This trophy is unlocked after obtaining each All-Star trophy for all 25 playable characters.
Melee trophy information
This...is Meowth's dream. Meowth strides all over the globe scattering invitations to other Pokemon, insisting they come to "Meowth's Party". At this wonderful party, guests are packed in like sardines as Meowth climbs up the stage with its faithful guitar. It strikes a chord, pauses, and then rocks their world.
Pokémon Channel
Meowth appears on the PNF (Pokémon News Flash), along with Psyduck. He goes out and interviews random Pokémon in random locations.
Meowth also appears in Pichu Bros. in Party Panic, along with Jessie's Wobbuffet and the Squirtle Squad. He plans a party for himself and invites all the Pokémon from Big Town.
In the manga
In the Electric Tale of Pikachu
Meowth appears in The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga series along with his teammates Jessie and James.
His first appearance is in the chapter Pikachu's Excellent Adventure. He is searching for the Hidden Village with Jessie and James when he runs into Tommy, Pikachu and other Pokémon, who are also searching for the village. Meowth offers them free breakfast (made by Jessie and James) and the trio travel with them to the village. Later, he is expelled from the Hidden Village by Kangaskhan when Jessie and James try to steal the Pokémon.
Meowth makes his next appearance in You Gotta Have Friends, when he, Jessie and James attempt to steal a herd of wild Pikachu.
In the TCG
Meowth is featured in the TCG as one of Team Rocket's Pokémon and as a Pokémon . The following is a list of cards featuring Meowth.
|Set no.
|Team Rocket's Meowth
|Wizards Black Star Promos
|Rocket's Meowth
|EX Team Rocket Returns
|Movie Commemoration Random Pack (no English release)
- There is some inconsistency as to whether or not Meowth hates water. In Snow Way Out!, what he wanted was a hot spring, and in Who Gets to Keep Togepi?, he is seen taking a bath with the egg that will hatch into Togepi, and at least twice he suggests that all three of them go into the water (once in Pokémon Paparazzi and once in Fit to be Tide). However, in Pokémon Shipwreck, Friend and Foe Alike and Big Meowth, Little Dreams (Part 1), he hates water, as he is a cat.
- Meowth will often replace the words "Me" or "Mouth" with "Meowth". Similar puns are also used in the Japanese version.
- The koban embedded in Meowth's forehead had apparently been lost in A Chansey Operation after an accident, forcing him to search for it desperately. At the end of the episode, however, it was discovered that it had simply been jammed into his head by the impact.
- Additionally, Meowth had a fantasy about replacing the gold koban with a crystal one in The Crystal Onix.
- Meowth claims he is unable to learn Pay Day as a trade off for learning to speak. He claims to have 'used up all his move slots' doing so.
- Ironically, Meowth can use Pay Day in Yellow.
- In the Latin American Spanish dub, he is referred to as "Chimuelo" ("toothless") by James, a common form used in Mexico.
- In the Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian and Finnish dubs, he is referred to as "Miau" (meow).
- Meowth is the only Pokémon to have ever been a Gym Leader, briefly sharing the title with Jessie and James in The Battle of the Badge.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Meowth.
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The SkiGym simulator looks like it's going for realism rather than the silly fun offered by the Wii, but some people probably want an accurate depiction of brief exhilaration before the inevitable faceplant.
The SkiGym hooks up to a PC to use the included game Alpine Ski Racing, or it can be used as a standalone gym. The game includes 32 different courses from 18 real-world mountains, just to add to the realism. It's available for a bank account-crushing $US2300, which if I'm not mistaken could purchase a pretty sweet ski trip, but if you're loaded and scared of crashing, give it a look. [Random Good Stuff]


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United Kingdom Wooden Puzzle Map
It's fun to learn world geography while assembling this detailed map puzzle! A stunning wooden puzzle depicting the map of the United Kingdom.
These beautiful map-puzzles are produced by laser and finished by hand. They are great to use as educational tools for children from 5 years old, but not only kids will love these puzzles - if you're a grown-up who wants to increase his geographical knowledge and better understand how the country fits together, this map is right for you. There is no upper age limit.
Puzzles come in attractive cardboard packaging and would make an ideal gift.
Made from high quality birch plywood which is covered with eco-friendly water-based lacquer, these maps not only look good, but are solid and long-lasting.
Dimensions: 28 x 40cm / 11 x 15.7 "
Material: Birch plywood
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Consolation 1 1A novelty item indeed, but one that is also convenient to carry around with you as a key chain. Featuring a meter long metallic measuring tape, design images are covered in an enamel coating for lasting effect. Measuring tape is 1.5" in diameter and has a design front of 1" in diameter.
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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
Your child develops letter recognition and word meanings by clicking on letters and seeing their correlating objects.
Your child develops counting skills by catching apples with Kailan.
Your child learns character education and to be happy by watching this video about feeling good.
Your child learns which animals hatch from eggs in this fun keyboard game.
Your child experiences cognitive development in a variety of areas by engaging in different cultural activities and games.
Your child develops counting skills as they help Charly blow and pop bubbles from the bubble machine.
Your child develops letter recognition skills by finding the correct letter to go next in the alphabet.
Your child learns respect and compassion by watching this video and song about liking someone for what's on the inside.
Your child learns about identifying colors by name and describing objects according to color by watching this video and hearing the song.
Your child develops counting skills as they help Charly scoop ice cream for different numbers.
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A pangram, or holoalphabetic sentence, is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once.
Input s = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs' Output tf = true
The test suite should be expanded to contain a sentence with 25 unique letters and some non-letters.
I know im not really efficient in my code but how do people get solutions of length 10?
they use something in the form of
function variable_output=func_name(variable_youre_running_on)
regexp '' '(?@variable_youre_running_on,all_regular_work_pasted_here);'
ASCII table came useful
good problem
Great problem!
Funny system they have for measuring length - this sure looks like the shortest.
. . . punctuation marks
This will fail if the sentence contains enough non-alphabetical letters!
or if it's just 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
Or if it is 'aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsS'
This would not work if punctuation was included in the string, or if spaces were not included in the string, or if capital and lower case letters were duplicated, but letters were still missing.
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Read a column of numbers and interpolate missing data
906 Solvers
499 Solvers
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JMoorhouse necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 67 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
A Plus Painting and Coatings, Inc.
This is a Professional Painting and Decorating Company. Working with High End Home Owners and Corporate Managers In Million Dollar Homes and Facilities.
The Audience is Primarily Female form 45-65. Conservative, Professional, Above Average Income.
Mostly Business owners and managers of large corporations.
The existing logo is approximately 10 years old and needs to be updated. However the structure of the layout for brand integrity is important. So an updated look is what we need.
We are trying to communicate Professional, Clean, Strong straight lines, Well Structured, Expensive, Luxury Brand.
Don't want: Cute, unprofessional, dripping paint, messy looking
The logo is displayed on Business Cards, Vehicles, Trailers, Man Lifts, Signs, etc.
The Logo was full color originally and then was displayed with Blue and Yellow for the last 5 years.
How should the logo look for the next 5 years?
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Drone strikes used only for major threats: Brennan
Nominated to head the CIA, John Brennan has told a protest-disrupted Senate confirmation hearing the United States employs drone strikes only as a deterrent against imminent terrorist threats, not as punishment for previous attacks, firmly defending the controversial attacks that have targeted Americans as well as foreigners overseas.world Updated: Feb 08, 2013 09:49 IST
Nominated to head the CIA, John Brennan has told a protest-disrupted Senate confirmation hearing the United States employs drone strikes only as a deterrent against imminent terrorist threats, not as punishment for previous attacks, firmly defending the controversial attacks that have targeted Americans as well as foreigners overseas.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," he said of the idea that the US uses the strikes by unmanned aircraft as retaliation.
On another thorny topic, under sometimes-combative questioning from senators, he conceded that after years of intelligence work he is uncertain whether the use of waterboarding in interrogations has yielded valuable information.
He declined several times to say whether waterboarding is torture, but he did say it is "something that is reprehensible and should never be done again."
Mr Brennan, 57 and President Barack Obama's top anti-terrorism aide, won praise from several members of the committee as the day's proceedings drew to a close, a clear indication that barring an unexpected development, his confirmation as the nation's next head of the CIA is on track. The panel will meet in closed session next week to permit discussion of classified material.
In hours of questioning from the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr Brennan made repeated general pledges to increase the flow of information to members of the panel, but he was less specific when it came to individual cases. Asked at one point whether he would provide a list of countries where the Central Intelligence Agency has used lethal authority, he replied, "It would be my intention to do everything possible" to comply.''
At another point, he said he had no second thoughts about having opposed a planned strike against Osama bin Laden in 1998, a few months before the bombings of two US embassies. The plan was not "well-grounded," he said, adding that other intelligence officials also recommended against proceeding. Mr Brennan was at the CIA at the time.
Brennan is a veteran of more than three decades in intelligence work, and is currently serving as Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser in the White House. Any thought he had of becoming CIA director four years ago vanished amid questions about the role he played at the CIA when the Bush administration approved waterboarding and other forms of "enhanced interrogation" of suspected terrorists.
In a statement at the beginning of the session, Mr Brennan said the US remains at war with al Qaeda and other terrorists and is under "daily cyberattack" by foreign countries and others.
He said historic transformations continue sweeping through the Middle East and North Africa, with "major implications for our interests, Israel's security, our Arab partners and the prospects for peace and stability throughout the region." Additionally, he said that Iran and North Korea "remain bent on pursuing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile delivery systems."
The hearing was interrupted repeatedly - once before it began and then several times before Mr Brennan had completed his preliminary remarks. At one point, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat and the panel's chairman, briefly ordered the proceedings halted and the room cleared so those re-entering could be screened to block obvious protesters.
The shouted protests centered on CIA drone strikes that have killed three American citizens and an unknown number of foreigners overseas.
It was a topic very much on the mind of the committee members who eventually will vote on Mr Brennan's confirmation.
In the hours before the hearing began, President Barack Obama ordered that a classified paper outlining the legal rationale for striking at US citizens abroad be made available for members of the House and Senate intelligence panels to read.
It was an attempt to clear the way for Mr Brennan's approval, given hints from some lawmakers that they might hold up confirmation unless they had access to the material.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the White House is making "extraordinary accommodation" in allowing lawmakers to view classified Justice Department legal advice on drone strikes against Americans. Mr Carney said the White House does not plan to send the Justice memos to lawmakers beyond those on the House and Senate intelligence committees.
Responding to the assurances from the administration, Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat, said he was encouraged when Mr Obama called him on the telephone to inform him of his decision.
However, Mr Wyden said that after he went to read the material he became concerned the Department of Justice "is not following through" on the commitment. He asked Mr Brennan to look into the matter, and the CIA nominee said he would.
Despite the sometimes-combative questioning, Mr Brennan's confirmation seemed a foregone conclusion as he appeared before the committee. "I look forward to working with you," said Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colorado.
Mr Wyden made the drone strikes the main focus of his time to question Mr Brennan, asking at one point what could be done "so that the American people are brought into this debate and have a full understanding of what rules" are for their use.
Mr Brennan said the day's hearings were part of that effort, and said he backs speeches by officials as a way to explain counter-terrorism programs. He said there is a "misimpression by the American people'' who believe drone strikes are aimed at suspects in past attacks. Instead, he said, "we only take such actions as a last resort to save lives" when there is no other alternative in what officials believe is an imminent threat.
Aides have portrayed Mr Brennan as cautious in the use of drones, restraining others at the CIA or military who seek to use them more often. At the same time, as the White House's counterterror adviser, he has presided over an explosion of drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Fewer than 50 strikes took place during the Bush administration, while more than 360 strikes have been launched under Mr Obama, according to the website The Long War Journal, which tracks the operations.
Administration officials say Mr Brennan would further limit the use of drones by the CIA and leave the majority of strikes to the military. Brennan signaled in his written answers that he would not seek to expand the CIA's paramilitary operations. In written responses to questions from the committee in advance of the hearing, Mr Brennan wrote, "While the CIA needs to maintain a paramilitary capability ... the CIA should not be used, in my view, to carry out traditional military activities."
The CIA's drone strikes primarily focus on al Qaeda and Taliban targets in the tribal regions of Pakistan. The agency also carries out strikes in Yemen, where three American citizens with al Qaeda connections have been killed: Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old-son and Samir Khan.
On the question of waterboarding, Mr Brennan said that while serving as a deputy manager at the CIA during the Bush administration, he was told such interrogation methods produced "valuable information." Now, after reading a 300-page summary of a 6000-page report on CIA interrogation and detention policies, he said he does "not know what the truth is."
In his opening statement, he said US computer systems are under daily attack by "nation states, international criminal organisations, subnational groups and individual hackers."


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Croota Men's Seamless Boxer Briefs have been a very popular item. Initially launched Summer 2014, with a few patterns. This seasons release brings 5 more colorful prints.
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A unique design which is lightweight and allows for freedom of movement, these seamless boxers are the go-to for active lifestyles! School, work, play – Croota seamless are the staple to your underwear drawer.
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Researcher: Teacher improvement plateaus after 4 years
Teachers stop showing signs of improvement after about four years on the job — even after a master's degree or obtaining tenure, said Jane Hannaway, founding director of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.
"It's one of our very consistent findings," said Hannaway, presenter last week at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting in San Diego, citing at least two recent studies of teacher effectiveness.
"The reason of course is not clear, but it's in study after study," she said. "Teachers do get better (in the beginning). If you look at the same teacher at Year One, they look a lot better at Year Four but then it flattens out. It's a puzzle. The real question is why. How can we organize the profession and the work differently?"
Hannaway brought up the topic in a discussion with a small group of journalists during the meeting, saying the results raise deeper questions over the value of tenure and paying teachers incrementally more for every year of service.
Hannaway said the problem could be in poor professional development or in the lack of mentoring and coaching throughout a teacher's career.
"Why does it flatten out," she asked, speculating on the reasons. "Teachers work in isolation. They learn what they learn and then they plateau. They get no valid input."
Student test scores also fail to improve after a teacher receives a master's degree, she said, specifically citing a study of Teach for America teachers, which you can find here.
The study says:
The findings show that TFA teachers are more effective, as measured by student exam performance, than traditional teachers. Moreover, they suggest that the TFA effect, at least in the grades and subjects investigated, exceeds the impact of additional years of experience, implying that TFA teachers are more effective than experienced secondary school teachers. The positive TFA results are robust across subject areas, but are particularly strong for math and science classes.
The TFA study also shows that having teacher churn is not bad for kids, as long as the person in front of the class is highly effective, she said.
"Typically we have been rewarding teachers for years of service, which is not correlated with effectiveness after the first few years, and graduate coursework and degrees which also do not appear to be related to performance," Hannaway said in a January presentation to D.C.'s City Council, which you can find here.
The notion turns the teacher compensation system on its head and has not been well received, Hannaway told the journalists.
"A lot of people don't like these findings," she said. "We are paying for these different years. But there doesn't seem to be any returns, at least for test scores."


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We've long admired the crew performing a Hayabusa engine transplant into a Mazda Miata, both for its technical complexity and sheer steel cojones. The latest lesson: When it comes to molding carbon fiber air horns, nothing beats a Trojan.
Dave Coleman's crew could have just gone with silicone air pipes, but rejected that solution as too compromising for the Miatabusa's 11,000-rpm breathing needs. Instead, the perfect answer came through some plaster, styrofoam and a piece of Ikea furniture. [MotoIQ]


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Prize Life, Praise Life
(FIrst published as the introduction to Award-Winning Australian Writing 2012)
Praise life with broken words
—Robert Adamson, "Via Negativa"
Happiness is not all it's cracked up to be.
A happy life would be good, of course, but a vivid, big, useful life, would be better, if you knew where to start: a life with range and scope, a life made handsome and honest by doubt and imagination, a life elevated and humbled at the same time by questioning everything, by…
Getting Over Your Self
(First published as the introduction to Sparks, an anthology of creative writing from Masters students at the University of Sydney, 2012)
I HARDLY MEET a person who doesn't think they have a book in them—who doesn't want, or think they ought to want, to write their life story, or someone's life story, a novel, a poem or two, a film script.
The desire to write is close to universal.
And so I said on radio on the morning of the day in Newcastle, when…
A peaceable revolution: the republic we have to have
(First published in Project Republic, ed Benjamin Jones and Mark McKenna, 2013)
Mark Tredinnick
We seem to me a people more than ready to leave home. To take full imaginative possession of our selves. Time to draw the world's longest national dress rehearsal to a close. Time, you'd have thought, to let our adolescence slide. To get on with it.
You have to leave home to find home. And a republic is the step, so long deferred, we have to…
Empathy and emptiness, prosody and place, in the poetry of Judith Beveridge
A critical meditation on Storm and Honey
There's a cool web of language winds us in.
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:
We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
In brininess and volubility
—Robert Graves, "The Cool Web"
Delancey had told me
that the creek wasn't the place to get
answers, but that it would give me…
The lyric stance
The lyric essay and how it may bring us home to who and where we are.
(First published in Island 126, 2011)
Mark Tredinnick
Teaching the stones to talk
In an author note at the start of her collection of luminous and quirky essays Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard writes "this is not a collection of occasional pieces, such as a writer brings out to supplement his real work; instead this is my real work, such as it is." I have always loved that—the insistence…


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Effective endpoint security without a significant investment
Most organizations already employ three effective endpoint security controls.
This tip originally appeared on SearchSecurity.com.
What you will learn from this tip: Vendors are touting new products to manage endpoint security, but organizations can save money by effectively managing three technologies they already employ – firewall, antivirus and patch management.
The endpoint security market grows as more attention is given to the challenges of securing a dynamic digital perimeter. Organizations willing to pay a hefty price can choose from a variety of products that ensure that endpoint devices comply with policy before connecting to the network. However, effective endpoint security doesn't have to require a significant investment in new software or hardware. Most organizations already employ three effective endpoint security controls: firewall, antivirus and patch management.
Where is your endpoint?
The function of perimeter or endpoint security is to ensure that the infrastructure is protected against external threats. Before you can secure your endpoint, you need to define it. In the pre-Internet days of the mainframe, endpoint security was simple; things were either inside or outside of the data center. Despite the fact that more and more is being spent on information systems security, systems are becoming increasingly complex, and complex systems are much harder to protect.
Even the physical perimeter is not simple to define. The potential endpoints are many. Some of them include:
- Internet access
- Business Partner access
- External partnership access
- Internal employee access
- And more
Know your endpoint
The banking industry has a federal requirement known as Know Your Customer (KYC), which is part if the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001. The purpose of KYC requirements is to catch those laundering money or attempting tax evasion. Banks are required to determine the source of customer deposits, classify them according to pre-determined profiles and monitor their banking activity to detect deviations.
Those in information security can take a similar approach to securing the network perimeter. If you know your endpoint, and are able to detect and respond to anomalous activities, much can be achieved. Effective endpoint security requires an understanding of the infrastructure and a significant commitment to get the job done. Those who have management support and are willing to put in the time to get to know their endpoint have a real chance to create a highly effective information security infrastructure.
Technical controls
A firewall is often the first line of network defense, ensuring that only allowed traffic traverses the network. Firewalls are often pristine when initially configured, but after time, allow far too much traffic and too many protocols through. In addition, management often puts too much confidence in firewalls.
How do you obviate such a predicament? Make sure you have an effective and current set of firewall policies. A firewall can't be effective unless it's deployed in the context of working policies that govern its use and administration.
Viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware and more are a huge risk to information security. By deploying antivirus technology at the endpoint, organizations can ensure that malware does not infect the infrastructure.
But when it comes to antivirus software, organizations are only as good as their virus definition files. To ensure maximum protection, organizations must make certain that gateway devices and workstations have updated antivirus signatures on each device.
Patch management
Until recently, patch management was something a system administrator did when he had time; now it is an elemental part of information security. Patch management is a strategic process where it must be decided:
- which patches to install
- the benefits and implications of implementing the recommended changes
- the business benefit of installing a patch
- the regulatory requirements
- the operational requirements
The year 2005 is no longer your mother's patch environment, where one can leisurely decide whether or not to patch. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday can easily turn into a Black Wednesday if not handled correctly.
Times are changing and information security must change with them. Endpoint security comes down to knowing what your perimeter is, knowing what your risks are and defending against them. When managed effectively, your firewall, antivirus and patch management products will help you do that.
- The biggest antivirus and antispam blunders exposed.
- Take this quiz to find out how well you play with fire(walls).
- Information Security magazine identifies the best patch management products of 2004.
About the author
Ben Rothke, CISSP is a New-York based security consultant with ThruPoint Inc. and the author of Computer Security: 20 Things Every Employee Should Know. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Our 24 Karat and Platinum Roses are real roses that are grown in the USA. For those that prefer a natural color in their rose, the lacquered rose is the right one for you. Underlying the success of the gold dipped and lacquered rose is the fact that men will always show their commitment by giving a rose to the woman they love.


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The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American fighter pilots during World War II. Segregated into their own unit by the racially discriminatory policies of the United States Armed Forces, they served their country valiantly and successfully is spite of the bigotry that they faced. The fact that they chose to serve their country at war, at a time when they were faced with racist injustices from the very government they served, stands as a testament to courage, honor and self-sacrifice and has earned their unit a name that has become a part of history.
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Denny's New Mobile Relief Diner Is on Its Way to the Carolinas
Denny's is pitching in to help those impacted by Hurricane Florence in North and South Carolina with the brand's new Mobile Relief Diner. The new 53-foot custom-built traveling kitchen had its first successful test-run in Northern California during this summer's fires, and now Denny's is bringing the vehicle to those in need on the opposite coast. The mobile kitchen will serve free hot meals to residents, first responders, volunteers, and others.
The Best Pancakes In Every State
This is the second version of the Mobile Relief Diner; the first was used in 2017 to bring relief to survivors of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma in Houston and South Florida, but the temporary vehicle was retired afterward.
Now the South Carolina-based brand has re-made the diner to be more serviceable. The new and improved version of the vehicle houses a fully-functional kitchen that was designed to travel anywhere in the U.S. during emergency situations. The diner will serve hot pancake breakfasts including bacon, coffee, and drinks. Denny's plans to work with local officials and disaster relief organizations to determine which areas are most in need in the future.
"At Denny's, our brand purpose is rooted in the fact that we love to feed people - and have ever since our company was founded in 1953," said John Dillon, chief marketing officer for Denny's in an emailed press release. "While we deliver on that brand purpose every day inside of our restaurants, the Mobile Relief Diner allows us do what we do best by going out into local communities to offer a hot and comforting meal during a time when they could really use it the most."
While Denny's is headed to the Carolinas, super chef José Andrés is already on the ground with his team from the nonprofit World Central Kitchen, providing hot meals to at shelters and distribution centers across the eastern part of the state. On September 17, the chef tweeted that World Central Kitchen had served 80,000 meals so far.
Thank you @fema @NC_Governor @NCEmergency for helping @WCKitchen us with transportation intelligence to keep feeding the many shelters around Wilmington and Raleigh! 80k meals so far...thanks!- José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 17, 2018
Popular chain Waffle House is also feeding those affected by the storms. As reported by Fox News, CEO Walt Ehmer brought in 150 extra employees as part of an emergency response team who will keep the restaurants in the area open and servicable.
Ehmer was praised by Andrés for his efforts via Twitter.
Anybody out there wants a lesson about leadership? Who is in front of beloved @WaffleHouse in Wilmington? Making sure he feeds the hungry? Walt Ehmer, President and CEO.....God Bless! pic.twitter.com/QLVKRSYvIu- José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 16, 2018
Denny's Mobile Relief Diner is also on Twitter, providing real-time updates on their current location.
We are headed to the Carolinas to help those affected by hurricane Florence. Turn on page notifications for real-time updates and locations. #HurricaneFlorence- Denny's Mobile Relief Diner (@DennysMRD) September 19, 2018
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