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giggle GAB
Get the inside scoop on all things giggle, read guest posts from friends and expert bloggers, and more.
9 Months
Expecting? We've got some great advice to prepare you for your pregnancy and the birth of your child.
Nursing Know-How
Start your breastfeeding off right with helpful information from non-profit Best for Babes.
City Mom
Learn strategies for navigating public transportation, crowded streets and small living spaces from Manhattan mom Monica Storch.
Healthy Home
Build a healthy environment for your baby with practical and easy tips from national nonprofit Healthy Child Healthy World.
Parent Talk
Get tips from the trenches with this information-packed blog from the authors of The Rookie Mom's Handbook and Stuff Every Mom Should Know, Heather Flett and Whitney Moss.
Hip Baby
Get fun fashion advice from blogger Nadia Carriere for the 40 weeks before and after your baby is born.
Grab Bag
What's happening at giggle? Get the latest, learn about promotions, and read posts by some giggle friends and special guests.
Hit the Beach!
Shop these cool summertime essentials and more!
Supergoop! Weekend Away SPF Essentials Set – save $18!
We love this waterproof sunscreen for its weightless texture that doesn't clog pores or hold in heat.
Babiators Sunglasses
Aside from being pretty awesome looking, we love that these sunglasses also do a great job of protecting your little one's eyes from UV.
Kids' Beach Seat
This cute and functional chair makes beach time even more fun for your tot.
Beach Sounds
We love that this little radio is adorable, high-tech, and kid-sized so that your little one can call it their own.
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Cans of Steel: the New Ubbi Diaper Pail
The innovative Ubbi Diaper Pail uses rubber seals and a sliding lid to fight odor and keep smells locked in tight. Its unique oval shape is also easy to fit in tight spaces, making it perfect for smaller nurseries. Plus, it's conveniently budget-friendly, since you don't have to buy any extra bags for it — it's compatible with most tall kitchen bags!
We do carry Ubbi non-toxic, biodegradable plastic refill bags. Plus, they're compostable and recyclable. Using cloth diapers? Order the Cloth Diaper Pail Liner and you're set!
Why it's a giggle pick We love that this uniquely-shaped diaper pail is space-friendly and budget-friendly — while still managing to impressively lock out odors.
Also be sure to stock up on Mustela Vitamin Barrier Cream and Mustela Extra Thick Cleansing Cloths.
giggle-ize Your Diaper Bag
We loved Skip Hop's Pronto Mini Changer, Bottle Holder and Pacifier Pocket so much, we had them make a version just for us in our giggle stripes!
Complete the look with our new orange Mommy Hook, only at giggle! Lightweight and versatile, it's the perfect stroller hanger solution, designed to fit virtually all stroller handles. It's made from durable, heavy-duty aluminum (which means it won't break like other stroller hangers made of cheap plastic) and even has a rubber guide that keeps it from slipping or sliding around. Plus, it's not just for holding diaper bags—you can use it to carry shopping bags, camera bags, groceries, purses, clothes, toys… the list goes on! It's even handy for taking multiple bags from your car to your home.
Shake, Rattle and giggle: Manhattan Toy for giggle
Bright colors, soft textures and fun features make these giggle exclusives by Manhattan Toy perfect for imaginary play. With six pieces to choose from, you'll find developmental fun in classic toy configurations that inspire exploration!
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Silly Smiles Stacker
Tickle Travel Tunes
Wacky Wedge
Silly Shape Sorter Cube
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Grab & giggle Rattle
Shake Rattle & Roll Shape Set
Spring is in the Air
Time to throw open the windows and tackle your spring cleaning with giggle Better Basics cleaning essentials. They're safe, non-toxic and amazingly effective. Shop the collection!
And while you're at it, join the Great giggle Giveback! This Earth Day, reduce your environmental footprint and help a family in need – right in your own community! Donate new or gently used baby gear to a giggle store near you and we'll help it find a new home with someone who needs it.
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We've Gone Mobile!
As always, we've been hard at work looking for ways to make your life easier, and we're excited to announce the launch of our new giggle registry app. Now you can create, edit and manage any giggle registry on the go, right from your mobile device. (And it seems our busy parents and parents-to-be are always on the go!) We've got everything you need for a complete registry at giggle, with choices for every lifestyle and budget.
Introducing Our Worldwide Orphans Foundation Partnership
We've teamed up with the Worldwide Orphans Foundation to improve the lives of children across the globe — and we need your help! A portion of all giggle registry proceeds will now be donated to W.W.O. to help fund programs for orphans in developing countries — which means you can help a child in need simply by registering at giggle or purchasing a gift off of a friend's registry. It's that easy!
The Worldwide Orphans Foundation was formed in 1997 by Dr. Jane Aronson, a board certified general pediatrician and adoption medicine specialist with one goal: to bring hope to orphaned children around the world. Today, her foundation has improved countless lives in developing countries like Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Haiti, Serbia, and Vietnam. And in keeping with Dr. Aronson's mission, W.W.O. is all about addressing the unique needs of children through medical, developmental, psychosocial and educational programs — right in their own communities.
So spread the word! And keep an eye on your own registry — we'll help you track your progress by letting you know just how close you are to hitting your next donation goal. How's that for easy, feel-good giving?
Say Hello to Our Brand New Alex Collection
With a sophisticated look all its own, the Alex Collection is the perfect pick for any parent who lives classic design and timeless styles. It blends traditional style with modern craftsmanship and good value, for furniture that's built to last and looks timeless.
Celebrate Earth Day with the Great giggle Giveback
Celebrate Earth Day by giving back! Visit your local giggle on Sunday, April 22nd from 11am to 6pm to donate new or gently used booster seats, highchairs, safety gates, child-proofing items, bassinets and playards. All donations benefit families in need via our partner Room To Grow.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
What Should the Fed Be Doing? Myths, Current Strategies and Alternatives
Recorded: Monday, November 12, 2012
Research Fellow David Beckworth, editor of Boom and Bust Banking, and Research Fellow Scott Sumner, contributor to Boom and Bust Banking, discuss the role of the Fed.
Experts: David Beckworth, Scott SumnerType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Banking and Finance, Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Free Market Economics, Regulation and Deregulation
Art Carden Talks Price Gouging on Stossel
Recorded: Thursday, November 1, 2012
Research Fellow Art Carden on Stossel discusses the positive aspects of price gouging during natural disasters.
Experts: Art CardenType: TelevisionIssues: Business, Economic Policy, Economists, Free Market Economics, Law Enforcement
John C. Goodman at P.A.U.L. Festival 2012
Recorded: Friday, August 24, 2012
Independent Institute Research Fellow John C. Goodman addresses P.A.U.L. Festival 2012 on The Free-Market Alternative to Obamacare.
Type: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, Government Waste/Pork, Health Care, Politics, Privatization, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Regulation and Deregulation, Taxes
Student Perspectives
2012 Summer Seminar for College Students
Recorded: Friday, August 3, 2012
These Student Perspectives are from our 2012 Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar for college students, which was held from July 30 to August 3, 2012, at Notre Dame de Namurs University, Belmont, California.
View more videos and information about the Summer Seminars.
Type: Challenge of Liberty SeminarsIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Culture/ Society, Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Free Market Economics, Freedom, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Property Rights
Robert Higgs: Warfare, Welfare, and the State
Recorded: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
This presentation by Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs was presented on July 24, 2012, at Mises University, sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Corporate Welfare, Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power, History (U.S), Political Ideology and Philosophy
Ben Powell on Monopoly and Antitrust
2012 Summer Seminar for High School Students
Recorded: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
This presentation is from our 2012 Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar for high school students, which was held from June 18 to 22, 2012, at the Independent Institute Conference Center, Oakland, California.
View videos and more information about the Summer Seminars.
Experts: Benjamin W. PowellType: Challenge of Liberty SeminarsIssues: Antitrust, Competition, and Monopoly, Business, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Free Market Economics
John Stossel: Why Government FailsBut Free Individuals Succeed
Recorded: Thursday, April 19, 2012
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Part 2
John Stossel of Fox Business Network speaks about his new book, No, They Cant: Why Government FailsBut Individuals Succeed.
Experts: John StosselType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Culture/ Society, Free Market Economics, Freedom, Government Power, Government Waste/Pork
Flunking Professor Bernanke
Recorded: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Vern McKinley, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, speaks with James Freeman, WSJ Assistant Editorial Page Editor on Fed Chairman Bernanke's views regarding the financial bailout interventions.
Experts: Vern P. McKinleyType: TelevisionIssues: Banking and Finance, Business, Economic Policy


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This attractive, Edwardian terrace house is within easy walking distance of the railway station and Shakespeare's Birthplace. Bedrooms are carefully decorated, well equipped, and many have modern show...More about Stretton House
This canal side location is away from the town's hustle and bustle but near enough to dip in and out of the history and culture as you please. Discover the drama of The Bard's life and works, take a b...More about Premier Inn Stratford-upon-Avon Waterways
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New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement Monday the government should hold accountable those responsible for March 20-22 violence in the central city of Meikhtila that left more than 40 people dead and drove 12,000 from their homes.
Satellite photos released by the group appeared to show areas of Meikhtila leveled by fire. The group's analysis said the destruction covered more than 24 hectares (59 acres) and destroyed at least 828 buildings, mostly homes.
The statement called for the government to end discrimination and promote religious tolerance to end attacks against Muslims.


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Promoting solar cooking
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Groups involved in promoting solar cooking need to share more information, collaborate more and pool their voices to be heard by opinion-makers and decision-makers who could provide more resources to support the spread of solar cooking. Fostering these objectives is part of Solar Cookers International Network's (SCInet's) mission. NGOs involved in other development work should consider whether solar cooking and the Integrated Cooking Method would make useful additions to their projects. Governments that currently inhibit the spread of solar cooking by heavily taxing imports of solar-related supplies while also subsidizing fossil fuel imports need to re-evaluate their thinking. Forward thinking businesses have a role to play by investing in the not-quite-yet-emerging solar cooker market, creating more manufacturing, distribution and sales facilities, and participating in spreading awareness.
Schools can also become involved in teaching solar cooking--both as a tool for teaching science concepts and as a practical matter of survival and home economics. To a degree, these things are happening. Malawi has a renewable energy component in its school curriculum. Senegal has appointed a person to spearhead solar cooking work in the country. At least one government agency in The Gambia is charged with teaching solar cooking. The government in India however, has become increasingly more involved, by promoting institutional solar cooking and integrating solar cooking technology into public school curriculums and the midday school lunch program.
Deepak Gadhia reported in 2012 that the Indian government has announced a very ambitious Solar Cooking Policy under the Jawharlal Nehru National Solar Mission , JNSSM Phase II Targets for "Solar Cookers and Steam Generating Systems will include: At-least 100 institutions that would deploy solar cookers (Likely Solar Steam and Thermic Fluid System Cooking Systems for Institutional Cooking for 500 + people); Around 25,000 installations of solar cooking devices in schools for midday meals. (Likely Scheffler Cookers, PRINCE 40, 60 and other mid-size solar cookers that can cook for 50+ people; An overall target of deployment of 50,000 solar cookers would be set in Phase II of JNNSM. (Likely the SK 10/ Sk 14/ Prince 15 etc for domestic cooking).
Ajay Chandak also noted that the Indian government's 12th five-year plan, 2012-2016, 30,000 million INR (approx. $600 million USD) is budgeted for solar cooking in 500,000 schools. This will not only help in saving environment, but will expose millions and millions of school children to solar cooking and build the confidence that these systems work. The education initiative happening in India is included among the Most significant solar cooking projects worldwide. These projects demonstrate success either in reaching large numbers of people, showing new strategies for solar cooking promotion, or by incorporating solar cooking for income generation.
There are other examples of small, seriously underfunded steps being made. Much more will have to be done. Many believe that there will be a tipping point where a critical mass of awareness in the right circles will greatly speed up the spread of solar cooking.
The conditions to bring about this tipping point seem to be forming currently. Food and fuel prices have doubled recently in many poor countries. Also some countries have recently reduced or removed their subsidies on cooking fuel. For example, in April 2008 the Indonesian government announced a reduction of fuel subsidies. As a result, the cost of kerosene, used for cooking, rose from 700 rupiah per liter to 2,000 rupiah, an increase of 186%.[1].
It is also important to understand that often solar cooking is best introduced as part of an Integrated Cooking Method where solar cooking is combined with heat-retention cooking (where food is heated to boiling for a short time at which point the cooking pot before being placed in an insulated box or basket to continue cooking) and simple fuel-efficient wood stoves. Soaking beans or even slightly sprouting whole grains and pulses/legumes[2], in addition to enhancing digestibility and nutritional values, will shorten cooking times, resulting in more efficient use of sun and fuel.
Dr. Dieter Seifert has pointed out that in most parts of the world, to cook a pot of beans, people put the dry beans and the cooking water into a pot and cook it over a wood fire for four hours. If people learn that they can soak the beans overnight first, they can save two hours worth of fuelwood. They save an additional one and a half hours of fuelwood if they learn to heat the soaked beans over a fire or in a solar cooker until the beans have boiled for 10-15 minutes. They can then put the pot into an insulated basket where it will continue to cook for 3-4 hours without using any fuel. The heat-retention cooker can be as simple as a basket filled with dry grass or hay. We should all consider the value of such simple changes before one launching into anything more complicated.
On the personal and local level, if you enjoy and benefit from using the sun to cook, talk to people about it. Talk to friends, family, teachers, students, store clerks, people you might sit next to on a bus or stand next to in a line at a store. If you carry copies of a small Universal Leaflet, you will have something to give to anyone who shows an interest, to direct them to further information.
Listed below in this article are a number of resources that are helpful when setting up a solar cooking (or integrated cooking) project.
Advocacy and publicity
- How to teach solar cooking as part of the Integrated Cooking Method
- Leaflet for public promotion for illiterate cooks using Integrated Sustainable Solar Cooking
- Manual How to make CooKit and WAPI 2009
- Trainers Manual: Teaching Solar Cooking - Solar Cookers International'
- Field Guide: Spreading Solar Cooking - Solar Cookers International
- Solar Cookers: How to Make, Use, and Enjoy - Solar Cookers International
- What can one person or a small group do to promote solar cooking?
- Advocacy handouts provided for your use by Solar Cookers International
- What you can do to promote solar cooking (also in Catalan, French, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Urdu)
- Presentations - PowerPoint slide decks that can be used to introduce solar cooking to groups
- Organizing Solar Cooking Events
- Poster that can be printed very large at Kinko's (or other establishment) for display at fundraisers or demonstrations - Solar Cookers International
- Joining the Solar Cookers World Network
- Universal Leaflet
- Hard-won lessons
- July 2006: Dissemination of Solar Cooker Information - Mamata Dutta
- July 2006: Why are Solar Cookers Still Unpopular Among Development Experts? - Paul Krämer
- July 2006: Integrated Approach for Promoting Solar Cookers in Rural Areas of Tamil Nadu - Dr. Sathyavathi Muthu and Ms. G. Anuradha
- Refugee camps with large solar cooking projects
- Foods requiring special handling (ugali, injera, sadza, etc.)
- The Special Challenges of Solar Cooking
- A Story Illustrating the Application of Solar Cooker Design Principles in a Field Project
- State of the Art of Solar Cooking: A Global Survey of Practices & Promotion Programs
- Solar Cooking Dissemination Approaches and Experiences in Nepal, Mongolia, and Peru - Allart Ligtenberg
- What can one person or a small group do to promote solar cooking?
Project evaluations
- September 2013: Klaus Schulte follows up on solar cooker use in Bamti Bhander, Nepal ten years after the introduction of parabolic solar cookers. Ten years with Energy Hunters of Nepal in Bamti Bhander 2013 - Klaus Schulte
- January 2013: Performance Studies of a Multipurpose Solar Energy System for Remote Areas - MIT International Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1,
- January 2013: Performance Evaluation of Parabolic Solar Disc for Indoor Cooking - Yogesh Suple & S.B. Thomre
- April 2011: NaDEET revisits five communities in Namibia that had received solar cooking training in 2009 - 2010.
- October 2008: Sunny Solutions Project in Nyakach Constituency, Nyanza Province, Kenya - Evaluation Report to Solar Cookers International
- September 2008: Sunny Solutions Program, Nyakach, Kenya - Evaluation Report to Solar Cookers International
- July 2007: The development impact of solar cookers: A review of solar cooking impact research in South Africa - Marlett Wentzel and Anastassios Pouris
- February 2006: Christopher Pell Thesis, Solar Cookers in Bolivia: patterns of usage, social impacts and complexities of enumeration
- December 2003: Solar Cookit Project in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya - Evaluation Report to Solar Cookers International
- January 2003: Aisha Solar Cooking Project, Aisha refugee camp, Ethiopia, - Evaluation Report to Solar Cookers International
- October 2001: Executive Summary of a Solar Oven Promotion Program In Ethiopia: 1997 - 1999 at the Aisha refugee camp
- August 1998: Summary of wood consumption study in Kakuma by Drs. B. Knudson and B. Lankford August 1998.
Academic resources
Project resources
- Microfinance Intervention for Financing Solar Cooking Technologies - Financing with Savings (Executive Summary) - Solar Household Energy
- Decision Tree Diagrams on Factors Affecting Choice of Fuel Strategy in Humanitarian Settings
- Sun Ovens International Seeks to Partner with NGOs to Promote Solar Cooking
- Statistics for the 25 countries with the greatest solar cooking potential - Solar Cookers International
- Predicting the usefulness of solar cooking in a given locality (also in Portuguese)
- Cooking for large groups
- Supplies
- Detailed information on pots, foil, cardboard, etc.
- Solar cooking for the homeless
- Clean Development Mechanism
- Wholesale price ranges for various solar cookers
- Raising funds for your project
- Non-cooking uses
- The untapped market for solar cookers (also in Portuguese)
- Solar radiation maps
- Hot surface warning signs
Business resources
- Income generation
- Mass-producing CooKits
- Solar restaurants and bakeries
- Turnkey manufacturing systems (Certain high-quality manufactured solar cookers are available for local production in developing countries.)
- Solar food processing
- Cost savings from solar cooking
- Microcredit
- Wholesale price ranges for various solar cookers
- Water Pasteurization Indicator production
- Ahead with Solar Cookers -- Acceptance and Introduction to the Market from GTZ
- All solar cooking manufacturers on Alibaba.com
- July 2006: Promotion of Employment Generation Through Solar Cookers and Dryers - Padmaja Reddy
See also
- Most significant solar cooking projects
- Suitability by region in Africa
- Solar Cookers International Network
- Promoting solar cooking in developed countries
- Solar cookers support all of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
- Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables
- Where is solar cooking possible?
- Solar Cookers International


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Archaeology is Everywhere
It was late Sunday evening when I noticed missed calls and text messages on my cell phone. I was amazed at the news I received and walked downtown to see it for my own eyes. What was happening? Archaeology in action on what I believe to be the busiest street in San Ignacio! AWESOME was the word that came out of my mouth. As an archaeologist, I never pictured excavations to be carried out in front of one of our regular hanging out spots!!! For years we had been travelling outside of town, not knowing that underneath our feet lay a SURPRISE waiting for us!


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Instead of trying all the different ways that you can find on the internet or listening to your friends to self-stretch your piercings, it is best to visit a professional piercer. Doing this on your own, using all kinds of things lying around the house to stretch your piercings will be a nightmare whether you believe it or not. You can experience infections, bleeding, and above all else pain. Now you can do it yourself, if you have an idea how and patience. Above all, the process should be done slowly and properly to ensure your piercing will stretch to the size you desire, without tearing. The process takes weeks to go from one size to the next but once you have achieved the gauge you desire you will be pleased with the outcome. In fact we recommend to only go up 1 gauge per month and always use the Insertion Tapers to insert your new jewelry unless it is the flared earlets or plugs. It is usually always best though to talk with a professional that will provide you with the advice you need to ensure you stretch your piercings properly so you will not experience the pain and infection that is often a product of going it alone, (mainly from going to fast).
Inserting flared plugs and earlets is another difficult task if you do not know what you are doing. Quite a bit of the insertion technique has to do with the flared plugs and earlets themselves. The material the body jewelry is made from as well as the flexibility can make the process a breeze or a bit more difficult.
The major problem with inserting flared plugs or earlets is that the end of the jewelry item is larger than the actual gauge of the item, and the gauge of your piercing. This means your piercing must be large enough to accommodate the end of the body jewelry item in order for insertion to go smoothly. Many people recommend that you stretch your piercings at least one size larger than the gauge of the flared plugs and earlets you wish to wear. This is a stupid recommendation. The whole purpose to the flare is so that you can wear the piece without having to use the 0-rings, and also so that the piece will look larger than it really is. If done properly you should be able to insert the flared plugs or earlet without much hassle at all.
The proper way in which to insert flared plugs and earlets is by tilting the jewelry item at an angle and slowly with a rocking motion place the item into your piercing. You may have to hold the back of the piercing and gently push in one side and hold it in place while you gently push the other side in. This method is similar to buttoning your shirt.
The first few times you insert flared plugs or earlets you may need to use a lubricant. Do not use any type of lotion or gel you may have in your bathroom. The recommended lubricant is Vitamin E oil, or cocoa butter. No matter what though you do not want to cut, tear or rip your piercing.
When it doubt talk with your piercer to ensure you are purchasing the proper gauge jewelry items for your piercings, and inserting it correctly.
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Atmospheric River Storm: ARkStorm
Flood map of greater Los Angeles. Source: USGS.
ARkStorm Scenario
The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Multi Hazards Demonstration Project (MHDP) has prepared its second full scenario, called ARkStorm. The scenario addresses massive U.S. West Coast storms analogous to those that devastated California in 1861–62. Storms of this magnitude are projected to become more frequent and intense as a result of climate change.
The MHDP assembled experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USGS, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the State of California, California Geological Survey, the University of Colorado, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), California Department of Water Resources, California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA) and other organizations to design the large, but scientifically plausible, hypothetical storm scenario that would provide emergency responders, resource managers, and the public a realistic assessment of what is historically possible.
The ARkStorm storm is patterned after the 1861–62 historical events but uses modern modeling methods and data from large storms in 1969 and 1986. The ARkStorm draws heat and moisture from the tropical Pacific, forming a series of Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) that approach the ferocity of hurricanes and then slam into the U.S. West Coast over several weeks. Atmospheric Rivers are relatively narrow regions in the atmosphere that are responsible for most of the horizontal transport of water vapor outside of the tropics.
Using sophisticated weather models and expert analysis, precipitation, snowlines, wind, and pressure data the modelers will characterize the resulting floods, landslides, and coastal erosion and inundation. These hazards will then be translated into the infrastructural, environmental, agricultural, social, and economic impacts. Consideration was given to catastrophic disruptions to water supplies resulting from impacts on groundwater pumping, seawater intrusion, water supply degradation, and land subsidence.
In contrast to the recent U.S. East and Gulf Coast hurricanes, only recently have scientific and technological advances documented the ferocity and strength of possible future West Coast storms. ARkStorm is intended to elevate the visibility of the very real threats to human life, property, and ecosystems posed by extreme storms on the U.S. West Coast. This enhanced visibility will help increase the preparedness of the emergency management community and the public to such storms.
Background on Massive Winter Storms
Click for Larger Image. Beginning on Christmas Eve, 1861, and continuing into early 1862, an extreme series of storms lasting 45 days struck California. The storms caused severe flooding, turning the Sacramento Valley into an inland sea, forcing the State Capital to be moved from Sacramento to San Francisco for a time, and requiring Governor Leland Stanford to take a rowboat to his inauguration. William Brewer, author of "Up and down California," wrote on January 19, 1862, "The great central valley of the state is under water—the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys—a region 250 to 300 miles long and an average of at least twenty miles wide, or probably three to three and a half millions of acres!" In southern California lakes were formed in the Mojave Desert and the Los Angeles Basin. The Santa Ana River tripled its highest-ever estimated discharge, cutting arroyos into the southern California landscape and obliterating the ironically named Agua Mansa (Smooth Water), then the largest community between New Mexico and Los Angeles. The storms wiped out nearly a third of the taxable land in California, leaving the State bankrupt.
The 1861-62 series of storms were probably the largest and longest California storms on record. However, geological evidence suggests that earlier, prehistoric floods were likely even bigger. There is no scientific evidence to suggest that such extreme storms could not happen again. However, despite the historical and prehistorical evidence for extreme winter storms on the West Coast, the potential for these extreme events has not attracted public concern, as have hurricanes. The storms of 1861-62 happened long before living memory, and the hazards associated with such extreme winter storms have not tested modern infrastructure nor the preparedness of the emergency management community.
Building the ARkStorm Scenario
Atmospheric Rivers: Wind, Rain, and Waves
On October 14, 2009 an atmospheric river channeled water vapor from a decaying typhoon over the western North Pacific, across nearly the entire width of the ocean basin, to deposit copious rains over the central coast of California, M. Dettinger.
The nontechnical term "Pineapple Express" is popularly used to describe the meteorological phenomenon that causes moisture to be drawn from the Pacific Ocean near the equator and transported to the U.S. West Coast with firehose-like ferocity. Atmospheric rivers are embedded within much broader atmospheric storms referred to technically as "extratropical cyclones" (ECs). ECs are the winter-time analogue to hurricanes, but have much different structure. Also, they gain their energy largely from the pole-to-equator temperature contrast, unlike hurricanes, which draw their energy from ocean surface heat content. ARs are the business end of ECs because where the AR hits the mountains it can create extreme precipitation, flooding and high winds. In terms of impacts, an AR is to the broader EC it is embedded within, as the hurricane eyewall is to the broader hurricane of which it is a part. The importance and structure of ARs has become recognized recently through new satellite data and field experiments.
The atmospheric mechanisms behind the storms of 1861-62 are unknown; however, the storms were likely the result of an intense atmospheric river, or a series of atmospheric rivers, striking the U.S. West Coast. With the right preconditions, just one intense atmospheric river hitting the Sierra Nevada mountain range east of Sacramento could bring devastation to the Central Valley of California. An independent panel wrote in October 2007 to California's Department of Water Resources, "California's Central Valley faces significant flood risks. Many experts feel that the Central Valley is the next big disaster waiting to happen. This fast-growing region in the country's most populous state, the Central Valley encompasses the floodplains of two major rivers—the Sacramento and the San Joaquin—as well as additional rivers and tributaries that drain the Sierra Nevada. Expanding urban centers lie in floodplains where flooding could result in extensive loss of life and billions in damages."
Because there is not yet a suitable scale for atmospheric rivers, the storm scenario is named "ARkStorm" to represent an atmospheric river (AR) with a value of 1,000 on a scale of atmospheric rivers to be determined by atmospheric scientists. The scenario storm then will be an "AR 1,000," and other U.S. West Coast storms could be scaled in comparison. One of the outcomes of this project currently being is the furthering of a common nomenclature for West Coast Winter Storms. For more information on Atmospheric Rivers, visit NOAA's Physical Science Divisions page on the topic.
Key Findings
Though the ARkStorm Scenario report is online, below are some of the key findings of the project:
1. Megastorms are California's other "big one." A severe California winter storm could realistically flood thousands of square miles of urban and agricultural land, result in thousands of landslides, disrupt lifelines throughout the state for days or weeks, and cost on the order of $725 billion. This figure is more than three times that estimated for the ShakeOut scenario earthquake, that has roughly the same annual occurrence probability as an ARkStorm-like event. The $725 billion figure comprises approximately $400 billion in property damage and $325 billion in business-interruption losses. An event like the ARkStorm could require the evacuation of 1,500,000 people. Because the flood depths in some areas could realistically be on the order of 10-20 ft, without effective evacuation there could be substantial loss of life.
2. An ARkStorm would be a statewide disaster. Extensive flooding is deemed realistic in the California Central Valley, San Francisco Bayshore, San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange Counties, several coastal communities, and various riverine communities around the state. Both because of its large geographic size and the state's economic interdependencies, an ARkStorm would affect all California counties and all economic sectors.
3. An ARkStorm could produce an economic catastrophe. 25% of buildings in the state could experience some degree of flooding in a single severe storm. Only perhaps 12% of California property is insured, so millions of building owners may have limited or no ability to pay for repairs. That degree of damage would threaten California with a long-term reduction in economic activity, and raise insurance rates statewide — perhaps nationwide or more — afterwards.
4. An ARkStorm is plausible, perhaps inevitable. Such storms have happened in California's historic record (1861-62), but 1861-62 is not a freak event, not the last time the state will experience such a severe storm, and not the worst case. The geologic record shows 6 megastorms more severe than 1861-1862 in California in the last 1800 years, and there is no reason to believe similar events won't occur again.
5. The ARkStorm is to some extent predictable. Unlike for earthquakes, we have the capability to partially predict key aspects of the geophysical phenomena that would create damages in the days before an ARkStorm strikes. Enhancing the accuracy, lead time, and the particular measures that these systems can estimate is a great challenge scientifically and practically.
6. Californian flood protection is not designed for an ARkStorm-like event. Much has been done to protect the state from future flooding, but the state's flood-protection system is not perfect. The existing systems are designed among other things to protect major urban areas from fairly rare, extreme flooding. The level of protection varies: some places are protected from flooding that only occurs on average once every 75 years; others, on average every 200 years. But the levees are not intended to prevent all flooding, such as the 500-year streamflows that are deemed realistic throughout much of the state in ARkStorm.
7. Planning for ARkStorm would complement planning for earthquakes. The ShakeOut exercise has become an annual activity in California, with more than 7 million people participating each year. Many of the same emergency preparations are useful for a severe winter storm: laying in emergency food and water, shelter preparations, exercising emergency corporate communications, testing mutual aid agreements, and so on.
The Experts Behind the ARkStorm Scenario
USGS Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project
Dr. Lucy Jones, Chief Scientist
Sue Perry, Staff Scientist
John Bwarie, Strategy & Communications Officer
ARkStorm Coordinator, Dale Alan Cox, USGS
Atmospheric Scenario: F. Martin Ralph, NOAA Environmental Systems Research Laboratory, and Michael Dettinger, USGS/Scripps
A team of atmospheric scientists with expertise in West Coast storms associated with U.S. Federal and State agencies and academic institutions have created a model for use in devising this storm scenario and future scenarios. The ArkStorm scenario, the first of the scenarios, adapts information from up to three recent U.S. West Coast storms for which data exist to produce preconditioning information, such as rainfall and soil saturation. The experts then modeled the windspeeds, rainfall, flooding, and other meteorological and hydrological inputs that would realistically accompany two large storms, similar to the 1861-62 events, which would affect both northern and southern California.
Coastal Model: Patrick Barnard, USGS, and Dan Hoover, USGS
Concurrent to the design of the ARkStorm meteorological scenario, a team of coastal marine scientists developed for ARkStorm a state-of-the-art model to assess coastal vulnerability using data (wind, pressure, and so forth) from the hypothetical storm. Ultimately, the effort will lead to real-time understanding and prediction of coastal flooding, inundation, erosion, wave heights, current strength, and cliff failure on the entire Southern California coast. The output of the model is used in the ARkStorm scenario to determine plausible consequences of the hypothetical storm. Ultimately, the model output will be used beyond Southern California and incorporate real-time data inputs for use in a real-time warning system to be used by emergency managers, lifeline continuity operators, and resource managers.
ARkStorm Coastal Publication:
Barnard, P.L., O'Reilly, Bill, van Ormondt, Maarten, Elias, Edwin, Ruggiero, Peter, Erikson, L.H., Hapke, Cheryl, Collins, B.D., Guza, R.T., Adams, P.N., and Thomas, J.T., 2009, The framework of a coastal hazards model; a tool for predicting the impact of severe storms: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1073, 21 p.
Landslides: Chris Wills, California Geological Survey, and Jon Stock, USGS
To advance our understanding of landslide susceptibility, the USGS Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project has assembled a team of experts to relate storm size to landslide potential. To do this, the project acquired, digitized, and quantified maps and aerial photographs of landslides from past storms to estimate landslide potential. The team created a database of stratigraphy, soils, and slope for southern California and portions of northern California that can be used to determine landslide and debris flow susceptibility associated with storms like the scenario storm. This builds on estimates of susceptibility to earthquake-triggered landslides prepared for the ShakeOut, with additional maps and analysis of debris-flow susceptibility and maps showing areas likely to be inundated by flooding and debris flows. Output of the analysis and expert opinion will be used to inform the emergency response, physical damage, and other aspects of the scenario. To demonstrate the future of landslide hazard science, the project has developed next-generation landslide hazard maps as part of the ARkStorm scenario by using high-resolution digital topography and new mapping techniques in a focus area.
Flood Hazards: Justin Ferris, USGS, William Croyle, State of California Department of Water Resources, Flood Forecast Center, Keith Porter, University of Colorado and Kathleen Schaefer, FEMA Region IX
The state-of-the-art meteorological model created by the ARkStorm atmospherics team was used to estimate pressures, windspeeds, temperatures, and precipitation time series in nested grid with resolution up to 2 km. The windspeed time series are being used directly for ARkStorm damage modeling, but it was impractical to input the precipitation time series into a statewide hydrological and hydraulic model to produce floodmaps. Instead, ARkStorm is using FEMA's digital flood rate insurance maps (dFIRMS) as a representation of areas vulnerable to flooding under the ARkStorm scenario. For each of 16 watersheds, experts estimated whether ARkStorm corresponds to 100-yr or 500-yr flooding, considering the ratio of runoff intensity from ARkStorm to a simulation of the historical (WY1916-2003) record, using a variable infiltration capacity (VIC) model. Since not all of a watershed is subject to the same return-period extent of flooding in a single storm, ARkStorm treats a fraction of the mapped floodplain as actually flooded the scenario. To estimate the fraction, experts examine the merged 100-yr and 500-yr flood boundaries, together with an inventory of levees. They identify levee attributes indicative of vulnerability, and for each category and geographic area, estimate a reasonable fraction of those levees that fail either by overtopping, geotechnical failure, or hypothetical (deliberate) breaching, or they estimate a reasonable fraction of the potentially inundated areas that are flooded. The experts then select individual levees to fail and the areas they protect are considered flooded. Some flooding can occur in protected areas whose levees do not fail because of the potential inability to remove stormwater.
Geological evidence suggests that floods even greater than that of 1861-62 have occurred throughout California. Paleoflood hydrology is the science that investigates the geologic evidence of the movement of water and sediment in rivers before the time of hydrologic measurement. Within the flood hazard team, experts in paleoflood science documented geomorphic, biotic, and other information to reconstruct the occurrence and periodicity of these great floods. Sites or study areas were selected on the basis of the utility of the data to model validation and estimating the 1862 flood.
Physical Damages: Keith Porter, University of Colorado
Once primary and secondary hazards are defined, a team of engineers use this information to estimate the storms' impact in terms of physical damage, repair costs, and restoration time for buildings and other infrastructure such as dams, levees, harbors, bridges, roads, water supply systems, and electric power. To accomplish this, the ARkStorm project identified and solicited the participation of researchers, government employees, and other engineering professionals involved in the design, construction, operation, maintenance, or risk assessment of these systems. The experts performed the engineering risk assessments and reported their findings, which included a historical review of storm impacts to the system of interest, a summary of the facilities currently exposed to risk, one realistic assessment of damage and repair implications, a brief discussion of practical risk-mitigation measures, and, where appropriate, a summary of limitations or pressing needs for further study.
Environmental and Health Impacts: Geoff Plumlee, USGS, and Charles Alpers, USGS
The rainfall, flooding, winds, and physical damage to infrastructure from an extreme storm would likely also result in adverse physical, chemical, and ecological impacts on the environment in northern and southern California, including the possible extirpation of species. For example, the storm would likely lead to widespread erosion, transport, and redistribution of soils, sediments, and rock materials that would affect riverine, lacustrine, and coastal environments. Storm damage to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial facilities (such as sewage treatment plants, petroleum refineries, mines, and chemical manufacturing plants) could release debris, contaminants, and microbial pathogens into the environment. Erosion or flooding of agricultural lands could lead to extensive loss or contamination of arable soils and leaching of chemicals into the runoff. Water supplies used for human consumption, livestock consumption, or agricultural irrigation could become contaminated by a wide variety of contaminants or pathogens. Following the storm, sediments, debris, and contaminants redistributed by landslides or flood waters could then dry out and become available for further redistribution by human disturbance and wind transport.
The storm scenario integrated input from a broad spectrum of experts to examine the potential for a wide variety of possible environmental impacts, such as (1) effects from flood-induced erosion and sedimentation on riverine, lacustrine, and coastal marine environments; (2) effects from infrastructure or industrial facilities damaged by the storm that lead to releases of contaminants or debris into the environment; (3) effects on the urban/suburban environment; (4) effects on agriculture through loss or contamination of arable soils; (5) effects on water quality, both in the environment and in water supplies used for human consumption, livestock consumption, and agricultural irrigation; (6) effects on species habitat and species viability; and (7) effects of dusts released following the storm from landslides, flood deposits, and other redistributed materials. The storm scenario also allows recovery managers to better understand the types and nature of materials that would be in need of cleanup and disposal, thereby enabling more effective planning for poststorm cleanup and recovery.
In addition to the acute physical threats to safety posed by the storm, the possibility also exists for adverse health effects on humans and ecosystems. These could include, for example, potential outbreaks of disease from consumption of contaminated drinking water, or outbreaks of valley fever resulting from exposure to dusts from flood deposits containing the soil fungus Coccidiodes immitis. Through collaborations with appropriate public health and environmental agencies, the scenario modeled potential exposures to storm-related environmental contaminants and pathogens, potential health risks posed by these exposures, and ways to mitigate these exposures and health risks.
Emergency Response: Mitchell Miller, California Emergency Management Agency
Like the ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario, the ArkStorm scenario is scheduled to serve as the basis for local and state emergency response drills. The Golden Guardian drill associated with the ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario was the largest ever, with more than 3,000 emergency responders and managers participating. While the ShakeOut earthquake was a sudden onset event largely contained to southern California, the ARkStorm event, or series of events, would cover both southern and northern California and would extend over a period of weeks, or perhaps months. Emergency response would work closely with weather and flood managers to provide command and control to mobilize responders and the resource needed to protect citizens from peril. The emergency response section helped guide the creation of the ARkStorm scenario to maximize its usefulness in the statewide and local emergency planning and response exercises.
Forecast: Dave Reynolds, National Weather Service
Unlike the catastrophic event in the ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario, a winter storm is largely predictable. Although uncertainty is an element of every forecast, the predictability of a winter storm of this magnitude would give the public and emergency management community some time to prepare. The ARkStorm scenario provides a useful mechanism to exercise and test the use of forecasts in emergency management decisionmaking. The ARkStorm-size storm would give land-use planners and policymakers a scientifically credible framework on which to base their decisions.
Policy: Kenneth Topping, President, Topping Associates International and California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
Rather than detailing all policy concerns related to all consequences of the ARkStorm, the policy section drew out policy connections between the ArkStorm scenario and current planning and operational procedures based on existing policy. The ArkStorm scenario focuses on how this exercise can be used by agencies to (1) qualify for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and State disaster recovery funds (for example, Public Aassistance, California Disaster Assistance Act) and (2) satisfy FEMA, State, and local emergency operations plans and preparation. The ArkStorm scenario also focuses on how a storm of this magnitude raises awareness, thereby raising the question of what pre- and post-disaster hazard mitigation planning and funding resources (for example, National Flood Insurance Program, Pre-Disaster Mitigation, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program) need to be sought in light of this scenario. Such funding could be applied to such activities as moving local emergency operations centers and equipment out of a flood plain, guiding development away from flood plains, adding access-evacuation points for single-access areas inundated or isolated by flooding, and strengthening existing flood works. Another focus is how the scenario could be a standard reference point for application of future FEMA guidance in California in State and local multihazard mitigation plans under the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000. There are detriments to creating a scenario larger than a 200-year storm. The policy section identifies the importance to local hazard mitigation planning of connecting this superstorm scenario to the 200-year flood-plain mapping.
Economics: Anne Wein, USGS, and Adam Rose, University of Southern California
The ARkStorm scenario examines the economic costs and impacts associated with a storm analagous to the series of storms that pummeled California in 1861 and1862. While the population of California was only about 500,000 people in 1862, nearly a third of the taxable land was lost in those storms. Modern engineering of flood channels, dams, and levees have saved many lives and much property since 1862; however, the population of California, the built environment, and the economy have grown since 1862, putting more at risk. The storms of 1997 and 1998 caused nearly $1.1 billion in losses in California alone. The potential for loss in the Sacramento area alone could exceed $25 billion. In addition, there will be business interruption losses from lifeline outages, building damages, and agricultural losses.
Storm Visualization: James Done, National Center for Atmospheric Research
To elucidate the nature of the meteorological component of the ARkStorm scenario, an analysis and visualization of the atmospheric data has been conducted with a focus on the California region. An animated 3-dimensional visualization of storm flow structure conveys the overall storm structure and life-cycle, showing low-level flow carrying moisture-laden air from low-latitudes up into the Western US, characteristic of the 'Pineapple Express'. The analysis and visualization then focused on the temporal and spatial variability of very strong winds and high rainfall. To convey a greater clarity of the potential impact of a winter storm, wind and rainfall data are mapped on top of surface satellite data, infrastructure/lifeline data and/or exposure data where available. In addition to providing a thorough overview of the details of the winter storm and elucidating the threats to human life, property and ecosystems, the visualizations aid other components of the ARkStorm Scenario including secondary hazards such as landslides and flooding.
The Ark Project: A Winter Storm Campaign for USGS: Mariana Amatullo, DesignMatters, Art Center College of Design, Elena Salij, Art Center College of Design, and David Droga, Droga5
- Art Center students (l to r) Scott Liao, David Styler, Leslie Lucey, Scott Reedy, Brett Brown, and Ana Ramos present The Ark Project brand identity and preparedness campaign.
Advertising and design students from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, are working with the Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project to brand and develop a media campaign to raise awareness of natural hazards in general, with specific emphasis on the ARkStorm scenario. The class of eight semester students were selected to participate in this effort, which was led by Elena Salij, Chairman, Advertising Department and internationally acclaimed David Droga, creator or the international advertising agency, Droga5. The class addressed the awareness problems associated with U.S. West Coast storms, worked to incorporate multiple sources of hazard information to include earthquakes, weather, debris flows, landslides, coastal concerns, pollution, and others. The class not only branded the scenario, but create a campaign to promote it— to bring it out of obscurity and onto every desktop.
Art Center College of Design: DesignMatters
The Ark Project: A Winter Storm Campaign for USGS
Media, Videos, and Graphics
- Media, videos and graphics related to ARkStorm and massive winter storms can be found here.


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|If you want to ask any question to me. Don't forget to put your signature on the talkpage. And I'll answer as soon as possible.
why'd u delete and replace my summary? --Lancevinzon (talk) 10:25, December 12, 2012 (UTC)
Image uploading
yes, normally, I also upload .png images rather than .jpg, but since I reuploaded the old one, I had to use .jpg because the first version of the image was uploaded with that type. Who exactly can I ask in the future to delete the old pictures? Is any admin okay?Norleon (talk) 10:46, December 14, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Full-bodied images
Hey Shak~ Sorry if I said cooler, I meant smoother. I tried to find the closest "canon" source to get them from is all.--Cerez365™(talk) 16:38, December 14, 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia list of episodes
Why are you adding links to it in latter episode articles? I haven't checked every single one, but comparing their description to ours, it's very clear that we didn't take anything from those articles, at least in the articles' current revision. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 12:45, December 26, 2012 (UTC)
- The only point of the Wikipedia template you are adding is if the summary has been copied word for word from a Wikipedia revision. These summaries you are tagging have not been copied so please revert your edits. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 12:59, December 26, 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, I thought that this template is only linking to the Wikipedia's articles, but I didn't know it indicates to the full quotations form the articles or copying word for word, so please help me to revert my edits. —Shakhmoot (Talk) 13:09, December 26, 2012 (UTC)
Done. ^_^ —Shakhmoot (Talk) 10:41, December 30, 2012 (UTC)
New 296 Character
Those are the guys attacked by Toroi? --Cerez365™(talk) 13:09, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
Oh okay. Just wanted to make the distinction so that images can be uploaded for them.--Cerez365™(talk) 13:16, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
I would but I don't think I have the time now. I would be able to later but just in case someone else want to do it they'll know who they are.--Cerez365™(talk) 13:32, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
Oh, I did not overwrite the image, but accidentally named it exactly like that. I'm sorry.Norleon (talk) 15:26, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
Thanx.~ UltimateSupreme 17:17, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
Could you upload RAW images of Hinata, Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, and Kiba in their V1 cloak?
I'd really appreciate it so we could include them in future articles.--SuperSaiyaMan (talk) 09:16, January 19, 2013 (UTC)
how the hell is 553 × 400 better than 1,772 × 1,308?? i am talking about this here. -.-File:Chapter616.png
Episode 300 image stuff
First off, good work~ this and this could do with re-uploading because of the bars on the side and it could do with some res. Also, could you upload an image of where the water is firing off Capt'n Awesome's finger, the article needs it.--Cerez365™(talk) 16:24, February 14, 2013 (UTC)
Indeed it's been a while and thank you, that image is fine. ^_^ --Cerez365™(talk) 07:23, February 15, 2013 (UTC)
I've decided to give you the ability to use rollback as you deserve it and I think you will use it as needed. Enjoy! --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | Channel 20:23, February 15, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Rollback
A need for it, first of all. More importantly, a person needs to know when it is appropriate to use the rollback feature. If it inarguably vandalism then it's okay to rollback. If there is some question about whether or not the edit was made in good faith, then the usual process of undo/revert with edit summary explaining why needs to be used.
It's my understanding that anyone with rollback powers can give it to anyone else that they think has a need for it, but only a sysop can take rollback away. (This may no longer hold true.)
Should I assume you're asking because you're interested in rollback? ~SnapperTo 20:24, February 15, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Chapter 621 translation
I can't find the Kanji, as I said on the talk page of the Hotei no Jutsu. Regarding the other one, I don't know what would be the best choice. I searched on google, but I can't find anything about a dragon mask or the Japanese usage of 榜排. Furthermore, the second Kanji isn't even read as 'bi'. It has only the reading 'hai', so I think either Kishi screwed up here or he just used the Kanji for whatever purpose. Let's leave the Hōbi Technique untranslated for now, I really don't know what to make of it. Seelentau 愛議 21:57, February 23, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Episode 301 images
Sure, feel free to do so, making sure that the filenames for jutsu match those in the infobox for Romaji (c/p will do). Thanks! --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | Channel 12:53, February 24, 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks Shakhmoot! It's good to have users like you that think of image quality as being the most important factor for all uploads here :) --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | Channel 16:12, March 1, 2013 (UTC)
Re: 621 Raw scans
I actually got them from mangahead but because I didn't want to upload those dark/discoloured images, I brightened them so they didn't look so bad.--Cerez365™(talk) 15:26, February 24, 2013 (UTC)
Unconfirmed Kanji
Please don't add Kanji for anything unless they're confirmed by a raw. Seelentau 愛議 15:04, February 27, 2013 (UTC)
- That page is not trustable enough. They've had many stuff wrong, if I remember correctly. Seelentau 愛議 17:41, February 27, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Madara's voice actor
Can't find a link but it's the Madara boss fight video. --OmegaRasengan (talk) 04:22, February 28, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Question
ニワカ雨ニモ負ケズ Niwaka Ame Nimo Fu Kezu, but I have no idea what that means. Maybe something like "Sudden rain also Defeat Kezu". "Kezu" isn't even a word. Seelentau 愛議 20:45, March 5, 2013 (UTC)
- ah, you're right, the Katakana were confusing. It could be Niwaka Ame ni mo makezu, meaning Not even giving in to the sudden rain or so. Seelentau 愛議 21:39, March 5, 2013 (UTC)
Ghost from the Past
Hey, could you see if you could get an image for Summoning: Rashōmon from the episode. That way we'd have a good quality one and no need for two images.--Cerez365™(talk) 15:03, March 8, 2013 (UTC)
That one's just fine. As for the summary, I didn't have the time on Thursday, but honestly I though it would have been done either way. As for the length, that's just how it penned out in my head.--Cerez365™(talk) 08:27, March 10, 2013 (UTC)
The divisions
Hey I'd like to ask isn't the surprise attack division a subdivision? seeing as other divisions have a large number of members while this one has only a few so could it be like a subdivision?--Jmootam1999 (talk) 22:44, March 9, 2013 (UTC)
Episode 304
Well then, welcome back. When you have the time, could you get three images from episode 204 of the anime please? They're all one after the other around 14:30 onwards: Chōji being treated, Hana treating Akamaru and the Healing Resuscitation Regeneration Technique being used for Neji.--Cerez365™(talk) 11:35, March 21, 2013 (UTC)
Thanks mate.--Cerez365™(talk) 14:56, March 22, 2013 (UTC)
For uploading in 1080p HD instead of 720p! I love you so much for that! :D --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | Channel 17:33, March 21, 2013 (UTC)
Tip: You can leave Portion, Purpose and Other Information like in this image. It would save your time.~ UltimateSupreme 04:29, March 22, 2013 (UTC)
R.E A Request
I understood the second part of what you said, but not the first do you mean my coloured box on my userpage If you do Its got an appropriate Image now :) --User:Jmootam1999Loves Naruto 21:50, March 22, 2013 (UTC)
RE: Article problem
Simant might know. He had been making lots of changes to it recently--~ UltimateSupreme 14:28, March 26, 2013 (UTC)
Looks like I got the problem. Applied a temporary fix.--~ UltimateSupreme 16:08, March 26, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Iniquity
Thanks for alerting me to that! Tagged for deletion as being fanon :) --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | Channel 16:41, March 26, 2013 (UTC)
Eps. 306
Hey when you have the time, could you get an image of Neji and Hinata fighting side by side? It's at the end when Hinata's in the air and Neji arms are stretched horizontally.--Cerez365™(talk) 13:42, March 29, 2013 (UTC)
Thanks~--Cerez365™(talk) 14:19, March 29, 2013 (UTC)
how you
Think Madara survived? The possibilities I think are probable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus Or... remember when Itachi was talking about "Madara" to Sasuke? He states that the latter is an immortal... what if EMS not only gives eternal vision but also life? Most stuff from then that Itachi said have been proven to be wrong/lies but this still may be possible--Elveonora (talk) 09:12, April 3, 2013 (UTC)
FairyTail Fanon wiki
Hey could you please join FairyTaill Fanon wiki please, It's new and I need Admins who can develop the wiki really well please join -- Jmootam1999 09:19, April 3, 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Shak, I wonder if you could help me with my wiki naruto, but she is Brazilian. if you can enter the chat back and better communication. http://pt-br.naruto-project.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Chat?useskin=wikia --Saiken Uzumaki 21:19, April 5, 2013 (UTC)
Okay, it's a shame that you can not help. --Saiken Uzumaki 20:58, April 9, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Articles fill-up
Sure, I'm a bit swamped now but once I have time to do more than clean-up edits, I will.--Cerez365™(talk) 01:38, April 6, 2013 (UTC)
To be honest, I totally forgot about this. I'm in the process of doing them now though. An infobox image for Iō. Also could you get that image of guy punching the Oto-nin through the wall? --Cerez365™(talk) 16:33, April 11, 2013 (UTC)
Sigh, thank you. To the summary I go~ --Cerez365™(talk) 17:41, April 11, 2013 (UTC)
Road to Ninja Sasuke
- Well, the image of Sasuke shown there doesn't show if it's Susanoo Sasuke to me.--LeafShinobi (talk) 09:25, April 10, 2013 (UTC)
re: hash scar
They either fixed his nose or it's a mistake, Kishi can't remember every single little detail--Elveonora (talk) 15:08, April 10, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Episode 308 translations
Will do. Need to get my hands on the episode first, though. :D Seelentau 愛議 15:02, April 11, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Episode 309 translations
As the subtitles say, 此の kono means this, although it's usually written as この. It's a weird name for a country, but another translation would be Country of This. Seelentau 愛議 13:23, April 18, 2013 (UTC)
- Yes. But leave an explanation in the Trivia. Seelentau 愛議 13:39, April 18, 2013 (UTC)
hayate filler arc
Still not yet any info on it from pierrot website?--Elveonora (talk) 19:12, April 26, 2013 (UTC)
Thank you--Elveonora (talk) 19:27, April 26, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Userbox
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Economist Tomás Sedláček hosts a BookTalks debate with Institute Senior Fellow and economist Robert Nelson and guests from fields of theology, philosophy and economics.
Nelson is author of The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America.
Experts: Robert H. NelsonType: TelevisionIssues: Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Economists, Free Market Economics, Religion
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Part 1: Introductory Remarks and Tribute to Robert Higgs
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At the 2010 Biodiversity summit in Nagoya, Japan, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed the 'Big Plan to save nature' with its 20 Aichi biodiversity targets to be met by 2020. Today, the Parties meet again, this time in Hyderabad, India to discuss what progress has been made so far in turning the Big Plan into reality. …
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To help compensate for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the 2012 World Conservation Congress in Jeju, IUCN has selected a credible, sustainable project for effective offsetting. The project is Infapro, by Face the Future, and is based on improved forest management in Borneo. …
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Following the success of the Learning Opportunities at the 2008 Congress in Barcelona, the IUCN World Conservation Congress will feature this year a Conservation Campus dedicated to practical training in support of the IUCN Programme 2013-2016. … | French | Spanish
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2012 is a busy year for environmental decision-making, with many large-scale conventions taking place. But the IUCN World Conservation Congress is a unique event with a unique audience. It is the only global summit that represents every aspect of conservation, bringing together leaders of all levels – from governments and international NGOs to academia and local charities. … | French | Spanish
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As world leaders pour in to Rio de Janeiro for the UN's Sustainable Development Summit civil society, business and governments are making commitments that will make a difference, according to IUCN's Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre. …
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Boston, MA (Sports Network) - Ryan Callahan scored in the fourth round of the
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ShiKahr was a major city on Vulcan. This city was built in a desert, on the edge of Vulcan's Forge. The L-langon Mountains were ten days travel, on foot, from this city. (TAS: "Yesteryear")
ShiKahr was the location of the ShiKahr Academy, where Tolaris taught prior to his becoming a V'tosh ka'tur. (ENT: "Fusion")
Future Starfleet officer and Federation Ambassador, Spock, was born in ShiKahr in 2230. Sarek and Skon, Spock's father and grandfather, were also both residents of Shi'Kahr. (ENT: "Two Days and Two Nights"; TAS: "Yesteryear")
In 2365, a holoprogram available to crewmembers of the USS Enterprise-D was "Shi-Kar Desert Survival, Vulcan". The program, with a code list number of 03-225, was listed in the exercise menu. (TNG: "The Emissary", okudagram)
The USS ShirKahr was named after the city. (DS9: "Tears of the Prophets")
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ShiKahr, as it was spelled in the script for "Yesteryear", has also been spelled "Shi'Kahr", "ShirKahr", "Shirkar", and "Shi-Kar".
ShiKahr was shown in the background in the remastered version of "Amok Time".
The script and production report for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Forge" (at StarTrek.comwbm) established that the United Earth Embassy was in Shi'Kahr. According to senior illustrator John Eaves, both the embassy and the Vulcan High Command building were supposed to be in the same city as each other. [1]
A deleted scene from Star Trek would have showed the birth of Spock in Shi'Kahr. According to the captioning, Spock was born on stardate 2230.06.


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As Maine weathers a persistently sluggish economy, Gov. Paul LePage is trying to maximize any opportunity to enhance the state's business profile. Over the last week, his state economic development agency has launched a new Web site designed to guide businesses through Maine's licensing and permitting process. And four more towns have been given the LePage seal of approval as Certified Business-Friendly communities. Some of the governor's critics claim the initiatives are just window dressing, but proponents argue perception is reality in the business world. A.J. Higgins has more.
To the casual observer, the state Department of Economic and Community Development's launch this week of a new Web site may seem like just another link in a cyber-chain of information available to business owners. But Doug Ray, DECD's communications director, says the site fulfills one of Gov. Paul LePage's long-time objectives.
"Certainly it's been a goal of the LePage administration to reduce the licenses and permits that businesses need to make it in Maine, but obviously there are some that are required," Ray says.
And that's where the new "Business Answers" portal comes in. Simply by typing in a state agency or keyword, businesses will be able to locate all the forms they need to start or expand their business. The new Web site is just another effort to reinforce LePage's message that Maine is "Open for Business."
Still another is the governor's Certified Business-Friendly Community program that expanded to include 24 municipalities with the recent inclusion of Hermon, South Portland, Caribou and Belfast. In meeting a series of criteria identified by the governor and the economic development agency, the communities earn the right to post signs proclaiming their business-friendly status to the world, and hopefully attract some interest from beyond their borders.
Ray says communities benefit from the program, just by going through qualification rounds. "It's a way for a community to self-examine and look at how business-friendly they are," Ray says.
But when national business journals such as Forbes Magazine names Maine the worst state in the country to do business in - for the third year in a row - can small initiatives such as those undertaken by the LePage administration really turn the tide in the state's favor?
"For many people, perception ultimately becomes reality," says state Sen. Andre Cushing, a Hampden Republican and member of the Legislature's Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee.
A businessman himself, Cushing says Maine's business community cannot allow itself to be defined by magazines like Forbes, and he views the Web site launch by DECD as a good way to counter those perceptions, as is LePage's Business Friendly Community program.
"I think, again, this speaks to an attitude that state government in Maine is changing to say, 'We welcome businesses, we also want to help identify the communities that also welcome businesses' - not that all communities to some degree don't," Cushing says. "But there are certain standards that will help to encourage particular businesses to look at locating in their communities."
But some business leaders are not as impressed. Kevin Simowitz represents the Maine Small Business Coalition, a project of the progressive advocacy group, the Maine People's Alliance.
"Well, I haven't yet received a phone call from any of the 3,500 members of the Maine Small Business Coalition that have said, 'What would really help is if we were a Certified Business-Friendly Community - that would really turn things around at my small business,'" Simowitz says. "And maybe it's just that I haven't fielded those calls, but I'm not sure that a label for a city or town actually change the reality on the ground for small business owners."
And Simowitz isn't alone. Maine Senate President Justin Alfond, a Portland Democrat, says that while LePage's DECD initiatives probably won't hurt business in Maine, his lack of action on other initiatives, such as bonding and accepting major investments such as those proposed by Statoil energy of Norway, have actually cost the state jobs.
"Let's look at the facts: Under Gov. LePage, our economy is growing too slowly," Alfond says. "The rest of our New England neighbors have figured out how to get out of the recession, and they're doing it much better than Maine."
Despite the criticisms of one of the state's leading Democrats, a just-released Rasmussen national poll concludes that Americans trust Republicans more than Democrats on virtually all economic issues, including issues affecting small business and job creation.
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A barbershop is a place where players are able to alter their hair style, hair color and other facial features (such as facial hair and horns). It was introduced in patch 3.0.2 (Wrath of the Lich King).
Barbershop locations
- Trade District, Stormwind City – In the northern part of the district.
- The Commons, Ironforge – Near the western tunnel to the Great Forge.
- Cleft of Shadow, Orgrimmar – Near the rogue trainers.
- Trade Quarter, Undercity – In an upper level alcove near the eastern elevator.
- Dalaran – Between Sunreaver's Sanctuary and the northern bank.
- Area 52, Netherstorm – In a small building in the southwestern part of the town.
- Cosmowrench, Netherstorm[66.6, 66.9] – In the only building (there is only a chair, but no barber).
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- Main article: Barbershop interface
Every race and gender has a selection of multiple hair style choices as well as hair color and race exclusive options.
Changing your hair style will complete the achievement [Shave and a Haircut].
Stormwind barbershop
Formerly the home of Sween Neetod the Barber, Naznik Sharpshear has taken his place and this goblin will be more than happy to give you a great shave and a haircut.
- The cost of changing hairstyles varies by the character's level, ranging from a couple of silver for a low level player to 20-25 for a level 85.
- Level 1 characters can change hairstyles for free, assuming you skip all the starting quests and go straight to the barber.
- Very few of the hairstyles are actually new. They are taken from and added to different races and genders.
- At least one member of the Blizzard team is rooting for a specific hairstyle. Bornakk wants mohawks for every race, both male and female.[1] He not only wants mohawks, he wants huge mohawks.
- Tauren can change skin tone, since they don't have hairstyles.
- Night Elves and Tauren change hair/skin colour in order to change druid bear and cat form color combinations.
Patch changes
Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): Tauren now have the option of changing skin tone by visiting the Barber Shop.
- ^ Bornakk 2007-12-07. Night Elf Mohawk = False Advertising?. Archived from the original on 2011-03-25. Retrieved on 2009-02-16.
External links
Replay.Waybackmachine.org Archive of Barbershop information
WoW Insider Barbershop guide to druid forms


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Check it out: 5150 Oyster Drive; 503/377-2323
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What to expect: The kitchen does a superb job with such West Coast stalwarts as cioppino and pan-fried oysters. "Superb" doesn't do justice to the oyster spinach bisque.
Check it out: 279 Northwest Highway 10; 541/765-2995 or tidalraves.com
Pirate's Cove Restaurant, Garibaldi
What to expect: While you wait for the clam fritters and eggs, or the Alaskan halibut burger topped with flame-roasted peppers, or the grilled Tillamook Bay oysters, or the triple-whammy dungeness, king, and snow crab platter, let your thoughts drift over Tillamook Bay and across to the Bayocean Peninsula.
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What to expect: A trailer-turned-kitchen huddles in a corner of a parking lot. The fried fish, most of it caught that morning, comes lightly battered, nongreasy, and delicious.
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On June 19, 2011, at approximately 285 feet below the surface of the Botnia Gulf, a team of treasure hunters, known as Ocean Explorer, discovered what appears to be a 60-foot disc. In addition, there looks to be a 985-foot impact trail leading to the location of the disc. Peter Lindberg, the leader of Ocean Explorer, said, You see a lot of weird stuff in this job, but during my 18 years as a professional I have never seen anything like this. The shape is completely round…a circle.
Ocean Explorer is not a group of individuals who search for UFO remnants they are treasure hunters. In 1997, they found the sunken ship J nk ping, which was loaded with roughly 2,500 bottles of champagne. Each bottle was sold for $13,000. Obviously, Ocean Explorer is in the treasure hunting business to make money, not find potential crashed alien sites.
But the question remains: what is this thing?
If this was a manmade object, one can easily guess that the creator would have tried to retrieve it, especially if it was a government creation. If it was an individual project, without government funding, it also seems strange that one would blow enough money to create the 60-foot disc object, but not enough to retrieve the object. This easily leads one to believe that the object does not come from this world, like it is something from a Predator movie.
Peter Lindberg is not spending the money to retrieve the object, because he believes it would be nothing more than a new Stonehenge – not worth the money to retrieve it. As an alien buff, I can only hope that some other entrepreneur comes forward to surface this strange 60-foot disc.


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As I already started with a map in my "Hello" post I think it might be a good idea to keep you updated and maybe get a hint or two on which things might look a little out of place. Since this is the place to discuss artistic values of a map I decided to start this thread instead of continuing in the other one.
The map is supposed to be useable by a DM and look good while being zoomable. For the "usefulness" there need to be quite a few labels, so that will give some limits on the colors. I also intend to print them, so I stick to CMYK compatible colors ...
So from the picture (Aglarond for those who know the Forgotten Realms) in the post linked above there have been some changes:
- a texture has been added to the water,
- shadow / highlight effects of the water has been changed to make the water look lower than the land and to improve the coastal look,
- a texture has been added to the basic landmass to make it look a little less flat,
- two textures have been added to the plains & hills: rocky / infertile and fertile, which makes it possible to have rocky or rolling hills instead of just hills,
- a texture and two colors have been applied to forests to get a nice range for different forest types, densities and occupants ...
Many of the textures are added by repeatedly adding and subtracting with a non-100%-opacity brush in their layer mask. This simply tries to get rid of drawn lines that might be noticed and look unnatural. Fiddling around with the fill method also brought some unexpected and good results (the lively green for fertile areas and the strong dark gray for rocky areas for example).
Still on the "to do" list:
- ridges / cliffs (no decent idea yet apart from painting them by hand ... "automatic" process would be desirable, but in the end its not that much),
- civilization,
- labels.
Sooooo ... any constructive input is welcome.